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exotica-digest          Sunday, June 20 1999          Volume 02 : Number 423



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!
(exotica) My age, my Olds
Re: (exotica) Re: Fans of Keely Smith?
Re: (exotica) Rare Enoch Light CD
(exotica) today's finds
(exotica) wonder years moment
Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!
Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list
Re:  (exotica) velvet dreams
(exotica) Jollity Farm
(exotica) New releases (Kavina, Beefheart)
Re: (exotica) Repairing scratched CD's
(exotica) even more wacky Europeans
(exotica) Shag Art and Martin Denny
(exotica) Quiet Village RealAudio Source???
Re: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951
SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951
(exotica) Animal hotel in asia
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Cowboy in Sweden reissue
Re: (exotica) Jack "Bongo" Burger
(exotica) Early Stereo
(exotica) Fanatics
(exotica) Ernie Freeman and other records
(exotica) Re: Jack "Bongo" Burger
Re: SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951
[none]
(exotica) history of the compact disc URL
Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!
Re: SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951
(exotica) Recent finds/budget labels

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 03:39:28 +0200
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!


>Two nights ago, I went into my 1920s/30s record collection to discover to my
>horror that during the last record purge 9 months or more ago, I'd got rid
of
>the stuff I wanted to save!  Has this ever happened to anybody?


The other way around, I saved stuff I wanted to purge.
Horror too in most cases, luck in the case of Exotica 1970 by The Kokee Band.
Now why on earth did I want to sell that one?
I must have been terribly depressed.

Cheers, Ton


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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:47:04 -0700
From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My age, my Olds

I turned 31 on January 19.  The first full-length Lp I bought was
Foreigner's _Double Vision_, but naturally I had several 45's before
that, including "Soul Man" by the Blues Brothers, "My Life" by Billy
Joel, and "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees.  Oh, the humanity.

My first car was a '78 Honda Civic, a period in which *my* grandma died
and left me her '72 Olds 98.  It was a difficult choice which one to
keep, but the Olds won out due to the air conditioning and 8-track
player (my first copy of Persuasive Percussion was on 8-track).=20
Unfortunately, it didn't like moving to the East Coast in '93.  After
returning home from Boston, I grooved into a bronze '73 Ford Gran
Torino, but that wasn't big enough (In my job, I often have to chauffeur
soloists around).  I finally found another 98, and I'm never going
back.  Here, I found a picture (mine's blue, though) -
http://www.bright.net/~tmc92/607/142.jpg

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:36:19 -0700
From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Fans of Keely Smith?

> The VILLAGE VOICE seems to indicate the long-awaited
> Keely Smith tribute to Frank Sinatra has finally been
> released...True or false? Si o no?
> Jane Fondle

I'm doing Keely's site and the CD is not out yet. You can check:
http://www.keelysmith.com
for updates.
It turns out her new swing album will come out first, then the Sinatra.

I'm sure the swing Cd will be good but I've heard the Sinatra and it's
amazing. True to the mid-'50s Capitol sound without being nostalgic and her
voice has barely changed.

You can go to her site to be put on the mailing list for updates.

There's an interview with her on MisterLUCKY, listed below.



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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:58:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rare Enoch Light CD

In a message dated 6/19/99 4:47:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> I've been playing with my CD recorder again, and I transferred two Enoch
>  Light records to CD: Persuasive Percussion Vol 3 and Provocative
>  Percussion Vol 4. These are mastered from Command open-reel tapes. I ran
>  off a copy for myself and one additional, but the person who I thought
>  wanted it doesn't. So I'm putting it up on ebay starting at a
>  ridiculously low price. If you have an interest, you can check it out at:

Needless to say there will be some real problems if you sell material that
blatantly violates other peoples copyrights on eBay.

Anyone thinking of doing this might want to read eBays info pertaining to
this at:

http://pages.ebay.com/aw/help/topics-png-items.html

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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:18:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Mr.Drakes)
Subject: (exotica) today's finds

Hello again all my exotic pals!

i found some records @ a fleamarket today!

The Fabulous Dorseys (in HI-FI)
easy swing!

Les Baxter (The Sacred Idol) Capitol stereo lp!
like new!!  Strange Sacred Sounds!

Galt Mac Dermont's (Hair Pieces)
Bountiful Hair Down There! Dig?

and the best of all...a set of Capitol Disc Jockey
Albums!! made for radio in the 60's.each of the lp's features a cool
looking girl and cars of that year. 10 in all. i wish i had the others!!

a mickey mouse record player 3.00
A reel 2 reel recorder with tapes 10.00

so i had a good day,after 2 weeks of nothing.

sunday morning,a record show..i hope
i find the cowsills!!!!!
love,Dan Happy dad's day yall!



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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:49:24 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) wonder years moment

I graduated from the 6th grade in June, 1968.

the very first record i can remember listening to was a Bozo Under The Sea 78
and Alvin and the Chipmunks "Around The World with The Chipmunks".

I can remember hearing Pretty Woman, Hermans Hermits and Beatles stuff on the
radio around 1964.

What's New Pussycat I liked alot.  Roger Miller's Greatest Hits on Smash was
the first record i can actually remember buying.  I just had to have "You
Can't Roller Skate in A Buffalo Herd".  I can even remember the store.  A
place called G.E.T. on Sloat Blvd in San Francisco.  It was during the
holidays.  Lime Old Spice, English Leather, lifesaver gift packs and vodka
were other "gifts" in the shopping cart.

A couple years later I listened to (for some strange reason) Stella's Got A
Brand New Dress from "The Two Sides Of The Smothers Brothers" over and over
again.  Ditto with the Lonely Bull.  I can also recall an Around The World or
Music Man soundtrack, a Buddy Hackett LP and a 45 of Halloween sounds.

All this before 1967.  Then the summer of love came and i got serious with
Blood Sweat And Tears and Creedence Clearwater Revival records, which I still
have today.  And I'll never forget my little buddy, Eric Schwartz, who turned
me onto a 45 of Eric Burdon's Sky Pilot which we would listen to again and
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:55:26 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!

At 02:43 PM 6/19/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Does anyone know of a good source to either buy such records, or of CDs that
>are available - or of a newsgroup where I might find people who would know
>what I'm talking about?  I know there are a few of you at least on this list
>into this music (Jill MIngo?) that might be able to help me find vinyl or
the
>CD reissues or even tell me how to get ahold of Saville.

Can you name some of the artists/musicians you're referring to?  I may have
some of these but I don't want to pull the boxes of 78's out of the closet
without some idea of whether I have them.
Unless you're not looking for the actual 78's.  But maybe I have some of it
on LP.  Either way, who did the records you're looking for?
Nat



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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:50:12 +0000
From: Christine Karkow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list

damn I want to go to this party   Christine-1962
>
>
>Thanks for the invite, are you sure about this? What if all come? I see a
wild Tiki Bob hanging on a lamp with a bottle of Rum, Ron doing weird dances
and chants, All feel their monkeys! Strange...


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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:09:59 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list

Sandberg Magnus wrote:

> >Marco here - born on July 11th 1969. You're all invited to my birthday party!
>
> Thanks for the invite, are you sure about this? What if all come? The birthday-cake gets up on its feet...

Let's all sing:

It's my party and I cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happend to yououououou!!

And the verse goes something like this:
Nobody knwo where Jane Fondle has gone/
but Magnus left the same time/
why is she wearing his ring/
when she's supposed to be mine...

Marco (who doesn't have a car)

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 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:10:17 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) The ages on this list

Christine Karkow wrote:

> damn I want to go to this party   Christine-1962

Okay, the rest of you can stay at home - I'm going to have a quiet evening with
Christine!

Marco (who is still a bachelor)


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 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:12:13 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) velvet dreams

On Mon, May 17, 1999 Nat wrote:

Saw a documentary on Bravo last night that I thought some people here would
love.
It was from New Zealand and called "Velvet Dreams".  It followed a search for
the origin of a particular velvet painting portraying a naked Polynesian
woman.
The documentary is narrated "hardboiled style" as the narrator tries to find
out anything he can about the "velvet lady" that has become an obsession for
him.  He travels to Seattle to meet velvet painting collectors; one of the
"experts" hangs out in a place called "the Tiki Lounge".  From there he goes
to Tahiti in order to find out if his velvet lady was painted by Leeteg, the
most famous of the velvet painters.  It isn't. He finds the painter - Charles
McPhee - back in New Zealand.
Anyway, it's filled with tikis and exotica and Hawaiian music.  Check it out
if you get a chance.
__________________________________
This may be premature as I do not have a date set

this film will be showing in San Francisco for one day only in conjunction
with the release of a book on Leeteg by John Turner through Last Gasp

Velvet Dreams will show along with a short comedy titled "The Mystery of
Easter Island" by our own Beachbum Berry (staff writer for Tiki News) and
some other Exotica footage

It will happen in early October

ps
Nat, the guy in the film who is the expert hanging out is at the Lava Lounge
(not the Tiki Lounge) which is a new (circa 1995?) beer bar done up pretty
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:58:14 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jollity Farm

>From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: (exotica) yet more wacky germans

>I'm glad I was so persistent, because the CD is
>incredible. It has wildly perky songs that sound like
>they are from the German equivalent of Busby Berkely
>musicals... One really good one is called "Schoen ist
>die Welt" and it never fails to make me want to jump
>up and dance with glee.
>
>Another song called "Heut fahr' ich mit dir in die
>Natur" I had heard before. Apparently Ian Whitcomb
>translated and adapted it into "Down on Jollity Farm".

Also done by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and one of my favorite songs by
them.

Arjan




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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:04:53 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New releases (Kavina, Beefheart)

NEW RELEASES update from Forced Exposure
http://www.forcedexposure.com


MODE:

KAVINA, LYDIA: Music From The Ether: Original Works for Theremin CD (MODE
76). "Russian theremin virtuosos Lydia Kavina presents the FIRST RELEASE
EVER dedicated to ORIGINAL compositions for the instrument -- spanning th=
e
'golden age' of the theremin from its invention in the 1920s to
contemporary works. One of the first attempts to unite music and scientif=
ic
technology in the 20th century, the theremin is considered to be the
ancestor of modern electronic musical instruments. Its evolution from
scientific curiosity to virtuoso classical instrument (played by Clara
Rockmore in Caregie Hall) to 'instrument of the future' (according to Cag=
e,
Var=E8se, Grainger and others) to Hollywood sound effect (played in
soundtracks to Spellbound, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lost Weeken=
d)
to rock-and-roll instrument (used by the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and
others) has been well documented. Lydia Kavina is the world's leading
thereminist today. The granddaughter of Leon Theremin's first cousin, she
was the inventor's last prot=E9g=E9e. She began studying the instrument w=
ith
him at the age of nine, and was concertizing by age fourteen. Since then,
Kavina has given over 500 concerts."  $14.00

REVENANT:

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Grow Fins 5CD (RVN 210). "Captain Beefheart & his Magi=
c
Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet
retired from music. Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass
garage punk R&B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere 'classical'
miniatures, loping sea chanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing
skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way
into the soup), compelling bands ever waxed. The closest to a Best Of
collection as we are likely  to see, this career-spanning set corrals rar=
e
tracks from a variety of sources (band members' personal archives, live
tracks, demos, worktapes, radio spots) along with over 30 minutes of
Enhanced CD footage of live performances, 112 pages of text and
never-before-published photos, the completed Trout Mask Replica house
sessions, and John 'Drumbo' French's 'colorful' history of the band. Hear=
 a
captain and his truly magic band."


Arjan




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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 21:30:05 +1100
From: "Philip Jackson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Repairing scratched CD's

> Anybody else ever had this done? Can a mistracking CD ever be totally
> repaired?
>
I use car polish and a soft rag. Not "cut and polish" which is too abrasive
but a finishing polish. Try it on a cd that you don't care too much about
but you may be pleasantly suprised. I've retrieved a number of cd's that
were otherwise unplayable. I have resorted to a random orbit sander with a
lambswool pad attached to recover really badly scratched cd's but beware -
it can cut through the plastic eventually!

Philip.


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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:15:20 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) even more wacky Europeans

After pestering the guys at Germany's Hummpa - TUG Records for a number of
months I noticed they finally  noticed they put an ad in the new issue of
Cool and Strange Music Magazine. No reviews yet but hey it's a start anyway.
Below some information about what on earth I am talking about:

info:

Get a catalog by writing to TUG - Humppa Records, Schiffstrasse 10, 91504
Erlangen/Germany or e-mail [e-mail]
(For orders outside Europe they only accept Mastercard or Cash).
yes, the catalog contains a lot of mediocre German punkrock BUT they have
a number of funny (mostly Finnish) records for sale:

AAVIKKO

Finnish threepiece instrumental combo, a drummer and two organ players, who
specialize in party music with a 60s exotic flavor. Or All-instrumental
semi-psychedelic carny / tivoli music in the spirit of 60's italo-westerns
and (gasp) slavic pop melodies with a definite hard noise edge according
to their bio.

One s/t minialbum, one CD called "Derek!" and a miniCD "Oriental Baby"  (on
Hawaiian Sounds) which has been out for a few weeks,

homepage (and soundsamples) at http://www.lut.fi/~tinkala/aavikko.html
homepage Hawaiian Sounds: http://surf.to/hawaii_sounds  (one RA track of the
new minialbum)


ELAKELAISET

Finnish humppastars with almost half a dozen albums stuffed with
humppacovers of well known (indie) charthits to their credit. The new album
"Werbung Baby" is also just out, favorites so far their renditions of
Gangsta
Paradise, Barbie Girl & Kung Fu Fighting. A song about Mikka Hakkinen
& 20 minutes of Formula 1 sounds are added as bonustrack this time.
It's sung in Finnish but that just adds to the fun. All titles are good but
you
may start with the latest one or the live album "In Humppa We Trust".
There's
also an indescribable remixproject "Humppa Goes Tek -oh-no" where
various tracks get butchered by various German technonuts

homepage (and MP3's) at : http://www.humppa.com


MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT

The worldfamous Finnish Shouting Choir (the Dutch counterpart just folded).
Their 10th Anniversary concert is available on CD for awhile
More info about them on the Bad Vugum site : http://apollo.lpg.fi/badvugum/.


NURNBERG DOLPHIN ORCHESTRA

Yup, a dozen bands (from metal to reggae and from funk to ambient) use the
sounds of Moby, Eva, Emy, Anke, Nynke, Jenny, nemo, nando, Noah and Neike
(residents of the local Nuremberg Dolphinarium) for their music. Part of the
sales goes to a wildlife fund no less.



Arjan








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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:53:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Shag Art and Martin Denny

Well Exoticats, earlier this year I approached Shag about doing a painting
that included the Martin Denny group.

The painting is done and now very proudly hanging on the wall at my office.

Want to take a gander?

http://hometown.aol.com/rcbrooksod/myhomepage/collection.html

Hope you like it.  Comments?  Let me know.

Oh, and thanks to time travel (and Shag's great sense of humor), I am in
attendance of this great performance and seated, quite naturally, at the
table closest to the stage.  "Oh waitress!  Another Mai Tai please."

Tiki Bob


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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:19:56 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Quiet Village RealAudio Source???

Does anybody know of a RealAudio URL for the complete Martin Denny version of
Quiet Village?

Thanks,

Tiki Bob


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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Carlfors <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951

The notebook of Quiet Village that was used by the
organist when my daughter was baptised, is dated 1951.

So a guess thats the year the song was
written/arranged.


The story behind organ version is, that I didn┤t like
theidea of seeing my daughter baptised, so it was a
ultimatum to my woman, "alright you can have her
baptised if you can get them to play Quiet Village on
the churchorgan"

My daughter is now a year old and a happy owner of a
Baxter 78 of quiet village ,thank you Magnus!
She likes dancing to Baby Elephant Walk and playing
the bongoes.
A real exotic cutie-pie!

/Peter


>
> > The 10" of 'Ritual of the savage/Le sacre du
> sauvage' (Capitol H288) was to my
> > knowledge released in 1952, so the track may
> indeed be recorded in 1951.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:41:48 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951

>My daughter is now a year old and a happy owner of a
>Baxter 78 of quiet village ,thank you Magnus!

My pleasure! Still have one copy for myself. will give that to my =
firstborn... but what if twins? scary thought.


>She likes dancing to Baby Elephant Walk and playing
>the bongoes.
>A real exotic cutie-pie!

Indeed she is! Nice sense of humour too.

Magnus



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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:47:50 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Animal hotel in asia

Some time ago I saw pictures from a hotel in asia, maybe in singapore =
built very surreal. there were different rooms to choose from, like the =
tiger room, the bat room etc. the pictures were incredible, it seemed no =
rectangular forms were used in the design. You were said to experience =
the animal you lived in.=20

Anyone know about this hotel? quite exotic.

Magnus=20



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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:58:56 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

It's a mixed bag on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast.  You'll
find bossa nova by Balanco, Walter Wanderley, Les Baxter and Dick
Schory.  Spicy Afro-Cuban treats from Chico O'Farrill (check out the
new Verve reissue "Cuban Sessions"!) and Mr. Bongo.  A very rare 1962
record from Japan with Tak Shindo leading Hiroshi Watanabe's Star
Dust Orchestra in "Tokyo Night Club" (a Japanese mambo!).  Plus spy
jazz, spaghetti westerns, Music for TV Dinners and the Twist Goes
Latin.

And in the second hour, we'll preview "Operation B.O.M.B.A." the new
CD by Seks Bomba.  If you haven't picked up a copy yet, check out the
swinging sounds of Seks Bomba on this week's show!

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to:

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:55:28 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cowboy in Sweden reissue

Can I just say that this recent Lee Hazlewood CD has to be the poorest
sounding CD reissue I've heard in a VERY long time (only a dB's and Fall
title come anywhere close)?  Pops and crackles abound and some tracks sound
if they were plastered with a layer of dust. Curious as a number of tracks
show up on the Poet, Fool or Bum comp. and they sound much better there.
Avoid.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:03:07 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack "Bongo" Burger

At 1:41 PM +0000 6/19/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>Anyone have any info on Jack "Bongo" Burger?  I only have three selections
>by this guy...on two compilation discs from Hi Fi/Rykodisc.

The only info I could dig up when preparing the liner notes for Rykodisc
was that he recorded 3 albums for Hi-Fi, all released in 1960 -
Let's Play Bongos  (Hi Fi 803)
The End On Bongos! (Hi Fi 804)
Let's Play Congas  (Hi Fi 809)

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:22:15 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Early Stereo

OK, the other fun tidbit from that weird book was discovering that a record
I have, _Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang_ (Audio Fidelity) was one of
the FIRST SIX STEREO RECORDS released in 1958. Another one was _Marching
Along with the Dukes of Dixieland_(Audio Fidelity)--which I know I've seen
before and passed up.

Audio Fidelity got the jump on the major labels in releasing a lot of early
stereo disks--but among the 200 stereo titles available by September 1958
another notable one was Ferrante & Teicher's _Heavenly Sound_  on
ABC-Paramount--I'm still looking for that one!

The book mentions a sprinkling of other titles, some classical, some jazz,
but nothing else exotica--related. . . anyone else know of other stereo
exotica LPs from 1958? The Three Suns _The Things I Love In Hi Fi_ was the
only one I noticed in a quick look through my records. . .

binaurally,

 --Ross

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|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:43:05 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fanatics

Hey, I just finished the book _From Tinfoil to Stereo_ by Walter Welch &
Oliver Read. Originally published in 1959, I read the slightly-revised
1976 edition.

I use the term "finished" pretty loosely, since it was 500 pages of 9-point
type, in an extremely labored writing style. But there were a couple of
things I wanted to mention to the list about it. . .


There are lots of people around today who proclaim that vinyl is still
superior to CDs--but I had no idea that there had been an *earlier* era of
reactionaries who felt that things have been going downhill ever since the
Edison cylinder! Our authors here make it quite clear that they think:

* The original vertical ("hill and dale") groove cutting is inherently
   superior to the lateral groove modulation adopted by everyone after
   the Berliner-style disk became popular. (This doesn't make a BIT of
   sense to me and I can think of about 3 objections to it.)

* Cylinders are preferable to disks because cutting and playback can be
   done at a constant, optimum velocity; disks might be made acceptible
   if the rotation speed increased towards the center, but even so the
   geometry of the stylus in the groove becomes "cramped" (This
   observation actually has some truth to it. And of course CDs do use
   variable rotation speed).

* Acoustic recording and playback may actually be preferable to
  "electrical" amplification, because you do not use transducers
   to convert between mechanical and electical energy. (With acoustic
   recording we are talking about a system which covers a bandwith
   of about 200-4000 Hz with an enormous hump in the middle of
   the response.)

* Artistically, the style of recordings has gone to hell too, with
  "excessive" bass and treble as a concession to popular taste; and
   worst of all, the practice of including room reverberation in the
   recording itself. Instead, the authors feel the only valid practice is
   recording the artists absolutely "dry," and allowing the acoustics
   of your own music room (my what?) provide the correct ambiance.

* Edison is the One True God and all others are Base Vermin. (OK,
   they didn't say that *exactly*, but that's the basic thrust of some
   extremely tedious discussions of patent battles, priority, etc.)

* The book ends with a mentions of 1975's very latest "video disc"
   system: As a vertically modulated signal on a foil substrate, they
   see it as a trimuphant vindication of all of Edison's principles.
   Unfortunately for the authors, I have never even HEARD of this
  "Teledec" system--it was limited to 10 minutes of video. (Meanwhile,
   the embryonic Philips laserdisc system also mentioned turned out
   to be the only video disc format which had any commercial life.
   Of course the authors dismiss video TAPE as wholly impractical
   for home use.)


Yow!  I love my LPs, but I wonder if some of the more extreme statements of
today's vinylphiles will seem this cranky thirty years from now. . .

analogically,


 --Ross

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:52:38 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ernie Freeman and other records

Ernie Freeman "Limbo Dance Party".  The best limbo record I've ever heard.
I can't stop playing it.  And I haven't even bent forwards for years, let
alone backwards.
Another new quasi-exotica obsession.  Tony Joe White.  (He has a tune
called "Voodoo Village" if you need some exotica credibility.)
His LP's are not that easy to find but I finally found two in the last
month.   And a record by a French fellow named Joe Dassin who seems to be
obsessed with Tony Joe too.
Tony Joe, for those who haven't heard him, is sort of a swamp-fried blues n
boogie guy, obsessed with the devil, who sings/talks his way through little
stories which all sound approximately the same.
Next LP... And this one's mostly for JimmyBee.  Have you heard the 1910
Fruitgum Company LP called "Hard Ride".  It's like their conceptual
art-rock biker freakout.  You wouldn't know it's them.  Highly recommended,
even if you like their bubblegum stuff and I do.
And for Jane Fondle.  My friend Scott, the used record store owner who's
composing my soundtrack, totally gets your Scott Walker/Jack Jones thing
and when I told him about the Legrand record, he put it on and had to agree
with you.
I didn't really hear it myself until he lent me this CD by Scott
"Stretch/We had it all", which is I guess two albums reissued together.
Scott's voice sounds different somehow doing Carole King and Gordon
Lightfoot covers.  I really heard the Jack Jones thing on "No Easy Way
Down", which I knew more from Mark Eitzel's first solo CD than from "Dusty
in Memphis".

Okay I think I'm caught up now.




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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:16:33 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jack "Bongo" Burger

>Anyone have any info on Jack "Bongo" Burger?  I only have three selections
>by this guy...on two compilation discs from Hi Fi/Rykodisc.  I have scoured
>LP racks in vain for an album by him...even another selection on a compilation
>record or CD.  All the tunes I heard him do were great!


here's what you need to be watching for:

http://www.tamboo.com/clubvelvet/lp/Selections59.html




visit...

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:05:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Carlfors <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951

Call the first one Mumba! and the other one Simba!
and keep the record for yourself.

/P

- --- Sandberg Magnus <[e-mail]> wrote:

Still have one copy for myself. will
> give that to my firstborn... but what if twins?
> scary thought.


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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:18:36 +0200
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Subject: (exotica) history of the compact disc URL

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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:42:55 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) APB:  I sold the wrong records!

Michele asked about Saville label...

Looked it up on LookSmart Music, a meaty alpha-order database/portal site
for labels all over the world. Alas, nothing between Savage Custard Studios
and Say Listen Studios. Can't suggest an alternative off hand. Try
launching a search at Record Labels A-Z,
http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus302562/eus317828/eus317855/eus60156/eus2805
06/r?lm&
A long and ugly URL that leads to riches for music hounds.

What a loss for you, Michele! In moments of madness or carelessness, I've
sold or given away records or books then lived with the regret. With the
Net you often can find replacements though, and when you do, it's a
triumphant moment.

Glad you're back,
MimiM





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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:31:25 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Quiet Village in 1951

In a message dated 6/20/99 3:05:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Call the first one Mumba! and the other one Simba!
 and keep the record for yourself.
  >>

I like stereo and mono.
Les and Martin
Baxter and Denny
Zounds and Sounds
Primative and Hypnotique
Tiki Bob and Tiki Bobette

Please feel free to mix and match.



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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:46:03 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Recent finds/budget labels

I'm listening to a record picked up yesterday for 99 cents: The Swinging
Hi-Fi Organ by The Magic Fingers of Merlin & His Trio. A Bravo release, so
the back says nothing about the mysterious Merlin -- columns of record
titles with names of no-name musicians doing stuff like Cocktails in
Manhattan or Latin Goes Percussion or "Hymns" Sunday USA, Cliff Simpson
Sings.

Citizen Kafka recently said these budget labels often have the most
incredible music. So right, Citizen. Little known or unknown or
masquerading musicians playing for the buck, making music too strange to
make it onto radio, yet waiting the day when their music and records would
land in a loving home. There's something so um, blindly optimistic in the
best of these records, so unvarnished and naked in the enthusiasm that
fires the musicians' play. At last they've found their audience in the
eXoticats. I hope some of these troopers visit eBay or even this list so
they will know someone out there cherishes what they did.

Like SH-FO.... I'm nuts for it. Jumpin' jive arrangements of Too Close for
Comfort or In the Still of the Night (a bit exotic and dreamy -- the softer
side of Merlin), with Merlin going at it on his organ accompanied by a
dirty tenor sax, a stand-up bass, and someone joyously whacking a basic
drum kit. Man, I want to be jitterbuggin' my ass off at that lounge where
Merlin & boys held forth! Nat would dig this record although it might be
too boisterous for his current tastes. :) So would Ross.

A different example of such records is Congo Percussion by Cawanda on
Pirouette. Yep, that's Pirouette. Authentic hot African music with much
call and response singing in Swahili by mixed male/female musicians. The
drumming is incredible. "It was an experience being Present as the songs
were 'played-back' to the hypercritical ears of the performers....Such
unabashed dancing and jumping around had never been seen in the studio
before....Joy in the drums -- Joy in just hearing a good -- yes, excellent
- -- reproduction of their Taboo Drum Session."

A Columbia LP (66) fell into my hands: Music, A Part of Me, David McCallum
Conducts Personal Impressions of One Two Three, Turn, Turn, Turn, A Taste
of Honey, The "In" Crowd, Downtown, We Gotta Get Outta This Place, and,
yes!, Satisfaction.

Now Ilya must have written the arrangements between takes for The Man from
U.N.C.L.E., or at least that's my fantasy. Did you know that before he
became an actor David studied oboe and English horn at London's Royal
Academy of Music?  That family members performed piano, violin,
violincello? That David was schooled in music theory and harmony?

Which explains why these personal impressions were arranged and conducted
by David himself; why the wan oboe and noble English horns switch off in
carrying the melody for Satisfaction, an dumb choice for an instrumental
anyway. Why my husband stumbled into our living room at 2 am Saturday
morning awakened by my cackles, saying "WHAT are you listening to?" The
appeal of this record isn't only inappropriate arrangements and
instrumentation; McCallum's Taste of Honey is sensuous and groovy, and
McCallum's original composition, called Insomnia, packed in crime jazzy
cool. Plus the cover shot of David looking serious and handsome is enough
to revive the mad crush I had on him as a kid.  Look for this one, despite
its sluggish Motown covers.

Comments welcome on these or other recent notable finds:
Percussion in Hi-Fi     David Carroll    Mercury
Spectacular Percussion   Roger King Mozian conducts/arranges    MGM
The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick    Scepter
Louis and Keely    Dot   A fabulous Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
Tamboo    Les Baxter    Capital, mono. 69 cents at a Utah thrift
Arthur Lyman  Yellow Bird   Life series, HiFiRecords.  89 cents, same thrift
"Pat"   Pat Boone   Dot   Cloroxed 50s rock 'n roll and r&b for the youngsters
Keely Smith   Dearly Beloved (ballads)   Dot
Floyd Kramer Plays the Monkees     RCA
Robert Maxwell    Peg O' My Heart    Decca   Not his best
Charlie Byrd    Brazilian Byrd, music of Jobim    Columbia
Music to Read James Bond By    Barry, Prado, Ferrante & Teicher, Caiola,
LeRoy Holmes play music from early Bond films    United Artists   Still
sealed

In waxy bliss,
Mimi




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