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exotica-digest         Tuesday, July 13 1999         Volume 02 : Number 446



In This Digest:

(exotica) Better living thru hi-fi (was phase 4)
(exotica) CD Jungle Comp...
(exotica) Reggae fans lobby for special burial
(exotica) The Knack
SV: (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...
(exotica) Re: Needlework
(exotica) Dick Shawn
(exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes
Re: SV: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??
(exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" July 14, 1999
(exotica) ? Exotica Album Reviews Book ?
Re: (exotica) The Knack
Re: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??
(exotica) The Knack
SV: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??
SV: (exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes
Re: (exotica) Dick Shawn
SV: (exotica) Dick Shawn
RE: (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...
(exotica) Dick Shawn
(exotica) Fascinato's Surplus Store
(exotica) Not just another budget Hawaiian album
(exotica) Incredible Free Sound Clip Collection
Re: (exotica) Not just another budget Hawaiian album
RE: (exotica) Dick Shawn
Re: (exotica) The Knack
SV: (exotica) CHAINO, SAD NEWS
(exotica) Not necessarily relative, but a fun story
(exotica) Holiday purchases
Re: SV: (exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes
(exotica) Sale List Available
[Tosh: (exotica) The Knack]
(exotica) Re: Enjoyed your web page
Re: (exotica) The Knack

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:41:40 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Better living thru hi-fi (was phase 4)

=46rank said >BTW, I recently came upon a mono version on a phase 4 recordin=
g
( sound 4 ) >...what's the point?

True of Phase 4 and other stereo spectaculars....then there are LPs meant
for hi-fi.

Anyone care to recommend records that sound better in mono/hi-fi?

I nominate party and dance tunes from the 60s, mixed for tinny car radios
or juke boxes. Example: A Wyncote compilation called Dance A-Go-Go with the
Stars! Features Dee Dee Sharp's South Street and Wah-Watusi, Don Covey's Do
the Bug, the Orlons' He's Braggin'. Best of all: the Dovells' Country Club
Hully Gully about a guy from the poor side of Miami converting the mink set
to a cool dance. It's the sort of music party hosts slapped on a cheap
turntable once everyone got a little high and ready to shake that thang.
Glorious mono suits the stuff.




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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:51:43 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...

Anybody have a comp. (I think) put out by Del Fi called something like =
"Jungle Jive?"  It's all instros.....

Good?

- - Nate




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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:48:44 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Reggae fans lobby for special burial

    KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Friends and family of Jamaican reggae star Dennis
Brown are petitioning the government for permission to bury him in an
exclusive cemetery reserved for the Caribbean island's most notable
political leaders.
    The government is considering the petition to bury Brown at Heroes Park,
Local Government Minister Arnold Bertram said Friday.
    Earlier this week, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said the government would
help pay for the funeral, which is scheduled for July 17.
    Brown died of pneumonia on July 1 at the age of 42. Dubbed the ``crown
prince of reggae,'' he rose to prominence during the 1970s wave of reggae
singers that included Bob Marley, who introduced the musical form to
listeners worldwide. Brown released a string of hits, beginning with ``No
Man is an Island,'' which he recorded in 1969 at the age of 12.
    The last person to be buried at Heroes Park was former Prime Minister
Michael Manley, the son of Jamaica's founding father, who died two years ago.





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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: (exotica) The Knack

I just saw Richard Lester's The Knack last night.  I have a question: Is
the actor  Michael Crawford  in that film the same Michael Crawford of
Phantom of the Opera, etc?

Also the Barry soundtrack was cool. Are there any other Barry soundstracks
that are kind of 'jazzy?"

- -----------------
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TamTam Books
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:43:34 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...

>Anybody have a comp. (I think) put out by Del Fi called something like =
"Jungle Jive?"  It's all instros.....
>
>Good?
>
>- Nate

Nate,
you can listen to some tracks on the internet through real audio. The =
tracks from "voices of africa" seem to be the best. Anybody have that =
rare DelFi LP? 2 copies?

Magnus



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:05:58 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Needlework

From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Needlework

Can anyone give a quick primer on balancing a needle?  I've got four
different dials to work with and I have no idea what to do to get the
best sound and put the least amount of stress on my records.

We're looking at a height of the tonearm dial, a fine and coarse
adjustment for the tonearm counterweight, and also the anti-skating
dial.

Not to mention just general needle placement an alignment in the head
of the tonearm.
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Here's some badly written advice... this question comes up frequently in
alt.music.makers.dj and occasionally in rec.music.collecting.vinyl...

You need to find out the recommended tracking force for the needle first.
E.g. for mine (Stanton 500ALs) it's between 3 and 4gms. Too little or too
much and there's increased wear on the grooves (as well as distortion on
high notes if it's too little).

Not sure how other turntables work, but if the arm weight is removable and
has a rotating ring with markings (like Technics 1200s) then you need to
balance the arm so it 'floats' over the record perfectly level. Set the
ring, without moving the weight, to '0' and then you can increase the weight
by rotation to whatever the specified level is for the cartridge.

Anti-skating balances the force on the needle that pulls it inwards, towards
the centre. The markings I've seen are in grams, and should be set to the
same as the arm weight. (or 0 for scratching ;)
Anti-skating evens out the wear between both groove walls, and also should
help prevent that nasty 'lurch' towards the centre when you lower the stylus
into the run-in groove.

Position of the cartridge in the headshell lines the point of the stylus
perpendicular to the direction of the moving groove, i.e. so the curved
groove appears to be straight to the stylus (imagine the bottom point on a
circle to be a straight line where it meets the floor?)

Height ring - adjusts the arm so that the very tip of the stylus (the
diamond point) is perpendicular to the horizontal plane (i.e. the record).
Too much and it will lean forwards, too little and it will slope backwards.
You can do this by eye roughly.
Alternatively the instruction manual for the turntable should have a list of
height settings depending on the height of the cartridge. You can find out
the cartridge height, hopefully, along with the recommended arm weight.

The best sound will come from the needle being perfectly (evenly) lined up
in all these aspects. It's a case of using your eyes rather than ears for
this. The needle being evenly set up will also give the minimum level of
wear.

Needles:
come in spherical and eliptical. Eliptical supposedly have better sound, but
increased wear, especially if the records have already been played a lot
with sphericals, so you won't get the better sound possibly.

Hope this helps a little. Hopefully someone else can do a more coherent job.


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:13:52 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Dick Shawn

In a message dated 07/12/99 8:09:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Long time since I saw the tiresome Its a mad mad mad world, and I dont
remember Dick Shawn at all. What did he do besides that one?
  >>

He played Sylvester, the beach beat-nik that was reduced to tears when he
found out that his mother (Ethyl Merman) was in trouble.

In later years I heard he was doing a comedy skit on stage and fell down
clutching his heart.  The audience thought it was part of the act and did
nothing.  Of course after a few minutes the discovered he was dead.

Can anyone back me up on that???

tiki bob


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:16:01 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes

In a message dated 07/12/99 8:10:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Dick Shawn at all. What did he do besides that one? >>

I loved it when Ethel Merman tells him, "You're just like your father.  A
big, muscle headed moron."

Any other favorite quotes from Mad World???

tiki bob


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:22:33 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??

 Exotic percussion is not to be missed! Essential LP.
Magnus PI


>>I gotta agree with Maggy on this one!  Any hardcore "exotica" collector
needs this, it's one of the best...I should note it is, I believe, one of
the ONLY Stanley Black rekkids I've ever heard, though....Jane Fondle


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:27:05 -0400
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" July 14, 1999

"Mondo Bongos" can be heard every Wednesday mornings at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Mr Scruff - Is He Ready... "Keep it Unreal"
James Last - Voodoo Ladys Love "Voodoo-Party" [thanks Cheryl & Brian!]
The Electric Indian - Keem-O-Sabe 7"

Chaino & His African Percussion Safari - Cum-Ba-See "Jungle Echoes"
Red Rogers - Congo Bounce "Jungle Exotica Vol 2"
Tarantula Ghoul & the Gravediggers - King Kong "Jungle Exotica"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy "Voodoo Jive"
Mr Scruff - Get a Move On! [radio edit] "Get a Move On!"
Tonio Rubio - Bass in Action #7 "Beyond the Valley of the Superbeats"
Riccardo & His Group - Last Tango in Paris "Dimensions in Sound"

Mr Scruff - Blackpool Roll "Keep it Unreal"
Shocking Blue - Acka Raga "The Haschisch Party"
James Last - Mr Giant-Man "Voodoo-Party"

The Brass Ring - The Now Sound "The Now Sound of the Brass Ring"
Enoch Light & the Brass Menagerie - Soulful Strut "Enoch Light & the Brass
Menagerie"

Thanks for reading,

Allan




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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:38:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) ? Exotica Album Reviews Book ?

Hello,

I remember reading about an Exotica Album Reviews book awhile back on this
list and am wondering if this ever came out?  Supposedly it was to feature
many album covers, etc. Anyone?  Anyone?
On another note... my CD making capabilities have firmly gotten on the good
foot.  COMPLETED TITLES INCLUDE:

HUGO MONTENEGRO - Best Of (2 discs touching upon all essential Hugo...)

WEIRDO BEATLES - (2 Discs) A set of the strangest Beatle interpretations I
could find, including tunes by WIlliam Shatner, Laibach, Hugo Montenegro,
Yellow Magic Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler(!) Enoch Light, Phil Collins, Mystic
Moods Orchestra, Santo & Johnny, Karl Swobodian and many more
favorites.(Features nothing from the recent George Martin release, but I can
imagine a future volume will... Jim Carey and Goldie Hawn singing Beatles
tunes?)

FREEKY DEEKY - (1 Disc) "Very Bad Music" Volume 1 - Features tunes from Mr. T
(!), WIlliam Shatner, Telly Savalas, Anthony Newley, MECO, L Ron Hubbard and
more!

ROBO ELECTRIC CHEESE - (1 Disc) Great moog inspired stomping robot disco
featuring Girorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Space, Hot Butter, Munich Orchestra
and more.

NOIR Volume 1 - (1 Disc) Features a nice introduction into the music of cloak
& dagger, dames, private dicks, spies and noir.  Includes John Barry, Henry
Mancini, Warren Barker, Al Caiola, Clebanoff, Barry Adamson, Toldeo, Alvino
Rey, Angelo Badalamenti and many more.

Website is coming soon... In the Works Titles include:
L. RON HUBBARD - "Space Jazz" b/w YARS REVENGE ATARI 2600 LP.
The L Ron Scientology LP has got to be the weirdest record I own... it's just
sick... it's being paired with a Sci-Fi kids record that tied in with the
Yars Revenge Atari Video game back in 1982.  Ironically enough, it makes more
sense than the L. Ron LP.

WARREN BARKER - The Exotic Rhythms Of Warren Barker b/w Warren Barker Is
"IN".  Great spy flavored mood music.  Why these have not been released yet,
I do not know.  Includes the "are you "IN" or "OUT" quiz!

MUSIC TO READ JAMES BOND BY Volumes 1 & 2 + The World Of James Bond.

Cioa'


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:53:28 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Knack

Tosh wrote:

> I just saw Richard Lester's The Knack last night.  I have a question: Is
> the actor  Michael Crawford  in that film the same Michael Crawford of
> Phantom of the Opera, etc?
>

Yes, that is indeed the same Michael Crawford. What a nutty sixties semi-arty
film! And yes, it is where the band The Knack got their name.

>
> Also the Barry soundtrack was cool. Are there any other Barry soundstracks
> that are kind of 'jazzy?"

I'd go so far as to say that this is my favorite Barry soundtrack. No others
of his that I've heard are consistently this good.(I say this at the risk of
committing a Bond sacrilege, but you'd have to admit the Bond soundtracks
simply are not as "jazzy" as the Knack.) Although, he does that typical
soundtrack-arrangers crutch in that there are really only about two or three
themes, and all the subsequent tracks (cues) are variations on these themes.

Frank



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??

John Keating's Moog lp is also worth a listen - An
Astromusical Odyssey: Sounds Galactic P4 SP 44154

- --- [e-mail] wrote:

> Claude Denjean has two - actually there are three
> moog LP's on this label.
>
> Moog!
> Open Circuit
> Moods

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:27:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: (exotica) The Knack

Wow!  I would never guess that the young chap in The Knack would grow up to
be a sex symbol for the Beverly Hills/Palm Springs set!  I wonder if any
Michael Crawford fan has seen this film.  They should release it with a new
marketing angle.

It is an interesting film.  Some of it is trying too hard to be French New
wavish with a little Tati thrown in (plus Buster Keaton), but there are
some great visuals.  Especially the credit sequence which is excellent.
And as recliner has mentioned - the Barry score is fab.

- -----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:33:45 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Phase 4-- are they worth it??

>John Keating's Moog lp is also worth a listen - An
>Astromusical Odyssey: Sounds Galactic P4 SP 44154
>

Yeah thats a cool one! Lots of weird space zounds.

Magnus



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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:54:21 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes

><< Dick Shawn at all. What did he do besides that one? >>
>
>I loved it when Ethel Merman tells him, "You're just like your father.  =
A=20
>big, muscle headed moron."
>
>Any other favorite quotes from Mad World???


Hey tiki bob, where's yor taste taking yo!.... Thats not a cool quote. =
At least not in my world. That movie sucks.
tiny muscle M



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:16:42 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dick Shawn

No one's going to note his immortal turn as Lorenzo Saint DuBois ("L.S.D.") in "The Producers"?!?

Go here for a full filmography listing:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Shawn,+Dick

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A choice TV item:
"It's All True" (1993)
AMC - Wednesday night, 10:00pm, 4:35am

This is the sorta recent reconstruction or documentary of Orson Welles' lost film, shot in South America while the studio was working over "The Magnificent Ambersons".

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 02:13:28 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Dick Shawn

I blame my swedish heritage and the swedish society and the bosnian =
conflict. And the atom bombs in the south seas.

>No one's going to note his immortal turn as Lorenzo Saint DuBois =
("L.S.D.") in "The Producers"?!?



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:59:10 -0700
From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...

Actually it's a combination of vocals and instrumentals.  Some pretty =
cool tunes mixed with somewhat boring tunes, like most of the Del Fi =
comps. =20

Jerry

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Subject:    (exotica) CD Jungle Comp...


Anybody have a comp. (I think) put out by Del Fi called something like =
"Jungle Jive?"  It's all instros.....



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:41:06 -0700
From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dick Shawn

Magnus PI wrote:
<and I dont remember =
Dick Shawn at all. What did he do besides that one?>

Dick Shawn sang the stunning eco-rant "Love Power" as the "world's worst
actor" Lorenzo St. Dubois (LSD) in Mel Brook's demented musical
extravaganza "The Producers" - the one with "Springtime for Hitler."
Not to be missed, and it should be watched at least once a year, it gets
funnier each time. The drag queen Roger DeBris was played by Christopher
Hewitt, who later seemed to have gained 100 lbs and starred in an awful
sitcom "Mr. Belvedere."

James G


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 21:58:53 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fascinato's Surplus Store

Jack Fascinato - Music from a Surplus Store

Yea! I've always wanted this album after first seeing it in the
Incredibly Strange Music book and now I own a pristine copy.
It is however, a little bit of a letdown. I suppose I was expecting a
little more "experimental" use of these surplus store items. The album
is pretty much easy  jazz with one or two common items basically used as
percussion instruments. I mean how many times do you wanna listen to a
sandpaper-scrubbrush  effect that really doesn't sound too far removed
from a recognized percussion instrument? Okay I'm being hard on this lp,
it is after all a pretty darn cool album. It's funny how after getting
an album that you've craved for many years without ever having heard
that it  can let you down when you finally hear it, simply because
you've built up this expectation of how great it  *could* be.

Along these lines (sort of) but more contemporary - Has any one heard
that "Chainsaw Orchestra "  (or some such name) album that came out two
or three years ago? I'm curious.

Frank



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:37:13 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Not just another budget Hawaiian album

"Aloha Hawaii" by Harry Kaapuni and his Royal Polynesians on Coronet
Records.
The cover features a very un-Hawaiian babe, blonde hair blue eyes,
standing in some "jungle " foliage with Aloha Hawaii in big
yellow-orange letters to the right.  So now you know what to look for ,
chances are that in your grimy thrift store scavenging that you've come
across this and passed up on it as merely another cheesy budget Hawaiian
album. I think I have before myself, luckily a friend of mine, Jon,
pointed out two tracks on this album that are not merely outstanding,
but perhaps the most fucked up  "Hawaiian" songs ever! (Okay Frank, easy
with those superlatives.)
Two songs on this album " Hawaiian Holiday" and " Hawaiian Starlight"
are the obvious original  material filler tracks on this otherwise
fairly pedestrian Hawaiian album.
These two songs represent a genre unto themselves which I can only
describe as Hawaii-abilly! Yes, Rockabilly meets Hawaiian!! What a
concept I think that the more daring of these new rockabilly bands
should actively pursue this idea.

"Hawaiian Starlight", the more straightforward of the two is the perfect
melding of a rockabilly guitar sound to an uptempo Hawaiian melody,
think Hawaiian War Bop, and you'll have a good idea. The other tune
"Hawaiian Starlight" defies description, I still have to ask a drummer
friend of mine tell me if they are actually playing in  time or just
screwing up the rhythm on purpose. On top of that  "rhythm" you have the
rockabilly sounding guitar as in the other tune but on top of that is a
vocalist  who makes mockery of the Hawaiian language in the most mind
boggling way! Again the rockabilly style comes to mind, but imagine this
style of singing, glottal stops and all, but with some totally
incomprehensible words spewing out!  I am still shaking my head in
blissful wonderment....whew.

Frank



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:29:34 -0700
From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Incredible Free Sound Clip Collection

I accidentally came across an amazing collection of downloadable =
soundclips at :

http://soundamerica.com/

Great free collection of movie dialog bits, TV theme songs, etc.  The =
prize for me was the theme song to Reel Wild Cinema, a cancelled show =
that I pine for more every week. =20

Enjoy!

Jerry



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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:38:49 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Not just another budget Hawaiian album

Your description fascinates me.  I will keep a lookout for that one.

But, don't forget one of the greatest Hawaiian tunes ever (even though it is
a parody) SPIKE JONES' AMAZING STUPENDOUS VERSION OF THE HAWAIIAN WAR CHANT.
Unquestionably one of the funniest records ever made.

Heard it?

Larry


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:45:01 -0700
From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Dick Shawn

Didn't Dick Shawn die (literally) on stage, in the middle of a performance?  I think that it happened here in San Diego.

Jerry

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Magnus PI wrote:
<and I dont remember =
Dick Shawn at all. What did he do besides that one?>

Dick Shawn sang the stunning eco-rant "Love Power" as the "world's worst
actor" Lorenzo St. Dubois (LSD) in Mel Brook's demented musical
extravaganza "The Producers" - the one with "Springtime for Hitler."
Not to be missed, and it should be watched at least once a year, it gets
funnier each time. The drag queen Roger DeBris was played by Christopher
Hewitt, who later seemed to have gained 100 lbs and starred in an awful
sitcom "Mr. Belvedere."

James G


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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:21:04 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Knack

I just saw Richard Lester's The Knack last night.  I have a question: Is
the actor  Michael Crawford  in that film the same Michael Crawford of
Phantom of the Opera, etc?

Also the Barry soundtrack was cool. Are there any other Barry soundstracks
that are kind of 'jazzy?"

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:13:58 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) CHAINO, SAD NEWS

>I just spoke with Kirby Allen who told me that Chaino passed away =
yesterday,=20
>July 8, at the age of 71 of a heart attack, the result of surgery to =
remove a=20
>brain tumor.

Sad news indeed, so the liner notes on the reissue cd was fake too. I =
like that.=20
What did he do whole his life besides the records in the 50s? Did he =
record anything else? Why did he die at all? :(
Chainos Africana LP is one of the best exotica LPs I have.


>Chaino and Kirby appear in two films, "The Devil's Hand", and =
"Nighttide."

Didnt know that, I have seen Nighttide, its a good movie, I remember a =
frantic bongo player on the beach, am I correct? Or is that scene in =
another movie?

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 05:55:14 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Not necessarily relative, but a fun story

I just got back from Memphis (ALL the way from Memphis, to save on the Mott
the Hoople cracks!).  Thanks to all for the tips about the city.  While not
a complete rundown of everything I did and saw there (sighs of relief all
around), this was the most memorable AND it happened on our wedding
anniversary.*

The story is on
http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar/moon.html

Hi, Stax.  The Sun was out earlier, but I Flip-ped when I saw a Meteor by
the light of the Moon, before I turned XL,
Brian Phillips

*July 9.  Eleven years.  Thank you.  Yes, they have all been wonderful and
I would say that even without my wife having access to my e-mail.

P.S. I am in the process of overhauling my site, but this is the only new
material.
Brian Phillips
http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:07:22 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Holiday purchases

I've been on holiday for a week,  didn't have that much free time,  but
I still managed to get into a few record shops,  after a couple of
months abstinence,  no real bargains,  but some good ones all the same.

Ennio Morricone -- Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene on DagoRed.
A new one,  A beautiful pressing on really nice heavy vinyl.  It
restores your faith in vinyl,  sorry to come over all trainspotter,  but
it really is a joy to hold this record.  And even better its a good
record, ranging from excellent Italian pop and go-go music to atonal
space orchestration something like Art Mineo's 'Man in Space with
Sounds' meets 'Get Carter'.

Gershon Kingsley -- music to Moog by.  Another new one,  another nice
pressing.  I think we've heard all about the contents.  Well worth
having.

Onto the second handers:

Andre Penazzi -- orgao, samba, percussao vol 3.  A tip from Christian
Courtis,  to follow up on my Ed Lincoln enquiries.  Injected for Super
Sound,  it looks like it should be a Super Stereo Action type record,
especially with all the technical info on the back,  but no,  its in
mono (by the way,  I also saw a phase 4 mono record last week).  I
should say its from about 1960,  its hard to tell,  groovy stuff,  not
too heavy on the percussion, and not the same thick kitchen sink style
organ as Ed Lincoln,  but a very nice record.

Michel Legrand -- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.  Phillips Connoisseur
Collection.  Mono.  I was very disappointed with this.  One Nice
swinging/crime jazz number,  and the main theme.  I didn't enjoy the
rest at all.  I've offered it to Arjan,  but if anyone else wants it
they can have it.

Lee Hazlewood -- Houston.  Not much to say. Lee,  country style,  not
too gravely.  Houston and his own spine chilling Fridays Child. Another
good one.

Harry Stoneham -- Hammond My Way.  More organs - lovely.  My Way taken
at breakneck speed in a super cheesy style.  This has some real high
spots for me.  On Contour rather than Studio 2.

Didn't get into any charity shops,  maybe at the weekend.

El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:27:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Mad, Mad, Mad World Quotes

In a message dated 7/12/99 4:58:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Hey tiki bob, where's yor taste taking yo!.... Thats not a cool quote. At
least not in my world. That movie sucks.
 tiny muscle M >>

Really?  This is considered a classic here by many.  You have to remember
that Stanley Kraemer assembled about 100 well know actors/actresses for this
movie.  The final version runs about 3 hours but the original version Kraemer
wanted to show was about 5 hours.  A buddy of mine and I would kill to see
those extra two hours.

It was a return to slap schtick comedy that have been absent in the US for
about 25 years.  At the time, this movie was well received because of this.
And all the actors as mentioned above.

Sorry if we disagree on this one -- I really do think it is a funny, not to
mention artful, movie.

And Ethel Merman's loud mouth is just so typical of the obnoxious
mother-in-law that so many American males despise (this MUST be universal).
When she hits the banana peel at the end and makes the room full of men, all
with tremendous pain and consequences from breaking the law, break up
laughing it is just classic.

At one point someone calls Ethel Merman an "old bag" and Dick Shawn say,
"Hey!  That's my mama you're talking about."  It just strikes many as being
funny.  And it is the way he says it.

Oh well.  Maybe it is a culture (or my case a lack of culture) thing.

Tiki Bob


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:02:17
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sale List Available

I have a list of several hundred albums I'm weeding out of my stacks.  If
you're interested in getting a copy of the sale list, please drop me an email.

Brad Bigelow
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:39:07 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Tosh: (exotica) The Knack]

>
> Wow!  I would never guess that the young chap in The Knack would grow up to
> be a sex symbol for the Beverly Hills/Palm Springs set!  I wonder if any
> Michael Crawford fan has seen this film.  They should release it with a new
> marketing angle.
>

Michael Crawford crops up in a few other 60s British films. IIRC, one
is called something like "The Jokers", the brothers being Crawford and
Oliver Reed, who steal the crown jewels as a stunt. And that one is a
Michael Winner film! (Scary, no? But it's pretty good.)

Crawford is probably (still) best known in Britain for his role as
Frank Spencer in the once hugely popular sit-com "Some Mothers Do 'Ave
'Em", in which he played a gormless idiot who was a walking disaster
area that drove people nuts (lots of demolition, stunts, slapstick
humour, etc.). So he has a completely different image over here, I
guess. They've just started repeating 'em.

But more on-topically, there's another Crawford-Barry link. Crawford
was in the stage show "Billy", a musical adaptation of "Billy Liar",
the music for which was written by one Mr. John Barry. And, yes, there
is an LP of it.




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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:12:39 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Enjoyed your web page

Thought the List might like this

In a message dated 07/13/99 8:06:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, USAKOWLOON
writes:

<< Subj:    Re: Enjoyed your web page
 Date:    07/13/99 8:06:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    USAKOWLOON
 To:    Rcbrooksod

 Tiki Bob


 Thank-you for the kind words and for informing your friends of our Web Page.
 I was happy to hear that you enjoyed looking at our website and hope that
you and your friends will have a chance to visit us at the Kowloon.



 Sincerely,


 The Wong Family >>


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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:20:22 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Knack

<< Also the Barry soundtrack was cool. Are there any other Barry soundstracks
 that are kind of 'jazzy?" >>

there are a couple of John Barry scores that continue to elude me, "Four In
The Morning" (Roulette 1966) and the very rare "The Wrong Box" (Mainstream
1966).

anybody have or heard them?

Get The Knack, Tosh!  It is on CD.




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