LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Award-winning designer Tony Duquette, an interior decorator to the wealthy whose 18-karat gold jewelry currently is featured at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, died Thursday. He was 85.
Duquette, who died at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, won a Tony Award for the costumes in the original Broadway production of ``Camelot''.
His long career has ranged from designing sets and costumes for Fred Astaire musicals to creating rooms for clients such as the late J. Paul Getty, the Duchess of Windsor, cosmetics maker Elizabeth Arden and ``Gone With The Wind'' producer David O. Selznick.
Duquette was inducted into Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame in 1997, and was listed on the 59th annual International Best-Dressed Poll this year.
Saturday, September 11, 1999; 11:39 p.m. EDT
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Alfredo ``El Guero'' Gil, the last surviving member of the original romantic trio Los Panchos, died Friday in Mexico City. He was 84 and had been suffering from pulmonary emphysema.
Gil was born in the central state of Puebla and became a professional musician at age 15. In 1944, he was in New York when he linked up with two other musicians -- Chucho Navarro and Hernando Aviles of Puerto Rico -- to form Los Panchos, in which Gil played the ``requinto,'' a small guitar.
The trio was known for its soft harmonics, particularly in the romantic bolero. Its emotional interpretations of ``Besame Mucho'' (Kiss Me), ``Quizas, Quizas, Quizas'' (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) and ``Sin Ti'' (Without You) propelled them to international fame. The band appeared in more than 50 films during Mexico's ``Golden Era'' of cinema.
With Gil's death Friday night, Mexico City radio stations devoted much of their programming to Los Panchos' songs.
Gil is survived by his wife, Guadalupe Bedoy, and five children. Funeral services were held Saturday.
KINDER, La. (AP) -- Beau Jocque, an accordian player who helped revitalize Louisiana's zydeco music, is dead of an apparent heart attack. He was 45.
Jocque, whose given name was Andrus Espre, performed Thursday night in New Orleans, then drove 177 miles home to Kinder. His wife found him collapsed in the shower Friday morning.
Jocque worked as a welder before picking up his father's piano-key accordion. In his version of zydeco, he combined rhythm-and-blues, hip-hop beats, funk and Texas blues-rock.
He was credited with bringing zydeco, a mix of old-time cajun music and rhythm-and-blues, to contemporary audiences, filling halls in Lafayette, Lawtell, New Orleans and other cities where he often played with his band, the Zydeco Hi-Rollers. He also played overseas, and on the David Letterman and Conan O'Brien shows.
When the 6-foot-6 Jocque played one of his big hits, ``Give Him Cornbread,'' audiences would pelt him with pieces of cornbread.
Jocque is survived by his wife, Shelly Espre, and two sons.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- John Molloy, an Irish actor and novelist, died Sept. 2 after a long illness. He was 70.
Born in Dublin, Molloy ran away from home at 14 to join a troupe of actors that roamed the country performing in small towns, and later worked with Marcel Marceau in Paris and with the Gate and Abbey theatres in Dublin. At the Abbey, he specialized in the works of Samuel Beckett.
Molloy appeared in some 60 movies and played Broadway in his own two-man show, ``Double Dublin,'' in 1963-64. He wrote 39 revues, two musicals, many TV and radio plays and a best-selling novel, ``Alive, Alive-O.''
He is best known in the San Francisco Bay area for his one-man show, ``Molloy,'' a hit of the San Francisco International Theatre Festival in 1981, but worked through the 1980s with a series of local solo shows.
Molloy is survived by his nine children: five sons and four daughters.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Ruth Roman, who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Errol Flynn and survived the Andrea Doria wreck at sea, died in her sleep Thursday. She was 75.
In 1956, she and her 3-year-old son were returning from Italy aboard the luxury passenger liner Andrea Doria when it was struck by another ship. More than fifty people died and 760 survived after the ship went down.
The Boston-born actress got her start in community plays at age 9. She attended drama school and later moved to Hollywood.
Roman appeared in some minor films before her big break in Stanley Kramer's 1949 ``Champion,'' which featured Kirk Douglas as an unscrupulous boxer. Following the film, Warner Bros. offered Roman a contract and she starred in nine films in less than two years opposite Cooper, Flynn and James Stewart.
Roman also appeared in ``Beyond the Forest'' with Bette Davis, ``Three Secrets'' with Patricia Neal and ``Mara Maru'' with Flynn. Roman appeared in more than 30 movies, most of them in the 1950s, and a number of television shows in the 1960s and 1970s.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Eugene ``Frenchy'' Schwartz, a fixture at racetracks as a clocker of thoroughbreds for nearly 50 years died Wednesday following a long illness. He was 97.
Schwartz began his career at Omaha in 1933 and went on to time horses during workouts at tracks in New Orleans, Ohio and at Hollywood Park in California before working at New York tracks in 1949. He retired his clocker's watch in January 1982, but remained a familiar sight at racetracks.
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:27:46 -0400
From: dciccone@inspex.com
Subject: (exotica) Used CD shopping in NYC
Spent Saturday and part of Sunday going used CD hunting in NYC. Thanks to
La Jane for giving me some hints on were
to go (St. Marks Place and Other Music). Talked to one of the owners of
Other Music about the upcoming AstroSlut
release and to make sure he stocks it.
At first shopping was frustrating, everything was priced over the 10
dollars used. One store even already had the new Esquivel re-release, a
promo, and he was asking $12 for it.
Checked out Etherea on 66 Ave A, lot of electronic music but what was
really neat was the space age bachelor pad
store next door that has some furniture, kitchen and bar utensils, Aluminum
coasters with fur on top to soak up the
condensation...
But what was really neat was St. Marks Place (8th Ave on the Lower East
Side) a street with lots of used disk and
record stores, too many to keep track, and here the prices started getting
reasonable. I might have spent $9 for a
disk, but most were 5-7 dollars. The 2CD Talkin' Verve for $13.
LP's? forget it, everywhere it was through the roof, nothing remotely
interesting under $4. I kept seeing things I
got for a dollar costing $13. At one store the Readers Digest Henry Mancini
boxed set went for $40. I got it
somewhere for maybe $1.50. At the used place across from the Blue Note I
saw a signed Esquivel Strings Aflame for
$500. The only LP I got was a Sergio Franchi LP with Autumn Leaves on it.
Found in a flea market.
Here's what I picked up.
Rugrats Movie, The OST The Rugrats Movie
Harris Eddie, The In Sound
Lester, Sonny, Orchestra And Chorus, How To Strip For Your Lover (don't buy
this unless you like lite jazz, nothing like the old Ann Corio Strip for
your Husband)
Bregman, Buddy, Swinging Kicks
Brown Oscar Jr. Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes To Washington
Ultra Lounge, Volume 07 The Crime Scene
Guaraldi Vince, Greatest Hits
Four Freshman, Collectors Series
Ahbez Eden, Eden's Island
Prysock Arthur, Morning Noon And Night The Collection
Perrey And Kingsley , The Essential Perrey And Kingsley
Talkin' Verve, Compilation (2CD's)
Jones Quincy, Quincy Jones And His Orchestra, The Quintessence
Heath Ted, Big Band Percussion/Big Band Bash
Iron Giant, OST The Iron Giant
Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Talkin' Verve
Mancini Henry, The Music From Peter Gunn
Swing This, Baby! II
Jones Quincy, Big Band Bossa Nova
Ferrante and Teicher, Blast Off
Elgart Les, The Elgart Touch/For Dancers Only
Esquivel, The Genius of Esquivel/1968 Esquivel!! (more about this later)
The folks at Smash Compact Disks were nice. Gary the owner put on their
opened copy of Perrey And Kingsley's
Strangers in the Night. When he saw my jaw drop he let me have it for used.
The back of the store was a nice
Lounge section, small but prominently displayed on the wall. It almost
looked like a shrine. And they threw in the
second Ultra Lounge promo, the radio one, for free!
Domenic
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:30:28 -0400
From: dciccone@inspex.com
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel, The Genius of Esquivel/1968 Esquivel!!
I can't believe I have this. On CD. I picked it up at Footlight Records in
NYC, and the clerk tells me this is a
bootleg. This was supposed to be released by Bar-None. If you look at the
booklet of their first 6 Esquivel releases
they say it's available along with 2 other 2fers but they never went
through with it.
The back of the CD packaging says that it's a limited edition of 1000
copies.
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:31:45 -0400
From: dciccone@inspex.com
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini 9/10/99
Playlist for Martinis With Mancini 9/10/99 WJUL 91.5 Lowell Massachusetts.
Brief And Breezy, , Henry Mancini, Martinis With Mancini
Move, Miles Davis, Birth Of The Cool
Erroll's Bounce, Erroll Garner, In The Groove Boxed Set (LP)
Angel Eyes, 4 Freshmen, 4 Freshmen And 5 Trombones
Solitude, OST Kansas City
Stormy Weather, Billie Holliday, The Billie Holliday Story,
The Girl From Ipanema, Getz/Gilberto, The Boy From Ipanema Boxed Set
Garote De Ipanema, Sergio Mendes, The Beat Of Brazil (LP)
Cosia, Sergio Mendes, The Beat Of Brazil (LP)
Minuet In G Minor By JS Bach, Jacques Loussier, Reflections Of Bach
Ruby My Dear, Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music
Partita In E Major, Jacques Loussier, Reflections Of Bach
Back Home, Buddy Morrow, Night Train (LP)
In The Groove, Ray Anthony And His Big Swing Band, The Swing Club
Chattanooga Choo Choo, Ray Anthony And His Big Swing Band, The Swing Club
Soulful Strut, Peter Nero, I Gotta Be Me (LP)
Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) Lou Rawls, For You My Love
The Swinger, Benny Golson, Tune In Tune On
A Foggy Day, Patti Page, Patti Page In The Land Of Hi-Fi
Danny Boy, Harry Connick Jr, Come By Me
Quiet Village, The Tampicos, That Torrid Tampico Sound (LP)
Mission Impossible Theme, Henry Mancini, The Big Latin Band Of Henry
Mancini (LP)
September In The Rain, Frank Sinatra, Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!
Gaily Gaily, Henry Mancini, Reel Love
The Look Of Love, Sergio Mendes And Brazil '66, Look Around (LP)
Night And Day, Sergio Mendes And Brazil '66, Equinox (LP)
>That's the good news. Now the bad news: Manhattan Research,
>the double album of Scott's electronic music, has been
>postponed til february 2000.
Nit-picky point #1: Yes, it's true the official Basta release/hype is
now set for Feb., 2000 -- BUT if we're lucky, we'll finish sooner... (G-J
Blom & myself are the producers, & after 2 years of work, we're FINALLY in the very last stages...)
Nit-picky point #2: The name is of this release is MANHATTAN RESEARCH INCORPORATED. The title comes from Raymond Scott's electronic music & devices company (which he officially established in 1946).
Nit-picky point #3: Just to be totally clear -- this is NOT a reissue
of previously released vinyl records. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. features 1950s-60s RS recordings that have never been issued before (except as soundtracks to films, etc.).
By the way, these recordings are COMPLETELY electronic (no bands nor traditional instruments). In addition to the 2 CDs of music, MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. also includes a beautiful 125-page full-color hardcover book! This is the main reason for the delays, but I promise it will be worth the wait!! (Anyone's comments or questions are welcome.)
Thanks,
- -Jeff Winner, The Raymond Scott Archives
E-MAIL: info@RaymondScott.com
SITE: http://RaymondScott.com
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