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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:57:18 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Hurricane News
Well folks, Hurricane Floyd has resulted in the largest evacuation in US
history. The interstates are clogged from Florida to NC and all points in
between.
Tiki Bob had secured the Hut with all intentions of leaving around 2 AM last
night. The road reports were so bad, and a slight turn in the eye gave a
better prognosis for Charleston, that Tiki Bob and family are going to hunker
down at Tiki Bob's mothers (Tiki Mom) for the duration.
Of course safety for the village is Tiki Bob's main concern, but I must admit
that the thought of making Mai Tais without ice are weighing heavily on my
mind.
BTW, I did take all my Martin Denny (and a few selected others) to a safe
place yesterday even before battening down my house and office. One must
have priorities.
Regards from the storm (and not the type of eye which usually concerns me),
Tiki Bob
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:26:40 -0400
From: <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Harry Crane,Cleveland ``Big Cat'' Williams,Charles Crichton
Tuesday, September 14, 1999; 9:08 p.m. EDT
Harrry Crane
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Harry Crane, co-creator of Jackie Gleason's classic 1950s sitcom ``The Honeymooners'' and comedy writer for Red Skelton, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby and others, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 85.
The writer, who worked on movies as well as TV, had another link to Hollywood: He was the grandfather of actresses Melissa Gilbert (``Little House on the Prairie'') and Sara Gilbert (``Roseanne'').
The native of New York City was 19 when he started performing stand-up comedy. He was recruited by MGM as a screenwriter, earning his first credit on ``Air Raid Wardens'' (1943), starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
He and Joe Bigelow were staff writers for ``Cavalcade of Stars'' when Gleason, the variety show's new host, asked for help in developing a sketch.
Gleason told the writers he wanted to play an ``everyday working stiff'' who lived with his long-suffering wife in a little Brooklyn flat, according to the book ``Classic Sitcoms.''
The two created a scene involving squabbling Ralph and Alice Kramden, and the couple became a variety show mainstay for Gleason and then in 1955 the basis for the 39-episode sitcom ``The Honeymooners.''
HOUSTON (AP) -- Cleveland ``Big Cat'' Williams, whose career highlight was a 1966 bout against heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, died Friday after being struck by a car while crossing the street on Sept. 3. He was 66.
Williams overcame tremendous odds to face Ali in the Astrodome on Nov. 14, 1966. A year and a half before stepping into the ring against Ali, the fighter quarreled with a Texas state trooper during a traffic stop. The officer shot Williams in the midsection, leaving the boxer with lifelong kidney problems.
He eventually lost to Ali in a three-round knockout. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Commerce, Calif., in 1997.
LONDON (AP) -- Charles Crichton, a director of comedy films in the 1940s and 1950s who made a resurgence with ``A Fish Called Wanda,'' died Tuesday at his home in the London neighborhood of South Kensington after a short illness, said his son, David Crichton. He was 89.
Crichton directed 1946's ``Hue and Cry,'' the first so-called Ealing comedy, named after the west London film studio.
One of his best-loved Ealing productions was 1951's ``The Lavender Hill Mob,'' a classic about a timid bank clerk played by Alec Guinness who schemes to get even with his employer by masterminding a foolproof robbery. It featured a young Audrey Hepburn in one of its opening scenes.
Crichton directed a steady stream of films throughout the '50s, but his career hit a setback in 1962 when an argument with producer-star Burt Lancaster during the making of ``Birdman of Alcatraz'' caused him to quit in mid-production.
``He Who Rides a Tiger,'' directed in 1965, wound up being his last feature film for 23 years, until John Cleese enticed him out of television work to direct ``A Fish Called Wanda.''
In 1989, at the age of 78, Crichton was nominated for an Academy Award as best director for ``Wanda,'' a comedy starring Cleese, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis that rollicked along in the best Ealing tradition.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Bostonians only have a little more than a week...
to primp your hair, find that perfect outfit and
makeup that compliments it(boys, too!)...so that you
can be fab and fit for the FIRST Astroslut show in
THREE MONTHS! It's next Saturday, Sept. 25th at the
Charles Playhouse Lounge on Warrenton ST. off Stuart
in the Theatre District. It's a mere $3 to catch the
ac-tion, baby! The fun starts 11pmish...
This PSA brought to you by Jane Fondle...
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Date: 15 Sep 1999 07:16:55 +0000
From: bag@hubris.net
Subject: (exotica) Re: Important! error correction about Jane's dumb...
At 02:00 AM 15-09-99 -0400, Kafka wrote:
[Byron's] message, below, is substantially and factually wrong.
I just got
this from Allen Koenigsberg, editor of the Antique Phonograph Monthly...
~~~~~~
[Byron]said this:
"Cylinders were never mass-produced so did not have a big following (I
don't think anyone ever found a way to mass produce a single recording
on cylinder)."
is this true??
Yes, they sometimes called cylinders "records."
Cylinders were mass produced, first by Thomas Lambert in 1900-1905 and
then by Edison, 1902-1929, and Columbia, 1902-1909, and many other companies.
They were sold in the millions!
Whoever said that doesnt' know what they're talking about.
~~~~~~~~~~
note that i was also wrong, in that cylinders WERE called records. Here is
Allen's website, which is a monster resource about cylinders and early
recording history:
http://members.aol.com/allenamet/PhonoBooks.html
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And Byron writes...
Which is why we discuss these things here to get the word...although I don't
think I was substantially wrong. Everything I have read said that you
could not mass produce one identical recording. Perhaps this was before
the turn of the century and someone figured out a way to make a master
cylinder from which you could stamp thousands or even millions of
copies...but I'd have to read
from "the experts" to learn more.
Perhaps millions of cylinders were sold, but also millions of different
performances. I was speaking of a mass production of a single recording.
I think Mr. Koenigsberg is just a little bit touchy about his favorite medium.
Just empirically comparing the process used to create flat discs, I would
not think that mass production of a single performance would be possible.
One performance would be recorded acoustically on dozens of machines, each
making a near identical record of the performance. If the company wanted to
make more cylinders, the performance would have to repeated.
This is unlike the true mass production process where you could record a
single disc, create a stamping disc from that and then stamp as many copies
as necessary. While many people bought cylinders, I don't think the
process allowed for a large number to hear the exact same performance. I
still think this prevented the true mass media experience records later
began to enjoy.
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: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:23:02 -0400
From: "em are..." <tikihead@att.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jane's dumb question of the day...
Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote:
> << How about "new phonographic representation"?
OH for a minute I thought you said "new PORNOgraphic representation" and my
ears perked up....
em
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:53:06 -0400
From: <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Moondog
September 15 1999 OBITUARIES (The Times of London)
MOONDOG
Moondog (Louis T. Hardin), composer, Beat poet and street musician, died in Mⁿnster, Germany, on September 8 aged 83. He was born in Marysville, Kansas, on May 26, 1916.
FOR the best part of 30 years, the gaunt, bearded figure of a blind man in a Viking helmet, home-made robe and sandals, distributing his printed poems, music and diatribes while clutching a fearsome-looking spear, was a familiar sight around the junction of 6th Avenue and 54th Street in New York.
Using the name Moondog, in honour of a pet which used to howl at night, Louis T. Hardin was one of the more extraordinary characters of the city's streets.
Not only was Hardin an accomplished poet and songwriter, but he was a composer and percussionist, a friend of musicians from Toscanini to Charlie Parker, and an icon of the Beat movement. Janis Joplin had a hit with one of his songs, and others were used in film soundtracks or as advertising jingles.
It was assumed by many Americans that he had disappeared or died after leaving his familiar territory in 1974, and the 1994 Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music concluded its article on Moondog with "nothing has been heard of this remarkable and enigmatic poet for several years".
In fact, he had been invited to Germany to perform his music, and when he got there he simply stayed. He found an amanuensis, Mrs Ilona Sommer, who transcribed his work and published his compositions, although she did not deter him from venturing back out on the streets to perform. In due course she persuaded him to discard his Viking garb, but not before it had prevented him from being admitted to a New York Philharmonic rehearsal of one of his pieces.
In old age Hardin liked to direct performances of his music from the bass drum, on which he pounded out a beat while loudly declaiming his poems. On a rare return visit to the United States in 1989 to conduct a programme of his music by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, he spurned the rostrum in order to direct from the percussion section.
It was the same story when he came to the BBC studios in Maida Vale in 1995 to record several of his pieces with the French pianist Dominique Ponty for Radio 3's Impressions. Against a backdrop of his jazz-inflected rhythmic pieces such as Art of the Canon No 13 or Oo Debut, he forcefully laid down bass drum rhythms and passionately declaimed his words.
Hardin, the son of a church minister, lost his sight in an accident in 1932, and completed his education at the Iowa School for the Blind. He became an accomplished musician, and after arriving in New York, befriended the conductor Artur Rodzinski. Playing a variety of percussion instruments, Hardin earned his living as a street entertainer, and his stage-door acquaintances included famous jazz musicians in the clubs on 52nd Street as well as symphonic musicians and conductors a few blocks away at Carnegie Hall.
Both these types of music were incorporated into his own compositions, which he began to record on an ad hoc basis in the 1950s. In particular, the Prestige label, which had Miles Davis and Charlie Parker on its roster, recorded pieces such as Broadway and 52nd Street: the Jazz Corner of The World, as well as distinctly more eccentric works such as a duet for bamboo flute and the whistle of the liner Queen Elizabeth.
The first of Hardin's many "discoveries" came when the disc jockey Alan Freed adopted his Moondog Symphony as a theme tune. Hardin deterred him with legal action, but continued to make occasional discs, including arranging an album of Mother Goose songs for Julie Andrews and recording his influential 1969 LP Moondog.
This was an immediate success among the Beat movement, and its repetitive rhythms and simple counterpoint made it a forerunner of the work of Minimalists such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Hardin maintained that he adopted his regular, cyclic rhythmic style from attending native North American dances as a child, and he recalled performing with a Blackfoot troupe in Idaho in the 1940s. In due course, he integrated his rhymes and chants into his pieces as an additional contrapuntal texture, alongside increasingly dense and complex melodic lines. From the 1950s he composed by writing instrumental parts in braille, but tended never to produce full scores as he felt this involved too much work. He recorded more than a dozen albums of his music.
He was twice married and is survived by two daughters.
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:11:39 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <crajnai@att.com>
Subject: (exotica) Jane's dumb question of the day...
How about "forthcoming Release"
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