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exotica-digest       Saturday, February 6 1999       Volume 02 : Number 315



In This Digest:

(exotica) Heavenly F&T
(exotica) Rota Rant
(exotica) Ilya-v-that no-count
(exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence
Re: (exotica) Rota Rant
(exotica) > Subject: Phone in sick - April 6th
(exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence
(exotica) RE: B-52's was Sunshine Superman
(exotica) I want some Martin Denny Mp3's, please!!!
(exotica) Suspiria by Goblin
Re:  Re:  (exotica)Ilya vs. Rex's son
(exotica) Mardi Gras
(exotica) another lyrical twist
Re: (exotica) Suspiria by Goblin
(exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence
Re:  Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge
Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge
Re: (exotica) Heavenly F&T
(exotica) Time Label
(exotica) Command Christmas Album
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour this week
Re: (exotica) Suspiria by Goblin
(exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"
RE: (exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"
Re: (exotica) Time Label
(exotica) The Montenegro Question
Re:  (exotica) The Montenegro Question
(exotica) command xmas album
(exotica) charles magnante info?
(exotica) The Lothars
(exotica) Re: V/a:  "Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide
Re: (exotica) charles magnante info?
(exotica) Christmas "Lounge" CD
(exotica) Bullitt, Sophia and Lee tv

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:59:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Heavenly F&T

Keith E. Lo Bue wrote of his perfect day:

>As I was spinning out, I fell across a Ferrante & Teicher...
>http://www.lobue-art.com/Misc/Heaven.JPG
>I had heard that their early stuff in the experimental sounds department
>was great, but this was truly fantastic!  There was even an earlier one
>than this called "HI-FIreworks" that is simply astonishing.

At last! A mention of F&T's Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi!

I've wondered about this treasure: Why didn't it crop up more often here in
raves about F&T's treated piano stuff? Blast Off! and FIreworks come up now
and then, and Ross occasionally lobbies for Dynamic Twin Pianos, a berserk
and inspired LP.

About Heavenly (ABC-Paramount, ABCS-221 and ABC-221): It's all sky songs:
Stella by Starlight, The Moon Was Yellow, Stardust (and a fab one, too) a
lackluster Over the Rainbow, a dazzling Serenade to a Star -- you get the
idea. Arrangements showcase much rumbling bassy piano and melodic lines
mixing deep and high registers. A glockenspiel (I think) flits in and out
of some arrangements along with something that could be a theremin or piano
strings scratched to tone. String strumming produces a sound similar to a
zither or Indian sarangi.

I'd wondered where Heavenly stood in F&T's career since my copy, a
remastered stereo release (?), has no date. Recently found a partial answer
in the liner notes for the mono F&T Play Light Classics, also n.d. Here's a
chronology:
Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi (ABC-221)
F&T with Percussion (ABC-248)
Blast Off! (ABC-285)
F&T Play Light Classics (ABC-313)

Could a treated piano fan supply the date/label for HI-FIreworks? Even
better, how's about the URL for an F&T discography? TIA.

About F&T's Light Classics: It's dull. Look for it only for the sleeve
photo of mauve rose buds, opera glasses, concert hall tickets, a strip of
yellowed lace. It seems Arthur and Louis decided, Hey, let's make some
dough, abandoning their explorations of delectibly strange beauty for more
easily digested music. Arrangements offer a few of the trills and
pyrogenics that became F&T's signature sound later on. Light Classics is
not awful but it's awfully pedestrian.

Looking skyward,
Mimi





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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:04:35 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Rota Rant

Along with F&T, Al/[e-mail] mentioned Nino Rota -- another name
seldom seen on eXotica. Think about it: Com Ed covered a tune from 8 1/2 on
I, Swinger, Rota's theme from La Strada was a hit, and Jack and others DJs
sometimes drop Rota cuts in their sets.

I've been freakin' for Rota since 1981, when Hal Willner produced Amarcord,
a tribute LP of music from Fellini films. If you're at all Rota-curious, go
for the Fellini stuff. It's is far and away Rota's best, although I also
like the music for The  Godfather 1. For Fellini, Rota spades on the irony,
burying mocking little backhanded tributes to pop music and quoting
symphonic war horses in his scores. The instrumentation is imaginative,
clever, often unexpected.

RCA released most of the classic Rota Fellini soundtracks (8 1/2, La Dolce
Vita, Amarcord) on vinyl in Europe with Italian or French liner notes and
the Italian label CAM released Fellini/Rota OSTs on vinyl and CD. Within
the past year or two Carlos Savina, the guy who conducts on most
Rota/Fellini OSTs, scored a minor hit on the classical charts with a suite
of Rota's Fellini music. I don't have the CD, so can't ID the label. A
superior intro to Rota's Fellini themes is CAM's Rota, Tutti i film di
Fellini (SAG 9053, recorded Dec. 1973). Rare, I reckon; I've seen one copy
in hundreds of hours spent rummaging through used bins. Gatefold packaging
with a silver front cover and production stills from the films on back.
Inside, fine photos of Rota and Fellini and a snap of Fellini, Rota and
Savina "in un momento della registrazione."

A last comment on Rota: someone asked about listenable covers of
Fellini/Rota music. Look for Ray Ellis and His Orchestra, La Dolce Vita and
Other Great Motion Picture Themes (RCA Victor, LSP-2410, 1961). Black,
purple and white all-type cover graphics. Two Rotas here: The La Dolce Vita
theme, done as a cha cha, and Pariami di Me in a rumba arrangement. For my
tastes, the rest of the record can be ignored. Beware, the song catalog on
the back is wrong, wrong, wrong -- not even close to the actual cuts on the
record; for god's sake, Pariami di Me and La Dolce Vita aren't even listed!
Some art director at RCA probably lost a job over that screw-up.

Tony Motolla & Orch serve up a pretty La Strada on Roman Guitar, Command RS
816 SD.

Al, I must join you in urging eXoticats to see the rereleased Nights of
Cabiria. Masina is breathtaking, veering between touching and tough. Watch
it for an unforgettable nightclub scene with a mambo singer dressed in a
brocade dinner jacket that The Millionaire would crave. "The whole world
mambos!" a secondary character yells. Isn't that a sentiment y'all can
endorse?

Opining Rota Rooter Mimi





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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:45:38 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ilya-v-that no-count

>The song is basically the opening bars to the Theme from "Girl From
>U.N.C.L.E." starring Stephanie Powers and Noel Harrison as the Ilya
Kuriakin
>wannabe.
>>>The important question is not who is the wannabe as far as
TV-spy-sidekick
goes but who made better records, Noel  Harrison or David McCallum?  And
before you jump and choose Ilya's french horn stylings on such tunes as
"Satisfaction" and "Five O'Clock World", make sure you've heard Noel's
groovy version of the Beatles "She's a woman".

NOEL HARRISON...pa-lez, Nat!  Noel Harrison has a voice WORSE than Al
Stewart! Noel Harrison is the obvious beneficiary of nepotism, whereas __at
least__David McCallum, stylin' horns AND hair, is what we gals call,
"foxy."


IILYA!IILYA! Ilya-ya-ya-ya (I guess Nelson Riddle coulda written the
Ilya-ya-ya)
Jane "oooooaaahhhh " Fondle
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:08:48 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence

Demi God and Cultural Icon Jonny P Writes:

And if anyone wants to hear a prime example of the guitar sound which
     must have influenced the millionaire, look no further than the track
     'goodbye' by Julie London (from the album 'At Home', available,
     coupled with the album 'round midnight' on an incredibly wonderful CD)

     regards
     Jonny

Is that Howard Roberts or maybe Barney Kessel ?
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:23:22 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rota Rant

At 01:04 PM 2/5/99 -0500, Mimi wrote:
>A last comment on Rota: someone asked about listenable covers of
>Fellini/Rota music.

Also look for:
CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA: Plays Nino Rota - Selections from LaDolce Vita,
Amarcord, Nights of Cabiria, 8 1/2

This was released on Rastascan last year. Check this URL for full details:
http://www.rastascan.com/catalog/brd036.html
and
http://www.clubfoot.com/

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:38:00 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) > Subject: Phone in sick - April 6th

> while this is not really Exotica I know a lot of you can sympathize
> and some of the folks involved deeply in this are into Exotica
>
> does that count?


> *Psst... pass it on*
>
> World Phone in Sick Day is April 6th and that is coming up fast.
> In order for the event to be an even bigger success than previous years
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> help. Please pass this on to work colleagues and friends and encourage
> them to do the same.
> We=92re not really fans of chain letters or unsolicited email - but this
> is in the name of revolution and a day off.
>
> PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE
>
> The 3rd World Phone in Sick Day takes place on 6 April 1999 and you are
> invited to take part. All you have to do is not turn up for work. You
> can think up something original or just have the flu. Just PHONE IN
> SICK. If you have a great excuse then why not email and tell us.
> [e-mail]
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> http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/docs/sickcont.htm
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> media. email us or see details at
> http://www.underbelly.demon.co.uk/decadent/docs/sickstar.htm
>
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> annual holiday for idlers, slackers, anarchists and workers of the
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:23:09 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence

A friend told me that Guitar Player magazine had a rave review about
the Millionair's guitar playing.  The article praised the many varied
sounds and styles he gets.  Did anybody read this?

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:26:39 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: B-52's was Sunshine Superman

It is called ROAM... I thought you were  kidding.....=20

The grass is always mondegreener on the other side of the fence.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Waugh [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 7:23 AM
> To: Rajnai, Charles, NPG; Ron Grandia; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: B-52's was Sunshine Superman
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Really? Might as well add a little more clutter. I actually don't know
> the name of the so but the particular lyric goes something like "roam,
> if you want to/roam around the world..." I think it's circa Love
> Shack. Used to annoy my fiance by singing whoa Nipsy Russell.
>=20
> Have a bright, bright sunshiney daaaaay,
>=20
> BW
>=20
>=20
> ---"Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > I am a BIG B-52's fan I can't think of any soneg that comes even
> close to
> > this.
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > > What's the title of that B-52's song that has the refrain of =
"Whoa,
> > > Nipsy Russell"?
> > >=20
> > >=20
> >=20
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:32:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I want some Martin Denny Mp3's, please!!!

Someone help me! I really want some Martin Denny or Les Baxter Mp3's. Any good
sites to recommend???


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:09:03 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Suspiria by Goblin

I've been listening to the soundtrack to Suspiria by the band Goblin
whose members are Agostino Marangolo, Claudio Simonetti, Massimo
Morante & Fabio Pignatelli.

This soundtrack is fabulous, thanks to whoever posted about it.  Its
really wild, psychedelic weird with moog & splashing effects. Not much
of a description I know but its more 70s psychedelic then 60s now
sound.  I was wondering if this band or its members did anything else
similiar.

I'm also listening to il Serpente by Morricone (1998 Screen Trax)  and
it has its share of great moments but its not great all the way
through.  There are some wild wordless ya ya vocals that just blow me
away.  Its hard to imagine the total Morricone product available.

Well Mardis Gras is Feb 16,  it would be great if some exotic listers
could make it.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:01:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re:  (exotica)Ilya vs. Rex's son

In a message dated 2/5/99 4:10:53 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>make sure you've heard Noel's
>groovy version of the Beatles "She's a woman".

AND let us never forget Noel Harrison's  "A young girl, a young girl of 16,
child of springtime still green, lying here by the
road...........................Dead!   45 on London <and I know the words are
correct>


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:30:59 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mardi Gras

Forgot about the great Don Tiki,  we are playing the first remix song
off their single and in the same vain Swamp Fire by Martin Denny and
Patricia by Prado and Conga DE La Havana by the  Lecuono Cuban Boys
and Blen Blen Blen by Cugat. .  There's probably a few more I left off
but after all we play 4, 100 minute maxell cassette tapes.


What is left to make is a straight exotica tape for when we stop for a
half hour and take a break.  Don Tiki, Baxter and Denny will make that
tape as will Welcome to Utopia by CE and the Karminsky Remix of Ma Na
Ma Na.

As Cugat says "Take It Easy, Take It Easy,  Just like Cugie mixing
with gasoline..., sing it Lina"

Chuck

- ---Lloyd Kandell  wrote:
>
> íHola con Aloha!
>
> What... no Don Tiki?!?
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:29:01 -0600
From: Paul Dean <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) another lyrical twist

We were discussing rock stars in college one day and a friend said that Jimi Hendrix
was gay.  When I expressed some surprise, he said he based his conclushion on the
lyric "excuse me while I kiss this guy"!!!

epaul



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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:15:45 -0500
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Suspiria by Goblin

Chuck wrote:

> This soundtrack is fabulous, thanks to whoever posted about it.  Its
> really wild, psychedelic weird with moog & splashing effects. Not much
> of a description I know but its more 70s psychedelic then 60s now
> sound.  I was wondering if this band or its members did anything else
> similiar.

I have heard a couple of their other lps. They never quite reached the
psychotic frenzy of the "Susperia" soundtrack again, but their "Dawn of the
Dead" and "Roller" (title?) lps have their moments.

Allan

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:32:43 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Natalie Grace)
Subject: (exotica) Millionaire's Guitar Influence


     Hey, you've forgotten a *very* important influence:

     Beelzebub!

     -Natalie B. (PhD in Smartassism.)





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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:44:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge

>>>My opinion?  Well you get it anyway.  This has got to be the CD that was
going to be the Tiki Sampler.  Maybe they would  have done it slightly
differently but if they already got it in production . . . . . well, you get
the picture.<<<

Except that it is *missing* any tracks from "On the Rocks" and other promised
extras that were supposed to be on the "Tiki Sampler."

- --Rod


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:28:26 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music hounds of lounge

In a message dated 2/5/99 7:14:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Except that it is *missing* any tracks from "On the Rocks" and other
promised
 extras that were supposed to be on the "Tiki Sampler."
  >>

so if they promised the Tiki Sampler and it never came out you really think
they were going to keep their promice on the On The Rocks AND MORE!!!! part???


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 99 19:50:27 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Heavenly F&T

Here are some dates to those albums...

>I'd wondered where Heavenly stood in F&T's career since my copy, a
>remastered stereo release (?), has no date. Recently found a partial answer
>in the liner notes for the mono F&T Play Light Classics, also n.d. Here's a
>chronology:
>Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi (ABC-221)
 -1958
>F&T with Percussion (ABC-248)
- -1958
>Blast Off! (ABC-285)
- -1959
>F&T Play Light Classics (ABC-313)
- -1960

Hi Fireworks; Columbia 573; 1955

Heavenly Sounds in Hi Fi was re-issued in 1966 (minus one song and
re-titled "The Heavenly sounds of Ferrante & Teicher with Orchestra and
Strings; ABC 555). Many other late 50'2 early 60's F&T albums were
reissued then most likely due to their new found popularity on United
Artists.

Lost in the archives,
Frank


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:45:53 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Time Label

I would recommend any of the following Time label records:

Hugo Montenegro -- Bongos + Brass, Boogie Woogie + Bongos, Hugo Montenegro and
His Orchestra (Process 70)
Pete Rugolo -- The Original Music of Thriller
Dominic Cortese -- Accordion

(for real!)

Al Caiola -- just about anything on the Time label either by or produced by
Caiola

I only have a couple of tracks from Murder, Inc. by Irving Joseph but it's
enough to convince me that everyone should own a copy.

Sean



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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:49:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Command Christmas Album

I seem to recall someone on the list mentioning a Command Christmas album.

I came across an album on Command called Christmas Carols with Organ and
Chimes played by Ashley Miller.  I don't know if that is the album in
question, but it is produced by Enoch Light with Robert Byrne.

Sean


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:27:00 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour this week

On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, we preview Basta's
terrific new CD set, "Samuel J. Hoffman and the Theremin".  Also on
tap, tunes by Roger Roger, Jack Fascinato, Sir Julian (all 13 fingers
of him) and Warren Kime's Brass Impact Orchestra.

We'll serve up some cool crime jazz by Kenyon Hopkins (from "East
Side, West Side" and "The Yellow Canary"), Stanley Wilson ("M-Squad")
and Bob Mersey (the rare album "Jazz from Great TV Shows").  Plus,
Linda Lawson sings, Preston Epps beats his bongos, the Doors go
Latin...and they call me Mr. Percussion!

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web right now, just
go to:

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

Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer G2.
Download your G2 player for free at:

http://www.real.com/products/player/index.html

And, if you tune in for the webcast, please drop us a line and let us
know you're out there.

Thanks for the space!


Darrell Brogdon
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 99 23:31:27 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Suspiria by Goblin

>I've been listening to the soundtrack to Suspiria by the band Goblin
>whose members are Agostino Marangolo, Claudio Simonetti, Massimo
>Morante & Fabio Pignatelli.
>
>This soundtrack is fabulous, thanks to whoever posted about it.  Its
>really wild, psychedelic weird with moog & splashing effects. Not much
>of a description I know but its more 70s psychedelic then 60s now
>sound.  I was wondering if this band or its members did anything else
>similiar.
There are 3 Goblin compilations out in the US on DRG; they're very easy
to find. I once purchased a CD by Claudio Simonetti but found it horrible.

Interestingly enough, the new album by British Moog band Add N to X (due
out in March) sounds a lot like Goblin at times. Really amazing stuff, I
highly recommend it.

Elisabeth


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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:20:21 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"

Just got those 2 Nymphomania  CD's from Other Music in New York of 60's
Sex-o-rama go go sounds.

They have blue bottoms.

I can hear the vinyl on some tracks.

I'm not complaining, I'm just pointing it out that bootlegs are everywhere
these days, Vinyl/CD, whatever.

There are NO Liner Notes whatsoever and there is a little arty note inside
advertising some Sexadelic Dance Party DJ somewhere in Manhattan every
Thursday night.

Speaking of No Liner Notes, what could be worse than no liner notes ?
Not telling me WHO the artists are, as on those Easy Beat CD's out of
Germany, izzit ?

I don't think these Nymphomania CD's are from Germany.
JD


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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:24:43 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"

> Just got those 2 Nymphomania  CD's from Other Music in New York of =
60's
> Sex-o-rama go go sounds.
>=20
> They have blue bottoms.
I hope you mean the disks.
>=20
> I can hear the vinyl on some tracks.
>=20
I don't mind this too much... It depends on the price paid.  Have gotten =
some phenominal sounding boots lately. All mastered off of clean vinyl. =
(I think) I actually prefer this in many cases to legit reissues where =
some tin-eared nit has remastered from tapes and messed up the original =
sound by "punching it up" with technology, or whatever it is they do.
>=20
> Speaking of No Liner Notes, what could be worse than no liner notes ?
> Not telling me WHO the artists are, as on those Easy Beat CD's out of
> Germany, izzit ?

GAH! I think I have said enough on the subject of liners.



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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 06:11:16 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Time Label

At 08:45 PM 2/5/99 EST, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I would recommend any of the following Time label records:
>
>Hugo Montenegro -- Bongos + Brass, Boogie Woogie + Bongos, Hugo Montenegro

This brings up a Montenegro question.

I can't remember which label it is.  Could be Time but I think it's
Mainstream.  In any case,  there are all these Montenegro records on that
label that are incredibly mediocre.  I have one record on Mainstream -
"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" - and it's got some good moments but I've
picked up a number of his records on one or another of these cheapie labels
and been very very disappointed.

What's the story with him?  He's got all the soundtracks.  (Is "The
Wrecking Crew" reissued?)  And then there are his "pop" records with
classic moments, including his versions of "Love is blue" and "Classical
Gas".
I have a 2-record best-of compilation on RCA, "This is Hugo Montenegro" and
it's almost all great.

Then there are all these dreary generic string-laden records on whatever
that label is.  What's up with that?

Nat



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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 99 09:52:53 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Montenegro Question

Montenegro recorded for Time between 1960 and 1063. Either Time
under-utilized him or old Hugo was still finding his voice, since the
bulk of these albums are unimaginative string arrangements. He put out a
series of four volumes of Americian Musical Theater and Great Songs from
Motion Pictures which are pretty pathetic renditions of mostly mediocre
material.
I agree with Sean that Boogie-Woogie and Bongos and Bongos and Brass are
high points in his Time career, I would also add Cha Chas for Dancing.The
rest, where you might be able to apologetically find a decent tune or
two, really aren't worth it. Save you money for the RCA recordings.
In 1965 he recorded his first album for RCA which just happened to be the
music to The Man From UNCLE. The music style changed and so did Hugo
which brings up a sort of chicken-and-egg kind of question. Did
Montenegro just go along with what his label execs told him, or did he
make a conscious move to RCA so his new hip sensibilites could flourish?
Of course, we know that RCA got some great albums out of him throught the
60's and up through the 70's.
It's funny that there's a tendency to want to like or find justification
of some artist that we like when we discover that they went through a
phase of putting out stuff we don't like. I admit that I still own some
Montenegro that I don't particularly care for but, I sometimes like to
listen to them just because it's Hugo. It's not that they are such *bad*
albums, it's just that in contrast to his great albums they don't measure
up or rather they are so stylistically different that it's hard to admit
that it's the real Montenegro.The "taste maker" in me wants to prune
these out of my collection. Ah, but the librarian in me keeps them where
they are.

 Conversely, we might also decide not to like some one based upon a few
albums and miss out on  recordings that are markedly better.I neglected
to pick up any Ferrante and Teicher albums for the longest time simply
because I had judged their whole carrer based on their UnitedArtists
recordings. Not until a friend gave me the Percussion album did I realize
that the ABC recordings were quite different.

Which leads to an interesting thread topic; Are there any other examples
of these "Label Jumpers"?

Frank



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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:31:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) The Montenegro Question

In a message dated 2/6/99 10:53:45 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Montenegro recorded for Time between 1960 and 1063

WOW! I can SEE why they called the label "Time" ;--)


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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:32:03 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Mazzucca)
Subject: (exotica) command xmas album

he xmas lp in question is called, the command family of artists,
christmas album  it has a big mosaic of foil squares in a star pattern.

the best cut is toots theilman doing jingle bells, awesome.


carrie




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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:37:06 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Mazzucca)
Subject: (exotica) charles magnante info?

recently in a goodwill hunt, i picked up a gem, accordion at its best,
charles magnante and his combo. (mahattan records)

it has some standards like caravan and tumbling tumbleweeds, bouncy,
jazzy, gofty (all the prerequisites for my kind of listenin'.

i haven't found any info on who he was or is. but my local record store
with all sorts of prices had alot of him in the 12- 15 dollar range,
whats up?

thanks guys

carrie



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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:45:22 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Lothars

Theremin Noise Trio

Here;  http://web.mit.edu/jonb/www/bands/lothars.html

It ain't easy listening:)

JD


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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:42:18 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: V/a:  "Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide

sorry, I forgot to include the name of the label of the "Beat Psichedelico"
comp; it's:    Giallo Records Saf 028, Italy, 1998

the first volume in the series is called "Mosaico Psichedelico"
        Giallo Records Saf 021

i liked that one too, and very much, but not as much as the "beat" volume,
although i also know that many a listee will prefer "Mosaico", which is
more psychploitation, louder, wilder, more exentric, more of a
"cinematrographic" sound (crime/spy jazzy), and with more electric guitars,
and lots of organ too, and with 5 tracks by one Armando Sciascia that are
really scary and probably taken from a horror movie soundtrack.

contact for both: <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>



        Johan


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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:07:37 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) charles magnante info?

At 11:37 AM 06-02-99 -0500, carrie wrote:.>recently in a goodwill hunt, i
picked up a gem, accordion at its best,
>charles magnante and his combo. (mahattan records)
>i haven't found any info on who he was or is.
>whats up?

Charles Magnante was one of the leading accordianists in the US during his
lifetime.  Not only did he put out a number of albums on Grand Award and
Command (Enoch Light labels), but he also was the president of some
national society of accordianists and was quite influential in promoting
the accordian as a legitimate instrument.  The accordian never achieved the
status it has in Russia, but at least it was pushed higher thanks to his
efforts.  I love all of his albums: he seems to concentrate on Spanish and
Italian themed material, but it is the musical or standards selections he
does I most enjoy.  I don't know why the prices seem so high...I have never
bought any of his for more than a couple of bucks or seen them for more
than that.

Byron

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:52:08 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Christmas "Lounge" CD

I ran across a CD review for The Ultimate Lounge Christmas
which was rather curious. The singer was John Jonethis and
the label was Essential.  The booklet/cover, however, was
styled like an Ultra Lounge CD (scripty writing, the colors,
bar across the top, zebra skin background).

http://tlem.netcentral.net/album/4/4761l.jpeg

The selection they chose to load in Real Audio was not very
exciting.  It was an original by Jonethis, slow tempo (cut 5).

The review, however, indicated the rest may be okay.  Anyone
heard or seen this CD?

12 cuts
total time 34:04
songs:
1. Winter Wonderland 2:04
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 3:00
3. The Christmas Song 3:02
4. Christmas Time Is Here 3:04
5. The Joy That Christmas Brings 3:01
6. Christmas Is For Children 2:27
7. I'll Be Home For Christmas 4:08
8. White Christmas 2:36
9. Merry Christmas, Darling 3:20
10. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year 2:37
11. Silent Night 2:40
12. Winter Wonderland (reprise) 2:05


Byron

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 16:09:12 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bullitt, Sophia and Lee tv

A&E has "Bullitt" (1968) at 3:00pm (eastern) Sunday afternoon. Music by
Lalo Schifrin.

"Marriage Italian Style" (1964), starring Sophia Loren and Marcello
Mastroianni, airs on Bravo Sunday afternoon at 5:00pm and late, late Sunday
at 3:30am. Music by Armando Trovajoli.

Tuesday night on A&E's "Biography", 8:00pm and midnight, it's... Liberace.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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