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exotica-digest         Monday, March 15 1999         Volume 02 : Number 348



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Signor Rossi
Re: (exotica) Not the one you think!
Re: (exotica) new discussion list???
(exotica) A Gajillion Strings
(exotica) obits: Les Barcus, Garson Kanin, Leon Falk, Nieson Himmel, Gershon Legman
Re: (exotica) Some Interesting Vinyl Finds
(exotica) BoB ThOmpSon site
(exotica) THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!
(exotica) GoodBye!, the Journal of Contemporary Obituaries
RE: (exotica) Leah's Lament
(exotica) Strange song selection
(exotica) Black Lodge Singers
(exotica) my weekend record scores
SV: (exotica) Strange song selection
(exotica) "The Exotic Beatles" part 3 out now.
Re: (exotica) THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!
Re: (exotica) Strange song selection
Re: (exotica) A Gajillion Strings
(exotica) Caravan of the Bumble Bee
(exotica) Playlist, 'nother 1

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:31:48 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Signor Rossi

> Giovanni Berti wrote:
>
> > The theme from Signor Rossi, "W la felicita'" is already featured in

> > the Studio Uno release "The Third Millennium", which includes both
> > the original italian version and the english sung version. More
> > remixed versions in the Studio Uno 12" mix I wrote about in the list

> > some weeks ago. The latter is still not available in the States.


A German version (naturallly called "Herr Rossi") appeared recentely on
Marina by the "Moulinettes",  a former girl-group (now boys also) from
Munich. It's available as a single and on the relating album "20 Blumen"
("20 flowers")....

Mo






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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:34:43 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Not the one you think!

So, you're actually Ernie Longmire... interesting. My remark was meant
friendly, of course.

Mo



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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:35:59 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) new discussion list???

Seems like a decent idea for a "broadcast only" list, of course.

Kind of a sister list to exotica possibly.   Probably with the right
kind of development one might even be able to work their way
onto some label promo mailing lists with it :)

I recently initiated a list on One List.  Its meeting the needs nicely
techwise.

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Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:28:32
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Gajillion Strings

I'm working on an article for "Cool and Strange Music" on strings albums,
so I've been following the short thread on 101 Strings albums.  I recently
devoted a month of listening time to an immersion in string music.  I must
have spent at least 20 bucks for a half gross of strings.  And though I
plan to be much lengthier and eloquent in the article, to sum up my
conclusion from this experiment:

Most string music sucks.  Meaning it's not enjoyable bad--just boringly bad.

Almost all 101 Strings albums suck.  Even most with interesting covers.

Arranging for strings separates the pros from the hacks.  People like Percy
Faith really did earn their pay.

Brad


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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:24:09 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obits: Les Barcus, Garson Kanin, Leon Falk, Nieson Himmel, Gershon Legman

                            *Les Barcus
    SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Les Barcus, inventor of an electronic pickup that
could be used on an array of instruments from acoustic guitars to flutes,
died March 4 at age 89.
    The Barcus-Berry pickup, first produced in the 1960s, allowed clear
amplification of traditional non-electric instruments and led to new
possibilities in performance.
    In 1963, John Berry brought him a violin, hoping Barcus could improve its
recorded sound.
    Barcus built a small transducer that picked up the energy reverberating
from the strings as it passed to the bridge of the instrument. The invention
led to formation of Barcus-Berry Inc., which began operation in 1964.
    Barcus was the technical wizard; Berry, a classical musician, tested his
new pickups and handled the business.

     *Garson Kanin
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Garson Kanin, a prolific playwright who created the
Broadway and Hollywood classic ``Born Yesterday,'' died Saturday of heart
failure after a long illness. He was 86.
    Kanin's place in entertainment history would have been assured had Kanin
done no more than write and direct ``Born Yesterday,'' the oft-revived play
that made Judy Holliday a star of the theater in 1946 and won her an Oscar
for the movie version in 1950.
    Kanin was the author or director of numerous stage and movie hits,
including some of the celebrated screen pairings of Spencer Tracy and
Katharine Hepburn.
    In collaboration with his wife of 43 years, actress Ruth Gordon, he wrote
the screenplays of Tracy and Hepburn's ``Adam's Rib'' in 1949 and ``Pat and
Mike'' in 1952. He and his wife also received an Academy Award nomination
for writing ``A Double Life,'' the 1948 movie for which Ronald Colman
received a best-actor Oscar.
    Ms. Gordon died in 1985. In 1990, Kanin married actress Marian Seldes, who
was with him when he died.
    Kanin claimed collaboration in the first Tracy-Hepburn teaming, ``Woman of
the Year,'' in 1942. His screenwriter brother, Michael Kanin, and Ring
Lardner Jr. were the officially credited writers and won an Oscar.
    He also said ``The More the Merrier,'' the delicious 1943 comedy of wartime
Washington, was his brainchild, but the screenplay is credited to four other
writers. The comedy of political corruption and personal redemption, which
ran for 1,642 performances on Broadway, boomed anew during the latter Nixon
years.
    As an officer in an Army film unit during World War II, Kanin was
co-director, with Carol Reed, of ``The True Glory,'' which won the Oscar for
best documentary in 1945.
    He wrote some 14 books of fact and fiction and published numerous articles
and short stories everywhere from Good Housekeeping to Penthouse.
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/031599obit-garson-kanin.html

 *Leon Falk
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Leon ``Lee'' Falk, the creator of the comic strips
``Mandrake the Magician'' and ``The Phantom, died Saturday of congestive
heart failure. He was 87.
    Falk was a college student when he conceived ``Mandrake the Magician,''
about a hypnotist who used his powers to fight crime. The strip, which first
appeared in 1934 and has been drawn by Fred Fredericks since 1965, is still
syndicated in 125 newspapers.
    In 1936, Falk developed ``The Phantom,'' which follows the exploits of a
costumed superhero. The strip runs in than 500 newspapers.
    After working in secret intelligence with the Office of War Information
during World War II, Falk returned to playwriting and theatrical production.
For many years he was the owner of summer theaters in Massachusetts and a
winter theater in Nassau in the
Bahamas.
    Falk produced more than 300 plays and directed about 100 others, featuring
stars such as Dame May Whitty in ``Night Must Fall'' and Charlton Heston in
``Bell, Book and Candle.''
    He also wrote several plays and two musicals, ``Happy Dollar'' and
``Mandrake the Magician and the Enchantress.''
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-lee-falk.html

 *Nieson Himmel
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Nieson Himmel, an eccentric newsroom character who
rubbed elbows with gangsters and celebrities while covering every major Los
Angeles crime story since World War II, died Saturday of pneumonia-related
complications. He was 77.
    The Los Angeles Times reporter had been off work since February, after he
collapsed in the newsroom on the way to his desk.
    He earned his reputation in the 1940s and 1950s covering the infamous Black
Dahlia murder and the shooting of gangster Bugsy Siegel during his 22-year
tenure with the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
    During the late '40s, Himmel befriended everyone from gangsters and call
girls to con men and cops, often arriving at crime scenes before police and
occasionally knocking back drinks with his sources when the night was through.
    Himmel left the Herald-Examiner during a strike in the 1960s and worked for
the City News Service before joining the Times in 1975.
    Himmel spent most nights at his desk in recent years, monitoring police and
fire department scanners.
    The 5-foot-7 reporter weighed close to 300 pounds and was described in a
Times obituary as a newsroom ``Buddha-figure'' who listened comfortably from
his chair as dispatchers barked out ``the nightly mayhem.''
    Survivors include a sister, four nieces and nephews.


And a tip o' the porkpie to Citizen Kafka for finding this one:
March 14, 1999
Gershon Legman, Anthologist of Erotic Humor, Dies at 81
By JANNY SCOTT,NYTimes
     Gershon Legman, a self-taught scholar of dirty jokes and bawdy
limericks and ballads who played a pivotal role in opening up the field of
erotic folklore to scholarly study in the 1960s and 70s, died on Feb. 23 at
a hospital near his home in Opio, France. He was
81.
   Legman is best known as the author of a two-volume psychoanalytic study
of sexual and scatological humor titled "Rationale of the Dirty Joke" and as
an industrious anthologist of limericks. He also published books on violence
in comic books, oral sex and various aspects of erotic folklore.
   He accumulated what has been described as one of the world's largest
collections of published and unpublished erotic and scatological literature,
and served as a kind of intermediary for scholars worldwide, maintaining a
voluminous correspondence from his home in a hill town on the Riviera.
   A tireless autodidact, he was credited with a role in introducing the art
of Japanese paper-folding to the West. In interviews, he also said he had
developed a vibrator in the late 1930s and coined the phrase "Make love, not
war" during a talk at the University of Ohio in 1963.
   At his death, after a series of strokes that began in 1991, he left
behind several unpublished manuscripts, including a two-volume book on
ballads that he had worked on for years and an autobiography that his wife,
Judith, said he had lost the desire to
complete after he became ill.
   In addition to his wife, he is survived by their three children, David,
of Summit, N.J., and Rafael and Sarah, of Opio, and by his daughter Ariela,
of Amsterdam. Mrs. Legman, his wife since 1966, said she was unsure whether
their marriage was his second or third.
   The son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, Legman grew up in Scranton,
Pa. His parents, he said, expected him to become a rabbi. But he became
interested in erotica at an early age and took to clipping racy jokes out of
magazines, pasting them on index cards and filing them by subject.
   He dropped out of college in his first semester, his wife said. In
interviews, Legman said he had traveled across the country lecturing on
contraception for organizations that promoted birth control and being
arrested for violating anti-obscenity statutes.
   Eventually, he landed in New York, took a series of odd jobs and began
spending long hours at the New York Public Library, cultivating what his
wife called "his interest in all that was erotic and at that time completely
forbidden except in medical circles."
   In the late 1940s, he became editor of Neurotica, a short-lived Freudian
quarterly. Along with work by Allen Ginsberg, Marshall McLuhan and others,
he published his own essays attacking violence in comic books, which later
appeared in his first book, "Love and Death: A Study in Censorship."
   In the book, Legman questioned why children were exposed to lurid
depictions of violence but shielded from descriptions of people making love.
After publishers rejected the manuscript, he published it himself and
distributed it by mail out of his book-cluttered house in the Bronx.
   Shortly afterward, the postal service stopped delivering his mail, Legman
said. So he moved to France with his first wife, Beverly Keith, in 1953.
They settled eventually on the Riviera, having arrived one day by train and
having been overwhelmed by the sight of the bougainvillea, Judith Legman said.
   Legman's first anthology, "The Limerick," appeared in France in 1953 and
later in the United States. Like much of his work, it was encyclopedic; it
contained 1,739 limericks. In 1977, Crown Publishers published a sequel,
"The New Limerick," with 2,750.
   "Rationale of the Dirty Joke" came out in 1968, published by Grove Press.
A second volume, "No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke, 2d
Series," appeared in 1975. In it, Legman sorted more than 2,000 jokes into
categories like "sex and money,"
"castration" and "homosexuality."
   In a review in Time magazine, R.Z. Sheppard called the book "an
undeniable presence, a work of majestic ego that was weathered by new
attitudes and ideas long before completion." The review continued: "In the
future, it will be plundered, measured and
thumbed through for titillation. But the book will remain impervious in all
its pocked dignity, authenticity and embattled romanticism."
   Among Legman's other books are "The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore
and Bibliography" and "Oragenitalism," on oral sex.
   A devotee of paper-folding, he put together a bibliography on the topic
in the early 1950s and is said to have helped initiate a museum exhibition
on origami in Amsterdam.
   Bruce Jackson, a professor of American culture at the State University of
New York at Buffalo and the author of a 1974 book on narrative poetry from
the black oral tradition, said Legman made accessible to other scholars
material that scholarly journals had long been afraid to publish.
   "Legman is the person, more than any other, who made research into erotic
folklore and erotic verbal behavior academically respectable," Jackson said.
"He's utterly famous in the world of erotica for what he did  --  for making
these materials accessible by
providing them freely to anyone who asked and for finding stuff that nobody
else knew about."

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Death anniversaries for the week of 15 March - 21 March:
Monday, 15 March
1975 - Aristotle Onassis; shipping magnate
1998 - Benjamin Spock; child-care author
Wednesday, 17 March
1992 - Grace Stafford; cartoon voice, Woody Woodpecker
Friday, 19 March
1974 - Edward Platt; actor, "Get Smart"
Saturday, 20 March
1974 - Chet Huntley; newscaster
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:36:09 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Interesting Vinyl Finds

At 02:21 PM 3/12/99 -0800, chuck wrote:

>Any comments especially about the ones with ??? are very  welcome, I
>really am just getting my vinyl feet wet again,  its been awhile.

With lists like this one showing up, people are going to start posting
their entire collections.  Anyway, uh....

>Claudine Longet  "Claudine Longet"

Can't ever have too many Claudine's.  I just picked up a rare-ish one
myself which I'll post as soon as I go through this huge pile - most of
which I did NOT pay a buck for.

>King Richards Fluegel Knights "Something Super" ???
>Don Tweedy & His Orchstra "The Honey Touch" ???

I've had records by both these "artists".  They have their moments.  (That
was hardly even worth saying.)

>Living Brass  "Plays Songs by Tom Jones"???

What's with the question marks????   But if you want to be accurate, it's
"songs made famous by Tom Jones".

>"Montenegro in Italy"

General rule of thumb.  Avoid these Montenegro records on this label.

>Brass Ring "Flight of the Phoenix"
>Brass Ring "Only Love"

Since Phil Bodner is God, I don't really need to comment on these.

>David Carrol "Galaxy"???

You must never pass up a David Carroll record.  It may not be great but
even the mediocre ones have amazing surprises.

>Bob Crewe "Music To Watch Girls By"
>Sandpipers 3 Albums

Bob Crewe is also God.  And the Sandpipers are angels.

>Rene Touzet "Below the Border"?????
>Edmundo Ros "Hollywood Cha Cha Cha"
>Tomey Dorsey feat Warren Covington "More Tea for Two Cha Cha Chas"

Rene Touzet is better than Edmondo but this kind of music was apparently so
easy to make that even Tommy Dorsey could make good cha cha records.

>Ray martin "Michelle"???

Ray Martin is more like Krishna than God but this is not Krishna's best
record.

Oh and as far as your last post goes, once more you scored a good Howard
Roberts record.

Oh Oh, and as far as that "Now Sound vs Swingin Sounds" controversy goes, I
must say that I use the term "now sound" to describe all of it, not because
I think it's all that accurate but just to distinguish it from more general
terms like "lounge" or "easy listening".
I don't think I'm going to start distinguishing one form or cheesy 60's
covers from another just on the basis of country of origin.
Why don't we just call it all Schlager and then we can make this the
Schlagerlist?

Nat


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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:49:17 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) BoB ThOmpSon site

Here's a note from Irwin Chusid:
>
>Bob Thompson's son Spenser has created a website devoted to his dad's Space
>Age Pop legacy.........
>
>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/7533/just4kicks/kicks.html
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:48:17 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!

Forwarded for Dana Countryman ([e-mail]) of C&SM Mag:


THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!

WE'VE ADDED 8 PAGES OF BLAZING COLOR TO OUR MAGAZINE, FOR YOUR VIEWING=
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:06:12 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) GoodBye!, the Journal of Contemporary Obituaries

The new issue of GoodBye!, the Journal of Contemporary Obituaries, has been
published on the web.

The new issue covers the months of January and Febuary of 1999.

To read GoodBye!, point your browser to:

http://www.panix.com/~scmiller/goodbye
http://www.panix.com/~scmiller/goodbye/jan99/index.html

Obits in the latest issue include:
Iron Eyes Cody, Movie Brave and Ecology PSA Star
Walter Lini, Vanuatuan
Mario Zacchini, Human Cannonballl
Deaths 100 Years Ago in the NY Tribune
George Popov, Grasshopper Maven
Gene Siskel, Movie Idiot
Jerry Quarry, Great White Hope
Lillian St. Cyr, Ecdysiast
William Whyte, Rules of Walking in the City
Plus Animal Deaths, Deaths Mayhem, and much more.






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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:14:23 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Leah's Lament

its the way the
song sounds that makes me sad

I can relate.   I always thought of this tune this way.

too young to remember it in prime time,
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:17:59 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Strange song selection

I will eventually post a "weekend record acquisition report" based on the
weekend I just spent in "lounge heaven" - otherwise known as Montreal.  So
get your delete fingers ready.
But I have a question based on one of the records I was actually given
while I was there.  It seems that some collectors have no idea what they
have and so if you can find double copies in their collection, sometimes
they might give them to you.
Which happened with me and the Billy Strange "Goldfinger" LP that a certain
guy on this list had two copies of.
But here's the question.
Side two leads off with "Peter Gunn".  Then the next tune is "Dear Hearts".
 Yeah I know it's by Mancini but it's pretty sucky no matter who wrote it.
Right after Dear Hearts, the action picks up again and you've got the
"Munster's Theme" and a few more rockin' tunes, culminating in a
spectacular "Man with the Golden Arm".  What the hell was he thinking with
"Dear Hearts"?????
I don't get it.  Can anyone explain this?  I guess he liked the tune but I
can't imagine anyone who bought this record for all those cool movie themes
like "Theme for Pussy Galore" that wouldn't just snooze through "Dear
Hearts" until the cool music started up again.

I did pay for another Billy Strange record while I was there by the way and
I'll include that in the upcoming post.  But while we're on the subject of
"doubles", I also scored his extra copy of Lew Davies "Strange Interlude"
while I was staying with this listmember.  And I really wanted to steal his
copy of Werner Muller's "Hawaiian Swing" which he only discovered he
actually had after Brian and Cheryl played it for us and blew our minds...
again.

Nat



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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:52:59 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Black Lodge Singers

While listening to WFMU's fund-raising marathon (now in progress) I was
really struck by a powwow version of Mighty Mouse, sung in english, by the
Black Lodge Singers. A little web search later and I found this description
of the CD:

Kids' Pow-Wow Songs by Black Lodge Singers
Sure to be one of the most popular Black Lodge Singers' recordings, this fun
album features powwow songs for kids . Includes songs such as Looney Toons,
Mighty Mouse, Flintstones, Mickey Mouse, Kuna Matata, and more.
http://www.matoska.com/catmain1.htm


Is anyone familiar with the Black Lodge Singers? They seem to have over 20
CDs and cassettes, probably for sale at their performances on the powwow
circuit. I'd appreciate any info on this outfit and recommendations on their
other releases.

- -Lou

(You can listen, and pledge, to WFMU at http://wfmu.org )




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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:54:06 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) my weekend record scores

Sacramento this weekend yielded a few real nice ones:

Planet of the Apes OST on Project 3. I didn't expect to ever see that one,
and then it's right under your nose under Soundtracks "P." Whooopee!

Dorothy Ashby's "The Jazz Harpist," her first album on Regent (1957). YEAH!
And clean bean too! Upgraded my other copy by a small margin.

Soulful Strings "Paint it Black." Cadet records - Richard Evans does it
again. Classic Evans arrangements, and better (I think) than the Soulful
Strings "Groovin' With ...".

Ramsey Lewis "Mother Nature's Son." Another cool record - Ramsey does the
Beatles with Moog and Fender Rhodes! I'm so into this one. Funky, moogy,
and soulful with Ramsey in some really fabulous duds on the cover.

Last weekend in San Francisco yielded (among others):

Harry Stoneham "High Power Hammond." EMI Studio 2 nuttiness. The liner
notes to this one are impossible to believe, describing Harry's "rutted
good looks" among his other qualities. The picture of Harry does indeed
reveal that his face is quite rutted, so rutted in fact, that the "good
looks" evaluation is somewhat questionable. He is also described as someone
who likes fast cars and smoking a pipe - *exactly* how I'd envisioned the
session men of Studio 2! Actually, the notes read more like a celebrity
roast of this regular session man for the glory that was EMI Studio 2 (He's
the organ man on a good number of the Sound Gallery cuts). This, his solo
effort, is strange in that every song is a medley! Sort of a disconcerting
listen, actually, but the cover just about made me wet my pants (shows a
Bird in a half-zipped leather jacket on a Motorcycle, and by Bird, I think
you know what I mean, baby). Very silly.

Clark







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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:56:39 +0100
From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Strange song selection

And I really wanted to steal his
>copy of Werner Muller's "Hawaiian Swing" which he only discovered he
>actually had after Brian and Cheryl played it for us and blew our =
minds...
>again.
>
>Nat

Hawaiian Swing was one of the first exotica records i bought.  Back then =
I had it for laughs more or less on partys, (panic to some, satisfaction =
to others). but it has followed me since and I have come to love it =
deeply. I will look for a copy for you Nat, it is not so rare to find =
here in Sweden. It was rereleased under a different name too, so pay =
attention to any M=FCller with the name Hawaii on it.

Gotta listen to it, bye!

Magnus




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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:34:03 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "The Exotic Beatles" part 3 out now.

part 3 in the "The Exotic Beatles" series is out now on Exotica Records.
price: GBP11, postage included in UK. Europe: BPB12. Rest of the world:
GBP13.

address:

Exotica Records
49, belvoir Road
London SE22 0QY
UK

e-mail: [e-mail]




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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:30:26 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!

Is this the same Jessica? =20


> THE #12 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC MAGAZINE IS HERE!!
>=20
> WE'VE ADDED 8 PAGES OF BLAZING COLOR TO OUR MAGAZINE, FOR YOUR VIEWING =
PLEASURE!

> =95 Ever come across some obscure LP in a thrift store of a local artis=
t, who
> probably sold their records in the lobby of the lounge they performed i=
n? Of
> course you have! That's what Jessica Ford Cameron's article on LOUNGE
> RECORDS is all about. She's gathered up the best of these records in he=
r
> collection to describe why these oddities have a certain charm that you=
'll
> never find on a major record label.


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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:44:45 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Strange song selection

>But here's the question.
>Side two leads off with "Peter Gunn".  Then the next tune is "Dear Hearts".
> Yeah I know it's by Mancini but it's pretty sucky no matter who wrote it.
>Right after Dear Hearts, the action picks up again and you've got the
>"Munster's Theme" and a few more rockin' tunes, culminating in a
>spectacular "Man with the Golden Arm".  What the hell was he thinking with
>"Dear Hearts"?????

Maybe he threw that one in for Mom. Or Grandma.

"Play a *nice* song for Grandma, Billy."


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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:20:44 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Gajillion Strings

At 12:28 AM 1/1/97, Brad Bigelow wrote:
>
>I'm working on an article for "Cool and Strange Music" on strings albums,
>so I've been following the short thread on 101 Strings albums.  I recently
>devoted a month of listening time to an immersion in string music.  And
though I
>plan to be much lengthier and eloquent in the article, to sum up my
>conclusion from this experiment:
>
>Most string music sucks.

>Almost all 101 Strings albums suck.  Even most with interesting covers.
>
>Arranging for strings separates the pros from the hacks.  People like Percy
>Faith really did earn their pay.

I think I'd probably agree that, on the surface, it's more difficult to
arrange strings and that might explain the dreary nature of so many
string-laden records.
But maybe it has something to do with how much you like the sound of
strings in the first place.  Myself I'm a sucker for the organ and I'm sure
that I tolerate many many organ records, not because they're so well
arranged but simply because I like the sound of an organ doing almost
anything.

I guess I just don't see the point of saying that most string records suck.

I'm probably also more tolerant of your "average" brass or horn record but
that doesn't really mean that your average horn record is any better than
your average string record.  It just means that I have a different reaction
to a bunch of horns just laying there than I do to a bunch of strings doing
the same thing.

The Hollyridge Strings have some great moments.  The Soulful Strings are
pretty darn soulful.  I have the Fantabulous Strings doing Sonny and Cher
hits, the Golden Gate Strings doing Dylan and the Marina Strings doing Neil
Diamond and I'd recommend all of them.
Then there's Percy Faith as you mentioned, especially his Black Magic Woman
record and his "Exotic Strings".  I have a great Michel Legrand "Strings on
Fire" record.  Then there are the Clebanoff Strings who have their moments
too.  I have a record of Beatle covers by the Leon Young String Chorale and
it gets my highest marks.

I don't buy records where 101 Strings do their "tribute to the Viennese
Waltz" or "dreary sounds for a dreary day" but I don't buy the horn
versions of those records either.  Maybe dreary string records are
disproportionate compared to other kinds of "easy-listening"
instrumentation but that just means you have to gamble a bit more.  It
doesn't mean you can dismiss them.  Just as you can't dismiss 101 S's.

The thing about the 101 Strings is that they weren't always just this
dreary string section.  Check out their "Golden Oldies" records.  On
Volumes 2 and 3, they do versions of Elvis tunes that are very interesting.
 Their version of "Hound dog" has this Fender Rhodes/fake fusion thing
happening that's just fascinating.
And someone has already mentioned "The Sound of Love" with Bebe Bardon
having an orgasm and "Blues for the Guru" off their Beatles record both of
which are "classics".  And if I'm putting together an "exotica tape", I can
usually a cut or so from 101 Strings "A night in the tropics" or "Dynamic
Percussion" (which also has a pretty cool cover.)

It's a bit strange to be posting this huge string section "defense".  Yeah
I too prefer electric sitar and organ combos but I don't dismiss anything
but polka records.  And just this past weekend, I heard two cuts on a
Werner Muller Hawaiian record that I probably would have passed up.  But I
would have been way wrong.

Most records suck.  Period.  But if you're buying this kind of crap, you
probably shouldn't dismiss "string records" or polkas for that matter.

Nat




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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:03:04 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Caravan of the Bumble Bee

I admit Caravan is one of my favorite tunes of all time.
And Flight of the Bumble Bee isn't,
yet,
It's an astounding phenomenon, how many people took on this bizarre tune
that can only be an excuse to show off chops.  I think a tape full of
Bumble Bee versions would be a mind-bending experience.  Anyone have a
favorite version?

Peter


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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:31:25 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist, 'nother 1

http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/1999-02-24/diamond.Feb.21.13.html


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