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exotica-digest        Saturday, October 2 1999        Volume 02 : Number 509



In This Digest:

(exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan
Re: (exotica) let's talk moog
Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
(exotica) Polka
Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Re: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan
(exotica) re: Astroslut
Re: (exotica) All hail Thee Honourable Tiki King!
Re: (exotica) Punk Polka
Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question
Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Re: (exotica) green tambourine mystery
(exotica) fwd: food safety music
Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
(exotica) Fun@78rpm
Re: (exotica) Fun@mp3
(exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #508
Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question
Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
(exotica) jAMES bROWN organ elpees on Smash
(exotica) Alfred The King Of Disco
Re: (exotica) jAMES bROWN/scores
Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
(exotica) FWD: earth chord
(exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN
(exotica) harmonica delights

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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:45:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan

 [e-mail] wrote:

> =46unny, I've been trying to track down some info about a poor naked
> Smash record I rescued from a thrift bin in July. It's called James Brown
> Presents the New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) James Brown. What is the title of
> your record?

  I have 2; Handful of Soul and Yesterday & Today (I think the # of the
last disc ends in -82). According to Handful lp jacket, the first was
called Grits and Soul.

> So is this really the
> Hardest Working Man in Show Biznezz playing organ or is it his backup
> band, as one knowledgeable local DJ told me it probably is? The DJ said
> James produced several records for Smash, basically lending his name to
> give the projects greater exposure but not performing himself.

  I'd heard somewhere that JB jumped ship from King to sign with Smash,
before fulfilling his contractual obligations w/the former; a compromise
was reached by releasing only instrumentals on Smash for a time; vocals
came later (which explains why the song title "Papa's got a Brand New Bag"
appear in huge letters on Y&T).
  As for the playing, the stuff I have is pretty rudimentary, esp the 1st;
I like it, certainly, but I doubt he would've hired anyone at that level
to play under his name.

> Anyone
> know the real poop on JBPTNB(BAL)? Any recommend for similar records?
> All info welcome! Thanks.

  The 2 I have are both pretty good, but not great. Sounds like I'll have
to track down JBPTNB tho...

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  [e-mail] wrote:

> the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not
> that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!).

  I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't
start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who
wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame!

> moment and this guy Teisco Del Rey has a CD with him playing it (there's
> one of his CDs at CDNow but I'm not sure if it's a real organ or his
> Guitorgan I can hear on the samples)...

  That's a Guitorgan! See also the version of "Fear" on Ventures in Outer
Space.





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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 09:42:15 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) let's talk moog

Nat Kone wrote:
>
> At 08:58 PM 9/29/99 -0500, dymaxia wrote:

>   I've also got a Limelight or two
> >in my collection, the Jean[oops, I mean Claude]Denjean
> > with the sexy
> >big lips cover, both Switched-On Bacharachs, and
> >something on Pickwick called "The Happy Moog". Oh,
> >and _The Copper-Plated Circuit_.  Great lp, really
> >great cover! I think I've got more, but my collection needs
> >straightening.  I'd like to hear about other people's
> >Moog lp's....
>
> In my opinion the Switched On Bacharachs are among the best of the genre.

Yeah, I like those, too.

> They use the whole range of cheesy-to-tasteful moog sounds but somehow
> always use them in ways that are appropriate to the tunes.  That thing you
> have called "Happy Moog" is actually a fairly rare - and sometimes
> expensive - J.J Perry record even though it's also a Harry Breuer record.

Yeah, I noticed his name on several of the tracks,
but I didn't know if this was a Breuer record or
a Perrey one.  It has no cover -- I found it in
a thrift store in a plain white cover.  What a find!
I played it last night, and it's pretty excellent --
I especially love Moog Foo Yong.

> The Denjean record is also a "classic".  He had one before that one that's
> also good.  (He has other ones also but they're not that good.)   And the
> Copper Plated one by Walter Sear is also a good one.  He did others - also
> on Command - with Richard Hayman that are considered "essential" moog
> records, if you don't mind that word.

Another one I forgot to mention is Richard Hayman
presents "The Electric People".  This is a totally
mysterious low budget l.p. with a hysterically
banal cover photo of someone's stereo.  I have no idea
who these people are, but the names are Italian, and
the album totally kicks!  It has some moog blues on
it!

>
> I have about 30 moog and moog-related records.  If you're interested in
> hearing about others, I'll name a few.
> I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and
> move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on
> Nashville" by Gil Trythall.  You haven't heard moog till you've heard his
> version of "Folsom Prison".

Ohmigod.


> On the other end of the spectrum is John Keating's "Space Experience" which
> is a great record but almost too tasteful and well-arranged to qualify as a
> "real" moog record.  For me this record resurrects "I feel the earth move".
> Then there are the rockin-moog records.  I have two by "The Electronic
> Concept Orchestra" and I can recommend "Moog Groove". Great versions of "Oh
> Happy Day" and especially "Grazin in the Grass".

Yeah, I've been looking for "Moog Groove".  I have the
Electronic Concept Orchestra's make-out record --
I forgot the name of it, "Electric Love" or something.

> Then again, it's silly to recommend any of these since you're almost
> guaranteed to pick up anything called "moog groove".
> In the same category of no-brainers is "Switched-On Rock" by the Moog Machine.
> "Time of the Season", "Yummy Yummy".

Oh, shit.  I've got to have that one.


Thanks, Nat!

- --


Kerry
http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia


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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:37:58 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale

>Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...?
>Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"?

Yup! I'll take a closer look and post the title on Monday when I'm back
here at work. It's not La Dolce Henke.

There is a picture in the back of the LP that I also saw in Cool and
Strange Music Magazine when they gave away some Dolce Henke's a while back.
I always thought it was a picture of Ashley Warren (!) because he
generously provided for the CD's for the giveaway. Under the picture was
the caption "Our Hero".


And I apologize for the double posts... Maybe it's this new (for me) Lotus
Notes. I hate it.




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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 09:55:48 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale

>Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere
>PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be
>invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record!
>And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for
>free.  And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE
>HEINKE-that guy!??  GOOD SCORE, KID!
>Jane Fondle

Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...?
Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"?

"Walkin' my baby back home", o yes, Ton



>>>>Sorry, it's Friday, and  I am probably just thinking about HEINEKEN!
#%&#^$(#$@# Heineken, PABST BLUE RIBBON!
Frank Fondle



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Polka

> > >the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER

  Seems like every 10 yrs or so, there's a Polka &/or accordion revival
among the hipsters & hipstresses, kind of like those periodic surf/instro
revivals; seems to last a year or so before heading back underground.
Anyone remember Das Furlines?

> >Can anybody on the list recommend an American or English film that is set
> >in Italy?

  Strait to Hell?
  (about 1/3 of) the Godfather



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:15:50 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale

In a message dated 10/01/99 9:51:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< > Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the
 > "Incredibly
 > Strange Music" books.  Said he "supervised" the
 > recording of
 > EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform.
 >
 Well...what does "supervise" mean?  Did he arrange
 things and kick back, or just "supervise" with a cigar
 a la' Jackie Gleason? >>

mr. denny hates to admit it, but he does, that some of "his" later albums
were ghosted.  in interviews he indicates that he actually did give direction
to the composure of the Exotic Moog album.

his contract was requiring at least three LP releases per year and when he
could not do it himself he acquiesce to Capitol and let others record and
compose the contents of some LP's.  notice that the phrase used from the
start "The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" does not say that he played them.
it lended nicely to this ghosting.

mr. denny has expressed some disappointment in how his name was "franchised"
and albums were made without his involvement.  but he also admits that it was
part of his contract and he gained from it financially at the time.  in other
works he makes no excuses and does not blame Capitol.

in final note:  mr. denny says he could have performed on Exotic Moog but
really was uncomfortable on how to work all the electronic controls.  he does
feel that the overall sound of Exotic Moog represents the Martin Denny sound
in Moog form.

respectfully,

tiki bob


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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:51:45 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan

> the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not
> that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!).

  I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't
start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who
wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame!

>>>HE!  You know me well-enough George...OK, I won't start...but I will
just point out to those who don't realize on the list that this is the
self-same George of the too-fab Seks Bomba.  He just doesn't go runnin' his
mouth off about his band like some of us do on the list..ahem.
Jane Fondle





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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:34:31 -0700
From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Astroslut

Jane Fondle wrote:
> Well, I will take this opportunity to say YES!  If you
> are very much into late 6ts early 7ts
> now-sound-television-music-porn-soundtracks-moogs-wah-wah
> and bossa nova...then, yes indeed, you will feel at
> home.  I would not have been foisting my group on this
> list if I didn't feel it was very much in line with
> the music we discuss here.
> I firmly
> believe our album will be of interest to many on this
> list.  Diggit, baby!
> Jane Fondle

Oh, I wasn't trying to say anything otherwise. :-)  Just trying to see
where your band was on the "vast" exotica musical continum.

(maybe I'm a purist, but I only call Baxter/Denny/Lyman ish stuff
"exotica", but I know most people have a broader definition (which is
fine...))

What you really need is a website with sound samples/photos etc....  :-)

Any chance you'll be touring in California????

Kevin Crossman


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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:40:33 -0700
From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) All hail Thee Honourable Tiki King!

Jane Fondle wrote:
> you just GOTTA check out the Tiki
> King.
> Check out his website:
> http://members.aol.com./tikistuff/TikiKing.com.html

That URL definitely doesn't work. I did find this one, still looks to be
in test mode.
http://www.tikiking.com/test/

While we're here... I'd also like to say Tiki King's stuff is real nice
and affordable too. T.K. seems real friendly at Tiki events I've been
too (gosh, probably should have introduced myself... oh well).

Kevin Crossman
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/


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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 20:36:18 +0200
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Punk Polka

>the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER

Gives me a chance to say the new El=E4kel=E4iset 10", "Humppaorgiat", is =
a
blast. Side A has five songs remaining from the "Werbung, baby!" -session=
s
(great versions of Mrs Robinson and Sunday Bloody Sunday which work
particularly well polkastyle and Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz is a fine
campfire ballad). Side B has a couple of livetracks with an attempt at
speedhumppa.

Official website:  www.humppa.com


Arjan



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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:38:05 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"

>For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or
>real audio version of him for your inspection.  Just say the word.

yup! please, put it online :)

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:38:12 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question

>Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?

dunno, but Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade does. ;)

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 11:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.

>
> Thanks for a description Jane,
>
> I would have to say that AstroSlut is similar to
> Combustible Edison/Seks
> Bomba in that they hit a lot of "lounge" bases. One
> song "The Quinn Martian
> Chronicles" reminiscent of the jazzish Quinn Martin
> TV themes but a total
> reinvention.
>

> That would be "The Quinn Martian Memorandum."  While
I am pleased to be in such good company, I don't know
that we are similar to either group...but thanks!
>
songs. I recognized
> none of the songs even thought I was told 1/3 of
> them were covers.
>
No,no!  Not quite a third!  Our covers are of
Gainsbourg's "69", "Contact" and "Harley Davidson."
We also do "Come With the Gentle People"-from BEYOND
THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...and a bang-up "Bedazzled"!

> So Bravo to AstroSlut! They embrace the past, but
> don't totally imitate it.
> I think the name say it all. A tip of the hat to
> "Astrosounds in the year
> 2000" but with an updated attitude that keeps up
> with the modern rock
> scene.
>
> You Go Girl!
>
> Domenic

You go, too!  I wish you were my press agent!:)
And Kevin, I PROMISE that our $#((@)% website will be
up soon!  It's not in my hands...it's TAKING so long
though...because this is gonna be a souped up and lots
o' fun...
OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane...

=====
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter

Astroslut website:  cuming soon!
__________________________________________________
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Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:20:34 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) green tambourine mystery

In a message dated 9/30/99 10:22:10 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>"Will you be staying after Sunday" and I recognize the
>tune, though I have no idea whether this is the original "hit" version.

I looked it up in my trusty Whitburn and the song is credited only to them,
The Peppermint Rainbow, on Decca, so maybe an English "aggregate". Their
other minor hit off the LP was "Don't Wake Me Up In The Morning Michael". And
as for genre-pinning, I'd throw this onto the harder-edged Soft Pop
tip.......Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 17:21:14 -0400
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: food safety music

 Food Safety Music [RealPlayer]
http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html

Carl Winter, a golden-throated Extension Food Toxicologist at the
University of California, Davis, has written and recorded two albums
of parodies of popular songs "with a food safety/ science twist."
Lucky for us, Winter has made a number of these tunes and their
lyrics available at this site. The songs are organized by food
science topic (Food Safety, Pesticides, Biotech, Toxicology, etc.),
and listed with file size, the song that inspired it, and a link to
the lyrics. Highlights include "I Sprayed It on the Grapevine," "We
are the Microbes/ They Might Kill You," "Food Busters," and "Food
Irradiation." Graduate students especially will enjoy Winter's take
on academic life and the advisor-student relationship: "Money for
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 17:54:13 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"

At 06:33 AM 10/1/99, Brad Bigelow wrote:
>
>What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
>"Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

They're from "Columbia Musical Treasures" - not from Reader's Digest - but
I highly recommend all of Terry Baxter's box sets. "Sounds of the 60's",
"Sounds of 71" etc.  I have two of his box sets and one individual LP and
I've never seen his stuff presented any other way except in these "special
product" settings.
I can't think of anyone who captures the full range of Now Sound
arrangements like he does, going from quiet, simple arrangements all the
way to the full-on attack of something like his version of "Psychedelic
Shack".
Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 17:54:15 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale

At 07:47 AM 10/1/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:

>Picked up about 100 of 'em.  Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of
>comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio
Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory
>here) A few Command things.

I'm a little jealous.  Not as jealous as I was when I read Jane's recent
list.  And I know that even though those Pete Rugolos have lovely covers,
they're rather tepid.  But still, the very idea of records like that
sitting there for the taking makes me jealous.  Or is it envious?  Probably
both.
In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem
like there's something "happening" out there.   Some kind of zeitgeist.
I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that
occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into
the world to be appreciated once again.  Maybe the forces have better
things to do than to put these records into our hands.
But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now.
Or maybe I'm just in a mood to want every record everyone else is getting.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 18:23:40 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.

At 11:48 AM 10/1/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
>OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane...

I had jello today...


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:36:33 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"

In a message dated 10/1/99 5:55:18 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now.

I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's
Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my
headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early
Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone
know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little
weak...Thanks in advance, Jimmy Botticelli


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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:35:50 -0500
From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.

>I had jello today...


BIAFRA?!




visit...

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           King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
              http://www.tamboo.com
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 16:41:26 -0700
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fun@78rpm

A nifty site chock fulla shellac bisquits. Lots of stuff to hear. A nifty
juke-box for RA files. WEEE!

I noticed the address at the bottom of Ton's messages. Be sure to check out
the Laughing/Crying records.
(Apologies if this has been mentioned recently - I have not been keeping
up.)

Enjoy!

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 17:07:43 -0700
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Fun@mp3

Aside from my well-publicized struggles with live streaming MP3 files, I
have succeeded in uploading a MP3 file to a new server I have been goofing
around with. (see link below) It's my own standalone server running Linux.
(I made a friend do all the coding) It should be fun to see what we can do
with the beast as time permits. One of the things I want to do is create a
public area for people to upload their own mixes and soundfiles. I gotta
figger it all out first.

I get lots of email from folks who don't have fast-enough connections to get
the MP3 streams without serious gapping, so here is a low-bandwidth link to
Fantastica program #52.

http://216.112.66.38/ron/fan52.m3u



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #508

  [e-mail] wrote:

> I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and
> move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on
> Nashville" by Gil Trythall. You haven't heard moog till you've heard his
> version of "Folsom Prison".

  see also Tiger By the Tail on Jeff Haskell's "Switched On Buck" (yes,
Buck Owens on the Moog!). LP's maybe not as good as it's title, but how
could it?

>  Hands-down favorite has to be Joe Reisman's cover of "Grazing in the
> Grass," a hit instrumental originally by Hugh Masakela.  This one is a
> vocal with wonderful lyrics:

  this was also a soul hit for the Friends of Distinction in the late 60's

> What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
> "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

  wait a minute...I must find this!
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Date: 1 Oct 1999 23:39:11 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question

At 12:26 PM 01-10-99 +0100, G. R. Reader wrote:
>Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?
Yes, Moonraker!

Byron

Byron Caloz
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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 14:13:57 +0200
From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale

>In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem
>like there's something "happening" out there.   Some kind of zeitgeist.
>I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that
>occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into
>the world to be appreciated once again.

must have been that force helping me everytime I go at some flea market...
hehe

>But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now.

sure. Like the one that sent me the Emperor Norton promo I am listening to
now... :)))


bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 19:18:59 +0100
From: "Phil Dilemma" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) jAMES bROWN organ elpees on Smash

hey exoticats

someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on Smash. I
think he defected to that label for a while in the mid 60s? It's a Mercury
subsidiary. Anyway there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I
remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond.
I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul.
I can dig it out and lay the details on ya if y'interested, haven't played
it in years.

can i count it off?
phil dilemma




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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:20:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Alfred The King Of Disco

Here's Mr. D. Hyman's silly little ditty from the Reader's Digest box set
titled Organ Magic (RDA-207 1977) for anyone who cares to listen, it's disc
5/side 2/track 6 .

http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.mp3
or
http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.rm

They're both in lowest quality for easiest download/streaming.  The mp3
streamed flawlessly for me, the realmedia worked so-so.

If you'd like a high quality mp3 e-mailed to you just drop me a line.


- -Roy G. Biv


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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:53:44 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) jAMES bROWN/scores

Phil wrote:
>someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on
>Smash.... >there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I
>remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond.
>I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul=
.

Yeah, the one I brought up is James Brown Plays the New Breed/The
Boo-Ga-Loo. If you don't have New Breed/Boo-Ga-Loo, I'd recommend it. James
plays some rippin' organ,  & there are some great bari sax solos and a real
mix of music styles -- mostly straight ahead soul with lots of jazz tinges
(bebop), blues, an instructive ballad (Lost in the Mood of Changes), a jump
jive cut, a crime jazz track -- very 1966, so it's not funk but it
definitely presages it. GREAT party music.

There's a huge record convention in town today -- plan to head out. But
beat the rush by picking up some great LPs at a thrift yesterday -- 50
cents a shot:
* Mancini 67  Thanks, Jane.
* I Dig Chicks  Jonah Jones Quartet  Capitol  instro and vocal w/ a
trumpet. Man, it sends me! Terrific cover with four beauties posed on or
around the bucket of a stream shovel. Really.
* Tune In, Turn On  Benny Golson  Verve -- very Now Sound arrangements of
songs used in 60s tv commercials. Now Sound fans, look for this one: on the
front, a dayglo painted console tv in the middle of the desert.
* Sell Like an Ace, Live Like a King   John Wolfe  Success Motivational
Institute   Get that salesforce geeked!
* Monster Christmas Mash  The Christmas Party Players  Peter Pan. With a
game board on the back.
* Wayne Newton Now  Capitol  With Danke Schoen. Damn, Wayne could be a
doppelganger for Billy Tipton.
* Claudine   A&M
* Carpenters  Ticket to Ride  A&M  On advice of an eXoticat. Thanks.
* Julie London  Julie Is Her Name  Liberty
* Dionne Warwick  Here I Am  Scepter
* Burt Bacharach  Sunday Sunshine  Kapp  My first of those Placidyl promo
records.
* Ethel Smith  Latin Fire  Good Music of MCA  Double record set released in
88. Looks like a compilation of earlier stuff.
* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats  Harmonicha Cha-Cha  Mercury  Scratches two
itches for cha-cha and harmonica. Loving it. Ross, you need this record.

OK, stretch exercises completed. I'm ready for the workout, Mr. LaLane.

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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 12:12:19 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"

At 06:36 PM 10/1/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's
>Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my
>headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early
>Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone
>know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little
>weak...

Terry Baxter is no Claus Ogerman and neither is Frank Chacksfield.  If you
insist that your Now Sound LP's reach the "level" of Claus, then you're
going to be disapppointed most of the time.  Myself I've developed a taste
for a lot of the "easier listening" Now Sound stuff.  It doesn't have to
rock like Claus does.  And Claus surely does.  I only have his "Watusi
Trumpets" but it's a killer record.
But I also like Frank Chacksfield's all-Beatles record on Phase Four and to
a lesser degree his all-Simon and Garfunkel record.
Terry Baxter covers all the bases.  Most of the time he's very easy
listening but occasionally he reaches almost-Claus levels.
I like it all.  Even Ronnie Aldrich.  Kostelanetz.
And Paul Mauriat.  If you can find "The Soul of Paul Mauriat" with his
great sitary version of "You keep me hangin on", grab it.  But only if you
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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 19:06:09 +0200
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD: earth chord

From the Sun Ra mailinglist:


> Hey,
>     My NPR affiliate ran a story yesterday concerning the fact that the earth
> emits a steady sound that is many octaves below the range that would allow us
> to perceive it.  They went on to say that it was a "good thing" that we
> couldn't hear it as it would sound like fourteen organ keys depressed at
> once; this piece of information was followed by a simulation.  They
> elucidated that this earthly sound is really more like those fourteen notes
> plus fourteen more a semi-tone off and this was demonstrated.  I shouted with
> joy immediately-it was a very beautiful space chord. The earth rocks.
>
- --
 Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
+------------------------------------------+
 Record Collector's Heaven
 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:03:01 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN

I saw the album 101 STRINGS: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN in a store today
wand was tempted to buy it but I wasn't sure what was on it. The tunes
contained familiar big band hits like SATIN DOLL and others and the cover had
a  picture of a hammond organ with two girls dancing to it dressed in 1960s
clothes. I am assuming this is a "now sound" record. Does anybody have this
and can they offer there thoughts on this album?


Jason


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Date: 2 Oct 1999 17:57:42 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) harmonica delights

Just my luck (which is good today), the Salvation Army store
in Saint Johns Oregon  is now charging only 25 cents for their
LPs! (Used to charge $1.50 each). I would have carted away more...but here
were the picks I could take with my two bills:

The Harmonica Magic of Leo Diamond  RCA  LPM 1042 (1955).  Mix some
sound effects, occasional percussion and usually not overwhelming
strings directed by Harry Geller with the masterful sound of Leo Diamond
and you really do have magic.  Yes, there were a few shmaltzy numbers,
but Mr. Diamonds glissandos and other neat tricks with the occasional
bongos makes this a winner.

The Harmonicats  Design DLP 202  I probably have the tunes on this album
on some other album, but not this cover (two kittens and four harmonicas).
Well recorded and the usual Harmonicats fare.

As if inspired by the latest issue of Cool and Strange Music! Magazine, I
found yet another Bond album.  This one:  Basie Meets Bond, United Artists
UAS 6480.  The music is absolutely cool, but I certainly couldn't refuse
the cover either. There is something about a scantilly clad woman with a
gold machine gun....

Fiesta Time  Percy Faith  Decca DLP 5025 (1949)  The record is pretty beat
up, as all 10 inch discs usually are but it has some cool tunes including
Bim Bam Boom (Bim Bam Bum) and Tico Tico among them and a colorful cover.

Calypso in Hi-Fi Dave Burgess and his Caribbeans  Tops L 1565.  I am not a
big fan of this music and I think I have another Tops Calypso LP I was not
impressed with, but don't ya just love the covers?

Italy   Songs by the Di Mara Sisters  Roulette  R-25005.  Tony Dannon
conducted the orchestra.  Probably nothing remarkable about this album, but
I'm a sucker for Italian anything and you never know if a quarter will get
you something cool.

Cole Porter in Pleasant Percussion  Ted Somner and Bill Lavorgna  Grand
Prix K151.  I have these same tunes on another album but with a different
cover and probably released on another affliated budget label (part of the
K.M. Corp. empire of Freeport, L.I. (Long Island???).

Penncrest Presents your Stereo Command Performance   Terry Snyder and the
All Stars  Command PC 1 SD (which is actually RS 800 SD: Persuasive
Percussion).
Yeah, just what I need...another copy of Persuasive Percussion.  However, I
like the different cover graphics and I like collecting the different
commercial versions of Command LPs.

ByRon


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