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exotica-digest          Friday, June 18 1999          Volume 02 : Number 420



In This Digest:

(exotica) Busby Berkeley
(exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!
(exotica) My Quiet Village
SV: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!
Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley
Re: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
Re: (exotica) collecting
(exotica) Billy Mo
(exotica) Esther & Abi Ofarim
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) Quiet Village
SV: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
(exotica) Ages and Cars ad nauseum
Re: (exotica) Quiet Village
(exotica) The Brimstones TONIGHT
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley
(exotica) Repairing scratched CD's
Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans
Re: (exotica) Quiet Village
(exotica) Re: The ages on this list
Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley
FW: (exotica) Repairing scratched CD's
Re: SV: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!
Re: (exotica) Letterman's Record Collection
(exotica) Re: My Town, My Car and Me
Re: (exotica) The ages on this list
(exotica) Re: RIP LORD SUTCH

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:20:08 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Busby Berkeley

What a genius.
I saw a documentary on him but forgot to tape it, so i forgot all about =
which movies that had the most fab coreography? Which ones are =
essential? Are the easy to find cheap on video? Where on the net?

m



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:15:06 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!

Well, my car is only recently cool and by default at that!  The
aforementioned Oldsmobile '98(1982) was my grandparents, and I got it in
1997 when my Grandmother died.  It wasn't yet quite a cool car YET, but now
in 1999, it's almost 20 years old and makes me look like " Shaft's Bitch"
when I am in it!  Again, it's only musically fueled by AM radio, which is
fine, because I like EZ and AM news radio.
I am an old bag...;^)...32 on May 5th.
My first album was OSMONDS LIVE.
So, there...
Jane Fondle
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:30:05 -0500
From: "Michael Greenberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My Quiet Village

I'm not as deep into the Quiet Village thing as some folks, but I
really love Darla Hood's version (yes, Darla of the Little Rascals).
Take a gander at

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=113623064

to see the sheet music (this is not my auction, and it's already
expired....)

m.


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:31:30 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!

>My first album was OSMONDS LIVE.
>So, there...

Ha ha I bet you was hot on that little one, was it Danny?



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:40:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brett Leveridge <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Sandberg Magnus wrote:

> What a genius.
> I saw a documentary on him but forgot to tape it, so i forgot all
> about which movies that had the most fab coreography? Which ones
> are essential? Are the easy to find cheap on video? Where on the
> net?


DAMES (1934), starring Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and Zasu
Pitts, is a don't-miss. It's a film of about 90 minutes, the first hour of
which is an entertaining if innocuous comedy. Seems Hugh Herbert is a
millionaire in upstate New York who's decided to give his money to a
relative right now instead of after his death. But he's very particular
and doesn't want the recipient of his dough to be morally questionable, so
s/he must not smoke, drink, fool around, or attend the theatre. Dick
Powell is his distant nephew who's got a dandy Broadway show ready to go,
if he can only get a backer. Ruby Keeler is the millionaire's distant
niece (she and Powell are sweethearts, even though they are 13th cousins),
and her parents are in line to receive ten million from uncle Ezra, if
they prove moral enough.

Whatever. In the last half hour of the movie, they drop all pretense of
plot and treat the viewer to 30 minutes of surreal Busby Berkeley set
pieces and camera tricks that are supposedly playing out on a Broadway
stage (not a chance in hell they could stage these in a Broadway theatre;
you'd need a football stadium). I won't even try to describe them, except
to say that even though I've never been a drug-taking man, I couldn't help
but imagine how it would be to watch that hallucinatory 30 minutes while
high or hopped up on goofballs. The first 15 minutes are devoted to "I
Only Have Eyes for You" (I think it was introduced in this film; Powell
sings it over and over and over.) The second fifteen are filled with a
song called "Dames," the lyrics of which remind us that people don't go to
the theatre for plot, acting, or songs, but just to stare at the titular
dames. And actually, the dames in the number are for the most part pretty
easy on the eyes.

You must see this film. I can't begin to describe it but you must witness
this amazing half hour of Berkeley madness. I don't know if it's available
on video but it shows up on either AMC or Turner Classic Movies (I don't
remember which) occasionally.

Brett

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:41:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!

osmonds! the spur:

Born in 60. Listened to clinking of glasses and
laughter and shouts in scary foreign tongues while in
the womb. Maybe why not so good at math and
concentraion to this day.

First albums were Donny Osmond's Greatist Hits
("Aaaand they call this puppy loooove." Looks like
donny might have interested the good herr doktor, R.
Kraft-Ebbing) and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Mardi
Gras. Which lp among the two the most awful? Would you
rather be eaten by a shark or fire ants?



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> My first album was OSMONDS LIVE.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:46:51 +0200
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

Ton Rueckert wrote:

> This was on special orders of Herr Doktor
> Joseph Goebbels, assuming that humpa and jodel wouldn't go
> down well with the average English speaking person (hmm, how
> wrong can you get...?). So these guys were swinging away in
> the heart of Berlin on what was then strictly forbidden, not
> so lovingly named, Hottentottenmusic, while most of their
> contemporaries were stuck in the icy mud of Russia.

The thing was, that Goebbels apparently liked swing and so there was an
official swing orchestra in Nazi Germany, the Teddy Stauffer Orchestra. I
guess they were not the only ones. And of course this wasn't the only
contradictory thing in the 3rd Reich. Jazz in the 3rd Reich.... hmmm. Whe=
re
did I hear this before? Oh, I know: Christian Kellersmann of Motor wrote =
a
book about it. Have to ask him about it. Gonna post soon!

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:47:56 +0200
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

Stephen W. Worth wrote:

>It was called "Music vom Reichsfender Berlin"

> Who woulda known that those Nazi's could come up with
> such good peppy novelty material?!

The chances these musicians actually WERE Nazis is as big as the chance t=
hat
ALL Americans are cowboys.  ;D

However your description made me curious. I understand it's a CD with old
music, not a modern put-on or something. Could it be that the correct tit=
le is
"Musik vom Reichssender Berlin"? This would mean it was really Nazi gover=
nment
radio. In that case the CD probably was published by Neo-Nazis and the wo=
man
was right about it being banned in Germany. But why worry about it in Ora=
nge
County???
If the title is really "Music vom Reichsfender Berlin" then it's most lik=
ely
an American production, because there is not such word in the German lang=
uage
as "Reichsfender".

Are you working for spumco? I'm a BIG fan of Ren & Stimpy!

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:50:32 +0200
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) collecting

Years ago I picked up this story and I still believe it's true:

"The Bear" of Canned Heat was a collector of blues records; he was said
to have 70.000. He used to drive around and visit all kinds of locations
that could possibly have blues records. When he found some, he would buy
all copies in the shop and destroy them except for the one copy of each
record that he would add to his collection. Why he did so, I don't know.
Either to keep the prizes up or to hinder other contemporary musicians
to get knowledge of songs to exploit for their own purposes, maybe.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:51:16 +0200
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Billy Mo

Nat Kone wrote:

> I found a German record with a black guy named... Billy Mo???
> Something like that.
> Singing in German.  The music was kinda "Heino-esque".
> And Gert Widen was in the band.
> But I doubt even Brian and Cheryl would like this record.  I didn't mak=
e it
> past the second cut.

He was a black American GI who was stationed in Germany (at about the tim=
e
when Elvis was) and took the chance... His "Ich haette lieber 'nen Tirole=
rhut"
(I rather would like to have a Tyroler hat") was a big big No.1 hit in th=
e
50s. He recently was in TV, wearing his famous hat, really funny guy. I g=
uess
he must be the first black German media star.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:52:52 +0200
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esther & Abi Ofarim

Sandberg Magnus wrote:

> I also tried Esther Ofarim for the first time, this is a german release=
 on Philips with her singing childrens songs in 3 different languages, "E=
sther im Kinderland". Its from 67. quite beautiful cover. I dunno if this=
 record is desirable, but the store had 6 more copies, all seemed unplaye=
d.
> After a quick listen, I find it quite interesting, allthough her singin=
g style just isnt exactly in my taste. I have to get used to it perhaps. =
I have changed, it seems I like everything nowadays.
> (Still, it has to be older than me, pre-1969 thats my melody)

I recently found their "Lieder und Songs", discoton (Philips), no year - =
should be 66, an album I used to have when I was a child. At that time th=
e concept of performing songs from all kinds of different countries was u=
nique to me - a first taste of exotica maybe - and I still like some of t=
he
tunes today.
As for the singing style of her I remember how people at that time agreed=
 on the statement that "she can really sing". I understand your point tho=
ugh, it's a bit too much "sing-out!", sounds a bit missonaric to today's =
ears. Their repertoire used to have a strong religious element, Gospel so=
 to
say. I guess we used to think that it owes to their jewish background or =
so....
While Abi Ofarim still hangs out in Munich and his son is on his way to p=
op-stardom, I have no idea what ever happened to Esther. Any idea?

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http://www.taiga.com/~paul/TSA1.HTM
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:59:51 -0700
From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I hope I don't offend anyone with this question but I was wondering, what are
> the ages of people on this list? Are we mostly young, older, middle aged or
> many different ages? Anyone old enough to remember when some of the exotica
> music we know and love first came out?

I'm 32. Basically only been listening to Exotica for about a year.

- -Kevin Crossman
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:58:49 -0700
From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quiet Village

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I have been trying to determine the best version of the song "Quiet Village".
> Some of my favorites are the version by Martin Denny (the bossa-nova version)
> and the timeless Arthur Lyman cut.

I think the Lyman version is ok, but just that.

>
> I want some input on everyone's personal favorites

Of course the Denny (original mono version) and Baxter versions...    Otherwise
not too familiar with the others (haven't yet even heard the Moog version)...

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:04:33 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

>Are you working for spumco? I'm a BIG fan of Ren & Stimpy!

Ah yeah! Ren and Stimpy... That brings hope to a new generation of =
wackos! BRILLIANT STUFF! And whats best, I have lots of episodes yet to =
watch

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:12:47 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ages and Cars ad nauseum

I was born in '67, and I generally don't like very much of the woodstock era
music.  I do dig the stuff that my dad liked, though, like the Ventures and
Herb Alpert and Arthur Lyman.  It was through listening to his overplayed
and mistreated LPs that I came to like exotica.  (I still have the Taboo
Vol.2 with the red crayon marks on it!)

And not too far off from Laura, one of my cars is an '86 Oldsmobile Cutlass
Cruiser Station Wagon that was Grandpas.  I put a $300 stereo in it and
groove with the Capitol UL series and Donald Fagen Kamakiriad (sp) I also
have a little Honda Civic with 250 watts of ground thumping for those
techno-fits that I occasionally go through as well and head blowing Zepplin
and a few loungy early stereophonic things from the Command label. That is
also where my Brimstones tape lives (playing tonight in Fords, NJ write me
for details)  My wife's car that we spend time together in is a '92 Blazer
with a bunch of 1980s progressive music, like Depeche Mode and the Cure and
the Smiths.  I made her a cocktail tape that gets played when I drive.

And there is no country music allowed within 100 yards of my house.  Even if
you have Shania Twain looks.

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

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:32:03 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quiet Village

>I want some input on everyone's personal favorites

I am with Les Baxter's all the way.  There is also Darla Hood's VOCAL
version, which I rather like.



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:31:37 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Brimstones TONIGHT

Come join THE BRIMSTONES as they bid farewell to the LAST existing
Polynesian Paradise in central NJ.

HELL YEAH!!!

THE BRIMSTONES will be hosting the Farewell party for The South Pacific  in
Fords, NJ tonight from 7pm 'till closing.  DJs Baron and Skooch will be
spinning exotica.  THE BRIMSTONES will play their Surf and Garage Bedeviled
mayhem beginning at 10pm.

For more info, check out THE BRIMSTONES page at http://www.brimstones.com

See you there!!


Charlieman
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:39:18 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

I was born in 1963.  The Cascades had just hit it big with, "Rhythm of the
Rain"in the previous year, Bobby Vee was charting...

My first words were, "Something has to be DONE about this!".

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley

A true genius, Magnus,  and I highly recommmend his 2 cd set on Rhino.   I can't wait
for the end of a BB movie for the wild ride of his effects.  I believe its called
Holiday in Rio with my favorite effects,  Carmen Miranda an bananas Yeah!   Is there  a
compilation of Busby's dance routines on vhs?

Easy listeneing in the Big Easy
Chuck


>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>
> > What a genius.
> > I saw a documentary on him but forgot to tape it, so i forgot all
> > about which movies that had the most fab coreography? Which ones
> > are essential? Are the easy to find cheap on video? Where on the
> > net?
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:57:43 -0400
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Repairing scratched CD's

From,  Johan

>the most vulnerable side of a cd is not the mirror-like side, but the
>printed side. the digital data is hold in a very thin aluminium layer, and
>is protected by a layer of plastic at the bottom side, but NOT so on the
>printed side. there it is only "protected" by a sort of ultra-thin paint
>layer, with the print on it.

This reminded me, I wanted to tell you about the scratched CD I had
repaired.

Apparently there is a machine that is designed to polish the scratches of
out  CD's. A used CD shop in Boston bought one, primarily to polish CD's for
resale, but they will polish CD's for customers for $2.

I brought in a very scratched CD ( CD1 out of the 3 CD Best of the Capitol
Years by Sinatra) at least 3 tracks out of 26 did not work, and maybe more
than that.

The shop polished the CD at it looks good except for 3 scratches that they
said were "too deep" and they "dare not go any further". They probably could
have polished more, the mirror side of the CD is the thickest.

Was it worth it? I still do not know. I have 23 tracks that work great.
Still over an hour of music.  To replace it would mean buying 3 CD's.

If you have a scratched CD that does not track getting it repolished might
not work. They cannot or will not go down deep enough to remove the deep
scratches that may be causing the mistracking.

Anybody else ever had this done? Can a mistracking CD ever be totally
repaired?

Domenic





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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:51:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

Ren and Stimpy was fine TV. I don't seem to see them
on the menu any longer, though. I have recently become
interested in Strangers With Candy. However, everyone
I succeed in getting to watch the show tells me how
stupid it is and void of discretion my personal
aesthetic must be, in so many words. Any other sparks
of light in this dark and fallen world? Oh. Tie-in.
Exotically vulgar.



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:55:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quiet Village

In a message dated 06/18/99 11:59:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Otherwise
 not too familiar with the others (haven't yet even heard the Moog
version)... >>

listen to it in stereo with headphones.  the Bottoms Up UL has it and they
did a great job remastering it.  it is one of the better UL offerings.

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:10:45 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The ages on this list

Byron wrote:

>I find that most of the music I like
>tends to be recorded in 1959. I was born that year! Perhaps
>pure coincidence, or perhaps cosmic signifigance.

And '69er Rob mentioned:

>i despise the 80s, but am willing to admit that's probably just
>personal trauma.


Actually, I have a theory that these are just two halves of a more
general phenomenon.

Like Byron, I think people feel a certain curiosity and allure for the
artifacts from right around the year of their birth--for me this includes
not just music, but also all other areas of late-50s design like kitchen
appliances, typography, etc.

It's something to do with growing up surrounded by leftovers from that era.
They just feel vaguely familar. But since they are not directly linked to
any experiences of living through the time, they can become somehow more
evocative--so perhaps it allows you to create a more glamorous "imagined"
version of that era.

However I find that almost *no one* is ever nostalgic about the world they
personally lived through as a 13-year old!  In fact, I find that there is a
natural "horizon of revulsion," where you can predict pretty reliably what
a person of any age will think is cool or uncool. So twentysomethings
gleefully revive 70s clothing fashions, where somone my age tends to go,
"gaack!"

However, this isn't a perfect theory, because lately I've started to
develop a perverse interest in Disco. . . maybe it still works, though,
since I wouldn't have been caught dead listening to Disco as a teenager,
and what I like best of all is the weirder "inappropriate Disco"
(Ferrante & Teicher's _Classical Disco_, etc.)

Anyway, it always seemed to me that if you really refined the "Horizon of
Revulsion" theory scientifically, you could make a killing in the
Collectibles market. I really regret that 10 years ago I didn't carry out
my plan to buy one of every object I could find that was covered in
wood-grained vinyl--TVs, Kleenex-holders, etc.  It would have made one hell
of an impressive room! And according to my theory, once the generation born
in 1975 reaches their prime earning years, it would have been worth a
small fortune.  Sigh. . .

mercinarily,


 --Ross

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:18:42 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Busby Berkeley

> > What a genius.
> > I saw a documentary on him but forgot to tape it, so i forgot all
> > about which movies that had the most fab coreography? Which ones
> > are essential? Are the easy to find cheap on video? Where on the
> > net?

I recommend Gold Diggers of 1933.  Not only does it have the fabulous lighted
violin sequence (Shadow Waltz), but also the controversial "Forgotten Man",
which is a serious number (featuring Ruby Keeler dubbed by Marian Anderson).

I don't know if it's on video.



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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:22:13 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: (exotica) Repairing scratched CD's

Anybody else ever had this done? Can a mistracking CD ever be totally
repaired?

It would seem so, yes.  I had a Who CD that wouldn't play because of a gouge
from it getting trapped in my console lid.  I took it downtown to the CD
store.  The machine sands down the surface, then re-applies the polymer.
The scratch I had was deep enough to wreck the tracking.  THey made no
promises, but when they were done, there were no visible scratches and it
played fine.  For the $3.00 I payed, it beat $12 for a new disc.

Now if they can invent something that would do this for LPs, they would have
something...

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

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:28:07 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) My car, my age, Mein(sp?) Got!

>My first album was OSMONDS LIVE.
>So, there...

Ha ha I bet you was hot on that little one, was it Danny?

>>Haha, indeed...for somebody who doesn't  know me, you know me pretty
well! Yeah, back then, it was a tossup between DONNY, Randolph Mantooth of
EMERGENCY fame(exotica connection=Julie London!), and Bill Bixby(or was it
Busby Berkely?;)...in retrosepct, Julie London was hotteren' all of them!
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:15:36 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Letterman's Record Collection

May I invite list members to the website of the David Letterman
show where they have audio links to samples from his record
collection.

Not exotica, but very exotic...

>>>Actually, the "exotica" connection to this is stronger than some newbies
may realize!  Letterman writer and former list member Steve Young was(is?)
the curator of Dave's Collection.  I used to be in touch with Steve a lot,
anybody know what happened to him?
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:59:35 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: My Town, My Car and Me

Born 10/10/48...vinyl junkie since 1967 when I bought Tangerine Zoo LP on
Mainstream records because of the cover. I owned several 45's prior to that,
getting Purple Eater, Witch Doctor and Chantilly Lace for my 10th birthday
after several years' worth of Golden Records. Drove, in order, a 1960 VW Bug,
a 1960 Chevy Biscayne (bleccch) 4-Door Sedan (bleccch X 2) automatic-6, a
1961 Rambler Wagon with fold-down seats covered with pecker tracks and
powered by a stick-6 (the car, not the tracks), a 1964 Chevy Impala Super
Sport convertible, automatic with a 283, a 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport
Convertible, automatic with a 327 (cracked up in '69), a 1968 Chevelle Malibu
2 Door Sedan with a stick-6, a 1979 Checker Marathon (sold due to a high bid
unexpectedly), a 1981 Toyota Celica (stolen and totaled), a 1987 Dodge
Caravan minivan, a 1990 Toyota Camry Wagon which still drives fine (The
little woman drives a 1995 Toyota Corolla Wagon and still loves 4-Speeds)
Thanks for reading...Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The ages on this list

I'm 24.  When I was in college I did a summer
internship at Capitol Records.  Instead of paying the
interns, they gave us the keys to the CD closet with
tacit approval to take whatever we wanted, within
reason.  While other interns were making off with
Everclear and Foo Fighters discs, I took the first
twelve discs in the Ultra-Lounge series.  Crap-itol,
as some of the paid employees called it, didn't really
have many good albums being released at the time
(summer '96) except for the Ultra-Lounge series.
After the internship ended I drove home to DC (in my
never-to-be-cool '86 Honda Accord) listening to the
discs.  I think it was sometime after I accidentally
ran over a dog in Oklahoma that I decided to start
collecting records.

I suppose I've gotten off track but with only a few
exceptions I'm not particularly drawn to much music
from the mid-70s, at least not at this point in my
life.  However, I've definitely created what Ross Orr
called a "glamorous imagined version" of the twenty
five year period before my birth.  It's hard for me
not to after spending hours looking at the album
covers and listening to the music.

Regards,

Mark




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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:11:12 -0400
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: RIP LORD SUTCH

not to attempt to move in on Lou's digs but a friend sent me this.
we have tickets to see him in Vegas on Halloween...
we can only hope it is a morbid publicity stunt.
Back from the Grave at Las Vegas Grind!

Rock roots of political Loony
>  On the road to Downing Street: Screaming Lord Sutch
>  [BBC News - Thursday, June 17, 1999]
>
>
>  Screaming Lord Sutch, who has been found dead at his London home, will
>  be fondly remembered by a generation of rock fans as well as the UK's
>  politicians.
>
>  The self-styled lord - real name David Sutch - was Britain's
>  longest-serving political leader, standing in nearly 40 elections.
>
>  He was found dead at his home in Harrow by his partner, Yvonne Elwood.
>  Police said they were called after reports of a man found hanging.
>
>  But before he entered politics he was most famous as a pop star, and
>  continued performing up until his death.
>
>  Born in Middlesex on 10 November, 1940, he first rose to prominence in
>  1960 when he made his debut appearance at the Two I's coffee bar in
>  London.
>
>  He was the first long-haired pop star - boasting hair over 18 inches
>  long. Many compared his style at the time to that of Screamin' Jay
>  Hawkins.
>
>  His early records included 'Til The Following Night, Jack The Ripper
>  and I'm A Hog For You Baby, all produced by Joe Meek of Telstar fame.
>
>  Meek embellished the Sutch sound with his usual array of treated
>  instruments, compression and odd effects.
>
>  His early singles were mostly novelties for Halloween - seen by some
>  as a precursor of acts like The Cramps and The Damned - or covers of
>  rock and R & B standards.
>
>  Although his records were frowned on by critics, he was one of the
>  first geniunely fun rock 'n' roll stars to come out of the UK before
>  the arrival of the Beatles.
>
>  Although never achieving chart success, his band - the Savages - were
>  one of the most accomplished live acts of the sixties.
>
>  The band featured stars including Paul Nicholas, Ritchie Blackmore and
>  Nicky Hopkins.
>
>  In 1964 he also set up an offshore radio station, Radio Sutch, whuch
>  later became Radio City after he sold out.
>
>  But in 1970, some success did come his way when he scored a hit in the
>  US album charts with Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends. As well as
>  featuring Blackmore and Hopkins, heavyweight support was provided by
>  Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Moon, Noel Redding and John Bonham.
>
>  But alongside his music career, he founded the Teenage Party in 1963,
>  which later became the Official Monster Raving Loony Party took up
>  more and more of his time - and his income.
>
>  Until recently, Sutch performed up to 250 concerts a year throughout
>  Europe, helping to fund his future political ambitions, such as
>  standing for the position of mayor of London - a dream he will now
>  never realise.




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