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exotica-digest         Monday, August 30 1999         Volume 02 : Number 488



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown
Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown
Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown / Windmills / Psychedelic lyrics
Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
(exotica) Re: The Singing Dogs (2)
Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records
(exotica) Some Finds In San Francisco
(exotica) rat pack teevee
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, August 29
(exotica) Re: Fininish madness: Elakelaiset <-> Culturcide
(exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room
Re: (exotica) Some Finds In San Francisco
(exotica) Friends of Dean Martinez
Re:  (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room
(exotica) Speaking of Gleason
(exotica) Liz Renay LPs?
Re: (exotica) Yet Death Again - Part 2
Re:  (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room
(exotica) Free Design Reissues
(exotica) TV Trivia
Re: (exotica) The Plastic Fantastic Vinyl Factory
(exotica) [obits]Robert ``Bob'' Normand Bissant,Bobby Sheehan,Alfons Bach,etc.

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:27:45 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

I like Doob Doob A Rama, though others on the exotica list found it wanting.
Some of the more rocking cuts from Bollywood musicals including the famed
"Jaan Pechan Ho."  Sound quality is a bit muddy (one expects less than the
master tapes were available), but the songs are all catchy, often featuring
twangy rock guitar.


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:02:29 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

[e-mail] wrote:

> I like Doob Doob A Rama,
> Sound quality is a bit muddy (one expects less than the
> master tapes were available),

I don't think this has something to do with the master tapes. Most of the
Bollywood soundtracks I know have this sound quality. I've also seen some of
these movies on Arabian tv channel MBC (broadcasting from London I believe) and
they suffer from the same problem. Some movies from the 90s look and sound like
they were made in the early 70s. Of course this all adds to the charm of this
genre!

Marco


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 07:26:10 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown

At 07:04 AM 8/27/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
>I know I'm slow on the uptake here(actually,too busy
>for long posts lately, but here I go!)
>My point is, WHY REMAKE THIS FILM AT ALL!?

Because they've run out of ideas?
Actually I was less distressed by the remake itself than I was by the idea
that Rene Russo is this year's Faye Dunaway.

>As far as "Windmills", most know I pant madly over
>Michel Legrand, but the BERGMANS are hacks, I'm sorry!
> The lyrics to that song are dreadful,
>faux-Dylan-adults-trying-to-be-hip-but-not-even-achieving-now-sound-levels.

At the time this song was foisted upon the world, I couldn't have agreed
more.  And yet now, when I hear it sung by Jack Jones or Mel Torme (or even
Ed Ames??) I actually like it.  And not just that.  I actually understand
the lyrics.
In fact, it was my change-of-mind over this exact song that made me realize
that my taste had irrevocably changed and it was time to stop pretending
that the shelf full of crooners was just some anomaly.
It's a crappy song and I love it.  I don't know what to do about it.
But if I start liking "The night Chicago died", I'll switch to hip hop
immediately.

Nat



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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:33:58 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown

> At 07:04 AM 8/27/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
> >
> >I know I'm slow on the uptake here(actually,too busy
> >for long posts lately, but here I go!)
> >My point is, WHY REMAKE THIS FILM AT ALL!?

There seems to be a period of re-making great films at the moment: they've
just completed the Italian Job I believe, Get Carter's in the pipeline, The
Mummy, that scene-by-scene Psycho remake, Godzilla...
It's enough to keep anyone away from the cinema...


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:35:31 +0200
From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thomas Crown / Windmills / Psychedelic lyrics

Nat Kone, Jane Fondle wrote:

> >As far as "Windmills", most know I pant madly over
> >Michel Legrand, but the BERGMANS are hacks, I'm sorry!
> > The lyrics to that song are dreadful,
> >faux-Dylan-adults-trying-to-be-hip-but-not
> >-even-achieving-now-sound-levels.
>
> At the time this song was foisted upon the world, I couldn't have agreed
> more.  And yet now, when I hear it sung by Jack Jones or Mel Torme (or even
> Ed Ames??) I actually like it.  And not just that.  I actually understand
> the lyrics.

My first language wasn't English, still most of the music I heard in my life
had English lyrics. I often thought, I had missed something by not having
understood the lyrics of songs when I was young. And to a certain extent that's
even true. On the other hand I consider myself being lucky, because I could
appreciate so much music I wouldn't have been able to, if I HAD understood the
lyrics. I guess that's true for much music of the "hippie"/psychedelic era, and
I think "Windmills" is a good example. Another one is a former US number 1
charts hit: "Just Dropped In" by Kenny Rodgers & the First Edition. I think
it's a hell of a psychedlic Pop-song, but when I listened to the lyrics
consciously for the first time some 5 years ago, it sounded so embarrassing! ("
...I found my mind in a brown paper bag wrapped in...") Or think of "San
Franciscan Nights": "Strobe lights beam, create streams. Walls move, minds do
too..." Ui ui ui... God, was I lucky to NOT understand so many lyrics!

Mo






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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:42:42 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

At 1:02 PM 8/28/99, Marco \\"Kallie\\" Kalnenek and Dlsay wrote:

>> I like Doob Doob A Rama,
>> Sound quality is a bit muddy (one expects less than the
>> master tapes were available),
>
>I don't think this has something to do with the master tapes. Most of the
>Bollywood soundtracks I know have this sound quality.

That explains why the sound on Dance Rajah Dance is so stinky. Really a
shame, cuz this is a fine CD mixing synthes, guitars, sitars, violins
electro percussion and tablas, and some amazing vocals. It's also South
Indian Bollywood music, so it's is off-center. Think of Yellow Magic
Orchestra colliding with Ravi Shankar with vocals by the Plastics -- and
everyone's on  on dexedrine while playing early video games. With
bluegrass hoedown/Brazilian flavors tossed in for fun. Masala! All tunes
hits written by Vinjaya Anand, whose name, the sleeve notes say, means
"victory" and "ecstasy." Weird, I didn't hear the mud in the store
listening station; not til I got it home and cranked loud did the mud
emerge. I suppose you could say it just makes the music all the more
psychedelic.

Could there also be tech problems in the CD itself, akin to a bad pressing
of a record? Sometimes the vocals sound like the singer got a bit too cozy
with the mic.

Taka dimi, Mimi




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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:15:29 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Singing Dogs (2)

there's also an LP, (re?)issued on Mr. Pickwick, entitled... hey what a
surprise! - "The Singing Dogs". On the back the name of one Mr. Carl
Weismann is mentioned as the creator or something like that.

        Johan


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:36:02 +0200
From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

Mimi Mayer wrote:

> Could there also be tech problems in the CD itself, akin to a bad pressing
> of a record? Sometimes the vocals sound like the singer got a bit too cozy
> with the mic.

No, there's no such thing as a bad pressing in CDs. Sometimes they skip or
hang, but the sound quality is digital and should be exactely as it was
recorded. Only in the process of digitizing the sound could have suffered. But
that's prior to the pressing.

Burnt my first five CDs the other day. Fun! Designed and printed booklets for
them and now they look like real CDs! Actually I have the impression the sound
changed a bit, I hear less basses. Did anybody have similar experiences?

Mo






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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 19:18:02 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

Mimi Mayer wrote:

> At 1:02 PM 8/28/99, Marco \\"Kallie\\" Kalnenek and Dlsay wrot
> >I don't think this has something to do with the master tapes. Most of the
> >Bollywood soundtracks I know have this sound quality.
>
> That explains why the sound on Dance Rajah Dance is so stinky.

If you think Dance Raja Dance has poor sound quality you'd be amazed to know
that it stands out as one of the clearest sounding Hindi Film recording that
I've heard...
This is one reason why I don't think it's as powerful as similar recordings.

I think that if the exotica, etc. stuff that we like was recorded with today
audio techniques that I would not be interested.
I wish that sound techs would dig their head out of their collective butts and
realize that "clarity" is a subjective term.

My mind is reeling right now of all the tangential rants I could lance into
right now and I'm stifled by the possibilities. Perhaps someone could pick up
this thread, I'd contribute from there.

Frank



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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 00:46:32 +0100
From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Opinions wanted on records

recliner wrote:
>
> If you think Dance Raja Dance has poor sound quality you'd be amazed to know
> that it stands out as one of the clearest sounding Hindi Film recording that
> I've heard...
> This is one reason why I don't think it's as powerful as similar recordings.
>
> I think that if the exotica, etc. stuff that we like was recorded with today
> audio techniques that I would not be interested.
> I wish that sound techs would dig their head out of their collective butts and
> realize that "clarity" is a subjective term.
>
> My mind is reeling right now of all the tangential rants I could lance into
> right now and I'm stifled by the possibilities. Perhaps someone could pick up
> this thread, I'd contribute from there.
>
> Frank

Hmm, it's a tricky one, since there's really two issues involved. (I'm making
this up as I go along, btw)  One is the production quality and one is the
mastering/pressing/copying quality.  By production quality I mean the way
something is produced - the number of channels, microphone placement and all
that sort of stuff, while the other refers to actually getting the sound that
was recorded to the consumer intact.

While, and I'm sure I'm not alone here, I often prefer a relatively 'rough'
production, the sort of one-take 60s soul sound, it needs to reach me in a
relatively unaltered state. There's nothing worse than listening to a muffled
tape someone's made or a badly mastered record. So while I love the cardboard
box drums and tinny guitar I want to be able to hear them clearly in all their
'badly' recorded glory with the only colouration the vinyl crackle...

I don't think this made sense, but I knew what I meant when I started...


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:18:30 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Some Finds In San Francisco

I usually just lurk on this list, but I had some pretty good luck today. I
finally got hold of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mint condition with the
booklet intact and everything. Also got Jungle Book. At another garage sale I
picked up the following:
The Magic Islands Revisited - Axel Stordahl, Pick a Bale of Cotton - Brownie
McGhee and Sonny Terry, a 10" by Leadbelly called Rock Island Line, Nine
Simone - Simone At Town Hall, Pearl Bailey and Sylvia Lynn, The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm - David Rose, Night Beat - Tito Puente (great
cover), Cha Cha Cha - Pepe Luis, High Fi-esta - Edmundo Ros, ...with your in
mind - Marian McPartland, Go Go Go - Alan Freed's TV Record Hop, Lita Roza
(Can anyone tell me about her?) and an interesting sampler (Actually,I got
about 4 samplers) but this one has a song called Gee, Baby by Donna Hightower
that LOOKS interesting (they show the album covers) and I'm wondering if
anyone has any info on her. Jeri Southern is also on this sampler, Dean
Martin, Stan Kenton, Nat Cole, Ernie Ford and the Jordanaires, a pretty good
sampler from November, 1959.

Sorry to be so longwinded, but I always enjoy reading about other's finds
that I thought I'd share mine. Thanks for the space.
Gloria


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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 20:32:16 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) rat pack teevee

A&E is rerunning their 4 part Rat Pack "Biography" Monday to Thursday,
8:00pm and midnight (eastern). With a Sammy solo edition on Friday night.

Peter Sellers stars in "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas" (1968) tomorrow
(Sunday) night at 8:00 on TCM. I seem to recall a generous helping of Now
Sound in the soundtrack. Double-billed with "Dr. Strangelove" (1963) at 10:00.

For the soft pops out there, a "Profile" of The Mamas And The Papas on
Bravo, Monday afternoon at 3:00pm.

Not very relevant, but what the hell... on Thursday morning, TCM has
"Freaks" (1932) at 6:00am and "Mark Of The Vampire" (1935) at 7:30am. The
latter has my favorite ending of any vampire movie.


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 21:17:29 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, August 29

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

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.


Space Bop #64   Electro Lounge

Fantastic Plastic Machine:  Theme Of Luxury  "Luxury"
Flabby:  Flabby's Groove  "Modern Tunes For Everybody" (thanks, Gionni)
Mandingo:  Black Rite  "The Sound Gallery"
John Schroeder:  Headband  "The Sound Spectrum"
Laika & The Cosmonauts:  Disconnected  "Absurdistan" (thanks, Johan)

Dick Dale & His Del-Tones:  Misirlou  "The Best Of..."
Seks Bomba:  Satan's Shriners  "Operation BOMBA"
Charles Wilp:  Nancy For Soft-Ice  "Charles Wilp Fotografiert Bunny"
Chico Rey & The Jet Band:  Stiletto  "The Sound Spectrum"

Yma Sumac:  Gopher  "Mambo!"
Yma Sumac (Q-Burns):  Gopher (Abstract Message Remix)  "Electro-Lounge"
Mr. Scruff:  Shantytown  "Keep It Unreal"
Arling & Cameron:  Cowboy Ska  "Sound Shopping"

Fantastic Plastic Machine:  Satellite Beats  "Luxury"
Mr. Scruff:  Is He Ready  "Keep It Unreal"
Dauerfisch:  I'm On Fire  "Crime Of The Century"
Fantastic Plastic Machine:  He Became A Beatnik  "Luxury"


Thanks for reading.

[e-mail]
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:59:06 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Fininish madness: Elakelaiset <-> Culturcide

    Elakelaiset may resemble Culturcide in its approach - they both
"steal" and mutulate hits - but the resulting sound differs a lot.
Elakelaiset plays hilarious turbo-humppa. Culturcide is much more
aggressive and harsh than Elakelaiset: they play back a record of a hit,
and overdub it with layers of grungy guitar and out-of-tune new lyrics,
more shouting than singing. I used to like Culturcide, I found their thing
even funny, but now, after listening so much to EZ etc, I can't bear
Culturcide's loud guitar "noise" anymore ;-) this is not meant to attack
them! I'm sure there are plenty of folks on this list who like them...

        Johan


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Brian Karasick wrote:

>I'm waiting to hear this release after reading Allan's review as it
>seems it may bear a strong resemblance to another project some may
>know called Culturcide.




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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:40:01 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room

In a message dated 8/28/99 5:19:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I usually just lurk on this list, but I had some pretty good luck today. I
 finally got hold of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mint condition with the
 booklet intact and everything. >>

I listen to this record about 2 or 3 times per week (usually with my 2 year
old -- altho he prefers the Enchanted Farm song at the moment).

I wish someone would boot this thing from a quality record on to CD.

Tiki Bob


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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:18:02 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

It's another exotic grab bag on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour
webcast.  You'll find Latin spice by The Dancing Voices, Percy Faith
and Pete Jacques;  Leda Annesta out-Ymas Yma Sumac in "Portrait of
Leda";  jungle jazz by Martin Denny, The Clebanoff Strings, Don Tiare
and Les Baxter;  guitar greats Vinnie Bell and Earl Backus;  outer
space exotica from Captain Scarlet and Space Patrol;  and crime jazz
from "Thriller", "Burke's Law" and "Honey West".

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web you'll need at least a
28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer.  Just go to:

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

As always, your comments, suggestions and requests are always
welcome.

Thanks for the space!

Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU Radio
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 10:57:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Enchanted Tiki Room

In a message dated 8/29/99 4:40:01 AM, Rcbrooksod writes:

<< I listen to this record about 2 or 3 times per week (usually with my 2
year old -- altho he prefers the Enchanted Farm song at the moment).
 >>

Well, Tiki Bob, I listened to this record for the first time last night and
loved it.  Extra added sound effects:  My parakeet and cockatiel LOVED all of
the bird sounds and responded in kind. They absolutely were chirping their
little birdie heads off. It was so funny. I'll be playing this again tonight.
Gloria


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Date: 29 Aug 1999 12:01:46 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Finds In San Francisco

At 08:18 PM 28-08-99 EDT, Gloria wrote:
>I usually just lurk on this list, but I had some pretty good luck today. I
>finally got hold of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mint condition with the
>booklet intact and everything. Also got Jungle Book.

Everything you got sounds terrif!
The record buying scene in Portland seems to have dried up.  Django's no
longer
has much vinyl and they got rid of their 20 cents records (many of which they
had outside the store marked as "FREE").  The records I see at the Goodwill
As-Is store don't fill up the bins anymore and are usually not very good.

Makes me wonder whether all the good stuff is being snapped up and they put
on ebay or something...because I haven't seen it anywhere lately.

Which is okay, because I need to get my present collection in order and
properly take care of it.  I had to dump a bunch of record albums yesterday
because they were improperly stored and mold/mildew ruined them.  I didn't
have anything I really cared about but it is upsetting just the same.  Each
record had something I liked and wanted to keep...just not something I
needed to have in front of me all the time.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth


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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:51:07 -0700
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Friends of Dean Martinez

Lately I've been listening to the FODM "Shadow of Your Smile" album and
really liking it.  But I have to admit I like their winsome covers of
some pop warhorses (Shadow of Your Smile, Misty, I Wish You Love) more
than their other material.  There's something about their earnest yet
somewhat amateurish and perhaps blase sound that I find really
appealing.  Do any list members know of other bands I could check out
that have a similar style or approach?  I want more stuff like this.

== Brad


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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:10:42 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room

In a message dated 8/29/99 1:41:22 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>In a message dated 8/28/99 5:19:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[e-mail] writes:
>
><< I usually just lurk on this list, but I had some pretty good luck today.
I
> finally got hold of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mint condition with the
> booklet intact and everything. >>
>
>I listen to this record about 2 or 3 times per week (usually with my 2 year
>old -- altho he prefers the Enchanted Farm song at the moment).
>
>I wish someone would boot this thing from a quality record on to CD.

apparently the Florida Disneyworld has a machine where you can make your own
CD and select from the theme songs from several rides including the Tiki Room
Unfortunately it is only the actual theme songs and not the extended music
included on the 12" versions


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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 18:09:07 -0700
From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Speaking of Gleason

When was the stereo remake of "Music for Lovers Only" recorded?




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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:01:40 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liz Renay LPs?

There's reference in print to at least two spoken word LPs by
stripper/actress/personality, Liz Renay. One is her own poetry, the other
is the Greek play "Lysistra" (spl?). Anyone have/heard/etc either of these?
Reports? Thanks!


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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:16:10 -0700
From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yet Death Again - Part 2

Jane Fondle wrote:

> Well, Dang, I tried to send this to my Yahoo! address
> and it truncated the part to which I wanted to
> respond, and that was of Skip Heller wanting to
> "orchestrate" a proper performance of Robert Drasnin's
> VOODOO!  Here, here!  Bring it HERE(to Boston!) I have
> oft wondered why orchestras like the Boston Pops don't
> have an "exotica night" and perform Les Baxter
> (imagine THE PASSIONS, which was SUPPOSED to be a
> SERIOUS CLASSICAL WORK anyway!)or Robert Drasnin.  The
> music is way meatier than a lot of the stuff the Pops
> tackles on a regular basis...Maybe Jeff Phillips in SF
> knows!  Maybe Cleve knows...anyway, Jeff, Cleve and
> SKip, if this reaches you, it's an helluva idea.

Before leaving the BSO in 1996, I gave a copy of the SABPM Esquivel CD
to Keith Lockhart, who had just recently been hired as Pops conductor.=20
He said, "that is some wild, wild stuff!"  I asked if he thought the
Pops would ever be interested in recreating some of it, and he replied,
"in Boston?!  Are you out of your mind?"

It seems that the Pops *have* been capitalizing on the swing craze of
late, though....  I suppose there's always a chance!

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:17:30 +0100 (BST)
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Enchanted Tiki Room

>I
>> finally got hold of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mint condition with the
>> booklet intact and everything. >>
>>
>>I listen to this record about 2 or 3 times per week (usually with my 2 year
>>old -- altho he prefers the Enchanted Farm song at the moment).
>>
>>I wish someone would boot this thing from a quality record on to CD.
>
>apparently the Florida Disneyworld has a machine where you can make your own
>CD and select from the theme songs from several rides including the Tiki Room
>Unfortunately it is only the actual theme songs and not the extended music
>included on the 12" versions

This has been discussed, but the computer also exists in Disneyland, CA and
you can select several tracks from the Tiki Room, although not the dialogue
bits from the LP. However,for the first time, you can select the dialogue of
the tikis that goes on BEFORE the show OUTSIDE of the tiki room. Which is
actually pretty darn cool. And I speak as someone who

1) Owns the Enchanted Tiki Room LP in excellent condition (bought for a
dollar) and

2) Made the CD in Disneyland with this dialogue.

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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:32:18 +0100
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Free Design Reissues

Just discovered that all the Free Design's Project 3 LPs have been
reissued again in Japan!

I already knew about Heaven/Earth and Sing for Very Important
People which were reissued in July 98 but it turns out that the rest
were reissued in November!

They're all on the Teichiku/Overseas Records label:

TECW-20745 Heaven/Earth
TECW-20746 Sing for Very Important People
TECW-20796 Kites Are Fun
TECW-20797 You Could Be Born Again
TECW-20798 Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love
TECW-20799 One By One

I'm getting mine from Duffelbag http://www.duffelbag.com/ but you
could also try GEMM http://www.gemm.com/

Incidentally, my copy of One By One arrived this morning and I was
astonished to see that *Billy Cobham* is the drummer on this
album!!!


Robbie


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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 05:47:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TV Trivia

Okay, we've all heard the WKRP theme at the beginning of the show.
It's great.  But what's that song that they close with?

Anyone know?

Pondering,
Peter

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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:47:37 -0400
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Plastic Fantastic Vinyl Factory

Now that I am only beginning to recover from the rekkid excursion at
"Tony's" I'm kind of glad that our own Jane (boom-boom) Fondle could not
make it. Me and "Tony" we are upstanding membah's of the community and if
the chaos had escalated to the next level then law enforcement officials =
may
have been called in and me and my pal "Tony" wodda havta pull a lotta lev=
ers
and grease a few palms to keep the whole ruckus kinda quiet. If you know
what I mean.

I guess you and Cleve are not used to the plastic fumes produced around h=
ere
and they must have affected your powers of observation and recollection m=
ore
that you care to admit.

For one thing, Tony and I  were hosing down you and Cleve.  I was not lyi=
ng
in a =93heap=94 with the two of you.
Were their 8 or 9 females that showed up? I only remember one she-male.

And I was not, as you say, wearing a "powdered wig formed from Cool Whip =
and
a grass skirt". It was a Styrofoam wig and the grass skirt was a really
green strips of polyethylene. Only the finest synthetic materials are use=
d
here in what was once know as the "Plastics Capitol of the World". And th=
e
Exoticats on the list may also be interested in the fact the world famous
Plastic Pink Flamingo Lawn Ornaments were created and are manufactured he=
re
in our noble community in Central New England.

Anyways, after Cleve's demonstration =93Tony=94 has been inquiring about =
Jane,
and is she ever =93coming over to look over the rekkids=94.

On a side note I will be visiting the B-Side Lounge in Cambridge this
Tuesday, the day Br. Cleve tends bar, and ceremonially presenting, as an
offering, the rare Les Baxter/Hoffman =9178 to our own Jane Fondle. It WA=
S in
mint condition before that girl put it on the Fisher Price turntable....

But seriously, I had a great time. Nice getting together with some of the
folks on the list. Br Cleve picked out some good instrumental stuff for m=
e
to play on my show. TV Action Jazz and a Paul Mariut (sp) string/soul alb=
um
with a little sitar work thrown in. And I left a whole pile of records,
including a few Stereo Action, that I plan on purchasing in the future.

If anyone is going to be around Westboro MA on October 2nd let me know an=
d I
will fill you in on a public radio record sale.

Domenic
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:36:31 -0700
From: "Lou Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Robert ``Bob'' Normand Bissant,Bobby Sheehan,Alfons Bach,etc.

Saturday, August 21, 1999; 4:53 a.m. EDT
                  NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Robert ``Bob'' Normand
Bissant, a player and manager in the Negro Leagues, died Tuesday
of lung cancer. He was 85.

                  Bissant, a lifelong resident of New Orleans,
attending Xavier University for two years, before beginning a
semi-pro baseball career on numerous teams.

                  In began his career with the Algiers Giants
and then the Jax Red Sox before jumping in 1935 to the Zulu Cannibal
Giants, a barnstorming team that had grass skirts as uniforms
and traveled throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.


                  He also played for the Nashville Cubs, Miami
Ethiopian Clowns, New Orleans Royals and New Orleans Black Pelicans
among others.

                  Bissant, an infielder, played with some of
the great players from the Negro Leagues, including Hank Aaron,
Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and James Thomas ``Cool Papa'' Bell.
 Bissant started managing in 1940.


                  NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Bobby Sheehan, bassist
for the Grammy-award winning band Blues Traveler, died in his
house Friday, the band's publicist said. He was 31. The cause
of death was not immediately known.

                  Police released few details, but said Sheehan
went to sleep around 4:30 a.m. and was unresponsive when friends
tried to wake him around 11 a.m.

                  There were no signs of foul play or obvious
trauma, said New Orleans police Lt. Marlon Defillo.

                  The band, which formed in 1987, has sold more
than 12 million copies of their six albums worldwide. The band
won a Grammy in 1995 for their song ``Runaround.''

Alfons Bach
                  PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Industrial designer,
architect and artist Alfons Bach, who helped create one the Nation's
first shopping malls, died Thursday. He was 95.

                  Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Bach studied architecture
in Berlin and opened a design firm in New York City in 1928.


                  During a career that spanned seven decades,
he worked on the Ridgeway Center, a pioneering shopping mall
in Stanford, Conn., and designed the interior of Trans World
Airlines' Constellation airliner for billionaire Howard Hughes,
who owned TWA at the time.

                  Bach was a co-founder and national president
of the American Designers Institute, which later merged with
the Industrial Design Society of America.

                  ``His biggest impact is he had hung in there
the longest,'' said Carroll Gantz, a retired industrial designer
who is writing a history of 20th century industrial design. ``He
was one of the first generation designers and that makes him
unusual.''

                  Bach's design clients included furniture maker
Heywood Wakefield, carpet manufacturer Bigelow-Sanford, General
Electric, Keystone Silver and Pacific Mills, a linen maker.

                  His drawings and papers are stored at Cooper-Hewitt,
the National Design Institute of the Smithsonian Institution
in New York and some of his works have been exhibited at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Gus Girves
                  AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Gus Girves, founder of
the Brown Derby restaurant chain, died Thursday after a long
illness. He was 82.

                  Girves was born in Sommersworth, N.H., and
later moved to Akron.

                  In 1942, Girves opened his first Brown Derby.
He installed a huge bar in his first restaurant and sold liquor
at cut-rate prices. The restaurant was open around the clock,
and catered to war workers at the nearby Goodyear plant.

                  He went on to open Brown Derby restaurants
in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Arizona.

                  Girves, son of a Greek immigrant, was also
known for his support of the Greek community in the Akron area.


 Rosie Jacuzzi
                  WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) -- Rosie Jacuzzi,
the oldest member of the Jacuzzi family and a 1906 earthquake
survivor, died Aug. 4. She was 95.

                  Rosie Jacuzzi, whose family invented the Jacuzzi
whirlpool, was born in Cuneo, Italy and emigrated to America
at age 3, but left shortly after her mother and brother died
in the earthquake. She returned at age 11 to live with her father
and stepmother in Berkeley.

                  The Jacuzzi family owned a machine shop where
they built airplane propellers for the Army Air Corps during
World War I. They expanded into airplane manufacturing after
the war but quit in 1921 after a fiery airplane crash killed
several people, including Mrs. Jacuzzi's brother-in-law.

                  Mrs. Jacuzzi and her husband moved to a ranch
near Brentwood where the brothers invented the Jacuzzi pump,
first used to pull water from wells.

                  Later, when a nephew contracted rheumatoid
arthritis and required water therapy, the Jacuzzi brothers modified
their pump to create the whirlpool bath that bears their name.


Tuesday, August 24, 1999; 11:54 p.m. EDT
                  SEATTLE (AP) -- Guy Durosier, a Haitian singer
and composer whom Edith Piaf once called ``the living breath
of Haiti,'' died Thursday of complications from pulmonary cancer.
He was 68.

                  Like most Haitian musicians, Durosier had an
eclectic style that included big band sounds and Cuban music
of the '50s. His hits included ``Her name is Michaelle'' and
``My Brunette.''

                  Durosier, who also played the saxophone and
the organ, settled in Paris in the 1960s where he performed regularly
at the jazz club Mars. He then lived in Asia and Canada before
making his home in the United States 10 years ago.

PARIS (AP) -- Alexandre Lagoya, a self-taught French guitar player
known for his mastery of classical and popular music, has died
at 70.

                  Lagoya died Tuesday in Paris after a long illness,
Le Figaro newspaper reported.

                  Lagoya and his wife Ida Presti were an acclaimed
duo, and after her death in 1967, he continued his career as
a soloist and guitar teacher in Paris.

                  In addition to his concert and teaching career,
Lagoya performed for film scores.

                  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mary Jane Croft Lewis,
who played a comedy sidekick in Lucille Ball's television series,
died Tuesday of natural causes, said Madelyn Pugh Davis, the
co-creator and writer of ``I Love Lucy.''

                  Mrs. Lewis was 83.

                  The actress built a career on playing TV's
friendly neighbor, starting with a role on ``The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet.'' She and Lyle Talbot played Clara and Joe
Randolph on the sitcom from 1956-66.

                  Mrs. Lewis joined ``I Love Lucy'' for the 1957
season, playing neighbor Betty Ramsey.

                  Mrs. Lewis began her career on radio in Cincinnati
and moved to Los Angeles in 1939. She had roles on the era's
major radio dramas, including ``Lux Radio Theatre'' and a radio
version of ``Ozzie and Harriet,'' as well as the TV and radio
versions of Eve Arden's series ``Our Miss Brooks.''

                  Mrs. Lewis was the widow of ``The Lucy Show''
producer, Eliott Lewis.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Screenwriter and playwright Norman Wexler,
whose work included ``Saturday Night Fever'' and ``Serpico,''
has died at 73.

                  Wexler died Monday after suffering a heart
attack , according to the Writers Guild of America.

                  The Harvard College graduate wrote movies and
plays that exposed life's grit. In 1970, he earned his first
Oscar nomination for the movie ``Joe,'' starring Susan Sarandon
and Peter Boyle, about a racist factory worker and his search
for a businessman's hippie daughter.

                  Wexler earned more praise for ``Serpico'' in
1973, a screenplay based on the true story of a New York cop's
battles against corruption in the police department.

                  His blockbuster ``Saturday Night Fever,'' nominated
for an Oscar, explored the life of a store clerk, played by John
Travolta, who submerged himself in the world of disco.

                  In his later career, Wexler tallied a few flops,
including ``Stayin' Alive,'' the sequel to ``Saturday Night Fever,''
and ``Raw Deal'' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

                  Wexler, who suffered from manic depression,
was arrested by the FBI in 1972 after he said he planned to shoot
President Nixon.

HONOLULU (AP) -- Island entertainer Lani Kai, who had a feature
role in the Elvis Presley movie ``Blue Hawaii,'' died Tuesday
in Oahu. He was 63.

                  Born George Clarence Dennis James Von Ruckleman
Wood III, Kai got his break in show business in the 1960s television
show ``Adventures in Paradise,'' playing a crewman aboard the
schooner ``Tiki.''

                  His most famous song, ``Shells,'' was performed
by The Surfers. Among his other tunes were ``Beautiful Kauai''
and ``Tutu Kane.''

CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) -- Newell ``Spiegle'' Willcox, a jazz musician
who shared the stage with jazz greats including Tommy and Jimmy
Dorsey and Eddie Lang, died Wednesday. He was 96.

                  Willcox grew up in Cortland, where in 1913
he took up the valve trombone and joined his father, Lynn, in
the town band.

                  In 1922, his Ithaca band was discovered by
jazz musician Paul Whiteman, who renamed the band the Paul Whiteman
Collegians and brought the group to New York City.

                  Willcox remained with the Whiteman group for
nearly three years before he was asked to replace Tommy Dorsey
in the Jean Goldkette Orchestra in Detroit.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wallace Rosenwach, builder of rooftop water
tanks that dot Manhattan's skyline, died Aug. 23 after a brief
illness. He was 77.

                  Rosenwach, who inherited his grandfather's
Rosenwach Tank Company, stunned the competition by developing
a process to construct water tanks in just 10 hours, a fraction
of the time residents used to have to go without water while
their tanks were replaced.

                  The mini wooden silos perched atop hundreds
of New York City buildings are capped with tin hats that look
like upside-down funnels. They're a crucial part of city life,
storing at least 8,500 gallons of water and ensuring that occupants
of higher floors have proper water pressure.

                  Sometimes the tanks aren't just for water.
Rosenwach once built a two-story version for a customer to live
in, and used to supply them to winemakers as well.

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