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exotica-digest        Sunday, October 25 1998        Volume 02 : Number 235



In This Digest:

(exotica) Nattering Nabobs part two
(exotica) Back
(exotica) Record Pricing Guides
(exotica) Esquivel for children
(exotica) fwd: On-line Musical Instrument Encyclopedia
(exotica) Cold Record Storage
(exotica) Esquivel for children
(exotica) Tipsy in New York
(exotica) UltraDolce Sex Tease Party
(exotica) Pete Moore
(exotica) Comed and Mars Attacks!
(exotica) Lounge Laura
(exotica) Davis Sisters / "Mama Spank"
Re: (exotica) Halloween (formerly Davis Sisters, etc)
Re: (exotica) Halloween (formerly Davis Sisters, etc)
Re:  (exotica) Lounge Laura
(exotica) Pesci....bad!
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, October 25
Re: (exotica) Pesci....bad!
Re: (exotica) Pesci....bad!
(exotica) Re: Continuing the Moog thread....
(exotica) don't buy sushi 4004 LP! Fantastic Plastic Machine sucks!
Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas - Raumpatrouille
(exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing
Re: (exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing
Re: (exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing

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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:46:16 -0700
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nattering Nabobs part two

Continuing with the record show purchases...

I picked this record up. Who wouldn't?  But it was ten dollars and so I
proudly said "I'm proud to report that I would never pay ten dollars for a
record like this".  So the guy said "I'll give it to you for five bucks".
I cursed him profusely and then was forced to buy it and so I now own a
copy of:

LOWELL MASON, the singing midget.  Featuring "At the corner of Amen Street
and Hallelujah Square".  The back of the record informs you that he's also
known as "the world's smallest gospel singer"
He's not a bad singer unfortunately.  So the novelty really only extends to
the cover photo.

Anyway... back to the vaguely more "legitimate" purchases

LOLITA and poems, read by Vladimir Nabokov
Certainly more interesting than the singing gospel midget record but
ultimately purchased with the same "logic".

NOEL HARRISON self titled
This has an amazing version of the Beatles "She's a woman" which is
destined for many a future tape.

THE VENTURES Hawaii Five-O
I love the Ventures and I'm glad to have this.
But while we're on the subject of Hawaii Five-O

SAMMY DAVIS JR. "Song and Dance Man"
An incredibly ugly cover photo, consistent with the title of the record but
totally inappropriate given the tunes on this album.
He sings the themes for Baretta, Kojak, Chico and the Man and Mary Tyler
Moore shows.
And he also sings a tune called "You can count on me", which has lyrics and
everything - of course - but is otherwise the theme song for Hawaii Five-O.
 So I'm confused.  Which came first, this tune or the theme song?  Is this
the TV theme song with specially added lyrics? I doubt it but it's just
kind of surprising to hear this familiar tune with lyrics.

BUD SHANK plays music from today's movies...
Love that Bud Shank.  The tune "Warning Shot" will have to go on future
"crime jazz" tapes if I ever decide I have enough to do one.

BUD SHANK with the Bob Alcivar Singers "Let it Be".
Great version of "Games People Play" and even a good one of "Both Sides
Now".  One of the few records in which the singing chorus thing totally works.
Okay and here's another mystery I need help with...
There's a tune here called "Long Time Now", which is very familiar and I'm
pretty sure was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song or someone like that.  The
singers pretty well only sing the chorus but that's the part that's so
familiar "Oh it appears to be a long..."
So maybe it is C,S&N.  But the tune is credited to two composers and not
only are neither of them C,S or N or even Neil Young for that matter but
one of them is Tex Ritter!  Did C,S&N cover a Tex Ritter tune?

Anyway, I think the two pieces de resistance were:

SANTO AND JOHNNY "Hush"
and
SANTO AND JOHNNY "Guide to Love".

They're both on "Canadian American Records" (nice to see our two countries
cooperating on something besides nuclear testing and sucking my country
dry) and they're in such great shape that I'm thinking they're reissues or
even really good bootlegs.  They're distributed by an Italian company I
think so I guess that explains something.

Anyway, Hush is the better record for my purposes with rockin versions of
the title tune, "On the Road Again" and "She's a Rainbow". If I have any
complaint, it's that half the tunes are Beatle tunes.  I like these Beatle
instrumental covers way more than I like the Beatles themselves but I have
way way too many Beatle covers at this point. Between the Beatles and
Bacharach, records like this are starting to get mighty repetitive.

"A guide to love" is a lot mellower than Hush but then again, the tunes
probably fit the Santo and Johnny sound better.  The title tune, which I
don't think I've ever heard - by Farina-Farina (??) - is a near-classic.

That's not all I bought but I don't usually include country records here
unless they remind me of Lee Hazelwood.

By the time these and other recent purchases are suitably represented on
tapes and go on to the shelves, it'll be official.  I'll have too many
records.  So I need to ask this..."What happens to records sitting in a
room that reaches freezing temperatures?"  Assuming that they have a roof
over them, will freezing temperatures hurt records?
Right now I don't have much out there that I would really miss but with I
think that some records we cherish on this list are headed out of the
"official collection" and into limbo in the "mud room".
Will Sid Bass, David Rose, Felix Slatkin, Russ Case, George Romanis,
Clebanoff Strings, Sid Ramin, Ted Nash, Les Elgart and Marty Gold freeze to
death out there?

Nat "out in the cold" Kone





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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:41:41 +0100
From: Jonny Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Back

Hi there everyone.
I'm back in London and on the list after a month or two away.
No one in Peru seemed to have heard of Yma Sumac, although I did manage to
pick up some interesting 60s and early 70s latiney lounge type records;
details to follow if anyone's interested...  Also picked up some interesting
Phase 4 pressings in Bolivia.
My current obsession is with Julie London's recording of 'the end of a love
affair', which I have on the uk 'the liberty years' cd.  A real killer
arrangement, and I actually shed a tear this morning when she said 'And the
smile on my face isn't really a smile...at all...'
On with life, eh...

regards
Jonny


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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:23:08 -0600
From: "Mark B. Conklin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Record Pricing Guides

I'm not always knowledgeable when purchasing (and selling) vinyl and was
wondering if anyone uses, or has used, record pricing guides as a
reference? If so, is there one that is better than another? Should I avoid
them altogether? Fill me in. . .

I usually need information on different prices for mono and stereo versions
on the same LP.

Any help would be outta sight.

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:45:39 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel for children

A friend of mine has found some mexican soundtracks feat senor Esquivel.
Childrens movies. I havent seen or heard them yet, but i thought that
maybe they could be of interest to some of you. He wont be selling them,
but i could get the titles and the numbers if you like.

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:44:08 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: On-line Musical Instrument Encyclopedia

Musical Instrument Encyclopedia

Beginning with more than 140 artifacts from the Stearns Collection
at the University of Michigan, this resource features musical
instruments from around the world. You can browse the resource by
the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme or by geographical origin
or search for the instrument of your choice.
World Wide Web: http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html

Browse General Reference
Go here to learn about instruments in general; they are arranged by four
major instrument types: Percussion, String, Wind, and Electronic

Browse IE by classification
Organized according to the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme. Best for
advanced users, but a good way to learn about hierarchies in organology (~no
snickering~).

Browse by Geography
By country of origin. Start your search by selecting a continent of interest
on a clickable world map.




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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:10:11 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Cold Record Storage

>.."What happens to records sitting in a
> room that reaches freezing temperatures?"  Assuming that they have a roof
> over them, will freezing temperatures hurt records?

Way back in the 1970's, my parents built a new home, and for some reason
sold the old one before the new one was finished.  We lived in the
basement of the new home until the top floor was finished....which meant
that much of our 'unnecessary' stuff - including records - were put into
storage.

Storage meant putting all this unneeded stuff in one of our
sheds/barns.  This building had a wood frame, but the main walls were
made of corrugated steel/metal.  This was Wisconsin, so those wall's
purpose were mainly to keep out the wind/rain/snow --- the temperature
definitely dropped to twenty below farenheit during those winter months.

Next spring/summer, when our house was finally finished, I retrieved the
two blocks of records we had stored in the shed.  Mold was growing all
over the bottom halves. My guess is that condensation from the cold
weather formed on the records, and that caused the conditions for the
mold to form.

So I would not store records in a cold environment, unless there was a
way of controlling the moisture/humidity.  Chances are that if it gets
cold, it will also get very warm, and records are kinda fickle about the
climate they live in.

Many of the records were still playable - once you cleaned the mold
off...the record covers were permanetly damage though.

Vern


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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:46:02 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel for children

A friend of mine has found some mexican soundtracks feat senor Esquivel.
Childrens movies. I havent seen or heard them yet, but i thought that
maybe they could be of interest to some of you. He wont be selling them,
but i could get the titles and the numbers if you like.

Magnus

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 10:02:20 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy in New York

Just in case anyone's interested,
Tipsy is playing in NYC in early November.
On the 4th, we're playing at the Roxy with a ton of other people/groups,
mostly triphop/scratch-oriented (Coldcut, Wagon Christ,  Ryuichi Sakamoto(!)),
then on the 6th we'll be at the Knitting Factory.
- -David G


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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:22:57 -0500
From: "Mark D. Head" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) UltraDolce Sex Tease Party

Go Irma Go is correct.  Fabrizio Carrer runs the American sub;
we helped him book Montefiori Cocktail here in Dallas last December
at Cedar Street and at a club in Austin whose name now escapes me.
Kikko & Kekko (sp?) are great guys and I agree that Irma is putting
out a lot of cool stuff.  On UltraDolce, Montefiori teams up with some
guy doing bop bop vocals a la Hugo Montenegro's theme to The Fox.
Very cool.  Also, a rapper, Flabby, does an outstanding tune, Mambo
Italiano - I urge everyone to check this one out!

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:19:53 -0500
From: "Mark D. Head" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pete Moore

From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>

Subject: (exotica) Pete Moore

>I recently saw a Pete Moore plays Bacharach LP for sale, which wasn't
>expensive and didn't look all that cool, and I also have Exciting
Sounds of
>Tomorrow, an LP of his which features Catwalk, the track featured on In

>Flight Entertainment. Does anybody know any other work by Pete Moore -
LPs
>or singles? Somebody mentioned a track of his called Shady Blues but I
>don't know about this one. From what I've heard of him so far, I'd say
he's
>worth deeper investigation: heavy flutes, wah wah and fuzz guitar and
very
>funky arrangements.
>Moore info anyone?

<g> I, too, would like Moore info.  Catwalk shows up on one of the
Karminsky's
In Flight Entertainment releases and is waaaaayyyy cooooollll.  I've
done several
HotBot searches and can turn up NOTHING by him.  Any leads would be very

much appreciated.


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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:16:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Comed and Mars Attacks!

Combustible Edison's new album is a true masterpiece!   It oozes and
slinks around your heart and then squeezes tight like a boa
constricter.  It starts off hypnotique and eeririe,  a very dark dark
night at the film noir.   For me this album is as good as their best
and the best of exotica.  I can't wait to catch their act live here in
N.O.

It now seems so long ago that ComEd first appeared. The cd cover
reminds me of a Tipsy video which is available on the www at
http://www.audionet.com  through http://www.streamland.com   I'd like
to hear what Vic's lounge review would be on this album.

Mars Attacks is a great tongue in cheek soundtrack to a tongue in
cheek movie.  Its got the sound right on the feeling but it is a bit
reptitious.  My favorite trac is Martian Lounge It has me longing for
those  truly great sci-fi soudtracs of the 50's

Do any list memebers have any suggestions of other great Sci Fi
Monster Martion Sountracks?

Easy Listening in the Big Easy
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:08:25 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lounge Laura

Gosh, what a meglomaniacal subject line.  Hi, old e-pals!  I have e-mail
for a spell, hopefully longer, so I thought I'd rejoin the fun!  A lot has
changed, including my name...you may now address me as:
Jane Fondle. So, for those of you who don't know  me, well, give it a
try;)...Trust me, I like what you like, as long as it's good.
XOXO-Jane

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:16:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kirsten Whitley)
Subject: (exotica) Davis Sisters / "Mama Spank"

Howdy People,

I want to know more about the Davis Sisters -- by which I mean
the duo that Skeeter Davis was in with a friend who was soon killed
in a car accident. "Rock-a-bye Boogie" and "Christmas Boogie"
are great. Are there any fans among us? I would like to know how
their other music compares.

On a different note, does anyone out there besides me like
Liz Anderson's "Mama Spank"? I love the bouncy, happy music
and the lyrics are great for weirding out people at parties.

- --Kirsten

P.S. I'm surprised that no one has started the annual thread
asking for Halloween tunes. I just heard about a compilation
on Zombie a Go Go called Halloween Hootenanny. I've heard
one track (Los Straightjackets doing the Munsters theme).
Anyone got this one?



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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:41:43 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Halloween (formerly Davis Sisters, etc)

>P.S. I'm surprised that no one has started the annual thread
>asking for Halloween tunes.

Okay... going for something that's on recent CD, there's John Zacherley's
"Dinner With Zach" -- or "Dinner With Drac" -- the packaging keeps changing
its mind (Transylvania 6-5000 -- I got my copy from Norton Records).

It's a collection of late 50s (maybe) / early 60s (definitely) recordings
by the grave-groundbreaking TV horror host. "Dinner With Drac" is the
classic, but "Dummy Doll", "Let's Twist Again" and "Limb From Limbo Rock"
all make their own squishy impacts. It also includes the 5 minute+
"Zacherley For President" speech and the beat ghoul w/ jazz backup
recitation, "Little Red Riding Hood". And of course, the inverted
inspirational speech, "A Wicked Thought".

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:36:27 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Halloween (formerly Davis Sisters, etc)

This track,newly recorded (along with a prefatory JZ piece) has turned
up on Halloween Hootenanny (Zombie A Go Go), a comp. of mostly
surf/garage stuff (Davie Allan, eg)- one exception being Frenchy: Mambo
Ribcage. Very easy, very nice. I have never heard of them before (I do
not get out). On a sort of related topic, I received what I suppose is
the latest Dionysus catalog. In it, the CA Poppy Pickers lp, From Hair
to Aquarius, is listed at $30. Caligula for President.



bw


>Okay... going for something that's on recent CD, there's John
Zacherley's
.... "Dinner With Drac"

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:23:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Lounge Laura

welcome back! (Jane)


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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:32:44 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Pesci....bad!

Let me echo the sentiments regarding the Joe Pesci album that was posted
earlier this week.

I'm a huge fan of Pesci the actor, but the guy can't sing, the cover vesions
are of sub-wedding band quality, the new compositions are 2 cliches shy of a
neo-swing band's lyrics and several tracks do verge on the tasteless.

This sure sounded like a great concept but this album is as funny as watching
a fatal car accident happen.

Ashley


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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:34:35 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, October 25

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada. Comments and questions welcome.

Space Bop #20

Andre Popp:  Java Des Bombes Atomiques  "Delirium In Hi-Fi"

Pascal Comelade:  The Sad Skinhead  "L'Argot du Bruit"

United Future Organisation:  United Future Airlines  "Get Easy Vol. 2"

Walter Wanderley:  Music To Watch Girls By  "Boss Of The Bossa Nova"

Dimitri From Paris:  Free Ton Style  "Sacre Bleu"

C-Schulz:  Part 2  "4 Film Ton"

Emiliano:  Vamos a la Playa  "Coffee Table Music: Sounds And Soundtracks
Mixed By Grantby"

Mr. Scruff:  Fish  "Ninja Cuts - Funkungfusion"

Amon Tobin:  Melody Infringement  "Ninja Cuts - Funkungfusion"

A Certain Frank:  In The Air  "Nobody?  No!"

James Taylor Quartet:  Theme From Starsky And Hutch  "Get Easy Vol. 2"

Arling, Cameron & Swarte:  Tsja Tsja Remix  "Sound Shopping"

Andreas Dorau:  Komm Wieder  "Get Easy Vol. 2"



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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:49:58 -0700
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pesci....bad!

>Let me echo the sentiments regarding the Joe Pesci album that was posted
>earlier this week.
>
>I'm a huge fan of Pesci the actor, but the guy can't sing...

As a matter of fact he released an album in the 60s called "Little Joey Sure
Can Sing!"  The name Pesci doesn't appear anywhere in the liners.   He could
actually carry a tune and had some pretty jazzy stylings.  But no mistaking
that little wiseguy voice!  His cover of "Got to Get You Into My Life" is
the best cut, and it later turned up on a Golden Throats-type singin' celeb
comp called Hollywood Hi-Fi (on Brunswick Records).

Someone gave me his new CD but haven't checked it yet.  Haven't wanted to
after the bad reviews on this list!

Viva Joey Fishes!

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:58:10 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pesci....bad!

At 03:49 AM 23-10-98 -0700, it was written:
>>Let me echo the sentiments regarding the Joe Pesci album...
>>I'm a huge fan of Pesci the actor, but the guy can't sing...

I'm sure Michelle Boulet has been playing the cd to the hilt in NYC.

Byron

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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:16:42 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Continuing the Moog thread....

>From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>

>Does anybody on the list have subjective opinions on the following three
>Moog LPs?:
>1.  Mike Melvoin, The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog.

    about the same sound and quality as "Moog groove" by the
    electronic concept orchestra: pop covers done with Moog up
    front, backed by a rock band. recommended. at least 4 points on 5,
    maybe 5 even...

        Johan


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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:15:12 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) don't buy sushi 4004 LP! Fantastic Plastic Machine sucks!

>yes but is it available on Vinyl cake ?

    speaking of vinyl: how the fuck do you have to play the
    Fantastic Plastic Machine track on the vinyl edition of
    sushi 4004? it's interrupted by no less than 4 groove stops.
    i simply cannot play the track from start to end! i hate this kind
    of childish "jokes". buy the CD version, for heavens sake!

    the needle stucks - the needle stucks - the needle stucks -
    this vinyl sucks  - this vinyl sucks  - this vinyl sucks  -

    angry Johan ;-)




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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:10:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas - Raumpatrouille

>From: The Davidsons <[e-mail]>

>Sorry if this has been discussed before, but does anyone have any opinions
>on "Peter Thomas Orchestra - Raumpatrouille",

    review:

        visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/

    sound fragment:

        visit "Zounds in Cyber Space":
         <http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/>


        Johan


        [e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:54:35 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing

'Tis the season when the TV stations clear the shelves. Whew... (eastern
standard times)

"Johnny Angel" (1945) AMC - Monday morning, 6:00am - George Raft seeks
vengeance on his father's killers.

"Trog" (1970) TNT - Monday afternoon, 1:00pm - Joan Crawford finds her very
own frozen caveman.

"Return Of The Vampire" (1943) AMC - Monday night, 10:00pm - Bela Lugosi as
Dracula in all but name, terrorizing WWII London with help from his
werewolf flunky.

"The Frozen Dead" (1967) TNT - Tuesday morning, 11:00am - Bad taste classic
as a mad scientist works to revive frozen Nazi SS officers in 1960s
Britain. One female character spends most of the film as a head on a lab
table. Don't miss the wall of disembodied arms.

"Touch Of Evil" (1958) AMC - Tuesday afternoon, 2:05pm, Late Tuesday/early
Wednesday, 12:30am - Most likely the "old" version. Contrast and compare.

"13 Ghosts" (1960) AMC - Tuesday night, 11:00pm - Another classic spook
show from William Castle. This one came out with the Illusion-O gimmick,
with ghost viewer glasses that let you see the ghosts. Or not see them --
your choice. Unfortunately, we don't get that privilege now.

"St. Louis Blues" (1958) AMC - Wednesday morning, 10:15am - Nat King Cole,
Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ruby Dee, Ella Fitzgerald in a
Hollywood-style bio of W.C. Handy.

"Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula" (1966) TNT - Late Wednesday/early Thursday,
1:00am - Pretty much self-explanatory. Cheap and unashamed. Featuring John
Carradine as the latter.

"The Return Of Dracula" (1958) TNT - Late Wednesday/early Thursday, 2:35am
- - Dracula (Francis Lederer) presents himself as an artist in contemporary
Southern California. Thus saving kaboodles of money on sets and costumes.

"Copacabana" (1947) AMC - Thursday morning, 7:30am - Not their greatest
work, but it's hard to resist Groucho Marx AND Carmen Miranda.

"The Third Man" (1949) AMC - Thursday morning, 9:15am - More Welles! More
great theme music! More blurbs!

"Curse Of The Demon" (1957) AMC - Thursday night, 10:00pm - Occult
shenanigans in the English countryside. Dana Andrews stars as the skeptical
man of science. Atmospheric direction by Jacques Tourneur ("Cat People").

"Suddenly" (1954) A&E - Late Thursday/early Friday, 4:00am - Frank Sinatra
as an assassin on the hunt for big game: the US President.

"Cobra Woman" (1943) AMC - Friday morning, 10:45am - Vintage Hollywood
exotica with Maria Montez, Sabu & Jon Hall.

"Yojimbo" (1961) Bravo - Friday afternoon, 12:30pm - Kurosawa's American
western-influenced samurai movie, which went on to influence Morricone's
spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful Of Dollars" is virtually a scene-by-scene
remake). Super-cool score by Masaru Sato (if I remembered his name correctly).

"Shoot The Piano Player" (1960) Bravo - Friday afternoon, 4:00pm; Late
Friday/early Saturday, 4:00am - Charles Aznavour as a cafe piano player
entangled in some messy situations. Truffaut in a noir mode.

"War Of The Worlds" (1953) Sci-Fi - Friday night, 7:00pm, 11:00pm - You
know this one, right? Maybe the most stylish alien spaceships ever. I know
I'd like to have one in MY garage.

"Them!" (1954) AMC - Friday night, 10:00pm; Saturday afternoon, 2:35pm -
Giant ants from (inner) space / eat the human race...

"The Haunted Palace" (1963) AMC - Late Friday/early Saturday, 1:00am -
Vincent Price and Lon Chaney, Jr. in a tale derived from H.P. Lovecraft.
Another cheery product from AIP.

"Carnival Of Souls" (1962) A&E - Late Friday/early Saturday, 4:00am - The
eerie tale of a woman caught between two worlds. The creepiest part is
actually her lecherous neighbor. Full of atmospheric organ music (was there
ever a soundtrack release?).

"Cat People" (1942) AMC - Early Saturday morning, 5:40am - The atmospheric
(that word again) classic from Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur. Simone
Simon stars as the woman with species identity issues.

"The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) AMC - Saturday morning, 8:15am - Fine
50s sci-fi tale of a man enduring downsizing. If only they'd done a scene
where he tries to play a record.

"Tales Of Terror" (1962) AMC - Saturday night, 6:15pm - Another of Corman's
Vincent Price/Poe pics, this one is a 3 story anthology. With Peter Lorre
in story #2. Score by (drum roll) Les Baxter.

"X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes" (1963) AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm - Ray
Milland develops X-ray vision eye drops. There's an obligatory peep show
party scene early on, but the proceedings soon grow bleak as he realizes it
keeps getting stronger and he can't make it stop. With Don Rickles in a
non-comedic heavy role.

"Black Sunday" (1960) AMC - Late Saturday/early Sunday, 1:15am - Revered
Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava. Barbara Steele stars as an
executed witch who returns centuries later for revenge. This will probably
be AIP's US version, which would include a score by Les Baxter.

"House On Haunted Hill" (1958) AMC - Late Saturday/early Sunday, 3:00am -
Vincent Price stars in a William Castle opus. Who could ask for more?
You'll need to rig a skeleton to fly across your TV room on a wire to
recreate the original theatrical experience.

"The Old Dark House" (1932) AMC - Early Sunday morning, 5:50am - A year
after helming Frankenstein, James Whale directed this 'old dark house'
story. A storm strands travelers in a creepy house with a creepy family.
Boris Karloff plays the brutish butler. A satire of the genre. "Have a
potato."

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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:22:01 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing

You lucky bastards!

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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:46:37 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Extra-spooky US TV Listing

> "Carnival Of Souls" (1962) A&E - Late Friday/early Saturday, 4:00am - The
> eerie tale of a woman caught between two worlds. The creepiest part is
> actually her lecherous neighbor.

"Carnival of Souls" is kind of a local legend in these parts.  It was
shot right here in Lawrence, KS in the early '60s by Herk Harvey and
John Clifford, two Lawrence-based industrial film makers.  They hoped
to use it as a springboard to bigger things but they got robbed by a
crooked distributor, never saw a cent and never made another feature
film.  The film had its world premiere in Lawrence in 1962.

If you've never seen this film, by all means, check it out!  It's no
classic, but you'll find some of the inspiration for "Night of the
Living Dead", as well as dozens of other, lesser fright films.
Despite the spare budget--Herk Harvey once told me the film cost less
than $30,000 and some of that was deferred--there are some really
creepy scenes.

I was lucky enough to meet and interview both Herk Harvey and John
Clifford about a decade ago, and worked on a radio play with
Clifford.  Nice guys both, who were very gracious and generous with
their time.  Herk died a couple of years ago, but John Clifford still
lives here in Lawrence.  He's written several plays since his
retirement from the industrial film biz.

On Halloween night, our local public TV station is running both
"Carnival of Souls" and a documentary about the film, which contains
video of a 1992 reunion here in Lawrence of most of the principals
from the film.  Herk even put on his zombie makeup for the reunion!

>Full of atmospheric organ music (was there ever a soundtrack
>release?).

Sadly, no.  The music was done by a local organist.  The character
played in the film by Candace Hilligloss is supposed to be a church
organist, hence the choice of background music.  Several scenes were
shot in a local organ factory.  There's a track on Combustible
Edison's "I, Swinger" called "Carnival of Souls" which features
creepy organ music.

Enough, already.  See it!


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