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exotica-digest        Friday, December 4 1998        Volume 02 : Number 258



In This Digest:

(exotica) page on Googie architecture
Re: (exotica) The first Lounge Ring
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
(exotica) ExoticaElivs!
(exotica) Cates walks??? but looks like ???
(exotica) OBIT: Johnny Roventini
(exotica) LP distortion
(exotica) Roventini, Shapiro, Van Eps obits
(exotica) Album Frames
Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica
(exotica) Re: autochanger 'plop'
Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
(exotica) Kenyon and Kemosabe
(exotica) My weirdest records
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
Re: (exotica) LP distortion
Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
(exotica) Easy Tune Compilations
Re: (exotica) my weirdest records
(exotica) Bob Haggart obit
(exotica) fwd: Teri Summers LIVE
(exotica) Dual Deck CD-R recorder

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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:04:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) page on Googie architecture

Hey, I know that at least some of you people
like design, esp. that of the fifties.  Here's
a new page on Googie.  Has some tiki on it, too:


http://home.fea.net/~cjepsen/Googie.htm



- ---

http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia
"Left alone in the country, the lad becomes
 maudlin - a callow lover of nature - and makes feeble
 attempts at verse.  Returning to the city, he melts and unbosoms -
 the tender shaft of unknowable Eros has penetrated his  heart."
                                 -- Louis Sullivan, _Kindergarten Chats_




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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 02:33:41 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The first Lounge Ring

> << This messagge is to inform you that a the first official "Lounge" Webring
>  has been created!

I haven't read this in the first place. Any URLs to get into the ring?

Mo



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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:49:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jeffery Hess wrote:

> Oh yeah?  Here's a few of mine.
>
> Dr. Jack Van Impe-From Night Club To Christ

One of my guilty pleasures is watching JVI & his wife Rexella on their TV
show (as well as Benny Hinn & Peter Popoff).

Did JVI used to be a night club act?? I need more info on that!

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 03:05:47 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica

>I must recommend a recent purchase: <La tele des tout p'tits> (FGL,
>France). It came out in 1993 and compiles 27 themes from French kids TV

>shows from the 60s and 70s.

Anybody know how to get this?

Mo



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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 03:07:55 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

Weird?

Vader Abraham "Deine Monatsbinde" (a song about "your" sanitary napkin)
G=FCnther Noris "Tophits eines PLUS-Jahrzehnts" (PLUS: "Prima Leben
         Und Sparen"- "Live Fine And Save", a really cheap Supermarket
chain.
Max Greger jr. "Tele-Ski mit Manfred Vorderw=FChlbecke"
Ronald Reagan narrates "Freedom's Finest Hour"
Anton "Neger" Antonius "Das =E4sthetische Gef=FChl der Hure Friedel"
Bobbe Llynne "This Is My Home - San Jose"
The Polystyrene Jazzband "Drano In My Veins"
Jay Condom /Gary Panther "Durchfall Frum Der Colahaus"
Joseph Beuys "Sonne statt Reagan"
any Heino

to name a few...
Mo



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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 11:28:00 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ExoticaElivs!

Time, now, for some random thoughts from the aging brain of Jane....
1.  I was recently "turned on" to some very-list-appropriate Elvis
songs..."Edge of Reality" has great trippy lyrics and wah-wah guitar,
appropriate(almost) for Sound Gallery-type comps...The other is the theme
to CHARO...where Elvis goes Ennio!

2.  Did the Earthmen ever put out a full-lenght anything?

Waiting by the computer/phoneline, for all those responses...
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:35:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Cates walks??? but looks like ???

Byron noted:

<< Looks like everyone needs a copy of George Cates' Polynesian Percussion >>

I was amazed when I found this album a few months ago (and I sheepishly admit
that I had never heard of him).  I love it.  He is sort of a combonation of
Baxter and Denny. (The arrangements of Denny without the animal calls which is
typical of Baxter).

When I posted this tho, one some what critical exoticat labeled old George as
too "pedestrian".  One other comment worth (re)posting:  Cates looks like our
very own Otto!  And even Otto admits the resemblance!

Robert


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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 09:37:13 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) OBIT: Johnny Roventini

Bellboy who shouted 'Call for Philip Morris' dies
Johnny Roventini
December 2, 1998
WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- Johnny Roventini, the pint-size bellboy who
became one of the best-known figures in American advertising by shouting "Call
for Philip Morris," has died. He was 88.
Roventini died Monday at a hospital in Suffern, said a nephew, Philip
Roventini. The cause of death had not been determined.
In 1933, Roventini was 22 and being promoted by the New Yorker Hotel as "the
smallest bellboy in the world" at 4 feet tall when he met advertising man
Milton Biow, who had an idea for a cigarette ad. Biow gave him a dollar "to
locate Philip Morris."
"I had no idea that Philip Morris was a cigarette," he said later, and he
strode through the hotel, shouting "Call for Philip Mor-rees."
That began a career that brought Roventini a lifetime contract and a salary of
up to $50,000 -- fabulous at the time. He was heard on popular live radio
programs and on some of the most-watched television shows of the 1950s and
1960s, including "I Love Lucy," "Candid Camera" and the Red Skelton and Jackie
Gleason shows.
Darienne Dennis, a spokeswoman for Philip Morris Cos. Inc., said Roventini,
who
always appeared in his short-jacketed bellboy outfit, was the company's
"living
trademark."
She said Roventini estimated that he called out the slogan more than a million
times -- and shook hands with more than a million people.
"I remember going out with him," his nephew said. "We'd go to the post office
or something and they'd yell, 'Johnny, give us the call."'




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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 21:29:27 -0500
From: Mark Renwick <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LP distortion

Peter,

I have heard distortion, especially on the inner grooves, on
most recordings played on any turntable all my life.  That's
why I can't understand the disdain with which some
"audiophiles" hold all CDs.

As the record proceeds from the outer grooves to the inner
grooves, the rate of groove linear distance passing the
stylus decreases.  Thus, the peaks and valleys of a given
sound get closer together on the vinyl, and distortion set
in.  High frequencies are more susceptible to distortion,
because the peaks and valleys are closer together in the
first place.

Even the best records I've heard, played on good systems,
develop some noticeable level of high frequency distortion
on the inner grooves.

You may in fact have a stylus or cartridge problem
contributing to the distortion you hear, but under the best
conditions, you're going to hear some distortion , anyway.

- --Mark
  Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  [e-mail]
  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tibia






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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 10:06:31 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Roventini, Shapiro, Van Eps obits

    WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Johnny Roventini, the 4-foot bellboy who became
one of the best-known figures in American advertising by yelling ``Call for
Philip Morris,'' has died at 88.
    Roventini died Monday at a hospital in Suffern, said his nephew Philip
Roventini. The cause of death had not been determined.
    In 1933, Roventini, touted by the New Yorker Hotel as the smallest bellboy
in the world, met advertising agent Milton Biow, who had an idea for a
cigarette ad and gave him a dollar to locate Philip Morris.
    Roventini strode through the hotel shouting ``Call for Philip Mor-rees.''
    ``I had no idea that Philip Morris was a cigarette,'' he later said.
    The call began a career that landed Roventini a lifetime contract and a
salary of up to $50,000, fabulous at the time. He was heard on popular live
radio programs and on some of the most-watched television shows of the 1950s
and 1960s, including ``I
Love Lucy,'' ``Candid Camera'' and the Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shows.
    Roventini, who always appeared in his short-jacketed bellboy outfit, was
Philip Morris Cos. Inc.'s ``living trademark,'' company spokeswoman Darienne
Dennis said.
    Roventini estimated that he called out the slogan more than a million times
and shook hands with more than a million people, she said.
    ``I remember going out with him in Brooklyn,'' his nephew said. ``We'd go
to the post office or something, and they'd yell, `Johnny, give us the
call.' Absolutely everybody knew him.''
    After his commercials went off the air, Roventini made personal appearances
for Philip Morris. He retired in 1974.
    Roventini, who was born into an immigrant Italian family, lived with his
mother until she died in the 1960s and never married. He is survived by a
brother and two nephews.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-roventini.html

 *Samuel E. Shapiro
    WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Samuel E. Shapiro, who co-founded the National
Record Mart chain with his younger brother, died Sunday of heart failure. He
was 84.
    Shapiro died four months after his brother and business partner, Howard
Shapiro, died at age 82.
    National Record Mart is now the nation's fifth-largest music retailer with
200 stores.
    In the late 1930s, the Shapiro brothers opened Jitterbug Record Mart in the
downtown Pittsburgh area. Samuel Shapiro came up with the idea to sell
records that jukebox operators no longer wanted.
    Samuel Shapiro built relationships with record companies to help the small
chain get copies of new recordings early. He also persuaded WWSW radio to
broadcast the latest hits from a National Record Mart store for one hour on
weeknights.

 *George Van Eps
    SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- George Van Eps, a jazz guitarist who played with
Benny Goodman, George Gershwin and Fats Waller, died Sunday of complications
from pneumonia. He was 85.
    In the mid-1930s, Van Eps was one of the first to add a seventh string to
his guitar. The innovation allowed Van Eps to play lead lines while
accompanying himself with bass notes and harmonies.
    Other guitarists, including jazz-grunge player Charlie Hunter, have taken
up the seven-string in recent years.
    Van Eps also worked with Freddy Martin and Ray Noble in the 1930s.




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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 11:01:45 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Album Frames

At 10:46 PM 12/1/98 -0500, Peter wrote:
>I've got a catalog from the Restoration Hardware store that lists album frames.
>12 x 12 inch frames that are thick enough to house an album, record and all.
>
>Peter

Funny you should mention RH. They opened a store across the street from my
job this week. Looking through their windows, I want one of everything. At
this point I'm afraid to go in...maybe tomorrow.

Here's the URL for those LP frames:
http://www.restorationhardware.com/index.htma?SCREEN=item&item=99

- -Lou




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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:00:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica

<< Anybody know how to get this? >>

I asked Elisabeth (the original poster) and she gave me this URL:

http://www.fnac.fr>

(the web-order arm of the FNAC music stores,
 which is where I found the CD to being with)

i checked it out, but I speak or read no French.  Tried to feel out the search
thingy and had no luck.

then i wrote to the site's email asking to please sell this to me and have yet
to hear a word.

so, if i hear somethin' i'll let you know...


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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 00:33:00 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: autochanger 'plop'

Robert wrote:

>And could you please keep it down, I'm trying to listen to my Captian and
>Tenelle albums which I have transfered to cassette then to CD.  And by the
>way, is there a way to transfer CD back to vinyl?  I miss stacking the
records
>and hearing them "plop".
I'm sure someone could create a WAV file to put between tracks on burned CD's.
It needs to have
- - the dusty scrape of a runout
- - the click of the lifting stylus
- - that sort of geary sound when the arm is retracted
- - the squeak of the record dropping down the spindle
- - the plop of the falling disk hitting the previous record
- - the bang of the landing stylus
- - the dusty lead-in

BTW, The Captain and Toenail sorry Tennille do a wonderfully exotic version of
'Happy Together' which transports the listener to the Casbah and back.  Worth
checking out.

Hugh.


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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 98 22:51:39 -0400
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica

>I asked Elisabeth (the original poster) and she gave me this URL:
>
>http://www.fnac.fr>
>
>(the web-order arm of the FNAC music stores,
> which is where I found the CD to being with)
>
>i checked it out, but I speak or read no French.  Tried to feel out the
>search
>thingy and had no luck.
I haven't used www.fnac.fr, but the friend who did (here in NY) told me
they offer a selection of languages. He also recommends www.novalis.fr.
Again I haven't used them, as I go to France regularly enough to pick up
what I want there.

Elisabeth


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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:25:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin William Greenlee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

Here are a few of my weird ones....

Plant  Talk- Molly Roth  ("Oh, fern, you're absolute dynamite!")

The Juggling Comedian- Dieter Tasso (A good 75% of Dieter's act seems to
            be juggling- which does not translate well to vinyl. We get
            a lot of "watch this!' followed by a moment of silence

Let My People Come- A Sexual Musical by Earl Wilson (tracks include such
            gems as "Take Me Home With You" and "Come in my Mouth")

David Frost On Nursing
Your Sons Are Leaving For Battle- Vladimir Vysotsky
Confessions of Love- Passions in Prose by Mary Lee Fair (a breathy woman
             talks on and on about how swell love is)
Sex is My Business (prostitutes talk about their lives)
Children Are People- Tony Randall



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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:35:33 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kenyon and Kemosabe

Someone here told me that maybe I had a Kenyon Hopkins record but I just
didn't know it.   Well I didn't but NOW I DO.
"Ping Pang Pong The Swinging Ball", by the Creed Taylor Orchestra.
"Arrangements by Kenyon Hopkins".
In the field of swinging percussion records, I'd say it's above average.
Not quite Terry Snyder but close.
The best part of the record are these two original compositions by Kenyon.
"Argument" and "Lovers". They sound like classic crime jazz.  The liner
notes inform you that the two pieces were composed for "interpretive dance"
pieces performed on the Perry Como Show.  I can definitely see that.  In
fact if I could show you, I could probably do an imitation of the kind of
moves those dancers must have made.  I'd be willing to bet they were
dressed like beatniks.  Maybe they even carried bongos as props.
In any case, those two compositions certainly whet my appetite for more
originals by Kenyon.
And by the way, for Brian and others... I didn't find it for 50 cents.  It
was eight dollars!  Of course that's eight dollars Canadian.

At the same store, also for eight bucks I found this record by
"Kem-o-Sabe", subtitled "The Electric Indian".  The store put on a post-it
note calling it "Lounge, Native Style".  Once it was Indian and now it's
Native but either way, what a great record!  How would I describe it?.
"Spinning Wheel" and "Ma cherie Amour" don't sound too Indian to me but I
guess the originals do have a bit of that "From a Wigwam" sound.  It's got
lots of percussion and vibes, horns and organ with a kind of funky organ
jazz groove.  (Not exactly Susan Aglugark, another inside joke for my
fellow Canucks.)

And speaking of funky grooves... There's this DJ who I know and he's always
looking for that elusive and indescribable groove.  I've heard him play.  I
figure I kind of know what he's into.  "Mambo Parisienne" from the Mancini
"Charade" soundtrack and stuff like that.  So whenever I see him in record
stores, I point out records I think might fit into his thing.  But they're
never right.  At first I was kind of hurt, then baffled and then I gave up.
So I saw him today at the store where I bought the Kenyon Hopkins and he
actually recommended the Kemosabe record to me.  He was standing there
listening to stuff on headphones as I pulled out a Toots Thieleman
"Whistler" record that I own.  I showed it to him and pointed out this cut
"Duke's Place" which I love and which I've put on a bunch of mixed tapes.
So he listened to it... And lo and behold and Hallelujah, I got one!  He
liked it.  He even bought it!

So I guess Nat has the groove after all.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 00:08:51 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My weirdest records

Oh I agree this will be a fun thread.  I picked some for the
names, some for the content and some for the lack of content.  Not all
"exotica" but all exotic in their own (special) way!

Le Forte Four - Suburban Magic - from "Spin & Grin":
14 minutes of kitchen appliances overlayed with such suburban phrases
as "pass the Tang" & "Hamburger again".  Only from Southern
California, only LAFMS!

Boyd Rice & Daniel Miller - Cleanliness & Order - from the
LAFMS compilation "Darker Scratcher":  Trance-like hypnosis dialogue
intended to play to kids while sleeping to hypnotize them into being
clean. A personal favourite!

Eine Kleine Diso Band - Disco Saturday Nacht:
Well yes, it's what you would think, discofied Mozart with a little
Turkish influence thrown in. It's saved a bit by the moog but...

Paska - I'm Shit/Fuck Off-Sugar Sugar:
Simple enough lyrics... I can't meet Phil Collins, I can't meet Mark
Knoepfler, I can't meet Eric Clapton, I can't meet Charles & Diana,
because I'm Shit... Then there's side b... If you don't want
to fuck me baby, well then fuck off...  Classic light fare from
Finland's never easy Bad-Vugum label!

Caresse & Sicmob - r.u. Experienced:
Genesis & Paula P. Orridge's at the time VERY young daughter
singing a duet with one of the PTV gang of the Hendrix hit! I saw her
doing it live on stage a few years after this release. Really!

Culturcide - Depressed Christmas/Santa Claus was my Lover:
The music is "White Christmas" the lyrics... I'm having a depressed
Christmas, just like the one I had last year...  The flip side
overdubs Michael Jackson's Billy Jean with lyrics that seem to
suggest something about Santa you don't want to repewt for the kids!

Big Walter Solek - Polish House Party:
I think you have to be a western Canadian to appreciate this one.
It's really bad Polka music but the flower power cover might lead the
unsuspecting to think it's actually cool...

The Rosicrucian Order - Attaining Cosmic Consciousness:
Everyone should have at least one of these records.  A cult
classic... and I do mean cult. They put out a Children's record too!

Shakin Dudi - Zlota Plyt A.:
What a name, what an album cover.  No it's not very good but a friend
brought it back from then communist Poland.  What more can I say!

Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry - Live At The Moog-O-Theque:
I bought this one sight unseen just for the name. Remember that
horrible K-Tel "Bird Dance" the one they claimed was a huge hit in
Europe...  Well it was a Bobby Setter tune called Tchip Tchip, which
the record boasts as "the million seller hit". This is the self
proclaimed "resident band of the Hilton Hotels and the American SHAPE
base in Belgium".  I think Johan must know this one!

Now that was fun!

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 13:25:58 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

Kevin William Greenlee wrote:

> Children Are People- Tony Randall
>

And people are children...  What's on it? Talk or music?

Mo



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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:47:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin William Greenlee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Moritz R wrote:
> Kevin William Greenlee wrote:
> > Children Are People- Tony Randall
> And people are children...  What's on it? Talk or music?
> Mo
 It's music. Tracks like "Don't Talk To Strangers" ("If I do not know your
name or your mom and dad, does that make you dangerous and someone who is
bad?") and "They Said It" ("Who said that boys must fight? Who said boys
that boys like war? Who that that tender moments a boy must always
ignore?").
kevin



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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:01:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) LP distortion

One MAJOR cause of permanent distortion on LPs is if they are played on a
turntable with TOO MUCH WEIGHT.  This causes the stylus to actually cut a
groove into the record.  The awful thing about this is that these records can
look beautiful -- even visual NM+  --- but then at home they are almost
unlistenable.  The same thing can be caused by a record being played with a
SAPPHIRE stylus or a worn diamond stylus.

If one is playing valuable LPs on one of those old turntables that does not
use a cartridge, just a cheap replacement stylus (the kind of table found in
beautiful "furniture style" cabinets) you are seriously damaging these records
with every play.



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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:27:43 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) French weirdotica

BasicHip wrote
>i checked it out, but I speak or read no French.  Tried to feel out the sea=
rch
>thingy and had no luck. >then i wrote to the site's email asking to please
>sell this to me and have yet >to hear a word.

Pour your email to FNAC into Babelfish, a web translator offering
translations from English into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and
Italian and vice versa.

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

Babelfish was made to translate web pages, but my mad scientist experiments
have found many other uses for it. Anyone who likes to play with language
should open their own Babelfish labs.

Auf Deutsch: Viele dank Moritz und Lou f=FCr das F=FChren ich zur Site.

MimiM




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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 08:26:26 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Jeffery Hess)
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

Indulis R Rutks writes:

>> Dr. Jack Van Impe-From Night Club To Christ
>
>One of my guilty pleasures is watching JVI & his wife Rexella on their
>TV show (as well as Benny Hinn & Peter Popoff).
>Did JVI used to be a night club act?? I need more info on that!


As the record tells, JVI's parents owned a night club when he was a child
where he would play the accordian for the patrons. He started drinking at

age 13.  And it was he who was born again, sobered up and saved his
parents.  Rexella went from brunette to blond for the television show.

Jeff



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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 09:44:57 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

At 11:25 PM 12/3/98 -0500, Kevin William Greenlee wrote:
>
>
>Here are a few of my weird ones....
>
>Let My People Come- A Sexual Musical by Earl Wilson (tracks include such
>            gems as "Take Me Home With You" and "Come in my Mouth")

I have this one and I've put that "Come" song on a bunch of tapes for
friends.

My weirdest records.  That's really got me stumped.

What exactly is a weird record?  You'd have to make it more specific for me
to list my weirdest ones.  I think Heino's weird but I'm sure someone
thinks my Smog CD's are weird.  I have the Spiro Agnew record that someone
mentioned but for the people who bought it at the time, it was the voice of
truth.
Five years ago, I would have thought those bird calls on Martin Denny
records were weird.  I guess I still do but I like them.  And if Yma Sumac
isn't weird, I don't know who is.

I think a truly weird record would have to have been weird the day it came
out. If you include everything that's weird now, with some critical
distance, then you'd have to include "Mrs.Brown you've got a lovely
daughter".  Actually I thought that was weird the day it came out.  Same
with "Winchester Cathedral".

I guess I'm just whining because this is a thread I should be able to
respond to but for the life of me, I just can't figure it out.  I have a
box full of obscure Canadian country records.  I think they're the weirdest
records I have but I bet their families didn't think so.

I think Lee Hazelwood is weird.  And that Leonard Cohen/Phil Spector record.

And does anyone have that Tex Ritter /Stan Kenton record?  He sings
"September Song" like he's literally about to die before the last note is
played.

By my criteria, the most consistently weird records are country records.
Ever heard "Hit it with a stick" by Freddy Hart?  There's this country
compilation out now called "God less America" I think, by the same people
who brought you Las Vegas Grind.  If you want weird, check out "Ed's Place"
by a certain Horace Heller.  Or "Please don't go topless Mother" by Troy Hess.

Don't make me list all my spoken word records.  Okay just one. "Teaching
your daughter about sex".  Satisfied?  One more?  "The New World Money
System".

Sorry.

Nat





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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:14:48 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Easy Tune Compilations

Hi all;

I'm debating ordering Easy Tune volumes 3 and/or 4, but I haven't been
able to find out anything about what's on them.  Does anyone have any
information on them, and/or recommendations?

thanks,

cheryl


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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 09:24:40 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) my weirdest records

The Fourth Reich, the Communazis Exposed by Their Own Words, Revolution
Today in the USA (yup, that's the title). Sidney O. Field patches together
Hitler's rhetoric with speeches from the Black Panther Party's National
Revolutionary Conference for a United Front Against Facism, held the summer
of 69. Starring Bobby Seale, Bobby Bacon, Jeff Jones, William Kunstler, Bob
Avakian, Marlene Dixon, Archie Brown, etc.

Men and Rubber, the Story of Business. The drama and romance of the rubber
industry as related by Harvey S. Firestone. "Much more a story of men than
of rubber." Cassette.

Recently sent a 7-inch 78 of abnormal heart beats to a dj pal, who's toying
with its creative potential.

Still pondering that Hartz Mountain record someone (Ron?) listed: train
your parakeet to do what?

MimiM




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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 10:22:10 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bob Haggart obit

December 4, 1998

Bob Haggart, 84, Jazz Bassist and Arranger
By PETER WATROUS, NYTimes

Bob Haggart, a bassist and arranger who performed with an extraordinary
variety of jazz groups during his nearly 70-year career, died Thursday in a
hospital in Venice, Fla., after collapsing on his way to the post office. He
was 84 and lived in Venice.

Haggart's long and varied career demonstrated his own vitality as well as
that of the music. Not only did he record with some of the greatest black
jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday,
Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker, but he was a mainstay in
some of the great white bands as well.

And by the end of his life he had not only participated in the bands and
recordings of figures like Bob Crosby, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Wingy
Manone, Jess Stacy and Jack Teagarden, but had become an important part of
the neo-traditionalist movement that he helped start by forming the World's
Greatest Jazz Band in 1968 with the trumpeter Yank Lawson. Through the
mid-1990s, Haggart was still playing and recording with musicians like Kenny
Davern, Bob Wilber, Jane Jarvis and others.

Haggart's success came in part from his ability to perform in all sorts of
different contexts, from small jazz groups to larger pop ensembles designed
for singers. He worked with the string orchestra of Charlie Parker, and in
the large ensembles that backed Sarah Vaughan.

In the small groups his buoyant, swinging playing came to the forefront; at
his several appearances at New York's 92nd Street Y in the 1990s, Haggart's
playing always enlivened the band, making the music swing harder than it
otherwise might have.

His first significant work in jazz was as a bassist with the Bob Crosby
band, to which he added not just his bass work but arrangements that often
proved to be classics, including "What's New," "South Rampart Street Parade"
and "The Big Noise from Winnetka," a duet for bass and drums.

That number, which he composed and recorded with the drummer Ray Bauduc in
1938, opens with drums, has stop-time sections, slapped bass and a rare
musical virtuosity. Haggart whistles, Bauduc taps on the bass strings with
his sticks, and the effect is casual brilliance.

In 1942 he left the Crosby band to freelance in New York, working in
recording studios and in radio and television. During the 1940s Haggart was
one of New York's most sought-after musicians, recording and playing with
such artists as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.

His playing with Armstrong is recorded on the "The Complete Town Hall
Concert" of 1947. For the next few decades Haggart drifted in and out of the
studios. He worked occasionally with Bob Crosby reunion groups, and recorded
with the saxophonist Bud Freeman in 1962.

Born in Manhattan, Haggart, whose full name was Robert Sherwood Haggart,
grew up in Douglaston, N.Y. He started playing guitar as a teen-ager and
then switched to the double bass when he was 17. He is survived by a son,
Bob Haggart Jr. of Sarasota, Fla., and a sister.

In 1968 he formed the World's Greatest Jazz Band with Lawson, a group that
in many ways provided inspiration for an entire movement of
neo-traditionalists that came to fruition in the 1980s and '90s. In the '90s
Haggart recorded regularly with the clarinetist Kenny Davern and the
saxophonist Bob Wilber, along with the pianist Jane Jarvis and the
saxophonist Rick Fay. In July 1996, he performed in Japan with the World's
Greatest Jazz Band. He was also an accomplished painter in oils and
watercolors and found a ready market for his work.





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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 11:30:16 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: Teri Summers LIVE

From the AS/PMA website:

Teri Summers Live at Sweet Basil

 The song-poem world is abuzz with news of Teri Thornton's upcoming
five-night engagement at New York's Sweet Basil nightclub, from December 1
through 5. Under the songpoemanym "Teri Summers," Thornton recorded the
song-poem classics "City Hospital's Patients," "Somebody Else" and "More On
Ode To Billy Jo," as well as several other standouts currently in the
reissue pipeline.

The winner of the 1998 Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition award, Teri
Thornton is a superlative performer and a unique stylist. For her Sweet
Basil appearance, she will be fronting a quartet featuring herself on piano
and vocals, Pat Kelly on piano, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Louis Hayes on drums.

For further information about Thornton's upcoming appearance and an
interesting summary of her legit career, check out Sweet Basil's website.
You can also make on-line reservations there. The club's phone number is
212-242-1785.





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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:45:31 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dual Deck CD-R recorder

Remember those dual cassette decks that allowed high-speed dubbing from one
tape to another? Apparently Philips has done the same thing with one of its
CD-R decks. This sounds like the type of item for someone who wants to
bypass their PC in the CD-R recording process. Now everyone can record a
couple of their favorite weird records and sell the resulting CD-R for $25!

- -Lou


http://www-us.sv.philips.com/sound/cdr/products/range/765/

Dual deck Audio CD-Recorder
Double speed recording (disc)
2-disc simultaneous playback/2-disc random playback
Separate output for CDR and CD
Records and plays digital Audio CD-R and CD-RW discs
Plays all Audio CDs (120mm + 80 mm discs)
Records from all home stereo analogue and digital sources (44.1 kHz)
Optical input
Digital coaxial input & output
Automatic or manual track numbering
CD-synchronized auto start recording from all digital sources (disc/track)
1 bit Analogue-to-Digital converter
SCMS Serial Copy Management System
Max. 30-track program on both CDR and CD deck
Gold plated headphone connection
Remote control
Color: Black (Silver optional)




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