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exotica-digest         Tuesday, March 23 1999         Volume 02 : Number 354



In This Digest:

(exotica) Comstock LP
(exotica) bio-profile tv (and a link)
Re: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ?
Re: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ??????
(exotica) fwd: CDnow/N2K merger
(exotica) Streets of San Francisco
Re:  (exotica) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:19:37 -0000
Re:  (exotica) The Now Sound of a filtered 100
(exotica) FYI - Some Japanese LP's
Re: (exotica) FYI - Some Japanese LP's
(exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) Cat Themes
Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) The Electric Indian
(exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air
Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
Re:  Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) Re: Cat Themes
SV: (exotica) Cat Themes
Re: (exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air
(exotica) One eyed Mr. Lucky
(exotica) from the weekend..Films and Christmas
SV: (exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air
(exotica) obits: James McMillan, Eric Stanton, Ernie Wise, David Strickland
Re: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco
(exotica) God I hate to ask . . .
(exotica) Re: Cat Themes
Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for March 24, 1999
(exotica) Abba Pater
Re: (exotica) Abba Pater
(exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore
RE: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:20:59 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Comstock LP

http://www.inhi-fi.com/robots/01/01cmfr.htm


This looks like the restaurant in the middle of the Los Angeles International
Airport!



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:54:57 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) bio-profile tv (and a link)

Those dueling clones, "A&E's Biography" and "Bravo Profiles" include these
items this week:

Charles Aznavour - Bravo - Tuesday night, 10:00pm, 1:30am; Wednesday
afternoon, 3:00pm

McDonald's mogul, Ray Kroc - A&E - Wednesday night, 8:00pm, midnight

John Cleese - Bravo - Wednesday night, 10:00pm, 1:30am; Thursday afternoon,
3:00pm

Dutch Schultz - A&E - Thursday night, 8:00pm, midnight

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Here's a cool "daily pick" tv site I recently stumbled on:
http://www.tvultra.com/


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:12:50 +0000
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ?

(apologies if this is the second time)

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:38:34 -0000
> From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ?????? / Jimmy Smith live in London
>
> hey gang
>
> Ok so I don't really watch TV an awful lot (an hour a week is usually
> enough) but right now here on UK terrestrial there is an ad for (I think) a
> chocolate bar, with a great ska soundtrack, real old and muddy-sounding. I
> must have it! Does anyone know what it is?, or even if it's authentic?
>
not having a tv at the moment (damn! i'll never be ready to enter the
Jetsonian world of the year 2000 at this rate) i'm not sure on this, but i
noticed that there is an advert using
Two Badcard ft Dennis Alcapone 'Leaving Rome' (On-U)
but that might be too slow to be what you're thinking of, and it's only 1996
(but sounds older)

.m


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:10:20 +0000
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ??????

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:38:34 -0000
> From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Ska tune in chocolate ad (UK TV) ?????? / Jimmy Smith live in London
>
> hey gang
>
> Ok so I don't really watch TV an awful lot (an hour a week is usually
> enough) but right now here on UK terrestrial there is an ad for (I think) a
> chocolate bar, with a great ska soundtrack, real old and muddy-sounding. I
> must have it! Does anyone know what it is?, or even if it's authentic?
>
not having a tv at the moment (damn! i'll never be ready to enter the
Jetsonian world of the year 2000 at this rate) i'm not sure on this, but i
noticed that there is an advert using
Two Badcard ft Dennis Alcapone 'Leaving Rome' (On-U)
but that might be too slow to be what you're thinking of, and it's only 1996
(but sounds older)

.m


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:21:38 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: CDnow/N2K merger

     < @ N Y >
     Issue 4.29
     March 19, 1999
     http://www.atnewyork.com
     The Silicon Alley Network

        ^ While Silicon Alley waited this week for the super-hyped iVillage
IPO, a group of business people gathered quietly on the 25th floor of the
New York Information Technology Center at 55 Broad Street. The occasion was
the formal board approval and closing of the merger of N2K and CDnow, a deal
made even more urgent by the fast growth of Amazon.com's online music sales.
CDnow and N2K now go forward as a single company with the stronger CDnow
brand out front, executive offices here in Silicon Alley, and renewed
strength of fight the online music wars.

       ^ CDNOW, N2K COMPLETE MERGER, SET SIGHTS ON DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC . .
. The ink is finally dry on the deal that unites one time rival music
marketers CDnow and Silicon Alley start up N2K. The combined company will
operate under the CDnow moniker, company exec announced. N2K's New York
offices, at the New York Information Technology Center at 55 Broad Street,
will serve as the combined company's headquarters and will house much of the
company's sales and marketing staff. But CDnow's facility in Fort Wayne,
Pennsylvania will be home to most of the company's employees including Web
developers and back-end office staff. On a combined basis the company would
have had 1.6 million customers and $98.5 million in revenues at the end of
1998, making it one of the biggest companies in Silicon Alley. Jon Diamond,
co-founder and CEO of N2K, will be chairman of the board of CDnow, Inc.,
while Jason Olim will remain as president and CEO.

In the months since the deal was first reached in principal, Olim and
Diamond have quietly been busy reinventing the business. Before they agreed
to merge, CDnow and N2K had waged a war against one another for distribution
with each company agreeing to high guaranteed payments to get high traffic
real estate at portal sites like Excite and Yahoo. Together the companies
have nearly all of the high profile sites sewn up and can drive a harder
bargain. In an interview with @NY, Diamond said the company has already
renegotiated several of its portal deals to lower customer acquisition cost.
Diamond said last year the combined company would have spend $50 a head on
fixed customer acquisition costs, not including the costs of special
one-time promotional and direct marketing deals. That will go down this
year. In addition, the companies will dramatically trim the combined
advertising budget, said Olim, since the new CDnow won't be marketing
against N2K.

But when the companies take the wraps off the new Website that will combine
the CDnow and Music Boulevard sites, there will be a brand new focus on
downloadable music. "I think the number of people using MP3 demonstrates
that the core competency is there," said Olim. "We'll be using the eMod
platform that N2K developed, building on top of it a whole-album download
strategy."

Basically, just as software consumers at Beyond.Com can order their software
on disk or download it directly, so CDnow customers will be able to order
albums on CD, cassette or through whatever downloadable formats conforming
with the security measures the record industry is expected to adopt this
fall. Olim and Diamond said they're already talking with independent labels
about direct download opportunities. And they expect to involve the major
labels with direct download promotions and with sales of back catalogue
titles. "Digital distribution is going to be an important part of our
business," said Olim.

The pair also plan to being offering music-related products for sale
including MP3 players, music related book, and videos and DVD's. But,
although Olim and Diamond were very talkative about plans for the combined
site they were mum on whether or not the combined entity is in acquisition
talks. Published reports over the last several months have suggested that
the combined company has many suitors including, Time Warner,
Barnesandnoble.com, and even chief rival Amazon.Com.




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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:36:37 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Eric Marvin)
Subject: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco


     First time poster longtime lurker.  Looking for soundtracks for any of
     a number of 70's cop shows, especially Streets of San Francisco,
     Baretta, Cannon, or Barnaby Jones.  Do they exist?  Any help would be
     greatly appreciated.

     Thanks
     [e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:28:35 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:19:37 -0000

In a message dated 3/22/99 8:21:46 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I think I've fallen off the list,  its been
>very quiet since Friday,

leading one to suspect that most people are using computers at work for their
transmission and reception


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:25:32 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) The Now Sound of a filtered 100

In a message dated 3/21/99 9:17:15 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>It's the Benson & Hedges jingle.  I
>haven't heard the thing in nearly 30 years and now I can't stop humming the
>frickin' thing.
>
>So here's are the questions.  Who wrote it?  Who performed it, and if anyone
>knows anything else interesting about it, like the name of the song if it has
>one, that would be great?

It could be "The Disadvantages Of You' by The Brass Ring off the LP of the
same name (and a funny cover too, a silly millimeter wider)


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:17:24 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FYI - Some Japanese LP's

These were picked-up by a friend......maybe interesting - maybe not!

<<In other news, I listened to those Japanese records I bought and -
of course - learned that I have so much more to learn.  As hoped, these
records provided me with a great deal to think about... as well as serving
as launching pad for further investigation.  The first record I listened =
to
was the one with the song "Tokyo No Bus-Girl" on it.  Being a "pop" =
record,
I guess it should come as no surprise that it did not sound distinctly
"Japanese".  Still, I did not expect that there would be so little that =
was
recognizably "Japanese" about it.  In fact, it sounded more like an
impassioned Eastern European peasant lament (complete with an accordion),
though it was backed by a 1940's Hollywood movie Big Band sound!  The =
B-side
was equally unusual.  Again, rather than sounding "Japanese", it sounded =
not
at all unlike a traditional British Whistling tune.  Pretty cool, =
actually.

    The second record was also interesting.  Though the 4 songs (more
folky, than "pop") were punctuated with stereotypically Japanese string
plucking, the singing was composed of what I have come to accept as
Arabic-influenced yodeling and rhythms.  Odder still, these were interrupte=
d
by a chanting chorus of children (or high-pitched women), more familiar - =
to
me at least - as a component of Eastern European folk songs.

    Finally, there's the picture disk, which I discovered is part of a
series of records, offering Western listeners an audio tour of Japan.  =
This
particular record explores the sounds - past and present - of the city of
Kyoto.  While side one is comprised of very traditional Japanese
classical-folk music, side two finds an English language narrator guiding
the listener through Kyoto, stopping along the way to listen to the =
delicate
song of a wandering flower peddlar, the robust chorus of sake brewers, the
solemn bell-ringing of the Shin-sect monks, etc.  All-in-all, I'd say it =
was
a damn fine purchase!>>





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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:44:55 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) FYI - Some Japanese LP's

>
>        The second record was also interesting.  Though the 4 songs (more
>folky, than "pop") were punctuated with stereotypically Japanese string
>plucking, the singing was composed of what I have come to accept as
>Arabic-influenced yodeling and rhythms.  Odder still, these were interrupted
>by a chanting chorus of children (or high-pitched women), more familiar - to
>me at least - as a component of Eastern European folk songs.
>

By this description it maybe folk music from the Island of Okinawa, which
is part of Japan.

- -----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:05:24 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cat Themes

Hi!
I'm back after almost a month hiatus due to a screwy new server and I've
e got a fun little query for you all to ponder.

I'm planning (or more realistically would like to be able to do in the
future) a cat themed radio show of our treasured 50's and 60's music.
So far I have found the following tunes in my collection:

The theme to the Pink Panther (natch)
What's new Pussy Cat (double natch)
Pussy's theme - Ray Martin doing JB stuff
Something for Cat -Breakfast at Tiffanys
Andre Williams - Sweet little Pussy Cat -Las Vegas grind
Theme to Top Cat
Theme to A walk on the Wild Side (see the movie and you'll get it)
The Ocelot - Honey West soundtrack

and I'm still looking for my copy of the Daktari sound rack with a
Clarence the cross-eyed lion tune on it.

I've got a long way to go before I get a shows worth of material but I
just thought of this idea this morning so there's still a good chance of
me finding the material in my records if I'm reminded of a few titles.
So, put your cat clothes on and try to think up some 50's and 60's cat
tunes. From my examples you can see that I'm certainly open to jungle
cats or even a cat related song whose title does not reflect this.

Thanks,
Long lost Frank




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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:17:02 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cat Themes

How about...

Kitten on the Keys - Dick Hyman
Alley Cat - Bent Fabric
Pet Me, Poppa - Rosemary Clooney
The Scratch - James Brown
Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:52:19 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

How about...
Alley Cat - Bent Fabric

Wow! I knew that there was an obvious candidate that I was over looking.
I just looked to find the version by David Carroll that I have, I know i
have one or two others but at the risk of a brain hemorrhage I'll try
not to think too hard on it.

Thanks,
Frank



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:04:11
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Electric Indian

"Keem-O-Sabe " by the Electric Indian was a big instrumental hit in
Philadelphia, where the record was made. It also charted nationally at #16,
according to the Billboard Top 40 book. The album charted at #104.

Borisoff is indeed Len Barry (formerly of the Dovells), and many of the
people involved in manking the single and album were the staff musicians
who made the Philadelphia International records of the early '70s. You can
hear the trademark TSOP strings and rhythm section stylings clearly.

The original pressing of "Keem-O-Sabe/Broad Street" was on the Marmaduke
label, but you probably won't find that outside of Philly.




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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:06:19 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air

I was just listening to my local Public Radio Station and they announced
that on tomorrow's edition of the interview show Fresh Air that  host
Terry Gross would be interviewing John Barry, specifically focusing on
his James Bond period!!
I'm ready to tape this one.

Frank



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:07:38 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

"Teach Me Tiger" April Stevens

"Cat's Eye In The Night" Claude Yvoire and His Orchestra from "Jewels From
Cartier: Gem Portraits by Louis Alter" (RCA, 1956)


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:12:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

"Go Go Kitty" by the New Bangs
Available on "Only in America" (Arf Arf Records)


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:43:34 -0600
From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Cat Themes

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funny you should ask...  i've been meaning to make a cat show myself
and have this list from my collection so far...


Howard Roberts       Pussy Cat (or Cy Coleman)
Henry Mancini        Something for Cat  (or Barney Kessel)
Henry Mancini        One Eyed Cat  (or George Wilkins)
Henry Mancini        The Pink Panther Theme (or many others to choose from)
Henry Mancini        The Dancing Cat
Fred Astaire         The Panther Mambo
Don Ralke            Black Panther
Les Baxter           Peking Tiger
George Wilkins       Toy Tiger
Markko Polo          Night of the Tiger
Sounds Orchestral    Blues for Pussy
Arthur Lyman         The (Jungle) Cat
Quincy Jones         What's New Pussycat? (or Burt Bacharach)
Lalo Schifrin        The Cat
Combustible Edison   Cat o' Nine Tails
Perez Prado          Tomcat Mambo
Doc Severinsen       Hey, Pretty Pussycat!
Buddy Morrow         The Black Cat
Harmonicats          The Cats Meow
Harmonicats          Catwalk
Sondi Sodsai         Siamese Cat Song
Phil Harris          The Persian Kitten
Burt Bacharach       Pussy Cats on Parade
April Stevens        Teach Me Tiger


ciao ciao ciao!

  - kk


> So, put your cat clothes on and try to think up some 50's and 60's cat
> tunes. From my examples you can see that I'm certainly open to jungle
> cats or even a cat related song whose title does not reflect this.




visit...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
             http://www.tamboo.com
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funny you should ask...  i've been meaning to make a cat show myself
and have this list from my collection so far...



<fontfamily><param>Courier</param><bigger>Howard Roberts       Pussy
Cat (or Cy Coleman)

Henry Mancini        Something for Cat  (or Barney Kessel)

Henry Mancini        One Eyed Cat  (or George Wilkins)

Henry Mancini        The Pink Panther Theme (or many others to choose
from)

Henry Mancini        The Dancing Cat

Fred Astaire         The Panther Mambo

Don Ralke            Black Panther

Les Baxter           Peking Tiger

George Wilkins       Toy Tiger

Markko Polo          Night of the Tiger

Sounds Orchestral    Blues for Pussy

Arthur Lyman         The (Jungle) Cat

Quincy Jones         What's New Pussycat? (or Burt Bacharach)

Lalo Schifrin        The Cat

Combustible Edison   Cat o' Nine Tails

Perez Prado          Tomcat Mambo

Doc Severinsen       Hey, Pretty Pussycat!

Buddy Morrow         The Black Cat

Harmonicats          The Cats Meow

Harmonicats          Catwalk

Sondi Sodsai         Siamese Cat Song

Phil Harris          The Persian Kitten

Burt Bacharach       Pussy Cats on Parade

April Stevens        Teach Me Tiger



</bigger></fontfamily>ciao ciao ciao!


  - kk



<excerpt>So, put your cat clothes on and try to think up some 50's and
60's cat

tunes. From my examples you can see that I'm certainly open to jungle

cats or even a cat related song whose title does not reflect this.

</excerpt>





visit...


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T

             http://www.tamboo.com

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 04:37:52 +0100
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Cat Themes

What about:
"The Cat" Jimmy Smith and Lalo Schifrin. Its hot!



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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 99 23:12:40 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air

>I was just listening to my local Public Radio Station and they announced
>that on tomorrow's edition of the interview show Fresh Air that  host
>Terry Gross would be interviewing John Barry, specifically focusing on
>his James Bond period!!
>I'm ready to tape this one.
I hope he focuses on his Bond period indeed, because his new,
non-soundtrack CD is really boring. Lotsa sweeping violins. Blah.

Elisabeth


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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:24:36 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) One eyed Mr. Lucky

Thanks to King Kini for adding, among others,  Mancini's "One eyed Cat"
from Mr. Lucky to my ever growing list of cat tunes.

I just happen to notice that on the album cover is indeed a picture of a
one eyed cat!!
Having never seen the original television show  Mr. Lucky I haven't a
clue as to the significance of this, if there is any. So what's the poop
(cat poop) on this?

Frank



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:38:09 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) from the weekend..Films and Christmas

A bit of a good weekend for films.  At least for me.

Firstly, The Presidents Analyst with James Coburn.  Great soundtrack by
Lalo Schiffrin,  very groovy 60's sound,  does anyone know if there is
an OST for this?  Also there were scenes on the road with a hippie band
in the middle (Mr Coburn on the Gong,  oh yes) which I quite enjoyed,
were this lot a real band,  I didn't recognise them.  Great fun.  Also
on the James Coburn tip was in like flint,  not as impressed with the
soundtrack on this one (Jerry Goldsmith?  my girlfriend told me but I
wasn't really paying much attention). If it was Goldsmith,  I've seen
his name on lots of films but nothing that comes to mind,  Has he any
outstanding Soundtracks to look out for?

 And Life Force,  which was also great,  like Species done by Gerry
Anderson or Space 1999,  great mostly British cast and a quite poor
soundtrack by Mancini.  Also the lead actress only has clothes in one
scene,  of course absolutely vital to the plot.  directed by Tobe
Hooper,  I bet Joe Bob loved this one (four stars,  check it out).

Totally unseasonally I got Herb Alperts Christmas LP a week or so ago,
a real find for me.  One side is great,  among the best Christmas LP's
I've got,  and the other is so dire it's untrue.  Now thats a well
programmed LP,  just play side 1.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:57:01 +0100
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) John Barry on Fresh Air

Elisabeth wrote:
>his new, non-soundtrack CD is really boring

>Lotsa sweeping violins.=20

How many? 101?

M








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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:01:27 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obits: James McMillan, Eric Stanton, Ernie Wise, David Strickland

                          *James McMillan
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- James McMillan, a black leader who led the fight to
integrate Las Vegas and its casino industry in 1960, died Saturday of
cancer. He was 82.
    McMillan, who served several terms as head of the Las Vegas chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was best known
for his battle with the city's white establishment. The fight came at a time
when top name black entertainers headlined at Strip hotels, but could not
stay in them.
    In 1960, McMillan sent a letter to business and civic leaders throughout
Nevada, threatening a massive march on the Strip if the white-only resorts
did not change their racist policies.
    Days before the march was to be held, the casino industry agreed to
integration.

                           *Eric Stanton
    CLINTON, Conn. (AP) -- Eric Stanton, an erotic illustrator who drew pinup
icon Bettie Page, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 72.
    Stanten, born Ernest A. Stanten, was dubbed by biographers and archivists
the ``Father of Fetish'' and ``Eric the Wild.'' He was seen in some circles
as an underground pioneer at a time when his work, once confiscated by New
York police, was considered taboo.
    He is the subject of several books, including a coffee table volume, ``Eric
Stanton: Dominant Wives and Other Stories,'' by the German publisher Taschen.
    Most of his illustrations were done on commission for private buyers around
the world, according to the book's introduction. His images depicting
dominant women captured a range of fetishes and were printed in more than
100 adult novels and magazines.
    His subjects included Bettie Page, a sexual icon of the World War II era.
    Stanten also worked as a cartoonist for two newspapers in New York, the
Daily News and the Brooklyn Mirror.

                            *Ernie Wise
    LONDON (AP) -- Ernie Wise, the consummate straight man who entertained
Britons for four decades with his comic partner, Eric Morecambe, died Sunday
from heart failure and a chest infection. He was 73.
    Wise and Morecambe were one of Britain's best-loved comedy teams. Their
Christmas specials became television classics.
    Known as the one with the ``short, fat, hairy legs,'' Wise was the straight
man in the two-man act. Wise said Morecambe was the ``show'' while he was
the ``business.''
    Morecambe died in 1984, and Wise did some solo work but never reached the
level of success he'd enjoyed with his partner. He retired from show
business three years ago.
    Born Ernest Wiseman, Wise left school at 13 and teamed up with Morecambe
three years later in a show called ``Youth Takes a Bow.''
    In 1976, Morecambe and Wise were awarded OBE medals -- Officer of the Order
of the British Empire -- by the queen.

                         *David Strickland
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- David Strickland, who played the music critic on the NBC
sitcom ``Suddenly Susan'' and had a role in the new movie ``Forces of
Nature,'' was found dead in a motel room Monday. He was 28.
    A worker at the Oasis Motel found Strickland's body hanging from a bed
sheet strung from a ceiling beam, and chair was next to the body. Police
were investigating the death as a suicide.
    Strickland played Todd on NBC's ``Suddenly Susan,'' which stars Brooke
Shields as a magazine writer. He had been on the show for the last three
seasons.
    Strickland also appears in ``Forces of Nature,'' starring Sandra Bullock
and Ben Affleck. Strickland played the ex-boyfriend of Affleck's fiancee.

Al Hirt's condition upgraded:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990323/02/entertainment-hirt





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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:08:01 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco

eric writes:

<< Looking for soundtracks for any of
      a number of 70's cop shows, especially Streets of San Francisco,
      Baretta, Cannon, or Barnaby Jones.  Do they exist?  Any help would be
      greatly appreciated. >>

to the best of my knowledge, i'm afraid the answer is no.

the best you'll be able to come up with would be collections of tv themes from
that period.  i know henry mancini did a cop theme record and i have one by
johnny gregory...there is also that series of tv themes, must be five or six
of them, with sixty tracks each...


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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:31:48 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) God I hate to ask . . .

I hate to ask this question because I absolutely despise The Gap . . .
.however, they had a commercial on The Oscars that was called "Khaki A Go Go"
with some cool spy-jazzy type music.  Anybody see it?  Anybody know where it
is from?  I hate it when the Gap ads have something worth talking about.

Robert


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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:28:19 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Cat Themes

There's a song on one of the Strip comps. (Las Vegas Grind Vol. 1 or 2) =
where the guy makes "meoooow" sounds and says something like "Nice little =
pussy cat"

- - Nate

(Nobody knew anything about that "Brains" dance tune???? C'mon!!!!)



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:09:46 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

At 07:05 PM 3/22/99 -0400, recliner wrote:
>I'm planning (or more realistically would like to be able to do in the
>future) a cat themed radio show of our treasured 50's and 60's music.
>So far I have found the following tunes in my collection:

Is it too late for "Walking my cat named dog" by Norma Tanega?



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:50:19 -0500
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for March 24, 1999

Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph,
Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Enoch Light - I'm in the Mood for Love "Persuasive Percussion"
Dimitri from Paris - Une Very Stylish Fille "Sacrebleu"
Francoise Hardy - Another Place "Maid in Paris"

Massive Attack - Karmacoma "Protection"
Nino Nardini & the Pop Riviera Group - Latinova "Rotonde Musique"

The Wolfgang Dauner Group - Reading Machine "Rischkas Soul"
The Other Side - Lion Hunt "(Don't Look Back) Behind the Shack"
Nino Nardini & the Pop Riviera Group - Frisco Hills "Rotonde Musique"
Gert Wilden - Blues Party "Schulmadchen Report"

The Tiki Tones - Island Uprising "Idol Pleasures"
X-Ray Tango - Chile City "Spy Fidelity"
Southern Culture on the Skids - House of Bamboo "Plastic Seat Sweat"
Enoch Light - Japanese Sandman "Persuasive Percussion"

Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Dowopsalsaboprock "In Praise of Older Women &
Other Crimes"

Thanks for reading...
Allan

Websites of Interest:

Desco Records http://www.descorecords.com/
Kid Creole http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/studio/7054/coconuts.html



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:21:59 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Abba Pater

Anyone bought the Pope's CD yet?


Arjan



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:02:08 -0800
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Abba Pater

Arjan Plug wrote:
>
> Anyone bought the Pope's CD yet?

no, but i heard a story about it on NPR this morning.........!! I was
going to mention it on the list- sounds like a prime candidate for a
future WEIRD record!! (Not that it's not weird NOW!) it was pretty
awful......... imagine a really weak Enigma sound-alike with the pope
over the top instead of chanting monks............ eeeeeeeeeeeeshh!!!

:)pea


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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:07:49 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore

Crank up the RealAudio and head to:

http://wnyc.com/newsinfo/index.html

Meet Brother Theodore =A0=20
Theodore is one of the most influential monologuists alive today. Known for
his dark humor and decades of solo performances, he is believed to be around
92 years old. A year and a half ago, Brother Theodore fell down in his Upper
West Side apartment and hasn't performed since. Jon Kalish recently visited
him at home. Morning Edition

=20




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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:52:20 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes

> Is it too late for "Walking my cat named dog" by Norma Tanega?
>=20
>=20
Howzabout "Everybody wants to be a cat" From the Aristocats OST.




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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:16:00 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore

At 05:07 PM 3/23/99 -0600, I wrote:
>Crank up the RealAudio and head to:
>http://wnyc.com/newsinfo/index.html
>Meet Brother Theodore =A0

My mistake. They haven't loaded a RA link to the actual radion interview.
Instead there's a transcript of the piece:

Meet Brother Theodore =A0=20
=A0By John Kalish
Brother Theodore is one of the most influential monologuists alive today.
Known for his dark humor and decades of solo performances, he is believed to
be around 92 years old. A year and a half ago, Brother Theodore fell down in
his Upper West Side apartment and hasn't performed since. Jon Kalish
recently visited him at home.=20

Brother Theodore grew up in Germany, the son of a wealthy Jewish family. His
parents were murdered by the Nazis, and Theodore spent a year in the Dachau
concentration camp. The Nazis released him after he signed over the family
publishing business to the Third Reich. He came to America and started
performing in San Francisco. But it was in New York that his career took
off. In the 1960's he sold out Town Hall six times.=20

Theodore from LP: My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from
a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics,
vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters...=20

In his macabre one-man show, Brother Theodore bemoaned the futility of life
and heaped abuse upon his audience, prompting the "Daily News" to dub him "a
genius of the sinister." He is a short man with a full head of unruly gray
hair who basically made a career out of being himself and got away with it.
TV talk show hosts appreciated Theodore's ability to titillate audiences. In
the 1960's and 70's he made dozens of appearances on the Merv Griffin Show.
In the 1980's and 90's he was a guest on David Letterman's show more than
twenty times.=20

Theodore: To tell you the truth, whenever I come here and sit on this chair,
you know, because of your overpowering personality, I start immediately
sweating like a chunk of rancid pork [laughter]. All over my body.

Letterman: Would you like a tissue?=20

Brother Theodore performed once a week at the 13th Street Theater in the
Village for 17 years. This is from one of his last shows at the Theater.
Theodore in performance at the 13th Street Theater: To be Brother Theodore
is no bed of roses. I'm the bride at every funeral. I'm the corpse at every
wedding. Each time I look into the mirror I burst into tears. Sure, sure. I
burst into tears.=20

The man who has seen more Brother Theodore performances than anyone else is
Tom O'Connor, who served as Theodore's stage manager for more than 15 years.=
=20

O'Connor: Many people knew of him. They knew his name but they had no idea
of what he did and they would ask me "What is the show? Will I like it?
Should I come to see it?" And I would tell everyone "You have to see it. If
you come to see it and you hate it, you still have to see it because there
is nobody else like him. There is nobody else doing what he does."

In the summer of 1997, Brother Theodore fell at home. He broke his nose and
his hip and hasn't performed since. He can barely walk, and hardly ever
leaves his Upper West Side studio apartment. Theodore: I'm in perpetual
pain. Arthritis, you know and, uh, I don't want really to go into it. People
are not interested in my woes. They say old people talk about nothing but
what ails them, you know. I lost many friends by talking incessantly about
my pain. They're not interested in my pain.=20

Those who have followed Theodore's career are struck that the material in
his act now seems to describe his real life.

Theodore in performance at the 13th Street Theater: There is no mail at the
mailbox. The telephone never rings. The party is over!=20

O'Connor: As Theodore has grown older...

[Stage manager Tom O'Connor.]=20

O'Connor: ...the truth of what he says in his show has sort of come home to
roost for him. You know, he's always been obsessed with death. He's always
been aware of what a frail existence we lead, but that awareness, I think,
was intellectual, and I think that as the years have progressed and he's
seen his physical condition deteriorate, I think, of course, he can only
become more aware of how true are the things that he says in his show.=20

Theodore: If you said to me "Theodore, we pay you $20,000 and you perform at
Town Hall," I might be able to do it and afterwards, simply drop dead. The
alternative is to lie safely in my bed and don't perform and have to wait
three or four or five years in utter loneliness and in great pain and
confusion. So I might take the risk to do it once and say "OK, so I die
after the show." But it's better to have the applause and die, than to lie
here for the next five years and end up in a nursing home forever and ever
and ever.

Brother Theodore may yet perform again. A video crew has recorded him at
home doing short excerpts from his solo show and is shopping a demo tape
around cable TV networks. There is also talk of a voice over career. But
Theodore recently turned down an invitation to appear on Howard Stern's
radio program.=20

Brother Theodore is an avowed atheist, but that hasn't prevented him from
seeking assistance from above in jumpstarting his career.=20

Theodore: Dear God, if you exist, help me. And if you don't exist, help me
anyway.

Thank you. This is Jon Kalish, for WNYC. member Association of Independents
in Radio and National Writers Union... visit kalish.con at
http://www.jcn18.com/newstand/kalish=20




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