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exotica-digest       Tuesday, December 29 1998       Volume 02 : Number 275



In This Digest:

(exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest
(exotica) Re: Possible CE/ Martin Denny show in SF
Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest
Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest
(exotica) BOC hits
(exotica) Twangful Ventures
Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
(exotica) GO!GO!GO! WORLD!
(exotica) Richard Paul doesn't fear the Reaper
Re:  (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
(exotica) Fantastic Plastic Machine In Real Audio
(exotica) Re: possible SF extravaganza
(exotica) Re: The Party
Re: (exotica) Twangful Ventures / Sunset Records
Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest
Re:  (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
Re: (exotica) Twangful Ventures / Sunset Records
Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest
Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
(exotica) Funny Face is alright
Re: (exotica) Recent finds
Re: (exotica) Funny Face is alright
(exotica) Mos-rite on!
(exotica) Funny Face is alright
Re: (exotica) Re: The Party
Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas
(exotica) the rest of the Funny Face gang...
(exotica) Clip art/fonts for comp tapes?
(exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #274

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:10:36 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest

> The only radio hit BOC ever had was "The Reaper," a song which some
> claimed
> encouraged suicide.  This was back in the 70's, and wile I don't know for
> certain, I doubt the band is still around.  Given all the hoopla about the
> suicide connection, I can see a rumor starting about the beat phenomenon
> you
> mentioned.
>
>
Now wait a minute.  Blue Oyster Cult was a Canadian band.  They had several
hits over the years.  Their 'biggest' was titled "Don't Fear the Reaper".
It  was intended to help tripping and stoned freaked out teenagers that felt
afraid of dying get over their fears.  (dont you remember sitting around
with your friends talking and thinking about death when you were 14?)

Blue Oyster Cult regularly toured small venues as Soft White Underbelly, I
saw them in 1985 at the Agora Ballroom in Connecticut under that name.  They
had at least 2 other hits that still enjoy pretty regular airplay on classic
rock stations;  "Godzilla" and  "I'm Burnin' for You".

BTW, the latter was an anthem for me and my friends in High School. Back in
the day, the lyrics could be found scribbled on desktops.

They are most certainly still around, tho' not as big as they were during
the 70s and the headbanger 80s.  They are one of the bands that early on
contributed in a very real way to what became heavy metal in the 80s.

As far as the rhythm and heartbeats are concerned, you got me.  Although I
do remember that being said about disco played at high volume in clubs. I
would mark Olivia Newton-John doing "Zanadu" or "Let's get Physical" as a
prime contributor to physical distress.

But I  like to hear techno-trance or rave when I am working out.  If you put
on a  Jackie Gleson record when I was on a treadmill, I might break into a
lazy stroll.

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 98 10:30:15 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Possible CE/ Martin Denny show in SF

>    A fellow 'lister,' Michael Toth, told me of a possible Combustible
>Edison/Martin Denny show in SF coming up early this spring

While rumors flying can't help but stir up interest and publicity in such
a tentative event, I hope I didn't prematurely let the cat out of the bag
on this one. There are reasons this hasn't been publicly broadcast yet.
Negotiations *are* apparently in the works, but the logistics are quite
complex, and I don't think anything is actually *confirmed* yet. If/when
it IS, you'll hear about it from a more reliable, firsthand source than
me, like Otto or Br. Cleve. You may want to save up for plane tickets
just in case -- just don't buy any just yet.

>...I emailed Otto
>but have not heard back from him yet.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's got holiday obligations, travels, etc.,
it being the week between Christmas/New Year's and all. Patience!! :-)

>How about that Tiki News events lists, How do I get on it?

By e-mailing Otto at [e-mail] and asking nicely. :-)

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:34:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest

- ---"Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]> wrote:

 They are one of the bands that early on
> contributed in a very real way to what became heavy metal in the
80s.

Yes. Music To Go Truant and Slouch Over a Bong By. For what it is
worth, they were also an influence on the Murder City inspired wing of
late 70's-early 80's Australian Punk Rock (Radio Birdman, New Christs,
etc.). Deniz Tek said that the title of Radio BM's (whose name came
from a misheard Iggy Pop lyric) 1st, Radios Appear, was taken from a
BOC song.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:34:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest

- ---"Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]> wrote:

 They are one of the bands that early on
> contributed in a very real way to what became heavy metal in the
80s.

Yes. Music To Go Truant and Slouch Over a Bong By. For what it is
worth, they were also an influence on the Murder City inspired wing of
late 70's-early 80's Australian Punk Rock (Radio Birdman, New Christs,
etc.). Deniz Tek said that the title of Radio BM's (whose name came
from a misheard Iggy Pop lyric) 1st, Radios Appear, was taken from a
BOC song.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:33:30 -0500
From: Lang Thompson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) BOC hits

Blue Oyster Cult had two Top 40 hits, "Don't Fear the Reaper" at number 12
in 1976 and "Burnin' for You" at number 40 in 1981.
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:49:06 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Twangful Ventures

 Nat said:
>
> But my impression is that fairly early on they stopped being
"relevant" and yet they just hung on.  And that's what I love about
them.  "Herb Alpert is
> selling records.  We can do Herb Alpert.  Now it's Psychedelia?
Sure.  We can do that.  We're a rock band.  We can do anything."

Nat, I agree completely with you on this. The Ventures remade "Walk
Don't Run" in the early 60's to update it.  Then in the heart of disco
they remade "Outer Limits" in a rollicking rocking disco way, a true
disco classic.  You got to hand it to those Ventures.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 98 23:29:58 PST
From: "Jill Mingo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

> ---Jill Mingo <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > Glad to hear about all this Ventures talk. ... their Psychedelic
> stage, lots of fuzz, phased Mosrite guitar without any of the tacky
> filler cover trax.  "Flights of Fantasy" (from the same titled LP).
>
> There is another like this, I think it's called "Guitar Freak Out,"
> dbl lp. The cover is purple & fringed with a variety of psychedelic
> doodlings, including marijuana leaves (okie dokie, Nokie, we're
> hippies now).

Yes, some of the trax from "A Decade with" are from "Guitar Freakout" inc=
luding "Guitar Freakout", which is an excellent and very silly track.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:13:09 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) GO!GO!GO! WORLD!

That's the title of a soundtrack to a Mondo film that recently came my way!
It's great Italain-now-sound-track...Anyone ever seen the movie?   BTW, for
those looking for a copy of the *film* of DANGER DIABOLIK, a friend bought
his at HMV, and I found this:URL: www.videoflicks.com/VF/42/042803.Htm

Just makin' your lives easier,
Jane Fondle
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:51:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Richard Paul doesn't fear the Reaper

Richard Paul, dead? That's creepy -- I was just talking about him at
length a couple of days go. At long last after twenty years, the market
for Jerry Falwell imitators is going to open up. Remember the WKRP in
Cincinati episode where Paul plays a Falwell type who pressures Gordon
Jump to censor his playlist until Dr. Johnny Fever forces him to admit
that Lennon's "Imagine" couldn't be played either? Whither, television...

Btw, BOC had plenty of AOR radio hits, just not a lot of album sales.
There's "Godzilla", "Burning for You", "Tales of Psychic Wars:. The
connection to British sci-fi loony Michael Moorcock is enough to make them
worthy of Exotica discussion.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:52:47 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

>> Glad to hear about all this Ventures talk. ... their Psychedelic
>>stage, lots of fuzz, phased Mosrite guitar without any of the tacky
>>filler cover trax.  "Flights of Fantasy" (from the same titled LP).
>
>There is another like this, I think it's called "Guitar Freak Out,"
>dbl lp. The cover is purple & fringed with a variety of psychedelic
>doodlings, including marijuana leaves

The purple/yellow/pot leaves one is _Super Psychedelics_--which is a
totally bitchen album, let me add. But to give you some sense of how
psychedelic the Ventures actually were at that point, inside the gatefold
is a pseudo-"Help!"-ish photo spread, where the guys are goofing around
next to a swimming pool, stiffly, and fully clothed. In fact Don Wilson
is wearing the squarest powder-blue cardigan imaginable.

Now "Flights of Fantasy" is a truly amazing track all right. It has THE
hugest, sky-filling fuzz guitar sound I've ever heard. But actually
"Psyched Out" from _Super Psychedelics_ is the same song. I think all they
did was remix it, adding the phaser effect. But hey, it just makes it even
better.

Fuzzily,

 --Ross

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:14:46 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fantastic Plastic Machine In Real Audio

You can listen to FPM in Italy on following site.

 http://www.rai.it/ultrasuoni/html/audio.html

Giovanni, I'm surprised you didn't tell me about this site

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:48:38 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Natalie Grace)
Subject: (exotica) Re: possible SF extravaganza

   Michael et mes amis,
Forgive me -- I didn't know that the pending show was purposefully being
kept quiet..I'm not exactly known for my patience..
   Pardonnez moi,
   -Natalie B.
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:23:58 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Party

    Nat Kone  wrote:

>The Soundtrack to "The Party".  A lot of people are looking for this, I
>know.  I don't think I'd pay the forty dollars (minimum) for this one
>either.  But in the case of this record, I can't believe there isn't a copy
>somewhere in some store where the guy just has it at eight bucks or so.



    "The Party" on cd:, RCA 61056, Spain, 1998

    my opinion on it: I don't understand why people want this album
    so badly. Two sitar tracks, 2 wordless vocal songs, 2 light jazzy
    pieces, and the rest is mediocre EZ Mancini pop.

        Johan


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:07:58 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Twangful Ventures / Sunset Records

Another thing to remember, Ventures-wise, is that they began to make heavy
use of studio musicians as the 60s rolled on. And somewhere along the line
(70s?) they only produced and let the studio cats do all of the playing.
I'm not saying this is bad -- just another aspect of the Ventures experience.

Does anyone have the story on Sunset Records? I got my Bonzo Dog Band
albums on there, mid-70s issue, British imports. "A Product of Liberty/UA
Records Ltd. London, England," sez the fine print. It seems like it was a
budget re-issue label -- very flimsy covers, and the back cover features
listings of other albums, like...

The Crickets "Rock Reflections"
Buddy Knox "Rock Reflections" (I see a trend there)
The 50 Guitars of Tony Garrett "Espana"
Vicki Carr "Hey, Look Me Over"
Shirley Bassey "I've Got A Song For You"
Ferrante and Teicher "World's Favourite Melodies"
P.J. Proby "In Town"
Johnny Rivers "Live At The Whiskey A Go Go"
Band Of The Lifeguards "Crown Imperial"
World Ballroom Orchestra "Strict Tempo Hits" (interesting concept)
Johnny Mann Singers "Cotton Fields"
Buddy Rich "Big Swing Face"
Timi Yuro "Hurt"
Julie London "Fly Me To The Moon"

A "Sound Spectrum" Series, with items like...
"Midnight In Paris"
"Midnight In Munich"
George Martin "By George"
Count Basie "Basie Meets Bond"
Nelson Riddle "The Today Sound of Nelson Riddle"
Terry Snyder "Mr. Percussion"

And a "Golden Film Music" series...
"The Magnificent Seven"
"Phaedra"
"What's New Pussycat"
"Goldfinger"
"633 Squadron"

So does anyone have the word on Sunset Records? Sounds like a one-company
thrift shop supplier.

Thanks,

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:10:49 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

At 05:54 AM 12/29/98 -0800, Ben Waugh wrote:
>> Glad to hear about all this Ventures talk. ...
>
>There is another like this, I think it's called "Guitar Freak Out,"
>dbl lp. The cover is purple & fringed with a variety of psychedelic
>doodlings, including marijuana leaves (okie dokie, Nokie, we're
>hippies now).

I can't think of the Ventures anymore without thinking of Sandy Nelson.
They're next to each other in my "connected-by-association" record shelves.
 The earliest Nelson records are pretty inconsistent and even boring at
times but the later ones when he started covering "rock hits" like "Kicks",
"Time won't let me" and "Going up the country" are among my favourite "Now
Sound" or "instrumental rock" records.  In fact, they're at the center of
this debate I have about the difference between "Now Sound" and
"instrumental rock".
I think there is a difference but I'm not sure I'm not slicing things too
thin... for a change.
Anyway for a second I thought I had this "Guitar Freak Out" record but then
I remembered that the record I was thinking about was really this Sandy
Nelson record called "Cheetah Beat" which has this great sorta-feeble
psychedelic cut called "Freak Beat".
If you have a lot of this kind of record, you start to recognize the
general range of rock covers, the kind of songs and bands that get
covered... which is why it's so cool that on this record Sandy covers "I
don't need no doctor" and even more amazingly "Happening Ten Years Time
Ago" (by the Yardbirds, I think.)

If none of this Sandy stuff is reissued, I'm sorry for bringing it up.  But
does anyone know anything about the musicians on those records and if
there's any real connection to the Ventures?

Nat




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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:15:37 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest

At 10:10 AM 12/29/98 -0500, Rajnai, Charles, NPG wrote:
>

>Now wait a minute.  Blue Oyster Cult was a Canadian band.

Pretty sure they weren't/aren't Canadian.  Not that we wouldn't be proud to
claim them but are you sure you're not thinking of Trooper?

Nat



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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:25:04 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

At 11:52 AM 12/29/98 -0500, Ross Orr wrote:
>
>Now "Flights of Fantasy" is a truly amazing track all right. It has THE
>hugest, sky-filling fuzz guitar sound I've ever heard.

Oh!  While we're on the subject of fuzz guitar, let me just mention Billy
Strange.  I was excited earlier in the year to find that Billy Strange
compilation (on one of those reissue labels you guys like) but it had
virtually none of that really fuzzy sound I had only heard of at that point.
Then I found this LP "Folk Rock Hits" on GNP/Crescendo and I was afraid it
was going to have that wimpy acoustic guitar sound you hear on those
records with Billy, Glen Campbell and Mason Williams.
But no!  It's totally over the top, way fuzzier than anything on that comp
I eventually sold.
I just wish his records came with warning labels.  Warning: no fuzz on this
one.

Nat



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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:25:43 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Twangful Ventures / Sunset Records

I can add my oddball German-issued rock collection to the fray of Sunset
Records; Electric Underground, which featured the Spencer Davis Group, the
Petards and Kim Fowley, amongst others.




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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:27:16 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) B.O.C.  aka Help me lay this one to rest

From the All-Music Guide:

Blue =D6yster Cult was the thinking man's heavy-metal group. Put together on=
 a
college campus by a couple of rock critics, it maintained a close=
 relationship
with a series of literary figures (often in the fields of science fiction=
 and
horror), including Eric Von Lustbader, Patti Smith, Michael Moorcock, and
Stephen King, while turning out some of the more listenable metal music of=
 the
early and mid '70s. The band that became Blue =D6yster Cult was organized in
1967
at Stony Brook College on Long Island by students (and later rock critics)
Sandy
Pearlman and Richard Meltzer as Soft White Underbelly and consisted of Andy
Winters (bass), Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (guitar), John=
 Wiesenthal--quickly
replaced by Allen Lanier--(keyboards), and Albert Bouchard (drums), with
Pearlman managing and Pearlman and Meltzer writing songs. Initially without=
 a
lead singer, they added Les Bronstein on vocals. This quintet signed to
Elektra
Records and recorded an album that was never released. They then dropped
Bronstein and replaced him with their road manager, Eric Bloom, as the=
 band's
name was changed to Oaxaca. A second Elektra album also went unreleased,
though
a single was issued under the name the Stalk-Forrest Group.=20
Cut loose by Elektra, they changed their name again, to Blue =D6yster Cult,=
 and
signed to Columbia Records in late 1971, by which time Winters had been
replaced
by Albert Bouchard's brother Joe. Blue =D6yster Cult, their debut album, was
released in January 1972 and made the lower reaches of the charts. Columbia
sent a promotional EP, Live Bootleg, to radio stations in October, and
followed
with B=D6C's second album, Tyranny and Mutation, in February 1973. Their=
 third
album, Secret Treaties, was released in April 1974 and became their first to
break into the Top 100 bestsellers. (It eventually went gold.) B=D6C=
 released a
live double album, On Your Feet or on Your Knees, in February 1975. In May
1976
came their fourth studio album, Agents of Fortune, including the Top 40
(Top Ten
on some charts) hit single "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" (featured in the=
 classic
John Carpenter horror film Halloween), which became their first gold and=
 then
platinum album. (On Your Feet went gold shortly after.) B=D6C's sixth=
 overall
album, Spectres, was released in October 1977 and went gold in January
1978. In
September 1978 came a second live album, Some Enchanted Evening, which
eventually would become B=D6C's second million-seller, followed by the=
 studio
album Mirrors in June 1979. A year later, B=D6C released its ninth album,
Cultosaurus Erectus, with the gold Fire of Unknown Origin, containing the
Top 40
hit "Burnin' for You," following in June 1981.=20
In the summer of 1981, drummer Albert Bouchard was replaced by the band's=
 tour
manager and lighting designer, Rick Downey. B=D6C's third live album,
Extraterrestrial Live, was released in April 1982, followed by the studio
album
The Revolution by Night in October 1983. Downey left in 1984 and was
replaced in
1985 by Jimmy Wilcox. The same year, Lanier left and was replaced by Tommy
Zvonchek. B=D6C released its 13th album, Club Ninja, in January 1986. Bassis=
t
Joe
Bouchard left in 1986 and was replaced by Jon Rogers. In 1987, Lanier=
 returned
to the group, and Ron Riddle replaced Wilcox on drums. B=D6C's 14th album,=
 the
concept recording Imaginos, became their final new album on Columbia
Records in
July 1988. B=D6C scored the movie Bad Channels in 1992, by which time Chuck
Burgi
had replaced Ron Riddle on drums. In 1994, Blue =D6yster Cult released Cult
Classic, an album of rerecorded favorites, in connection with the use of=
 their
music in the TV miniseries of horror novelist Stephen King's The Stand. --
William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide





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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:34:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

I asked this same question a few years back, of KJFC dj, Phil Dirt. I
can recall that Tom Tedesco did guitar duty on many Sandy Nelson lps.
I think that some of these have been reissued on CD.


- ---Nat Kone <[e-mail]> wrote:

> If none of this Sandy stuff is reissued, I'm sorry for bringing it
up.  But
> does anyone know anything about the musicians on those records and if
> there's any real connection to the Ventures?

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:44:34 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

I looked up Sandy Nelson at cdnow and there were 5 or 6 releases on
cd.  More interesting,  when I clicked on the album advisor to see
what cdnow recommends if you like Sandy Nelson,  Well up came the
Ventures "Live in Japan".  Hmmmm.

Maybe your association with Sandy N and the Ventures is right on point
Nat!

Chuck

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:19:38
From: Jay Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Funny Face is alright

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:25:53 EST, [e-mail] wrote:
>>...Who can name the other six characters? >>

>I can!

>Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry
Loudmouth Lime
Freckle Face Strawberry
Choo Choo Cherry
Jolly Olly Orange
Lefty Lemon


Actually, in its original incarnation, the cherry mascot was "Chinese
Cherry," but in an early bout of PC-ness, the company changed the depiction
of a slanty-eyed stereotype to a harmless train engineer or something.

My brother used to have a Goofy Grape watch that was advertsied in the
Sunday comics section. For some reason Goofy Grape was the unquestioned
leader of the Funny Face gang.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:26:48 -0000
From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Recent finds

Jill wrote:

>I think it is a hoot how people keep using "Man from ORGAN" as
>an example of a great find. I got mine for 50 cents in a record
>store in St. Louis about 2 years ago, listened to it, and promptly
>handed it over to Robbie who was desperate for it because
>although I thought it was pretty good, I figured he liked it more. I
>still haven't been kicking myself over giving it away either.

Snicker... I think it is a fantastic LP but frankly almost everything Dick
has done with Lowrey organ, harpsichord or Moog blows me away.

A pity then that he's only playing piano these days!

Mind you, he's also a damn fine pianist...


Robbie


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:53:18 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Funny Face is alright

>My brother used to have a Goofy Grape watch that was advertsied in the
>Sunday comics section. For some reason Goofy Grape was the unquestioned
>leader of the Funny Face gang.
>
>Am I off-topic enough yet?

No! Can anyone remember a similar fruit drink cartoon promo group, late
60s/early 70s vintage, with a WWI fighter pilot theme (jumping on the
"Snoopy & The Red Baron" bandwagon)? I can't remember the character names,
or the group's name, but I do remember having a little promo comic book
with their adventures. Anyone? Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:26:18 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mos-rite on!

Nat K. very appropriately linked the Ventures thread into Sandy Nelson
by asking....
>If none of this Sandy stuff is reissued, I'm sorry for bringing it up.  But
>does anyone know anything about the musicians on those records and if
>there's any real connection to the Ventures?

One album that connects the two acts is Sandy Nelson's 'Live in Las Vegas'
album from late 1964, which has Jerry McGee on guitar.  2-3 years later,
Jerry took over from Nokie Edwards as lead guitar with The Ventures.  In
the intervening years, Jerry played on some Monkees records, and on a very
uneven album by their writers Boyce and Hart (possibly called 'Test
Patterns'?).

Sandy Nelson's albums are being reissued in the UK as twofers, but I agree
with
an earlier comment about some of the tracks being a bit so-so.  The same
company
('See For Miles') are doing twofers of Ventures albums: especially
recommended is
C5HCD 627 'Guitar Freakout'/'Super Psychedelics'.  The CEMA twofers are also
interesting for the bonus tracks.

In the late 60's the band added an 'official' organist, John Durrell (sp?)
- - I saw them
play two shows at Frankfurt USAF base in 1969.  They were excellent.  McGee
played using a thumbpick rather than a plectrum, quasi-fingerstyle, and the
set
included a fierce medley of "Wildwood flower" and "Flint Hill Special".  It
was
interesting to note that when Nokie Edwards returned to the group in the 70's,
he took up the challenge and did some of the numbers McGee style.  I know
the group reformed in the years up to Mel Taylor's death, but for a while,
as a 'rival' group to the Ventures, Japanese audiences were treated to Mel
Taylor and The Dynamics, which had Jerry McGee on guitar.

Ventures founder member Don Wilson did/does vocal interjections where
needed (eg Snoopy vs the Red Baron, Wild thing) but also released a
vocal single in his own right, "Don't avoid me".  Upbeat, pretty good,
good Nokie Edwards guitar break too....

Hugh (still dreaming of owning a metallic red Mosrite, like on the Xmas LP).


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:57:27 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Funny Face is alright

At 03:53 PM 12/29/98 -0500, m.ace wrote:
>Can anyone remember a similar fruit drink cartoon promo group, late
>60s/early 70s vintage, with a WWI fighter pilot theme (jumping on the
>"Snoopy & The Red Baron" bandwagon)?

Doesn't ring a bell, but you might want to poke around the Museum Of
Advertising Icons.

http://www.toymuseum.com/toys/entrance.html

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:58:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: The Party

johan writes:

<<     my opinion on it: I don't understand why people want this album (The
Party)
     so badly.  >>

I guess the reason I wanted it so badly was that I could not find it.  I
waited and waited and waited.  Meanwhile, all of Mancini's best LP's came to
me.  Finally, I got my crack at a sealed copy of The Party and cheerfully
plunked down the collector's price tag.

When i finally got to listen to it and the excitement of the hunt was gone, it
came up way short for me too.

It now sits on the shelf and rarely gets played.  On the other hand, it is not
for sale.  One of *those* records.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 98 19:30:42 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Twangful Christmas

>I like Ventures records in all periods.  For me, they always had one foot
>in the elevator if that's the word you want to use.

Nat, you have a way with coining phrases.

The Ventures do indeed have one foot in the elevator.
Long before my lounge/exotica days I was an avid Ventures fan, and now
that I've fallen head over heels down the elevator shaft I can look back
and thank the Ventures music for precipatating my present state.

I thank the Ventures for offering an ample supply of tunes for my surf
band to learn from. It should be a law for all guitar players to listen
to the Ventures...What, they do that already?

I further thank the Ventures for aiding and abeting in my vinyl
collecting obsession. They were my first completionist goal.
 The other similarity between the Ventures and exotica is from this
record collecting perspective. Both used to be regular thrift shop finds,
and now both are found in used record stores demanding collector prices.

I would never have predicted that there would be on this list
simultaneous thereads on the Ventures and Blue Oyster Cult. I'm shaking
my head in amazement.


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:48:58 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) the rest of the Funny Face gang...

><< THE FUNNY FACE GANG - Goofy Grape Sings!...
>...Who can name the other six characters? >>
>I can!
>Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry
>Loudmouth Lime
>Freckle Face Strawberry
>Choo Choo Cherry
>Jolly Olly Orange
>Lefty Lemon

The Museum of Advertising Icons has images of or mentions *10* Funny Face
Gang members:
http://www.toymuseum.com/c8/c8frames.html
Funny Face gang: Choo Choo Cherry, Jolly Olly Orange, Goofy Grape,
Rootin'-Tootin' Raspberry, Loud Mouth Punch, "With It" Watermelon, Lefty
Lemonade, Ruddi Tutti-Frutti, Freckle Face Strawberry, and Chug-A-Lug-A
Chocolate.

I guess C-A-L-A Chocolate, R. Tutti-Frutti and W-I Watermelon were the Pete
Bests of the group.

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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:46:44 -0600
From: Robert Sloane <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Clip art/fonts for comp tapes?

Can anyone suggest some resources for finding computer clip art and/or
fonts that would befit a compilation tape of exotica tunes? I've done some
cursory web searches, but come up empty-handed thus far.

Thanks in advance,

Rob


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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:19:49 -0500
From: "Ray Coffey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #274

Funny Face:
What about Funny Face Loud Mouth Punch?

ZOOM:
Zee double-O em. Boston, Mass. oh, too won three fore.
It's the Allston neighborhood (and post-office) of Boston, if you really
wanna pick nits.

BOC
I thought the BOC pseudonym was Soft *White* Underbelly... according to a
local Blue Oyster (w/ umlaut!) Cult fan.
Maybe that was just my faulty memory.
I know they played the Fallon (NV) Cantalope Festival a few years ago.  Two
Spinal Tap credentials at least!
Was _Godzilla_ a hit for them?

> There is another like this, I think it's called "Guitar Freak Out,"
> dbl lp. The cover is purple & fringed with a variety of psychedelic
> doodlings, including marijuana leaves (okie dokie, Nokie, we're
> hippies now).

The Ventures' album _Super Psychedelics_ is the one with the leaves and
doodles and gatefold sleeve, mostly in purplish-blue and yellows, but sadly
not a double LP.  A painful version of Strawberry Fields is included.
It does have a hilarious day-in-the-life photo montage with the
hippie-go-lucky Ventures skipping rope in the sunshine and other
activities.

Guitar Freakout (purple cover) is a better record IMHO and includes the
Theme from The Wild Angels (Mike Curb/Davie Allan(sp?) and Arrows--  Mod
East is a nice rip-off of Paint It Black.
Both are from '67 and both have their share of cover tunes, but fewer than
many other Ventures albums.

Underground Fire, a Ventures mailing list description page w/ Ventures
links:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7090/undrfire.htm

Ventures Discography:
http://www.kscon.com/lvent/index.htm

Learning to play bass with The Ventures (especially the James Brown cut),

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