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exotica-digest        Wednesday, March 24 1999        Volume 02 : Number 355



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Sammy Cahn's morals/bollywood/ESG
(exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"
(exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"
(exotica) Montreal weekend purchases (loooong)
(exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"
Re (exotica) Cat Themes
Re:  (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"
(exotica) Re: Cat Themes
(exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask)
(exotica) Johnny Spots
(exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask)
(exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery
(exotica) Re:  Streets of San Francisco
RE: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery
Re: (exotica) Streets of San Francisco
Re: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore
(exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial
Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial
(exotica) Re: Elephants  (was Gap A Go Go)
Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) obit: Charles Sawtelle
(exotica) Pagan Love
(exotica) one-note promo
(exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants
Re: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"
Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial
[Robert McKenna: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants]
Re: (exotica) Pagan Love
Re: (exotica) Abba Pater
(exotica) Cat Songs
Fw: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"
Re: (exotica) Cat Themes
RE: (exotica) Cat Themes
(exotica) "Sauvageblue"
(exotica) Re: B J Snowden on WFMU
(exotica) who luvs ya, baby ?
(exotica) Ray Conniff singers....
Re: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes
Re: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers....
Re: (exotica) ESG

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:06:19 -0500
From: Angela <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Sammy Cahn's morals/bollywood/ESG

Thanks much to those who came round with the welcome wagon after my initial
hello-post last time.
    I've always thought one of the best places to jump into that swarming
vortex of screwed up American morality could be found in the lyrics to
Disney's (from Peter Pan) "What Made The Red Man Red":

    What made the red man red?
    When did he first say 'ugh'?
    Let's go back two million years
    when we didn't know what we know now
    but the Indian kept on asking questions
    and learned it all by asking 'how'

And those lyrics were of course written by the great Sammy Cahn.  I don't
quite have them right here, as I'm going from memory, and there's a verse
about the red man's sqaw getting a divorce from him which shouldn't be
missed.  So dig out your kids records and check up on this one sometime.
You will not find these sorts of lyrics on the net's Disney lyric pages,
btw.
    About Bollywood (why isn't it Bali-wood?), there's a new compilation out
by the same people who put out those "Love Peace and Poetry" compilations of
60s psych (QDK Media).  It's called "Doob, Doob O'Rama".  While it's true
that anyone who lives in an urban area can get cassettes of Indian film
soundtracks for an awful lot cheaper- you're not guaranteed a high quantity
of musical oddness.  This is a good introduction and features some tracks
from Lata Whatshername (help me with this one please?), the most-recorded
recording artist in history.
    Finally, would someone clue me in with some ESG history and reviews?  I
don't know much about them and would like to get the scoop.
    Thanks again.

- --
- -Angela
http://www.musicfile.com/sunshine
"The Biggest Little Record Store In The World"



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:10:31 -0500
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"

Went down to The Place Where You Pay Towering Prices to pick up the latest
copy of "Cool and Strange Music Magazine".  Great magazine. Have to
subscribe soon.

Window shopping and saw Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue". Is this the one
everyone was talking about earlier on the list? The album with music remixed
for the commercial?

If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket
through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new.





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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:58:29 -0600
From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"

buy the damn thing!!   that's the one!   it's gotta be 3 years old by now!!

 - kk


> Window shopping and saw Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue". Is this the one
> everyone was talking about earlier on the list? The album with music remixed
> for the commercial?
>
> If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket
> through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new.




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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:02:50 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Montreal weekend purchases (loooong)

It's a week late but here's a list of my Montreal vinyl purchases.
Just doing my part to keep those lists of records flowing.  The basic
message is "These records exist!"
I was in Montreal to show a bit of my film-in-progress to some of Professor
Will Straw's students but really that was just a way of paying for the trip
and getting a two hundred dollar honorarium which I could - and did - blow
on records.
Montreal is nothing like Toronto when it comes to lounge/exotica/NOW sound,
in that it's an identified genre there and many of the stores have large
sections dedicated to it.  In Toronto, it's catch-as-catch-can.

The records I bought ranged from one to six dollars.  I did buy two for
eight dollars, both of which I now regret.  One was one of those double
Command compilations - The Kaleidoscopic Keyboard Stylings of Dick Hyman.
There's only a couple of organ cuts and I find his piano work to be
pedestrian.
The other one I had great hope for.  It's in the "Stereo Workshop Series"
which I'd never seen before.  I passed up the Buddy Cole record in that
series and instead bought the Shorty Rogers one, hoping it would be some
great lost crime-jazz gem.  It wasn't.  Still, nice packaging.

Okay here's the list, with the minimum of comment...

"NOW SOUND" (basically...):
John Keating Sounds Galactic - "Astromusical Odyssey"
Enoch Light Four Channel Stereo (Sampler)
Enoch Light Four Channel "Dynamite"
Ron Frangipane - "Rated X for Excitement" (better than I expected but not
great)
Carl Swoboda - "Dancing Zither" (not bad)
Earl Palmer - "Drumsville" (thought it would be funky, unfortunately more
leaden)
Willie Mitchell - "On Top"  (the pick of the litter)
Les Baxter - "Love is Blue" (full of promise undelivered)
Duane Eddy - "Biggest Twang of them All" (not great but cool to have Duane
doing  tunes like "Where were you when I needed you")
Billy Strange "Plays the Hits"
Billy Strange and the Challengers (a cool thing, Billy with a
semi-legitimate surf band but the moments are far between)
Sandy Nelson "Beat that *&%$ drum"
Sandy Nelson "Beat Goes On" (great cover)
Sandy Nelson "Groovy" (I've now reached saturation on Sandy Nelson.  Only
his best records are in Ventures territory but Ventures records in Montreal
were all basically twelve bucks)

LOUNGE/EXOTICA:
Perez Prado "Twist Goes Latin"  (good Perez records are not that easy to
find at this point.  This is one of them.)
Si Zentner et al "Exotica Suite" (Who cares if this is good? I finally have
the record with the burlap on it!)
Francis Bay "Latin Heat Cha Cha Cha" (not much heat but pleasant anyway)
Clebanoff - "Lush, Latin and Bossa Nova" (truth in advertising)
Jack Costanzo "Mr.Bongo Plays Hi Fi" (still don't get the Costanzo
thing....??)
Buddy Merrill "Many Splendored Guitar"
Buddy Merrill "Sounds of Love" (always happy to find Buddy records but so
far none has come within a mile of the first one I got "Land of a Thousand
Guitars")

SINGERS/CROONERS
Claudine Longet "Let's Spend the Night Together" (surprisingly good
Claudine playing with the early 70's L.A. Tom Scott studio types)
Frank Sinatra JR. - "It's All Right" (produced by Billy Strange, in
Nashville on a totally obscure little label.  Couldn't Daddy have gotten
him a better label???)
Sammy Davis "Now" (if you've never heard him do "John Shaft", you must!)
Regis Philbin - "Time for Regis" (done in his Joey Bishop days, he can
almost sing.  not bad enough to be funny)
Telly Savalas - "Who Loves Ya Baby" (another Telly record.  Another gem.)
Best of Buddy Greco (including his six-minute take on "Like a Rolling Stone")
April Stevens - "Teach me Tiger" (a real record by a real singer)
Jack Jones - "For the In Crowd" (can always use more Jack)

I was sick the week I played them but most of them made me sicker.  I think
it was mostly the guilt.  Or maybe I've finally reached over-saturation on
the (cheesy) sixties covers.  It was amazing to be around all those bins
and bins and bins of easy listening but on some level, it was less fun to
be around so many  It's hard to know what to buy when so many of them are
vaguely appropriate.

If this wasn't so long already, I would comment on the charmed lives led by
Montreal listers Will, Cheryl and Brian but suffice to say, I was jealous
all weekend.  And not just because of the records.

Nat





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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:14:51 -0500
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"

>>buy the damn thing!!   that's the one!   it's gotta be 3 years old by
now!!

OK OK! wow, I've only been interested in this kind of music for about 1
year. That's when I first tuned into Jimmy's program. So it's all new to me.



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:39:35 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re (exotica) Cat Themes

Let's get nasty with Blowfly: "Who Did I Eat Last Night?"


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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:51:02 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Re: Dimitri From Paris's "Sacrebleu"

In a message dated 3/23/99 7:14:00 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>>buy the damn thing!!   that's the one!   it's gotta be 3 years old by
>
>now!!
>
>
>
>OK OK! wow, I've only been interested in this kind of music for about 1
>
>year. That's when I first tuned into Jimmy's program. So it's all new to me.
>
And its all new to everyone at some point fellas and gals. I knew jack about
this stuff until I stumbled into Brother Cleve's "Saturnalia" night at the
Lizard Lounge in Cambridge a little over 2 years ago. My attendance rate at
that function shot up to 100% when my ears picked up on the stuff. Sooner may
be better, but late beats never..Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:08:08 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Cat Themes

There is also a great version of Tiger Rag by Alvino Rey with the King Sisters
(NOT the King Family, for those who can remember those awful specials).  There
is a great moment where Rey makes his Guitar g-r-r-o-w-w-l.

For that matter:

Leave My Kitten Alone - Little Willie John (complete with the backup singers
going Me-oww!)

I have a Gymnasts Floor Excercise record that has a wonderfully camp medley
called "Kittens, Kittens, Kittens" which mashes three or four songs together in
about a minute and fifteen seconds.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:16:49 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to 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 20:28:48 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Johnny Spots

Johnny (radio) Spots

does anybody out there have Johnny Spots material that they would tape for me?

I'll send you something if you do.

please let me know!




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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:43:30 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Dear John, How I hate to write..."(answer to I hate to ask)

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.

This is from the website:

Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills, the dancers do
the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired track "Wild Elephants."
I don't the artist, though.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:05:34 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery

Hey, I never had the nerve to do this before. But the other day I was
desperate to get rid of a record skip in a track I really liked ("Mambo
Jambo" by the Latin Brass)--and I was willing to try anything.

I spun the record around with the motor off (whub, errrrb, brubbb) until I
found the exact spot where the skip was. Then I took the record off the
turntable and looked at the spot with a 10x magnifier under a strong light,
tilting it back and forth until I could see which groove had the mashed vinyl.

Then, *shudder* I took a very sharp X-acto blade, laid the beveled edge in
the groove, and pushed the point backwards through the skip (i.e. in the
opposite direction from the way the stylus goes).

I was expecting to hear some speaker-wrecking "whump" at the point in the
song I did this--but I was amazed to find it worked great, and I couldn't
hear anything weird at all. I guess there was enough undamaged groove wall
left that the stylus tracked over whatever scars I left.

Scary, though!

Anyone else discovered a good technique for fixing skips?

 --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:47:57 -0500
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Streets of San Francisco

Hi Eric--

>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?


One that definitely exists--I have a scratchy copy--is Lalo Shifrin's
"Mannix" soundtrack (Paramount PAS 5004).

Maybe not the pinnacle of brassy 70s cop show themes, but it does have its
moments.

By they way, the liner notes says Lalo's name is pronounced "shif-REEN,"
which was news to me.

 --Ross

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:53:38 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Vinyl Microsurgery

> I was expecting to hear some speaker-wrecking "whump" at the point in =
the
> song I did this--but I was amazed to find it worked great, and I =
couldn't
> hear anything weird at all. I guess there was enough undamaged groove =
wall
> left that the stylus tracked over whatever scars I left.
>=20
> Scary, though!
>=20
> Anyone else discovered a good technique for fixing skips?
>=20

Xacto knife?  What a wimp! I use a blowtorch!

heheh...  For specks of fly-shit or whatever those things are that =
accumulate on records, I find that isolating the spot, applying downward =
pressure on the cartridge shell and rocking the turntable back and forth =
under the needle can often knock the concretions loose. =20

But it still gives me the willies.

Ron=20



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:22:26 -0000
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.

I have a great Henry Mancini version of the Ironside Theme.  Its on an
LP that seems to come from a readers Digest style box set.  It is No.6
The adventurous Mr Mancini.  It also has A Shot In The Dark,  Theme from
Medical Centre and the Theme from Shaft amongst others.  There are of
course copious useless sleeve notes on the career of Mr Mancini,  but
nothing on the origins of the music.  Sorry,  this isn't really helpful
is it?  Perhaps it may trigger someone else's memory.

A problem with buying from Charity shops I suppose.


El Maestro Con Queso

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[e-mail]
http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:38:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where are they now: Brother Theodore

In a message dated 3/23/99 5:10:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Meet Brother Theodore  >>

LOVED this dude's hair cut when he used to appear on Letterman.


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:44:11 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial

In a message dated 3/23/99 8:41:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills, the dancers
do
 the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired track "Wild Elephants."
 I don't the artist, though.
  >>

Anybody have any leads on this Wild Elephant tune???


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:37:53 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial

> << Directed by graphic artist and music video director Mike Mills,
> the dancers do the jerk, the pony, and the frug to '60s-inspired
> track "Wild Elephants."
>
> Anybody have any leads on this Wild Elephant tune???
>

IIRC there is a track called "Wild Elephants" by James Clarke on
a CD compilation of library music from Amphonic called "Ready Steady
Boogaloo". I have no idea if this is the track in question.

Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread...

"Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai
from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake
on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from
"Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash"
regularly; ...



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:47:00 -0600
From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Elephants  (was Gap A Go Go)

> Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread...
>
> "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai
> from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake
> on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from
> "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash"
> regularly; ...


Elephant Trail - Les Baxter
The Elephants Wail - Shorty Rogers
Elephant Walk - Art Blakey w/Sabu
Theme From "Hatari!" - Henry Mancini
The Sounds Of Hatari - Henry Mancini



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:52:25 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

you need a moog title in there:

Cat In The Night - JJ Perrey


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:08:19 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Charles Sawtelle

                         *Charles Sawtelle
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Charles Sawtelle, a musician known as ``The
Bluegrass Mystery,'' died Saturday of complications related to a bone marrow
transplant as part of his battle with leukemia. He was 52.
    Sawtelle was a founding member of the bluegrass group Hot Rize. He played
guitar, bass guitar and sang with Pete Wernick, Tim O'Brien and Nick Forster.
    The four also played together as a hardcore-country band, Red Knuckles and
the Trail Blazers, in which Sawtelle played a character named Slade.
    Founded in 1978, Hot Rize played together until 1990.
    After the band split up, Sawtelle organized a Colorado bluegrass band,
Charles Sawtelle and The Whippets, and he recorded and toured with fellow
bluegrass musician Peter Rowan.
    Sawtelle started his career playing steel guitar, joining the Drifting
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:00:34 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pagan Love

Tad-dah!  Jane Fondle, back in action, because of list inaction.  Gotta
know some stuff about that crazy Stanley Wilson.  Someone kindly tell me,
is PAGAN LOVE by him just primo exotica, or what?  What with Summer tiki
parties just around the corner, I gotta know!
Aku-aku, from Jane!

p-s:  Do we wanna start a dog song strain now?




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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:59:49 -0500
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) one-note promo

A one-line sentence to say my group AstroSlut is playing Fri. 3/26 at the
Middle East in Cambridge, MA.
Over-n-out:  Jane Fondle(thanks!)




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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:34:56 PST
From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants

>"Fairy Elephant" from
>"Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash"
>regularly; ...
>
not on my copy it isn't. i have a bunch of bruton records i'm afraid to
listen to, as very rarely do they do anything for me, so i went home at
lunch all expectation. i listened to this album BRF 2 (66) and comedy
BRF1 (50), which is better, has alan hawkshaw sub JJP comedy moog (miss
the beats). the best thing for me on comedy cornball was 'cor blimey'
cod cockney song. which you would probably have to not be english to
find even vaguely amusing.....
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:06:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"

In a message dated 3/23/99 5:33:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> If the list experts say it's really good and can't find it on my next junket
>  through the Boston/Cambridge used stores I may have to (OH MY!) buy it new.

Hi Dom,

My 2.5 cents.

Record the Volvo commercial off your television, loop it, and listen to it for
45 minutes.   The commercial's soundtrack is better then the version on the
album and the version on the album is the best thing ...on the album.

However, there is one other song that I believe is a demo track off a $49.00
Casio keyboard.  So you could either buy this CD or go hang around Circuit
City for an hour and you'll most likely hear the Volvo commercial blasting out
of one of their 120 inch HDTVs and the Casio demo in the background and it
won't cost you a cent.

- -Roy


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:14:06 -0400
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial

>
>
> Maybe this is a good place to start the elephant thread...
>
> "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini; "Elephant Shake" by Francis Lai
> from the OST of "Hannibal Brooks"; "The Happy Elephant" by Gerry Blake
> on the Studio 2 album "Sounds Like Swingin'"; "Fairy Elephant" from
> "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use this one on "Eurotrash"
> regularly; ...
>

Don't forget "Elephants on Parade" , Sun Ra's version is transcendent.

Frank






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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:13:13 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Robert McKenna: (exotica) Gap A Go Go Commercial..Elephants]

> From: "Robert McKenna"
>
> >"Fairy Elephant" from "Comedy Cornball" (Bruton Music) -- they use
> >this one on "Eurotrash" regularly; ...
> >
> not on my copy it isn't. i have a bunch of bruton records i'm afraid to
> listen to, as very rarely do they do anything for me, so i went home at
> lunch all expectation. i listened to this album BRF 2 (66) and comedy
> BRF1 (50), which is better, has alan hawkshaw sub JJP comedy moog (miss
> the beats). the best thing for me on comedy cornball was 'cor blimey'
> cod cockney song. which you would probably have to not be english to
> find even vaguely amusing.....
> rob
>

Right you are guv'nor. It's on "Looney Tunes", NOT "Comedy
Cornball". I'm pretty sure. But I can't check from here... I *do* find
"Cor Blimey" amusing, but then I'm sick enough to collect cockney
music too.



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:39:20 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pagan Love

>Gotta
>know some stuff about that crazy Stanley Wilson.  Someone kindly tell me,
>is PAGAN LOVE by him just primo exotica, or what?  What with Summer tiki
>parties just around the corner, I gotta know!
>Aku-aku, from Jane!

I wanna take you Heyer, Doll, by saying, it is primo!  Buy, buy, buy!  I am a
proud owner of said record and it is a must.  King Kini likes it so much, it's
pictured on his site.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:46:03 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Abba Pater

> Anyone bought the Pope's CD yet?

Make that his second CD, sort of.  Remember that Sarah Vaughan put out an album
of his poems to music called "Sarah Vaughan Sings Pope John Paul II".

"I'm not making this up, you know" - Anna Russell
Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:56:28 -0500
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cat Songs

Sorta off topic, but not totally,

George Clinton and Parliament's  "I Call My Baby Pussy Cat".

Exotic in a different way.


Peter


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:56:33 -0500
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fw: (exotica) Dimitri From Paris's "Sacreblue"

In a message dated  Wednesday, March 24, 1999 12:06 PM
[e-mail] writes:

>Record the Volvo commercial off your television, loop it, and listen to it
for
>45 minutes.   The commercial's soundtrack is better then the version on the
>album and the version on the album is the best thing ...on the album.

Thanks Roy for confirming my suspicions about how I *might* feel.

Sometimes your first listening experience to a certain  piece of music can
make you bias towards that version and this might be a good example.

Remember the Vangelis "Opera Savage" track used in a wine commercial years
ago? The music in the commercial and the album were different. I disliked
the album version. Maybe because it was just different from what I heard on
television. Or maybe the commercial version was just better.

Same for the Blade Runner album that came out and was different from the
soundtrack.

Another example off the exotica track is Vivaldi's "4 Seasons" done by
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.  No other recording has
been able to give me that "baroque buzz" like the first one I heard.

Fortunately for me this is rare and enjoy different interpretations of
lounge and jazz standards. Keep those versions of "Caravan" and "Body and
Soul" coming!



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:19:56 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cat Themes

Roland Alphonso - El Pussy Cat  (on Island's classic Intensified!
ska-doublealbum)


Arjan





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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:39:09 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes

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



And what about "Sure he's a cat" by The Cats?

'Sure he's a cat, nobody's gonna argue with that...'


Cheers, Ton


PS

Dutch hit in the mid 60's.


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:50:30 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Sauvageblue"

>Remember the Vangelis "Opera Savage" track used in a wine commercial years
>ago?

Oh brother, do I!  I was working at Tower Records when someone had written into
Parade Magazine asking what that song was from the commercial.  Polydor dragged
their feet putting that out on CD, as I was constantly turning people away.  It
had gotten to the point that I would see people waving little rectangles of
newsprint and before they could say anything I would tell them, "It's not on CD
yet".

Vangelis was also used on a Triumph TR7 ad.  Fortunately for me, I was not
working at Tower and CD's had not been invented yet.

So the moral of the story is, follow your dreams.

Sorry, couldn't think of a way to end this post.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:16 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: B J Snowden on WFMU

At 02:04 AM 3/19/99 -0400, Irwin wrote:
>on Wednesday, March 24
>from 3-4 PM (EST)
>WFMU's Incorrect Music Show
>will be pre-empted for
>** THE B.J. SNOWDEN HOUR **
>http://www.wfmu.org

This is on NOW, and if you're not listening, well....

RealAudio connection from http://wfmu.org




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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:44:39 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) who luvs ya, baby ?

http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/who_luvs_ya_baby.JPG

???


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:37:03 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers....

Do these records feature lyrics or do they "do wah, do wee" their way =
across the muscial landscape??

- - Nate



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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:07:56 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: RE: (exotica) Cat Themes

Another:

Hillbilly Hellcats from "Rev. it up with Taz"

"Tom Cat" - (I'm an old tom cat and I don't get no tail....)




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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:48:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Conniff singers....

The Ray Conniff Singers LPs have singing, whereas the Ray Conniff Chorus
records have the la,la,las.  I have heard several and most are not too good,
with maybe the exception of 1 or 2 tracks.  Some of the later ones are bad
straight through.  "Touch Of Latin" is a good Chorus one, and the one with
"Music To Watch Girls By" (if memory serves the LP is "Look At Me") is a good
Singers one.  If you thrift you can find these easily.

Larry


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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:32:43 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ESG

>Finally, would someone clue me in with some ESG history and reviews?  I
>don't know much about them and would like to get the scoop.

Take this with a grain of salt as I'm just working from memories of
early-80s issues of New York Rocker...

They were three young (maybe teenage) women from Brooklyn or the Bronx (I
forget which), playing bass, drums and guitar. Vocals too, of course. They
may have been related somehow or other, sisters, cousins??? Someone's male
cousin was subsequently added on percussion. Their music was loose-limbed,
leisurely, extremely minimal funk. To my ears, their vocals had a bit of a
primeval girl group quality to them, though in a totally different setting.
Around 1981, they infiltrated the downtown Manhattan underground scene and
immediately blew away a bunch of art-school intellectuals who had been
playing at funk. Very soon, they were in the studio for Factory Records.

I've only ever seen two records.

A three song 7-inch (45 on one side, 33 1/3 on the flip) with "You're No
Good" (*not* the Ronstadt song), "UFO" and "Moody".

A 12-inch, maybe 6 songs, with the three tracks above, and, uh, I can't
remember what else.

I don't know if there was ever anything else. An album maybe? I would like
to know.

Oh yeah -- ESG stood for: Emerald Sapphire & Gold.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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