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exotica-digest        Thursday, August 5 1999        Volume 02 : Number 471



In This Digest:

SV: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...
RE: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...
(exotica) drunken poetry. The worst kind of kindness
(exotica) Portland, OR record stores
SV: (exotica) Re: Phil Moore and his orchestra poem
(exotica) Further Goddess Info:
(exotica) rekkids fo sale
RE: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...
Re: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...
Re: (exotica) drunken poetry. The worst kind of kindness
(exotica) Who Is Peter Nero
Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero
(exotica) Lalo Schifrin
(exotica) Studio 2
Re: (exotica) Re: Western Swing
Re: (exotica) Lalo Schifrin
Re: (exotica) Studio 2 and taste
Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero
(exotica) Recent Finds
Re: (exotica) Studio 2
Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero
Re: (exotica) More finds
Re: (exotica) Johnny Harris
Re: (exotica) More finds
Re: (exotica) Johnny Harris
Re: (exotica) Studio 2
Re: (exotica) Phil Moore and his orchestra poem
Re: (exotica) More finds
(exotica) new motion reviews ---+ date: 05.aug.99
(exotica) [obits]Linda Alma,Rudy Burckhardt,
Re: (exotica) Studio 2
Re: (exotica) [obits]Linda Alma,Rudy Burckhardt,
Re: (exotica) not dimitri?!

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 03:43:43 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...

>Charles Wilp fotografiert Bunny -=20

Where on the web can I buy this?


>Hippie Goddesses - Not much in the liner notes, but this is an all =
female
>psych-rock-trip-out band from the 60's.  Does anybody know anything =
else
>about this

I love it to. Not all of it but most of it

Magnus







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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:53:43 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Brian Phillips
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 5:49 PM

> Hippie Goddesses is not a group, it's a compilation

Where, oh where, can I get this cd? (I missed the beginning of the thread.)
Please let me know offlist.

Thanks in advance,
Ben

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 04:40:29 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) drunken poetry. The worst kind of kindness

Neglected by the extras
"The extra Humans"
As mentioned in the great
Peter Falk movie from deutschland

How are you feeling?

Knowing the truth (sure yeah I dig)
but not be able to tell
about the wonders=20

- --------------------------------------

I may be an "earth one"

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Kindness
to=20
the
planet! :-)=20

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at least
- -once-=20

- -once- -once- -once- -once- -once- -once- -once-=20

experience
secrets=20
from THEE





helps M in the search...

for yesterday...

and today...

and the next day...

with or without
the WLEBGYVAQLOEWnbfozsue









Its magic voodoo dark stones and the friendSHIP from the unknown


Magnus (M)



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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 19:57:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Portland, OR record stores

I'm visiting Portland, Oregon next week and I'm
wondering if anyone on the list knows of some good
record stores there.  Please e-mail me off list.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Mark

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 04:59:24 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Re: Phil Moore and his orchestra poem

King Kong!
I like your website but at least I search for something new
I cant stand silence
at least not tonight

And
I like all ways to make fool of oneself
Ha ha!

(Pataphysically yours)
M


>that doesn't rhyme
>
>
>visit...
>=20
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>            King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
>              http://www.tamboo.com
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:42:16 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Further Goddess Info:

The Tobie Columbus track "Come In My Mouth" is from the off-broadway musical
"Let My People Come" which opened at   The Village Gate in 1974. The OST
contains other gems as well, such as "I'm Gay", Fellatio 101" and "The
Cunnilingus Champion of Company C". Tobie's track is the best, however. I
believe there was some sort of legal scandal that resulted from some
backstage squaubbles (sp?) between the creators.


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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 03:29:35 -0400
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) rekkids fo sale

>Hey everyone.
>i have a little pile of LP's here most of which are brand spankin' new but
>not my cup of tea...maybe yours. email me for descriptive list
>here's the list:
>
>Up Hard -Beatheads records funky groove comp from australia
>Egberto Gismonti - Incluindo O Sonho - re-issue 1970?
>(Italian Girls Like) Ear-Catching Melodies - comp- Dagored
>Klute OST  reissue - Michael Small  Harkit Records
>The Audio Blue Collection vol.1 15 fat spacey jams various italian 70's
>Pulsar Music Ltd. Milano Violenta OST Plastic 1999
>La Decima Vittima - The 10th Victim OST  Piero Piccioni
>Una Farfalla con le Ali Insanguinate OST - Gianni Ferrio  Easy Tempo
>La Legge Dei Gangsters OST - Piero Umiliani  Easy Tempo
>Il Signor Rossi - Franco Godi  "W La Felicita" 12"  Studio Uno
>Pete Rugolo - Thriller- Series 2000 Time records
>Air - Sexy Boy 12"  Caroline
>Soul Stomp - Stomp records Belgium 17 rare soul tracks
>Teenage Shutdown Vol.3  Things Been Bad  60's garage comp
>Hasil Adkins - Achy Breaky Ha Ha Ha - Commodity County Stylings
>Amazing Adventures of the Liverpool Scene  RCA 1969 1970?
>Richard "Groove" Holmes - Tell it Like it is  Pacific Jazz good condition
>Copulatin' Blues - compilation on Stash Records 1976

thought i would give everyone here first dibs before i sell them elsewhere.

cheers
bump




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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 07:14:42 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...

>Where, oh where, can I get this cd? (I missed the beginning of the thread.)
>Please let me know offlist.

Twisted Village:

http://www.twistedvillage.com/catalog/cd/psych-prog.html

Midnight Records
http://www.midnightrecords.com/60scds3.html


Midnight I know (haven't bought anything from them), but Twisted Village, I
don't.

Brian Phillips



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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 07:25:32 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re-Introduction & Recent Purchases...

I didn't see this in my mailbox, sending it again.  Apologies if this is a
second copy.

Hippie Goddesses is not a group, it's a compilation, which has a track by
Xaviera Hollander.  This is what I found out about this:

A bootleg compilation of 60s/70s femme-sploited psych album tracks,
subtitled "The most sexciting moments ever put on record!" Features select
tracks by cult artists such as Sally Eaton, Linda Perhacs, Carolyn Hester,
etc. -- as if the compiler went through his collection of catalogs by Paul
Major of Parallel World to find the most obscure and exotic psych tracks
with the female pulse. The final tracks is a bizarre spoken word hippie
encounter by Xaviera Hollander, the original Happy Hooker. Annoying
presentation: no artists are identified by their full name & and the full
color booklet of notes and "era-minded" notes neglects a basic track
listing, giving it a somewhat dodgy feel. "Calling all swingers! Here's a
super sexy psychedelic trippy acid audio fantasy just for you! If you got
off on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls you'll bust blood vessels over this!
Wanna hear spaced out hippie chicks groove to the acid beat of LSD! Then
meet Cheryl, Collen, Michele, Sally, Carolyn, Tobie, Marge, Ruth, Linda,
Lilly, Maria, Xaviera and their friends!!! This CD contains the best and
rarest in 1960s-70s femme psych compiled for the first time for your aural
enjoyment. Truly a dedication to the passionate female musicians of the
1960s. It's Sex-a-delic! It's a Love-In! It's a Freak-Out! It's What's
Happening! Are you man enough to groove with these voluptuous siren's?" In
the name of informational freedom, we have secured the rights to publish
the secret tracklisting for this comp: 1. SALLY EATON: "Flowers In the Air"
2. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Birds with Broken Wings Pt 1" 3. CHERYL DILCHER: "All
Woman" 4. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Women Liberation Blues" 5. CHERYL DILCHER:
"High" 6. CAROLYN HESTER: "I'm Magic, Man" 7. LILLY & MARIA: "EveryBody
Knows" 8. MICHELE: "Smilin'" 9. MARGO GURYAN: "Love" 10. TOBIE COLUMBUS:
"Come In My Mouth" 11. RUTH COPELAND: "Your Love Been So Good To Me" 12.
COLLEEN LOVETT: "Asleep In His Arms (part)" 13. COLLEEN LOVETT: "Love Man"
14. MICHELE: "Believe You" 15. LINDA PERHACS: "Parallelograms" 16. COLLEEN
LOVETT: "Birds with Broken Wings Pt 2" 17. XAVIERA HOLLANDER: "The Hippie"


What else I could glean:

Colleen Lovett was on the Carlton LP Five men and a girl
Sally Eaton was in a cast of "Hair"
http://www01.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/gc4/nabe_k/cast&staffs.html
Tobie Columbus must have been a dentist's nightmare if people could
actually roam about in her mouth.
Ruth Copeland had at least two albums; both were produced by George Clinton
, Self Portrait and i am what i am
Margo Guryan seems to have been a songwriter as well as a performer (Inn
Tune).  She recorded "Take a Picture" for Mala


I hope this is helpful.  Welcome back!

Brian Phillips




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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:37:30 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) drunken poetry. The worst kind of kindness

In a message dated 8/4/99 7:46:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< WLEBGYVAQLOEWnbfozsue >>

who or what is this ?????  sounds exotica ! ! !

tiki bob


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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 04:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero

I haven't heard anything by him, but I see him everywhere.  He looks
like another Mitch Miller/Andy Williams/Barbra Striesand kind of guy.
Tons of records, none of which are any good.

That's what he LOOKS like anyway, because I've never picked up one of
his records.  Am I missing anything?

What's his hook?

Peter

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:09:24 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero

> That's what he LOOKS like anyway, because I've never picked up one of
> his records.  Am I missing anything?

So far I've found only one Peter Nero record worth keeping, called  "Hits from
Hair to Hollywood"  One side is devoted to songs from 'Hair', the other has a
great version of 'The Windmills of Your Mind' done entirely with Moog
synthesizers.

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:10:37 +0200
From: Maurizio Mansueti <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lalo Schifrin

I'm searching for a track of Lalo Schifrin used last year on an european
spot of Ford "Puma" (with some images of Steve McQueen in S. Francisco).

Anyone knows if exists a cd single of that spot or what lp includes that
track?
I think probably from Bullitt or The Cincinnati Kid soundtrack, but I'm
not sure.
Thank you for your help.

ErMan

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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:28:29 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Studio 2

Hi Folks,

I've been away for a week or so on holiday, and I've just come back to
find this Studio 2 thread. So, here are my belated comments:

1. The web server was down here for a couple of days, but you should
   now be able to access them again on http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~petehip/

2. I'm still compiling them; any more info always welcome.

3. Yes, Studio 2 releases are pretty diverse, including classical music,
   operetta, brass bands, military bands &c. And yes, a lot of the
   albums are dull. The "Sound Gallery" releases do indeed give a false
   impression -- in fact, a lot of the tracks on SG/SG2 are NOT from
   Studio 2 albums at all, but are from other EMI sources, including
   quite a few from the KPM library music label (now owned by EMI).

4. Nevertheless, there are over 500 of these LPs. It's easy enough to
   find umpteen albums by "Manuel and the Music of the Mountains" or
   "Pepe Jaramillo", which would lead you to conclude the series is
   almost entirely terminally dull muzak. It's not: keep digging. I'd
   agree you're more likely to find individual standout tracks than
   consistently great albums, but some of those tracks --- !

5. Eventually I would like to add reviews etc. to these discographies,
   but it all depends on finding the time to do it.

M.H.Jemmeson mentioned a couple of other UK labels, Decca Eclipse and
Music for Pleasure.

Decca Eclipse releases are, as far as I have seen, reissues of earlier
Decca records (those dating from the 50s). This might account for them
seeming more "relaxed" and "gentle" (although there are exceptions,
such as Werner Muller's comparatively beserk "Wild Strings"). The
cover art for the Eclipse releases is fairly nasty (naff photographs
mostly) unlike original 50s Decca records, which often have fabulous
cover art, usually drawings which easily make up for the banality of
much of the music (bloody hard to find them though).

Music for Pleasure is GREAT! Again, a lot of horrible relases but
many class albums hidden away (a lot of re-releases too). Some really
weird and wonderful stuff, such as "Curried Jazz" by The Indo-British
Ensemble (wonderful Indo-Jazz fusion); "Beatles Bach and Bacharach Go
Bossa" by Alan Moorhouse (one of my all-time favourite records);
"Nursery Rhymes Tijuana Style" (Alan Moorhouse in disguise); "We Love
Kenny" by Kenny Lynch; that album of some guy reading children's
stories about an alien that comes to stay with his family, complete
with weird voice FX, damn what's it called...

As I see it, with pretty much any label, if you do enough panning
eventually you'll strike gold.



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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:36:37 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Western Swing

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Citizen Kafka wrote:

> careful about calling ANYONE names! There are Romanian pressings of
> Zamfir, playing traditional music with the national orchestra and with a
> cymbalum player, that would make any exotica person scream yee-ha! Hot,
> virtuosic, exciting, exciting (look for a cut called "dragon's breath"
> in romanian). Plus his records (more than 1) of panpipes and organ,
> playing superb klezmer music. And, BTW, a few of his "classical"
> recordings are truly great interpretations.

Seconded. There are some FABULOUS Zamfir albums. In fact, I snatch up
pretty much ALL the Romanian music I find (always on the state owned
Electrecord label), because a lot of this stuff is WILD, in insane tempos
with FURIOUS energy. My favourite such record is one by a cymbalon
virtuoso called Toni Iordache (who also appears on at least one Zamfir
record, IIRC), who plays INSANE stuff. Really makes me want to get up and
dance! Ahem, sorry about all the random capitalisation there.

I've also picked up other East European records, but found nothing that
matches the brilliance of these Romanian artists.





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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:38:06 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lalo Schifrin

That is the Bullitt soundtrack, The Main Title.

It is still languishing here in HMV (just saw it on 12").


Very good!

Charlie




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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 14:39:34 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Studio 2 and taste

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 [e-mail] wrote:

> On Studio 2 there's also a George Martin one playing the hits of the Beatles but
> it's pretty straightforward.
>

There's at least two:

TWO 102   Plays Help -- George Martin
TWO 141   And I Love Her -- George Martin





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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:51:03 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero

Peter Risser wrote:
>
> I haven't heard anything by him, but I see him everywhere.  He looks
> like another Mitch Miller/Andy Williams/Barbra Striesand kind of guy.
> Tons of records, none of which are any good.
>
> That's what he LOOKS like anyway, because I've never picked up one of
> his records.  Am I missing anything?
>
> What's his hook?

He's a pianist. Plays up-tempo instrumental covers mostly. Haven't found
anything particularly impressive yet.


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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:07:41 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent Finds

Had a good time grovelling through the muck in the charity shops of
backwoods SW Wales:

"Sound of Sitar" -- Chim Kothari

Wow, dates from 1966! One of the first Deram releases. Covers of tunes
such as "Strangers In The Night", "Downtown", "The Sound of Music",
plus a couple of originals. Not a mindblowing experience, rather
silly, but I like it a lot.

"Music To Watch Girls By" -- Bob Crewe

One of those I've been hoping to find for years. Expectations rode
much higher than the record, but it's a nice enough collection, fairly
polite and neatly arranged.

"Blue Gene" -- Gene Pitney

Has there ever been a discussion of Pitney on this list? This is
really the first exposure I've ever had to him, and it really knocked
me out. His version of "24 Hours To Tulsa" is fantastic; there's a
track called "Half The Laughter Twice The Tears" which I played about
10 times in a row, I was so impressed, and basically, I'll be out
there scooping up all the Pitney I'd previously ignored because I'd
idiotically dismissed him as being probably some lame old Frank Ifield
type out of completely unfounded prejudice.

"The Bob Dylan Songbook" -- The Golden Gate Strings

Arrangements by Brian Fahey, Johnny Scott, Tony Osborne et al. Very
good ones, too (unlike the appaling "Strings For Pleasure" Dylan
album). I'm particularly enamoured of the version of "Subterranean
Homesick Blues".

"It All Happens On Saturday Night" -- The Harry Stoneham Five

I'd about given up buying H.S. albums, figuring I had enough of his
hammond-noodling. But this one has a cover picture of him with Michael
Parkinson, driving along in a power boat and sipping on scotch and
soda, so I grabbed it. And it's fabulous. Non-medley for a start, has
the "Parkinson" theme on it, cool versions of "The Odd Couple" and "As
Time Goes By", and one driving, manic funky classic, "It All Happens
On Saturday Night" which is bloody great.

"Angels and 15 other original BBC TV themes" -- V/A

Tracks such as Angels, Grandstand, Ski Sunday, Quiller, Holy
Mackerel, The Rockford Files, On The Move, The Explorers... (got most
of them already, but what the hell).


Some others: "Colors" by Ken Nordine (issued in the UK by Philips),
"Taboo" by Arthur Lyman, and "Big Band Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones,
and most miraculous of all, a copy of the "Casino Royale" soundtrack
(for 50p!). I'm really pleased to have these albums at last.




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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:13:11 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Studio 2

> 4. Nevertheless, there are over 500 of these LPs. It's easy enough to
>    find umpteen albums by "Manuel and the Music of the Mountains" or
>    "Pepe Jaramillo", which would lead you to conclude the series is
>    almost entirely terminally dull muzak. It's not: keep digging. I'd
>    agree you're more likely to find individual standout tracks than
>    consistently great albums, but some of those tracks --- !

Pepe Jaramillo does have some nice covers: one which is bright pink and red
and pretty, err..., 'eye catching', another where he looks like a wax dummy.
His 'latin american rhythm' is basically the same on each track though, an
incessant guiro scrape and a few wood blocks - i'd have fired the lot of them
had i been Pepe...

> Decca Eclipse releases are, as far as I have seen, reissues of earlier
> Decca records (those dating from the 50s). This might account for them
> seeming more "relaxed" and "gentle" (although there are exceptions,
> such as Werner Muller's comparatively beserk "Wild Strings"). The
> cover art for the Eclipse releases is fairly nasty (naff photographs
> mostly) unlike original 50s Decca records, which often have fabulous
> cover art, usually drawings which easily make up for the banality of
> much of the music (bloody hard to find them though).

I'm regretting passing up 'Wild Strings' now... that did still have the
abstract drawing rather than royalty-free photograph. The stereo Decca Eclipse
records are electronically-reprocessed I think.

> Music for Pleasure is GREAT! Again, a lot of horrible relases but
> many class albums hidden away (a lot of re-releases too). Some really
> weird and wonderful stuff, such as "Curried Jazz" by The Indo-British
> Ensemble (wonderful Indo-Jazz fusion); "Beatles Bach and Bacharach Go
> Bossa" by Alan Moorhouse (one of my all-time favourite records);

That (along with a tv documentary) turned me onto bossa nova. I could do
without the Bach tracks, but the rest are fantastic and of consistent
standard. Amusing cover too.

> that album of some guy reading children's
> stories about an alien that comes to stay with his family, complete
> with weird voice FX, damn what's it called...

'Chocky'? or was that the alien that lived inside the boy's head...?

> As I see it, with pretty much any label, if you do enough panning
> eventually you'll strike gold.

'Funky Fever' on Alan Moorhouse and His Bond Street Brigade is still one of my
faves... I think that might have been on a Sound Gallery comp.
A fair amount of the stuff on Studio 2 and MFP is Geoff Love in various
guises. 'The Geoff Love Disco Sound play Close Encounters of the Third Kind
and other Intergalatic Themes' has an amusing Star Wars (with vibraphone
solo...)


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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 07:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who Is Peter Nero

If you're into that moog thing, he straps one on for
several tracks on From Hair to Aquarius. Not a bad lp.

Aaaand he did sport, 30 years ago, one of those nifty
little Van Dyke rictal rugs, so popularly cultivated
and misclassified ("goatee") today.

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:36:46 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More finds

Charles Moseley wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention that I found The Ray McVay Roadshow LP that I've been
> searching for for so long with that superb version of 2001 featured on the
> Further In Flight compilation

All the stuff of his i've found so far appears to be just ballroom dancing
stuff... or is this a different Ray McVay?


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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 15:41:32 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Johnny Harris

> Johnny Harris - Movements - A very nice easy listening LP with a couple of
> breaks and some very well done tunes. One very fast rocking tune with flute
> and all the right elements. Very pleasing!

Johnny Harris arranged/produced for Shirley Bassey for a few albums.
'Something', 'Something Else'  (both United Artists) are the best. 'Something
Else' has the theme from Love Story and It's Impossible, and 'Something' is a
perfect album IMO, except for the inclusion of 'My Way'. I;m not a big fan of
all Ms Bassey's stuff, but this late 60s/early 70s soul/funk/easy crossover
stuff is great. (plenty of odd bits to sample too... ;)


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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:44:36 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More finds

Ray McVay is generally crap but on this occasion, he excels himself with an
amazing track (and a very dodgy photo on the back cover). The rest of the
lp is pants of course.

Charlie




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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:47:30 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Johnny Harris

Johnny Harris arranged/produced for Shirley Bassey for a few albums.
'Something', 'Something Else'  (both United Artists) are the best.
'Something
Else' has the theme from Love Story and It's Impossible, and 'Something' is
a
perfect album IMO, except for the inclusion of 'My Way'. I;m not a big fan
of
all Ms Bassey's stuff, but this late 60s/early 70s soul/funk/easy crossover
stuff is great. (plenty of odd bits to sample too... ;)


I have it. Its excellent!




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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:48:34 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Studio 2

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, m h jemmeson wrote:

>
> Pepe Jaramillo does have some nice covers: one which is bright pink and red
> and pretty, err..., 'eye catching', another where he looks like a wax dummy.

I know that wax dummy cover! That is one of the most frightening record
covers I have ever seen!

> His 'latin american rhythm' is basically the same on each track though, an
> incessant guiro scrape and a few wood blocks - i'd have fired the lot of them
> had i been Pepe...
>

I always suspected he was really Geoff Love...

> I'm regretting passing up 'Wild Strings' now... that did still have the
> abstract drawing rather than royalty-free photograph. The stereo Decca Eclipse
> records are electronically-reprocessed I think.
>

Yeah, Wild Strings is a nice one. I hate that electronic reprocessing, it
makes everything sound horrible. There's some nice early Decca true stereo
releases though, pre-dating Phase 4/Eclipse, such as Bob Sharples'
"Dimension In Sound" (from 1957), which apparently is so advanced the
stereo is THREE-DIMENSIONAL!!!

> > Music for Pleasure is GREAT! Again, a lot of horrible relases but
> > many class albums hidden away (a lot of re-releases too). Some really
> > weird and wonderful stuff, such as "Curried Jazz" by The Indo-British
> > Ensemble (wonderful Indo-Jazz fusion); "Beatles Bach and Bacharach Go
> > Bossa" by Alan Moorhouse (one of my all-time favourite records);
>
> That (along with a tv documentary) turned me onto bossa nova. I could do
> without the Bach tracks, but the rest are fantastic and of consistent
> standard. Amusing cover too.
>
> > that album of some guy reading children's
> > stories about an alien that comes to stay with his family, complete
> > with weird voice FX, damn what's it called...
>
> 'Chocky'? or was that the alien that lived inside the boy's head...?
>

That was a TV series, I think about a ball of light in a kid's head. This
was some radio adaptation from the ?late 50s/early 60s, and it was some
two-stroke name like Ummagumma or Flobbleobble or something... nope, can't
get it.

> > As I see it, with pretty much any label, if you do enough panning
> > eventually you'll strike gold.
>
> 'Funky Fever' on Alan Moorhouse and His Bond Street Brigade is still one of my
> faves... I think that might have been on a Sound Gallery comp.
> A fair amount of the stuff on Studio 2 and MFP is Geoff Love in various
> guises. 'The Geoff Love Disco Sound play Close Encounters of the Third Kind
> and other Intergalatic Themes' has an amusing Star Wars (with vibraphone
> solo...)
>

Geoff Love was Geoff Love, Manuel and Mandingo, as far as I know. I love
the Intergalactic album, especially the disco version of "Blake's Seven"
and the Nick Ingman originals. The "Superhero Themes" album is also pretty
good (especially "Spiderman" and "Wonder Woman").




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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 10:55:15 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Phil Moore and his orchestra poem

At 10:16 PM 8/4/99 +0200, Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>
>Lets dance to the Phil Moore orchestra
>Let us feel more

The other day I was listening to this LP by the unknown-to-me gal singer
Julie Wilson.  Her version of "What is this thing called Love?" comes on
and the instrumental introduction has a distinctly "exotica" flavour.  Who
arranged this???
Phil Moore.
Other arrangers on the record are no slouches either.  Russ Case and Marty
Gold.  But Phil's tunes get the edge.
I have another gal singer record he arranged.  Patrice Munsel.  But on
first listen she's way too over-the-top to notice anything else about the
record.
I usually like over-the-top but not with singers.

Nat



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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:51:33 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More finds

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Charles Moseley wrote:

>
> Ray McVay is generally crap but on this occasion, he excels himself with an
> amazing track (and a very dodgy photo on the back cover). The rest of the
> lp is pants of course.
>
> Charlie
>
>

Except for the big-band version of "Popcorn" (about 30 seconds long).





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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:02:37 +0100
From: dan hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new motion reviews ---+ date: 05.aug.99

- ---+ new review ---+ http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/

     Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden (Smells Like Records)


thanks, and apologies for cross-postings

the motion team

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Date: Thu,  5 Aug 1999 08:15:41 -0700
From: "Lou Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Linda Alma,Rudy Burckhardt,

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Linda Alma, a high-kicking dancer who
 worked with leading Greek and French artists during her 30-year
career, died Monday of cancer. She was 73.

                  Ms. Alma was born Eleni Malioufa in Athens
in 1926. She assumed a stage name and rose to fame as the partner
of dancer Yannis Flery, with whom she moved to Paris in the late
1940s to work with French singing legends Edith Piaf, Yves Montand
and Charles Aznavour.

                  Ms. Alma was best known to Greek audiences
for her appearances in dance sequences in Greek movies, styled
on 1950s Hollywood musicals, and her 1979 marriage to actor Manos
Katrakis, who died in 1984.

                  SEARSMONT, Maine (AP) -- Rudy Burckhardt, a
photographer, filmmaker and writer known for his portrayals of
city life in New York, died Sunday at his summer home in Maine.
He was 85.

                  The Swiss-born Burckhardt, who emigrated to
New York in 1935 and lived the rest of his life in Manhattan,
drowned Sunday in a pond near his home. The death was ruled a
suicide by Maine's chief medical examiner.

                  The World War II veteran earned a reputation
for his photographs of street subjects from the late 1930s to
the 1950s. His camera captured people on subways and images of
the city's vast skyline.

                  His photographs are in permanent collections
of the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art honored him
in 1987 for his 90-odd films using 16-millimeter film.

                  Some were comedies, but many were what his
widow, Yvonne Jacquette, calls ``film poems,'' with poems used
as subtitles. Some featured New York dancers mixed in with shots
of Maine, where he spent his summers painting.

                  His memoirs include ``Mobile Homes'' in 1979
and ``Talking Pictures: The Photography of Rudy Burckhardt''
in 1994.



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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:00:02 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Studio 2

> > A fair amount of the stuff on Studio 2 and MFP is Geoff Love in various
> > guises.
>
> Geoff Love was Manuel [...]

Well, that's about half of them it seems, if only by sales figures... I didn't
really mean 'guises' in the sense of aliases, but in the sense of turning his
hand to anything with varying degrees of success. He also turns up in
producion or arrangement credits from the 50s onwards with frightening
regularity.


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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:08:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits]Linda Alma,Rudy Burckhardt,

Someone told me that the guy Crocodile Dundee was
scripted after died in fine romantic fashion,
exchanging fire with the police, in some outback bog.
Is it so? Maybe I'm thinking of young Kennedy.

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:16:23 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) not dimitri?!

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I have a friend with a 45 minute tape of demos from cheap keyboards,  I'm
> sure he'll do copies..............

I've some tapes somewhere I made of computer game 'music' from old 80s BBC B
games. In many you could turn the sound effects off and just leave the 3 or 4
channel music. The hard part was not dying for a few minutes to get a
reasonable length section. And then trying to finish the level so that the
music ended on the right beat.
you can't beat pseudo-funky cheap synth music...


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