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exotica-digest         Wednesday, June 2 1999         Volume 02 : Number 406



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Esquivel and Esquivel/Sinatra relationship
(exotica) Brother Cleve live in San Fran
(exotica) Les Poupees de Paris
Re: (exotica) Esquivel and Esquivel/Sinatra relationship
Re: (exotica) klezmer
Re: (exotica) Capital Special Products
Re: (exotica) Swedish oddities
Re: (exotica) Strange & Exotic on Ebay
Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids
Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids
(exotica) [obits] Hillary Brooke, Mary Allen Rowlands, Leah Ray Werblin
Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids
(exotica) [obit] Charles Pierce
Re: (exotica) Charles Wilp on CD
Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids
(exotica) Kids & Rekkids
(exotica) Tiki Sampler
Re: (exotica) Poupee de son
Re: (exotica) Tiki Sampler
Re: (exotica) Poupee de son
Re: (exotica) klezmer
Re: (exotica) Two Ears -- Two Rekkids
Re: (exotica) Kids & Rekkids
(exotica) Kids and Rekkids
SV: (exotica) Poupee de son
Re:  (exotica) Kids & Rekkids
(exotica) san diego recordshopping?
(exotica) Thursday night in San Francisco
(exotica) The Lonesome Organist
Re: (exotica) The Lonesome Organist
Re:  Re: (exotica) Capital Special Products
Re: (exotica) The Lonesome Organist

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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:34:44 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel and Esquivel/Sinatra relationship

At 7:19 PM -0400 5/29/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>I lurk on this list most of the time and yesterday I puchased my first
>Esquivel album called MORE OF OTHER WORLDS AND OTHER SOUNDS..............
>Does anybody know why he didn't record
>more extensively with all the talent he had?? Were his records just not
>selling anymore?  Did he just never attain a huge folowing in this country?
>Also, why did he stop performing in Vegas after 1974? I read that somewhere.
>Does anybody know the reasons??

Esquivel had/has enormous talent but -- a) his records never sold enough to
recoup their recording costs (BMG later recouped the 30+ year old session
costs from the reissues royalties); b) he never developed a huge following.
RCA intended to mold him into a pop star, but it never happened. They
refused to release his 1960 album "See It In Sound", and passed on "More Of
Other Worlds........", which was eventually released by Reprise. His last 2
albums were recorded for RCA Mexico, only one of which ("Genius Of
Esquivel") was released in the US.

He stopped performing in Las Vegas in 1974 because his contract was not
renewed. Organized crime stepped out of Las Vegas at the end of the '60's
and sold it off to the corporations, who looked at the bottom line on every
bit of accounting. The era of large, expensive bands who played for free in
the cocktail lounges came to an end. Esquivel continued working at some
other resort areas for a few years (San Juan, Honolulu, Hot Springs) as
well as selected cites in the US and Mexico, but the 'age of rock' held the
death knell for acts of this nature, as did the rise of synthesizers, drum
machines, and DJ's.

>So becides Esquivel recording for Frank's record
>label Repirse and Sinatra liking Esquivel's music, did these two men have any
>other kind of connections with each other??

Sinatra often came to see Esquivel when he was performing at the Stardust,
and enjoyed his music, but that's about it. Reprise Records in its early
days picked up many artists whose contracts had expired with other labels
(such as Les Baxter) and also dealt with releasing projects that had been
paid for by production companies, such as was the case with the Esquivel
album.

br cleve


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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:03:58 EDT
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Subject: (exotica) Brother Cleve live in San Fran

Tuesday June 8, 1999
Beauty Bar
18th & Mission

9 pm - 1:30 am

Otto's guest dj will be Brother Cleve from Combustible Edison.
Cleve will be spinning unreleased Esquivel and rare Space Age Bachelor Pad.

Otto will open and close the night with the same

it is free

hope to see you there


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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:27:00 -0700
From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Les Poupees de Paris

The inquiry about the meaning of "poupee" jogged my memory banks, as i
recalled seeing a risque puppet show called "Les Poupees de Paris"
waaaaay back when. It was either at the '65? NYC World's Fair or part of
the Folies Bergere Broadway show my parents let me attend when we went
to the fair.

A quick web search turned up the fact that Sid & Marty Kroft did this
"adults-only" puppet show at 4 world's fairs and in Las Vegas in the
60's, as well as doing showgirl puppets on Dean Martin's TV show before
they went kiddie. They even get a mention in the April 24 1965 TV Guide,
check it out here at Dewey Webb's Lurid Library along with some other
interesting summer reading recommendations:

http://dallasobserver.com/extra/dewey/book24.html

 "Les Poupees de Paris" shows up on another website's list of Broadway
cast recordings not yet released on CD, so there is a record somewhere
on RCA. Thanks to the inquiring mind for sending me back 34 years in a
time machine. The Stones were staying in the same hotel,so i had my
first look at groupies - not that they looked at me except to ask if i
knew which floor the Stones were on.

JB   (also gives Charlotte Gainesbourg CD two thumbs up!)


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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:56:54 -0400
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel and Esquivel/Sinatra relationship

you are a walking Esquivelapedia!!!

thanx for that great info!
much fun in frisco bro!

cheers
      bumpo


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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 03:44:44 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) klezmer

At 12:06 PM 6/1/99 +0100, dan hill wrote:
>>There are lots of cantorial records, lots of Jewish comedy records, lots of
>>Mickey Katz... but klezmer is scarce.
>
>well, it can't be that scarce ... it's possible to pick up stuff in a
>decent size tower records for instance (tho' on CD),

I guess I should be more specific when referring to "old LP's".  Yes I know
of the many CD's including the new stuff on John Zorn's label etc.
I think one of the reasons I'm finding so few old klezmer LP's is because
there weren't that many made. Sensible eh?

Nat



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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 03:52:56 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Capital Special Products

At 02:18 PM 6/1/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I just HAVE to RANT and RAVE about a new record in my household:  Peggy
>Lee:RAINDROPS.  It's a promo record, recorded especially for the, uh,
>medical profession...and it's sponsored by the, um__mood altering__
>medication Placidy("For when Sleep is a part of Therapy!")
>
>Anybody else know of any Capital Special Products records?

I'm embarrassed to admit that the first time I found a record sponsored by
Placidyl - "Tender is the Night" by Peter Nero - I was so jaded that I
assumed that the whole sleeping pill thing was just a clever "motif", a
put-on, a comment on the sleep-inducing potential of the record itself.
You know, "Tender is the night" when you curl up with a somnabulent record
like this one.
But after a while I figured out that there was just way too much
information about Placidyl inside the gatefold cover, for it to be a put-on.
Since then, I've found one other Placidyl-sponsored record, by Burt
Bacharach.  Burt don't put this boy to sleep, I can tell you that.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 05:34:53 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Swedish oddities

And our best Swedish oddity?

Drum roll please . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Magnus !

From the oddity on the eastern side of the pond,

Tiki Bob


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 06:13:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Strange & Exotic on Ebay

In a message dated 6/1/99 12:00:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< 109143214:  Albert Camus Reading His Works In French!
 Auction ends on:    06/01/99 17:44:22 PDT
 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=109143214
  >>

Is this Amy's brother???????????

Tiki Bob


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 05:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids

- --- Dom Ciccone <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >The other is Jonah Jones Quartet and the
> "Swingingest" Chorale, whoever
> >that is.
>
>
> It's interesting that this record came up on the
> list today. Is this the one
> called "A Touch of Blue"? The cover has a picture of
> three nice looking
> ladies in designer gowns?

No, actually, it's something like "Jonah Jones Styles the Hits" or
something.  Shows a sexy lady amongst several dressmaker's dummies on
the front.

As far as kids admiring albums, my two-year-old has developed a sudden
fascination with my record collection.  She kneels down in front of a
stack (they're all lined up leaning on every old thing in my office)
and flips through them, just like a professional, though more slowly.

Ask her what she's doing and she replies "Just looking, Daddy.  Just
looking at the books."

When she cruises near some of my more expensive records, I can't help
but cringe.  And yet, should I discourage what could be my protege?

Peter

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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:30:36 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids

My three-year-old son refers to LPs as "big CDs"!  He can touch all the
album covers he wants, but we draw the line when he tries to put the LPs
on the turntable and play them himself!!!

cheryl

Peter Risser wrote:

> As far as kids admiring albums, my two-year-old has developed a sudden
> fascination with my record collection.  She kneels down in front of a
> stack (they're all lined up leaning on every old thing in my office)
> and flips through them, just like a professional, though more slowly.
>
> Ask her what she's doing and she replies "Just looking, Daddy.  Just
> looking at the books."
>
> When she cruises near some of my more expensive records, I can't help
> but cringe.  And yet, should I discourage what could be my protege?


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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:10:34 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Hillary Brooke, Mary Allen Rowlands, Leah Ray Werblin

    BONSALL, Calif. (AP) -- Hillary Brooke, the elegant blond actress who
played the ``other woman'' in dozens of movies and had a recurring role in
the 1950s TV sitcom ``My Little Margie,'' has died. She was 84.
    Miss Brooke died May 25 in Bonsall in Southern California, according to a
friend, Helen Lovass.
    Although Miss Brooke was often tagged a ``blonde bombshell,'' she once
publicly challenged a psychology professor's claim that ``intelligence can
repel a man'' and that smart actresses would frighten male fans.
    ``Vacuity will never substitute for a glint of intelligence,'' she said.
    Although never a leading lady, the former model worked with top actors and
directors in such movies as ``Jane Eyre,'' (1944) which starred Orson Welles
and Joan Fontaine; ``The Enchanted Cottage,'' (1944) starring Robert Young;
``Road to Utopia'' (1945) starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby; and Alfred
Hitchcock's ``The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1956).
    She appeared in ``My Little Margie'' from 1952 to 1955, playing Roberta
Townsend, who was often romantically linked with Margie's father, Vernon
Albright, played by Charles Farrell.

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mary Allen Rowlands, artist-actress and mother of
actress Gena Rowlands Cassavetes, died Friday. She was 94.
    She appeared in several films with her daughter that were directed by her
son-in-law, the late John Cassavetes, including ``Minnie and Moskowitz,''
``A Woman Under the Influence'' and ``Opening Night.''
    The widow of Wisconsin state Sen. Edwin Rowlands, Miss Rowlands was also
known for her portrait painting.

June 2, 1999
Leah Ray Werblin, 82, Vocalist, Racehorse Owner
Leah Ray Werblin, one of the country's best known vocalists in the Big Band
era and later, with her husband, the owner of the Elberon Farm in
thoroughbred racing, died in her sleep last Thursday at her home in Rumson,
N.J. She was 82.

Mrs. Werblin, the former Leah Ray Hubbard of Norfolk, Va., was a singer with
Tommy Dorsey, Phil Harris and other bands as Leah Ray when she met and
married David "Sonny" Werblin, an agent with Music Corporation of America.
They were married for more than 50 years.

Sonny Werblin later became an officer of Monmouth Park race track and
president of the New York Jets football team, built the Meadowlands Sports
Complex and was chairman of Madison Square Garden. He and his wife raced
many outstanding horses, including the 2-year-old champion Silent Screen.

Sonny Werblin died on Nov. 21, 1991. He was 81.

Mrs. Werblin is survived by two sons, Thomas of New York and Robert of Atlanta.





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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:46:08 -0700
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids

Oooh!  You are very brave!  I don't have the guts to let my 4 year old rifle
thru the collection yet, though it has not come up. I have to keep telling
him NOT to climb on them... He is more interested in the Pez dispensers and
happy-meal toys on top of the shelves. The records on the floor bear the
brunt of his enthusiasm.

He does look forward to going with me to garage sales on the weekends to
help me find more, though.

Ron


>
>My three-year-old son refers to LPs as "big CDs"!  He can touch all the
>album covers he wants, but we draw the line when he tries to put the LPs
>on the turntable and play them himself!!!
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:03:07 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Charles Pierce

Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Charles Pierce; Actor Impersonated Female Stars
By DIANE HAITHMAN, Times Staff Writer
  Charles Pierce, a female impersonator renowned for his characterizations
of such glamorous Hollywood legends as Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah
Bankhead, Gloria Swanson and Joan Crawford, has died. He was 73.
     Pierce, who repeatedly announced his retirement during the 1980s, died
of cancer Monday night at his home in Toluca Lake.
     He was most recently seen by area audiences in 1990, when the recent
death of his most famous character, Davis, led to a deluge of calls begging
the flamboyant performer to return to the stage.
     In response to those requests, Pierce revived his one-man nightclub
act, renamed it "Fasten Your Seatbelts" and took it on the road. Onstage,
Pierce described the show to his audience as "The legendary ladies of the
silver screen, all talking, all singing, all dancing . . . all dead."
     The act included Pierce's elaborately dressed West, in bouffant yellow
wig, sequined gown and red boa ("I couldn't decide what to wear, so I wore
everything"), delivering the line: "I feel like a million. . . . But I'll
take them 10 at a time."
     Pierce was noted for his uncanny ability to conjure up the images of
female celebrities using subtle forms of mimicry such as facial expressions
and vocal inflections, rather than relying on the requisite heavy makeup and
elaborate drag costumes to carry the illusion. He often demonstrated his
acting skill with impressions of the screen stars doing scathing impressions
of one another.
     In his early performing days, Pierce did not wear drag at all,
appearing in a mime's black shirt and pants, using stoles, boas and hats as
props. The gowns, heels and turbans did not come out of his closet until the
1960s. "High heels, falsies, makeup . . . it was considered much more
outrageous at the time," Pierce said.
     He was also noted for occasionally improving on the original. "If he
writes his own lines--and he at least passes on them--he is indeed a witty
man," wrote former Times theater critic Dan Sullivan of Pierce's 1986 show,
"Not a Well Woman." " 'I drink to pass the time away until I get drunk'
isn't just the sort of thing that Bette [Davis] might have said in 'All
About Eve'; it's funnier than anything she did say."
     Pierce once recalled Carol Channing's reaction to his impression of
her: "By the end of the evening she was in stitches and told me, 'You do me
better than I do, Charles.' "
     Pierce never much cared for the term "female impersonator." Nor did he
want to be mistaken for a transsexual or a transvestite, explaining that
after the show, he got back into his street clothes as soon as possible. "I
have no ambition to be the Liberace of the drag world," he said.
     "Why do I have to be described as 'Charles Pierce, female
impersonator?' Why not just 'Charles Pierce, actor?' " he protested in a
1988 interview. "I'm really just an actor who puts on certain costumes,
generally gowns, to create female characters familiar to millions of people."
     Born in 1926 in Watertown, N.Y., Pierce began his acting training at
age 20 at the Pasadena Playhouse, after working in high school and for
several years afterward as a radio announcer. The dream of coming West began
in his teens.
     He never planned to become a female impersonator, but the dearth of
work for the aspiring actor led him to give it a try. As a nightclub act, he
reasoned, he would get paid at the end of the evening, rather than at the
end of the year.
     "You know, I'd like people who see my work to remember me as an
actor--a good actor--who made his living by doing some really good
impressions," he mused later in his career. "The fact that I went from rags
to bitches was just one of those quirks of fate written in the stars."
     In a 1990 interview, Pierce told The Times that he was 14 when he began
to dream of studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, after seeing an ad in
Theater Arts magazine.
     "I was absorbed in the thought of coming to the Pasadena Playhouse to
become an actor. For two years this playhouse was like an ivory tower.."
     After acting school, Pierce divided his time among his radio job in
Watertown, summer stock theater in Newport, R.I., and the Pasadena Playhouse.
     By 1952, Pierce was doing monologues and stand-up comedy at the Cabaret
Concert on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Eventually, he performed at the
Club LaVie in Altadena, where he received his first paycheck for his
impressions. "I'd use a leopard stole, a boa, a hat, but I wasn't in drag. I
didn't even think about wearing drag," he said.
     In the early 1960s, Pierce took his act to the Echo Club in Miami
Beach. Though it was illegal to cross-dress in Florida at the time, Pierce
skirted the law by using minimal thrift-shop props such as a cigarette
holder, or slipping on a glittering gown over his pants and shirt.
     After Miami, he appeared at San Francisco's Gilded Cage, where his
shows played to a mostly gay clientele. Over time, his appeal began to win
him a broader audience and popularity on the international nightclub circuit.
     In the 1990s, a few critics began to complain that his material had
lost some of its outrageousness as society's standards changed. Pierce
argued that it was impossible to move on from these larger-than-life
performers to today's stars. He once lamented: "You can't do 10 minutes on
Susan Sarandon or Carrie Fisher."
     No matter what actress he chose to portray, Pierce wanted his motives
to be clearly understood. "I'm not doing it to be a woman," he said. "I'm
doing it to be a star."
     Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. June 19 at Church of the Hills in
Forest Lawn Hollywood.
Copyright 1999 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved






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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 18:41:00 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Charles Wilp on CD

Moritz R wrote:

> (...) may I announce the brandnew reissue
> of "Charles Wilp photographiert Bunny". http://www.atatak.com
>
> This LP first came out in 1967 and was rediscovered about a year ago by
> list member and home-page-prize-winner Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
> http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com .

Thanks for the plug, Mo! :-) Actually it's almost 2 years ago since I got my
copy of this album. A friend of mine found it in the house he bought, as part
of all the stuff that the former owners had left behind. There weren't many
records, but we found hundreds of old film magazines and all sort of other
printed ephemera. I can assure you that I was very exciting to sift through all
that stuff.


> As I lack of any real comparisons I find it hard to describe the music
> of "Charles Wilp photographiert Bunny"....

I find the desription Mo gave very to the point. There's lush easy listening,
there are groovy organs (I'm talking about musical instruments here!), sexy
girls talking about their make-up, etc. The cover is also eye-catching.


> I hope this doesn't sound like too much of advertizing to you all,

Noooo.... Just buy this CD and your life will be better. You'll like the
artwork and you'll love the liner notes. Really. Trust me. (etc.)

Marco


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:21:58 -0400
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Two Rekkids

I love all the responses on how our kids react to our records.

My three year old delights in helping me rearrange and add CD's to my
CaseLogic binders. I let her handle the CD's and I do the booklets.




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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:53:29 -0400
From: "Brian Tozer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kids & Rekkids

While everyone's sharing their kids & records stories, here's what
happens when a 13-year old daughter is faced with her father's
strange musical tastes...I got home & my daughter and her friends
were playing Barbies & listening to CD's.  What CD's?  Well I could
see Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls on the floor beside her CD
player, but when I came in they were playing "Simba" by Les
Baxter!!
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:53:38 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Sampler

Do bad "batches" like this happen?


I think so.  There were two cases that I can think of:

Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band on RCA had such bad masters, it
was quietly reissued.  On "Take the A Train" (incidentally, I did just that
when I went to Harlem!) there was almost a whole measure of music missing.

On vinyl, the reissue of Etta Jones "Don't Go To Strangers" both of the
copies we opened sounded like this:
"Yes sir, that's my baby,
No sir, don't mean maybe,
Yes sir, that's my ba...*POP*...ow"

We sent back that run and got a new set and the skip was in the same place
again!

Brian *POP* ...ps



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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:18:22 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Poupee de son

Pardon me, do you happen to have any Poupee de son?



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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:00:03 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Sampler

OK, so you folks that have the Tiki Sampler go and listen to Light My Fire
around 1 minute and 50 seconds (approx) and tell us if you hear a
"skip/click".

Tiki Bob (Homework assigner to the List)

In a message dated 06/02/99 4:54:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Do bad "batches" like this happen?


 I think so.  There were two cases that I can think of:

 Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band on RCA had such bad masters, it
 was quietly reissued.  On "Take the A Train" (incidentally, I did just that
 when I went to Harlem!) there was almost a whole measure of music missing.

 On vinyl, the reissue of Etta Jones "Don't Go To Strangers" both of the
 copies we opened sounded like this:
 "Yes sir, that's my baby,
 No sir, don't mean maybe,
 Yes sir, that's my ba...*POP*...ow"

 We sent back that run and got a new set and the skip was in the same place
 again!

 Brian *POP* ...ps

  >>


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:02:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Poupee de son

In a message dated 06/02/99 5:19:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Pardon me, do you happen to have any Poupee de son? >>

Oui, oui . . . my son keeps his "poupee" in his diapier.  Maybe that should
be Oueeee . . . . Oueeeee!!!!!

Tiki Bob


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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 18:08:20 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) klezmer

Nat Kone wrote:

> At 12:06 PM 6/1/99 +0100, dan hill wrote:
> >>There are lots of cantorial records, lots of Jewish comedy records, lots of
> >>Mickey Katz... but klezmer is scarce.
> >
> >well, it can't be that scarce ... it's possible to pick up stuff in a
> >decent size tower records for instance (tho' on CD),
>
> I guess I should be more specific when referring to "old LP's".  Yes I know
> of the many CD's including the new stuff on John Zorn's label etc.
> I think one of the reasons I'm finding so few old klezmer LP's is because
> there weren't that many made. Sensible eh?

I meant to back up Nat on this point earlier.
Klezmer was very popular in the 20's and 30's and hence shows up on many lost
and forgotten 78's. The decline of Klezmer's popularity coincided with the rise
of the LP format. And the klezmer "revival" didn't really get rolling until the
late 70's early 80's. This is the basic reason you don't see too many klezmer
LPs &45s.
What you DO find however is a few of the formerly klezmer musicians cutting
MiddleEastern/Belly Dance albums which was popular and modally akin to klez.
You will also find many "Borscht Belt" records by Catskill bands which played to
mostly vacationing NYC jews. Some of this stuff is incredible, and very very
exotica related. I recently picked up a couple. One is called "Twisting the
Freilach" which is basically traditional klezmer tunes to a "twist" beat. The
other is a remarkable hybrid titled "Ole Oy Vey"  which you can guess from the
title is a melding of klezmer and mariachi!!?

I was lucky enough to attend Henry Sapoznik's (THE klezmer historian) workshop
on klezmer music which was a real blast.

Frank



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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:06:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Two Ears -- Two Rekkids

In a message dated 06/02/99 10:32:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< My three-year-old son refers to LPs as "big CDs"!  He can touch all the
 album covers he wants, but we draw the line when he tries to put the LPs
 on the turntable and play them himself!!!

 cheryl
  >>

Get some 45's and  put them on his ears (one on/over each ear).

Oh no, Tiki Bob is on the 45's on the ear thing again!!!

Tiki Bob (with a Bobby Sherman on one ear and a Monkee's on the other)


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:15:59 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kids & Rekkids

In a message dated 06/02/99 3:54:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< here's what
 happens when a 13-year old daughter is faced with her father's
 strange musical tastes...I got home & my daughter and her friends
 were playing Barbies & listening to CD's.  What CD's?  Well I could
 see Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls on the floor beside her CD
 player, but when I came in they were playing "Simba" by Les
 Baxter!! >>


Now the 13 year old girl liking Les Baxter I can believe.   But PLAYING WITH
BARBIES????  At age 13.  Wow.

Now if it was a 13 year old boy I might believe it.  I mean, have you ever
seen the way Barbie is stacked???

Puerilely,

Tiki Bob



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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:23:15 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Kids and Rekkids

In a message dated 06/02/99 12:04:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Oooh!  You are very brave!  I don't have the guts to let my 4 year old
rifle
 thru the collection yet, >>

As the saying goes, I shit you not:

One of the first words my son (now about age 2) could say was "Martin Denny".

I have a record player in his room and he would, at an earliest talking age,
point to the record player and say "Martin Denny".  That was his instruction
for me to play Quiet Village.

And from an early age he was taught not to touch the records while playing or
otherwise because if he did I would stop the record . . . . .and like his
daddy, he don't like the record to be stopped so he never touches the records.

Now isn't that a sweet story from . . . .

Tiki Bob

(Well the cuss word was not too nice but hey)


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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 00:21:52 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Poupee de son

<< Pardon me, do you happen to have any Poupee de son? >>

>Oui, oui . . . my son keeps his "poupee" in his diapier.  Maybe that =
should=20
>be Oueeee . . . . Oueeeee!!!!!

>Tiki Bob



oueeeeee~~~~~~?~~~~?~~?~  ? =20

Yes Tiki Bob it makes a difference. It makes sense.  :)

M




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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:35:26 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Kids & Rekkids

In a message dated 6/2/99 3:54:19 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>While everyone's sharing their kids & records stories

My 7 year old daughter called me into the living room during "Rug Rats" the
other night. I went in, she pointed at the TV and said, "Look Daddy, Burt
Bacharach CD's..should we order it?"


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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (kevin leeeeee)
Subject: (exotica) san diego recordshopping?

hi there,
anyone able to suggest good san diego record/cd shops?

i guess i'm mainly looking for either new dance-oriented stuff, import
stuff perhaps. new reissues...

but also interested in diggin thru some cheap vynil bins.

any help greatly appreciated!

kevin




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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:07:13 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Thursday night in San Francisco

it's time once again for Otto's monthly Little Grass shack gig at the Li Lo
Lounge
9 - 1:30
Drop in for titillating tonics from Sudsey the bartender
(if you ask nicely he may play saw later on in the night)


the Li Lo is at
18th & Connecticut on Potrero Hill in SF
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:29:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Lonesome Organist

Here's another "I heard a tune on the local college station..." from me.

It was a swinging little tune by, if I remember correctly, The Lonesome
Organist. Organ, drums, and maybe some bass (hey, it's an AM station and I
was listening on my car radio).

So, anyone heard of this Lonesome Organist?

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:00:51 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lonesome Organist

Indulis R Rutks wrote:

> So, anyone heard of this Lonesome Organist?
>

Yes!! The Lonesome Organist is my new favorite. And I'm very particular when
it comes to contemporary recording artists.

My quick statement is that he's like Tom Waits meets Ween. Waits in the raw
low fi sound used to purposeful effect, and also a few of the vocal tracks are
dead ringers. Ween in his mastery of the multi-track recording and the sly
sense of humor conveyed in the variety of styles.
Lonesome organist plays chord organ, marimba, steel drum, toy piano, synth,
guitar, drums and a few other instruments. His new album  "Cavalcade" (Thrill
Jockey 67)is great  but, even better is his first one "Collector of Cactus
Echo Bags" (Thrill Jockey 44)

It's interesting that when we talk about contemporary exotica we tend to limit
the conversation to lounge bands (Lars Vegas), exotica groups (Com.Ed) or
electronic/moog groups (Stereolab). To me the most interesting sub-genre of
contemporary exotica is the quirky stuff such as the Lonesome Organist.
Perhaps it is because the are so few people doing this sort of thing without
feeling like they have to put some dance beat to it  ala Montifori Cocktail.

Quirky Frank



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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 01:00:35 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Capital Special Products

I've got a Placidyl record by Jackie Gleason called "Softly". I had no idea
there were others. One of the suggested uses for the drug is for pregnant
women.   Bob


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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 02:00:21 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lonesome Organist

At 11:00 PM 6/2/99 -0500, recliner wrote:
>
>Yes!! The Lonesome Organist is my new favorite. And I'm very particular when
>it comes to contemporary recording artists.
>
>My quick statement is that he's like Tom Waits meets Ween.
>Lonesome organist plays chord organ, marimba, steel drum, toy piano, synth,
>guitar, drums and a few other instruments. His new album  "Cavalcade" (Thrill
>Jockey 67)is great  but, even better is his first one "Collector of Cactus
>Echo Bags" (Thrill Jockey 44)
>
>It's interesting that when we talk about contemporary exotica we tend to
limit
>the conversation to lounge bands (Lars Vegas), exotica groups (Com.Ed) or
>electronic/moog groups (Stereolab). To me the most interesting sub-genre of
>contemporary exotica is the quirky stuff such as the Lonesome Organist.

I'd be careful recommending the Lonesome Organist as some kind of "modern
exotica".  I'm sure he's been influenced by some of the same stuff that we
like and I love the name itself but I think it's a stretch to put this in
the lounge/exotica bag.

I haven't heard the second record - which from the reviews I read, made me
think I would like it better than the first one - but I suspect that most
people here would find the "vocal" tunes on the first CD annoying if not
unlistenable.  A better comparison would be the Jon Spenser Blues Explosion
rather than Tom Waits or
Ween.

The CD basically alternates between "carnival of souls" style organ-based
instrumental pieces and fairly "aggressive", somewhat dissonant bluesy
ravings in a Jon Spenser style.  If that sounds like a mess that couldn't
work, I'd say you're half right but it works well enough for me to
occasionally play the thing.  And I like Jon Spenser.  But I'm sure there
are millions who don't and that's why I'd hesitate before recommending this
to you cats.

Still, there's not much like it out there so if you're curious...

Nat



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