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exotica-digest          Monday, March 1 1999          Volume 02 : Number 335



In This Digest:

(exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series
Re: (exotica) Mr. Mxyzptlk
(exotica) My search for 'The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" (Ultra Lounge)
(exotica) Bruce Haack Website
Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack Website
Re: (exotica) Re: Boston
(exotica) Klaus Kinski briefly defended
Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query
Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query
Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query
(exotica) The People's Court
(exotica) Moldy-oldies!
(exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager & XoTiCa
Re: (exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour this week
Re: (exotica) The People's Court
(exotica) Re: Tell me about these, PLEASE!
Re: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager
Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query
Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query
(exotica) too many obits

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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:58:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series

Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? I have four. Three
are excellent and one disappointing. The excellent ones are:

    "Dynamica"     Ray Martin Orchestra
    "It's Magic"      Marty Gold Orchestra
    "Futura"         Bernie Green Orchestra

Anyone have others to recommend? Thanks.     Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:42:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Bonnett)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mr. Mxyzptlk

Thank you Craig!!!

    This was one of the side strings that attracted my attention.  We also
sell back issue comics at my shop and I knew the pronunciation which you've
provided.  I hesitated to post because I couldn't locate the source to
document it with.  It seems I also recall seeing the backward pronunciation
given.  Heck, you've settled the question now.  On to other things!  (see my
next post)

Ciao 4 now!
Kevin  : )

- -----Original Message-----
From: Craig Carlson <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 3:03 PM
Subject: (exotica) Mr. Mxyzptlk

>Someone asked about the pronounciation of this name a while back. From
>Superman Comics no. 142, January 1961:





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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:45:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Bonnett)
Subject: (exotica) My search for 'The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" (Ultra Lounge)

Ultra Lounge (www.ultralounge.com) is what got me started.  I'm trying to
collect 'em all!  Today at Best Buy (www.bestbuy.com) I tried to complete my
set with 'Exotic Moods of Les Baxter' and 'Romantic Moods of Jackie
Gleason'.  I found plenty of the Gleason sets but no Baxter.  I asked a
clerk to search the computer and he told me they hadn't had it for some time
and that "no one in the area has it".  He must've meant no other Best Buy's
had it.  He can't really know what all the local independents have in stock,
so I'll keep looking.  I'll just have to have my regular store special order
it.

If anyone on the list is having trouble finding the Jackie Gleason set there
were at least 10 copies of it on the rack and me the only person in that
aisle.  BTW, curses!  They had it filed under Easy Listening while the Ultra
Lounge set itself was filed alongside such things as MTV's Party to Go and
ESPN's Jock Jams discs.  Gotta love that corporate attention to detail!
<smirk>.

Ciao 4 now!
Kevin in Dayton, OH



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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:34:03 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack Website

Rock on, kids!

http://www.openix.com/~hspirida/


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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:37:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack Website

[e-mail] writes:

 Subj:     (exotica) Bruce Haack Website
 Date:    2/28/99 3:34:42 PM Pacific Standard Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Jack)
 Sender:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail]

 Rock on, kids!

 http://www.openix.com/~hspirida/

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And now that you have visited the site and checked out the discography, let me
remind you that cassettes are available from Miss Esther Nelson herself.
Thanks to Johan for this clip from his original post in early January:

 <<    Dance to the Music: A participation album for all children
     The Way Out Cassette For Children
     The Electronic Cassette For Children

     ... can email Esther Nelson on <[e-mail]>>

they go for $9.95 each plus shipping...she wrote me saying there was a
catalog, so maybe there is more than the three above available.







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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:19:06 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Boston

At 2:04 PM +0000 2/28/99, Hugh Petfield wrote:
>One of today's UK papers had a brief rundown
>on the attractions of Boston, Mass.

>THE GOOD LIFE, 28 Kingston Street: No compost
>but plenty of crooning in a trashy but trendy bar.
>Live music Wednesday to Saturday tends towards
>mellow jazz.  Exudes a sense of Sinatra-esque sleeze,
>red leatherette walls, chrome chairs and an impressive
>cocktail menu.
>
>The lastmentioned sounds wonderful, but might it
>warrant the Lounge Laura stamp of approval?

It's not bad - - the cocktails are pretty good, if you get a good
bartender. I had high hopes for the place when it first opened, but the
pizza-and-burgers menu and clientle of afterwork stockbrokers and bankers
cuts into the type of ambience I look for in a gin mill. It's best to go
after midnight, when the riff raff has cleared out.

br cleve


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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:17:07 +0000
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Klaus Kinski briefly defended

OK, I haven't seen the film that Moritz R <[e-mail]>
described, but before writing Kinski off as a hack, do yourself the
favor and rent one of his classic films he starred in for Werner Herzog:
'Fitzcarraldo', 'Aguirre: Wrath of God','Nosferatu the Vampire' or
'Woyczek'.....THEN look your thoroughly-shaken self in the bathroom
mirror and try to intone the words, "Klaus Kinski can't act..."  The men
in white smocks will patiently wait on the other side of the door.

Keith


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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 00:08:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query

a few weeks back....

Marco wrote:

<<Thanks to the ever-friendly Jeroen at Basta Audio/Visuals, I received my
copy of the new Theremin-box this morning. My first impression:
beautiful set!
The 3 albums 'Music out of the moon', 'Perfume set to music' and 'Music
for peace of mind' are inserted in a litte cardboard box. Each cd in a
reproduction of the original sleeve. A 28-page booklet with extra
information and illustrations is added to the set.
as it says on the back of the box: an essential Basta reissue!>>

House O Bob asked:

<< I have read a few entries about the new theremin box set and my question is
 this:
 Weren't those three records originally ep's? How much music is on each one
and
 how much is the box set? Thanks, Bob >>

Bob, perhaps you have since had your questions answered, but if not....

Marco is absolutely right - what a beautiful little set this is!  A very
classy job.

It is also very expensive, close to fourty bucks.

Each CD is less than 20 minutes long, they range from about 16:30 - 19:30 in
length.  Each CD has 6 tracks on it.  It does not take long to do the math.
All three CD's add up to less than and hour of music, there are no bonus
tracks.

I would have preferred all three on one CD and a more affordable price tag.



















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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:22:39 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query

At 12:08 AM 01-03-99 EST, BasicHip wrote:
>>It [The Basta Theremin 3 CD Set] is also very expensive,
close to fourty bucks. Each CD is less than 20 minutes long...
I would have preferred all three on one CD and a more affordable price tag.<<

There is a point at which artfulness gets too much.  I would have to say
this is it.  As a customer, I would gladly pay $20 for a nicely done
"full-platter" CD with the contents of all 10-inch EPs.  However, I just don't
think it reasonable to expect anyone to fork over more than that to get the
amount of music a normal CD would hold...just for the sake of some artistic
display.

What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with the
audio (I have heard samples which really have impressed me) but its
ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set.

Give me art but give me practicality, too!

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:37:55 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query

>>>It [The Basta Theremin 3 CD Set] is also very expensive,
>close to fourty bucks. Each CD is less than 20 minutes long...
>I would have preferred all three on one CD and a more affordable price tag.<<
>
>There is a point at which artfulness gets too much.  I would have to say
>this is it.  As a customer, I would gladly pay $20 for a nicely done
>"full-platter" CD with the contents of all 10-inch EPs.  However, I just
don't
>think it reasonable to expect anyone to fork over more than that to get the
>amount of music a normal CD would hold...just for the sake of some artistic
>display.
>
>What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with the
>audio (I have heard samples which really have impressed me) but its
>ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set.
>
>Give me art but give me practicality, too!
>
>Byron



When buying in Europe, you have to push aside your American notion of
prices. $20, that's about the price bestselling CD's go for here, so
$30 (that's what the box actually costs...) is not hugely overpriced
for a 'nicely done' 3 CD set with an hour of exquisite music.
The thing is, you're just not used to buying overseas like we are
with all the extra costs for shipping and handling that go with it, I mean,
you can easily get outraged when you don't realise how lucky you are.

Cheers, Ton


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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:24:51 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The People's Court

Apparently Alan Tew wrote "The Big One" which was used as production music
for the People's Court.  Didn't someone here say that a long version
existed on some comp somewhere?
I'd love to know what that was.

Two other things:
One, does anyone remember the intro music for General Cinema's?
I'd love a copy of that.

Two, Henry Mancini wrote the theme for "What's Happening?"!  Where's Oranj
Symphonette when you need them?


Peter


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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:01:57 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moldy-oldies!

Well, I will NEVER be one to complain about getting a lot of sealed vinyl.
However, some of my recent scores, sealed while they are, havesome water
damage from being stored in a basement for who knows how long!  So even
though "mint", there is some mold on them, as well as  in the inner parts
of the covers that are gate-folds.  Some other of the records in the same
haul also have mold either on the jackets or the vinyl itself.  Is there a
way after cleaning these, to prevent the MOLD from further, uh, growing and
spreading?  EEEK!
Jane "goldbond" Fondle
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:57:41 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager & XoTiCa

Johan writes:
> >I don't think the French 'Ye-Ye' is the equivalent of the Schlager. As
> >far as I know 'Ye-Ye' refers only to French sixties-music. Sort of the
> >French answer to the Beatles and beat in general.
>     correct. "ye-ye" is french for "yeah yeah", like in
>     "she loves you, yeah yeah yeah".
I have to admit to being a bit baffled but I hate to classify music
and in trying to do so I bring on myself this sort of problem.  While ye-ye
seems to refer to a rather narrow range of music, unless someone else
knows otherwise, I sense Schlager refers to a much wider range of
music, covering the range from the dreaded Heino to the poppy German
vocals of of France Gall, who is of course herself French (but amazingly
good in German!).  The question then is, can some Schlager also be the
equivalent of ye-ye or are the French the only Europeans that can claim
ownership to this particular musical style? Or are the two terms simply
not compatible?

> > I was in Virgin today and saw that XTC have returned to the studio
> > after a 7-year break.  The blurb describes the new album it as
> > superb "orchestral pop" which sparked my interest.  Has anyone
> > heard anything of it?
Say I don't know what all the fuss is about this, after having listened to
the samples on the website. Maybe its just that I best remember XTC
from their pioneering new wave days but there is little if any sign of
renewed life in this new recording, at least from what I heard! But,
that's only one person's opinion so...

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:12:15 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series

At 02:58 PM 2/28/99 EST, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? I have four.
Three
>are excellent and one disappointing. The excellent ones are:
>
>    "Dynamica"     Ray Martin Orchestra
>    "It's Magic"      Marty Gold Orchestra
>    "Futura"         Bernie Green Orchestra

Well before I go ahead and put my foot in my mouth, I wish you'd mentioned
the one you have that you don't like.  But I'm going to guess that it's Leo
Addeo's "Paradise Regained" which I have and only keep because it's Stereo
Action.
I would add the other Ray Martin one "Excitement Incorporated" and  Dick
Schory's "Running Wild" to your list.  I can't say that the Ray Martin is
better than the other one but it has a grey cover if you're impressed by
that kind of thing.
(I must be if I'm mentioning it.)  And I love that title.
On the Stereo Action "sampler" called "Unlimited" there's a cut each by
Keith Textor and Guitars Unlimited Plus 7 that make me want to hear each of
the records that those cuts come from, especially the latter.

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:35:41 +0000
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour this week

This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, hear a modest musical
tribute to the Big Apple with Phil Moore's wonderful "New York
Sweet"; "Sub-Manhattan Blues" by Bob Thompson (from "The Sound of
Speed");  Susan Barrett sings "Manhattan", conducted by Kenyon
Hopkins(!); and David Shire's amazing '70s crime jazz from "The
Taking of Pelham 1-2-3".

Also, music from Del-Fi's new "Jungle Jive" CD, plus Yma Sumac, Dick
Hyman, Don Ralke's "Bongo Madness", Warren Kime and the Brass Impact
Orchestra and Maynard Ferguson with "Mambo La Mans" from the very
rare LP "Straightaway Jazz Themes" (soundtrack from a short-lived
early '60s TV show about race drivers).  We'll hear a track from
Martin Denny's "Latin Village" - indications are it's one of the
notorious "ghosted" LPs recently discussed here (Bob Florence at the
piano?).

Important note for Retro Cocktail Hour listeners.  Since so many are
still using RealPlayer 5.0, this week we've established a 5.0 archive
of shows alongside the G2 shows.  For the time being, new shows
will be available in both 5.0 or G2 streams.  So, if you've not yet
upgraded to RealPlayer G2, you can still hear the show!

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

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

Requires at least 28.8 Internet connection and, of course, RealPlayer
5.0 or G2.  If you tune us in, please drop us a line.

Thanks for the space.

Darrell Brogdon
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KANU FM 91.5
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:48:55 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The People's Court

At 9:24 AM -0500 3/1/99, Peter Risser wrote:

>One, does anyone remember the intro music for General Cinema's?
>I'd love a copy of that.

oh yeah, I always loved that. In fact, I just wrote a homage/take off of it
for the Cinemax cable channel (for their "Friday Premiere" trailers; I
think it starts airing today). I haven't been to a General Cinema in years;
I wonder if they still use it? Last time I heard it, the soundtrack seemed
to be falling apart. The earliest I remember hearing/seeing it was around
1966. For years I've wondered who it is playing the electric harpsichord on
it - could it be Dick Hyman?  Sounds like him, and he did play a Baldwin
electric harpsichord.

for those of you who don't have any idea what we're talking about: this was
a 30 second clip of the General Cinema Corp logo (GCC), which looked like a
movie projector. As the reels moved, it was accompanied by a trade off
between electric harpsichord and snare drum played with brushes, that
followed the animation. The harpsichord dropped out after 12 measures,
leaving the snare to finish the last 4. When it ended, either the words
"Coming Attractions" or "Feature Presentation" appeared on the screen.

br cleve




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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:05:12 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Tell me about these, PLEASE!

>From: Jack <[e-mail]>

>Can anyone tell me if these are good or not ?
>
>"Stroboscopica"

    Italian 70's psychedelic b-movies soundtracks & sonorizations.
    Groovy jazzy funk, like the "Easy Tempo" compilations, but
    nothing special. my rate: 3 on 5



>PULSAR MUSIC LTD. "Milano Violenta"

    Looks like a music library album (Pulsar Music LTD is
    a music library), only on the back it says "Milano Violenta
    original movie soundtrack"...    mellow cop funk, jazzy funk,
    "dramatic" funk, 1 really beautiful EZ track, and 3 dark & moody
    tracks that are described as: dramatic, suspense/ neurosia, stress/
    painful, obsessing.

    my rate: 3 on 5.

    these 2 are not bad, but i find that after a while, all these
    funky  70's library records start to sound the same.
    i'm not wild about any of them...

    recommended however is

    * Nico Fidenco: Black Emanuelle's Groove
      (A collection of famous original soundtracks' themes)
       CD/LP, Abraxas Records/Dago Red 101, Italy, 1998

     Compilation from the "Emanuelle Nera/Black Emanuelle" soft erotic
film series from the  60's and 70's. Fidenco combines flute and wordless
vocals and lush strings, with subtle exotic percussion, electric guitar and
organ, and a really weird bass guitar sound (at least, I THINK it is a
bass, run through some effect pedal). The result is a very original sound
of his own, both sensous and mysterious, or Black Emanuelle painted in
sound.


    Dusty Groove says: This nifty set brings together 17 very sexy
tracks from the classic Emanuel softcore erotic film series. All the music
is composed by Nico Fidenco, and it's got a sound that's different from a
lot of these other Italian soundtracks, and which sounds a bit like some of
the French stuff of the 70's, particularly the scoring that was being done
by Serge Gainsbourg at the time. There's lots of isolated instruments,
slowly gyrating basslines, choppy guitar, and cool electronic bits on
keyboards or other instruments. titles include "Red Hot Wax", "Emanuelle's
Theme", "Kamasutra In Love", "Sweet Bossa", and "Samba Safari".

        Johan


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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:10:17 +0100
From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager

Brian Karasick wrote:

> The question then is, can some Schlager also be the
> equivalent of ye-ye or are the French the only Europeans that can claim=

> ownership to this particular musical style? =


I think that during a certain period in the sixties a lot of European
popular music was influenced by what was happening in England. So it's
true that there must be Schlagers that sound like the French Y=E9 Y=E9, j=
ust
like Italian or Dutch hits were influenced by the Beatles at the same
time. So Schlager refers to a very broad range of music, but at one time
it certainly included things that could be the equivalent of what the
French were doing.

Marco

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:10:27 +0100
From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query

[e-mail] wrote:

> What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with > the
> audio but its
> ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set.
> Give me art but give me practicality, too!

What's more practical than having exact copies of the original records
in their orignal sleeves? Wouln't it be great to have, for example, all
of the Esquivel-reissues in this manner? I've always wondered why the CD
was introduced in these stupid plastic boxes. Why didn't they issue CDs
in cardboard sleeves right from the start?

Marco

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 19:10:33 +0100
From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query

Ton Rueckert wrote:

> When buying in Europe, you have to push aside your American notion of
> prices. $20, that's about the price bestselling CD's go for here, so
> $30 (that's what the box actually costs...) is not hugely overpriced
> for a 'nicely done' 3 CD set with an hour of exquisite music.
> The thing is, you're just not used to buying overseas like we are
> with all the extra costs for shipping and handling that go with it, I mean,
> you can easily get outraged when you don't realise how lucky you are.

I agree. And think of what you would pay for one of the original
records! I think one of the original 10-inch records would set you back
at least 20 bucks  - if you're lucky enough to find one.

Marco

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:49:18 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) too many obits

                         *John L. Goldwater    =09
    NEW YORK (AP) -- John L. Goldwater, creator of the syndicated comic
character Archie, died Friday. He was 83.=20
    Goldwater grew up in East Harlem as an orphan and, as a teen-ager, left to
travel across the country, working odd jobs as he went. He returned to New
York several years later and worked loading magazines at the docks before
creating the Archie character in 1941.=20
    Far from being a ``superhero,'' Archie is an average teen-ager with a
penchant for getting into trouble. The red-haired character was an instant
success and remained popular decades after his first appearance in print.=20
    In the late 1960s, Archie made his TV debut. In 1973, Goldwater wrote
``Americana in Four Colors.'' ``Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again,'' a
television movie based on the Archie characters, was broadcast on NBC in=
 1990.=20
    Goldwater ran Archie Comic Publications until his retirement in 1983. The
Archie comic books are now published in over 35 countries. Goldwater also
founded the Comics Magazine Association of America and served as its
president for 25 years. He was also a national commissioner of the
Anti-Defamation League.=20

 *Michael Avallone    =09
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Angelo Avallone, a mystery writer who penned
the Ed Noon series and whose original novels were based on the television
series ``The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and ``Hawaii Five-0,'' died Friday after
suffering from heart failure. He was 74.=20
    Avallone wrote more than 200 books and short stories during his 45 year
career, including Westerns, horror stories and children's books. He was best
known as the author of the Ed Noon series of detective novels published
between 1953 and 1988.=20
    Avallone also wrote movie novelizations, including ``Beneath the Planet of
Apes'' and ``Shock Corridor.''=20
    The author, whose works were translated and published around the world,
once said he began to write ``when he discovered pencils'' and said: ``I
never wrote a book I didn't like.''=20
    His first novel, ``The Tall Dolores,'' was published in 1953 and featured
his detective character Ed Noon. He went on to pen 36 Ed Noon novels. His
last Noon novel, ``High Noon at Midnight,'' featured an older detective,
much like the author, and addressed the author's thoughts on aging.=20
    He also wrote gothic romances under the pen name Edwina Noone. =20

March 1, 1999
Michael Avallone, 74, Author of Ed Noon Detective Stories
By ERIC PACE,NYTimes
     Michael Avallone, a prolific writer of detective stories and other
novels that were sometimes reminiscent of old-fashioned pulp fiction, died
on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74 and lived in Middlesex
County, N.J., for 30 years until 1995. The cause was heart failure, said his
son-in-law, Carr D'Angelo.=20
     Avallone wrote more than 200 books, about half under his own name and
the rest under pseudonyms, D'Angelo said, and he published many short
stories in collections.=20
     He is perhaps best known for his Ed Noon series of detective novels,
published from 1953 to 1988.=20
     The first was "The Tall Dolores" and the last, "High Noon at Midnight,"
was his final book. Ed Noon is a wisecracking private eye based in Manhattan
whose Runyonesque views on baseball and movies echo those of Avallone.=20
     Other fiction he wrote included horror tales, novels of the old West
and mysteries for children. For Gothic romances he used female pseudonyms.=
=20
     In a 1973 interview, Avallone said that one book he wrote in the
Partridge Family series of children's mysteries had sold 2.5 million copies.
More than two million copies of Avallone's 1965 espionage novel "The Man
From U.N.C.L.E.: The Thousand Coffins Affair," were sold in the United
States and elsewhere, D'Angelo said. That book's spy protagonist was
borrowed from the television series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Much of his
work was translated into foreign languages and sold abroad.=20
     Avallone was sometimes called "the Fastest Typewriter in the East." In
a recent issue of the weekly New Times, he was called a "pulpmeister."
Avallone liked to say, "I never wrote a book I didn't like," and the critic
John Gross called him "a formidable figure."=20
     But Gross objected to some of Avallone's sentences, like, "The whites
of his eyes came up in their sockets like moons over an oasis lined with
palm trees." In describing what he called irresistibly bad prose, the critic
Newgate Callendar cited another Avallone excerpt in The New York Times: "The
footsteps didn't walk right in. They stopped outside the door and knocked."=
=20
     He was born in Manhattan, one of the 17 children of a stonemason who
was also a sculptor, and grew up in the Bronx. He served in the Army from
1943 to 1946, mainly in Europe, rising to sergeant.=20
     Avallone belonged to the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame and was on
the awards committee of the Mystery Writers of America from 1961 to 1971.=20
     An early marriage ended in divorce.=20
     He is survived by his wife, Frances; two sons, Stephen, of the Bronx,
and David, a writer and film director, of Los Angeles; a daughter, Susan,
who is a screenwriter, of Los Angeles; four brothers, Nicky Iacovetti and
Patrick, both of Brooklyn, William, of Middle Island, N.Y., and Gerald, of
Florida, and three sisters, Marie Antoinette Fernandez of Brooklyn, Madelyn
Fortmuller of Plainview, N.Y., and Grace Conlan of Carlsbad, Calif.=20


 *Stanley Dance    =09
    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Jazz critic Stanley Dance, a confidant of Duke Ellington
and Earl Hines who won a Grammy in 1963, died Tuesday of pneumonia. He was=
 88.=20
    Dance was one of the genre's most respected critics and his work spanned 60
years.=20
    Revered by fans and musicians, Dance coined the term ``mainstream'' as a
way to describe a jazz style. He won a Grammy Award in 1963 for writing the
liner notes for the album ``The Ellington Era.''=20
    Dance also wrote liner notes for the Sweet Baby Blues Band and was featured
chanting on the track ``Sometimes it be That Way'' on singer-pianist Jeannie
Cheatham's 1987 album ``Homeward Bound.''=20
    ``Stanley was a giant, a lifelong jazz devotee and one of the most honest
men I've ever met,'' Ms. Cheatham said. ``He didn't bite his tongue, he said
what he thought, and that was that.''=20
    Born in England, Dance began writing about jazz professionally in 1935,
eventually marrying Helen Oakley, who was in charge of Variety Records and
produced several of Ellington's small group records in the 1930s.=20
    Dance read the eulogy at Ellington's funeral in 1974. The jazz critic
co-wrote Ellington's autobiography and other books, including ``The World of
Swing'' and ``The World of Earl Hines.'' His work appeared in the New York
Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, Down Beat and Jazz Times. He was also book
review editor at Jazz Times from 1980 until last fall.=20

 *Harry Rossoll    =09
    ATLANTA (AP) -- Harry Rossoll, who as a U .S. Forest Service illustrator
created the Smokey Bear fire prevention messages that became one of the most
successful public relations campaigns, died Thursday of an intestinal
aneurysm. He was 89.=20
    A native of Norwich, Conn., he provided the rough draft for Smokey Bear in
1944 as the character to promote forest fire prevention after rejecting
figures including a forest ranger and a beaver.=20
    Rossoll drew more than 1,000 ``Smokey Says'' cartoons that were published
in newspapers across the nation for 25 years. He also talked with foresters
in the field and gave talks about Smokey and fire prevention to school
children.=20

March 1, 1999
Betty Roche, Singer of Blues and Be-Bop, Dead at 81
By BEN RATLIFF, NYTimes
     Betty Roche, a singer who performed with Duke Ellington in the 1940s
and '50s and was noted for her strong, dramatic delivery of blues material,
died on Feb. 16 at the Mainland Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in
Pleasantville, N.J. She was 81.=20
     "She had a soul inflection in a bop state of intrigue," Ellington wrote
about Ms. Roche in his oblique style of praise, "and every word was
understandable despite the sophisticated hip and jive connotations."=20
     Born Mary Elizabeth Roche (pronounced ro-SHAY) in Wilmington, Del., she
began her career by winning an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in
Harlem. In 1941 she sang with the Savoy Sultans.=20
     Ms. Roche joined Ellington in 1943, replacing Ivie Anderson just before
Ellington's first Carnegie Hall concert and scored highly with the critics
and audience in her section of the Ellington suite "Black, Brown and Beige."=
=20
     Her feature within the suite was the "Blues" sequence, meant to express
the feelings of blacks who settled into urban life at the start of the 20th
century. With its famous pyramidal lyric scheme -- it begins, "The blues/the
blues ain't/the blues ain't nothing/the blues ain't nothing but a cold gray
day" -- it became one of Ellington's greatest pieces for a singer.=20
     But Ms. Roche's rendition, in a concert recording, was not released
until the 1970s because when Ellington made a studio recording of the suite
in 1944, Ms. Roche already had been replaced by Joya Sherrill. In a similar
bit of unfortunate luck, Ms. Roche sang "Take the A Train" with Ellington in
the 1943 film "Reveille With Beverly" but wasn't recorded singing
Ellington's signature tune until nine years later, in a be-bop style, on the
album "Ellington Uptown."=20
     Ms. Roche also performed and recorded with the pianist Earl Hines, the
trumpeter Clark Terry and the singer and pianist Charles Brown. She made
three recordings under her name for the Bethlehem and Prestige labels in the
late 1950s and early 60s.=20
     She is survived by three grandchildren.
http://elvispelvis.com/bettyroche.htm

March 1, 1999
Charles Allan Gerhardt, 72, Record Producer and Conductor
By ALLAN KOZINN,NYTimes
     Charles Allan Gerhardt, a record producer who recorded many of the
great classical music performers of the 1950's and 1960's and who also
conducted a series of classic film-score albums, died on Feb. 22 at Mercy
Hospital in Redding, Calif. He was 72 and lived in Redding.=20
     Robert E. Benson, a music critic and friend of Gerhardt, said the cause
was complications from surgery for brain cancer.=20
     Gerhardt was born in Detroit in 1927 and grew up in Little Rock, Ark.,
where he began studying the piano at age 5 and composition at 9. After
service in the Navy as a chaplain's assistant during World War II, he
studied music and science at several colleges, including the University of
Illinois and the University of Southern California.=20
     Gerhardt, who was fascinated with recordings, joined the technical
staff of RCA Victor in 1950, first to prepare long-playing reissues of
recordings by Enrico Caruso and Artur Schnabel and then to assist at
sessions for Vladimir Horowitz, Wanda Landowska, Kirsten Flagstad and
William Kapell. He also worked closely with Arturo Toscanini, who encouraged
him to study conducting. By the early 1960's, he was overseeing RCA's
productions in London.=20
     As a producer, Gerhardt's first major project was "A Festival of Light
Classical Music," sold through the Reader's Digest in 1960.=20
     He also produced a Beethoven cycle conducted by Ren=E9 Leibowitz, in
1961, that is prized by collectors and has recently been reissued by Chesky
Records.=20
     In 1964, Gerhardt formed an orchestra of London musicians for use at
his recording sessions. It was incorporated as the National Philharmonic
Orchestra in 1970, and besides producing its recordings with a variety of
conductors and soloists, Gerhardt conducted it himself on recordings of
standard repertory works and contemporary pieces.=20
     His best-known series was an extensive collection of film scores that
began in 1972 with "The Sea Hawk," the first major overview of Erich
Korngold's film music, and included volumes devoted to the works of Max
Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Dmitri Tiomkin, Bernard
Hermann and John Williams. The success of his Korngold disk also led to a
reinvestigation of Korngold's serious music, and in 1975 he produced the
first recording of the composer's opera, "Die Tote Stadt."=20
     Gerhardt retired from RCA in 1986 and worked as a freelance producer
until 1997. No immediate family members survive.=20

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Death anniversaries for the week of 1 March - 7 March:

Monday, 1 March
1984 - Jackie Coogan; actor, "The Addams Family" TV series
1988 - Joe Besser; comic actor, "The Three Stooges"

Tuesday, 2 March
1987 - Randolph Scott; actor

Wednesday, 3 March
1966 - William Frawley; actor, "I Love Lucy"
1991 - Arthur Murray; dance instructor

Thursday, 4 March
1994 - John Candy; actor
1996 - Minnie Pearl; TV & stage performer

Friday, 5 March
1980 - Jay Silverheels; actor, Tonto on "The Lone Ranger"
1982 - John Belushi; actor




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