NASHVILLE, Tenn. ûû A.L. "Doodle" Owens, who wrote dozens of country music hits for stars like Charley Pride, George Jones and Moe Bandy, died Monday from a heart attack. He was 68.
Owens' hits include "Wine Colored Roses" for Jones, "Johnny One Time" for Brenda Lee and "Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul" for Stoney Edwards. Owens got the nickname "Doodle" as a child because he crawled backwards.
Owens, a native of Waco, Texas, moved to Nashville in 1965, after being encouraged by singer Ray Price. With Frazier, he co-wrote two No. 1 hits for Pride in 1969, "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" and "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)."
Amalia Rodrigues
LISBON, Portugal (AP) û Amalia Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer whose passionate performances of the country's brooding 'fado' music took her from Lisbon taverns to worldwide fame, died Wednesday at her home. She was 79.
Rodrigues' personal secretary, Leonel Henriques, told the news agency Lusa that she was found dead in her bed, adding she had felt unwell in previous days. The singer had suffered two heart attacks, in 1979 and 1980, and increasing health problems caused her to retreat from public life in recent years.
Prime Minister Antonio Guterres announced three days of national mourning.
Amalia da Piedade Rebordao Rodrigues, known popularly as Amalia, became known at home as the "Ambassador of Fado" for taking Portugal's sad and haunting traditional music out of Lisbon taverns and placing it on a world stage.
Her interpretations of 'fado' û which means "fate" or "destiny" û gave the world a glimpse into the depths of the Portuguese character.
"Fado" lyrics are sentimental and melancholic, centering on longing, sadness and fatalism, while the guitar accompaniment combines the influences of Arab, African and Portuguese cultures.
Robert Monsoon
WILLINGBORO, N.J. (AP) -- Robert ``Gorilla Monsoon'' Marella, a true giant of professional wrestling who body-slammed Muhammad Ali
and debated Jesse Ventura, has died of a heart ailment.
The 62-year-old former teacher, died Wednesday.
The 6-foot-6, 400-pound Marella turned to the pro wrestling game in 1960 when a promoter offered him $500 per week to don the
tights.
As Gorilla Monsoon, Marella soon shared world tag-team titles
with Walter ``Killer'' Kowalski and ``Cowboy'' Bill Watts. Playing a villain's role at the time, Marella gained notoriety for his feud with longtime champ Bruno Sammartino.
Marella's career in the ring lasted until the early 1980s, when he became one of the World Wrestling Federation's top ringside
television announcers. He co-hosted WWF telecasts at a time when the high-flying entertainment genre was booming in popularity.
Marella frequently shared the microphone with former wrestler
Jesse ``The Body'' Ventura, with whom he often argued over the importance of fair play in the ring. Ventura now is governor of Minnesota.
The younger generation of wrestlers was honored to have the rotund Marella analyze their moves and holds, said fellow pro wrestler King Kong Bundy.
``He was somebody who knew the business,'' Bundy said. ``A great guy, a real class act all the way.''
Marella also wrote a weekly pro wrestling column for the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.
A son, Joey Marella, became a WWF referee in the 1980s. He died in an auto accident in Burlington in 1994. Thereafter, Robert Marella appeared on television less frequently.
``When his son got killed in a car accident, I think that took a lot out of him,'' King Kong Bundy said.
Marella did serve as interim president of the WWF in 1997 -- at a time when the industry admitted openly that the outcomes of its
matches are scripted.
Heart problems forced Marella to scale back his work with the
WWF. He also suffered from diabetes in recent years.
http://www.cataclysmal.com/big3/news/2261.html
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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 12:08:26 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Didn't the Harmonicats do that album with the "James Bond" girl dressed in =
a black leather outfit, standing with one bare foot triumphantly over top =
of three men dressed in suits???? (She's also holding a harmonica).
That's a pretty cool record; and no, I don't like harmonica!! They do =
some spy stuff - been ages since I've listened to it so can't give =
particulates.......
- - Nate
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:17:27 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
In a message dated 10/06/99 5:23:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
m.sandberg@telia.com writes:
<< >While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
>had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
>taken over the kitchen.
Are they good cooks? Can they make decent Mai Tais? I bet they all have a
copy of whipped cream by now :)
M
>>
now THAT is funny.
tb
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:29:37 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bruno@yhammer.com writes:
<< At the same time, I don't like reading my real name here but when you say
my film is great, it lessens the sting somehow.
(And for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only
one - I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was
something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake
one. And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.) >>
i find this line of discussion interesting. everybody knows (at least i
think they do) that my real name is not Tiki Bob. actually very few people
even call me Bob, but Tiki Robert sounds kinda stupid. actually to people
not on the list Tiki Bob sounds kind of stupid.
i felt kind of funny using a "signature name" at first but it is kind of fun.
of course people like Laura who have neat lives that revolve around music
are supposed to have name like Jane Fondle (or Lounge Laura or 69!).
is some goofy optometrist from South Carolina supposed to have a signature
name too? well i do.
one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho: the initials for Tiki Bob
(TB) scares me because in my profession, TB stand for tuberculosis.
hope you enjoyed these misc ramblings,
TB
(which I guess is better than VD)
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:30:08 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bruno@yhammer.com writes:
<< Nat Kone only exists here on this mailing
list. >>
So how did you arrive at this name?
TB
(cough!)
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:45:00 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
TB wrote:
>one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho: the initials for Tiki =
Bob=20
>(TB) scares me because in my profession, TB stand for tuberculosis.
Magnus is for real but my signature M scares the hell out of me, when =
thinking of a certain Peter Lorre movie. but dont worry Elsie Beckmann, =
I wont hurt you.
Actually I took the M signature when drawing my first comics in the mid =
80s. French comicartist Moebius was my inspiration then and I even =
wanted the signature to look like it came from his hands. (How silly) =
There is also a beautiful Blake and Mortimer album (by belgo EP Jabobs =
who also drew backgrounds in Tintin) where the hypnotized villain draws =
an M after he has made the crimes.=20
So thats Y
M
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:25:32 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <bcleve@pop.tiac.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
At 2:22 PM -0400 10/6/99, Nat Kone wrote:
>I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once
>again noticed this name Neely Plumb.
>So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is.
Neely Plumb was the West Coast A&R man for RCA Victor Records. Born in
Georgia, he began his carreer as a clarinet player during the big band era.
I'm drawing a blank right now on the name of the well known bandleader he
worked with, but he made records (as a sideman) in the 40's and 50's. He
began working at RCA around 1959. In those days, the A&R person was listed
as the producer, although the term had a different meaning then. Unlike the
rock era, where the producer became a sort of auteur in his/her own right,
in the pop music field, the producer supervised the recording process -
keeping costs within the budget (an impossible thing to do with Esquivel),
acting as liason between the artist, engineer, contractor (who hired the
musicians and watched out for the union interests), and label heads. The
A&R person would always be a musician (for example, the A&R guys for
Mercury in the early 60's were Pete Rugolo and Quincy Jones). They would
often pick the songs to be arranged and work on the album concepts with the
artists and the label chiefs.
Since Neely worked in Los Angeles, you'll see his name on just about every
RCA album recorded there, right up to the Jefferson Airplane. He left RCA
in the late 60's and went to Capitol, where he worked until the mid 70's.
His name appears most often on movie soundtracks on both RCA and Capitol.
He put out an album under the name of Neely Plumb and The 50 Funky Fiddles
(he told me there were really only about 6, overdubbed a dozen times) on
the AVI label in 1975. It's one of those records that is sought after by
break'n'beat collectors, and a couple of the tracks have been bootlegged on
obscure funk collections. Neely retired in the late 70's; he's now about 85
years old.
His daughter Eve Plumb is an actress, best known for her role on TV's "The
Brady Bunch".
br cleve
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:59:26 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <bcleve@pop.tiac.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
At 12:17 PM -0400 10/6/99, m.ace wrote:
>Happy to hear that this is coming out. But I'm unclear on who's releasing
>it. Details? US release? Will this be commonly available? Or is it another
>sassinfrassin bootleg?
no, it's legit. (The only person in the world who could've bootlegged it
would have been me....well, or Esquivel or Neely Plumb......and I would
have been a little too easy to trace)
The disc will be released by N7/BMG in November. They are a new company,
run by Paul Williams, who oversaw the 3 collections produced by Irwin
Chusid; their previous issues are an Eartha Kitt anthology and a Hugo
Montenegro spy music collection.
br cleve
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:47:39 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <Quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: (exotica) LP frames / Shoppinquarium
for LP frames, try BAGS UNLIMITED: http://bagsunlimited.com/
visit the "Shoppinquarium", the Mailorder Links page on
my web site, for other places where to buy accessories
like LP frames.
http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/
Johan
quiet@village.uunet.be
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:44:50 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <Quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
m.sandberg@telia.com writes:
>>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended!
DJJimmyBee@aol.com replied:
>Seconding the Emotion here
yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course!
Johan
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:04:52 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
In a message dated 10/5/99 7:48:53 PM, studio@wayno.com writes:
>Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering
>this album." Seems to me Cleve deserves a LITTLE more credit than a mere
>hat-tip!
Yeah, but can Wick give 'im what he REALLY wants?
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:17:27 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
In a message dated 10/6/99 11:06:06 AM, bcleve@pop.tiac.net writes:
>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans
>etched into this area. Right Jimmy?
Right, and hopefully influenced by the glory days of Mad magazine when they
put little cartoons above the page's content as if they just happened to be
there...Jimmy "Kaputnick" Botticelli/again wrapping his arms around a memory
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:28:23 +0200
From: "Sandberg Magnus" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: SV: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
>m.sandberg@telia.com writes:
>
>>>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended!
>
>
>DJJimmyBee@aol.com replied:
>
>>Seconding the Emotion here
>
>
> yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course!
>
> Johan
wait a minute.... 101 %?
He makes them 10 times better than any of you can say. Hah!
M
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:34:45 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
In a message dated 10/6/99 3:13:05 PM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes:
>accidently discover
>the "Aku Aku", not really spectacular looking from the freeway, but once
>you get to the back side of the building, oopsiedaisy! Two 30 feet high
>Easter island guys flank the A-frame entrance.
Sorry we missed you Mo. What a time we would have had! But the good news is
that I was able to meet with Bobby Seto, owner of Aku Aku yesterday. He gave
me ALL his promo shots from 1972 - 1982 (gorgeous faux-pastel colors <I'm not
an awtist, I just made that word up>) and the original menu (minus cocktails)
from The Polynesian Village from which Aku Aku sprang and was located in a
hotel in Kenmore Square, Boston from 1948 thru 1972. Aku Aku itself was
formerly about a mile from where it now sits, on Rte 2 (leading to Concord)
and Bobby told me about Wayne Newton's appearance there as well as Cher and
(he thinks!) The Trammps. But when the rent got too high and they bought the
place they are in now in 1976. Babby sold me the original Tiki (which stands
nearly 4' tall) that graced the entry to Polynesian Village. The tiki has
served as an inspiration for me to convert my cellar to a Tiki Room.....I'll
post when its done....Jimmy Botticelli
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:50:53 -0400
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <rotohut@ic.net>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats
>Now I'm trying to reduce the scope.
>And harmonica fits right in.
>It doesn't have enough "bite". The sound is too "floaty".
The Harmonicats track that originally blew my mind was their version
of "Sabre Dance," off the white _Peg 'O My Heart_ LP. There was
nothing floaty or toothless about that one--it's a full-bore
hyperventilating freakout. (Have you guys heard the story that their
producer used an elevator shaft as an echo chamber?)
But I have to admit, it's basically been downhill from there, with
none of the other Harmonicats LPs I've found so far really living up
to that first one. Hence my high hopes for the Latinized
_Harmoni-Cha-Cha-Cha_ (or whatever the canonical spelling of that
is). I do agree with Ron about "Navarone" (also "El Cid") and "Cherry
Pink" though. . .
Later of course, I learned that goofy cover versions of "Sabre Dance"
were not that uncommon. But I stumbled onto the 'Cats version on one
of the first dozen old records I ever bought. And I had never heard
anything remotely like it before! So I guess they earned a fond spot
in my heart for that reason too. . .
>> Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone)
>for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only one
Oh sure, like we are going to fall for this bit of disinformation.
You are really named Bruno and we all know it.
I remain, allegedly,
--Ross
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|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Pepsi?
Batman sez: I collect all sorts of weird vinyls and
other sound sources... ;)
and about one year ago I have found this 1960's
italian 7" from RCA with a
Pepsi logo on it... no cover, though (and lotsa
scratches too).
It turned out to be a crazy promo disc including (not
sure about the title
now, I am quoting by memory) "Come alive (you're in
the Pepsi generation)"
(i.e. a sort of "funk-big band-not sure if I can
define it exotica" piece
by Sid Ramin, with brass, some good bits ready for
sampling ;))) and
"Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :))
>>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND
GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being
used in an ad? Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit
more?
Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle
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