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exotica-digest          Monday, June 7 1999          Volume 02 : Number 408



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Les Baxter - Soul of the Drum?
(exotica) Martinis with Mancini playlist (6/4/99)
Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites
Re:  Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites
(exotica) a drakes cake
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, June 6
Re: (exotica) havaiian shites
(exotica) Cat tunes redux
(exotica) today's finds
(exotica) Exotica suite
(exotica) Don Cherry question
Re: (exotica) today's finds
Re: (exotica) today's finds
Re: (exotica) another side of Yma
(exotica) Weekend scores
(exotica) Re: Lemon Incest
(exotica) Re: Lemon Incest
(exotica) Re: lemon incest
Re: (exotica) today's finds
Re: (exotica) Exotica suite
Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites
(exotica) [obits] Peter Brough,Ernie Wilkins,Bruno Caravaggi,Randolph Bullock,Paul S. Newman
(exotica) She Had a Taste for Music
Re:  Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites
(exotica) [obit] Mel Torme'

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Date: Sun, 30 May 99 09:07:26 PDT
From: "Jill Mingo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Les Baxter - Soul of the Drum?

- ----------
>
> Anyone have any info on availability of this album. It contains a song =
called
> "Mai Tai" which has an obvious interest for me.
>
> How "rare" is Soul of the Drum?  Typical price fetch?


Well, I'd say it is fairly rare, but findable if you are fairly diligent.=
 Would be hard to find for $5. Probably more like $20. Mine was given to =
me - I've only ever seen promos of it - and it is a pretty hard one to =
find. But the collectability  has petered out on Baxter and I see more =
of his stuff and cheaper than ever before.

Happy hunting.

x Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 19:22:24 -0400
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis with Mancini playlist (6/4/99)

Next week all jazz so I won't post. But will sneak in some Seks Bomba for
the release party.

=93Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Friday's from 6-9 AM.
WJUL 91.5, Lowell Massachusetts.

The Show=92s web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/
Your comments, questions always welcomed.
The Playlist:
It Could Happen To You, Bjork
Together, Jimmy Dorsey
Capitol Idea, Tommy Dorsey
Dica Dica Doo, Artie Shaw
Jumpin=92 At The Woodside, Benny Goodman
Alligator Crawl, Les Brown
My Heart Belongs To Daddy, Marilyn Monroe
Hit That Jive Jack, Diana Krall, Hipsters Zoots And Wingtips
Dancing On The Ceiling, Bob Keene Big Ban Bash
Mimi, Bob Keene Big Ban Bash
They Didn=92t Believe Me, Bob Keene Big Ban Bash
Begin The Beguine, Bob Keene Big Ban Bash
Nancy with the Laughing Face, John Coltrane, Cigar Classics
Black Coffee, Peggy Lee, Cigar Classics
Just Friends, Charlie Parker
My Baby Just Cares For Me, Nina Simone
Someone to Watch Over Me, Holly Cole Trio
Boogie For A Nickle, Bob Keene Big Ban Bash
One Mint Julip, The New Xavier Cugat Orchestra
The Boss, Joseph Gershenson, Crime Jazz 1
Price Ali, OST Aladdin
One Jump Ahead, OST Aladdin
Bug Out, Jimmy McGriff
Mambo #5, Perez Prado
An Afternoon Affair, Verrill Keene
Hey Pachuco!, Royal Crown Review, Hipsters Zoots And Wingtips
A Martini for Mancini, Joey Altruda
Desafindo, Stan Getz/ Antonio Carlos Jobim
Song Of The Jet, Tony Bennet
Wave, Nancy Wilson, Tiki Sampler
Go Chango, Les Baxter, Tiki Sampler
Beachcomber Song, The Rockyfellers, Jungle Jive!
Woman Need Man, The Rockyfellers, Jungle Jive!
Kingston Calypso, OST Dr. No
Jim on the Move, Mission Impossible
Operation Charm, Mission Impossible
One Mint Julip, Ray Charles
Novios, Cal Tjader
Mr Lucky, Elliot Easton=92s Tiki Gods
Something For Cat, Four Piece Suit
It Had Better Be Tonight, Seks Bomba
Jet City, Seks Bomba
The Right Track, Seks Bomba
Secret Agent Man, Hal Blain
Princess Leah Theme, Evil Empire Orchestra, Cocktails In The Cantina
Miserlou, Esquivel
Somethings Got To Give, Ella Fitzgerald
Shoot To Kill, Quincy Jones
Duel Of The Fates, Phanton Menace Radio Remix
Star Wars Main Theme, OST Phantom Menace
Telstar, The Ventures
Out Of Limits, The Ventures
He Never Came Back, The Ventures
The Seduction, Voices of Africa, Jungle Jive!
Swahili, Boo Keene Orchestra, Jungle Jive!
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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 00:47:26 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites

last summer seemed to be a plethora of Hawaiian re-styles with mainstream
fashioneers like Old Navy/GAP jumping in with both feet

this year is already shaping up to be even bigger with Stussy doin Haw and
some other Co has a decent Tiki shirt out now

Otto

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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:40:55 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites

In a message dated 6/5/99 12:49:24 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>last summer seemed to be a plethora of Hawaiian re-styles with mainstream
>fashioneers like Old Navy/GAP jumping in with both feet
>
>this year is already shaping up to be even bigger with Stussy doin Haw and
>some other Co has a decent Tiki shirt out now

I teach days in the Boston Public Schools and I can tell you that the
hawaiian shirt is bigg in the black community. One of the kids in my class
had a real nice looking rayon one on yesterday. But amidst the palm trees,
ocean scenes and VERY nice colors was the corporate logo "Guess" in each
pattern..  :-(


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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 02:37:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Mr.Drakes)
Subject: (exotica) a drakes cake

thank you mr tiki bob for the wonderfull welcome you gave me,boy oh
boy,i realy felt the explosions!
now, as far as my name,well... i love cake
i eat it everyday(small amounts) and drakes brand is my fav! there made
in newyork ,and now avalable in texas!  they go great with
Baxter's best lp!!
Mr.Drakes AKA Daniel



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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:51:44 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, the exotic sounds of
the Far East are served up by Cal Tjader and Lalo Schifrin ("Several
Shades of Jade"), The Markko Polo Adventurers ("Orienta") and George
Duning ("The World of Suzie Wong").

Exotica-wise, you'll find music from the Les Baxter-Martin Denny-Si
Zentner collaboration "The Exotica Suite", along with Baxter's
"African Jazz" and the amazing "Tropical Fantasy" by French composer
Michel Magne.  Plus -- Pepino sings!  And Linda Lawson and Gary
McFarland.

Stir in some crime jazz from "Private Hell 36" and "Honey West", add
a pinch of The Three Suns, Esquivel and Henri Rene and throw in a
pinch of Phil Moore's gorgeous "New York Sweet" and you've got this
week's Retro Cocktail Hour!

To hear the show on the Web, just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Requires RealPlayer and at least a 28.8 Internet connection.
As always, comments, suggestions and requests welcome!

Thanks for the space.


Darrell Brogdon
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KANU Radio
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 12:45:58 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, June 6

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

All comments, questions, and feedback welcome.


Space Bop #51     Sounds Tropical

Edmundo Ros:  I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd  "Dance Again"
Lalo Schifrin:  Capricho Espanol  "Piano Espanol"
Denny Wright And The Hustlers:  Shout About Pepsi  "The Sound Gallery"
The Three Suns:  Delicado  "Melodies And Mischief"
The Three Suns:  Caravan  "Mallets In Wonderland"

Edmundo Ros:  Mambo #5  "Dance Again"
Perez Prado:  Why Wait  "Melodies And Mischief"
Esquivel:  Anna (El Negro Zumbon)  "Infinity In Sound Vol. 2"
Edmundo Ros:  Light My Fire  "Inflight Entertainment"
The Slits:  Earthbeat  "Return Of The Giant Slits"

Edmundo Ros:  Tropical Merengue  "Dance Again"
Perez Prado:  My Roberta  "Big Hits By Prado"
James Last:  Happy Brasilia  "Espresso Espresso"
Bernie Green & His Guitar Orchestra:  Steel Bones  "Mallets In
Wonderland"
Tom Tom Club:  Under The Boardwalk  "Under The Boardwalk"

Edmundo Ros:  When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain  "Dance Again"
Flabby:  Mambo Italiano  "Ultradolce"
Stereo-Cocktail:  La Bamba  "Stereo-Cocktail"

And next week, being Space Bop's one-year mark, we'll be doing our
AtaTak 20th Anniversary Special show - so stay tuned!!


Thanks for reading.

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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:29:58 +0000
From: Christine Karkow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) havaiian shites

You might also want to check out Patagonia's Pataloha shirt.  Comes in red
or blue with big ol palm leafs.



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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:12:45 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cat tunes redux

Thanks to all of the suggestions for cat titled songs. A few week ago I
had a show that was very fun. I suppose I should  say that it was
purrrfect.

Frank
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Mancini - Something for Cat
Bob Bunny - Scatty Cat
Mancini - The Cat
Theme to Top Cat
Buddy Morrow - Black Cat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Quincy Jones - Fat Cat Strut
Perez Prado - Tom Cat Mambo
The Crew - Jaguar Hunt
Billy Mure - Tiger Guitars
Doc Severinsen - Hey Pretty Pussycat
Dominique Fontiere - Jaguar God
Mancini - Theme to Pink Panther
Creed Taylor - Meet a Cheetah
Theme to Felix the Cat
Fred Astaire Dance Orch. - Panther Mambo
Mancini - Dancing Cat
Ray Conniff - Tiger Rag
Sil Austin - Alley Cat
The New Bangs - Go Go Kitty
Al Hirt - The Cat
Mancini - One Eyed Cat
April Stevens - Teach me Tiger
Mulendore(Honey West ST) - The Ocelot
Andre Williams - Sweet Little Pussycat
Gary McFarland - Long Live the King ( Leo)
The Marketts - Cat Woman


Interspersed a few times was Cat Fight and Your Cat from a Disney
Halloween record.
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:10:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Mr.Drakes)
Subject: (exotica) today's finds

hello group!
today went to the fleamarket and found a few nice lp's! heres what i
found...
The three suns "happy go lucky sound"
"so refreashing"

The Walter Wanderley Trio "Cheganca"
promo lp on verve...very chic!

Sandy Nelson "Let there be drums" IM lp.
(i'd like info on this lp and artist)

Henri Rene & Orch "Riot in rhythm
(Man it swings!) RCA mono

Dick Schory's percussion pops orch
"Supercussion" RCA "Dynagroove
The magnificent new sound by RCA!

Kai Winding "Penny lane & Time"verve
(Terrifyingly delightfull)

Tak Shindo "Brass and Bamboo"
(Exciting big band tunes fused with delicate
sounds of the orient!) Capitol rec.

and the lp ive been looking for after 3 years...
SOUNDS IN SPACE   RCA stereo demonstration disk!!! (a true stereophonic
record)
well,thats all for today my exotic pals.
let me know what you thing of some of the lp's
listed. thanks!
mr.drakes



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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 03:30:13 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica suite

I'm sure this has been answered before but please indulge me.
On "The Exotica Suite" - otherwise known as the "burlap album" - if Les
Baxter composed the music, Bob Florence arranged it and Sy Zentner's
orchestra played it, what did Martin Denny do?
It's not a riddle.  Or at least I didn't intend it that way.

Nat



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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:57:08 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Don Cherry question

I was at a party on Friday,  and one of the other DJ's played an
excellent Record by Don Cherry,  I can't remember what it was called (4
am, what do you expect)  but it had what looked like a picture of Don
Cherry standing next to what looked like the Watts Towers.  Only four
tracks on it,  and the bloke playing the record said that they were all
as good.

Does anyone know what this record is or anything about it?

Thanks


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 01:24:49 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) today's finds

At 12:10 AM 07-06-99 -0500,Mr. Drakes wrote:
>today went to the fleamarket and found a few nice lp's!

nice is an understatement, especially if they were in great condition.
Anytime I run across the Sounds in Space LP it has been well worn.
You can't goof with Dick Schory or Henri Rene.  Tak Shindo is great!
Even in mono Brass and Bamboo is great exotica, so I hope you did even
better with stereo.  I haven't heard the Kai Winding, Sandy Nelson or
Walter Wanderley LPs but they all are good names!  And, of course,
The Three Suns can hardly be beat.

Very good!

Byron
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 04:35:16 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) today's finds

At 12:10 AM 6/7/99 -0500, Mr.Drakes wrote:
>
>hello group!
>today went to the fleamarket and found a few nice lp's! heres what i
>found..

Well here goes your official Nat-olicious introduction.
.
>The three suns "happy go lucky sound"
>"so refreashing"

It's hard to talk definitively about the Suns but I'd say there are two or
three must-have's, a few keepers and then you get into the more vague
territory where you have to love them to keep the records.  Or let's put it
this way.  If you want to convince someone what's great about the Three
Suns, there are a lot of records that make that task difficult.
Anyway I call this one a "keeper".  Not their best but not their worst by far.

>>The Walter Wanderley Trio "Cheganca"
>promo lp on verve...very chic!

Good record.  Nice and minimal and of course, Bobby Rosengarden.

>
>Sandy Nelson "Let there be drums" IM lp.
>(i'd like info on this lp and artist)

Well this is really why I'm responding to this post, being the one who has
raved about Sandy Nelson so often in the past.
I have this record.  I love Sandy Nelson.  I don't love this record.
There are early Sandy Nelson records and "later" ones.  This is one of the
earlier ones and I much much prefer the later ones.
The earlier ones like this one, feature early rock and big band-type tunes,
fairly simple arrangements and long, long passages of fairly simple
drumming.  The later ones are "classic" instrumental rock, very much in the
Ventures tradition and though occasionally you still get those long, long
drum passages, there's much more going on than on this record.
Or maybe I just prefer covers of songs like "Hey Joe", "I don't need no
doctor" and "Going up the country" to stuff like "Big Noise from Winetka".

>Henri Rene & Orch "Riot in rhythm
>(Man it swings!) RCA mono

Good score!  Now you have to find "Compulsion to Swing"
(But you're collecting the classics for sure.)

>Dick Schory's percussion pops orch
>"Supercussion" RCA "Dynagroove
>The magnificent new sound by RCA!

Another classic "building block" in your basic exotica/lounge collection.
But now you have to get "Wild Percussion", "Music for Bang, Barroom and
Harp" and "Running Wild".

Then again, I'm assuming you don't have those records.  Who am I to assume?
I'm just making an ass of u and me.

>Kai Winding "Penny lane & Time"verve
>(Terrifyingly delightfull)

Shit, one I don't have.  Does he play Ondioline on this one?  I'm jealous.

>Tak Shindo "Brass and Bamboo"
>(Exciting big band tunes fused with delicate
>sounds of the orient!) Capitol rec.

Damn, another true classic.  This was a hell of a flea market.  Almost
seems like some of us here have had.  You didn't also get "Zounds What
Sounds" too, didja?

>and the lp ive been looking for after 3 years...
>SOUNDS IN SPACE   RCA stereo demonstration disk!!! (a true stereophonic
>record)

Well that's a classic for some.  It even demands collector's prices
somewhere.  All for a few spoken-word intros by the great jazz poet Ken
Nordine, doing his day job.

Still, all in all, a few more flea market days like that one and you'll be
the envy of all or of me at least.

Nat




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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:34:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) another side of Yma

In a message dated 6/3/99 12:05:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/gp_yma.jpg
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Old Yma playing ping pong -- that's great.

Did others on the list read the article in either Cool and Strange or Tiki
News about Yma's recent tour?

It appears she was too cheap to pay the band to practice so the performances
were awful.

At one point she got pissed off at the band and audience and walked off the
stage cussing profusely.  Too bad (???) she forgot she was wearing a
microphone headset.  Now we need a cut of that in real audio.

I like to think of Yma as the Zaa Zaa Gabor of the Exotica world.  You know
- -- the type not afraid to slap a police officer (maybe with a ping pong
paddle).

Tiki Bob


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:11:15 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Weekend scores

Two superb record were wrenched from the clutches of Reckless Records this
weekend:

Il Dio Serpente (the snake god?) - Augusto Martelli. This is a
bongos/flutes/hammond soundtrack with an exotica/jungle flavour. Lots of
chanting and tribal drumming - very very cool indeed. Unfortunately, this
copy is knackered but still plays OK (just).

The Mirza Men - The Beatles in LA. This is a Beatles covers LP by a very
big sounding latin orchestra with a lot of wild, frenzied percussion. All
tunes are hyperactive swinging full orchestra renditions with bongos, tom
toms, congas, etc etc. An excellent LP.

I also spend a couple of hours at a record fair in Dulwich yesterday
morning but soon lost the will to live after trawling through stall after
stall full of absolute crap.


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Lemon Incest

Thank you each (?) for your recommendations. The disc
arrived Sat. from Amazon - I've enjoyed listening to
it over the weekend, the zesty lyrics... I assume that
these were composed by papa? I do have to say that the
lolita breathiness begins to chafe after awhile;
sounds as though the mlle was working against asthma.
All in all a fine buy, though.  I still prefer SG's
earlier jazz stuff (esp. the disc Du Jazz dans le
Ravin).


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Lemon Incest

Thank you each (?) for your recommendations. The disc
arrived Sat. from Amazon - I've enjoyed listening to
it over the weekend, the zesty lyrics... I assume that
these were composed by papa? I do have to say that the
lolita breathiness begins to chafe after awhile;
sounds as though the mlle was working against asthma.
All in all a fine buy, though.  I still prefer SG's
earlier jazz stuff (esp. the disc Du Jazz dans le
Ravin).


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: lemon incest

Thank you each (?) for your recommendations. The disc
arrived Sat. from Amazon - I've enjoyed listening to
it over the weekend, the zesty lyrics... I assume that
these were composed by papa? I do have to say that the
lolita breathiness begins to chafe after awhile;
sounds as though the mlle was working against asthma.
All in all a fine buy, though.  I still prefer SG's
earlier jazz stuff (esp. the disc Du Jazz dans le Ravin).
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) today's finds

> The Walter Wanderley Trio "Cheganca"
> promo lp on verve...very chic!

I have not played this one in awhile. Is this the lp
that features Astrud Gilberto?


> Henri Rene & Orch "Riot in rhythm
> (Man it swings!) RCA mono

I found this one not too long ago myself and was
surprised that I enjoyed it, quite a bit. It does
indeed swing, unlike much of the other Rene stuff I've
dragged home.

> and the lp ive been looking for after 3 years...
> SOUNDS IN SPACE

This one's great for the cover.

I went down to Charlottesville over the weekend (a
university town in deep Virginia)to discover that the
lounge/exotica thing never really kicked in, hence I
hauled back quite a load - I'll post some remarks
about a couple of these later. The big find was last
months three foot plaster faux-wood look tiki mask:
looks like it came screaming out of a vintage Tiki
Bar. I was overjoyed (and my wife was a good sport).

BW,

whose study, shut off from the rest of the house, now
entirely resembles a cheap imitation of a Polynesian shrine.
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:41:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica suite

I read the jacket notes ages ago, so I could be off -
but I believe the Denny band played along with
Zentner's accompanying/overwhelming brass.

- --- Nat Kone <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I'm sure this has been answered before but please
> indulge me.
 On "The Exotica Suite" - otherwise known as the
 "burlap album" - if Les
 Baxter composed the music, Bob Florence arranged it
 and Sy Zentner's
orchestra played it, what did Martin Denny do?


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 05:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites

I have yet to find a shirt with tikis on it. This is
my mission.

Not very on himself,

bw


> this year is already shaping up to be even bigger
 with Stussy doin Haw and
> some other Co has a decent Tiki shirt out now

> Otto

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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:13:45 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Peter Brough,Ernie Wilkins,Bruno Caravaggi,Randolph Bullock,Paul S. Newman

                           *Peter Brough
    LONDON (AP) -- Peter Brough, a radio star who attracted a British audience
of millions in the 1950s as the ventriloquist who brought puppet Archie
Andrews to life, died Thursday. He was 83.
    The radio show ``Educating Archie'' served as a launching pad for many
comics and actors, most notably Julie Andrews, a regular on the British
Broadcasting Corp. show as a child.
    Brough was a favorite of the royal family, playing at Royal Variety
Performances and organizing the Windsor Castle staff ball for many years.
    After performing for King George VI and the princesses Elizabeth and
Margaret, the trio asked for the dummy's head to be taken off while they had
a good look at the controls.
    Brough retired from show business in the 1960s and went on to run a textile
business.

 *Ernie Wilkins
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- American-born composer and saxophonist Ernie
Wilkins, who played with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton,
died Saturday of a stroke. He was 79.
    Born Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. in St. Louis, he got his big break in 1951
when trumpeter Clark Terry recommended him to Count Basie.
    In the late 1950s, Wilkins joined Dizzy Gillespie's band, and later went on
to write for Tommy Dorsey and Lionel Hampton.
    Though Wilkins won wide acclaim for arranging and composing, he never lost
his love for playing sax. In the 1960s, he and Terry recorded ``One Foot in
the Gutter,'' which features a four-minute solo by Wilkins.
    Wilkins moved to Copenhagen in 1980 and started his own orchestra, ``Ernie
Wilkins and his Almost Big Band.''
    He also was guest conductor with several other bands. The list of musicians
he worked with included Earl Hines, Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Sarah
Vaughn, Lena Horne and Quincy Jones.
    Wilkins retired in 1991 after suffering a stroke.

                          *Bruno Caravaggi
    NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Bruno Caravaggi, co-owner of Quo Vadis, one of
New York's trendiest Continental restaurants for almost 40 years, died May
30. He was 83.
    Caravaggi and Gino Robusti opened Quo Vadis on East 63rd Street between
Madison and Park avenues in 1946. The restaurant, decorated with columns,
red velvet and Italian mosaics, became a favorite of Jacqueline Kennedy,
Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and Nat King Cole, among others.
    Caravaggi and Robusti wore tuxedos at the restaurant every night and
expected their male diners to sport jackets and ties.
    The partners sold the restaurant in 1982 but returned to run it a year
later after the new owners filed for bankruptcy.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-bruno-caravaggi.html

                         *Randolph Bullock
    OCEANSIDE, N.Y. (AP) -- Randolph Bullock, a curator emeritus of arms and
armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died May 28. He was 96.
    Bullock helped build the museum's collection in the 40 years he worked
there. One of his most important contributions was the design of the arms
and armor installation that opened in the museum's J.P. Morgan wing in 1956.
Arms and armor previously had no permanent home in the museum.
    The armor installation contains a group of four equestrian knights posed
with their lances extended, as though they are preparing to charge at the
enemy.
    Bullock supervised the installation of the knights in the 1920s. Their
popularity led to his appointment as curator of the department. As curator,
Bullock helped acquire a rare Louis XIII hunting gun for the museum.
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-bullock.html

June 7, 1999
Paul S. Newman, 75, Prolific Comic-Book Writer (NYTimes)
Paul S. Newman, who was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the
most prolific comic-book writer of all time, died on May 30 in Columbia, Md.
He was 75.

The cause was a heart attack, said his son, Peter.

Newman's stories included scripts for Superman, Mighty Mouse, Twilight Zone
and Star Trek comic books. He wrote stories in every comic-book genre --
humor, horror, romance and science fiction among them. He even wrote comic
books about things usually not thought of as comic books, like "Leave It to
Beaver" and "I Love Lucy."

Starting in 1947, he wrote more than 4,100 stories totaling some 36,000
pages, the equivalent of 120 mystery novels, eventually writing for more
than 350 comic-book titles. In 1993 the comic-book historian Robin Snyder
named him King of the Comic Book Writers after a three-year search for the
most prolific writer in that field.

Newman was born in New York in 1924 and after high school enrolled at
Dartmouth College. He served in three theaters of war during World War II
and then returned to Dartmouth, where a play he wrote as a homework
assignment became the first original play staged by the Dartmouth Players.

Play-writing remained his real love, but he soon found he could make a
living by churning out stories for comic books. He would make up an entire
story, panel by panel, describing each drawing for an artist to follow. Then
he wrote the dialogue.

In addition to writing comic books, he wrote five newspaper comic strips,
"The Lone Ranger," "Smokey the Bear," "Space Cadets," "Robin Malone" and
"Laugh In" and branched out into screenplays and television sketches for
such stars as Boris Karloff.

In addition to his son, of Easton, Pa., he is survived by his wife, Carol,
of Columbia; a daughter, Lisa Newman of Goshen, Mass.; two grandchildren,
three stepdaughters and five step-grandchildren.



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Death anniversaries for the week of 7 -13 June:
Monday, 7 June
1996 - Max Factor Jr.; cosmetics producer
Tuesday, 8 June
1982 - Satchel Paige; baseball player
Wednesday, 9 June
1981 - Allen Ludden; TV host, "Password"
Thursday, 10 June
1988 - Louis L'Amour; author
Saturday, 12 June
1980 - Milburn Stone; actor, "Gunsmoke"
Sunday, 13 June
1979 - Darla Hood; actress, "The Little Rascals"
1986 - Benny Goodman; clarinetist
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:18:10 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) She Had a Taste for Music

I'm listening to a new compilation LP called 'She Had a Taste for Music'
which is a selection of Italian soundtrack music without any proper
information on the cover. There are track names but no artist names on the
LP, so I can't tell what films the tracks are from or who they're by. There
are a few funky tracks and one bizarre comedy electronic funky track, mixed
with some light orchestral drivel. All in all, its not a bad compliation
but seems to lack any conceptual theme.


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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:37:05 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re:  (exotica) havaiian shites

In a message dated 6/7/99 8:59:41 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I have yet to find a shirt with tikis on it. This is
>my mission.

I have one from a catalog called "The Territory Ahead"--duds for chillin'
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:41:48 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Mel Torme'

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mel Torme, the jazz and pop singer whose warm vocals
earned him the unwanted title ``the Velvet Fog,'' and the co-writer of the
Christmas classic that celebrates ``chestnuts roasting on an open fire,''
died Saturday. He was 73.
    Torme, who had suffered what was described as a mild stroke in August 1996,
died of complications from that stroke after being rushed from his Beverly
Hills home to the University of California, Los Angeles, medical center,
said his publicist, Rob Wilcox.
    Torme's wife, Ali, and five children were at his side when he died, Wilcox
said.
    Torme received a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences at February's Grammy Awards.
    Besides his singing and prolific song-writing, Torme's career included
acting in movies and on television, where he drew fresh attention in the
late 1980s on ``Night Court'' as the musical hero of main character Judge
Harold T. Stone, played by Harry Anderson.
    ``What a remarkable guy. What a one of a kind. It's a tremendous loss. He
was fabulous guy, great sense of humor, as sweet as an elf,'' Anderson said
Saturday. He recalled one episode in which his character said of tickets to
a Torme concert: ``Woodstock was just a concert, this is Mel Torme.''
    ``I humbly put forth that Mel and I had the best musical marriage in many a
year,'' said pianist George Shearing, who won two Grammy awards with Torme.
``We literally breathed together during our countless performances. As Mel
put it, `We were two bodies of one musical mind.'''
    ``He was a very special talent, one of the most talented individuals in our
business,'' said singer Vic Damone. ``A composer, musician, arranger. He was
so very bright.''
    ``He was one of the supreme jazz singers of all time, with the vocal
dexterity matched only by Ella Fitzgerald. He had the best sense of timing
and a lot of heart in his work. And he was a good guy,'' said singer Jack
Jones.
    ``I've lost a wonderful friend,'' said comedian Jerry Lewis. ``There could
never be anyone to replace Mel, not only as a singer but as a dear friend.''
    Even people who had heard little of his singing could not miss his other
claim to musical immortality: He was co-author of the lyrics and music to
``The Christmas Song'' -- ``Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost
nipping at your nose.'' The song was a huge hit for Nat ``King'' Cole in
1946 and has been recorded by countless other singers, including Torme himself.
    Torme, who began his singing career on radio at age 4, preferred jazz
singing to the crooning that brought him his nickname.
    ``It really wasn't until the end of my high school days, in 1943, that I
determined to be a jazz singer,'' he says. ``Then I got sidetracked. (His
manager) felt the way to the gold was for me to become a crooner.
    ``For a long period I was singing mushy, sentimental songs. I began to be
called the Velvet Fog. I never liked it.''
    He said he was rescued by a recording executive who heard a bit of jazz in
his style and urged him in that direction.
    He saw his vocal career as a work in progress, ``a long learning curve.''
Listening to recordings in a box CD set on his career, he said: ``The early
songs are kind of callow. I cringe a little bit at them.''
    He was his own arranger for much of his career, played piano and other
instruments, acted in a few Hollywood films, had a TV talk show for a while
in the '50s, and had his occasional appearances on ``Night Court,'' where
Judge Stone kept a photo of Torme in his office.
    He was nominated for a best supporting actor Emmy in 1956 for a role in
``The Comedian,'' a Playhouse 90 production.
    He wrote some 300 songs, more than half, including ``Born To Be Blue'' and
``The Christmas Song,'' with Robert Wells.
        When people would ask why he kept singing old songs, Torme said
they're simply better than new songs: ``When young rock singers began
writing their own, they displaced the community of songwriters who worked
with grace, wit, charm, intelligence and brilliance.
    ``Absolutely the lyric to me is 95 percent of what a song is. The singer is
portraying a playlet to the audience, involving the audience in what he is
saying. If the melody is attractive, that's frosting on the cake. The lyric
is the cake.''
    At 70, he said he maintained his vocal strength by taking care of himself:
no smoking, only an occasional glass of wine, careful avoidance of drafts.
    ``Before I sing I force myself to have seven or eight hours of sleep. I can
sing acceptably well on six hours. There is that little grade of difference
between six hours and eight hours.''
    In a 1994 concert at Carnegie Hall, he joked about his age. In ``You Make
Me Feel So Young,'' the 68-year-old Torme sang: ``You know that age is just
a number,'' then interjected ``If I could really believe that.''
    Torme is survived by his wife and five children -- Steve, Melissa, Tracy,
Daisy, and James.
    Memorial services were not immediately announced.

    From Mel Torme's autobiography ``It Wasn't All Velvet'':
    ``I have always felt that the `reading' of a lyric by a singer is
concomitant with the reading of good poetry. One doesn't rattle off the
lines, singsong style, merely to serve the rhyming. The `reason,' the
natural sense of the lyric lines, (is) of paramount importance, as far as
I'm concerned.''
                                 ------
    (After working with Marilyn Monroe on a song and skit they did together):
``She walked to the end of the hallway. The elevator came. She turned toward
me and said, `I mean it. I love you.' Then she was gone. I knew she did not
mean `I love you' in any literal sense. She was in love with DiMaggio. She
`loved' me for treating her like something more than a glossily packaged
piece of meat. For taking the time to help make her look good in front of a
large audience. For caring about what she read and thought and felt.''
                                 ------
    (On a career slump in the 1960s): ``There comes a time when, with your
hopes unfulfilled and your expectations diminished, you begin to think, `Is
this all there is?' ... Trouble is, giving in means giving up, at least to
me it does. I always believed there were better times a-comin' for what I
still doggedly called `my career.'''

    Career highlights of Mel Torme:
                                 *------
    Records (singles):
    ``Where Or When'' with the Mel-Tones, 1944
    ``Careless Hands,'' 1949
    ``Blue Moon,'' 1949
    ``Again,'' 1949
    ``Mountain Greenery,'' 1954
    ``Comin' Home Baby,'' 1962
    ``Sunday in New York,'' 1963
    ``The Christmas Song'' various recordings
                                 *------
    Records (albums):
    ``Mel Torme's California Suite,'' 1950
    ``Mel Torme at the Crescendo,'' 1954
    ``It's a Blue World,'' 1955
    ``Mel Torme and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette,'' 1957
    ``Mel Torme Goes South of the Border With Billy May,'' 1959
    ``Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley,'' 1960
    ``Broadway Right Now!'' 1961
    ``Mel Torme at the Red Hill,'' 1962
    ``Mel Torme Sings Sunday In New York and Other Songs about New
York,'' 1963
    ``Mel Torme Right Now,'' 1966
    ``A Lush Romantic Album: That's All,'' 1965
    ``Live At the Maisonette,'' 1975
    ``Mel Torme and Buddy Rich: Together Again for the First Time,''  1977
    ``Mel Torme and Friends,'' 1981
    ``An Evening With George Shearing and Mel Torme,'' 1982
    ``Top Drawer,'' 1983
    ``An Evening at Charlie's,'' 1984
    ``A Vintage Year,'' 1987
    ``Reunion (with Marty Paich Dek-Tette),'' 1988
    ``SING! SING! SING!'' 1992
    ``The Christmas Songs,'' 1992
    ``Mel Torme Live From Michael's Pub,'' 1993
    ``A Tribute to Bing Crosby,'' 1994
    ``Velvet and Brass,'' 1995
    ``The Mel Torme Collection,'' 1996
    ``A&E's Evening With Mel Torme: Live at the Disney Institute,'' 1996
    ``My Night to Dream,'' 1997
                                 *------
    Films:
    ``Higher and Higher,'' 1944
    ``Pardon My Rhythm,'' 1944
    ``Let's Go Steady,'' 1945
    ``Janie Gets Married,'' 1945
    ``Good News,'' 1947
    ``Words and Music,'' 1948
    ``Night Light,'' 1959
    ``The Snowman,'' 1974

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