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exotica-digest        Tuesday, February 9 1999        Volume 02 : Number 317



In This Digest:

(exotica) F & T
(exotica) Recipe for Mai Tai from Beachbum Berry's Grog Log
(exotica) should i leap?
(exotica) The "girls" want to know
Re: (exotica) Rota
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
Re: (exotica) The "girls" want to know
(exotica) typing lessons?????
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
(exotica) should i leap?
(exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"
Re: (exotica) Happiness is the Taste of Kent
Re: (exotica) F & T
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
Re: (exotica) Rota
(exotica) Bossa & Balanco
(exotica) Re: Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"
(exotica) The Zulu Carnival Club's Fezs
(exotica) The Hanged Man
Re: (exotica) The Zulu Carnival Club's Fezs
RE: (exotica) Trader Vic's menu
(exotica) Strange music
(exotica) Julie London guitarist
(exotica) Moog RealAudio
Re: (exotica) Arthur Lyman MP3 downloads
Re: (exotica) F & T
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
(exotica) New & upcoming releases of note
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
(exotica) Gianni Monese-"Oriental Fantasy"
Re: (exotica) Frank Barber
(exotica) Portsmouth Sinfonia reissue!
Re: (exotica) The Hanged Man
(exotica) The car for pedophiles?
Re: (exotica) should i leap?
Re: (exotica) The "girls" want to know
Re: (exotica) The Hanged Man

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 07:07:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) F & T

There is at least one other F & T prepared piano LP that I don't recall anyone
mentioning: Soundproof (Westminster WST 15011).  I believe the mono version
goes by the title Soundblast!  It is a must own, but unfortunately it is not
an easy find.

I also agree with Nat Kone that some of their earlier albums like Latin Pianos
which do not feature prepared piano sounds are quite good, too.  I can't
handle their ultra-schmaltzy recordings but love the following:

Golden Piano Hits (WWS 8505)
The Enchanted World of Ferrante & Teicher (UAS 6375)
Pianos in Paradise (UAL 3230)

Their LP Love Themes from Cleopatra (UAL 3290) seems to alternate between good
track, bad track, good track, etc.  It almost seems intentional.

I have also heard that their early xmas LP, Adventures in Carols, features
prepared piano.  I have their later xmas LP, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
It's not bad.

Sean


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:43:48 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recipe for Mai Tai from Beachbum Berry's Grog Log

Recipe for Mai Tai from Beachbum Berry's Grog Log:

1 1/2 ounces fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce Curacao
1/4 ounce orgeat syrup
1/4 ounce rock candy syrup
1 ounce aged Jamaican rum
1 ounce Martinique rum

Serve in double old-fashinoed glass filled with
crushed ice and spent lime shell.
Garnish with mint sprig.

Trader Vic on the Mai Tai: "Anyone who says
I didnt create this drink is a dirty stinker".


>>>
My comment is that I bought a Trader Vic's Bar and Cooling Guide (which
is a
1981) reprint of the original, and it DOES NOT HAVE A RECIPE FOR A MAI
TAI IN
IT.


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:20:01 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Paul Mazzucca)
Subject: (exotica) should i leap?

this past weekend i found a three suns lp, dancing on a cloud. the flea
market wanted $10 bucks, is this a mamie eisenhower special or something
really great. i see on the liner notes of movin' and groovin' that it
suggests listening to this as well. is it in the same vein or that
sleepy 'other' planet.

on another note:

does anyone know much about Vic Mizzy? he is listed as the brains behind
the music for 'Green Acres'. i've never come across  anything on him,
albums or stuff.

carrie



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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:14:30 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The "girls" want to know

Michele questions, as do I:

> I was disappointed in  things about the A&E documentary:
1) they didnt even give Joey Bishop more than a one-line mention - if he
was a
sort-of Rat Pack member, I think they should have talked about him.  Also
what
was weird was that they did not interview him for the documentary.  He is
the
ONLY living member!  What a mistake - Or maybe the guy is too sick to be
interviewed, who knows.  Also, what about Shirley MacLean?  Much has been
made
of her involvement in the rat pack, yet they didn't even mention her as a
member????


I wondered the same thing, as well as why not question living legend Lauren
Bacall?  I read where Joey is just an old man content to do cross word
puzzles and not do interviews(geez, sounds like Julie London)...but he
would offer some of the best and only insight around!
JOEY, where are ya', Palie?

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:23:58 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rota

Mo wrote:
>Do you happen to know if he did any Italo Western scores?

I don't think so.

The IMdb list 150 credits in Rota's Composer Filmography. Many are recycled
snippets from his earlier scores. Scenes from a Mall, for instance, picked
up  Amarcord and Juliet of the Spirits. But westerns? Got me. Judge for
yourself at http://us.imdb.com/search and enter Nino Rota.

For an overview of Rota's other film scores, check the 1993 CD, Nino Rota
Film Music (CAM, CVS004). DRG sold it stateside. The themes and directors
are:
Napoli milionaria      De Filippo
The Glass Mountain      Anton & Cass
La Dolce Vita    Fellini
Sunset Sunrise    Kurahara
White Nights (Le notti bianche)    Visconti
War & Peace (Guerra e pace)   King Vidor
Romeo & Juliet (Romeo e Giulietta)    Zeffirelli
The Leopard (Il gattopardo)    Visconti
Rocco & His Brothers (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)    Visconti
La bisbetica domata (The Taming of the Shrew)    Zeffirelli
Purple Noon (Theme from Plein Soleil)   Clement
The Godfather (Il padrino)   Coppola

In 94 DRG Movies released another Rota OST: Spara forte piu forte non
capisco (Shoot Louder, Louder...I Don't Understand), a de Filippo film.
Intriguing  liner notes explain how this almost became a lost score.
Recommended for hard-core Rota-philes. It's not his best but makes a lot of
his classic moves: A charming Chaplinesque theme for the heroine, played by
Raquel Welch, and some delectable quotes from La dolce vita. And you can't
forget the bit played on a saw. Am pretty sure DRG is still peddling the
CD, and it seems CAM released it in Europe in 93.

Thx to all for Rota cover recs. I'd LOVE to hear Snakefinger's take on Rota
- -- same with the Three Suns. In a dash o' synchronicity, the host of a
local lounge/EZ radio show played a tasty La dolce vita theme by the
Harmonicats. Harmonicas doing a Rota tango! Maybe not as inspired as
Comelade adding toy piano to the Rota mix, but quite pleasing. The host
didn't ID the Harmonicats record. Anyone know?

Mimi




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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:21:18 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

In a message dated 02/08/99 9:19:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< does anyone know much about Vic Mizzy? he is listed as the brains behind
 the music for 'Green Acres'. i've never come across  anything on him,
 albums or stuff.

 carrie
  >>

we used to always joke that the was the one that played the kazoo on the Green
Acres stuff.

Robert


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:23:18 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The "girls" want to know

In a message dated 02/08/99 9:19:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Michele questions, as do I:

 > I was disappointed in  things about the A&E documentary:
 1) they didnt even give Joey Bishop more than a one-line mention - if he
 was a
 sort-of Rat Pack member, I think they should have talked about him. >>


The HBO movie had a fair amount of Joey Bishop on stage but no real insight
into his bio.  The HBO thing made Dean Martin out to be the choir boy of the
pack.  Comments????


Robert


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:26:06 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) typing lessons?????

In a message dated 02/08/99 9:23:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< we used to always joke that the was the one >>

the=he

and from the Vic's posts

cooling=cooking

surry fur he confusesion,

rupert


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:54:21 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

In a message dated 2/8/99 6:19:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< does anyone know much about Vic Mizzy >>

YOU RANG?

if it is still available, go get yourself the "nice price" ORIGINAL score to
the television series The Addams Family.  Do it now!

"Don't Make Waves (make love)", is another very cool soundtrack I have of his.
Sharon Tate was in this movie.


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:26:51 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) should i leap?

>does anyone know much about Vic Mizzy? he is listed as the brains behind
>the music for 'Green Acres'. i've never come across  anything on him,
>albums or stuff.

I know that he also did the music for the Addams Family and there was an
album issued in the '80's.



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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 07:46:16 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"

- ---Ron Grandia  wrote:
   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.


I am convinced that a good boot generally sounds bettter then your
average cd.  Vinyl sounds the best and  the less technology you throw
at it when remastering it to cd the better.  I'd rather have an
occasional pop on a good copy then the tinny muddy sounding digital
remastering jobs by the big labels.   I am very surprised with the
quality of home cdrs.  Its amazing that for such a low price you beat
the sound quality of lots of remastered cds.

Jack I also don't think those Nymphomanias are from Germany, I mean
the "Hexy Sexy" record label just reeks of boot smell.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 07:56:10 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness is the Taste of Kent

I think you have a great idea.  I'd love to hear a group like the
Coniff or Ray Charles singers remake the Commercials cd.  It probably
wouldn't be an improvement over the originals but it would be
interesting to hear.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck



- ---James G  wrote:
>
>
> was browsing through my mp3 files and found the Kent commercial (i was
> looking for Metal Machine Music, all four sides of which had been
posted
> on Usenet by some kind soul a few months back - even the Nutty
Squirrels
> showed up in the 50's MP3 group recently).  the commercial used zippy
> sound effects (shown in parentheses)on many of the happiness lines,
> wonder what Conniff could have done with this concept ?
>
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 99 11:34:01 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) F & T

>There is at least one other F & T prepared piano LP that I don't recall
>anyone
>mentioning: Soundproof (Westminster WST 15011).  I believe the mono version
>goes by the title Soundblast!  It is a must own, but unfortunately it is not
>an easy find.

Soundproof is indeed a great rarity of Ferrante & Teicher's. I feel very
lucky to own a copy and it features a hell of o lot prepared piano
effects. The track "Man from Mars" just mystifies me...

I never heard that one about Proof and Blast being mono and stereo
versions of the same album. The Westminster number on Soundproof is WP
6014 and the number I've found for Soundblast is 6041, so I've always
hoped that they were two different albums but I keep finding clues to the
contrary. On the back cover of the Research book Incredibly Strange Music
vol. 1 there's a picture of Soundblast (lower right). While the cover
photo is different than Proof the both have the sub title "the sound of
tomorrow today".
BTW the date on the back, 1956, places it between HiFireworks and the
first UA album.

Frank


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 99 11:34:04 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

>
>this past weekend i found a three suns lp, dancing on a cloud. the flea
>market wanted $10 bucks, is this a mamie eisenhower special or something
>really great. i see on the liner notes of movin' and groovin' that it
>suggests listening to this as well. is it in the same vein or that
>sleepy 'other' planet.

I might pay $5 for this if I was feeling rich, the record was in perfect
shape, and I absoulutely needed it to fill out my Three Suns collection.
In other words save your $10.

I have a major problem with the medley. With the exception of two song
this album is all medlies. Even so this predates M&G and doesn't come
close to its greatness.
If you still want to own this, keep an eye out, you'll eventually come
across it for a lot cheaper, it's not that rare.

Frank


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:02:37 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rota

>Thx to all for Rota cover recs. I'd LOVE to hear Snakefinger's take on Rota

Oops, I forgot to post this the other day. Snakefinger's cover of "Shining
Faces (I Am Nino)" also appears on the Snakefinger best-of, "Against The
Grain" (1983, Ralph, SN8353). This also includes his covers of Morricone's
"Magic and Ecstasy" and Kraftwerk's "The Model" (not to mention his own
terrific "Kill The Great Raven").

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:22:48 PST
From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bossa & Balanco

Came across this mighty fine mini-album (Bossa & Balanco with a sedilla
under the c, except not in ascii) in my local record shop the other day.
They had it listed in new arrivals as 'Ennio Morricone house remix' by
some dj i'd heard of. It appears to me to be beautiful wordless vocal
bossa nova based music recorded with a live band (balanco) rather than
samples, though otherwise quite similar to fantastic plastic machine
(though humour is not part of the intention), and does include 1
Morricone track. Anyone know anything about it? i'd thoroughly recommend
it.

also picked up the original cast soundtrack recording from the japanese
production of hair (in japanese naturally), which certainly beats it in
english. how it got here i'll never know. and a new stock hausen and
walkman split 7" 'dirty thirtysomething' that spanks brain meat and
can't been beat.

ciao
rob

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:36:12 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Nymphomania CD's from "Germany"

Jack I also don't think those Nymphomanias are from Germany, I mean
the "Hexy Sexy" record label just reeks of boot smell.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

Their not, Chuck.  It was confirmed to me by someone I trust beyond compare
who shall remain nameless that they are indeed made by some Euro DJ that
DJ's in Manhattan.

I mean, they included inside the front tray card a "plug" for his gig and
the CD is a blue bottom cd-r.  Sheesh, he coulda at least sprung for a
green, gold or silver 1.
These blues only last 10 years, or so "they"say, whoever the hell "they" are:)

These also have no liner notes, but do have a sexy topless cute young lady
to take a guys mind offa that fact;)

I think the "they" people are a committee in Washington

Jack


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:21:01 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Zulu Carnival Club's Fezs

In New Orleans lots of carnival club officers wear a fez.  This fez
picture is so cool that I think we should start wearing a fez in our
carnival club,  Mondo Kayo.

Where did the fez originate?

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:42:33 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Hanged Man

Bullet: "The Hanged Man" (Music from the 1970's television series)
my rating: 2/5
Originally released on Contour in 1975. I had very high expectations for
this soundtrack, after hearing the incredible and superbe title theme by
Alan Tew on "The Spond Gallery"; but this CD was a big disappointment! Not
ONE other track is even HALF as good as that title theme; it's all rather
lame background funk. Some tracks could be described as "mellow", and the
beat on many others is closer to disco than to funk. Not recommended at all!

        Johan


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:31:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Zulu Carnival Club's Fezs

Standard Ottoman headgear, wasn't it?





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>
> Where did the fez originate?
>
> Easy listening in the Big Easy
> Chuck

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:34:11 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Trader Vic's menu

> 3 ounce Trader Vic's Navy Grog Mix
>
Can somebody give a recipe for THIS stuff?

surfing the chaos,
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:08:11 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Strange music

     A strange thing happened last night.

     Being a huge fan of Julie London, I decided to tape some of her songs
     for my grandmother.  I selected a few from the (very fine) album 'Your
     number please', and left it recording.

     However, the autoreverse mechanism malfunctioned, producing an aural
     oddity which belongs in a modern art show:

     The song 'One for my baby' plays at a fraction of the correct speed,
     and so instead of Julie's divine voice, the vocal sounds like a
     dinosaur rolling around in a swamp.  This continues, stretching a
     three minute song out to about 15 minutes, until the recording
     suddenly speeds up, leaving Julie to sing the closing bars.

     Assuming my grandmother wouldn't dig it, I re-did the tape, saving the
     odd version for myself.

     Just wanted to share that one.

     Jonny


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:02:40 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Julie London guitarist

     >Is that Howard Roberts or maybe Barney Kessel ?
     >Jack

     I think it's Howard Roberts on 'Julie at Home', although since I have
     just the CD with me, without the box etc, I can't be sure.

     Did anyone hear the 'sophisticated lady'/'for the night people'
     two-fer?  I would love to pick it up, but don't seem to be able to
     find it anywhere.

     regds
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:38:10 +0000
From: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moog RealAudio

As part of an update, I've created a spotlight on Moog, with
RealAudio clips by Ruth White, Les Baxter & Gershon Kingsley:

http://www.worldwidewax.com/spot/moog.htm

Also of interest to the list is 'Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan', with a
a RealAudio clip, here:

http://www.worldwidewax.com/spot/jazz.htm

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 99 17:45:20 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Arthur Lyman MP3 downloads

"Steven Reed" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>The internet record company Goodnoise has reached an agreement with
>Rykodisc to distribute some of Rykodisc's catalog in MP3 format.  Of
>particular interest to everyone here would be tracks from four of Arthur
>Lyman's albums (originally released on Hi-Fi Records I believe).  Each
>track costs 99 cents and I assume payment is made by credit card.  Check
>it out...
>
>http://www.goodnoise.com/music/ryko/arthur_lyman/index.html

I went to the URL, which was as you described.

Y'know what I was *hoping* was that Goodnoise would be offering exclusive
tracks Rykodisc acquired with their purchase of the Hi-Fi masters that
hadn't otherwise made it onto retail, in-print CDs.  Otherwise, it still
seems easier/more sensible to go to the store down the street or order
from CD-NOW or whatever to get the material on CD. It seems to make the
most sense to me for technologies like MP3, Liquid Audio, etc. as a
*great* means of keeping back-catalog recordings in print without having
to worry about manufacturing run sizes and other incidentals of marketing
reissues.

In my perfect world, NOTHING ever goes out of print,

Michael David Toth
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:59:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) F & T

I don't know the exact relationship between Soundblast and Soundproof.  My
impression was that they were basically the same LP.  I only have Soundproof
so I can't say for sure that one is a stereo and the other a mono.  Can anyone
on the list with better sources than mine set the record straight?

Sean


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 18:53:10 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

At 11:34 AM 2/8/99 -0400, recliner wrote:
>
>>
>>this past weekend i found a three suns lp, dancing on a cloud. the flea
>>market wanted $10 bucks,
>
>I might pay $5 for this if I was feeling rich, the record was in perfect
>shape, and I absoulutely needed it to fill out my Three Suns collection.
>In other words save your $10.

Any Three Sun afficianado out there want to volunteer to make a little list
of the records they consider the "essential" ones?

Or even better, list the essential, semi-essential, pretty good but not
essential and  "don't bother" ones.

From the records I own, I guess I'd have to categorize them into A, B and C.

"A" would be "Movin and Groovin" or on a good day "On a Magic Carpet"
(which is probably more A minus or B plus)
And "B" would be "The things I love in hi fi" (the one with the pipe organ)
and "A Swinging Thing".
And "C" would be this one I found the other day at the Goodwill,
"Slumberland" or something.  The title should have warned me but the cover
was great and it was only half a buck.

Or maybe you need to add "D" material too.  Then I'd put Slumberland in the
"D" and in the "C" I would put "Love in the Afternoon" and "Soft n Sweet".

Problem with the Suns is that even records like "Movin and Groovin" which
contain absolutely classic sublime cuts like "Danny's Inferno" still
contain a cut or two that you hope you never hear again.

Sometimes I think there were two bands.  The Three Suns and the The Three
Evil Twins.  No question which of them I preferred.

Nat



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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:20:44 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) New & upcoming releases of note

Culled from various sources...



FEBRUARY 9

* Asphodelic (Asphodel) -- sampler of Asphodel artists, including Tipsy

* Readymade Records Tokyo Remixes (Caroline)

* Swing This, Baby II (Beyond) -- more new swing



FEBRUARY 16

* Wired Magazine Presents Music Futurists (Rhino) -- with Esquivel, Eno and

more

* The Shaft Anthology (Hip-O) -- music from all three Shaft films

* Dusty Springfield: In London - Deluxe Edition (Rhino) -- with 14 bonus
tracks

* Dusty Springfield: In Memphis (Rhino)



FEBRUARY 23

* Acid Lounge (Right Stuff)

* Electropop Essentials (Hip-O)

* Funk 2001 (Right Stuff)

* Sid & Marty Krofft: Greatest Hits (Interscope) -- finally!

* Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis & Dean Martin: The Summit in Concert (DCC)

* Swing Party (Music Club)



MARCH 9

* Cornelius: CM and FM (Matador) -- two albums of remixes, including High

Llamas, Money Mark and UNKLE

* Future Shock: Vital Electro and Industrial Funk (Hip-O)

* Bert Kaempfert: A Man Could Get Killed/Strangers in the Night (Taragon)

* Bert Kaempfert: Hold Me/The World We Knew (Taragon)

* Bert Kaempfert: Bye Bye Blues (Taragon)



MARCH 23

* Pizzicato Five: The International Playboy & Playgirl Record (Matador)

* ABBA Tribute (Repeat/Relativity) -- don't know who's on it

* Source Material (Source/Astralwerks) -- various French bands

* Star Wars: Cocktails in the Cantina (Oglio) -- lounge and swing versions

of music from the original film

* Bobby Darin: Swingin' the Standards (Var se Vintage)

* Wayne Newton: Sings the Hits of the '70s (Var se Vintage)



MARCH 30

* Delphonic Sounds Today: Del-Fi Does Del-Fi (Del-Fi) -- long-delayed

collection of bands covering Del-Fi hits, including Man or Astro-Man? and

Wondermints



APRIL 6

* Saint Etienne: EP (Sub Pop) -- remix album, including Matthew Sweet

* Barnes & Barnes: Yeah: The Essential (Var se Vintage) -- eat them up, yum...



APRIL TBD

* Air: Premiers Symptomes (Astralwerks) -- reissue of singles collection,

with new bonus tracks



- --Rod


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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:30:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

RE: The Three Suns

<< Or even better, list the essential, semi-essential, pretty good but not
 essential and  "don't bother" ones. >>

I can vouch for:

Fever and Smoke (way up there)
The Happy Go Lucky Sound


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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 18:57:05 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gianni Monese-"Oriental Fantasy"

Anyone ever hear of this guy and this rekkid ?

Gianni Monese-"Oriental Fantasy", on Vox Records

Tell me about it, please:)

Thanks,
Jack


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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:08:54 +0000
From: Michael Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Frank Barber

In message , Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]> writes
>Hugh wrote:
>
>> >Barber??  A list of albums?
>> Ensemble, and two albums on Studio Two,
>> - TWO 127 Swinging Percussion
>> - TWO 203 Percussion in colour
>
>There is also a Polydor album by The Frank Barber Percussion, "Happy
>Percussion", in which he performs percussive-cheesy versions of "Big
>Spender", "Mah Na Mah Na", et. al. One of those "Another Easy
>Listening Album" albums, produced under the aegis of Norrie
>Paramour. I think this was issued in the US as "Deep Percussion".

Thanks a heap for this info. guys.
I'll now have to track down a copy of "Percussion In Colour".
Once I revisit the shop I'll let you know the exact title/label of his
"Hits of 30's" type affair if they still have it.

Norrie Paramour produced "Swingin' Percussion" as well.
Interesting on the back of the album blurb Frank claims to have come up
with the idea of "The Circle of Sound" when he was writing music for a
French Television series...

Cheers

Mike
Michael Davidson
Auckland, New Zealand


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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 09:28:03 +0000
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Portsmouth Sinfonia reissue!

List members I'm sure will *love* to know that the Portsmouth Sinfonia's
inimitable recordings have recently been reissued on CD - in Japan,
mind...

I spotted it on sale at GEMM (http://www.gemm.com/)

Not sure if this is one LP or two (I think I'm right in saying they
recorded two?).

Anyway, it's going for $29.83...


Robbie

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:23:01 +0000
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Hanged Man

I have to say, I'm very surprised at Johan's reaction to the Hanged Man
soundtrack. This is one of my all time favourite soundtracks. The flute and
the moog, laid over the minimal funky music give a very moody and laid back
feel. There is no lame track on the whole LP and in general, it is
fantastic from start to finish. Interestingly, there is no track from this
soundtrack on the Sound Gallery compilation. Alan Tew was asked to do 'The
Detectives' theme tune for a Two Ronnies (comedy programme) sketch in the
70s. Instead of doing something original, he knocked up the Hanged Man
theme into something slightly different. The Detectives is on The Sound
Gallery, not the Hanged Man.
This soundtrack is a UK gem and is well worth having. The TV series it came
from was also excellent.

Charlie





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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:48:19 -0500
From: Wayno <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The car for pedophiles?

I just heard Nelson Riddle's "Lolita Ya-Ya" in a TV commercial for the
Lincoln Town Car.

Very disorienting at 5:30 AM...





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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:45:57 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) should i leap?

In a message dated 2/8/99 9:19:06 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< does anyone know much about Vic Mizzy? he is listed as the brains behind
 the music for 'Green Acres'. i've never come across  anything on him,
 albums or stuff.
  >>
There's the great Adams Family TV show music for one among many other film
credits.

Ashley


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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:51:04 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The "girls" want to know

In a message dated 2/8/99 9:25:03 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< The HBO movie had a fair amount of Joey Bishop on stage but no real insight
 into his bio.  The HBO thing made Dean Martin out to be the choir boy of the
 pack.  Comments???? >>

There is one thinbg that the A&E bio did make clear, and it is that if Sinatra
had not become chums with Joey Bishop he would have not gotten to where he has
today. As for Dino, the Nick Tosches bio makes quite clear than Dino was less
philandering than the other Rat Packers and he just didn't need to put up with
Sinatra's "leadership" stuff and through passive resistence he was able to
deal with it all while Sinatra respected him enough to allow him to do it
where others were rrelegated to Sinatr's social Siberia.

Ashley


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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:00:53 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Hanged Man

In a message dated 2/8/99 1:22:51 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< Bullet: "The Hanged Man" (Music from the 1970's television series)
 my rating: 2/5
 Originally released on Contour in 1975. I had very high expectations for
 this soundtrack, after hearing the incredible and superbe title theme by
 Alan Tew on "The Spond Gallery"; but this CD was a big disappointment! Not
 ONE other track is even HALF as good as that title theme; it's all rather
 lame background funk. Some tracks could be described as "mellow", and the
 beat on many others is closer to disco than to funk. Not recommended at all!
>>

Unlike Johan, I give this album the thumbs up.
It is one of the better '70s funk styled TV  or film soundtracks of the '70s
The label that put it out, "Intoxica," also happens to be one of the top
stores for rare used vinyl in London which should clue you into its interest
value in the first place.

I don't have the album in front of me but the third or fourth track is a great
3 minute workout of the music that became popularized as the theme to "The
Peoples Court" (that enough is worth owning for!) while the rest of the music
falls into that Lalo Schiffrin/Streets Of San Francisco/'70s TV cop show
style. If that's your kind of sound it is highly reccommended.
Ashley rating 4/5


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