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exotica-digest         Tuesday, April 6 1999         Volume 02 : Number 363



In This Digest:

(exotica) secret agent
(exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Re: (exotica) Hell's Belles
(exotica) Re:  Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD
(exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail
(exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Re: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Re: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Re: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap
Re: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC
(exotica) hitting the books
(exotica) Citizen Kafka DJs TONIGHT!! (and what is wretched refuse...)
(exotica) hitting the books
(exotica) Three Suns Samples
Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
(exotica) UL Deletions?
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"
(exotica) Grammy info
Re: (exotica) Grammy info
Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Re: (exotica) Fantastic Planet
FW: Return to (exotica) Hell's Belles
(exotica) Chris Montez
Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
(exotica) obits:Deil Gustafson,Lucille Lortel
(exotica) Demographics
Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Re: (exotica) Grammy info

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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 07:55:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: christopher marks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) secret agent

i am new to this list (subscribed today), and while that, in and of itself, is no good reason to post, i do have a question for ya all.
a friend of mine had been looking for an album by chick corea that was released on polydor in 1978(?) by the name of secret agent.  from my understanding, and research, it was never re-released on vinyl or released on CD.  if anyone out there has any information on where i could find it, it would be greatly appreciated.

chris

p.s.  i am also looking for a discography for the mystic moods orchestra.  i have approximately 15 of their albums and am looking to complete my collection. i just don't know what i am missing.


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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:06:46 -0400
From: Michael Hibarger <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...

Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Yep, those hipsters at Gap have gone and come up with a new
"retro" commercial, this time using go-go music and having their
khaki models go-go dancing...nice spot.  They're go-go dancing to
"Wild Elephants", the question is...who did that tune?  Any other
recommends for music in this genre from the members of this
list?  And where can I learn some of those dance steps besides renting
Beach Blanket Bingo and hitting rewind a million times....ha!

Cheers,
Mike.



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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:49:47 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hell's Belles

Please respond to [e-mail]

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Subject:  (exotica) Hell's Belles





I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks.......  Jimmy
Botticelli


>>>YES!  Les Baxter doin' biker rawk as only a fake rocker like he can do!
Plus, the fact that _somebody_ is pressing these again is GREAT NEWS,
because the originalOST is goin' for huge bucks on places like Ebay and
Dusty Groove..You could always preview my copy, too, before you take the
plunge, but I suspect this groovy, wax attack is something you&your
listners would dig hard!
Jane Fondle
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:31:42 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD

>Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came
>from:
>C'est Si Bon
>There Goes My Heart

Ah yes. . . both are on the 1962 album _Warm and Tender_.

That LP has the Suns plus a full string section, so it can get a little
sappy even by the standards of a Three Suns fan, which I am. However it
certainly has its warped moments, like the *extremely* peculiar "Poor
Butterfly." My note to myself on the inner sleeve says, "music to have a
mental breakdown to?"

And you gotta love that cover: A woman in a negligee lying on pink
artificial fur,  petting her pussycat.  Eeep!

So personally I can't wait for Brian's live webcast, where he unseals the
lost tomb of Enoch Light! What riches will we find there?!?!?

 --Ross

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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:15:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter
songs.  All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In
Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop.

I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music.  Can
anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale?
I would be happy to trade if someone has a great cassette/cdr of such
music,

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:29:01 -0700
From: "The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
would like to know how many there are.

Thanks,

Sean

The Continental Magazine
Double Crown Records & Mail-Order
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:51:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, chuck wrote:

>
> Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter
> songs.  All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In
> Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop.
>
> I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music.  Can
> anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale?

How about "Jesus Christ, Superstar"?

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:02:02 -0700
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...

>Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...


Which is it this time?  Opening new sweatshops, clear-cutting  more forests,
buying more public schools, buying another national park, or receiving
millions more in corporate welfare?

Go go go!

CRR
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:33:22 -0700
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap

>Anyone know when the next swap is? Thanks.
>Gloria

Sunday, August 18, McLaren Hall, University of San Francisco, 10 AM - 4 PM.
$2.






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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:01:38 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC

>>Hi, All,

The Wretched Refuse String Band (Citizen Kafka, Jon Sholle,
Bob Jones, Jeff Berman, Roger Mason) will appear THIS WEDNESDAY
at The Cooler, 416 W.14th St. (9th Ave) at 9:30 PM (1 big set).
The Dutels, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, will be closing for us.

Hey, not so fast!  Tell us about your band!
Jane Fondle


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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:16:11 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hitting the books

Got a couple of relevant old music books over the weekend. I know, I know,
it's not vinyl, but we're so slow right now.

"David Rose Piano Compositions Made Easy
A Collection of Simplified Piano Solos"

48 pages. Published by Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc. Issued in 1965, I
think, as several tunes say "This arrangement Copyright 1965 by Bregman..."
[etc, etc]. Most of the tunes date from the 40s. Includes "Holiday For
Strings", "Holiday For Flutes" and "Holiday For Trombones", but not "The
Stripper". Nor "Holiday For The Stripper". There's a dignified composer
photo of Mr. Rose on the cover. See image here (for a limited time only):
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/davidrosebook.gif

"Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
And Friends
Julius Wechter and The Baja Marimba Band
Chris Montez"

36 pages. Published 1968 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. A collection of
songs performed by Herb and his A&M cohorts, interspersed with fan-clubby
photos and biography pages chock full of rich and hearty PR prose.

From Herb's page:
"His modesty is hard to swallow, painful to convey, impossible to fault,
for Herb Alpert himself has no explanation of the special audience reaction
he arouses. Women love him with their eyes, ears, hearts; men appreciate
him because they cannot deny his charisma and charm and he appears not to
threaten their status."

From the JW & TBMB page:
"The Baja Marimba Band, formed in Hollywood only three years ago has become
one of the great treasures of the performing arts -- musicianly, funny,
strong, robust, handsome, full of color and rippling with mustaches and
cigars they embrace the stage in a wide and warm and smoky hug and no
audience -- no audience ever -- has been less than exhilarated by their
presence."

From Chris Montez' page:
"As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to
subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant
force in the music world. These new entertainers are professionally
experienced. They are educated in the technical aspects of their craft and
in all the fundamentals of musicology. These musicians, generally youthful
yet mature, are the first popular entertainers in over a generation to
possess that magical quality which appeals to an audience unrestricted by
age."

The song selections are unfortunately a bit disappointing. No "Lonely Bull"
or "Whipped Cream". Instead there's such grandparently fare as "Hello,
Dolly!" and "Mame" (and just generic arrangements at that). But it does
include "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi", both with complete lyrics.

Image here:
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/herbalpertbook.gif

And while we're on the subject of sheet music (also going back to our
thread the other month), the Hal Leonard Corporation has a useful website
here:
http://www.halleonard.com/
Full contents listings of their books are online. And the search engine has
the handy option of searching for a specific song title, and returning
which books it appears in.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 19:32:33 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka DJs TONIGHT!! (and what is wretched refuse...)

DuDuh, didn't send this out to the list??

Mondays 10pm - 2am
Barmacy
538 East 14th Street (between Avenues A & B)
New York City
No Cover

April 5th  Citizen Kafka
MWM, 51 seeks single or multiple groups, 21+, please,
D & D OK for direct audio stimulation.I am a top.
all races, sexes, styles, newbies OK.

spinning everything... 78s, cylinders, 10", 12", 7", 8",
all of everything, not all at once. Exotica in the broadest
sense featured prominently.

the wretched refuse string band is a bluegrass/old-time/avant
band, together for 29 years. full band: 2 fiddles, elec.guitar,
acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums, bass, banjo, sometimes trombone,
alto sax, clarinet, sometimes theremin, sometimes crappy 60's
keyboard synth. This band mutates to the Citizen Kafka band,
more electric. tv commercial covers, charles ives, traditional
american, klezmer, 50's rock, soft folk covers of fight the power,
atonal minutiae, etc.

again, more kinds of music than i'd care to admit. some members
include andy statman, tony trischka, roger mason, ken kosek,
matt glaser, others. i am the front...

running out to dj, more if needed.

[e-mail] wrote:
>

- --
Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html
http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu'


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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:24:19 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hitting the books

I am stuck at work after 12 hours and this made my day!



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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:10:11 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Three Suns Samples

Matt Hinrichs sez:

<<Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came
from:
C'est Si Bon
There Goes My Heart>>

Both of theses tracks are from Warm and Tender.  A late effort (1962) and not
one of their best, being cursed with strings, which always kicked the Three
Suns down a rung, but not without some redeeming moments either.


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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:20:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

<< Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
 I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
 would like to know how many there are. >>

you may be pretty close to having em all.  the following was clipped from the
SABPM music site:

RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve)

Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287
It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290
Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306
The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353
Sounds Terrific! - Ted Textor (orchestra and chorus) LSA-2365
Crazy Rhythm - Guitars Unlimited + 7,July 1961 LSA-2371
Futura - Bernie Green, July 1961 LSA-2376
Stereo Action Goes Hollywood - Marty Gold, September 1961 LSA-2381
Stereo Action Goes Broadway - Dick Schory, September 1961 LSA-2382
Paradise Regained - Leo Addeo, November 1961 LSA-2414
Excitement, Incorporated - Ray Martin LSA-2422
Sounds Sensational! - Keith Texor LSA-2425
More Double Exposure - Manny Albam - LSA 2432
Dynamic Dimensions - Henri Rene, November 1961 LSA-2396
Stereo Action Unlimited - various artists, December 1961 LSA-2489
Latin-Esque - Esquivel, March 1962 LSA-2418
Holiday for Percussion - Dick Schory, March 1962 LSA-2485
I Had the Craziest Dream - Manny Albam - LSA-2508
Movin' & Groovin' - Three Suns, June 1962 LSA-2532




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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:26:50 -0700
From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) UL Deletions?

Saw a bunch of (mostly) sealed UL Leopard Skin Sampler CDs for $8.99 at a
used record store.  (Tower charges $20.99, so $8.99 is not a bad price for
this 24-track comp.)  Question is, why?  Are the ULs being
cut-out/discontinued, or are these probably just promotional copies that
got discarded by radio stations?

Same question for the great 3-CD RCA series, "History of Space Age Pop."  I
recently bought all 3 brand new for $6.99 each, as cut-out items.

Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these (especially
the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening.

Jerry




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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:54:04 -0700
From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"

<Such a cast: Mamie Van Doren, Irish McCalla, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi as a
poet with a mouse on her shoulder, Fay Spain, Jim Mitchum, Maxie
Rosenbloom, Grabowski the Beat Beatnik, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Guy
Stockwell, Regina Carrol, William Schallert (Patty Duke's dad) and Louis
Armstrong & his band!>>

"Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom even did one of those goofy "Co-Star" records,
which I passed over to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead and Pearl Bailey
instead.

New list members are referred to the internet movie data base
www.imdb.com   You can spend hours there. There's not enough soundtrack
stuff on it, like for the obscure films they show on TCM (turner classic
movies), so I should finally register and contribute my 2 cents.
Examples like the generic but appropriately melodramatic Leith Stevens
score for the early 50's Ida Lupino-directed film "The Hitch-Hiker",
with William Tallman (Perry Mason's whipping boy *wink* DA Hamilton
Burger)as a nasty-ass mass killer (before the term serial killer was
coined.) And last week Mickey Rooney bashed the skins with Lous
Armstrong in "The Strip", which put me to sleep. All i could think of
was how the hell did that squirt Mickey marry the gorgeous young Ava
Gardner ???
Check the TCM website to see what you are missing if you have that
channel available and don't get it. They even replayed "Mr. Buddwing"
last month with Nichelle Nichols shooting craps, but its been almost 3
years since "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" with the Mary Kaye Trio made it into
the rotation.

JB


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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 02:50:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Grammy info

Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single*
*category*. Does anything like this even exist??


Jason


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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:06:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Grammy info

At 02:50 AM 06-04-99 EDT, Jason wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
>since 1958?
I ran across it once on the web when I was looking up Ross Bagdasarian (which,
in fact, may have received a grammy in 1958 or 1959 (around then) for
Witch Doctor I believe.

Anyway, use a search engine on Grammy or even Ross Bagdasarian and it will
probably turn up.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:20:35 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)

'Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions:  THE
GIRL FROM UNCLE, and SPACE 1999?'

That is a wierd coincidence, I just ordered both these records and they're
winging their merry way to me from Greece and Maryland respectively.

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:20:08 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Fantastic Planet

"I just watched a video of the French animation Fantastic Planet, made in
1973.   A
great movie and a fantastic soundtrack.   Does anyone know any details
about the
music, like who made it and has it been reissued lately.   If not, I say
it should be!"


I think that's La Planete Sauvage, by Alain Gorauger (Brigitte Bardot's
occassional band leader). Very expensive and rare, with a very cool cover.

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:34:53 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FW: Return to (exotica) Hell's Belles

> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:52:02 EST
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) Hell's Belles
>
> I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
>
> Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks.......  Jimmy
> Botticelli
>
> Yes.  Heres a copy of my original posting on this,  obviously the
> Saturday is now some time in February.  It still sounds great.  But
> its not very long,  mind.
>
>
> I picked this up on Saturday (all references here to vinyl),  I don't
> know if it is a boot or not.  Its a lot better than the Dick Hyman
> ones.... The Eclectic Electric is truly appalling sounding if it was
> mastered off a record that had regularly been played with a rusty
> nail,  and my copy still had the extruded plastic round the edges from
> where it hadn't been cleaned up after pressing,  giving the whole
> thing the aspect of a circular saw if you try to pick it up without
> stopping the deck.
>
> Anyway back to the point.  I like the Hells Bells soundtrack a lot,
> It says conducted and written by Les Baxter on the cover,  but with a
> standard rock group line up it must have been a sight in the studio
> watching some one conduct bass, guitar,  drums and harmonica.  The
> quality of sound is pretty good,  nice clear production,  all those
> nice breaks someone was talking about a couple of weeks ago coming
> through nice and clearly.  Also the nice touch of a CD style 'bonus
> track'  where there is a locked groove before the last track so you
> have to flick it on to get it.  the bonus track sounds like out takes
> anyway so its no great loss to not play it.
>
> The only thing that keeps crossing my mind is that could this be a
> different Les Baxter?  No lush strings,  no exotic percussion drowned
> in reverb (and you talk about British strings?).  It sounds more like
> Davey Allen than Quiet Village.
>
>
>


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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 09:18:28 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Chris Montez

>From Chris Montez' page:
"As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to
subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant
force in the music world. "

OH YES DADDY!  Is this the first(or in long) time we've brought up that
lil' angelic voiced thang?  He's great, and I love that A&M production.
How many records did he do for A&M, and did he do others in that vein for
other lables(besides "Let's Dance"?)
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 09:31:38 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

<< Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action
LP's.
 I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
 would like to know how many there are. >>

you may be pretty close to having em all.  the following was clipped from
the
SABPM music site:

RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve)

Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287
It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290
Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306
The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353
etc...

>>>I don't know if this counts, but I also have a STEREO ACTION compilation
on vinyl, that has the same kind of cover, and songs from each or most of
the actual albums...
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:40:30 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obits:Deil Gustafson,Lucille Lortel

                          *Deil Gustafson
    CANNON FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- Deil Gustafson, a former owner of Summit Banks
in the Twin Cities and the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas complex
with a history of ties to organized crime, died Friday. He was 67.
    The cause of death was not available.
    The former businessman and real estate magnate spent 40 months in federal
prison in the mid-1980s after being convicted of participating in a
financial scam involving the Tropicana and his banks.
    Gustafson sold the Tropicana in 1979, but was under investigation as
recently as the mid-1990s for allegedly trying to hide millions of dollars
in proceeds from the sale of the casino. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy
fraud in 1995.
    He was deputy director of Hubert Humphrey's 1960 presidential campaign.

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Lucille Lortel, who earned the title ``Queen of
off-Broadway'' for bringing innovative new actors, playwrights and
productions to the American stage, died Sunday. She was 98.
    Ms. Lortel, whose career in theater spanned more than 70 years, produced or
co-produced about 500 plays, five of which were nominated for Tony Awards.
    Ms. Lortel, born Louise Wadler, began her own acting career in the 1920s
and made her Broadway debut in 1925 with a small role in George Bernard
Shaw's ``Caesar and Cleopatra,'' starring Helen Hayes and Lionel Atwill.
    In 1947, she was asked by the actor Canada Lee and playwright Philip Huston
to help find a place and audience for a staged reading of a new play, ``The
Painted Wagon,'' and the still-thriving White Barn Theater was born in
Westport, Conn.
    In 1955, her husband gave her the Theatre de Lys -- now called the Lucille
Lortel Theater -- in Greenwich Village as a 24th anniversary gift. Its first
production was a hugely popular adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's and Kurt
Weill's ``Threepenny Opera'' that made off-Broadway famous.
    Ms. Lortel's eye for and confidence in young talent boosted the careers of
countless actors, composers, designers, directors and playwrights. She
established numerous funds and fellowships to further the arts.
    ``If you love the theater, you must be innovative,'' she once said. ``You
must try new ideas and new faces. The costs are lower off-Broadway, so you
can afford to take a chance, and you must take a chance.''
    At the White Barn, Ms. Lortel nurtured performers such as Eva Marie Saint
and Zero Mostel and staged plays by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett and Sean
O'Casey. Peter Falk and George Peppard also performed there.
    When Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of ``Threepenny Opera'' became a success
at the Theatre de Lys, ultimately running for seven years, Ms. Lortel became
frustrated: She wanted to stage more plays at the theater.
    She persuaded the American National Theater and Academy to back an
experimental matinee series, which began in 1956 with a verse adaptation of
Alan Paton's novel ``Cry the Beloved Country'' and ran for 20 years.
    The series featured a dramatization of Langston Hughes poems called
``Shakespeare in Harlem''; adaptations of poetic works by Robert Frost and
Archibald MacLeish; and performances of rarely seen plays by William Inge
and Tennessee Williams. It presented actors such as Richard Burton and Helen
Hayes.
    In 1964, Ms. Lortel oversaw the first U.S. production of a play by South
African playwright Athol Fugard. ``Blood Knot'' starred James Earl Jones and
J.D. Cannon.
    Ms. Lortel's productions of ``A Walk in the Woods,'' by Lee Blessing;
``Angels Fall,'' by Lanford Wilson; ``As Is,'' by William Hoffman; ``Blood
Knot;'' and ``Sarafina!'' another South African import, were nominated for
Tonys but didn't win. They all were produced on Broadway or moved there.
    Ms. Lortel was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1990. A tribute to
her career is on permanent display at the archives of the New York Public
Library for the Performing Arts.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-l-lortel.html
which includes such paragraphs as:
     The Theater de Lys was only one of many unusual gifts that Schweitzer
lavished on Miss Lortel before his death in 1971. A chemical engineer who
made his fortune manufacturing cigarette papers, he also owned the FM radio
station WBAI.
     In 1957, when his wife told him it was sometimes difficult to find a
cab after the theater, he bought a gray Mercedes-Benz. He had been told
there was a cab driver named Louis Schweitzer in town and he arranged to get
a taxi medallion for the car and for his namesake to act as its part-time
driver. When the driver wasn't transporting Miss Lortel, he was free to use
the car as a taxi and split the earnings with the boss.
     In 1956, Schweitzer was the first foreigner in more than 400 years
allowed to buy a gondola in Venice. Although traditionally gondolas were
identified only by numbers, he was given permission to name his purchase
"Lucille." The gondola continued to carry passengers and the gondolier was
told that if American visitors used Schweitzer's name to book a ride, they
were to be charged double. "My friends can afford it," he explained.
     For some years, the Schweitzers spent part of each winter on a
houseboat in Florida. The two-story villa on a raft, anchored off Miami
Beach, had two bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, servants' quarters and a
bar sheltered by a thatched roof.

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Death anniversaries for the week of 5 April - 12 April:
Tuesday, 6 April
1992 - Isaac Asimov; science fiction author
1998 - Wendy O. Williams; rock performer
1998 - Tammy Wynette; country & western performer
Friday, 9 April
1988 - Brook Benton; singer
Saturday, 10 April
1991 - Natalie Schaffer; actress, "Gilligan's Island"
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 07:57:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Demographics

I received this post from a friend on the Captain Beefheart list.  I
don't think it a good idea for the exoticats but i thought it was
interesting.

When the music gets weird the weird listen to music
Chuck
Hello all,

> You may remember when you first joined the list that you were asked
a few> personal details such as age, sex, location etc.  Below are all
the totals> (less the few of you that didn't fill them in) from the
list population which currently stands at 120.

> One thing that I have been toying with which might be quite fun is
to set up a page at the Radar Station featuring photographs of all of
us, and any other information that anyone would like to include.  I
got the idea from the Tom Waits list, Raindogs, that I used to belong
to and it really seemed to enhance a lot of the friendships that were
formed on the list.  What do you think?  Anyone interested?  If you
are, you could either post me a photograph and I'll scan it and
include it, or just e-mail along your own scan.  If you need my
address, drop me a line.
>
> Mr/Ms
> Value     Number of Responses
> Mr.     101
> Ms.     3
>
> State or Province
> Value     Number of Responses
> Outside US and Canada     37
> Alaska     1
> Arizona     1
> California     5
> Colorado     1
> Florida     1
> Georgia     4
> Guam     1
> Illinois     2
> Indiana     1
> Kentucky     2
> Louisiana     2
> Massachusetts     2
> Michigan     5
> Missouri     2
> New Jersey     1
> New York     7
> North Carolina     1
> North Dakota     1
> Ontario     2
> Oregon     1
> Pennsylvania     6
> Puerto Rico     1
> South Carolina     1
> Tennessee     2
> Texas     1
> Virginia     1
> Washington     1
> West Virginia     1
> Yukon Territory     1
>
> Country
> Value     Number of Responses
> United States of America     50
> Canada     3
> Argentina     1
> Australia     5
> Bahrain     2
> Belgium     1
> Czech Republic     1
> Finland     1
> France     2
> Germany     3
> Ireland     1
> Japan     1
> Lithuania     1
> Netherlands     3
> New Zealand     2
> Norway     2
> Sweden     4
> United Kingdom     27
> United States Minor Outlying Islands     2
>
>
> Age
> Value     Number of Responses
> under 18     2
> 18-25     14
> 26-29     9
> 30-39     26
> 40-49     56
> 50-59     3
> 60 or over     1
>
> Occupation
> Value     Number of Responses
> accounting/finance     3
> executive/senior management     6
> professional/managerial     21
> technical/engineering     20
> administrative/secretarial     2
> sales/marketing/advertising     3
> customer service/support     2
> college/university faculty     7
> K-12 faculty     1
> college/university student     7
> K-12 student     1
> writer/journalist     8
> homemaker     1
> retired     2
> currently not employed     1
> other     25


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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's
Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin'
part of this series?


> << Does anyone out there have a discography of all
> of the Stereo ActionLP's.

> you may be pretty close to having em all.  the
> following was clipped from the SABPM music site:

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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's
Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin'
part of this series?

Sorry if this is a 2nd posting - had a message failure
notice.


> << Does anyone out there have a discography of all
> of the Stereo ActionLP's.

> you may be pretty close to having em all.  the
> following was clipped from the SABPM music site:

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:55:06 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?

The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
> I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
> would like to know how many there are.

Thanks to BasicHip you now have a near complete listing.
I'll add one more:
Brass laced with strings - Vic Schoen  LSA 2344

And you probably already noticed the obvious mistake in calling Keith, Ted on
Sounds Terrific.

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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:14:17 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Grammy info

[e-mail] wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
> since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single*
> *category*. Does anything like this even exist??
>
> Jason

There's a book at my library with some ubiquitous title like "The Grammy". It's
very useful in breaking down all the different categories. I found it especially
useful in researching Mancini recently who won so many multiple categories it's
hard to keep track.
I found out that there was a category of Instrumental Orchestral other than
Classical or some such grammy type category title. Many of our revered recording
artists made it into these categories. And I believe this book also lists the
nominees making it all the more useful in researching easy listening items.

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