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exotica-digest         Saturday, July 25 1998         Volume 02 : Number 163



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project
(exotica) The American Comedy Box Set
(exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins
(exotica) Sesso Matto
Re: (exotica) Twin Peaks
Re: (exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins
Re: (exotica) Lurkers
(exotica) Slightly off-topic hip-hop question
Re: (exotica) Thrift Store Art
(exotica) Kontiki III - the museum expedition, 4th and final part
(exotica) Rod McKuen
(exotica) Happiness Is
Re: (exotica) Happiness Is
Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen
(exotica) cocktail parties for Dummies
Re: (exotica) Slightly off-topic hip-hop question
Re: (exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins
(exotica) Cocktail Parties For Dummies
(exotica) Rod McKuen
Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen
(exotica) Moon Gas update
(exotica) Rod McKuen/Slide
(exotica) Re:  Dave Pike
(exotica) Rollcall
Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen
(exotica) SF, Tonga Room summit
(exotica) The bootleg police
(exotica) Invitation only

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:48:35 +0000
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Esquivel bootleg / Ron's limited project

[e-mail] wrote:

> Thanks to Johan for turning me onto his Fantastica mixing brilliance, he is a
> real artist.
>

The AMAZING thing about the Fantastica programs is the fact that he edits them
all onMinidisk. This digital recording device does not have the capability of
mixing sound
(fading from source to another) All of his edits are "hard" edits where one
source ends
abruptly and another begins. The minidisk has rather limited capabilities to do
this,
and it can be rather tedious getting the cuts just right, but he is a MASTER at
making it all
flow together like one big-ass sound collage.

Ford, I've seen some of your BasicHip tape lists a ways back - you are gonna kick

some booty when you get up to speed on the PC. I can't wait to hear it.




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:26:26 -0700
From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The American Comedy Box Set

Does anyone out there have the 4-CD/4-Cassette "But Seriously - The
American Comedy Box 1915-1994" box set, on Rhino?  It has a raised
fake-nose-and-mustache-and-glasses on the cover.

If so, I would appreciate it if you could e-mail me direct.  I have a
couple questions which I hope can be answered in the booklet's liner notes.

Many thanks,

Dave


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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:42:45 +0100
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins "Glory (????) of the Human Voice"
1962 RCA

What the hell is THIS? Just what the hell? This is utter madness.The
liners indicate the recordings were made in the 1940's. There appears to
be some controversy as to whether she was truly a talentless,
deep-pocketed imbecile or a satirical genius mental-flossing the world.
She was remarkably bad. Her renown spread as a result. She eventually
played Carnegie Hall packed to capacity with folks who wanted to see
this tuneless wonder for themselves. She died exactly one month later.

              1.    Zauberfl=F6te/La Fl=FBte Enchant=E9e: Der... (Mozart)=
 -
3:37
              2.    Musical Snuff-Box/Die Musikdose/Une... (Liadoff) -
2:25
              3.     Like a Bird (McMoon) - 1:19
              4.    O=F9 Va la Jeune Hindoue? (Bell... (Delibes) - 4:39
              5.    Serenata Mexicano (McMoon) - 2:10
              6.     Perle du Br=E9sil: Charmant Oiseau (David) - 6:02
              7.     Biassy (Bach/Pavlovich) - 3:35
              8.    Fledermaus/La Chauve-Souris: Adele's... (Strauss) -
3:49
              9.    Valentine's Aria/Invocation de... (Gounod) - 3:15
             10.    Jewel Song/Air des Bijoux (Gounod) - 6:00
             11.    Salut,Demeure Chaste et Pure (Gounod) - 4:45
             12.    Final Trio (Gounod) - 10:40

Imagine an opera diva in the comic dimension of the Marx Brothers, and I
think you will begin to understand the implosive combination of absolute
inabilty and absolute enthusiasm at work here on this record. I must
know more!

Now I brag: I bought it for 25 cents.  I got it at a church rummage
sale. I also got Edie Adams "Those Swingin' Doors." We don't know much
about Edie yet, besides the fact she was featured on Arthur Godfrey's
"Talent Scouts."  I got my kid fingerprinted there, too.  This is
EXACTLY why I dig thrifting.

Ron



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 03:57:19 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sesso Matto

Hey, group...

Off topic ,but I'm looking for the West End Records Sesso Matto 12". Anyone
have a copy or can give me any info on where I might get it.

Thanks.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:16:27 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Twin Peaks

In a message dated 98-07-23 11:03:07 EDT, you write:

<< Did I just see Laura Palmer playing a grocery checker in a commercial for
 Arm & Hammer Dental Care gum?  >>

i dunno -- was she all wrapped in p-l-l-l-l-l-a-a-astic?

robert


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:20:01 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins

>Florence Foster Jenkins "Glory (????) of the Human Voice"
>1962 RCA

Yes!  The Opera's answer to Leona Henderson.  Apparently, after an accident
in a cab, she found that her singing range increased, so she began to
"sing" professionally.  Her accompanist, the wonderfully named Cosme McMoon
recalls that during performances, she would spread rose petals on the stage
which he would have to collect afterwards for the next show.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:42:10 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lurkers

m.ace wrote:

> Mechanical translation can be somewhat awkward. And running the phrase through
> every language in the translator eventually gives us:
>
> "From probably the vario nao of the word of alcua of include/understand in this
> object, this had that to say it! Correctly?"
>
> Round trip back to Deutsche (hope I spelled that correctly! (been a while)):
>
> "Vermutlich vom varionao des Wortes von alcua von include/understand in dieser
> Nachricht, hatte dieses das zum Sagen sie! Richtig?"

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate

That translator site is a brilliant tool for writing song lyrics!

Hee hee
MO


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:49:15 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Slightly off-topic hip-hop question

Last night I heard a Steinski style hip hop record based around a turntable
instruction record, featuring samples like "Lets see what happens when we
play the record at 33" and the like. The track was incredible - all sorts
of funk and exotica samples and odd beats which changed tempo all over the
place. Its a long shot but does any well informed list member know what I'm
talking about?


Thank you very much.



Charlie





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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:28:11 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Store Art

Stephen Funk wrote:

> Found this today and figured you folks would "appreciate" it more than most...
>
> If you haven't already been there, check out:
>
> "The PSB Gallery Of Thrift Store Art" at
>
> http://www.taiga.com/~paul/
>

And maybe this also:

http://www.jett.net/~gyra/herblane.html

MO



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:13:50 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kontiki III - the museum expedition, 4th and final part

We had seen the most amazing ancient ships, we had seen the Raukar-heads
in Gotland (thanks to Stefan K=E9ry for this fine recommendation!) and no=
w
we were back on the Baltic sea heading west, watching an ugly soccer
world cup game with German participation on tele. We considered
ourselves ready to approach the final destination, the ultimate goal of
our journey, the Kontiki museum itself.

Next day we were back on the piste. Even in a 765 "I'm rolling" Station
Wagon 700 kms of country road between Stockholm and Oslo stretch out
pretty long, even after fear of the consequences of speed limit
violation had finally faded. Rain became more common every hour,
ever-present Swedish forests on both sides of the road produced a
feeling of hypnotic immensity. Had we not had Magnus with us who
radiated a soothing and stolid intrepidity from his backseat, we might
as well have gone crazy at this point.

Things became worse after we crossed the border to Norway: the road
which had been straight at least became winding and even more narrow and
our average speed reduced to less than 40 km/h. We diagnosed a certain
contradiction between the quality of the streets and the oversupply of
gas stations in this country, every 300 meters you pass one. But beware
of stopping by and possibly buying gasoline! Fuel in Norway costs as
much as its own weight in gold! Even the Swede in our car shuddered when
calculating the exchange rate.

Then suddenly Oslo. Through curtains of rain showers we saw a city that
- - if located somewhere else, say in the Caribic or Polynesia - could
have been incredibly beautiful. A bay, little islands, houses on hills.
The streets turned abruptly into autobahn sized 6 lane freeways and we
ran into a toll station. I was ready to take the oath of manifestation
when cool Magnus produced a couple of shiny Norwegian coins from his
pocket and saved us. "How can a country as rich as Norway take money for
just using a street?" I tried to argue with the man at the desk. "Maybe
that's why we are so rich" was the young fop's snappy comeback.

We decided to drive through the inner city of Oslo to catch a glimpse of
sightseeing when we disappeared in a hole. We had ended up in a tunnel
and couldn't leave it until we had crossed the whole city underground
and returned to the rainy surface on the other side. So that was Oslo we
went and checked into our home for the night, a place of Magnus'
friends.

Next morning it was still raining and temperatures weren't tropical at
all, but it was Kontikimuseumsday! Although it was only a short way to
the museum, we couldn't avoid the next toll station. We paid another
fortune to drive 100 meters toll street until we had to take the exit
"to the museums". From the distance we could already see a big A-frame
buildung, but when we came nearer we saw it wasn't the Kontiki museum.
It was the museum across the street of the Kontiki museum. Had they
mixed up the buildings? We had finally arrived.  All the efforts were
forgotten: A jewel of a museum opened its door for us!

First hall: The Ra 2 reed raft, that crossed the Atlantic from Africa to
South America, in its full life-size beauty. Surrounded by big photo
displays and all kinds of info. Very well done in a fine graphic style
that reminded me of the Sixties modern architecture. Many  boat models
and information tableaus explain the difficulties that Thor Heyerdahl
faced when he prepared his daring journeys and the successes when he
finally arrived. After a few clicks into the Kontiki CD-ROM you walk up
to the second floor and see the Kontiki balsa raft confronted with huge
Easter island heads, one of them was at least 10 meters high. There is
also a window with a nice Fatu Hiva stone tiki and a big wall painting
of the Pacific Ocean and its islands. A real parrot usually gives a
lively impersonation of "Johannes", the beloved companion of the Kontiki
crew, but on this day the cage was empty. We took our photos and crossed
an entrance flanked by wooden tiki poles to the next room. Here you can
look at Polynesian artworks and tools until you go back downstairs into
a room, where you actually see what's under the Kontiki raft, namely the
dolphins, pilot fishes and the worlds biggest fish, the whale shark, all
of them played important parts in the Kontiki book. You also get an
impression of the simple but effective steering system of the raft.
Next thing to watch is a movie about the Aku Aku expedition to the
Easter islands. It shows how Heyerdahl and his men together with the
natives manufacture and move a giant stone head. An extensive part of
the film shows the celebrations after these successful works, native
maidens and Thor Heyerdahl himself can be seen dancing around a fire.
These less scientific aspects lend the museum its charms. The little
movie theater itself is also very neat: the screen is flanked by plastic
tiki figures on both sides and on the left wall you have a plaster
version of the Kontiki symbol, the face of the old chief
Con-Tici-Viracocha. After the film you walk by a life-size diorama of
one of the caves on Easter island, that Heyerdahl had discovered. Here
the native long ears hid their ritual objects. And there he was: the
mysterious white bearded native with red hair, sitting in his cave and
cleaning a scull of one of his ancestors.

Although the Kontiki museum is not very big we spend hours in there,
including quite a while in the museum's shop, where we had to spend the
rest of our money on silver earrings, Kontiki cheese cutters and plenty
of postcards.

That was the end of our expedition. Now it was going home. Magnus took
the train back to Stockholm and we promised to meet again when he and
his Swedish friends do their expedition through all the German Trader
Vic's. Katja and I headed south back to Germany. When we left Oslo we
faced a continuous traffic jam, that reached far into Swedish territory,
90 or so kilometers long. Thank Thor we drove in the opposite direction!
We could fully understand Thor Heyerdahl now: Norway is a perfect place
to live in Tenerife and that shall be the destination of our next
expedition!

Thank you, indulgent reader, for following me and Katja all the way to a
highlight of Exotica culture!

MO



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:43:28 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rod McKuen

How come I never hear anyone talking about Rod McKuen here?

I just bought a couple of his albums.

I like him a lot more than I thought I would.  His version of "Lilac Wine"
certainly provides an interesting counterpoint to the Jeff Buckley version
I was more familiar with.  (I actually never bothered to see that Buckley
hadn't written it.)

The two records I bought aren't exactly in the "Jean" category that I
associated with him.  It's the same voice but there's something about that
half-asleep voice that kind of works with a classic tune like "Don't smoke
in bed" or "Wee small hours of the morning".

Sort of like a male Julie London.

This reminds me of the Don Ho records I bought and how surprised I was by
how much I liked them.  Especially the song "I think about you" from the
album of the same name.  Or his version of "These Boots" on another record.

Actually Rod McKuen and Don Ho kind of go together and they're both way
better than I thought they were.

Either that or I have an amazing capacity to rationalize thrift store
purchases.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:19:00 -0400
From: Chris Cook <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Happiness Is

New to the group & man How Sweet It Is to have found my people!

Have been immersing myself in the archives, so I don't know if this
particular Reader's Digest set has ever been discussed ... it's called
"Happiness Is," I think it's from about 1970 or so, though the trax all
have that swingin' sixties 1967-69 sound.  The box cover is brilliant:
squeaky clean blonde female & big white daisies.

The 7 (8? 9?) discs contain just about the most brilliant collection of EZ
versions of the rock & pop standards of that moment, none of which I've
seen anthologized anywhere & all of which deserve to be.  Out of the whole
set, there's maybe 7 or 8 snorer cuts.  If you like the kind of stuff on
those "On the Rocks" discs (I do), this will send you into nirvana.  If you
see it, GRAB IT.

There about 7-8 bands doing the songs & a handful of vocal trax by Jack
Jones and Ed Ames.   (Jones' awfully blissful cover of "Light My Fire,"
complete with trademarked voice cracks, is classic.)  Joe Reisman's band is
one of the other groups.  Can't recall others right now ...

I've enjoyed my "Happiness Is" for a few months; what prompts this post is
that I saw another copy in Philadelphia's Thrift for AIDS on South Street
but was too bushed to grab it.  If you're in the area, go get it!

BTW: Anyone have any poop on Reader's Digest Records?  They seem to have
put out so many of these damned box sets -- most of them crummy, some not
- -- have they gotten into the CD reissue biz at all?  How 'bout Longines?




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:29:36 -0700
From: Clark Scheffy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is

>
>BTW: Anyone have any poop on Reader's Digest Records?=A0 They seem to have
>put out so many of these damned box sets -- most of them crummy, some not
>-- have they gotten into the CD reissue biz at all?=A0 How 'bout Longines?
>

I have "Best of '71" -- a 3-record set on Reader's Digest. I picked it up=
 when
I saw that John Gregory arranged a few of the tracks. I know him to have a=
 Now
sound/Swingin side, but this set doesn't show it off. A few tracks hav=
 moments
of interest, but mostly it's a snoozer with the hits done orchestrally (in a
fairly loose and unrehearsed fashion) and your average church choir quality
chorus doing the voices.=20

You can easily stay away from this set and you'll be no worse for it.

Clarki=20


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:05:22 -0500
From: nancy novotny <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen

Nat Kone wrote:

> How come I never hear anyone talking about Rod McKuen here?
>
> I just bought a couple of his albums.
>
> I like him a lot more than I thought I would.

Ah Rod McKuen.  If you'll allow the intrusion, here's a little personal tale.
I, actually, am sort of intrigued by Rod McKuen...poor, oft-maligned Rod.  I am
considering making some sort of a little web site about him as a counterpoint
to the super-schmaltzy "tribute" pages that are out there now (e.g.,
http://www.idsonline.com/business/tscofield/mckuen.htm).  Here's what I imagine
for my little site: an homage to Rod's more hep output (e.g., Bob McFadden &
Dor, his 50s movies, and the "Rod McKuen takes a San Francisco Hippie Trip" LP,
which I love), and--if I can work it out--some sort of random McKuenesque
"poetry" generator.  Rod's own official site is actually pretty informative:
http://www.mckuen.com/ , but you must check out this essay by Rodney Perkins
for Terminus for the real poop on McKuen:
http://www.rtd.com/~jfleming/terminus_files/mckuen.html .

I remember hearing Rod McKuen's name as a youth sometime in the 70s, still
heavily in my Beatles phase.  I don't know why I remember this, but it stuck
with me:  my mother (not particularly known for her musical connoisseurship)
told me that Rod McKuen was the one person she could think of who *should not*
be putting out records.  In short, she thought he was terrible (and she rarely
expressed such strong feelings about ANY music/poetry/etc--she did, however,
have the foresight to hang onto her Yma Sumac 10"s and Ms. Kitt's "Down to
Eartha" LP).

Fast forward many years later (after I've heard Bob McFadden & Dor, etc)....I
kept seeing McKuen stuff all over the thrifts, etc., so I decided to
investigate his later, significantly less hep "other" material.  Last year, I
picked up a free copy of Rod's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in the refuse pile of the
local hipster shop, and, while the music failed to rock my world, I was
intrigued by the odd, freebie poster that was stuffed inside:  a b&w shot of
Rod from 1970, clad in a varsity-style jacket and Jack Purcells, practically
groping his crotch as he squats beside a large pile of metal pipes and chains
in some industrial area.  For some strange reason, my husband and I found a
suitable frame and hung it in our bedroom.  It hangs there still.

Recently, I decided to try and collect all of Rod's poetry books from the 60s
and 70s, since they seemed to be all over the thrifts.  This is not hard to
do.  In just a few weeks, I've practically found them all. It is kind of
amazing how cheesy they actually are.  I guess everyone gave his books as
gifts, since they often contain some heartfelt, handwritten dedication in the
front that's usually more interesting to read than the actual poetry.  Then,
this past Monday, I was thrifting in Austin, and I found a copy of 1973's "Come
to Me in Silence," one that I didn't previously have.  And SCORE!  On the first
page...there's an autograph, signed "Thanks, Rod McKuen."

I do still think my mother had a point way back when, though.

bye,

nancy

p.s.: From Leonard Maltin's review of 1969's "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," from
his Movie & Video guide:

"[The film's] only debit:  Rod McKuen's absurd songs."

Ouch.



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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:40:28 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) cocktail parties for Dummies

I guess it was inevitable that the Dummies book series would get around to
swankitude.

I've just noticed that there's a Cocktail Parties for Dummies book written
by Jaymz Bee.

Can someone with direct experience of this volume give a thumbs up/down?

- --Lou




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 16:52:18 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Slightly off-topic hip-hop question

This is a long shot but the source material could be from "Strange to
your Ears" by Jim Fassett. He doesn't so much play sounds at different
'record' speeds but rathe at varying tape speeds. He'll take the sound of
a bird and slow it down so much that it becomes this very low 'wubb wubb'
sound. Or he'll run his own voice backwards and slowed down. It's wacky!
Of course he narrates through the whole thing and he has your typical
late fifties, radio announcer, straight laced voice which lend a certian
surrealism to the album, especially when he gets into the psychology of
hearing....


- --Frank - playing at one quarter speed.

My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 16:52:20 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Florence Foster Jenkins

>
>Florence Foster Jenkins "Glory (????) of the Human Voice"
>1962 RCA
 As far as I know this CD is still available, and at a budget price: RCA
61175.

It should be noted that tracks 9-12 are an English translation of
Gounod's Faust done by Jenny Williams and Thomas Burns which the liner
notes fail to talk about at length. It's difficult to tell if it's a
tounge in cheek performance or if it is, as with Jenkins, painfully
sincere.


Frank- the Opera buff(er)

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:56:25 -0700
From: Clark Scheffy <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cocktail Parties For Dummies

Direct experience?

I can offer that... I was an in-house editor for the "For Dummies" people
for 2 years, and met Jaymz Bee, as well as added a few titles to his
recommended listening list. I wasn't the editor on this particular book,
but I read a few chapters as someone who was interested in the material.

The book is typical of the For Dummies books -- mostly entertaining,
definitely "ground level" instruction. If you are comfortable with pouring
a bottle of booze, and you just want recipes, you may do better with any
number of more straight-ahead (or off-kilter) bartending volumes.

The book attempts to suggest style for cocktail parties. It just seems to
me that most folks on this list can do that themselves? It has some good
ideas, but for poeple who've already gravitated to this mailing list, I
would suspect those ideas will seem basic.

It's not insulting or anything, just really basic and full of common sense
with some humor thrown in.

For the record, I have no personal interest in seeing the book do well or
poorly - I write this just from having looked at it a bit. I guess this
review amounts to a conditional thumbs up: If you are really new to
drinking and listening to music <g> then by all means buy it. If you feel
relatively comfortable with listening to music and drinking,  and you get
enough cocktail party advice in one form or another (musical
recommendations, nightspots, recipes, and so on) through this mailing list,
then look at the book in the bookstore and maybe decide you could have
written it yourself?

Clark


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 17:27:11 Pacific Daylight Time
From: darren hutton <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rod McKuen

Rod McKuen? Well, Frank Sinatra's "A Man Alone" wasn't the worst album he made.......comes close though.
The word "mawkish" almost always pops into my head when I hear the name Rod McKuen, Bob McFadden
not with-standing, or Rod's immortal "Oliver Twist", a twist record.

Darren!


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:39:01 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen

>Rod McKuen? Well, Frank Sinatra's "A Man Alone" wasn't the worst album he
>>made.......comes close though.

Very true, but you've gotta have it for the sole reason that you get to
hear Frank reading those tacky poems!! I imagine the LP is out there in
droves in thrift-land.

I laughed many times listening to these Sinatra poetry readings the first
time through, and still do! I couldn't belive that he made this record.
It's the perfect cure for depression... listening to poems that are
supposed to be poignant about loneliness and laughing your ass off!

"Someday, I'm gonna find me an island... a think place. I'll go there with
a mess of records, and a ukelele, and just sit stummin'. Maybe I'll even do
a little thinkin'...about the women and the towns I've left behind."
                           -- from "A Little Travelling Music", "A Man Alone"

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Anchorage, AK
USA




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:56:58 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moon Gas update

Hi all -

I got my own copy of this LP today but not listened to it - I don't
currently own a turntable worthy of its attention ;-).  It looks
amazing - I haven't seen the original LP but I imagine it looks
exactly like this reissue.  There is no mention whatsoever
anywhere on the sleeve or label of it being a reissue which further
aroused my suspicions - in fact for the uninformed it could probably
be passed off by unscrupulous dealers *as* the original...

I actually called Dick Hyman this evening (mainly about his visit to
my home-town next month) and mentioned it to him - he doesn't
know anything about it so I guess that confirms it as definitely
being a pirate copy.

Someone in Spain is about to make a *lot* of money...


Robbie


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:16:58 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rod McKuen/Slide

Does anyone know what Rod's connection was to the homoerotic disco "band"
Slide? His name is all over the composer credits for Easy In Disco and one
vocal sounds like no one else but Rod. A search at gemm.com turns up these
Slide titles - my bet is there's more than one group with the same name, but
some titles (Down so long;Saturnalia;Why is it a crime) sound like they'd
fit the same concept as Easy In Disco:

SLIDE:         DOWN SO LONG
               EASY IN DISCO
               FLINT
               FORGIVING BUCKNER
               SATURNALIA
               SEARCH
               WAKING UP TO CHAOS
               WHIPDANG !
               WHY IS IT A CRIME

And what's he up to these days? Still mining his record collection as a
compiler/producer for Laserlight?

- -Lou




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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 98 19:18:40 PDT
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Dave Pike

Bissia wrote:

<<Ok, but can we know a bit more about the first original
Dave Pike release(s) ?
Was it on Muse records ?>>
__________

I only have one Dave Pike record.  Naturally, there's no date, but it very
much looks mid-1960s.  It's on Decca and does have extensive liner notes by
the esteemed Leonard Feather, formerly music critic for the LA Times.  The
title is "Manhattan Latin" and it has a great cover of a curvaceous babe
reclining in a leopard-skin dress and high heels on a vibraphone.  A bit of
the biographical info from Feather's notes:  Dave's first professional work
was in the mid and late 50s in LA and San Francisco. Then he moved to NY in
1960.  He had a long stint in Herbie Mann's group in 1961.  I gather that
he worked mostly as a side session player in the early 60s before emerging
as a solo artist.  The notes indicate that "Manhattan Latin" was his first
LP for Decca.  Interestingly, Chick Corea plays piano throughout the album.
 The visual impression is kitsch, but it's pretty high quality Latin jazz.
I'd like to hear more by him.

Back to lurk mode...

- -- Brad Yost


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:01:54 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rollcall

Recent subscribers and lurkers may like to play a game called "answer this!"
that some of us played back in '96. This questionnaire was submitted by the
missing-in-action Lounge Laura (and when is that Ultra-Vixen going to get
herself re-wired?). You can check the archives for the responses submitted
by list-members at that time. If you play the game this time, feel free to
add/subtract or modify the questions to taste.
- -Lou

From: "Laura Taylor"
Subject: (exotica) answer this!
Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:52:53 -0400

1. Are you a musician? Explain...
2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
3. This list could help you more by...
4. Other exotica/things you collect
5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
6. What are you just dying to tell us?
7. Initials you prefer, CD or LP?  And why do you?  Is it a sound quality
consideration?  The aesthetics of LP art?  The supposed clarity of CDs?  Tell
us more!
8. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or
other lounge-wear of which you are proud?

OK---BE NICE!  No flames on #7 because that was a tedious thread!  Keep the
flame embers burning to a minimum, too...
Luv,
Lounge Laura
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:22:41 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rod McKuen

Speaking of the list archives (Lou in the "Rollcall" post), there was a fairly
extensive and informative Rod McKuen thread on here a while back. I can't
recall exactly when, though. Winter '96/'97 maybe? Or summer/fall '96? Maybe
someone else can remember.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:41:48 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SF, Tonga Room summit

Beginning Wednesday, August 5, 1998
and continuing the first Wednesday of each month California Kid and Otto von
Stroheim will hold round table meetings to discuss current and future events
in the SF Exotica scene

Anyone and everyone is welcome whether you are interested in participating,
volunteering, contributing, or just want to hear what is happening while
soaking up the atmosphere of bi-hourly rainstorms and tropical environs with
appropriate drinks.

No need to call or reply, just meet us there after 6 at one of the bar area
tables

The Tonga room is in the ground floor of the Fairmont Hotel where the
cablecars cross at Powell and California

Driving is not recommended but if you do drive the one-way street (I forgot
the name) behind the Fairmont between Mason and Powell (enter from Chinatown
side of hill) is NO PARKING until 6 pm. Therefore at 6:01 it is virtually
empty!


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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:45:56 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The bootleg police

In a message dated 98-07-22 19:44:29 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< I generally don't buy them.  If I own any, I didn't know they were
 bootlegs when I got them.  I have a hard enough time deciding what to
 buy from the legitimate releases, the last thing I need is to multiply
 my choices by throwing all the bootleg releases onto my 'available to
 buy' list.  >>

While we are on the subject, a few months ago at the local record swap meet I
overheard 2 dealers discussing bootlegs.  They said these sort of plain
clothes cops show up at the shows and when they find any bootlegs, that's it,
they close down the show.  I can't remember what they said happens to the
offending dealer.  Who are these cops???  What happens if you sell a bootleg
and if the crime is so bad, why would a record store be selling bootlegs
(didn't somebody here post they bought an Esquivel bootleg at a store?)

- - Michele


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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:46:09 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Invitation only

In a message dated 98-07-23 09:51:17 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< Are the rest of us invited too?
  >>

Anyone in L.A. is always invited.  I have tried to make contact with any and
all exoticats who live here - I met Ken thru this list when he posted back
during the beginning of the year that he lived in the L.A. area.  The dinner
party he is referring to was an arranged dinner that a friend and I  put
together.  It was a Saturday night at L.A.'s only real lounge club, The
Encounter - a restaurant at the L.A. Airport.  I invited 25 or so people -
hardly more than 8 showed up for the dinner.  This is typical.

People are older, busy and sometimes just lazy.  God forbid if we had to get
people to show up at a night club every week to keep it afloat!  I host about
2 or 3 dinners a year and we are lucky if we can get 20 people to show up!  It
is a damned pitiful predicament here in L.A.!

If you live in L.A. or visiting L.A. - any list members - by all means email
me and I will try to let you know what's cooking or at least meet you for a
drink somewhere.

- - Michele


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