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exotica-digest       Wednesday, November 4 1998       Volume 02 : Number 241



In This Digest:

(exotica) Belfort, Trow obits
(exotica) bad news for Southern Culture on the Skids
(exotica) All mixed up
[none]
(exotica) Mad About The Boy
Re: (exotica) moog continued
(exotica) ACCESS FORBIDDEN! on The "eXotica Releases Overview"
(exotica) more Mad About The Boy
(exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody
(exotica) Dave's Record Collection
(exotica) Peter Thomas
Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody
(exotica) Flash Mountain
Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody
Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas
(exotica) Peggy Lee recovering
(exotica) Com-Ed Philly
(exotica) new Tiki News mag
(exotica) Re: EXOTIQUARIUM
(exotica) Zeus!  What Revieus!
(exotica) EXOTIQUARIUM
(exotica) Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts
Re: (exotica) ._mo.og continued
(exotica) Bennett Comes Clean About Drugs
(exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9
Re: (exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:50:55 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Belfort, Trow obits

                       *Jovelina Faria Belfort
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Jovelina Faria Belfort, a Brazilian samba
singer and composer, died Monday of a heart attack. She was 54.
    Known as Black Pearl, Belfort did not make her first record until the age
of 40, but quickly produced seven more.
    The most successful were ``Jovelina'' in 1985, and ``Sorriso Aberto,'' or
``Big Smile,'' recorded in 1987.

                             *Bob Trow
    NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (AP) -- Bob Trow, who portrayed Robert Troll, Bob Dog
and himself for some 30 years on ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,'' died
Monday of a heart attack. He was 72.
    Trow taped appearances for ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' just last week
that are to air in February as part of a lesson on noisy and quiet.
    Before joining the PBS show, he contributed countless sketches before that
for morning radio in Pittsburgh.
    Rege Cordic gave Trow his start in broadcasting after hearing his musical
group, which combined song and humor. Cordic brought Trow into Cordic and
Company, first on WWSW and then on KDKA, using invented characters to harass
the host to the great amusement of morning commuters.
    Popular characters included Carmen Monoxide, an incorrigible punster;
Omicron, a bureaucrat from Venus; and Louie Adamchevitz, a Slav garbageman.
Cordic's team even began a Monoxide for president campaign.
    Trow also wrote and produced television and radio commercials, and painted
oil portraits of visitors to his home.
    Trow is survived by his wife, Lois; son Eric, who is creative director for
the Brabender Cox advertising firm; son Rob, who also works in broadcasting
as a studio vocalist and voice-over talent in Chicago; and two grandchildren.





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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:50:50 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) bad news for Southern Culture on the Skids

SCOTS has come up on the list recently.
Here's some news that just came out of their camp today.
- -Lou
========================================================

Southern Culture has had some bad luck on this tour. Mary hurt her foot and
now a thief has made off with their guitars. If you know anything about
their instruments, please let their manager, Dave Viecelli, know. He just
sent out this bulletin today. We've also got it posted on the website.
There's a few new tour dates at the bottom of this message for your perusal
as well.

- -----------------

GUITARS STOLEN IN SAN FRANCISCO, REWARD OFFERED!!!

Southern Culture on the Skids played two shows at Slim's in San Francisco
on October 20 and 21.  Sometime between the end of the first night's show
and the beginning of the second night's show, two of the band's guitars
were stolen from the stage.

A reward of $1,000.00 is being offered for the return of the stolen 1956
Gretsch Country Club hollow-body electric guitar.  The instrument is
cadillac green, features a Bigsby tailpiece and a Bigsby bridge on a
leather base, and was in a grey Gretsch case.  While the serial number is
not yet available, the guitar is very distinctive in that the model number
inside the guitar originally mistakenly had a "0" as its second digit.
That "0" was corrected to a "1" by hand at the factory, making this a
one-of-a-kind, readily identifiable guitar.

Also stolen was a Jerry Jones four-string electric bass guitar.  It is a
copper-burst longhorn model in a black plastic case.  An additional reward
of $500.00 is offered for the return of this bass.

Both rewards are offered on a "no questions asked" basis and are available
to anyone that either returns the guitars safely or provides information
leading to their safe recovery.  Anyone with information of any kind is
asked to contact Dave Viecelli at:

THE BILLIONS CORPORATION
833 West Chicago Avenue, suite 101
Chicago, IL 60622-5497

tel:    [phone]
fax:    [phone]

email:  [e-mail]

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as these guitars are of
tremendous sentimental value to Rick and Mary and cannot be replaced.

- -------------

TOUR DATES

TUE 11/3    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK    VZD's                   confirmed*
WED 11/4    AUSTIN, TX           Liberty Lunch           confirmed*
THU 11/5    SAN ANTONIO, TX      White Rabbit            confirmed*
FRI 11/6    HOUSTON, TX          Fabulous Satellite      confirmed*
SAT 11/7    NEW ORLEANS, LA      Howlin' Wolf            confirmed*
FRI 11/27   ROANOKE, VA          Top Floor               confirmed
SAT 11/28   RICHMOND, VA         Alley Katz              confirmed
THU 12/31   TAMPA, FL            Skipper's Smokehouse    confirmed
* with Neko Case

More to come, but this is all we have now. We'll post 'em when we get 'em.

If you've got any clue about the missing guitars, please help.

muchos gracias,

- -mary.

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 11:32:24 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) All mixed up

>Is she one of the following Ray Charles Singers?
Lillian Clark, Lois Winter, June Magruder, Mary Sue Berry, Elise Bretton,
Peggy Powers, Linda Whitney, Louise Stuart.
From the truely wonderful album "Take Me Along" (1967).
Frank

Hi Frank and all!  First, no, her name was Lila Spaeth (incidentally, aunt
to Gordon Spaeth of the Fleshtones:).

I call this subject "Mixed up" because I am saddened by the news of Ms.
Peggy Lee.  One of the greats, shot down again:(  As an aside, anyone ever
heard the 70s Peggy-promo for Placidyl?  Hilarious.  Positive, loving,
healing vibes to ya', Peg O'our hearts.

BUT OH MY GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN AM I HAPPY ABOUT THIS FANTASTICA THING!
THANKS, Jack Diamond.  There is a planet with your name on it.  When does
this thing hit the stores!?!?!? Speaking of fine outerspaceexotica, if
you've ever wondered whether the TWIGHLIGHT ZONE CD soundtrack is worth it,
YES!  There's space *and* nervous-beat-jazz.

Up, and down, need that placidyl now....Jane Fondle
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:50:30 -0600
From: Tony Shanks <[e-mail]>
Subject: [none]

Does anyone know how many versions there are of MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Cole
Porter?

Thanks,

- -tony-




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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:15:55 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mad About The Boy

At 10:50 AM 11/3/98 -0600, Tony wrote:
>Does anyone know how many versions there are of MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Cole
>Porter?

Check out ASCAP's search page:
< http://www.ascap.com/ace/title/query.html >

This returns the (obviously incomplete) list:
Tcode 430001839
Title MAD ABOUT THE BOY
Writer(s): COWARD NOEL (27792 )
Publisher(s): CHAPPELL & CO INC
Performers(s):
 CHACKSFIELD F
 COWARD N W
 KOSTELANETZ A
 COWARD N-W FITZGERALD C S
 MACRAE C
 MERRILL HELEN
 LAINE C
 HEATH T
 SWINGLE SINGERS
 NEW SWINGLE SINGERS
 HORNE L
 SHEPHERD C
 PAGE PATTI
 SHORE D
 MARCULICCI

You may want to order a copy of the Billboard Music Guide CD-ROM, on sale
for $14.98 pp.
<  http://www.billboard.com/store/musicguide.asp  >

I haven't gotten my copy yet, so I'm not sure it has a database that would
be useful for searching and answering this question.

- -Lou




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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 98 10:02:11 -0000
From: bsalter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued

>In my experience, Jean Jacques Perrey has .__.always.__ cited the work of
>Pierre Schaeffer and his student Pierre Henry.   He retells the tale with a
>generous, and gentle humour that is lost when it is translated so
>literally.
>
>Perrey 'sampled' the methodology, never the music.
>

I repeat: in his lecture, Perrey stated *specifically* that he 'sampled'
the *audio recording* of Henry's Messe Pour Le Temps Presents.  He said
this in English, no translation required.

- -Brian



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 [e-mail]   www.slip.net/~bsalter

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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:00:51 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ACCESS FORBIDDEN! on The "eXotica Releases Overview"

the ACCESS FORBIDDEN! error has been fixed, sorry for the inconvenience,
people, and please visit again.

    FTP tinker Johan




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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:17:07 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more Mad About The Boy

The All-Music Guide site turns up the following re. MATB.
- -Lou


Albums with a song "Mad About the Boy"
 on Blue for You [76] - Status Quo
 on New Again [87] - Connor, Chris
 on Nuf Said [94] - Winding, Kai
 on Nuf Said [94] - Winding/Johnson
 on Broadway Showcase [56] - DeFranco, Buddy
 on Listen to My Music [52] - Heath, Ted
 on Waiter, Make Mine Blues [60] - ODay, Anita
 on London by Night [58] - London, Julie
 on Marcovicci Sings Movies [87] - Marcovicci, Andrea
 on Status Quo [Hallmark] [78] - Status Quo
 on Kai and Jay! - Winding, Kai
 on Golden Hits, Vol. 1 [63] - Washington, Dinah
 on Cheek to Cheek/Lighter Side of Jazz [93] - Cheek to Cheek/Lighter Side
of Jazz
 on Blue Note 1500 Sampler - Blue Note 1500 Sampler
 on Stormy Weather [Prime Cuts] [95] - Horne, Lena
 on Blues Brother Soul Sister [97] - Blues Brother Soul Sister
 on Heart and Soul [97] - Heart and Soul
 on Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House, Vol. 1 [56] - Hipp, Jutta
 on Quartet and the Quintet [54] - Sheldon, Jack
 on Romance & The Stage [94] - Paige, Elaine
 on Dream's on Jeri [98] - Southern, Jeri
 on L'art Vocal, Vol. 11: 1936-1941 [93] - Horne, Lena
 on 16 Most Requested Songs - Shore, Dinah
 on Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, V [50] - Washington, Dinah
 on I Wanna Be Loved [93] - Forrest, Helen
 on Magic Christian: Film Soundtrack [70] - Badfinger
 on Provocative Percussion [5Z] - Light, Enoch
 on Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, V [61] - Washington, Dinah
 on Wilder N' Wilder... [56] - Wilder, Joe
 on At Long Last Lena [92] - Horne, Lena
 on American Legends #19 [96] - Washington, Dinah
 on Romantic Moods of Jackie Gleason [96] - Gleason, Jackie
 on Dance Bands Play Noel Coward [91] - Dance Bands Play Noel Coward, The
 on Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence - Coward, Noel
 on First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story [93] - Washington, Dinah
 on Pot Pie, with Jon Eardley [54] - Woods, Phil
 on Very Thought of You [93] - Noble, Ray
 on Lady & Her Music [96] - Horne, Lena
 on American Legends: Armstrong Washington [96] - American Legends:
Armstrong Washington
 on Hits of '32 [96] - Hits of '32
 on Some of the Best [96] - McRae, Carmen
 on Fabulous Lena Horne 1939-1946 [36] - Horne, Lena
 on Golden Celebration [97] - Page, Patti
 on Say it With a Kiss - Sullivan, Maxine
 on At the Hickory House [54] - McPartland, Marian
 on Free [62] - Golson, Benny
 on Mad About the Boy: The Very Best of Din [98] - Washington, Dinah
 on Unique Incomparable [96] - Lillie, Beatrice




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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 15:57:47 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody

by UPI/Ken Franckling

    A most unusual thing happened in pop music during the winter of 1965.
Saxophonist Stan Getz won four Grammy awards, including Record of the Year,
for ``The Girl from Ipanema'' with guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer Astrud
Gilberto.
    He had some stiff competition. The other nominations that year were Barbra
Streisand for ``People,'' the Beatles for ``A Hard Day's Night,'' Henry
Mancini for ``The Pink Panther'' and Louis Armstrong for ``Hello Dolly.''
    It was one of those rare instances since the 1940s Swing Era heyday in
which a jazz project had enough crossover appeal to dominate the popular
radio airwaves for a season.
    Getz had become fascinated a few years earlier with the bossa nova wave
coming out of Brazil. His 1963 recording ``Jazz Samba'' with guitarist
Charlie Byrd produced the hit ``Desafinado.''
    Then he collaborated with pianist/composer Antonio Carlos-Jobim and the
Gilbertos on ``Getz/Gilberto,'' a stunning album which further melded his
beautiful and romantic instrumental tone with exotic samba rhythms and
included ``The Girl from Ipanema'' crossover hit.
    The U.S. soon was awash with bossa nova fever -- and introduced to a stream
of talented Brazilian composers and performers whose impact continues today.
    Ironically, Getz's label, Verve, resisted releasing ``Getz/Gilberto'' --
apparently taking the paternalist view that the bossa nova movement was a
momentary aberration and that nobody in the U.S. could care about
performances by foreign musicians they didn't know.
    That tidbit emerged last week in Boston when Getz's widow, Monica Getz,
spoke at a dedication of the Stan Getz Media Center and Library at the
Berklee College of Music.
    ``Verve didn't want to release 'Getz/Gilberto' at all,'' she said.
    Getz proved them wrong, but not until after some guerilla tactics to get
the music to the public. Monica Getz said she got a demo tape of the
recording, researched how to place songs with program directors, and
delivered a copy to a top radio station in San Francisco.
    As the song got airplay and became very popular, ``we embarrassed the
record company into releasing it,'' she said. ``They were surprised by the
success, and Stan was absolutely flabbergasted.''
    Getz, who died of cancer in 1991, had one of the most beautiful and
instantly identifiable tones ever heard on the tenor sax. He fell in love
with jazz at age 14 and left school a year later to go on the road with
trombonist Jack Teagarden's big band.
    By the time he was 21, Getz had worked with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman and
Woody Herman. His improvised solo on the Herman band's hit version of
``Early Autumn'' established him as one of the great interpreters of
ballads. He sustained and even strengthened that role throughout his career.
    ``His sound was his gift. He was a true prodigy,'' said vibraphonist Gary
Burton, a longtime Berklee faculty member who was a journeyman member of
Getz's band from 1964 to 1966.
    ``To Stan, success was like a great new suit that never fit quite right,''
Burton said. ``He was a natural player with a great sense of melody and
interpretation.''
    Burton said Getz always sought out the best new players for his band,
including Chick Corea, Mose Allison, Steve Swallow and Jim McNeely. ``He
felt he was the student and drawn to players who would introduce him to new
music,'' Burton said.
    In spite of his own lack of schooling in jazz or on his horn, Getz's sound
and tenacity helped countless players find their own voices. ``He showed us
all how to give life to a melody,'' Burton said.
    The library dedication in Getz's honor was funded by a grant from the Herb
Alpert Foundation. The trumpeter became a close friend of Getz in the late
1980s and produced one of his final recordings, ``Apasionado,'' on his A&M
label.
    ``Stan once told me he never played a note that he didn't mean,'' Alpert
said. ``That deserves something. It deserves a building -- or a library.''
    The Stan Getz Media Center and Library houses the academic world's largest
collection of printed popular and jazz music, solo transcriptions and
technical materials. Nearly 100,000 separate song titles exist in various
editions for full band scores, keyboard, guitar and other specific instruments.
    The complete works of the standard classical music repertoire is available,
along with hundreds of modern composers, and a growing collection of popular
and folk music from around the world.
    ``Stan didn't like ceremony, but this is something he would have liked,''
Monica Getz told the small crowd of musicians and academics gathered at the
Berklee dedication. ``He would have been very proud of the purpose of this
- -- to give young musicians a chance he never had.''
 ---
    Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
    All rights reserved.
 ---
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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 16:38:38 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dave's Record Collection

For fans of the Late Show's Dave's Record Collection segment, currated by
Steve Young, here's a note from Steve:

>   Meanwhile, Record Collection will probably be this coming week, Tues or Wed
>I'm guessing.  Lots of crazy stuff.

Set the VCRs.

Here's the Record Collection URL:
< http://marketing.cbs.com/lateshow/comedy/records/ >

- -Lou




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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:39:58 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas

again from Forced Exposure : http://www.forcedexposure.com.

____________________________________________
MARINA (GERMANY):

THOMAS, PETER: Moon Flowers And Miniskirt CD (MA 39). A collection of
tracks from the late 60s/early 70s by Germany's leading film composer, who
has been described as "Germany's answer to Burt Backarach, Henry Mancini,
Esquivel, Stereolab and Aphex Twin all rolled into one." "It seems like Sir
Thomas's previous prolificity is finally starting to pay off. Whatever
quality control there was to begin with has yet to collapse; this has to be
some of the most dauntingly odd music to find it's recent vogue with the
jet-set types... Here's the hippy dippy/dawn of electronics era of Thomas's
long career. Everything from Perrey/Kingsley-esque synth simplicity to
easy-soul stirrers (the track 'Black Power' is sung by none other than
Donna Summer,  her 'first ever recorded vocal', pretty amazing) to
fuzz-drenched psychedelic-cop-jazz to, well, whatever you'd categorize
something called 'Rockin' Computer'... The exotica revival is almost 10
years strong now & we're finally starting to hit paydirt. Hallelujah." --
Hrvatski.  $20.00

THOMAS, PETER VS MAXWELL EXPLOSION: Opium 12" (MA 41). "German master of
soundtrack and easy listening art brings you here one of his funkiest
tracks called 'Opium'. Gets the remix treatment by Bungalow Records artists
Maxwell Explosion & Dauerfisch. Comes in a 4-color picture sleeve -- a must
for all early 70s soundtrack fans."  $11.00



Arjan




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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 17:36:04 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody

At 03:57 PM 11/3/98 -0600, Lou Smith wrote:
>
>by UPI/Ken Franckling
>
>    A most unusual thing happened in pop music during the winter of 1965.
>Saxophonist Stan Getz won four Grammy awards, including Record of the Year,
>for ``The Girl from Ipanema'' with guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer Astrud
>Gilberto.
>    It was one of those rare instances since the 1940s Swing Era heyday in
>which a jazz project had enough crossover appeal to dominate the popular
>radio airwaves for a season.

I hate to be the one to say it but "that wasn't jazz" though I guess you
could call it a "jazz project", given that Stan Getz was a jazz musician.
I don't know why I bother making this distinction or piping up here.  I
guess my button will always get pushed by stuff like this though.
Yes "jazz" is this huge, deep, wide term which is used to describe some
rather distinct genres of music. I say I love jazz but there's a lot of
music called "jazz" which I actually kind of hate.  So the word "jazz" has
pretty well lost its meaning.
But it still has some meaning.  And the Getz/Gilberto records were not jazz.
Someone says "Oh isn't that cool?  A jazz project crossed over".  And you
think "Oh yeah that is cool.  Whoever thought that people would make a jazz
record into a hit record?"  And then you hear the record and realize that
in fact, it's not a jazz record they're talking about.
At most it's a "jazz flavoured" record.
At most it has some chords on it that are associated with jazz.
At most it has a solo or two that remind you of jazz.

I think some people call a record "jazz" if the solo is taken by the
saxophone player instead of the guitar player.  I'm sure that you could
find some record stores where Clarence Clemons records were in the jazz
section.

I have records by Stan Getz that I would "legitimately" call jazz and I
like them.  And I have a few of his Brazilian records.  And I think my
favorite "jazz flavored" Getz record is the one where he does all Bacharach
tunes.
That record is almost jazz.

Why this rant today?  I don't know. I guess I have unresolved issues.

Everytime I say "fake jazz" on this list, someone says "hey why do you have
to call it fake?"  Maybe I should point out that once upon a time the word
"fake" when associated with musical genres was a putdown to me but now it's
just a descriptive term I use.  A lot of the music we discuss here is fake
something or other.  In fact, isn't exotica, "fake exotic" music?

Or I say "fake jazz" and someone says "Hey man why do you have to label the
music?"  I don't know. I like labelling music.

Or someone says "there's two labels only, good and bad."  And that's fine
except that a lot of "bad" music is among my favorite music.

These days anyway.  God help me.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 01:17:54 -0800
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Flash Mountain

All you sad Disneyphiles better check out Flash Mountain, featuring people
who expose themselves in the Magic Kingdom:
http://www.flashmountain.com/index.html

More fun than Discontinued Rides, I'd say!

C. "Ratso" Russo
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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 17:47:20 -0400
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody

I agree with Nat:  labels are useful gifts, not false pigeonholes.
When I first heard the term "fake jazz", in the early 1980s (and
probably in a Lounge Lizards review), it sparked a lot of useful thinking.

I think most of us like jazz when, with the passage of time, it can
start to sound like mood music.  That's a scandal for true jazzbos,
but even the most avowedly serious 1970s fusion starts to
evoke period and lifestyle (rather than virtuosity and ambition)
after 25 years.   If you told me 20 years ago that I'd be buying
the early-to-mid 1970s stuff that's on the Easy Tempo or some of the
French jazzadelic  compilations, I'd have doubted this stuff could
ever be rehabilitated.  But now it sounds like the soundtrack to its
time.

Will
- -------------------------------------------------
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Director,
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 21:51:34 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas

Arjan Plug wrote:
>
> again from Forced Exposure : http://www.forcedexposure.com.
> THOMAS, PETER: Moon Flowers And Miniskirt CD (MA 39).
$20.00

This is also available at Dusty Groove, for $14.99!
(http://www.dustygroove.com)


cheryl


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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:43:50 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Peggy Lee recovering

    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Singer Peggy Lee has been taken out of
intensive care a week after suffering a stroke at her Los Angeles home.
    Lee's personal secretary, Jane David, says the 78-year-old singer took a
turn for the better today.
    David tells UPI Lee was able to wiggle her toes and arms, which she says is
an indication that Lee might regain movement throughout her body.
    David says Lee smiled and ``was a little feisty.''
    Lee, who has led a relatively private personal life in recent years, is
being treated at an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital with a security
guard posted outside her room.
    David says she has received calls ``from around the world'' inquiring about
Lee's condition and wishing her well.
    She says Lee -- who suffers from diabetes and has been using a wheelchair
off and on for the past ``four or five years'' -- has been living quietly at
her home, entertaining friends occasionally.
    David says Lee has recently been hosting private screenings of the recently
re-released videocasette of ``Lady and the Tramp,'' for which she wrote and
sang several songs and voiced four characters.





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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 10:47:57 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Com-Ed Philly

Hi!  Anyone on the list going to Combustible in Philadelphia Thanksgiving
eve?  I *think* I am.  And, not to cause confusion, but Friday means one of
two things:
1.  I will be losing my e-mail, and therefore off the list.
2.  That won't happen, but I might get a new address.

I'll let y'all know.

Jane Fondle

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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 11:17:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) new Tiki News mag

tiki News #14 is finally out

the Exotica Erotica issue is for adults only!
It features cover art by Chip Wass
Intelligent articles by professors Sven-Tiki and Bill Osgerby (from the UK)
and nudity on every page

Available in stores in two weeks or directly via mailorder for $2.00 ppd.
from
Schwarz Grafiken
2215-R Market Street #177
San Francisco, CA 94114

Subscriber copies will be mailed this week


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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:12:21 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: EXOTIQUARIUM

    jee, they didn't even ask if they could lend that EXOTIQUARIUM
    name from me. well, maybe they don't know my site ...
    anyone has an e-mail or web address of St. Martin's Griffin
    by any chance?

        Johan, owner of "Dada'quariums Exotica", which features
    an "Exotiquarium" page for more than 3 years now...


        [e-mail]


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At 08:53 -0700 98/11/03, exotica-digest wrote:

>This title, due in April from St. Martin's Griffin, may be of interest to
>members of this list. Here's the catalogue copy:
>
>EXOTIQUARIUM: Album Art from the Space Age
>by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
>Foreword by Lenny Dee





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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:14:21 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Zeus!  What Revieus!

When I came back from California, I had mentioned that I had scored a
couple of choice platters.  I had heard parts of some of these, but had not
had time to digest them.

Here are my thoughts on some of what I have found:

(Groovy) Living in Space - Ed Gates.  This is one GREAT title!  Could be
the list motto, no?  It's a single that I bought for the title, I didn't
care how it sounded.  It turns out that it is an organ instrumental with
vocal interjections.  It is actually, um, well, groovy!

My Quiet Village - Darla Hood - Anyone expecting a voice reminiscent of her
long past "Our Gang" days, will be surprised by the full-throated
vocalizing on this version of the Baxter classic.   Baxter is still tops,
but this has the same Mr. Spock-style eyebrow raise factor that Johnny
Mathis' version of "Caravan" does as in, "I didn't know there were lyrics"!

Hi Fireworks - Ferrante and Teicher.  Finally, finally!  I have an all-out
string attack F&T LP (at least their third for Columbia) which cost me a
whopping 2.50.  The highlight is the first track, "Oye Negra", which is
played with an unbelievable dexterity.  If you see it, buy it.  It's that
good.

Zounds!  What Sounds! - Dean Elliott and his Big Band.  After hearing so
much about this record (next hope to find: Moon Gas by Dick Hyman) I found
a mono copy for 13.99.  This is one unbelievable outing.  There are no bad
tracks and the promise those of us having heard "Lonesome Road" will not be
let down.  This is one amazing, witty and ingenious record.  The sounds are
used and used well throughout the record (tuned raindrops!).  It takes the
innovations of Spike Jones and/or John Cage, if you will and you end up
with a document that for the time (the year is not on the record.  1960?)
is a pop masterpiece.  I will join the ranks of the many that say that this
album demands reissuing with liners that explain how they coordinated the
sounds.

Don't go around humming it.  Your co-workers will look at you funny.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 13:41:57 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EXOTIQUARIUM

At 03:12 PM 11/4/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
>    jee, they didn't even ask if they could lend that EXOTIQUARIUM
>    name from me. well, maybe they don't know my site ...
>    anyone has an e-mail or web address of St. Martin's Griffin
>    by any chance?
>
>        Johan, owner of "Dada'quariums Exotica", which features
>    an "Exotiquarium" page for more than 3 years now...

St. Martin's URL is (not surprisingly):
< http://www.stmartins.com/ >

Take a look at their FAQ page:
< http://www.stmartins.com/SMPinq/FAQ.htm >

The Griffin page is at:
< http://www.stmartins.com/SMPtrade/ >

G'luck,
Lou




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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:22:07 -0500
From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts

Today I received this new Peter Thomas collection in the mail, and so far
so good. But where are the recording dates? I can figure out the dates for
tracks 3, 4, 9, 12, 16, and 19 because these songs come from films or
mini-series that are discussed in the liner notes - but what about tracks
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18? For date junkies like
myself, compilations without dates frustrate the hell out of me. Can anyone
help out there?

bcuevas

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Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:04:41 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Desmond K. Hill)
Subject: Re: (exotica) ._mo.og continued

re.  j e a n  j a c q u e s  p e r r e y..___________.e-m a i l

> I'm not sure if anyone is
> monitoring that e-mail address for him.

i would be glad to convey e-correspondence to monsieur perrey.  'just
e-mail me w/ FAO J_JP in the subject line.  merci

au revoir,

d e s

        d e s m o n d  k.  h i l l

                [ m a n a g e r  o f  J e a n  J a c q u e s  P e r r e y ]

        ?(._. )  ( ._.)?   ?(._. )  ( ._.)?


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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 17:56:57 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bennett Comes Clean About Drugs

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco and became
the darling of the MTV generation in his 60s. And he picked up a drug
problem along the way.
    ``At every big party I'd go to, people were high on something,'' the
72-year-old crooner wrote in ``The Good Life,'' about the heady Hollywood
days of the 1970s.
    ``Cocaine flowed as freely as champagne, and soon I began joining in the
festivities. ... Compounded with my pot smoking, the whole thing started
sneaking up on me.''
    By the late 1970s, he spiraled into a dangerous drug-filled low as his
personal life unraveled -- his mother died, his marriage was faltering and
the government was after him for back taxes.
    ``I found I was using drugs to ease my pain,'' Bennett said.
    In 1979, when the IRS threatened to seize his home, he went on a binge that
nearly killed him. In the two decades since then, the eight-time Grammy
winner has risen to new career and personal highs, without drugs. His latest
album, ``The Playground,'' is being released this week.
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:29:46 -0800
From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9

Good afternoon,

Just wanted to know if any listees will be in attendance at the
Combustible Edison show at Bimbo's 365 Club on Monday, November 9 at
8:00PM.  You'll find me doing it with the "Al Malaikah" fez on.  Hope to
see you there!

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:52:28 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9

Funny you should mention this...

Those of you who know me - even a little - have realized that I am a DEADLY
combination of Scatterbrained AND way too busy. To hide this fact as best I
can, I
recently employed the use of a PalmPilot to help me keep track of the things
normal people can do in their own heads or on  a small scrap of paper....
Anyway,
Just as I get into the PalmPilot lifestyle, I crash the little gizmo
irretrievably. For
DAYS I am utterly lost without my companion.

Minutes ago, I managed to breathe partial life back into my Pilot, and to
test to see if
my calender worked, I searched for my ComEd entry.  Now I will have to make
a note
to look for a guy with a fez.

.  You'll find me doing it with the "Al Malaikah" fez on.  Hope to
see you there!


Doing WHAT?


Ron




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