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exotica-digest        Saturday, January 9 1999        Volume 02 : Number 285



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Bardot
Re: (exotica) Bardot
(exotica) Julie london request/ultra lounge comments
(exotica) Jobim airport
(exotica) Marginal records
RE: (exotica) fwd: WIDENING THE HORIZONS
(exotica) destination mars
(exotica) Im gonna GO!
Re: (exotica) Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar
(exotica) Internet Selling
(exotica) Bad news O'Day!
(exotica) Lee Hazelwood reissues
Re: (exotica) Bad news O'Day!
Re: (exotica) Internet Selling
(exotica) EXOTICA 2000!
Re: (exotica) Internet Selling
Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!
(exotica) Chow down at the Tonga Room
(exotica) Sohail Rana
(exotica) You want more Tonga???
Re: (exotica) Bardot
RE: (exotica) Julie london request/ultra lounge comments
Re: (exotica) Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar
Re: (exotica) Bardot
Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!
Re:  Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!
(exotica) Exoticanewbies!
Re: (exotica) Exoticanewbies!
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!
Re: (exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!
Re:  Re: (exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!
Re:  (exotica) Exoticanewbies!
(exotica) Re: Tonga Restaurant stinks

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:44:58 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bardot

Rajnai, Charles, NPG wrote:

> But I really want to see a Bardot film....

Don't spend to much effort in that. For some mysterious reason there seems to
be not a single really good movie starring Brigitte Bardot; even "Viva Maria"
is only a half-baked experimental film. The most entertaining thing with
Brigitte I've ever seen was this often mentioned one-hour TV-music-special she
had done with Serge Gainsbourgh; but that is *really* good!

Mo



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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:48:33 +0000
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bardot

That Pete Rugolo LP with Bardot on the cover I saw last week for =A3400=
. The
I saw a Pye demo 45 of Harley Davidson and something else for =A3100. D=
oes
anybody on the list have Bardot originals? any recommendations?
And does anybody have a discography or know where to go for one?
And finally, does anybody know what LP Saint Tropez is on?



Thanks

Charlie
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:37:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Julie london request/ultra lounge comments

hey everyone,

I've been gone for a while, just thought I would say hi.  Currently having fun in amsterdam.  julie london, ennio morricone, john barry and scott walker rule my life, and I've finally got hold of some more lee hazlewood stuff.

a request - does anyone know where I can get hold of a copy of the entire LP 'Yummy yummy yummy' by Julie London?  Please let me know if you have one.

Jimmy - nice set - Chris Montez-The End Of A Love Affair- sounds like a great one, as I love Chris and I love the song- does he do it in his regular 60s a&m beat style?

re ultra lounge/on the rocks - I'm with Jill - all the vols are of about the same interest to me - some great stuff, a lot of lame stuff.  But as a benchmark of my taste, I think Julie London's version of 'the mighty quinn' is good, moving even, so think what you will of any of my comments.

cheers

Jonny

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:43:32 -0800 (PST)
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jobim airport

Sort of covering for Lou here in his waterlogged semi-absence... ("deepest"
sympathies, BTW ^_^)

I heard on the radio two days ago that one of the major airports in Brazil
has officially been renamed the "Antonio Carlos Jobim International
Airport," probably one in Rio.  I thought it was a cool gesture and
deserved a mention on the list.

If I weren't so lazy and were more web-literate, I could probably find
links to news sources on the web with more details, but perhaps someone
else can look into that, if so inclined.

Pull out your Jobim and give 'em a spin.

- -- Brad


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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:05:40 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Marginal records

Marginal records is an independant Belgium label specialised in "popcorn".
the guy from Marginal mailorder told me yesterday over the phone that maybe
Marginal would not be able to continue, "thanx" to the further unification
of Europe and more problems with clearing copyrights...

I've reviewed the most interesting Marginal cd's; visit my "Critiquarium",
the REVIEWS page on my web site:

        <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>


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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 10:55:16 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) fwd: WIDENING THE HORIZONS

Ok, now if the Tonga Room band would float out of the closet doing an
exotica/80s synth version of "Stormy Weather" as only they can. Maybe there
are
some other songs more appropriate to Lou's predicament?

Clark


>> This past weekend my office was flooded by the rupture of a
>> sprinker system
>> pipe in the office of our upstairs neighbor, Tommy Boy Records.
>> This morning, their office caught fire. Without a sprinkler system, they
>> just turned on the fire hoses.
>
>How fucked up is THAT!?!
>
>Jeesus, what a bad week!
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:16:09 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) destination mars

There's been some peripheral talk here about 1999 failing to live up to
earlier forecasts (where the hell are our rocket cars?!?).

So here's a story about a very serious private organization working on
getting humans to Mars. Ahead of NASA's schedule.

http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1999/01/cov_07feature.html

Hey, Ms. Fondle -- if you play your cards right, maybe you can get the
first band bookings on Mars.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:18:43 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Im gonna GO!

Well, it's settled.  If you are going to see Hendricks and Ross tonight in
Cambridge, MA...see ya' there!
Spy report early next week...

Jane "gimme dat waaannne" Fondle
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 11:15:00 -0800
From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar

> The Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar,
> Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
> 'Witness the Tonga's house band floating before you in
> a tropical pool as they labour through Tony Bennett's
> back catalogue.  The whole South Sea Island experience
> ends in a simulated tropical rainstorm - complete with
> thunder and lightning'
> Any reader visited this place?

It IS a must-see, but don't go for the music.  An uninspired trio
performs lame top-40 hits nowadays.  If *only* they'd offer the place to
Otto for weekly (or even monthly!) tiki nights.  Otto, have you tried?=20
And say, that'd be the place for the Combustible Dennyson show, eh?

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips

P.S.  My first listen of the new year was off a Free Design CDR that a
friend made for me as a gift entitled "A New Thing...and a Different
Thing."  The first song on the disc was "2002 - A Hit Song" from
Heaven/Earth.  Two minutes into the song (which we started playing at
the stroke of midnight) the power went out all over the neighborhood.=20
Heavy wow!
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 19:48:25 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Internet Selling

MH Jemmeson asked a pertinent English exotican question:

>how is most selling done via the internet? via cheque with private
>dealers? what are those 'money orders' ppl in the US use? do we have
>them in the uk? I seem to remember 'postal orders' from my youth, but
>what the hell are they?

Having bought a few hundred dollars' worth of items from American
firms and had them mailed here to England, I can offer some explanations
and hints.

There are a number of different ways to send remittances to the USA,
but the important thing to remember is that the amount must be shown
on the cheque/check money order/transfer etc in US dollars.  Sending
dollar bills through the post isn't recommended, although at times of
the year when there are a lot of US tourists in London, bureaux de
change often cut the glut by selling dollars at no comission.

Money orders are one way of paying, but the overheads are high.
NatWest Bank charges 14 pounds to transfer money either by wire
(quickest, but most expensive, as the carrier also charges 15 pounds)
or post (airmail) and the destination bank may well charge something
like $5 to process the incoming payment.  Therefore, it's out of the
question to pay over 30 quid to send payment for something that may
be only a few dollars.

American money orders are, in a way, like bank drafts or building
society cheques.  The issuing organisation is invariably (please God!)
good for the cash, so they don't need to be cleared before the goods
are sent, unlike American checks (cheques), where payees like to wait
10 days for the check to clear.  There is a system called Telecheck
which uses American Drivers Licenses to verify the writer of the check,
but it seems to be only in larger firms as yet.

I enquired at NatWest Bank in London if it was possible to have a
dollar current account (checking account) in the UK and yes, it
certainly is.  Except that the account must not fall below 5,000 pounds
and each check written will cost 5 pounds in charges.

In the end, acting on experienced advice, I opened a checking account
with a US Bank, and I couldn't be happier with the great service I get
from them (Old Kent Bank, Michigan).  For only a few bucks a month,
I have to facility to write $ checks - and pay them in too!  I'm quite
happy to wait until checks clear, and once they're processed, I get
the checks back with my monthly statement - that's a service I don't
get from my UK bank!!!!   To top up my account, I send dollar
travellers cheques with my account number written in as payee.

Postage:  most organisations are well clued up on international post.
Most things like records and tapes can be sent AO (autres objets)
small packet rate, which take about a week to cross the pond.  Surface
mail takes between four weeks and four months.  Some sellers in
America are unused to international dealings, but it is never the big
problem that it's perceived to be.

Hugh.

PS I just heard that US Postal rates are increasing on January 10th upcoming.




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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:34:17 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bad news O'Day!

Not to step on the tender toes of Madonna fans, but someone on this list
told me that  the Immaterial Girl is going to play Anita O'Day in a movie?
Gads!  Is this still the case?  It's a thread that was strung whilst I was
off this list.
Please, somebody, make my day!
Jane Fondle, who just *laughs* at the prospect of a cat fight with Madonna
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:59:17 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood reissues

Lee Hazlewood titles to be reissued on Smells Like Records
>
>
>Smells Like Records, the independent label run by Sonic Youth drummer
>Steve Shelley, is extremely proud to announce that it will be reissuing
a
>handful of solo albums on compact disk by one of modern music's most
>endearing iconoclasts, the legendary writer/producer/singer Lee
Hazlewood.
>
>Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Lee's LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries)
>imprint issued several sterling solo albums that until now have been
hard
>to find even on the original LP format, and have increasingly fallen
prey
>to the baser motives of collectors and bootleggers.
>
>With the legitimate release of these albums on compact disk for the
first
>time, SLR aims to raise the profile of a unique American genius beyond
>the timeless pop hits he wrote and/or produced for stars and legends
>ranging from Duane Eddy to Nancy Sinatra to Waylon Jennings to Dean
>Martin.
>
>The series will begin in April 1999 with the release of the 1970 album
>Cowboy In Sweden, and an as yet untitled album of popular standards
recorded
>in 1997, featuring Lee backed by longtime conspirator and
>legend-in-his-own-right, guitarist Al Casey. It will be the first new
Lee
>Hazlewood album released in this country in nearly two decades.
>
>Over the course of the year, SLR also plans to release, among others,
>Lee's first ever solo album from 1964, Trouble Is A Lonesome Town, the
>extremely rare 13, and the darkly sophisticated Requiem For An Almost
>Lady.
>
>SLR hopes that this campaign will be a definitive introduction to Lee
>Hazlewood's formidable talent, and will inspire true music lovers to
>explore a body of work at least as vital as that of Serge Gainsbourg,
>Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach and Esquivel, all subjects of recent
>re-examination and (re-)canonization.
>
>*   *   *   *   *
>smells like records
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>201.659.1556 fax
>http://www.smellslikerecords.com

The call me....
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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 22:12:48 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bad news O'Day!

[e-mail] wrote:

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This message starts to burn a hole into my retina, babe!

Mo




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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 22:14:16 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Internet Selling

Hugh Petfield wrote:

> In the end, acting on experienced advice, I opened a checking account
> with a US Bank, and I couldn't be happier with the great service I get
> from them (Old Kent Bank, Michigan).  For only a few bucks a month,
> I have to facility to write $ checks - and pay them in too!  I'm quite
> happy to wait until checks clear, and once they're processed, I get
> the checks back with my monthly statement - that's a service I don't
> get from my UK bank!!!!   To top up my account, I send dollar
> travellers cheques with my account number written in as payee.

Great great great! You just answered a question I had asked some of my american
friends in vain. That's exactely what I want to do. These payment rates are
simply too ridiculous. I was wondering if it is at all possible to open up a
bank account in America as a European. Thanks a lot! I guess I choose the Bank
of Hawaii then.

Mo




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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:51:38 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!

Wouldnt it be nice to have a Exotica list gathering New Years Eve 1999?

Where we all could meet in reality...?

If so... We better start planning...

I couldnt think of a better way to celebrate the millenium shift.

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:12:49 -0000
From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Internet Selling

Hugh wrote -

> I enquired at NatWest Bank in London if it was possible to have a
> dollar current account (checking account) in the UK and yes, it
> certainly is.  Except that the account must not fall below 5,000 pounds
> and each check written will cost 5 pounds in charges.

I came across the same thing when I tried to open a UK $ account
with Citibank...

> In the end, acting on experienced advice, I opened a checking account
> with a US Bank, and I couldn't be happier with the great service I get
> from them (Old Kent Bank, Michigan).  For only a few bucks a month,
> I have to facility to write $ checks - and pay them in too!

That sounds excellent but two questions - do they have a minimum
balance?  And how did you find out about them?

The other way of course to pay is credit card - as far as I am aware
you can, for example, pay by Visa in any currency at very little
extra cost...


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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:23:56 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!

In a message dated 1/8/99 4:53:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Wouldnt it be nice to have a Exotica list gathering New Years Eve 1999?

 Where we all could meet in reality...?

 If so... We better start planning...

 I couldnt think of a better way to celebrate the millenium shift.
  >>

I think we should make a pilgramage to SF if that ComEd/Denny thing works out.
That would be one big blast.

Robert


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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:30:56 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Chow down at the Tonga Room

For a review of the lucious happy hour spread at the Tonga Room:

http://www.sfweekly.com/bosf/1997/food+drink-10.html

Cheers!

Robert


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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:41:02 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sohail Rana

Has anyone experience of this Pakistanian Killer?

I have his "Khyber Mail" from 1970. And oh my. Holy smoke! Sitars and
organ like i have never heard them before!!!!!!!!!!!! What an artist!

Found this treasure hidden behind mozarts and schuberts in the classics
bin at my favorite fleamarket.

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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:49:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) You want more Tonga???

Here's another site:

http://sanfrancisco.sidewalk.com/link/19957

Robert


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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 99 21:27:39 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bardot

>Don't spend to much effort in that. For some mysterious reason there seems to
>be not a single really good movie starring Brigitte Bardot
But what about Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt? That's an amazing movie, and
not by "cheese" standards. (I like some of the comedies she did, but I
have to admit you have to have a taste for French comedies.)

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:02:51 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Julie london request/ultra lounge comments

Not what you are looking for, but you may find this item of interest:
An outtake of Julie London Swearing like a sailor. Pretty funny.
http://www.voicenet.com/~kitty62/


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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 98 14:11:30 PST
From: "Jill Mingo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar

- ----------
>
> > The Tonga Restaurant and Hurricane Bar,
> > Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
> > 'Witness the Tonga's house band floating before you in
> > a tropical pool as they labour through Tony Bennett's
> > back catalogue.  The whole South Sea Island experience
> > ends in a simulated tropical rainstorm - complete with
> > thunder and lightning'
> > Any reader visited this place?
Actually, and maybe Otto is gonna slaughter me for this, I wasn't that =
impressed by this place. It was full of awful people when I went there =
and the band was stinkin'. I much prefer the low-budget slightly worness =
of Bahooka in LA or The Alibi in Portland, OR or the swankness of Trader =
Vics in London. Tonga just seemed a bit too yuppy for my tastes. But true=
, if it were filled with cool music and cool people, I would probably hav=
e a cooler vibe about it.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:35:18 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bardot

Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote:

> >Don't spend to much effort in that. For some mysterious reason there seems to
> >be not a single really good movie starring Brigitte Bardot
> But what about Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt?

I don't like Godard films.

>  (I like some of the comedies she did, but I
> have to admit you have to have a taste for French comedies.)

I have. I wish she had played in some Louis de Funes film!

Mo






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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:37:32 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!

Magnus Sandberg wrote:

> Wouldnt it be nice to have an Exotica list gathering New Years Eve 1999?
>
> Where we all could meet in reality...?

Nice advance, Magnus! I was thinking about an Exotica List Convention for
quite a while. Of course New Year 2000 would be a perfect date and Easter
Island a perfect place, but: Travelling at that time will be most expensive;
everything starting from flights and not ending with Hotel prizes will cost at
least twice as much as usual. So, if a stay in the South sea usually is
somewhere  between 2-4000$ altogether it will then cost around 4-8000.
Something like that. And not speaking of everything being booked out already.
I don't think we will gather very many of us that way.


> I think we should make a pilgrimage to SF if that ComEd/Denny thing works out.
> That would be one big blast.
>
That will happen. It would be nice though if someone would organize an
additional meeting under the Exotica list flag. What I was thinking about,
before this ComEd/Denny concert came up, was more like a 3 days event. I would
like to do it on Teneriffa: One day visiting the Thor Heyerdahl Museum, one
day congress with lectures and discussions and one day, of course, party with
life event(s) etc. Prolonged stay on private basis goes without saying.
However, meeting at the Denny concert will be kind of inevitable, as many of
us will probably go there no matter what; I plan to do it anyway.

Mo




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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:07:53 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) EXOTICA 2000!

San Francisco it IS!  Br Cleve will keep us informed presumably and we can act
from there...Jimmy/thinking about it against all odds


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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:41:33 -0500
From: "Brian Tozer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exoticanewbies!

I've been lurking on the side for quite some time now and
thoroughly enjoying the list and the various topics that have come
and gone...but, of course, eventually one wants to get in on the
action!
I am curious as to what most members consider a "basic" library of
exotica...both on CD and on vinyl.  As a kid, my parents bought a
good 50's stereo with a pile of "stereo demonstration" records,
including Dick Schory's "Bang, Barroom & Harp", Ray Martin's
"Dynamica", living strings etc. (still have them all, and the stereo!)
About a year ago I hauled out all this stuff and was amazed.  Since
then I've started to work my way through the Ultra Lounge series,
Les Baxter's LP's (when I can find them) and Martin Denny's stuff.
But I know from the list there is awesome stuff waiting to be found.

So what do most people consider the best artists/records/CD's to
start an exotica collection?  And which of the UL series should one
have at all costs, and which one's should be left at the store?

Brian


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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:45:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exoticanewbies!

Exotica 101: (just with a quick glance through my collection, and with no
pretense of being comprehensive):

I like all of the Ultra Lounge comps to some degree, but tend to use them for
specific tracks rather than listening all the way through.  One exception is
_Bachelor Pad Royale_ which caters to my Crime/Spy Jazz biases.  Also, in that
vein, the two Rhino comps of Crime Jazz are excellent - some of the best stuff
you could want in that genre.  Latin sounds?  I think most exoticats on this
list would rank Espresso Espresso by Karminsky Experience to be one of the
best/coolest/most fun collection of latin tinged musiques.  Expensive import,
but absolutely worth it.

Two other series well worth owning are Rhino's Cocktail Mix series (I like
every single one of them, though other list members may differ) and RCA's
Space Age Pop series (3 volumes) which focuses on that stereo panning stuff
you inherited like Dick Schorry.  Excellent, well conceived and fun.  I prefer
the Music for a Bachelor's Den vol. 2 _Exotica_ to the Ultra Lounge comp of
the same music: rare Frank Hunter & Ethel Azama on there.

Among contemporary groups, I'd guess that the consensus picks would be: _I,
Swinger_ by Combustible Edison; Cocktails for Joey (swinging, latin Mancini
stylings - excellent originals); Tipsy & Dmitri From Paris (for the Trip Hop
/Lounge vibe) and probably the Shots in the Dark compilation on Del Fi of
Mancini music (some really interesting pieces there like the surf guitar
versions of "Arabesque" & "Mr. Yunioshi").

Of course, that's just the basics on CD.  I presume you've already got the
Esquivel, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman compilations or reissues.  A
well stocked vinyl library would, of course, be much much larger...

- --David


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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 18:19:33 +0000
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

Tarzan swings on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour RealAudio webcast.
You'll hear music from Shorty Rogers' soundtrack for the movie
"Tarzan, the Ape Man", plus jungle jazz by Les Baxter and Tito
Puente, and Johnny Richards' classic "The Rites of Diablo".  Also,
sounds for spies and private eyes from Al Caiola, Ray Martin and
Stanley Wilson, including "Blues for a Dead Chick" from "Burke's
Law".

There's tons of other groovy stuff by Tony Mottola and the Groovies,
Gary McFarland (listen for his cool take on "A Hard Day's Night"),
Muzzy Marcellino, Roger Roger and the Randy van Horne Singers
(besides zu-zuing with Esquivel, they also did their own albums!).

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2.
While you're there, enter this week's CD giveaway - one of Bar/None's
Esquivel two-fers - "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" and "Four Corners of
the World".

Thanks for the space!

Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html
Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm


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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 16:28:40 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!

New CD Add:


David Shire: "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" Original Soundtrack

1st time ever released in ANY format


If you have any interest in funky 1970s "blaxploitation" film music, you
gotta hear=20

"The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3".


YOU FUCKING GOTTA!!!


 The movie is a superb urban thriller: four men, dressed alike in
trenchcoats and calling each other Mr. Blue, Mr. Green,

etc., take a subway car hostage and demand $1 million in ransom.


Cheap by todays standards and kinda reminds me 1 o' dem stoooopid
"Superman" movies, if you catch my drift


Walter Matthau stars as the transit cop assigned to the case; Robert

Shaw (Quint in "Jaws") is the leader of the terrorists. It's a brilliant
'70s

hostage movie with biting New York humor.=20


For the soundtrack score, David Shire=97then going through a brilliant
stretch of work which included The Conversation, Farewell, My Lovely, The
Hindenburg, and All the President's Men=97came up with a stroke of

FUCKING GENIUS.=20


He wanted to do some kind of funk/jazz/big band, but wanted a

way of making it dissonant and powerful=97not too light, but not too

random. So for his melodic materials he utilized the 12-tone method of

composition, a technique devised by Arnold Schoenberg in the early

20th century in which you make a theme by using all 12 pitches in a

specific order, and then create other themes by playing that "row"

backwards, upside-down, backwards and upside-down, or transposed.


If any of you have the John Barry soundtrack score to "The Ipcress File",
then you will certainly know MORE ABOUT what I am talking about here.


Shire ended up with a monster two-note bass line with these really cool

12-tone themes running on top.=20


For this CD, the first-ever release of this music, the ENTIRE AND       =20
         complete score has been utilized, including around 15 minutes of
music that wasn't included in the film.=20

The sound is remarkable for music "rescued from oblivion."=20

The 12-page booklet includes movie stills, composer photos, and
track-by-track listings by Doug Adams.=20


FUCK YEAH!!!  10 STARS


$15.95 plus shipping.


Thanks much,


<paraindent><param>out,out,out</param>Jack

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Jack Diamond Music

Http://www.jackdiamond.com


1960's German & Italian Import Reissue Soundtracks, US Reissue
Soundtracks, Moog & Electronic, Psychedelic AND Instrumental Guitars of
all Kinds, Rockabilly, Outer Space Electronique, Crime Jazz,  Bossa Nova,
Western Swing, Exotica, Country Jazz, Steel Guitars, Latin/Afro Cuban,
Bongos For Days, Sitar Rock, Theremin, 1950's West Coast Jazz, Exotica,
Spoken Word Beatnik  Poetry et al...,=20

Cheesecake and Outre Album Covers.


One of a Kind CD/LP 1950's-70's Re-Issues and Original Out of Print LP's
for sale and trade.



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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 21:19:08 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!

I have to agree with Jack here, David Shire's "Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3" is an
amazing CD.  You want want to do a price comparisson with Retrograde Records.
They are the company which released the CD, and until recently sold it
exclusively.  They are owned and operated by the owner of "Film Score"
magazine.  Look for the Film Score Monthly site for other rare one of a kind
releases, including one with Boris Karloff (if memory serves correctly).

To sum up "Pelham" RULES! and "FIlm Score Monthly" is a good mag too.



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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 21:29:41 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3!

David Shire's "Taking of Pelham 1-2-3". Is this the same David Shire who
penned "Manhattan Skyline", the best instrumental (along with Salsation) from
"Saturday Night Fever"?


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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:48:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Exoticanewbies!

>Among contemporary groups

Don Tiki with two tracks featuring Mr. Martin Denny

and if we are talking strictly of new (ie available) stuf
of course don't forget the Scamp series of Martin Denny and just about
everything else on Scamp
and Dionysus has a couple of good releases with Voodoo by Robert Drasnin and
two Les Baxter records


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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 22:48:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Tonga Restaurant stinks

No, I'm not going to slaughter you

I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment

the band is the same one as usual for about five years and they are totally
mainstream and bad at that

AND there is a $3 cover charge per person for the band!!

The drinks have gone downhill and they recently stopped carrying Lemon Hart
rum (presumably as a cost cutting measure or maybe brand deal/monopoly)

the food is mediocre if you have to eat there

on friday and Sat the place is packed full of people who can afford it

the manager is generally an asshole

BUT
the decor is well done- it is packed full of tikis and thatch unlike Bahooka's
which is mostly full of trash and some nautical junk.
And who can beat the band on the raft concept??
they do have a full Polynesian menu with pictures and serve your drinks in a
themed mug.
the staff is all chinese which keeps with a longstanding tradition started by
Don the Beachcomber and upheld by T. Vic

[I wish the Tonga Room management could read this]


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