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exotica-digest        Saturday, August 15 1998        Volume 02 : Number 190



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover
Re: (exotica) I know this one!
(exotica) Re: Jack & Julie
Re: (exotica) Zou Zou
(exotica) Eve Boswell, Nino Ferrer obits
Re: (exotica) Hawaiian birthday boy
(exotica) Esquivel & His Orchestra '56-Exploring New Sounds in Sonorama
Re: (exotica) Do it Again
Re: (exotica) Death of the Day
(exotica) Enoch Light Birthday, Scottish Style
Re: (exotica) Esquivel & His Orchestra '56-Exploring New Sounds in Sonorama
(exotica) Puente, Cugat, Abbe Lane
(exotica) Re: France Gall (was: Serge Gainsbourg)
(exotica) Re: Easy Project
(exotica) looking for label info
Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover
Re: (exotica) Death of the Day
Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover
(exotica) Self promotion
Re: (exotica) Death of the Day
Re: (exotica) Death of the Day
Re: (exotica) Weekend scores
(exotica) Obit referendum
Re: (exotica) It's DOCTOR Buzzard to you!
Re: (exotica) Obit referendum
Re: (exotica) Obit referendum
Re: (exotica) Obit referendum
(exotica) This ain't no democracy
(exotica) About obits
(exotica) Another Obit
(exotica) Re: Easy Project
(exotica) KUSF Record Swap
(exotica) Ira Ironstrings
(exotica) Recent Stuff
Re: (exotica) Obit referendum/post replies

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:30:05 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 09:54:17PM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:

> I'm not sure how to do this - can anyone help?
>
> On my first try, I think I used TOO many (millions) colors or had the dpi
> (300) or "bit" set to high (24).  As a result, the BMP files were HUGE!!!  I
> could not fit 4 images on one ZIP drive!
>
> "Stitching" the top and bottom halves of the cover together seems to be the
> only way to produce a complete image.  I found this procedure difficult
> because one of the images would rotate itself slightly.
>
> Any tips that any of you that have done this would be most welcome and thank
> you.

Despite the hassles you're experiencing, you've got the right idea.  I've been
working on scanning large chunks of my collection for Lazlo's Discography
Machine, and while I'm kind of avoiding the 12" vinyl because of the amount of
work it'll be, the following tips have worked in the past:

 * Scan at the highest res your editor can deal with given your hardware
   setup.  (I'm doing 300dpi on everything up to 7" single size but will
   probably go to 150 for the LP sleeves.)  You'll be downsizing it later.

 * Nothing is ever lined up completely straight on the bed of the scanner, so
   don't waste lots of time trying to get it prefect.  You can correct the
   angle of the image in your image editor.  (Remember SOH-CAH-TOA from trig
   class: if you have a scan of a rectangular object like a record or CD
   sleeve and the angle is a little off, look at the locations of the lower
   left and lower right corners of the object you want to deskew.  If the
   sleeve art is 1200 pixels wide and the lower left corner is 20 pixels
   higher than the lower right corner, take the inverse tangent of 20/1200
   to get .954 degrees -- the amount by which you need to rotate the image
   counterclockwise to square it off.

 * Put the two halves of the sleeve on separate Photoshop layers of an
   image big enough to hold the whole thing -- then set both layers to 50%
   transparency.  This makes it loads easier to line everything up.

 * Once you get everything stitched together to your satisfaction, crop
   it down and resize to a standard size you can live with and stick with.
   I'm saving 7" sleeves at 400x400 and CD sleeves and cassette inserts
   at 300 pixels.  Will probably do LP sleeves at 500x500...

Adobe ImageReady is great for getting a good balance between size and image
quality when going from BMP down to GIF or JPG.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 00:21:10 -0700
From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) I know this one!

>"Do it again, just a little bit slower
>Do it again, just a little bit slower
>I just can't stand it when it's over (over)
>Oh, do it again....   just a little bit slooower....."
>
>I have a beat up copy of this on Abnak Records.  It is by Jon & Robin and
>the In Crowd and it made the Top 40.  You are right about the title.

Aah, Jon and Robin and the In Crowd.  Those words hit me like lightning.

Of course, since I posted this question this afternoon, the song has been
going through my head all day.  Not a pretty picture.

Now, if I can find the record, and get hold of some space-food sticks and
grape tang, I'm all set.

Dave


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 01:49:51 -0700
From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jack & Julie

Since someone inadvertently brought up smilin' Jack Webb, I thought I'd
express the amazement I felt after recently discovering that he was
married to jaw-droppingly spectacular 50's torch babe Julie London for a
while and had two kids with her. Apparently the marriage was stormy, but
imagine the make-up lovin.....The URL below has MP3's of his album and
lotsa other stuff on Jack, for the curious only.

http://209.132.63.228/zimot/bio.html


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:53:28 +0200
From: Marco 'Kallie' Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Zou Zou

Ton Rueckert wrote:
>
> Just scored my first Esquivel, hurah. However,
> it's not an LP, it's the CD Cabaret Manana, $3.50...
> I was shopping in the mall not far from where I live,
> and passed through the music department, a place I
> usually carefully avoid.

Hey Ton,

I bet you found it at V&D.....

your fellow Dutchman Marco


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:49:22 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Eve Boswell, Nino Ferrer obits

    DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -- Eve Boswell, the glamorous Hungarian-born
singing star who dominated British pop charts in the 1950s, died Thursday of
a heart attack. She was 76.
    Her hits included ``Again,'' ``Sugar Bush,'' ``Blue Star,''``Young and
Foolish,'' and ``Picking a Chicken.'
    Born Eva Keleti in Budapest, she came from a show-business family and as a
child made her stage debut with the family's variety act, The Three Hugo's.
    Boswell moved to Britain and also sang with Geraldo's Orchestra at the
Winter Gardens, Blackpool.

    CAHORS, France (AP) -- Nino Ferrer, a popular French singer for three
decades, committed suicide Thursday. He was to turn 64 on Saturday.
    Police said Ferrer shot himself with a hunting rifle. His body was found
next to his car parked in a field near the town of Saint-Cyprien.
    Famous for his gravelly voice, nostalgic lyrics and puns, Ferrer hit the
top of the charts with ``Le Sud,'' ``Mirza,'' ``Les Cornichons'' and ``Le
Telefon.''
    He gave up music several years ago to devote himself to painting.




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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:10:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Hess Jeffery)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian birthday boy

Robert writes:

><< Evil medallions and all. >>
>
>wasn't it an evil tiki???
>
>let's  keep it exotic.


Oh yeah, I forgot evil medallions belong on the Dungeons and Dragons
list.


Jeff

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel & His Orchestra '56-Exploring New Sounds in Sonorama

http://www.dustygroove.com has this Esquivel album for sale, its on
RCA Spain.  Can anyone give me any information on this?

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:27:13 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Do it Again

Dave wrote:

>Can't help, but this led me to remember a song from my
>childhood that I couldn't remember the name or artist of.  It was
>a 45, and I believe it was a Christian group, but considering the
>song, it wouldn't surprise me if I was wrong.

There's also super sexy April Stevens song called "Do It Again" -
which you should check out...


Robbie


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:27:13 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Death of the Day

Lou wrote:

>While I bet Ghoul Poolsters have a DotD mailing list, I get 'em
>from Clarinet's clari.news.obituaries newsgroup. I think it's worth
>remembering that most of the archetypes and objects we hold
>dear originated with actual (until recently) living people.

I think the reason people are starting to get a little worried about
you is that *all* you ever seem to post is obits!

I have been thinking more and more recently that I would like to
see less of them posted: this isn't an obit mailing list and as you
have pointed out there are newsgroups where people can go if they
really want to keep on top of who's died today...

I believe it's important to know when any of the "greats" passes
away (eg: Les Baxter) but surely not every last ukele player...


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:27:14 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Enoch Light Birthday, Scottish Style

Just to let those of you within flying distance of Glasgow that I'll be
leading the celebrations at the first Enoch Light birthday party to be
held in Scotland this weekend.

The details:

Date:    Sunday 16th August
Time:    8-11pm
Venue:    Russells, Byres Road, Glasgow
How much:    Free!

The Spaced Out website curator finally gets his act together to
bring you three hours of Light and Light-related music, together
with videos and (hopefully) a slide-show.


Robbie


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:51:19 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel & His Orchestra '56-Exploring New Sounds in Sonorama

At 7:27 AM -0700 8/14/98, chuck wrote:
>http://www.dustygroove.com has this Esquivel album for sale, its on
>RCA Spain.  Can anyone give me any information on this?

It's the "To Love Again" album, originally released on RCA (U.S. and
Mexico) in 1957. They incorrectly credit the recordings to 1956; in fact,
the album is a collection of recordings originally released on 45's and
78's in Mexico, between 1954 and 1957. All the arrangements are in the
Sonorama style. Personally, I think these recordings are great, as they
capture the roots of Esquivel's vision and style.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:54:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Puente, Cugat, Abbe Lane

This album really is 5 stars.  I got it some time ago and think Abbe's
voice is the sexiest.   I once made a cassette with Prez Prado's
version of Anna and edited in Abbe Lane's version into the middle- wow
- -It makes you get up a dance.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy,
Chuck

- [e-mail] wrote:
>>But, I've been listening recently to an astoundingly) excellent
vinyl compilation of Cugat and Abbe Lane.
>
> >Chris, could you give us the details on this one?
>
> I'll try, but it's kind of an odd one.  The title is just "Xavier
> Cugat/Abbe Lane."  Of course, I was initially disappointed when I
realized
> that it wasn't tracks of them together.  But, then I discovered that
the
> Tito Puente-backed Lane tracks were hot hot hot ...
>
> Anyway, it's RCA NL42732, on the Lineatre label
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 19:44:55 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: France Gall (was: Serge Gainsbourg)

Marco 'Kallie' Kalnenek <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I recently bought "1968" by France Gall. Very hip indeed!

    i've only got 1 lp by her, "France Gall", a comp from 1989.
    i think it's on cd as Philips 839 627, from France. the 2
    best songs, ("jazz a gogo" and "le coeur qui jazze") are also
    featured on some recent italian comps (probably the "Mood Mosaic")
    the other songs on that France Gall comp are nice, but non as hip and
    jazzzzzzzzzy as those 2 mentioned, and i wonder if the "1968" has
    more of those. here's the track list for that "France Gall" lp:

Bebe Requin
Jazz a Gogo
Ne sois pas si bete
Sacre Charlemagne
Teenie Weenie Boppie
Les Rubans et la Fleur
Christiansen
Nous ne sommes pas des Anges
L'Amerique
Poupee de cire, Poupee de son
Les Sucettes
Baby Pop
N'ecoute pas les Idoles
Le Coeur qui jazze
Attends ou va t'en
Laisse tomber les Filles
Pense a moi
Ne dis pas aux Copains

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:58:38 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Easy Project

Peter Risser <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Are the Easy Project and Easy Project II out of print?
>What label where they on?

The easy project - 20 loungecore favourites
    CD, Sequel NEM CD 772, UK, 1995
    CD, Sequel 1011-2, USA, 1996
The easy project 2 - House of loungecore
    CD, Sequel NEMCD 842, UK, 1996

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:14:51 -0400
From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) looking for label info

A friend in Holland sent me the following.

> I have been looking for a fax
> and phone number of No Limits Records, owned by Master P.

Can anyone help?

Please reply to me directly, not to the list.

- --Irwin Chusid



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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:44:35 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover

If you're doing this for the web, bear in mind that anything more than 72dpi is
pointless. If you're just doing it for "local" use, your drive-space is the
only boss you have to answer to.

That said, I scan at 300dpi, full-size, because, for my setup at least, that
makes for the best scan. This also makes for mammoth files larger than 10meg,
so I do a minimum of work at that size (cropping, retouching), then reduce it
to 72dpi and the appropriate size for the job (I think on the "Tot Tunes" page
I made them a bit over 200 pixels wide). This ol' 486 machine always sighs with
relief at that point.

After reduction, I do more tweaking, especially a bit of sharpening (I've never
blurred -- things always look blurry enough to me to begin with) -- though if
you sharpen too much, you can make things look jaggedy. I usually brighten
things up a bit as the last step, because graphics sometimes wind up looking
darker by the time they go through a browser.

I think the key thing is to get a good feel for tweaking the settings in your
scanner program -- it's the first step, so the better you can get things there,
the less tweaking you'll have to do in your image editor.

*Generally* -- for images that have large, solid-color areas (like early Enoch
Light covers!) the GIF format will make for a smaller file. For photograph-type
images, the JPG format will make for a smaller file -- I usually go for medium
quality (the images for the "Tot Tunes" page averaged around 17 or 18K in the
end, JPG format).

My 8 1/2" by (slightly over) 11" scanner bed means that to do an album cover, I
have to do 4 scans and splice them together. As a result, I've only done it a
couple of times. It's a royal pain, but that's the way it goes.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:04:47 -0400
From: Mark Benton Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Death of the Day

While someone may not be a major to you, he may be someone **I** have
idolized.  Personally, I like to read the "obits", because odds are, my daily
newspaper (of which I am a former employee) won't carry them.

This is a newsgroup on exotic music.  I subscribe because I receive wonderful
e-mail (lots of it the past month) about music and events which I would never
come across otherwise. Unfortunately, those events are sometimes deaths.

Mark Reed
Phenix City AL


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> I have been thinking more and more recently that I would like to
> see less of them posted: this isn't an obit mailing list and as you
> have pointed out there are newsgroups where people can go if they
> really want to keep on top of who's died today...
>
> I believe it's important to know when any of the "greats" passes
> away (eg: Les Baxter) but surely not every last ukele player...
>
> Robbie





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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:09:19 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) scanning an album cover

Flatbed scanners are the best choice, but you can still
do quite acceptable scans with a handheld scanner.  I made
a scanning frame from a sheet of cardboard 18x24, with
an inset square hole just larger than a sleeve. The sleeve
then nestles into this hole, so that the top of the sleeve
and the frame are about level.  You can cut a length of
smooth timber 1 by 1/2" for a guide rail, sliding the
scanner against it.  You can  mark on the frame top and
bottom where to put the timber so that you make four
vertical scans, each with about 1/2" overlap.  My ancient
graphics software, Photomagic by Micrografx, will then
do all the matching and stitching together.

CD inlays are much easier, needing only two passes of
the scanner.  Although they are not square like album
sleeves, if you resize them square they don't look odd.

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:39:03 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Self promotion

Aloha!
It's a lousy webaddress, but at this address:
http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-35644/bellybongo/index.html
you will find a site called "Tiki Island".

20 of my tiki drawings is displayed there. More will come.

Thanks to Ulf for providing the space.

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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 00:36:04 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Death of the Day

Mark Benton Reed wrote:

>While someone may not be a major to you, he may be someone
>**I** have idolized.

OK, no need to get steamed up - we are all entitled to our own
opinion, you know!

>Personally, I like to read the "obits",
>because odds are, my daily newspaper (of which I am a former
>employee) won't carry them.

This is the internet.  Aside from the alt.obituaries newsgroup, I'm
sure there must be dozens of websites you could visit to find out
this info: most of the world's major newspapers do have websites.


Robbie

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:12:09 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Death of the Day

In a message dated 98-08-14 19:40:30 EDT, you write:

<< This is the internet.  Aside from the alt.obituaries newsgroup, I'm
 sure there must be dozens of websites you could visit to find out
 this info: most of the world's major newspapers do have websites.


 Robbie

 PS    Please don't send me a copy of what you email to the list -
     that's what I subscribe to the list for...
  >>

As Curly says:   "The morbid the merrier."

Robert


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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:20:58 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend scores

In a message dated 98-08-11 13:10:01 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< Now THAT'S what thrifting is all about!  It's too bad folks get discouraged
 if they don't score like you did the go-round.

 Congratulations on a great shopping day, and by the way...
 THIS is what all thrift-score list should look like! The details
 given should interest even those who don't care for thrifting
 lists. >>

I BELIEVE he said these were scored at a flea market - exactly where I score
all my albums - NOT a thrift store.  That's why he got so many good ones in
one haul!  That's not to say it isn't possible to score at a thrift like that,
but it is more than guaranteed at a flea market then at a thrift!

I agree , his descriptions are very useful.  Ive added a few of those to my
list for the next record swap!

- - Michele


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 01:36:47 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Obit referendum

In a message dated 98-08-14 14:46:19 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< While someone may not be a major to you, he may be someone **I** have
 idolized.   >>

Do we have to have a referendum on this or what?

Here's my vote:  I have absolutely no problems reading about deaths that are
exotica/lounge-related - if I don't know the guy or care, I will use the
delete key - but I'd like the option to read or not read and I can't, if you
stop posting them.

- - Michele


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 01:36:42 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) It's DOCTOR Buzzard to you!

In a message dated 98-08-13 02:16:39 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< >The original 12" version of "There But For The Grace Of God Go I"
 >by Machine fetches a hefty price on the vinyl market these days
 An underrated disco classic! >>

Yeah, this is a totally awesome disco song - I bought this 12 inch off a DJ
about 8 (?) years ago, the cover wasn't in very good condition but the vinyl
was.  I paid $7.  So what is the thing worth today and why is it worth so
much?

- - Michele


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 07:07:35 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Obit referendum

As they invariably have useful information in them,
I'd like the publishing of obituaries to carry on, please.

Ta, Hugh.



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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:49:40 -0700
From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Obit referendum

At 07:07 AM 8/15/98 +0100, Hugh Petfield wrote:
>
>As they invariably have useful information in them,
>I'd like the publishing of obituaries to carry on, please.

I agree with Hugh.  Keep posting the obituaries.

Dave



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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 02:02:10 -0800
From: "paul m." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Obit referendum

>Here's my vote:  I have absolutely no problems reading about deaths that are
>exotica/lounge-related - if I don't know the guy or care, I will use the

cast my vote in this same direction.  personally i find even the two liner
obits
interesting.


paul moshay/mighty recording corp.
p.o. bx. 1833, los angeles, calif. 90078
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 08:53:53 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This ain't no democracy

In a message dated 98-08-15 05:03:39 EDT, you write:

<< cast my vote in this same direction. >>

what is with this voting on all the issues?  post what ever you want -- my
little delete button works just fine.

or maybe i am being too hasty.  so what do you think?  please email me with
your vote.

caucusly,

robert


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:09:06 +0000
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) About obits

I like them, because it brings people's contributions to light.  And who is
to say who is obscure?  Had Esquivel died in 1976, how many less among us
would have known who he was?
Brian Phillips
http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:36:30 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Another Obit

HONOLULU, HI (August 14, 1998) UPI - Jeffery "Catch" Ketchamori, longtime
steel guitar player and stage hand for Don Ho, died today in Honolulu.  Deputy
Coroner  Eue Gochago of the Honolulu  CoronerÆs Office described the freak
accident that claimed KetchamoriÆs life.   "The accident occurred when a
stucco wall made to look like lava rock fell on Ketchamori at Don HoÆs studio
on Wikiki Beach", Gochago described to reporters yesterday afternoon.  An
investigation is being made into the proper installation of the wal which was
only 2 months old.

"Catch" got his start in 1954 when he ascended from his position as bartender
at Don the Beachcomer's Dagger Bar to ukulele player and later steel guitar
player in the various house bands.  He got the nickname "Catch" partly from
his last name and because he would throw the cocktail shakers in the air and
"catch" them.  In the 1960 tragedy stuck when "Catch" suffered a stroke which
paralyzed his right side and thus ended his performing career.

Long time friend Don Ho hired "Catch" to manage the stage show productions at
his famous Bubble Room which entertained thousands of tourists vacationing in
Hawaii in the late 1960Æs and 1970Æs.  Even with CatchÆs physical limitations,
he still worked diligently and is credited with starting Don Ho singing the
"Magic Bubbles" signature tune.

     "Catch" explained to Mr. Ho in 1957, "That Welk guy ainÆt got no monopoly
on bubbles.  If they worked for him they can work for us.  People really like
bubbles!"  Ho was eternally grateful to Ketchamori for the inspiration and
would call him out at the end of each show. Even with his physical
limitations, Ketchamori would always bow gracefully to the audience and say,
"YouÆre welcome for the bubbles!"

Ketchamori is survived by his wife of 38 years, Karen "Squeak" Ketchamori, 3
sons and 6 grandchildren.  Burial was at the Kummiwani Memorial Gardens on
Maui.  In fond memory of his contribution to the Don Ho Show, Mr. Ho did a
grave side dedicated of head stone which pictured a little champagne glass
with the trade mark effervescent bubbles.


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:47:51 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Easy Project

>>Are the Easy Project and Easy Project II out of print?

Mark B. Conklin" <[e-mail]> replied:

>IMO, neither volume is as good as the Sound Gallery's, Sound Spectrum or
>the Music for TV Dinners compilations

    i haven't heard the Music for TV Dinners, but i liked both
    Easy Project vol 1 & 2 better than the Sound Gallery, and
    certainly better than Sound Spectrum, which i find very very
    weak at moments... Easy Project has more of a "spy" sound...

        Johan


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:06:47 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap

Is the KUSF record swap this Sunday (Aug. 16) or next Sunday (Aug. 23)?

Thanks
Gloria


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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 07:45:07
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ira Ironstrings

Does anyone know who Ira Ironstrings really was?

Along the same lines, I just learned that Fritz Guckheimer of the
Guckheimer Sauer Kraut Band, a parody polka band from the late 50s, was
actually Richard Gump, president of Gump's, which is kind of the Tiffany's
of San Francisco.

Brad
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:15:52 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent Stuff

A few recent finds. . . .

_Dee-Lightful_, Lenny Dee (Decca). Yes, it's the Dawn of Dee! This has the
song "Plantation Boogie" which I think was his first hit. That one
rocks--but for my money the goofily exotic "Siboney" is even better, full
of that "ooka-ucka" Hammond rhythm that became such a Dee trademark.

_Songs Everybody Knows_, Lenny Dee (Decca). This one has a plodding
guitar/bass/drums rhythm combo behind the organ--even banjo--and it all
seems to straightjacket Lenny from cutting loose. Somehow it ends up
seeming a bit more cornball than other Dee albums--probably for completists
only.

_White Heat_, Henri Rene (Imperial). Grabbed this because there's a decent
Henri Rene cut on Rhino's Cocktail Mix vol. 1--but it turns out this one is
fairly normal big-band swing. I mean, it's pretty energetic if you like
that kind of thing, but the only exotica content is that there are some
eccentric percussion flourishes here and there.

_Ferrante and Teicher With Percussion_ (ABC-Paramount). With both prepared
piano AND percussion, I expected I'd be in heaven with this one--but it's
really more musical and less experimental than the awesome _Dynamic Twin
Pianos_. Still there are 3 or 4 entertaining tunes on this one, like
"Beyond the Blue Horizon."

_Call of the Midnight Sun_, Arthur Lyman (Hi Fi Records). I'm afraid this
is probably my least favorite Lyman LP so far. . . they do weird songs like
"Hello Dolly," "500 Miles," and "Get me to the Church on Time". . . and the
energy level is extremely subdued--I started to wonder if this was
deliberately supposed to be a "make-out" record? But there's a nice version
of "Black Orchid," so it's still a keeper.

_Fred Lowery Whistles Your Gospel Favorites_ (Word). Oh mercy. Here we have
this guy twittering his brains out like a nightingale--and on some tracks
they mix in even *more* real bird songs--over top of murky, funereal organ
playing. I think this one goes in the category of "music to clear people
out at the end of the party". . .

_South American Nights_, Harmonicats (Mercury). I've noticed that even
somewhat boring artists can perk up and play interesting music when they
"go latin"--and that's certainly true here. Especially when the 'cats tear
into "Mambo Jambo" at top speed. One quibble is that this recording seems
really deficient in bass--and if you can't hear 265-pound Al Fiore grunting
away on the bass harmonica, really what is the point?

_Living Guitars Play... [Spanish Fireball, etc.]_, (RCA Camden). These
Living Guitars LPs usually have a cut or two that are pretty good; I like
"Baby Elepant Walk," and you can never own too many versions of "Ritual
Fire Dance." But they never seem to be able to make up their minds whether
to play Ventures-ish teen beat music, or to revert back to playing jazz
like they really want to. . .

_Passionate Percussion_, Don Catelli and the All Stars (Directional Sound).
Well, these guys can lay down a nice tight latin rhythm, and they certainly
don't skimp on the bongoes and marimbas. But the rest of the arrangements
seem a little tossed together--the melody lines getting a little lost in
the process. The best track is an echoey, exotic "Taboo."  I do kind of
wonder what the deal was with "Directional Stereo," which was the Hi-Fi
label for Premier--who I mostly associate with low-grade budget labels
(Parade, Coronet). Directional did manage to put out at least one LP I
really love, _Latin Brass_ by John Evans and the Big Band.

_Bacharach Baroque_, "Snuff" Garrett, producer; Al Capps, arranger
(Ranwood). Oh yeah! What the world needs now is more harpsichord versions
of "I Say a Little Prayer," where perky singers go "ba-da ba-da ba-da!"
endlessly instead of singing the words. Although at the end of 30 minutes
of ba-da ba-da's, I started to feel really strange, like a stroke victim
who had lost the brain center for understanding speech. . .

Doo-ba doo-ba doo-ba,

 --Ross

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|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:14:03 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Obit referendum/post replies

I would like to chime in here, and say that I am in the camp that would like
to see you continue to post the obits.  It is sad when someone who has brought
me joy passes, but it is sadder still when I do not find out about it until
years later.

PS. My apologies to the lister I sent this message to.  I meant to post it to
the group.

Do any of the rest of you ever accidentally respond directly to someone when
intending to post to the list?  All of the other lists I have ever been on
automatically send replies to the list, whereas this one automatically sends
them to the address of the person who posted the message one replies to.  I
often catch myself (or don't catch myself) sending my reply to the wrong
place.  I will try to do better.

Larry


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