Annoying noodling jazz with tablas and sitars. These two definately did not
take enough drugs, forgot that self-indulgence is not cool and generally
followed the intellectual jazz path into a land of boredom....
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:04:54 +0200
From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Rex Gildo
German Schlager singer Rex Gildo is dead. 60 year old Sexy Rexy had been
in koma in hospital for 3 days after he had jumped out of the window of
his Munich home during a psychotic attack. As Rex & Gitte he and his
duet partner Gitte Hanning had become famous in the 60s with Schlager
hits like "Im Stadtpark die Laternen". His biggest hit during his solo
career was "Fiesta Mexicana" ("Hossa! Hossa!"), which he had to perform
again and again in bars all over Europe since. According to friends it
was this stagnation of his career, that drove Gildo first into alkohol
and later into depressions, which led to several suicide attempts in
recent years. He was still looking good, his deep sun teint was his
trademark. His semi-gay/campish appearance had inspired several
double-gangers with names like Rex Dildo or Gildo Horn.
Mo
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:04:54 +0200
From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Rex Gildo
German Schlager singer Rex Gildo is dead. 60 year old Sexy Rexy had been
in koma in hospital for 3 days after he had jumped out of the window of
his Munich home during a psychotic attack. As Rex & Gitte he and his
duet partner Gitte Hanning had become famous in the 60s with Schlager
hits like "Im Stadtpark die Laternen". His biggest hit during his solo
career was "Fiesta Mexicana" ("Hossa! Hossa!"), which he had to perform
again and again in bars all over Europe since. According to friends it
was this stagnation of his career, that drove Gildo first into alkohol
and later into depressions, which led to several suicide attempts in
recent years. He was still looking good, his deep sun teint was his
trademark. His semi-gay/campish appearance had inspired several
double-gangers with names like Rex Dildo or Gildo Horn.
Mo
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:46:50 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999; 1:01 a.m. EDT
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Hoyt Axton, a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote Three Dog Night's No. 1 hit ``Joy to the World'' and songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr, died Tuesday. He was 61.
Axton died at his ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, surrounded by family and friends. He moved to the area after playing a sheriff in
the movie ``Disorganized Crime,'' filmed there in 1988.
He suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during
surgery, said Jan Woods, a longtime friend in Nashville, Tenn. He
had never fully recovered from a 1996 stroke and used a wheelchair
much of the time. Axton also had advanced complications from
diabetes.
Axton's mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular
culture history as the writer of Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
``When Mae died three years ago, she left me Hoyt,'' Ms. Woods
said. ``He was probably one of the most honest, humorous kids that
never grew up.''
``There was nobody that didn't like Hoyt,'' said Fran Boyd,
executive director of the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country
Music. ``Oh God, was he fun.''
Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty ``Joy to the World'' (``Jeremiah was a bullfrog ...'') was on top of the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. Axton
pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in
1969-70. He also wrote ``Never Been to Spain'' for the band, a song
also recorded by Presley.
Axton's own singing hits include ``Boney Fingers'' (``Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers'') and ``When
the Morning Comes.''
The native of Duncan, Okla., started out singing folk songs in the clubs of San Francisco in 1958 and a song he co-wrote,
``Greenback Dollar,'' was a 1963 hit for the Kingston Trio.
He wrote hits for Starr (``No No Song'') and Steppenwolf (``The Pusher''). Others who performed songs he wrote included Joan Baez, Waylon Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.
Steppenwolf's ``The Pusher'' and ``Snowblind Friend'' were rare forays into a more serious theme. ``The Pusher'' was a powerful,
passionate song that condemned drug sellers.
And 1975's ``No No Song'' included the lines ``No no no no, I don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor.''
But in 1997, police found slightly more than a pound of
marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later
that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of
the pain, anxiety and stress he suffered after his stroke, her
lawyer said.
Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine.
A large man, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol' boys on TV and in films, including ``Gremlins'' and ``The Black
Stallion.'' He sang the ``Head to the Mountains'' jingle used to
advertise Busch beer in the 1980s.
Survivors include Axton's wife and five children.
- ------------
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Subject: Esquivel? Heino?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:03:12 +0000, in alt.obituaries arthurvk@xs4all.nl (Arthur van Kruining) wrote:
>DESSCRIBE1 <desscribe1@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have any info on the living and/or health status of either of
>> these two singularly-named kitschy cult musicians?
>
>AFAIK Heino is still alive and singing nazi hymns. The schlagersinger
>you should worry about is Rex Gildo. He jumped out of a second-floor
>window last Saturday, and now floats between life and death in a Munich
>hospital. According to a friend, the 60-year-old has-been acted out of
>loneliness...
>
>U groet,
>Arthur.
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:46:50 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999; 1:01 a.m. EDT
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Hoyt Axton, a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote Three Dog Night's No. 1 hit ``Joy to the World'' and songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr, died Tuesday. He was 61.
Axton died at his ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, surrounded by family and friends. He moved to the area after playing a sheriff in
the movie ``Disorganized Crime,'' filmed there in 1988.
He suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during
surgery, said Jan Woods, a longtime friend in Nashville, Tenn. He
had never fully recovered from a 1996 stroke and used a wheelchair
much of the time. Axton also had advanced complications from
diabetes.
Axton's mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular
culture history as the writer of Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
``When Mae died three years ago, she left me Hoyt,'' Ms. Woods
said. ``He was probably one of the most honest, humorous kids that
never grew up.''
``There was nobody that didn't like Hoyt,'' said Fran Boyd,
executive director of the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country
Music. ``Oh God, was he fun.''
Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty ``Joy to the World'' (``Jeremiah was a bullfrog ...'') was on top of the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. Axton
pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in
1969-70. He also wrote ``Never Been to Spain'' for the band, a song
also recorded by Presley.
Axton's own singing hits include ``Boney Fingers'' (``Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers'') and ``When
the Morning Comes.''
The native of Duncan, Okla., started out singing folk songs in the clubs of San Francisco in 1958 and a song he co-wrote,
``Greenback Dollar,'' was a 1963 hit for the Kingston Trio.
He wrote hits for Starr (``No No Song'') and Steppenwolf (``The Pusher''). Others who performed songs he wrote included Joan Baez, Waylon Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.
Steppenwolf's ``The Pusher'' and ``Snowblind Friend'' were rare forays into a more serious theme. ``The Pusher'' was a powerful,
passionate song that condemned drug sellers.
And 1975's ``No No Song'' included the lines ``No no no no, I don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor.''
But in 1997, police found slightly more than a pound of
marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later
that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of
the pain, anxiety and stress he suffered after his stroke, her
lawyer said.
Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine.
A large man, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol' boys on TV and in films, including ``Gremlins'' and ``The Black
Stallion.'' He sang the ``Head to the Mountains'' jingle used to
advertise Busch beer in the 1980s.
Survivors include Axton's wife and five children.
- ------------
as seen on usenet/newgroup alt.obituaries:
Subject: Esquivel? Heino?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:03:12 +0000, in alt.obituaries arthurvk@xs4all.nl (Arthur van Kruining) wrote:
>DESSCRIBE1 <desscribe1@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have any info on the living and/or health status of either of
>> these two singularly-named kitschy cult musicians?
>
>AFAIK Heino is still alive and singing nazi hymns. The schlagersinger
>you should worry about is Rex Gildo. He jumped out of a second-floor
>window last Saturday, and now floats between life and death in a Munich
>hospital. According to a friend, the 60-year-old has-been acted out of
>loneliness...
>
>U groet,
>Arthur.
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:19:59 +0000
From: the_curator@eat78rpm.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine
>Colors and a Word Jazz compilation have both been reissued. There have
>been quite a few other releases as well, the most prominent recent one is
>"Devout Catalyst", which I don't recommend for a start per se (he rambles
>on a bit, even has a guest or two), but do check him out. He is fantastic!
i still have a spare copy of Best of Word Jazz CD on Rhino if anyone would
like to do a swap
friendly
Sem Sinatra
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:19:59 +0000
From: the_curator@eat78rpm.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine
>Colors and a Word Jazz compilation have both been reissued. There have
>been quite a few other releases as well, the most prominent recent one is
>"Devout Catalyst", which I don't recommend for a start per se (he rambles
>on a bit, even has a guest or two), but do check him out. He is fantastic!
i still have a spare copy of Best of Word Jazz CD on Rhino if anyone would
like to do a swap
friendly
Sem Sinatra
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:27:11 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
In a message dated 10/26/99 12:48:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
stroboscopica@hotmail.com writes:
<< I like to wear old mohair sweaters...
(...or it could read DJ Mo'hair for more hair, cause my folicles are rather
short). >>
i am partial to angora -- especially while directing.
and my follicles are rather short too (that is in number).
tb
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:38:01 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) KBZ info
In a message dated 10/26/99 2:19:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,=20
brian@PHYRES.Lan.McGill.CA writes:
<< A bit more info on the new KBZ release:
=20
The new single I picked up in Berlin is called:
Schlager on Parade
A: Arizona Man
B: Eine H=FCtte In Den B=E4uen
(Plastikray VEB 2000) >>
Because I am a freak about word origins (ask Mr. Mo'hair). Where do the=20
initials KBZ and the Plastikray VEB 2000 come from and what do they mean?
Tiki Bob
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:47:56 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Frankie
In a message dated 10/27/99 3:07:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mojoto@plex.nl
writes:
<< Li'l Ol' Blue Eyes is accompanied by his "biggest fan" --
Barbie the bobby-soxer, who comes decked out in scrunched
bobby socks and brown loafers and clutches a 78 Sinatra single. >>
yeah, and after the show does one of Sinatra's bodyguards invite Barbie
backstage to clutch another "single"?
sorry to be so snide but i find this type of marketing so ridiculous.
tb
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:27:11 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
In a message dated 10/26/99 12:48:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
stroboscopica@hotmail.com writes:
<< I like to wear old mohair sweaters...
(...or it could read DJ Mo'hair for more hair, cause my folicles are rather
short). >>
i am partial to angora -- especially while directing.
and my follicles are rather short too (that is in number).
tb
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:38:01 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) KBZ info
In a message dated 10/26/99 2:19:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,=20
brian@PHYRES.Lan.McGill.CA writes:
<< A bit more info on the new KBZ release:
=20
The new single I picked up in Berlin is called:
Schlager on Parade
A: Arizona Man
B: Eine H=FCtte In Den B=E4uen
(Plastikray VEB 2000) >>
Because I am a freak about word origins (ask Mr. Mo'hair). Where do the=20
initials KBZ and the Plastikray VEB 2000 come from and what do they mean?
Tiki Bob
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:47:56 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Frankie
In a message dated 10/27/99 3:07:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mojoto@plex.nl
writes:
<< Li'l Ol' Blue Eyes is accompanied by his "biggest fan" --
Barbie the bobby-soxer, who comes decked out in scrunched
bobby socks and brown loafers and clutches a 78 Sinatra single. >>
yeah, and after the show does one of Sinatra's bodyguards invite Barbie
backstage to clutch another "single"?
sorry to be so snide but i find this type of marketing so ridiculous.
tb
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:51:20 -0700
From: Paul Penna <tterrace@sonic.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds......
>>THE
>>THIRTEEN FINGERS OF SIR JULIAN, both in VG+++ shape, thankyou....
>
>Great scores in FLAHrida! Sir Julian ROCKS! An excellent rekkid... I love
>the thirteen-fingered drawing on the back cover.
>
>My vinyl is in fantastic condition, though the bottom third of the cover was
>eaten by bugs. Miraculously, they left the inner sleeve untouched. Weird,
>huh?
I recently got a reel-to-reel of this via eBay. Alas, no 13-fingered
drawing on the back. I like the sound of "Caravan" on the reel (and on the
CD-R I burned, if I do say so myself) better than the cut on "Space Age Pop
Vol. 1" ("Melodies and Mischief"). Much more echo on the organ on the RCA
CD; on the reel, it sounds "liver." Also, the channels are reversed (or
maybe they are on the tape); the bass is on the right on the reel, on the
left on the CD.
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:57:56 -0700
From: Paul Penna <tterrace@sonic.net>
Subject: (exotica) Re: more CD Burning
>Sem Sintatra wrote:
>>I'm using a Mac, Toast 3.5.7 with a LaCie 4x 8x writer and need to make an
>>copy exact of an audio CD, which contains crossfades between tracks ...
>[...]
>>all i want to try to do is make an *exact* copy
>
>Cleve answered:
>>you cannot do that with Toast, as it automatically inserts 2 seconds of
>>blank space between tracks. You will need Jam
>[...]
>>If you don't care about index numbers, you can record the entire CD into a
>>digital recorder and save it all as one stereo track and burn a CD from
>>there. But the whole thing will be indexed as track 1.
>Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:
>I think you can only get Toast's gaps down to 1/2 sec or
>something--so yep, if you don't have Jam, the "make the whole thing
>Track 1" method is going to be the only way.
Adaptec claims that Toast 4.0 will do disc-at-once.
I use Discribe (came bundled with my Sony CD-R/RW writer). Allows you to
disc-at-once your own home-brew tracks, and also has a built-in selection
to clone a CD.
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:08:35 -0400
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
Tuesday October 26 1:38 PM ET
Hoyt Axton, Wrote Pop Hit 'Joy To The World', Dies
VICTOR, Montana (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Hoyt Axton, who penned
a string of pop hits including Three Dog Night's ''Joy to the World'',
has died at his Montana ranch at the age of 61, friends said Tuesday.
The cause of death was not announced but Axton, a large man who also
acted in movies and on television, had a history of ill health,
Nashville-based associate David McCormick said.
Axton was literally born to songwriting. His mother Mae Boren Axton
was a co-author of Elvis Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
Axton churned out his own list of hits beginning with ''Greenback
Dollar,'' recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio. Other chart-toppers
included Ringo Starr's ``No No Song'' of 1975 as well as songs
performed by Elvis Presley, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.
But his best-known song remains the 1971 Three Dog Night smash ``Joy
To The World,'' with its unmistakable opening line ''Jeremiah was a
bullfrog, was a good friend of mine...'' The song topped the charts
for six weeks.
Axton also acted in numerous movies and television shows, stretching
from ``Bonanza'' in 1964 to ``Diff'rent Strokes'' in 1984. He is
survived by his wife and several adult children.
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:10:32 +0000
From: the_curator@eat78rpm.freeserve.co.uk
Subject: (exotica) What's going on in London ... (hic)
Friends
I was chewing the fat with friends tonight ... (hic) and realised I know
far too little about what goes on in London these days ...
the places we mentioned were Club Montepulciano in Brockley, South London
and in Tottenham Court Road in London's West End and also the Dive Bar in
Gerrard St, Chinatown, which my neighbour Dave says play good music ...
Madame Jo-Jo's used to be good but I don't know if that's even going any
more ... I need to know more
i'm sick of going to places where they play shitty music, so i don't ...
but i want to know where they play good music ...
c'mon London .... start rowin'
friendly ... (hic)
Sem Sinatra
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:12:59 EDT
From: Pearmania@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
In a message dated 10/27/99 1:44:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Charles_Moseley writes:
<< PS. I have a load of crap (IMO) records that I want to get rid of soon. If
anybody is interested in The Monkeys' Head, Lalo Schifrin's Maquis De Sade,
Eric Soya's 17, Beat Girl soundtrack as well as a load of other
easy/exotica/soundtrack trash that I'll get round to listing in the next
few days, please email me.>>
I couldn't let anyone call Schifrin's Marquis de Sade crap and get away with
it! This is a great record and one of his most original. It may not have
any babes on the cover or bongos or moogs in the arrangement, but this record
ranks as one of Lalo's greatest achievements. This is not an exotica record
but an ingenious blend of jazz with baroque and classical styles.
If this is crap, I'm definitely interested in seeing your reject list.
Sean
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:03:27 EDT
From: BasicHip@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
<>
Count me in for this piece of shit would ya?
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:43:12 EDT
From: Dlsmay@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Hippies, Bikers and Go Go Scenes sounds sort of like my tape The Fabulous Go
Go Bastards.
Crime Jazz: Peter Gunn; Richard Diamond; Staccato; 77 Sunset Street; TV
Action Jazz; Mike Hammer; M-Squad; Burke's Law.
Spy Jazz: (more organ, less walking bass, more tenor sax - more sixties organ
jazz influenced, less arrangements using ex-Keaton, Woody Herman sidemen)
Mission: Impossible; Man From UNCLE; The Silencers; Mannix; Lalo stuff in
general.
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:34:16 +1000
From: "Philip Jackson" <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: Re: (exotica) dust liner musings
Hello there,
> I was looking over the dust liner from a late 60s Atlantic jazz album, with
> the many tiny pictures of other releases, and I spotted a couple of Sergio
> Mendes solo releases: "The Great Arrival" and "Favorite Things". Has anyone
> heard these? Compare and contrast with the Brasil '66 albums?
I have both of these.
"Favourite Things" has more piano, less vocals than Brasil '66 but is
otherwise in a similar vein. "The Great Arrival" is for piano and orchestra
and has some big arrangements of classic Brazilian songs.
> Joe Harriott & John Mayer - "Indo-Jazz Fusions"
I have "Indo-Jazz Suite" by Harriot and Mayer, the first of three in this
vein the last being "Indo-Jazz Fusions II". This is a fairly serious early
attempt to fuse contemporary jazz with classical Indian musicians and
instruments. It predates John McLaughlin and others by a few years (and in
fact features Rick Laird on bass later of Mahavishnu Orchestra). It is
pretty pedestrian though. No one seems to really break free from the
constraints of a pretty tightly written rhythm section. Interesting but not
quite jazz enough or Indian enough to get too excited about.
> The Charles Lloyd Quartet - "Journey Within"
This is basically some free(ish) jazz with Jack DeJohnette and Keith Jarrett
but recorded live in front of a "rock" audience at the Fillmore San
Francisco.
See ya
Philip
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:04:37 -0400
From: Wayno <studio@wayno.com>
Subject: (exotica) Kahimi Karie's second US release
I haven't seen it in stores yet, but Kahimi Karie's "K.K.K.K.K." should be
available in the states now, on Le Grand Magistery Records. The disc was
originally released in Japan in July of 1998, and is a good 'un. This
domestic version also has four remixes tacked on as bonus tracks.
1. One Thousand 20th Century Chairs
2. What Are You Wearing?
3. Qu'est-ce Que Tu Veux?
4. Clip Clap
5. Kahimie Karie Et Moi
6. Harmony Korine
7. The Harder They Come
8. Symphonies Of Beethoven
9. Only-Narita
10. What Is Blue?
11. Kahimie Au Telephone
12. What Are You Wearing? - Shinco Remix
13. Symphonies Of Beethoven - Add 'N' To (X)
14. Only Narita - Buffalo Daughter Remix
15. One Thousand 20th Century Chairs - Hirohisa Horie Remix
Worth checking out, but it'd be even better if her 1997 release "Larme de
Crocodile" were issued in an affordable domestic release. It's the finest
example of her wispy decadent J-Pop, with Karie playing the Birkin role to
Momus's Gainsbourgh.
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:25:37 EDT
From: Thinkmatic@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Gilberto & Tjader CDs for the asking.
Hello All,
I've recently been experimenting with some new vinyl restoration/noise
reduction software. In the process, I've ended up with a couple test CDs
that I was going to toss in the trash, but I realized that if you're not
listening with headphones they don't sound bad, so if anyone wants them, send
me your address and $0.99 in postage (in the US, if any of you aliens want
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:14:46 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Rex Gildo,Linda F. Pezzano,Abraham Polonsky
Rex Gildo
MUNICH, Germany (AP) û Rex Gildo, a German pop singer, died of heart failure Tuesday, three days after attempting suicide by jumping from his third-floor apartment window. He was 60.
Gildo died Tuesday night after three days in an artificially induced coma, the spokeswoman said. She spoke on condition of anonymity.
Authorities said Gildo had been suffering from psychological problems.
Gildo, whose real name was Ludwig Hirtreiter, rode to fame in the 1960s and '70s with hits like "Fiesta Mexicana" and "Speedy Gonzales." He continued to perform in recent years at events like folk festivals.
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -
Rex Gildo, once one of the brightest boy stars of German pop music, has died three days after throwing himself from an apartment window, doctors said Wednesday.
Friends said he was despondent about the decline of his show business career as he grew older.
The singer, who turned 60 in July, had been relegated to performing at supermarket openings and office parties. His coffee-colored tan, unnaturally thick black hair and determinedly youthful dress made him a figure of fun for some.
German media, for whom the country's indigenous pop stars are the stuff of exhaustive daily coverage, devoted pages to Gildo's anguish and accounts of heavy drinking.
He died in a Munich hospital on Tuesday night of injuries sustained in Saturday's fall.
``He wore his makeup ever thicker and wiggled his hips like he'd just turned 18,'' pop expert Thommi Herrwerth said. ``Rex Gildo looked like a bad copy of himself.''
Born Alexander Ludwig Hirtreiter, he had his first hit in 1960. One of several Germanized versions of American '60s idols who fused rock with the sing-along traditions of German folk music, his records sold millions of copies into the 1980s.
Best known was the clap-along favorite ``Fiesta Mexicana.''
October 28, 1999
Linda F. Pezzano, Promoter of ┤Trivial Pursuit┤ Game, Dies at 54
By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes (and a neighbor of mine - Lou)
Linda F. Pezzano, a marketing consultant who helped what was then an obscure Canadian board game, "Trivial Pursuit," achieve sales totaling more than $1 billion, died Tuesday at a hospice in Manhattan. She was 54.
She died of cervical cancer, said her brother David.
Ms. Pezzano's "Trivial Pursuit" campaign changed the way game makers do business. Dorothy Crenshaw, who worked with Ms. Pezzano in marketing games and other products, said the approach was based on drumming up favorable word-of-mouth comments, or "buzz."
For "Trivial Pursuit," she sent 1,800 top buyers who would be attending the 1983 New York Toy Fair a series of teasing messages in the months before the event. She also sent the game to Hollywood stars whose names were mentioned in its trivia questions. When some stars, including Gregory Peck, James Mason, Pat Boone and Larry Hagman, wrote letters of thanks, she used them in her promotions.
She also staged game-playing events at parks, bars, restaurants and ski clubs to stimulate conversation.
One virtue of her campaign was that it was cheap. By giving away a few hundred games at a $12 wholesale cost, a fad was started.
"She knew nobody would play a board game without getting their hands on it," said Chris Byrne, who in 1985 worked with Ms. Pezzano in selling the game Pictionary, a way of playing charades on paper. "She took games to the people," said Byrne, who is now editor of Toy Report, an industry publication.
Byrne said her direct approach to potential players contrasted sharply with what was then the standard -- and expensive -- practice: relying on television, movies and licensing agreements.
"She created the model that everyone now uses," he said. "Today we call it 'viral marketing."'
Giving games away was a major part of the strategy, and she and Byrne would sometimes pass out free Pictionary games to every passenger on a flight they were on. "We estimated that for every complete Pictionary we gave away, we sold between five and 12 more," he said.
Ms. Pezzano was born and raised in Schenectady. She came to Manhattan at 17 to become a folk singer. She attended Elmira College without obtaining an undergraduate degree but later earned a master's degree from Columbia Business School while working full time.
Besides her brother David of Schenectady, she is survived by another brother, Michael of Portland, Ore.
After a short stint with a public relations firm in the early 1980s she founded her own company, which took on "Trivial Pursuit" as one of its first projects. After her company was acquired by Dorf & Stanton in 1986, she moved to Italy, where she advised businesses on international ventures. In 1995, she returned to New York and started a new company, Pezzano Inc.
She continued to work on games, including a new sports trivia game called "Rules of the Game." Among her ideas was to sell it in sporting goods stores rather than toy stores, where board games are traditionally sold.
"You could go to Harvard Business School and learn how to do that," Byrne said, "but to Linda it was always just common sense, and fun."
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Screenwriter and director Abraham Polonsky, whose promising career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist of alleged Communists, has died at age 88, friends said Wednesday.
Polonsky, who waited 21 years between directing films because of the blacklist, was found dead Tuesday at his Beverly Hills home by a housekeeper, the friends said.
Polonsky was a leader earlier this year in protests against Elia Kazan receiving an Oscar for lifetime achievement in filmmaking because Kazan did what Polonsky had steadfastly refused to do -- name names of alleged Communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
At the time, Polonsky said, ``If Kazan simply said, 'It was a mistake and I'm sorry I did it,' he would not have to say another word. No one would pay any attention to any of this. It's just that he doesn't acknowledge his role in history and the Academy should not give an award of merit ... to this person.''
Polonsky and Kazan were contemporary filmmakers in the late 1940s when their careers took radically different paths with Polonsky's effectively coming to an end when he refused to testify before the Committee in 1951.
Kazan, who testified, went on to make some of the most celebrated films of the 1950s and 60s, including ``On the Waterfront,'' a film whose hero testifies before a committee investigating union corruption.
By the time Polonsky was blacklisted, he had written the screenplay for one screen classic ``Body and Soul,'' the prize fighting drama starring John Garfield and directed by Robert Rossen, and had directed and written another film widely regarded as a classic of the film
noir genre, ``Force of Evil,'' a blank verse gangster drama also starring Garfield.
Among his other scripting credits in the 1940s were ``Golden Earrings'' and ``I Can Get It For You Wholesale.'' He received an Oscar nominated in 1947 for his script for ``Body and Soul.''
During the period of his blacklisting, Polonsky wrote under assumed names for films and TV and worked as a script doctor before finally writing another script under his own name, ''Madigan'' in 1968 for director Don Siegel.
Then in 1969, he directed ``Tell Them Willie Boy is Here,'' starring Robert Redford, a drama about an Indian hunted down by society, which many critics saw as having parallels with Polonsky's own life.
In January, the New York City-born Polonsky received the Career Achievement Award of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Reuters/Variety
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