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exotica-digest       Tuesday, November 17 1998       Volume 02 : Number 247



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) james last
(exotica) Re: ...ComEd (PUSHKIN????)
(exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song]
(exotica) Phil Kraus
(exotica) Casino Royale
Re: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums
Re: (exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song]
(exotica) The Yellow Canary - Kenyon Hopkins
(exotica) L.A. exoticats???
(exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott
(exotica) Pushkin and "hodgepodge" toons
(exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for Nov 18,1998
(exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits
(exotica) Hawaii is a dangerous place
Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits
(exotica) Hawaii is a dangerous place
Re: (exotica) james last
(exotica) John Ashley rocks, "Hot Rod Gang" rules!
Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits
(exotica) The eXotica Releases Overviews temporary inconveniences
(exotica) Re: james last "Voodoo Party"
(exotica) Lorraine Bowen
(exotica) Tiki commercial Christmas, SF
(exotica) That rulin' Ruggolo
(exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update

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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:12:54 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) james last

> At 03:47 PM 11/15/98 +0100, Sevo Stille wrote:
> >
> >[e-mail] wrote:
> >
> >> So what's up with the music, anyone?  German band leader arranging pop
> >> hits in a big band style is what I gather...
> >>
> >> Thumbs UP ?
> >
> >Mostly down. A few records, like e.g. "Voodoo Party" are very good.
>
> "Voodoo Party" is a much sought-after record by sheep-like DJ's and the
> sheep that follow them here.  As a result, it's the one Last record you
> almost never see here.  The track "Giant Man" in particular, was a popular
> DJ track here.

I've seen it priced at twenty five quid over here, but it's not too
hard to pick up copies.

> I have the record and I don't think I could say that it's very good.  I
> COULD say that it's excellent compared to every other James Last record
> that I've heard.  After I heard this record, it gave me a bit of hope and I
> started letting myself buy James Last records, in hopes they would be as
> non-mediocre as Voodoo Party.  But alas they were very hopelessly mediocre.

I agree, it certainly doesn't qualify as very good. It's OK.

I mentioned "James Last And The Rolling Trinity" recently. It has one
track which is just like Giant Man -- called "(Better Watch Out) The
Booman's Coming". This, and the rest, are Lastian rollerdisco versions
of children's songs. The version of "Old MacDonald" is fantastic for
its utterly stupefying jaw-crashing-into-floor qualities.

But I like very silly records.

I'm still looking for "Humba Humba A Go Go".

> But that's good.  It's good that there's at least one kind of record that
> you see all the time that you can pass up without much fear of missing
> something.  Ever since I bought a Roberto Delgado record with a few pretty
> hot cuts, I had to suddenly look seriously at those records.  (Please don't
> tell me there's a hot cut on a Nana Mouskouri record somewhere!)
>
> James Last and Roberto Delgado were kind of similar and on the same label,
> weren't they?

They were on Polydor. So were Peter Thomas and Augusto Alguero and
Xylos Inc and Ultimate Spinach. And Jimi Hendrix. And Bert Kaempfert.

No, I wouldn't say Delgado was similar to Last. Delgado looks like Vic
Reeves, while Last looks more like Oliver Reed.

More seriously, the main difference is that Delgado actually produced
quite a lot of "good", some "excellent", and a few "outstanding"
pieces of music, thus far outstripping Mr. Last. The track "Salambo
#1" from "Latin Flutes" is possibly the best ever piece of "swinging
cheese". And I know my swinging cheese.

Kai Warner is James Last's brother. He was on Polydor too. That's
enough random facts.

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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 98 20:06:02 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: ...ComEd (PUSHKIN????)

>In a message dated 11/13/98 4:24:37 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:
>
><< I can't seem to turn up any information on "Mr. Pushkin"
> mentioned in the Combustible Edison instro tune "Mr. Pushkin
> Comes to Shove."

And Ashley Warren wrote:

>My TV Cartoon Almanac lists this as running for only one season on ABC  (Sept
>'62 - Aug '63 color, half hour, 22 episodes, not renewed). It's described
...
>I would be curious if any one on the list may have a video or possibly even a
>coloring book of Mr. Pushkin for trade as I'm a big collector of Cold War era
>ephemera and  Mr. Pushkin stuff at memorabillia conventions/flea markets is
>somewhat of a rarity due to the short run and the very nature of the show.

Some of these tapes turn up at comic/TV/movie memorabilia shows in
"unofficial" VHS copies, among rows of tapes of sundry obscure cult TV.
I'll start keeping my eyes better peeled. NEVER seen any merchandising
though, for sale anywhere or in any character-tie-in/toy price guide.

Like Clutch Cargo and many cartoon oddities, my age made me miss it by
THAT much in its original run. However, when I was a kid a local station
would show this weird hodge podge of cartoons (Terry Toons,
Paramount/Fleischer, second-string Warner Bros.) that must have been
cheap to obtain in the early 70s, and Pushkin would occasionally make an
appearance in the rotation. I've seen a lot of those other studios'
cartoons turn up on those public-domain $3 budget videos at drug stores
and supermarkets. Perhaps Pushkin is lurking on some of those!

>The book
>lists Rolf Steedmann, an ex-Hanna-Barbera artist was the main illustrator.
>And that's it, not much.

REALLY? That's pretty interesting. I don't remember it looking remotely
Hanna-Barbera at all.

BTW, I think "Mr. Pushkin Came to Shove" is perhaps the most amazing
ComEd instrumental, and to me seems to epitomize what Space Age Pop was
all about without being too derivative of any specific original artist. A
brilliantly complex bunch of composition and arranging.



Michael David Toth
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:29:09 +0100
From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song]

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Hi,

I got the following mail from a cartoonist named Edgar Beals. Can anyone
help him with his question? Thanks!

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Subject: Obscure song
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This is a long shot, but here goes...

I am trying to find out some information about a recording I have.. it's on
a cassette and it was recorded by someone else several years ago from a
radio show. It is a spoof of "the Night Before Christmas" by "Patsy Ray and
the Beatniks" it may have been recorded around 1959.

I am a cartoonist and I have made a short animation using this recording as
a soundtrack. I would really like to get in touch with the label or the
people who recorded it, or who ever has the rights to it.

I wish I had more to go on but that is all I know.

Any help would be appreciated.

Edgar Beals
[e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:52:16 -0500
From: "Michael Greenberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Phil Kraus

Brad - I have two records by Phil Kraus, however a small correction -
they are on Golden Crest, a fascincating label that was based about
five minutes away from where I live.  I've talked with the late
owner's daughter, but never specifically asked about Phil Kraus.

It was really interesting to read your post.  I knew nothing about
him other than much of the music he created.

thanks,

Michael


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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:07:40 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Casino Royale

Listers,
I just finished watching "Casino Royale" which I had not seen in years.  I
have always felt the soundtrack was one of the greatest comedy soundtracks
ever.  In fact just yesterday I spent the afternoon listening to Bacharach
comedy soundtracks: Casino Royale, What's New Pussycat, and After The Fox.
All three great!

My point:  I noticed that there are several great music cues in the film that
are not on the soundtrack CD.  Does anyone know if Ryko or someone else is
considering putting out an extended version similar to the other two I
mentioned.  That would certainly be great!

Here's hoping that everyone on the list had a good weekend.
Best wishes,
Larry


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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:37:23 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums

And let's not forget the "Stars on 45" Abba medley,
the most blissfully hooky record ever made.  Nothing
but the most pleasurable parts of all the Abba hits.

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

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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:59:35 -0600
From: nancy novotny <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song]

Someone will probably beat me to this, but this track is called "Beatnik's
Wish" by Patsy Raye & The Beatniks, and it is included on Rhino's "The Beat
Generation" 3CD box set that came out in 1992.

According to the small print liner notes, the track was composed by
Willis/Ackerman and was originally released as Roulette single #4208 in
November 1959.  And according to the even smaller print, this track is actually
controlled by Rhino Records these days..

Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got the following mail from a cartoonist named Edgar Beals. Can anyone
> help him with his question? Thanks!
>
> --
> Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek - [e-mail]
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>   http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html
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> Subject: Obscure song
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 05:47:06 -0400
> From: "Edgar Beals" <[e-mail]>
> To: <[e-mail]>
>
> This is a long shot, but here goes...
>
> I am trying to find out some information about a recording I have.. it's on
> a cassette and it was recorded by someone else several years ago from a
> radio show. It is a spoof of "the Night Before Christmas" by "Patsy Ray and
> the Beatniks" it may have been recorded around 1959.
>
> I am a cartoonist and I have made a short animation using this recording as
> a soundtrack. I would really like to get in touch with the label or the
> people who recorded it, or who ever has the rights to it.
>
> I wish I had more to go on but that is all I know.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Edgar Beals
> [e-mail]





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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:52:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Yellow Canary - Kenyon Hopkins

Just picked up _The Yellow Canary_ sdtrk by list favorite Kenyon Hopkins and
it's jumped into the top echelon of my favorite crime/nervous jazz albums.  I
might even rate it over _Lonelyville/The Nervous Beat_ and _Mr. Buddwing_
among Kenyon's own albums.  Just frosty beat jazz side to side.

Currently I'm listening to Sam Butera's _The Wildest Clan_ a swinging
motherfucker of a record with some truly cool originals.

Thank you KUSF record swap.

Hey!  I wanna see any Beatnik Christmas Cartoons!  Tell that animator that I'd
gladly trade him a 90 minute tape of Beatnik exploitation x-mas songs ("Bear
Rug" by Tony Rodelle, some Ramsey Lewis, "Cool Yule" by Kookie, "Blue X-mas"
by Miles & Bob Dorough....) for his clip.

- --David


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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:42:08 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (kevin leeeeee)
Subject: (exotica) L.A. exoticats???

hey,
i met an exotica list member at the cacophony party at bahooka's halloween.
michelle?  you there?  please email me, you mentioned keeping a list of LA
exotica people - definitely interested in being added to the list.

speaking of LA.  at the Garage on Thursday nights in Silverlake (it's on
Santa Monica Blvd., look it up in the Weekly)  is the mighty return of
"SWITCHED ON!" featuring dj's Hypnotique and Lance spinning 60's
groove/psych/moog/exploitation/etc. along with modern fare (you know like
dimitri from paris, fantastic plastic machine, sterolab, etc....)  from
what i've been told (haven't gone yet to this incarnation) the format has
been a bit heavier on the modern stuff lately.  but i'm sure they'll play
requests if you got em.

this is the same switched on that used to be at goldfingers way back when,
of which Jill Mingo-go was a part of... (as well as Claudine)

also i saw a flyer for a saturday club at the Burgundy Room in Hollywood
that sounded very similar to switched on.  60's euro/exploitation type
stuff...  anyone go to this?  "the purple flashes club" or something like
that.

peace,
kevin leeeeee




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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:28:46 +0100
From: "Basta Audio Visuals" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott

Well, for some reason newsgroups do not accept large MP3 files. So I decided
to make the file available for download on my site www.Basta.nl . This will
be done by saturday, so sorry to all who tried to look the file up in the
newsgroups.

Kind regards

Jeroen vd Schaaf
Basta





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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:55:17 -0800
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pushkin and "hodgepodge" toons

So I guess I got it a little backwards with the Puskin thing, it was
actually a Domestic deal.

Thanks for all the info...  Brings up a whole 'nother discussion of
those weird-ass "hodgepodge" cartoons that we just took for granted as
kids.

> Like Clutch Cargo and many cartoon oddities, my age made me miss it by
> THAT much in its original run. However, when I was a kid a local station
> would show this weird hodge podge of cartoons (Terry Toons,
> Paramount/Fleischer, second-string Warner Bros.)

So does THIS ring a bell with anybody... There were some cartoons out of
the late fifties that featured two guys: one short and mouse-y while the
other a tall big mouthed know-it-all. I remember one episode where the
little guy was
trying to setup a HiFi kit(!) and the big guy kept telling him what to
do...
which invariably created some kind of disater. The short guy got shocked
a lot in this one. I remember it as having a beatnik edge to
it...angular and minimal, like the artists were smoking pot and digging
Calder sculptures in their spare time.

Or maybe I'm imagining the whole thing.


 If I had to guess, I would say that they came out of the same studios
as the "Herman and Catnip" cartoons,


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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:40:05 -0500
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for Nov 18,1998

Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph,
Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Billy Strange: Man from UNCLE "Secret Agent File"
The Ray McVay Sound: Kinda Kinky "The Easy Project"
I Gres: To Ramsey "Mo'Plen 3000"
Carrie Nations: Look on up at the bottom "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
(ost)
G.T.O.'s: I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle "Permanent
Damage"
Mutantes: Magica "Mutantes"
Claude Denjean: Kiss This "The Hascisch Party!"
Okko: East Indian Traffic "Sitar & Electronics"
The Vampires Sound Incorporation: Kamasutra "Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic
Dance Party"
Combustible Edison: 20th Century "The Impossible World"
Burt Bacharach: The Look of Love "Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits"
Edmundo Ros: Summertime "Latin Love-In"
Magga Stina: Operation "An Album"
Magga Stina: Bikers-Relations "An Album"
Neotropic: Under Violent Objects "Mr Brubakers Strawberry Alarm Clock"
Irresistible Force: Nepalese Bliss "Bluffer's Guide 2"
Martin Denny: My Funny Valentine "The Best of Martin Denny"
The Cocktails: Martin Denny's Sake Rock "The Early Hi-Ball Years"
Harry Zimmerman: On a Little Street in Singapore "Music for the Jet Set"
GusGus: Oh/Gun "Polydistortion"
Tipsy: Cinnebar "Trip Tease"
Dimitri from Paris: Un World Mysteriouse "Sacrebleu"
United Future Organization: Picaresque Eye "3rd Perspective"
I Gres: Restless "Stroboscopica"
Alberto Baldan Bembo: Mara-Jat's Love "Easy Tempo Vol 1"
Lonnie Liston Smith: Expansions "Blaxploitation"
Snowboy: The New Avengers "Acid Jazz Movie & TV Themes"
Massive Attack: Daydreaming "Blue Lines"

Thanks for reading,

Allan


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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:43:17 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits

    HONOLULU (AP) -- Paul Wilcox, a pioneer in early Hawaii radio, was killed
Saturday morning in a traffic accident. He was 79.
    Wilcox was a passenger in a car driven by his longtime friend, Ellen
Hughes, 84, who was also killed in the crash. Her car was broadsided by an
oncoming car while Hughes was attempting to make an illegal left turn, Sgt.
David Alices Jr. said.
    Wilcox was one of Hawaii's first disc jockeys following World War II, when
there were only two radio stations operating here.
    ``He was well-known, well-liked, beautiful voice, the kind of voice they
wanted in radio in those days,'' said former colleague Eddie Sherman. ``He
was really a star of his time.''
    Wilcox later worked as sales manager at several Hawaii radio stations
before retiring 15 years ago.
    Survivors include daughter Leslie Wilcox, who anchors the weekday morning
news program on Honolulu television station KHON.

    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie Valladares, who
skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has died of cancer in
his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62.
    Known as ``The Guatemalan Flyer,'' Valladares immigrated to the United
States with his family at age 12, according to a spokesman for Roller Games
International.
    The 5-foot-2 Valladares began roller skating after he outgrew his dream of
being a jockey. He signed his first professional skating contract at age 17.
    Valladares was a star by the end of his first year as a pro, and rode a
boom in roller derby that begin in the 1950s and faded in the 1970s.
    Valladares and his wife, Honey Sanchez, joined the T-birds at the team's
inception in 1960, and quickly became identified as its stars.
    He skated with the team and coached it for many years, and once said the
highlights of his life were performing before 50,000 fans in Chicago's
Comiskey Park and working with actress Raquel Welch in ``Kansas City Bomber.''
    Valladares is survived by his wife; daughter, Gina; three grandchildren and
seven brothers and sisters.





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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:50:14 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hawaii is a dangerous place

In a message dated 98-11-16 16:47:11 EST, Lou (our resident mortician) writes:

<< HONOLULU (AP) -- Paul Wilcox, a pioneer in early Hawaii radio, was killed
 Saturday morning in a traffic accident. He was 79.  >>

It still don't beat that lava rock story that was posted a few months ago.

Robert


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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:44:01 -0000
From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits

Lou wrote:

>    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie
>Valladares, who skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has
>died of cancer in his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62.

Does this have anything to do with this list?


Robbie


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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:01:32 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaii is a dangerous place

At 05:50 PM 11/16/98 EST, Robert wrote:
>It still don't beat that lava rock story that was posted a few months ago.
>Robert

You can hear Don Ho discuss that incident and others from his career in this
RealAudio interview piece originally broadcast last Saturday on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/981114.donho.html
Crooning With Don Ho
November 14, 1997 -- Last winter, Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon
went to a Chicago Bulls basketball game and saw an unlikely guest performer:
Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Ho's songs conjured visions of warm beaches and
luaus, not the snow and ice prevelant in Chicago at the time. Take a mental
journey to the land of pineapples, palm trees and hula dancers, and listen
to the story.


- -Lou
(who thinks roller derby is plenty exotic -- or at least it was in the 50s
when I was growing up. and, hey, who remembers midget wrestling from
washington dc??)




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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:16:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) james last

In a message dated 11/15/98 2:38:39 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< By the way, speaking of sheep, I ran into a hip hop-sampling-remix-type DJ
 pal the other night and I asked whether he and his "type" have started to
 look for samples in the lounge and easy listening world yet.  And he said
 that it was beginning but that mostly kids were looking for records that
 had already been sampled rather than making their own discoveries.  I found
 that disappointing.  They're all looking for this one particular Boots
 Randolph record so they can say they have the record that De La Soul sampled.
>>

Your friend is out of it as trip hop producers have been sampling "easy
listening" and sou dtrack music for several years now.

Ashley


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 06:29:50 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) John Ashley rocks, "Hot Rod Gang" rules!

Hi there exotica listers,

m.ace  <[e-mail]> writes:

>Hot Rod Gang (1958) AMC - Saturday night/early Sunday, 10:00pm, 4:30am -
AMC seems to be on a kick of J.D. flicks on Saturday nights. This one stars
Jon Ashley, Jody Fair, Steve Drexel and "Doodles" Weaver. AND Gene Vincent
& The Bluecaps doing four songs (according to Psychotronic), along with
Eddie Cochran. Sounds like Jon Ashley maybe joins in on the music, though...<

     Hot Rod Gang is one of my FAVORITE films (right up there with Girls Town
and Wild Guitar). To say that John Ashley joins in on the music is an
understatement. He tears it UP! It's a darn swingfest! I need to catch it on
AMC, because syndication prints might drop a Blue Caps tune....
The cast also features Dub Taylor and I think Gigi Perreau is the main cutie.
The other female lead does a "knockers up" version of "Choo Choo Ch'boochie"
(??), which is *covered* in "The Incredibly Strange Creatures etc"... how the
hell did that song end up in one movie, not to mention two? (actually, I love
it) And, the clubhouse set turns up again in "The Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow".
I just can't remember if Norman "Stanley" Grabowski is in this one, the common
thread that connects most flicks with 30 year old teenagers.
Don't miss "Hot Rod Gang"!

Larry


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 98 11:20:49 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits

>
>Lou wrote:
>
>>    LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie
>>Valladares, who skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has
>>died of cancer in his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62.
>
>Does this have anything to do with this list?
>
>
>Robbie

More than you could imagine!

Frank - think visual imagery


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:50:02 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The eXotica Releases Overviews temporary inconveniences

dear visitor of Dada's "eXotica Releases Overview"

When I started the XRO a couple of years ago, it was only 1 page, about 20K
small. Today, it is 625 K big, and that's a problem, as its web space is
only half a MB... that's why I had to move a couple of pages to my other
(much slower) web space, until I've finished the move of my entire site to
a much bigger place.

Sorry for this (temporary) inconvenience.


        Johan Dada Vis

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:09:37 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: james last "Voodoo Party"

>From: [e-mail]

>i came across a shitload of his records at a local store - all in perfect
>condition and priced to move.  Many had the NOW sound look with groovy chicks
>on covers and titles like "Hammond A Go-Go", "Trumpets A Go Go", "Voodoo
>Party"

    absolutely 100% Thumbs UP on this one! it's an incredible record,
Unlike anything you've heard by James Last. Soulful Hammond, brass, wild
afro-Latin percussion, fuzz, and silly chorus chanting. Humbah!
Afro-Teutonic boogaloo! Tooo wild! It's also unlike any boogaloo or funk
album i've ever heard, it's something truely unique! rated 4/5 by me.

        Johan


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:25:20 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen

Its been an amazing last few weeks.  Many of those most wanted hard to
find cds have made it to my mailbox or are in the mail.  Some of them
like Lorraine Bowen I've been searching for for a very long time.

The Lorraine Bowen Experience, "Greatest Hits Voil 1"  finally came
in.  I purchased it from Nicola Schaefer
207 Harvard Ave,  Winnipeg, Mannitoba, R3M OJ9 CANADA, Tel (204)475
1235.  The cd is done very well & its a first class package.  The
music is not overly produced as I was told by L B "don't expect the
production of Fantastic Plastic machine on this compilation".  Its
soft gentle pop exotica.  The songs are about off the wall subjects
and should appeal to many on the list.
Nicola Schaefer is a wonderful lady with a bubbly personality that
suits her friend Lorraine Bowen well. Nicola has a very big birhday
coming up.

Greatest Hits Vol 2 are available from Linda Denning, fax[phone]
Ph(604)253 6728 #106-1638 East 3rd Ave Vancouver B C Canada V5N 1G9.
Linda Deniing is the third link in the trio of wonderful Lorraine
Bowen personalities.

Finally got Sound Shopping by Arling & Cameron (1998, BASTA) It comes
in  6 inch by 4 inch litlle booklet, Also received Alling & Cameron's
"ALL IN" (Basta 1998)
This is a full of suprises club pop cd. New songs generally written by
A & C.  Mots cuts lean to the very exotic japanese club pop scene some
are basic american club tracks.
Sure would like to find the Xmas easy Tune vol 2 someday.

More club pop exotica compiled by le hammond inferno on "Ro 3003"
(Bungalo 021 1997) It says on the front of the cd "A spectacular
collection of german clubpop" and it is much more industrial infuenced
then japanese club pop I've listened to.

Easy Listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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Chuc


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:59:59 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiki commercial Christmas, SF

Visit Otto's Island, an oasis amongst manacing Santas

And shop for tiki Christmas gifts


3$ admission fee

Dec. 6th

3pm till 12 midnite

Somar Gallery

834 Brannan (@9th street,near Trader Joes)(SF's SOMA district)

San Francisco

info line-[phone]



Fed up with the commercialization of Christmas? Do you spend too much money at

Target, K-Mart, Nordstroms etc?? Shouldnt there be more to the Christmas

expierience??



WE HATE CHRISTMAS!!



You can support local artists and DISCOVER those hard to find gifts. Enjoy a

non-Christmas atmosphere, be entertained by local artist/performers, and shop

with a bottle in your hand. For 9 hours on December 6th, the terms
(capitalism)

(buy gifts) and (Hype) assume new meaning. (we only ask that you not sit in
the

drunken Santa's lap)



This holiday season share the true spirit of giving by participating in the

largest, (loudest), most disrespectful of all holiday events  *Naughty Santa's

Bizarre Bazaar*. With over 40 artists to choose from, Naughty Santa's is

guaranteed to provide you with the quirkiest of gifts, and to remind you that

Christmas does not have to be spent in Flourescent Lit Retail Establishment

Hell. Many gift's priced under $$10. (100% guaranteed *MACRAME FREE*).  Have

your picture taken with Sister Santa(of the Sister's of Perpetual Indulgence)

groove to the Tiki Sounds of Christmas, enjoy the singular slam poetry event
of

the year "Santa Slam" and once again we close the event with the All Santa

Crash Worship Cover Band  "Santa Worship!!". (we regret to announce that the

all santa 'Slayer' cover band "SLEIGHER"  may also appear). We will not be

checking your packs or coolers and in fact ask you to bring your own

beverages.



Admission free to all Santa's(in suit of course)


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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:37:33 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) That rulin' Ruggolo

Call me analog, but I don't have cable.  I do, however, have friends with
cable, and I was THRILLED last night to see and hear the rumblin' and
screamin' theme to RICHARD DIAMOND(I think it was on Nick at Nite.)  "TV
ACTION JAZZ", so to speak(that reminds me, we don't ever talk about Mundell
Lowe!?!??!) , the way it was meant to be heard, on tv!  It's a cool show,
great Saul Bass-like titles for the show opener.  The incidental music was
quite noir(wonder if Pete did all the music for that show.)

Has anyone ever seen MR. LUCKY, btw?  I've only heard that it's real
hi-life.  IM-not-so-HO, the few PETER GUNN episodes I've seen, the great
music notwithstanding, were kinda lacking on the excite-o-rama-meter.

Jane Fondle
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:05:29 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update

A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available.
These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced
here.

(If you would like to receive the unabridged updates by e-mail, just
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            - November 15: new (1998) releases, announcements & corrections -


* L'Atome: "Soft Stones"  (Working Title)
      CD, Sheer, USA, Announced For Spring 1999

* Art Blakey: "Africaine"
      CD, Blue Note, USA, Announced For November 1998

    ----> anyone care to comment on this one?

* Wanda Sa (Wanda De Sa?): "Vagamente"
      CD, RGE/Bomba, Japan, 1998

* The Four Freshmen: "Five Trombones & 5 Trumpets"
      CD, Capitol/Collector's Choice, USA, 1998

* Quincy Jones: "Best Of"
      CD, Spectrum, ?, 1998

* Peggy Lee: "Miss Peggy Lee"
      4 CD Box, Capitol, USA, 1998

* Peggy Lee: "The Best Of Miss Peggy Lee"
      CD, Capitol, USA, 1998

* April March: "Superbanyair"
      CD, NickelBag, USA, 1998

* Soundtrack: "Mickey One" [by Stan Getz]
      CD, Verve, USA, 1998

* Soundtrack: "The Manacod Experience" [by Various Artists]
      CD, Crippled Dick Hot Wax 040, Germany, 1998

* Harry Partch: "Enclosure Five"
      Triple CD, Innova INNO 405, USA, 1998

* The Peddlers: "Live At The Pickwick"
      CD, ?, UK, 1998

* The Peddlers: "Three For All"
      CD, ?, UK, 1998

* Joe Pesci: "Vincent La Guardia Gambini Sings Just For You"
      CD, Columbia, USA, 1998

* Mongo Santamaria: "Mongo At Montreux"
      CD, Atlantic, ?, 1998

* The Spotnicks: "16 Golden World Hits"
      CD, Koch, Germany 1998

* The Supertroopers: "Only In It For The Money"
      CD, ?, Netherlands, 1998

* Various Artists: "Beat At Cinecitta Volume 3"
      CD/LP, Crippled Dick Hot Wax 040, Germany, To Be Released Soon 1998

* Various Artists: "Blue Big Bands"
      CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998

* Various Artists: "Blue Bossa Volume 2"
      CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998

    ----> anyone care to comment on this one? is it what i guess
    it is: blue note jazz artists doing bossa nova?
    the Blue Note web site doesn't have any sound samples...


* Various Artists: "Blue Note Salutes Motown"
      CD, Blue Note, USA, Announced For November 1998

* Various Artists: "Electric Blue"
      CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998

* Various Artists: "Holding Up Half The Sky: Voices Of Asian Women"
      CD, Shanachie, USA, 1998

* Various Artists: "Lift Off! With Apollo Sound"
      CD/Double LP, Apollo Sound APSCD 209, UK, 1998

* Various Artists: "Natty And Nice - A Reggae Christmas"
      CD, Rhino, USA, 1998

* Various Artists: "Pepperisms Around The Globe"
      CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media 025, Germany, 1998

* Various Artists: "Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits"
      4 CD Box, TVT Soundtrax, USA, Announced For November 1998

* Various Artists: "Swingin' Talkin' Verve"
      CD, Verve, USA, 1998

* Various Artists: "Tropicalia"
      5 CD Box, Polygram 555 609, UK?, 1998

* Various Artists: "Uno Dos Tres: Latin-Jazz Grooves On Talkin' Verve"
      CD, Verve, USA, 1998

* Various Artists: "Verve Jazz Masters: The Bossa Nova Story"
      CD, Verve, USA, 1998

* Various Artists: "West Coast Jazz"
      4 CD Box, Contemporary, USA, 1998



           - November 15: more or less recent (1997) stuff -


* The Spotnicks: "Space Party"
      CD, ? RBCD242, Germany?, 1997

* The Spotnicks: "Tracks"
      CD, BMG 46528, Germany, 1997



           - November 15: other interesting finds I stumbled on -


* Rod McKuen, Anita Kerr, The San Sebastian Strings: "Sea"  (Mer/The Sea)
      CD, Wea/Warner Brothers 1670, USA, 1990
      CD, Stanyan 109, USA, 1988

* The Spotnicks: "The Very Best Of The Spotnicks"
      CD, Koch, Germany, 1991?

* Various Artists: "Blue Bossa"
      CD, Blue Note 955902, UK, 1996



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