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exotica-digest         Thursday, May 27 1999         Volume 02 : Number 401



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)
(exotica) The incredibly strange connection between Vinyl and Birds
(exotica) Isnt it odd?
RE: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)
Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)
(exotica) Re: Peter Thomas HELP!!
RE: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)
Re: (exotica) Weekend finds
(exotica) Immediate Records Reissues
Re: (exotica) Re: Burman
Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)
(exotica) Sorry (was re:virus warning)
(exotica) Page Turner
(exotica) fwd: slackerTV
Re: (exotica) Is it just me....
(exotica) The return of FeelthyMonkey Radio
Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! (or what do you Tarkus for?)
Re: (exotica) Van Dyke Parks and Nilsson
(exotica) sleeve/liner notes
(exotica) Dan Gresham from Durham, UK
(exotica) International Lounge Festival (Italy)
Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! (or what do you Tarkus for?)
(exotica) Re: Burman
(exotica) swedish folks playing the moog
(exotica) Gary McFarland
Re: (exotica) sleeve/liner notes
Re: (exotica) sleeve/liner notes
(exotica) Rudy Rosa and his synthetic organ
(exotica) [obit] Waldo Semon,Candy Candido,John Tigrett
Re: (exotica) Gary McFarland
Re: (exotica) [obit] Waldo Semon,Candy Candido,John Tigrett
Re: (exotica) Gary McFarland

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:00:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)

There is a Javanese Court Gamelan album from the 60's now out on cd on the Nonesuch
label.   This album has 4 songs, 3 with haunting vocals.  It is the most hypnotic music
I have ever heard.  Trance like, it was recorded live and if you listen closely you'll
hear crickets.

I have never played this album for someone where they weren't shocked by the uniqueness
of the sound.  There are real audio samples at cdnow which don't do the music justice.
 This is not your regular gamelan music, its very slow and the gamelan is in the
background on 3 of the songs.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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> I for one am extremely happy to get an occasional tip on ethnic/world
> music.  Anybody else out there have strong recommendations?
>

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:17:52 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The incredibly strange connection between Vinyl and Birds

I just recieved Augie Colons "Chant of the Jungle" which is a warm =
gentle exotica record i think. No birdcalls in the grooves BUT While =
playing the record and sitting on my balcony just Now the birds in my =
neighbourhood made it a fantastic birdcall exotica record with their =
whistlings. Thank You little ones, you made my day!

SK=C5L! to you all, because tonight is drinking night for Magnus!=20
(Sk=E5l means cheers in swedish)

Magnus



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:38:28 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Isnt it odd?

Have you noticed that the records that doesnt seem to lose its mening =
for you just keeps sounding better the more you play them? There are =
some in my collection that has been with me for at least 500 times, and =
I cant hear a freaking distortion.

Now i play the record call "Girls" An old favorite cheapo compilation LP =
from1971 with lovely original hits from original GIRLS.
Music for pleasure MFP 5131. And that blonde on the cover! Yikes!=20

Something
Son of a preacher man
Monsieur Dupont
Surround yourself with sorrow
Temma Harbour
It must be him
To Sir with love
Don't play that song (you lied)
I'll never fall in love again
Don't sleep in the subway
Come back and shake me
Harper Valley PTA


First beer.

Magnus



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:48:44 -0500
From: "Indy Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)

On Tuesday, May 25, 1999, Larson/Thomas wrote:

> Anyone else have recommendations, or care to violently disagree with mine?

The local college radio station has recently discovered Tuvan throat music.
I believe two of the groups the station plays are called Yat Ka and Hun Huur
Tu (I have no doubt that my spelling is waaaaay off).

Anyone got the scoop on this cool sound?

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:57:13 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)

Charles wrote
"here is a Javanese Court Gamelan album from the 60's now out on cd on the
Nonesuch
label.   This album has 4 songs, 3 with haunting vocals.  It is the most
hypnotic music
I have ever heard.  Trance like, it was recorded live and if you listen
closely you'll
hear crickets."

The Javanese album is great, but I prefer the livelier "Golden Rain"
Gamelan music of Bali.  This features the "Ramayana Monkey Chant" which is
arresting listening in the dark.  Imagine a bunch of people imitating
monkeys (they band together to save a princess; hey wait a minute, I have
an idea for a sitcom about a band!), yelling "Jak, Jak, Jak!"(Hi, Jack) in
unison.  I believe that bits of this were used the film "I Never Promised
You a Rose Garden".

The only problem with the recording is that someone keeps bumping into the
mike!

Mongo Santamaria's first album, "Yambu" is also very good, too.  This is
most certainly NOT "Watermelon Man".  It is percussion with vocals.  If
you'd like a bit of both worlds, try Herbie Mann's Afro-Jazz album.

I am still trying to locate "Return of the Inca" by Sukay, which features
"Nevando Esta" a simply beatiful guitar piece.

For a wall-to-wall not a bad cut on the CD CD, try "Bravos Del Ritmo'
(http://www.gemm.com has it, but check the vendor), my favorite Salsa
compilation, highlighted by the exceptional 'Feria En Manizales" by Richie
Reyes, as well as Ray Baretto and yes, list fave Perez Prado is on it, too.
 The Cuba Classics, Vol 2., "Dancing with the Enemy" compilation on Luaka
Bop is a good one, too and easier to find.  For Salsa, I also heartily
recommend the great Celia Cruz Y Sonora Matancera.

Since this list has subscribers outside of the United States, I would also
like to mention "Zydeco!" on Arhoolie, which features key Zydeco tracks by
Amade Ardoin (recognized as the first person to record Zydeco music),
Clifton Chenier and also Leadbelly (on accordion!) and Clarence Garlow.
The other half of the record was recorded at a couple of outdoor parties in
1964.  For those who are unfamiliar with Zydeco, imagine it as R&B or
Blues, with accordions and washboards.  Also, some of it is in a dialect of
French.  It is all quite wonderful.


Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:03:14 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Peter Thomas HELP!!

Keith Lo Bue wrote:

>Would anyone out there have a list (partial or complete) of the film
>soundtracks of Peter Thomas?  I picked up 'Chariots of the Gods' the
>other day, and it is phenomenal.  I need more!


        visit The "eXotica Releases Overview":
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/
    for the few soundtracks that are out on CD.

        Johan


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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:05:53 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)

Tuvan throat music.
Anyone got the scoop on this cool sound?

NPR did an interview with one of these fellows who is said to be the best
throat singer in Tuvalu.
on their rundown for Oct 9 1998:


6. TUVAN THROAT SINGING -- Robert talks to Ralph Leighton, who has compiled
recordings of Tuvan throat singing on a new CD called "Deep in the Heart
of Tuva". [the label is Ellipsis Arts.] Tuva is a region located roughly
between Mongolia and Siberia, and the style of singing which is prevalent
there is a rough,
throaty, grinding, growly chant-song. Experts can produce as many as four
distinct tones at once, and Leighton says anyone can learn how to do it.
(8:00) (IN
STEREO)

Check out Eternal Surf and Garage Damnation at
http://www.brimstones.com

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:15:37 -0500
From: "little dymaxia, happy at last!" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds

I went to Unique Thrift Store (the absolute best)
with no intention of buying records -- I was
looking for art ideas.  Anyway, sitting on top
of the pile was a Michel Legrand live jazz album
from the early seventies.  It's a pretty groovy
jazz record, but what prompted me to buy it was
that it has a track from the Orson Welles film
"F For Fake" (titled "Orson's Theme") -- unfortunately,
it wasn't one of the cooler selections from that
soundtrack.  Still, it was a great find -- good
art-making music.

- --

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:11:39 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Immediate Records Reissues

     Has anyone checked these out? For those who might not know, Immediate
was Andrew Loog Oldham's (Rolling Stones manager) record label in the late
60's. In House Producers for Immediate included Jagger and/or Richards,
Marriot/Lane, and a pre-Zep Jimmy Page. Of especial interest to this list are
the reissues of Mark Murphy and the Aranbee Pop Symphony Orchestra, which was
'conducted' by Keith Richards (yeah, right). Mark Murphy was a jazz crooner,
very out of place for inclusion on the Now Pop type label, but there
nonetheless. The Aranbee disc is another of the Oldham method of recording
orchestral versions of current British hits. These are now very notorious due
to the "Bittersweet Symphony" debacle. If any listers have bought these or
any of the other CDs that have been reissued, such as Twice as Much, Billy
Nicholls, and Chris Farlowe, feel free to e-mail me off list with your
opinions. Thanks-
Jon


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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:32:58 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Burman

[e-mail] wrote:

> "Does anyone out there have any info on the Indian film composers S.D.
> Burman and R.D. Burman? .Are there any particular soundtracks by either of
> them that anyone could recommend?

I have 7 albums by Rahul Dev Burman:

Aanchal    1979
Dhan daulat     1979
Takkar     1980
Gehra zakham     1981
Biwi o biwi     1981
Yeh to kamaal ho gaya     1982
Yeh vaada raha     1991

If have to admit that I don't know which one to recommend. To me soundtracks
from India are always worthwhile.

> Do they mostly pop up on cassettes at Indian grocery stores, or
> are there
> any CDs or LPs out there?"

There must be thousands of LPs and a couple of years ago I read that EMI India
was releasing lots of CDs with old(er) soundtracks.
QDK in Germany recently released a nice CD-compilation of Indian filmmusic:
Doob-doob o'rama. Also check out the series Golden Voices from the SIlver
Screen (or something like that).
There's also Bombay the Hardway, but I don't really like that one - the tracks
have been remixed and don't sound 'authentic' enough to me.

Marco

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:32:05 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ethnic recommendations (was Ethio Jazz)

>>The Javanese album is great, but I prefer the livelier "Golden Rain"
Gamelan music of Bali.

Hmmmmm...I have a record(very cool) called THE JAPANESE BACH SCENE...it's
like hearing Bach at a Japanese restaurant(but most likely one in the
US)...Does this count?

>Mongo Santamaria's first album, "Yambu" is also very good, too.  This is
most certainly NOT "Watermelon Man".  It is percussion with vocals.  If
you'd like a bit of both worlds, try Herbie Mann's Afro-Jazz album.


I would think that some 6ts Hugh Masekela rekkids count in this thread,
too!
Jane"Son of Icebag" Fondle




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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:11:29 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sorry (was re:virus warning)

I'm sorry to have posted that response to a virus warning.
I incorrectly assumed I'd received the original warning via the list, and so
responded to the list.

Won't happen again!

- -Lou



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:45:07 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Page Turner

Scorsese, Tyler Turn The Page

NEW YORK (Variety) - Martin Scorsese
 is eyeing the chance to  direct Liv Tyler in a biopic of Bettie Page,
 the country's first  kinky pinup girl. The director and star have been
enmeshed
 in  talks for several months trying to put together a film, and it
appears they will
shop it to studios in the near future with  Page's life rights part of the
package.

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:02:15 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: slackerTV

SlackerTV

Here's something completely new for those with nothing to do at work.
Slacker TV presents a range of documentaries and short films that are
guaranteed to waste time while you are waiting for lunch. You can also add
your e-mail to the service and get instant notification of new material.
World Wide Web: http://www.slackertv.com

On show now, amongst others, is:
24 Hours in Vegas - A 24 hour journey down the famous Las Vegas Strip.






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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is it just me....

You definitly can substiltue the melody for the words daughter of darkness sung by Tom
for the words towers of london sung by XTC.     Good ear, this stuff always interests
me.  I've noticed a lot of melodies in the soft indie pop world reminding me of other
songs.


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> ...or...has anybody else ever noticed the STRIKING similarity between
> the choruses of Tom Jones' "Daughter of Darkness" and XTC's
>  "Towers ofLondon"?
> Or...is it just me...Jane Fondle===

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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:03:28 -0700
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The return of FeelthyMonkey Radio

FMR is back!  (well, sort of)

I have the high-speed link running, so you exoticats with cable-modems =
or access at work can tune in. =20

I am also having connctivity problems at the new pad, so I can only =
support a few listeners at a time. (for now)

It's all happening at www.xtabay.com

Ron



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:37:52 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! (or what do you Tarkus for?)

>on another note, my husband swears that emerson, lake, and palmer stole
>their ideas on moog directly from dick hyman, electric eclectic moog.
>any comments?

One thing they most certainly stole on their first album was The Barbarian,
which is Bartok's "Allegro Barbaro".  I don't recall that Janacek was
credited for the lifting of one of the themes of his "Sinfonietta" for
'Knife Edge", either.

As far as robbing Hyman, hard to say.  Emerson mostly tended to play the
Moog like any other keyboard, which Hyman did, but Hyman also used
Moog-only sonorities (Tap Dance in the Memory Banks, for example, uses the
Moog to make for a somewhat clumsy dancer), but Emerson did too, in "Lucky
Man".  The timbre of both Moogs sound similar, but I am gathering that is
due to brand more than outright copying.

For influences, from http://www.keithemerson.com/ :

"His early influences were primarily jazz artists such as Fats Waller, Art
Tatum, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Smith, Oscar Peterson, and Jack McDuff.
Classical composers also became influential in his music including J.S.
Bach, Aaron Copland, Rachmaninoff, Bartok and Alberto Ginastera amongst
others.

I guess this doesn't quite close the book on the Hyman-Emerson connection,
but in all the years of reading about them I have never heard him mention
it, nor have I reason to believe that he would conceal Hyman as an
influence.  However, with very few synthesizers accessible and few records
(compared to now), almost any of the albums that sold halfway decently
probably had some influence.  My knowledge of early synthesizers is nascent
at best, but if I recall correctly, in the early days, it was rather hard
to work them, so many of the musicians may have asked the same sets of
people to help them, so there may be another connection there.

Truth be told, there is much more organ than synthesizer to be had on early
ELP albums.

Hey, didn't Hyman play organ...?

And I listened to Yes, too,
Brian Phillips



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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:46:34 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Van Dyke Parks and Nilsson

Nilsson, Van Dyke and Randy Newman were all in-house writers for Lenny
Waronker in the sixties with his Warner's Reprise group (when he tried to set
up a Brill Building West, or white Motown kind of arrangement).  Nilsson's
early stuff is pretty great (7 songs off his first album were covered by
other people, including The Yardbirds and Monkees).  I particularly love "You
Can't Do That" his seamless splice of seventeen Beatle songs into one organic
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Date: Wed, 26 May 99 22:25:02 -0500
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) sleeve/liner notes

I'm doing some research on particularly good liner/sleeve notes. Some
choice ones include poet Marianne Moore doing notes for a Cassius Clay
album, Mickey Spillane on the RCA series "Sounds of Violence," etc.

Personally I'm partial to the delirious notes that Stan Cornyn wrote on
the back of several Petula Clark LPs in the 60s. Sample: "Small, so
people are always looking around asking, 'Where'd she get to now?' Only
she's just over there, leaning up against a coffee cup. Deceptive wench."
And my fave: "Maybe it will take another 300 years for another British
invasion. If my name were Methuselah, I'd be around. Unfortunately, it
isn't. It's Henri Rene."

Any other suggestions?

Elisabeth


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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 02:55:51 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Dan Gresham from Durham, UK

anybody know this guy?
Apparently he was a dj at this college's station for a while
(at one point he had a page on their website)

He apparently ripped me off.

I sent him an IMO for some records and just got a reciept bakc that the check
was cashed and while I paid for first class insured postage I have not
recieved the pls after 8 months
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 03:48:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) International Lounge Festival (Italy)

This is all the info I could garnish on the big Lounge fest happening in
Italy:

Maybe Giovanni from Milan could check this out for us.

Chuck


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> Hi Chuck
>
> >Where can I find out more about this wonderful event?   I am really
> interested.
>
> I think the best you could do is to contact the promoter:
>
> MAC MAC
> tel.: ++39-0522-406179
> fax.: ++39-0522-445322
> no e-mail sorry.
>
> Take care.
>
> Sarmax


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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 04:15:49 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! (or what do you Tarkus for?)

At 09:37 PM 5/26/99 -0400, Brian Phillips wrote:
>

>As far as robbing Hyman, hard to say.  Emerson mostly tended to play the
>Moog like any other keyboard, which Hyman did, but Hyman also used
>Moog-only sonorities   The timbre of both Moogs sound similar, but I am
gathering that is due to brand more than outright copying.

I don't have the musical terms to back this up but I think the early style
of moog playing which I hear in everything from Perry and Kingsley to
Switched On Bacharach, is quite different from the style practiced by
Emerson and even Hyman.
And the best example of this for me is on Hugo Montenegro records.
As his son John took a more prominent role on his records, the more they
sounded like crappy noodling seventies synth and less like that original
frothy bubbly sound.
I don't know how far back his son's participation goes but I'm pretty sure
that though his son participated in his all-Neil-Diamond-tunes record, his
role wasn't as prominent as it was on his all-Elton-John-tunes record and
the two are like night and day.
Maybe that's not the best example.  For all I know the Neil was done after
the Elton.  I do know that the liner notes on the Elton one make a big deal
of John and show his picture whereas on the Neil one, he's just listed
among the arrangers.
Either way, there's almost nothing that I love about Hugo's moog sound on
that Elton record where John is a focus.
Maybe this happened with more sophisticated equipment.  Or maybe it was
style of playing.  Or maybe rock n roll influences were deadly for the moog.
All I know is that the sixties moog and the seventies are like two totally
different sounds.

Nat




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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:07:02 +0900
From: Jan Fornell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Burman

I bought a couple of Burman LPs (in Indian grocery stores) in the early
'80s. Other Indian soundtracks were (and are) good too, but the Burmans
were the best. A particular favorite was "The Burning Train".
Unfortunately I believe R.D. Burman died a couple of years ago.

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:05:44 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) swedish folks playing the moog

There is a swedish girl called Merit Hemmingsson who still is around i =
believe. In the 70s she made a lot of records mixing swedish folk with =
latin american rhytms. Occasionnaly she used the moog too which she =
played herself. Those records are easy to find in fleamarkets here =
really cheap, but I havent picked them up yet, dont know why actually. I =
keep staring at the american stuff I guess. On some records she used =
Sabu Martinez as percussionist. This is pleaseant easy listening which =
probably sounds exotic to nonscandinavians.

If someone is interested in this girl let me know, and maybe we can =
arrange some sort of swap.

Benny Andersson of Abba made at least one moog record too, together with =
a swedish fiddler called Gnesta Kalle. I have only seen that record =
once, but I have it on tape and it is quite strange. Its called Gnesta =
Kalle and his Moogmen and has a space cover. Anyone have that?

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 06:11:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gary McFarland

Anyone know anything about this guy?
I have a song of his on a Verve sampler that's pretty decent, with
bongos, strings, vibes and the like.  Is there anything i should check
out by him?

Peter

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:31:39 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) sleeve/liner notes

Elisabeth,

You are right, Stan Coryn wrote some great liner notes.  The notes on the
back of the Dean Martin LP, "Happiness Is Dean Martin" are the funniest liner
notes I have ever read.  If you don't have the LP I will be happy to
transcribe them for you.

Best wishes,
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:55:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: (exotica) sleeve/liner notes

I'm doing some research on particularly good liner/sleeve notes. Some
      choice ones include poet Marianne Moore doing notes for a Cassius
      Clay
      album, Mickey Spillane on the RCA series "Sounds of Violence," etc.
      Any other suggestions?

Elisabeth

>>Well, gee, I hate to sound like, a, um, "broken record," but there is The
Love Generation's first album:  "...an impromptu party broke out, with
pressed ham sandwiches, 7-Up, and flowers flowing freely."

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 07:03:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rudy Rosa and his synthetic organ

I found an interesting lp a month or so back (included
a track or two from it on someone's comp. tape) -
Computerized, Synthesized, Organized: Rudy Rosa and
His customized Hammond Organ, Live at Manny's Surf and
Turf in Fairfax, VA. It must be from the early 70's as
the synth RR has hooked up to his Hammond is an ARP.
The music is quite strange - goofy treatments of
standards du jour such as Baby Elephant Walk,
Michelle, etc.

I tried to track down some info on him on the WWW,
but, go figure, only one listing for a Rudy Rosa and
it ain't him (rough paraphrase of the response I
received to my e-mail query from a namesake in
Florida: R&R studios, which "produced" the lp, existed
in Vienna, VA and some place in FL).


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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:21:27 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Waldo Semon,Candy Candido,John Tigrett

                            *Waldo Semon
    HUDSON, Ohio (AP) -- Waldo Semon, who won a patent for bubble gum,
developed vinyl and helped create synthetic rubber during World War II, died
Wednesday. He was 100.
    Semon worked for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., where one of his first
assignments was make a rubber adhesive from polyvinyl chloride. Instead, he
found a way to make PVC into a flexible, elastic material that became widely
used in the plastic industry.
    Semon earned 116 U.S. patents by the time he retired in 1963, including one
for bubble gum. In 1995, Semon was inducted into the National Inventors Hall
of Fame in Akron.

From Wednesday's L.A. Times:
 Candy Candido; Did Voices in Disney Films

 Candy Candido, 85, the man of "a thousand voices" who spoke for Disney
animated characters in such classics as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Peter Pan." A
native of New Orleans, Candido began his career singing with big bands. His
vocal talents and bass stylings quickly attracted Hollywood casting agents.
Candido appeared on "The Jimmy Durante Show" in the early days of television
in the 1950s. Over the years, he performed in clubs and at variety shows at
state fairs and other events across the country, often serving as master of
ceremonies as well as singing and telling jokes. Candido was a veteran voice
for Disney and other animators, providing the vocal acting for characters in
"Robin Hood" and 1973's "Heavy Traffic." In 1986, Candido earned special
praise as the voice of the peg-legged bat Fidget in "The Great Mouse
Detective." On Wednesday in North Hollywood.

May 27, 1999
John Tigrett, 85, Entrepreneur
By NICK RAVO,NYTimes

John Burton Tigrett, a Tennessee entrepreneur who made a fortune on things
like the Glub-Glub drinking-duck novelty, befriended financiers like Sir
James Goldsmith and musicians like Isaac Hayes, and advised politicians like
Vice President Al Gore, died on May 18 in a hotel room in Washington. He was
85.

Tigrett, who lived in Memphis, Tenn., was also the father of Isaac Tigrett,
the co-founder of two restaurant chains, the Hard Rock Cafe and the House of
Blues. He was staying overnight in Washington after visiting his other son,
Kerr Tigrett, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.

Known in Memphis as the driving force behind the city's distinctively
designed civic center, the Pyramid, John Burton Tigrett had jobs that ranged
from bookseller to bus-company executive to investor in patents.

Patents proved to be his gold mine. In the early 1950s he paid $800 for the
Glub-Glub duck, a toy that bobs and appears to drink water. He eventually
sold 22 million Glub-Glubs.

Tigrett was an inventor in his own right, too. When his son John Jr., cut
himself on a wooden playpen, Tigrett made a playpen of plastic mesh. No one
knows how many have been sold since.

Tigrett was born on Sept. 29, 1913, in Jackson, Tenn. He lived briefly in an
orphanage there after his father left his mother, until he was taken in by
his uncle Isaac, a railroad baron. He attended the University of Tennessee
at Knoxville, worked for a while as a freelance writer and newspaper
reporter, and served in the Navy during World War II.

After the war, he entered the world of commerce and credited his uncle,
according to an obituary published in The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, with
teaching him the importance of being independent.

"I've never depended on anyone for a salary, and that independence has
proven invaluable over the years," Tigrett said in an interview with the
newspaper last year.

A son, Hewitt, was killed in 1962 at the age of 11 in a ditch collapse at
the family's winter home in Arizona, and in 1968, John Jr. died in Mexico.

Tigrett divorced his wife, Frances, when he was 52; relatives say he gave
her all his money, except for a $10,000 grubstake. He then moved to London,
where he worked with Armand Hammer, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum,
and Goldsmith, the corporate takeover artist.

He also worked as a European representative for Holiday Inn and the North
Sea Oil Consortium, before moving back to Memphis in 1989. There he and
other developers initiated the Pyramid project.

In his later years, Tigrett wrote a book, "Fair & Square" (Spiridon Press,
Nashville, 1998), about his careers.

At his funeral on May 19 in Savannah, Tenn., a videotape was played of Vice
President Gore, a longtime friend and a recipient of Tigrett's advice. Gore
likened him to another toy tycoon, the fictional Willie Wonka. Gore also
recalled how his mother used to take him to Tigrett's toy factory.

Besides his sons, Isaac of Los Angeles and Kerr of Memphis and
Charlottesville, Tigrett is survived by his wife, Pat Kerr; a brother,
Charles Clark of Jackson, Miss., and one grandchild.




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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:45:04 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gary McFarland

At 06:11 AM 5/27/99 -0700, Peter Risser wrote:
>
>Anyone know anything about this guy?
> Is there anything i should check
>out by him?

Check out everything by him.
I only know what I know but G.M. was an arranger and producer - most
notably on Stan Getz's bossa nova records - who also put out a number of
his own records with a fairly unique Jobim-influenced bossa jazz style
often featuring vibes and an interesting, often wordless vocal style.
I love his version of "She loves you".  And "God only knows".

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:50:20 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Waldo Semon,Candy Candido,John Tigrett

>From Wednesday's L.A. Times:
> Candy Candido; Did Voices in Disney Films

This is a shame, or...

"I'm feelin' miiiighty low"


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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 10:43:59 +0000
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gary McFarland

> Anyone know anything about this guy?

Yes, by all means, check him out.  I love his stuff!  Albums to watch
for include:

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Point of Departure
Soft Samba
The In Sound
Soft Samba Strings
Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon?
Sympathetic Vibrations
Butterscotch Rum

These are just a few.  There's also the CD "Latin Lounge" on Motor
Music, a great collection of his stuff for Verve in the '60s, early
'70s.  Sadly, Gary McFarland had a tragic end - he and a friend were
poisoned in a NYC bar in 1971.  Sort of forgotten today, though some
of his albums are now being reissued on CD, including "Does the Sun
Really Shine On the Moon?".

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