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exotica-digest         Friday, January 1 1999         Volume 02 : Number 278



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading
(exotica) A. Hoffman,K. Kinoshita,D. Taylor,J. Brossa,O. Wilson,J-C Forest,H.Lee obits
Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading
(exotica) New Year on the Net
Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading
Re:  Re: (exotica) Ventures etc.
(exotica) Re: Easy and cheap!
(exotica) My Top Ten of the Year
(exotica) Re: I NEED SOME ADVICE: good Billy Strange LP to be had
(exotica) Ventures - last word...
(exotica) What isn't agood Billy Strange LP?
Re: (exotica) welks and whelks
Re: (exotica) welks and whelks
(exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 12.29.98
(exotica) Hootenanny
(exotica) This (guy) just in
(exotica) hyman rules, redux
(exotica) For Sale
(exotica) Wives (was: Ventures etc.)
Re:  (exotica) Jane Fondle's greatest hits
Re:  (exotica) Jane Fondle's greatest hits
RE: Re: (exotica) Ventures etc.

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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:11:50 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading

<< Could someone lay out the record grade for me?

 What's the difference between a near mint and a very good plus? >>

I've got the Goldmine grading standards right in front of me...

NEAR MINT (or M-)  nearly perfect, many dealers don't give grades higher than
this, implying that no record is ever truly perfect....Bascially, an LP in
NEAR MINT condition looks as if you just got it home from a new record store
and removed the shrink wrap.

VERY GOOD PLUS (VG+)  shows some signs it was played and handled by a previous
onwer who took good care of it.  Record surfaces show slight signs of wear and
may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that don't affect one's
listening experience.

VERY GOOD (VG)  same defects as above, but more pronounced.  Surface noice
will be evident when playing, especially in soft passages and during intro and
fade, but will not overpower the music.  Noticeable groove wear and light
scratches that will affect the sound.

Those price guides reflect NEAR MINT condition, with VG+ getting 50 percent of
the value and VG 25 percent...





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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:30:05 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A. Hoffman,K. Kinoshita,D. Taylor,J. Brossa,O. Wilson,J-C Forest,H.Lee obits

                           *Anita Hoffman
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Anita Hoffman, the activist and prankster who fell in
love with Yippie Abbie Hoffman at first sight, helped him ``levitate'' the
Pentagon and later kept him hidden for years from the FBI, died Sunday of
breast cancer. She was 56.
    Ms. Hoffman helped Abbie plot the most memorable pranks of the Yippie
movement, including disrupting the New York Stock Exchange by throwing money
on the trading floor, encircling the Pentagon in a protest against the
Vietnam War and planning the demonstrations in Chicago during the 1968
Democratic National Convention.
    In one of her most audacious moves, she went on a sort of diplomatic
mission to Algeria to meet with Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and
try to forge a coalition between the Panthers and the Yippies.
    Ms. Hoffman may be most remembered, however, for how she supported Hoffman
for years while he lived underground to escape drug charges, raising their
son America while keeping law enforcement at bay. Her husband committed
suicide in 1989.
    Ms. Hoffman also was a freelance writer and novelist. She wrote a memoir of
those years, ``To America with Love: Letters from the Underground,'' and
later, under a pseudonym, wrote the novel ``Trashing.''

                         *Keisuke Kinoshita
    TOKYO (AP) -- Keisuke Kinoshita, a Japanese director noted for tackling
contemporary social problems in his films, died Wednesday of a stroke. He
was 86.
    Kinoshita joined what is now Shochiku Co., one of Japan's major movie
companies, in 1933. He made his directorial debut with ``Hanasaku Minato''
(The Port where Flowers Bloom) in 1943.
    Kinoshita's most successful and best known film was ``Nijushi No Hitomi''
(Twenty-four Eyes), which won the Kinema Jumpo Award, one of Japan's top
cinema prizes, as the best movie of 1954.
    His other famous films include ``Karumen Kokyo Ni Kaeru'' (Carmen Comes
Home) in 1951 and ``Narayama-Bushi Ko'' (The Ballad of Narayama) in 1958.
    Kinoshita also directed dramas for television, but returned to making films
in 1976 with ``Shodo Satsujin, Musukoyo'' (Impulse Murder, My Son).

                            *Don Taylor
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor-director Don Taylor, who played the role of
Elizabeth Taylor's bridegroom in ``Father of the Bride'' and directed ``The
Island of Dr. Moreau,'' died Tuesday of heart failure. He was 78.
    Taylor, who got his break in the Army Air Force stage production of
``Winged Victory,'' appeared in ``Song of the Thin Man,'' ``The Naked City''
and ``For the Love of Mary'' before winning the role of Miss Taylor's groom
in ``Father of the Bride'' in 1950. He was not related to Miss Taylor.
    Taylor appeared in several more films, including ``Stalag 17'' and ``I'll
Cry Tomorrow,'' then turned to directing in the 1960s. He directed
``Everything's Ducky,'' ``Ride the Wild Surf,'' ``Escape from the Planet of
the Apes,'' ``Damien: Omen II'' and
``The Final Countdown,'' among others.
    He also wrote a number of one-act plays, radio dramas and short stories.
    He received an Emmy nomination for an NBC television script titled ``The
Night They Tore down Riley's Bar.''
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?p=avg&sql=B113745
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Taylor,+Don+(I)

                            *Joan Brossa
    BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Joan Brossa, a versatile poet associated with some
of the pillars of the Spanish surrealist movement and best known for his
``visual poems,'' died from a heart attack Wednesday. He was 79.
    Brossa founded a surrealist magazine in 1948 together with another of
Catalonia's formidable artists, Antoni Tapies.
    His poems, written in Catalan, were first published in 1951. His last book
came out in 1987.
    Known for his caustic wit and hostility toward artistic convention, Brossa
began developing ``visual poems'' in the 1950s -- one of which was a rifle
barrel topped with a church candle snuffer, titled ``Conscientious Objector.''
    Brossa, who fought for the Republicans in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War
with a book by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in his pocket, was awarded
several prizes for his contributions to Spanish culture.

   PARIS, Dec 31 (AFP) - Orlandus Wilson, one of the founders of the Golden
Gate Quartet jazz group, died overnight aged 82 in the American Hospital
outside Paris, his entourage said.
   Born in Norfolk, Virginia, where he spent his childhood on a farm, bass
singer Wilson was part of the original Golden Gate Jubilee Singers set up in
1934 and later renamed the Golden Gate Quartet.
   One of the best-known vocal jazz groups, the Quartet toured South
Carolina in 1936 and in 1941 became the first black ensemble to sing in
Washington's Constitution Hall. Their first European tour was in 1955.
   The Golden Gate Quartet, led by Wilson, mainly played gospel and
spirituals, with complex voice arrangements and imitations of instruments.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B168142

    PARIS (AP) -- Jean-Claude Forest, who created the sultry sci-fi comic strip
character Barbarella and designed sets for the '60s cult movie that starred
Jane Fonda, has died, his publisher said today. He was 68.
    ``Barbarella'' went on to inspire fashion designers, the '80s pop group
Duran Duran, who chose their name from a character in the film, and a string
of comic strip heroines leading up to today's cyber-babe Lara Croft.
    Forest died of a respiratory illness at a hospital outside Paris on
Wednesday, said Helen Werle, spokeswoman for Editions Dargaud. Funeral
arrangements were pending.
    It was in April 1962 that Forest, after success with the youthful adventure
comic strip ``Bicot,'' created the seductive 41st century adventuress ``to
amuse myself.''
    She first appeared that year in ``V Magazine'' as a futuristic barbarian,
seducing androids on the planet Lythion.
    The series, published in other languages, was censored in France, barred
from advertising or sale to minors until the early 1970s.
    Barbarella tested the limits of French censorship, Guy Vidal, director of
comic strips at Dargaud, said in a telephone interview. ``There have been
those who helped unlock censorship. Forest was one of them.''
    It wasn't until producer Dino de Laurentiis bought the film rights to
Barbarella that the character gained world fame and helped ignite Jane
Fonda's movie career.
    Directed by Roger Vadim, the movie was released in June 1968, right after
the May '68 social upheaval in France that reflected the revolt against
traditional French morality.
    Forest designed most of the sets for the production, which was shot in Rome.
    Film critic Leonard Maltin has described ``Barbarella'' as ``a midnight
movie favorite ... not especially funny, but watchable, with Fonda's
striptease during opening credits the principal reason for its cult status.''
    Fonda's shiny, form-fitting space-age outfits stirred the imaginations of
designers. Barbarella-style get-ups, created by French fashion badboy
Jean-Paul Gaultier, accented last year's film ``The Fifth Element,'' with
Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich.
    Born Sept. 11, 1930, Forest sketched his first comic strip as a 19-year-old
student at art school, titled ``La Fleche noire,'' or ``The Black Arrow.''
    He began his career with ``Le vaisseau hante,'' or ``The Haunted Ship,''
published by Elan. In 1950, he became illustrator for such publications as
``Le livre de poche,'' ``Voila,'' ``Fiction'' and ``Les nouvelles
litteraires.''
    Forest's last Barbarella episode was published in 1981.
    After years of censorship, the French government rehabilitated Forest,
having him represent the country's comic strip artists abroad beginning in
1976.
    Forest was honored in 1984 with the Grand Prize of Angouleme, site of an
annual comic strip festival. He received the 1986 prize from another comic
strip festival in Sierre, Switzerland, for his lifetime work.
    Forest is survived by his wife Petra, a sculptor who lives in Paris, and a
son, Julien, 28.


And unconfirmed reports are appearing on the net that Native American Porn
Princess Hyapatia Lee (1961-1998) has died of diabetes.




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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 98 10:47:44 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading

>Could someone lay out the record grade for me?
>
>What's the difference between a near mint and a very good plus?
>
>I recently bought a record described as very good plus, that had far more
>scratches, though mostly surface, than I expected.
>
>Could someone help me out?

Check out a copy of the "Goldmine Price Guide to Collectable Record
Albums". In the introduction there is a section on grading records which
is the most concise common sense summary this rather ambiguous practice.
Most good dealers I know are familiar with Goldmine's grading criteria
and follow its general guidelines, it's the closest thing to an agreed
standard.
Questionable dealers, like the one you seem to be describing, are
clueless and follow their own sleazy stick-it-to-you grading practices,
though some more out of ignorance than malice.

To paraphrase Goldmine on VG+; The record is obviosly not perfect, but
not too far from it either. Scuff scratches, from sliding the record in
and out of it's jacket are ok, even one or two scratches that would have
no audible affects is ok, anything more it is not a VG+.
Check too for the original luster, I'm big on this, sometimes a record
with no discernable scratches will lack the nice black shine of a new
record and will consequently sound like crap. Such a *tired* record
should not be considered VG+.

Hope this helps,

Frank


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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:06:36 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Year on the Net

New Year In Las Vegas
Party city of Nevada, Las Vegas, is streaming its New Year celebrations live
onto the Internet. From 8pm to 4am ET, you can watch live video from Fremont
Street in Real Video.
World Wide Web: http://www.broadcast.com

Party With Playboy Tonight
Playboy fans have been invited to join Hugh Hefner at his annual New Year's
Eve party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, via the World Wide Web.
Playboy Cyber Club will Webcast Hef's annual New Year's Eve gala from 9:00pm
to 12:30am PST. Tina Bockrath, Miss May 1990, will host the Webcast, which
will feature a live multi-camera video feed, celebrity interviews and chats
with Playmates and Hefner.
Subscribers get access to the live video while non-members can get audio
feeds and frequently updated images.
World Wide Web: http://cyber.playboy.com




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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:24:04 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rekkid Grading

[e-mail] wrote:

> NEAR MINT (or M-)  nearly perfect, many dealers don't give grades higher than
> this, implying that no record is ever truly perfect....Bascially, an LP in
> NEAR MINT condition looks as if you just got it home from a new record store
> and removed the shrink wrap.
>
> VERY GOOD PLUS (VG+)  shows some signs it was played and handled by a previous
> onwer who took good care of it.  Record surfaces show slight signs of wear and
> may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that don't affect one's
> listening experience.
>
> VERY GOOD (VG)  same defects as above, but more pronounced.  Surface noice
> will be evident when playing, especially in soft passages and during intro and
> fade, but will not overpower the music.  Noticeable groove wear and light
> scratches that will affect the sound.
>

Thanks for this. Now that you've started, it would be truly great, if you'd give
us the rest of the list too. I don't have the book and I'd really appreciate to
know these standards without having to order the entire encyclopedia... Many
thanks guaranteed!

Mo



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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:33:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Ventures etc.

My name is Jim and my wife picked up a huge trashpile of LP's for me on the
side of the road AND told me they were in the trunk BEFORE they had a chance
to curl in the sun! Is she an enabler? ;-) Happy New Year all


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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:59:02 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Jeffery Hess)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Easy and cheap!

Jane Fondle:
>I found something last night at Newbury Comics here in Boston that I
>thought would be of interest to both lists...It's a Sequel  "Loungecore"
>CD comp >called HIGHLY STRUNG, which I think was rereleased in
>96 or 97.  It's a collection of 1960s rock instrumentals, by Brits,
including the >Dave Clark 5...Highly recommended!

That's a great comp!  I love that tinny, flimsy, but cool early 60's Brit
instro
sound.  Everything I've ever found on Sequel has never let me down.


Jeff
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 98 13:00:30 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My Top Ten of the Year

I briefly mentioned this in a previous post so I thought I would share my
favorite ten albums that were new to me this year.

In no particular order:

Milton Delugg : Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies and other TV Fiends
Mostly originals, band with a beat kind of arrangements. Some of the
tunes try to be spooky which is always a good way to spice up an
otherwise simple tune. The Munsters theme and a few others are really
rockin'. And no, Delugg does not play accordion on this.

Leroy Holmes : Themes from New Provocative Films
The Leroy Holmes stuff on United Artists is some of the best arrangements
of soundtrack material and the material he's working with here is pretty
darn good. Granted not all the tunes are to my taste
(Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice), but the ones that are are are amazing selections
form the great genre of exported Euro-nudie films. "I, a Lover" is one a
very catchy tune and shows off Holmes' ability to build a tune as it goes
along - to it's thrilling climax...This album also has the oft mentioned
tune "Mah-Na Mah-Na".

Chiemi Eri and the Tokyo Cuban Boys : Japanese Folk Songs
Earlier this year I mentioned my interest in the east-meets-west genre of
sixties Japanese big band recordings. This album features female vocalist
Chemi Eri singing songs that are credited as being "traditional" but the
arrangements are about as Japanese as cheeseburgers. The sound of a dance
band playing Japanese melodic lines on top of jazz chord progressions is
captivating.

Ray Martin : Goldfinger and other music from James Bond Thrillers
As I've mentioned just the other day, this album, filled with "oooeee"s
and Martin's signiture use of bass lines, is a perfect complement to the
source material.

Phil Kraus : The Percussive
I was glad to here from Brad that Phil is alive and still performing.
This rather low key,small ensemble leaves plenty of room for Phil to
strut his stuff. The track "The Buffoon" has been the opening theme to my
show since September, so I am constantly reminded how truely wonderful
the marimba can sound.

Warren Barker : William Holden presents Music from Far Away Places
The liner notes indicate that Holden had sort of a producer's hand in
selecting the material here. I started to notice that Holden was in all
kinds of Japanese/Asian subject movies, most of which I assume were shot
on location. So, knowing the worldly guy that he was made his selections
sound even cooler. Many superb Barker originals as well. It's the kind of
orchestral exotica that doesn't need bird calls or too many gimics, akin
to ealier Les Baxter. It has the honor of one of those records that I
left on my turntable for a week, constantly playing both sides all the
way through.

Mike Simpson : Discussion In Percussion
I took a chance, if anything I had acquired another of those fabulous
Mercury covers sporting three posed women on the cover ala David Carroll.
As many here well know, even though it says percussion, you don't always
know what you're getting. This album has the honor of falling in league
with the early Command records as far as bombastic percussion goes. The
version of "Say Si Si" (cha cha) has a minute long percussion
introduction before you even hear a discernable melody! The title refers
to the way the percussion in the different stereo channels "talk" with
each other (also called ping-ponging), the effects are stunning.

Warren Kime : Explosive Brass Impact
Many of you have discovered the true bombast of Kime's Command recordings
and have reeled in delight. This album may not rate with his other
albums, but even so it still makes the cut for this years best. I'm
amazed that whenever I play "Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)" the VU meter
pins in the red no matter what I've set the volume at. As the liner notes
promise "An overwhelming musical experience."

Lester Lanin : More Twistin' in High Society
Now some may think me a fuddy duddy for digging this Lester Lanin album.
So, for the sake of those who may be familiar with his overwhelmingly
*bad* albums (god I hate medleys) and not familiar with his twist albums,
let me re-assure you that there really is a silver lining. It's almost as
if after making all of those uptight "society" albums, medley after
medley, that Lanin needed his Twistin' albums to cut loose on. And I do
have a soft spot; Lanin's "Twistin' in High Society" was, twelve plus
years ago, one of my first "finds", so when I saw this year "More
Twistin'..." I nearly screamed. The twist version of Volga Boatmen/Dark
Eyes (yes, sometimes medleys do work) is just downright dancin' fool fun.

Hal Hester : Does his own thing - Music from "Your Own Thing"
I'd love to find out more about this guy. Guessing from this album it
seems that he scored some groovy mod musical. Lucily though this album is
instrumental (just a few lyrics here and there foe accents). I still
can't stand that Brodway musical style of singing. Many of the songs here
havce become part of my "mod" heirarchy. With the first track on side one
titled "Hunca Munca" I knew I'd be in for a good time.

- - Frank


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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:30:05 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: I NEED SOME ADVICE: good Billy Strange LP to be had

>From: d th <[e-mail]>

>Is there a good Billy Strange LP to be had?

    "Goldfinger"
    "The james Bond theme, Walk don't run"

        Johan


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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:10:33 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ventures - last word...

....
Interesting to note that on the recently discussed
'Super Psychedelics' album, the penultimate track
is titled.......  "1999 A.D."    That's spooky......

Best wishes to all readers and to the great guys
who provide the wherewithal to make it happen.

Hugh.


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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:27:17 -0600
From: Chris Strouth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What isn't agood Billy Strange LP?

So I have to comment on this one, Pretty much any Billy Strange record is
of some value. even his ultra cheesy late 70's  twang fests are sort of
golden.(especially his Moogaised cover of the theme from "the Rockford
Files")  My fave  though have to lie with others on the list  in Goldfinger
(an album so cool that Luna ripped off the album art) although the records
with the Challengers (I think that's the groups name) are sort of sub par.

When I asked Billy what his weirdest record was  he had said ; the
soundtrack to the  "Marquis De Sade"  or it may have just been De Sade for
AIP, an album I have never heard from a movie I have never seen, but
someday, thrift store willing....

Really, every record of his that I have I love, even the  Mexican Brass
one, theres just something about  that almost monotone guitair sound.
Fun Billy facts!
Wrote Limbo Rock
wrote Memories are Made of this , for Elvis.

Chris (doing the semiannual posting!)


         E N D  O F  T R A N S M I S S O N...




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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:58:38 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) welks and whelks

>I've never knowingly heard a record
>by Blue Oyster Cult or Hawkwind! For all I know, they could be
>Lawrence Welk sound-alikes! How about Blue Welk Cult?

Better yet, The Blue Whelk Cult. A perfect name for the first
elevator-metal band. But they have to have a Cordovox accordion plugged
into one of those Marshall stacks.

Or maybe a more easy-appropriate color choice would be The Avocado Whelk Cult?

Happy New Year everyone! Have a fine *Space* 1999!

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:15:22 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) welks and whelks

"Better yet, The Blue Whelk Cult."

Hmmph!  Talk about your Soft White Underbelly!

7 hours and counting,
Brian Phillips





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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:24:52 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 12.29.98

"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m.
Beach Boys-My Summer Love (instro)
Dave Clark 5-First Love-CD Highly Strung (60's Brit Instros)
Frank Barber Orchestra-Somewhere For You-LP Deep Percussion
Horst Jankowski-Alpine Forest-LP More Genius of...
Ventures-Wack Wack-LP Guitar Freakout!
Enoch Light-Marrakesh Express-LP Best of...
Piero Umiliani-L'Uomo E La Citta-CD Easy Tempo 6
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '77-If You Really Love Me-LP Vintage '74
Euro Boys-Do You Know The Way To Monterey-CD Jet Age
Jean Jacques Perrey-Brazilian Flower-CD Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound
- -Baja Marimba Band-Knowing When To Leave-LP Those Were The Days
- -Jill O'Hara-Knowing When To Leave-CD Burt Bacharach Collection (Rhino)
- -Roy Budd-Hurry To Me-CD Sound Spectrum
- -Vince Montana-It Looks Like Love-LP Goody Goody (Philly-based vibist <RIP>)
- -Dimitri From Paris-Dirtty Larry-CD Dimitri From Paris
- -Combustible Edison-Hot And Bothered-CD The Impossible World
Dave Pell Singers-Oh! Calcutta-CD Sound Gallery (orange one)
Corner Shop-Butter The Soul-CD When I Was Born For The Seventh Time
Stelvio Cipriani-Arrival In Rome-LP OST Come Together
Chim Kothari-Cast Your Fate To The Wind-LP Sound Of The Sitar
Kalyanji Anandji-Theme From Don-CD Bombay The Hard Way
Dick Hyman-Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-LP Man From O.R.G.A.N.
Ulf Sandberg Trio-Watch What Happens-CD Scored! (James Taylor's Crime Comp)
Fantastic Plastic Machine-Pura Saudade (Nova Bossa Mix)-CD The F.P.M.
Marty Gold Orchestra-High On A Windy Hill-LP Its Magic (RCA Stereo Action)
Henry Mancini-Man's Favorite Sport-LP Dear Heart & Other Favorites
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer-Two Of A Kind-CD Babby Darin Collection (Rhino)
- -Nashville Brass-Joey's song-LP Turn On Some Happy
- -Rick Powell-I Walk The Line-LP Switched On Country
- -Lenny Dee-Theme From Odd Couple-LP Turn Around, Look At Me
- -Michel LeGrand-Love Is A Ball-LP OST Love Is A Ball
- -Bob Thompson-While We're Young-LP MMM! Nice
- -Jack Costanzo & Orchestra-Theme From Route 66-LP Naked City
- -Shorty Rogers & His Giants-Breakup Medley-LP OST Man With The Golden Arm
- -Franco Micalizzi-Italia A Mano-CD Beretta 70
- -----Wayne Newton-Wives And Lovers-----


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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 06:37:58 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hootenanny

The complete 100 page manual from the Keep Yourself
Alive (KYA) program (funded under the National Suicide
Prevention Strategy) is available for download free of
charge from the AusEinet site as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file.

It covers Signs, Crisis Management, Therapeutic Intervention
and what to do after a suicide (Postvention).

http://Auseinet.flinders.edu.au/projects/kya/index.html


Happy New Year, Ton



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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 04:23:17 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) This (guy) just in

`Returning  from the New Year's Eve DJ world  of YMCA J5 OWHATANITE MARCARENA
HOWCANILIVE, and wishing all here a prosperous New Year filled with many
finds, re-releases, and continued enthusiasm about some music that does it for
many of us--trend, or no trend. Ciao For Now.... Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 08:48:25 -0500
From: J DeWitt <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hyman rules, redux

Nat Kone wrote:

> Dick Hyman rules... sort of.  Not always.
> At his best, he rules.
> But those six or eight great records are only the tip of the iceberg.
> Below the surface of the water there's a whole heap of mediocrity.

Allow me to add late my own observation  on Hyman's substrata. For he has yet
darker depths.

I'm talking about this inverse pinnacle of complete preposterousness that lurks
in my collection: "Sullivan, Shakespeare, Hyman" released in 1967 by
Monmouth-Evergreen records. This, this I found here in Sarasota, Florida, at
the 17th Street Salvation Army, where one can find many dusty marvels. Maxine
Sullivan sings the songs of William Shakespeare arranged and accompanied by
Dick Hyman. I think I was attracted by the improbability of it.

The cover art shows the three principals in diminishing silhouette over a field
of faded-day-glo pink(?). First a big, purple Bard, bushy headed and broad
shouldered. Next Maxine, smoothly orange. Then, as the plinth of this column of
coolness out-of-order, Dick Hyman, in the color of a pale turd.

Hyman can't be blamed for introducing the songs of Shakespeare's comedies to
dumb jazz. According to the album notes, he was "first urged" to do so while he
was musical director of the Arthur Godfrey television and radio shows. What he
should be held accountable for is his dedication to this "artful, swinging" and
unseemly marriage. Hyman skimps out on the poetry of the music  when you want
him at least to dally with the material. And he fills an album with this.
Really, I'd even question whether or not this is swinging. Hyman himself plays
piano and, Ah-hah!, harrpsichorrd! But even the should-be plucky pizzications
of guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli are rattled off dully. The music is somehow just
what you'd expect; at best easily ignored. The same is to be said about
Sullivan's vocalizations, though with one further question raised. What is she
trying to do? No doubt regain her 30 year old title in what the notes claim to
be her preeminence "in the art of endowing ancient music with a lilting,
syncopated beat." The only collaborator whose career isn't poxed by the record
probably saw none of the royalties.

But as Shakespeare did say, and Sullivan did sing:
                    Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
                        Men were deceivers ever,
                    One foot in sea and one on shore,
                        To one thing constant never

And so it is with Dick Hyman. Suck and soar. He played in Sarasota last year
with Johnny Varro and, headliner, Jerry Jerome, whose "Something Old, Something
New" double CD is worth half a listen. My employer sponsored the free show. I
regret I stayed away, as I feared it would be just as much mediocrity. I was
only really acquainted with the Hyman music from Woody Allen soundtracks at
that point. Not too soon afterward I found among the CDs at my work the Varese
Sarabande reissue of "Moog: the electric eclectics of Dick Hyman". What perfect
music, and originally released only two years after the Shakespeare album. This
is the bright half of Hyman's experimentalism. I don't know how Hyman might
feel about the recording today, nor if he really remembers (dig, 'Legend of
Johnny Pot'). I think it's an honest attempt to expand the boundaries of
popular music and to broaden its repertoire. The same might be said, of course,
for the Shakespeare record.



Much Luck in your New Year
Jesse DeWitt





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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:27:29 -0500
From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) For Sale

It's the new year, and I'm cleaning house.  A bit of stuff for exotica =
fans, a ton of stuff for zorn fans.
Shipping is one dollar, no matter what the order size.

Please send me an email reserving what you want, and I'll mark your name =
off and give you a total and an address where to send the money order.

Thanks!
Peter

=3D=3D=3D

Across 110th Street OMPS - 8
In the Heat of the Night/Mr Tibbs OMPS - 8
Dimitri from Paris - Sacre Bleu - 8
Scooby's Snack Tracks - 7
V/A - The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos (sealed) - 11
Air - Sexy Boy single - 4
Liquid Liquid - Liquid Liquid - 8
Bill Horist - Soylent Radio - 6
Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes - 8
Grateful Dead - Infrared Roses - 8
Panicsville - Last Compulsory Exercise - 3
Otomo Yoshihide - Sound Factory (1997) - 8
Iannis Xenakis - Kraanerg (Asphodel) - 8
Bayete - Umkhaya-Lo - 5
Bayete - and Jaby Khanyile - 5
Bayete - Mbombela - 5
V/A (original artists) - Disco Mania (Heat of Glass/Boogie Fever/You =
Sexy Thing/Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now/Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel) - 3
Babe the Blue Ox - People - 4
Thymme Jones - Career Move - 8
Lake of Dracula - Lake of Dracula - 8
Lazy K - Life in One Day - 7
Pretty in Pink OMPS - 6
Replikants - This Is Our Message - 5
Gearwhore - Drive - 7
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground - 7
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi (Complete Warner Recordings: 2 discs) - 12
Freaky Chakra - Blacklight Fantasy - 7
Versus - Two Cents Plus Tax - 6
Kronos Quartet - Piano and String Quartet (Morton Feldman) - 8
King Crimson - Epitaph (early live recordings, recently remastered; 2 =
discs) - 12
Legendary Jim Ruiz - Sniff - 8
Getaway Cruiser - Getaway Cruiser - 8
Ultra Baby Fat - Silver Tone Smile - 8
MuZiq - Brace Yourself EP - 7
Palace Songs - Palace Songs - 8
Jewel - Pieces of You - 7
Blues Traveller - Four - 7
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom - 7
Hundred Sights of Koenji - Hundred Sights of Koenji - 15
Arthur Lyman - Taboo 2 - 8
Mix-Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device (Asphodel promo, no sleeve) - 5
Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur - 8
Uzeda - Different Section Wires - 8
Diamanda Galas - Malediction and Prayer - 8
Pointless Orchestra - Approaching Tonality - 8
Twelve Caesars - Youth Is Wasted on the Young - 8
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Discord - 8
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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:01:53 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wives (was: Ventures etc.)

> My name is Nat and I'm an accumulator.  But you can call me a collector.
> (It's a fine distinction, I admit.)
>
> And I don't have a wife to roll her eyes as I make this confession.  But it
> gives me hope to find out that you can do this and still have a wife.
>
> (It gives me hope but I think that my accumulating habit is the least of my
> problems when it comes to "finding" a wife.  My greatest problem?  Self pity)
>
....My name is Jack and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo's home....

Mo



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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:33:59 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Jane Fondle's greatest hits

In a message dated 12/30/98 12:02:06 PM, you wrote:

<<What was the first song you played in 1999?>>

Summer Samba by Walter Wanderly. It was perfect.


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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 99 14:21:22 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Jane Fondle's greatest hits

>In a message dated 12/30/98 12:02:06 PM, you wrote:
>
><<What was the first song you played in 1999?>>

The Laughing Record - the first track on the ArfArf collection "Only in
America" which I just picked up the other day. I had to hear it this
morning, not at all being aware that it shared the honor of being the
first song for me of 1999.
Either I'm in for a great year or one of incomprehension; probably both.

Frank


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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 09:18:00 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Re: (exotica) Ventures etc.

>
>
> My name is Jim and my wife picked up a huge trashpile of LP's for
> me

......I'm trembling. That is so.. soo soo... BEAUTIFUL.

God BLESS that amazing woman.

Excuse me, I have to go cry.


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