The larger of the two (on the north side) has EZ/Lounge CDs downstairs,
and LP comps and re-issues (EZ, jazz, soul, funk etc) also downstairs in
the Jazz section. Often worth a look.
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:51:45 +0100
From: dan hill <dan@state51.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
hi
the motion shopfinder's got a list of 80-odd record shops in london ... you
can browse through them to see which one's are most likely to stock exotica
...
and on places to go, i went to a bar in camden called 'bartok' recently
(opposite the roundhouse, more or less). i think it opened on the premise
that it would be solely classical music-based, but when i went, the dj was
playing a nice set of steve reich, philip glass and then john barryesque
film soundtracks ... not bad listening for a saturday night ... may've been
a one-off though ... anyone else been to bartok?
cheers,
dan.
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 17:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: delicado@cheerful.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Re: the Karminskys,
they are playing I think every Monday (could be Tuesday, sorry - I also don't live there any more) in a bar called 'Point 101' which is on the ground floor of Centre Point (corner of Charing X road and New Oxford st, by Tottenham Court Road tube).
I went along a few weeks ago, and it was very pleasant, if rather empty.
Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:07:45 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Rafael Alberti,Frank DeVol,Abraham Polonsky,Walter Francis Skees,Wes Berggren
The Associated Press
Friday, Oct. 29, 1999; 4:07 a.m. EDT
MADRID, Spain ûû Rafael Alberti, a renowned poet and the last survivor of Spain's Generation of '27 artistic group, died Thursday. He was 96.
The Generation of '27 was a loosely-knit group that included such writers as Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Jorge Guillen, artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali and filmmaker Luis Bunuel.
The group took its name from the year û 1927 û when Alberti and other literary figures met in Seville to pay homage to 17th century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora. Its members became some of the leading protagonists of the Surrealist movement.
Alberti became a member of Spain's Communist Party and was heavily involved in leftist politics in the 1930s. He started the revolutionary magazine Octubre (October) in 1934.
LOS ANGELES (AP) û Frank DeVol, who wrote scores for more than 50 films and won Oscar nominations for "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "Pillow Talk" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," died Wednesday. He was 88.
In addition to his motion picture scores, DeVol wrote theme music for the television shows "My Three Sons" and "The Brady Bunch," among others.
He also took on roles as a character actor, appearing in "Parent Trap," "Fernwood Tonight," "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" and "Silver Spoons."
He later wrote radio studio arrangements for such stars as Rudy Vallee, Ginny Simms and Jack Carson. He then moved to Capitol Records and did arrangements for Doris Day, Kay Starr, Tony Bennett and Vic Damone, among others.
Abraham Polonsky
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) û Abraham Polonsky, a director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who worked under pseudonyms and used other writers as fronts after being blacklisted in McCarthy-era Hollywood, was found dead Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. He was 88.
Polonsky was blacklisted for nearly two decades and had only nine films to his credit. He earned an Oscar nomination for writing the 1947 John Garfield boxing film "Body and Soul."
In the early 1950s, Polonsky's career was disrupted after he refused to testify about his Communist Party affiliations or name party members. His refusal prompted 20th Century Fox to fire him.
Though blacklisted, Polonsky never completely abandoned Hollywood. His best known work as an outcast scribe was the 1959 crime melodrama "Odds Against Tomorrow," which he co-wrote under the name John O. Killens. In 1996, the Writers Guild of America restored his real name to the credits.
Walter Francis Skees
CARMEL, Calif. (AP) û Retired Sgt. Maj. Walter Francis Skees, who sang for seven presidents in the White House as the Army's top vocalist, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 64.
Skees was a soldier from 1955 to 1983. He entertained Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.
In 1954, at 19, he was drafted into the Army, where he won a contest to select the service's best vocalist, following such notables as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence.
Nixon was a special fan, according to Skees' wife, Patricia. He would often ask the singing soldier to perform on the presidential yacht.
Skees also sang at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall and on television shows hosted by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Merv Griffin and others.
Skees recorded several albums, including one featuring favorite songs of the president's wives, and another with guitarist Charlie Byrd called "A Little Tenderness."
*Wes Berggren
DALLAS (AP) -- Wes Berggren, a guitarist and pianist for the
psychedelic rock group Tripping Daisy, was found dead in his apartment Wednesday. He was 28.
Investigators are awaiting the results of toxicology teststo determine the cause of death. Police said foul play was not suspected.
Berggren's wife discovered his body in their Dallas apartment.
Tripping Daisy blossomed onto the pop charts in 1995 with ``I
Got a Girl,'' a quirky single that propelled the group's second album, ``I Am an Elastic Firecracker,'' to sales of nearly 300,000.
Sales of the band's third album, ``Jesus Hits Like the Atom
Bomb,'' were sluggish, though. Island Records dropped them in 1998
as part of its merger between Universal and PolyGram Records, The
Dallas Morning News reported today.
Their core fans remained true, and the group, which formed in
the late '80s at the University of North Texas, had been performing at clubs around Dallas and Fort Worth in recent years.
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jane Fondle <jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Astroslut record release!-revised date
DATE IS NOV. 1ST....need more coffee....
Finally! Your very own Astroslut album, yours for the
Fondling!
LOVE AT ZERO G will be available as of MONDAY, Nov.
1st! You can order it through our Soundworks Studios
CD-order webpage...
cdalley.com
Or, you can contact us directly, as we will have
limited quantities to solicit ourselves!
Then, getcherself in a LATHER for our Record Emmission
Party! Astroslut has the honour of sharing the bill
with Seks Bomba at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA,
Sat. Nov. 13th! If you have been MEANING to check us
out, and haven't...well pal, those who don't come are
impotent, as they say! ;0
So, for some aural Viagra, ASTROSLUT!
Thanks so much to awllll of you!
xoxoxoxoox and mental manipulations....Jane Fondle
=====
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spectral lights, weird projections, and a maze where you'll be groped by<BR=
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the dead - they'll all be part of the environment where the Cacophony<BR>
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therapy: a carefully balanced mixture of Nick Cave and cartoon<BR>
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hands are stolen by night and grafted on with partial success. They tear<BR=
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Fever (featuring former members of Boy Scouts of Annihilation), The<BR>
Ghastly Griffith (AKA Rob Zabrecky) levitating, teleporting, and<BR>
transmutating objects, calling forth phantoms, and performing other acts<BR=
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of sorcery to stir your jaded sense of wonder, while DJ Don Bolles will<BR>
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:28:24 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) Frank De Vol (LA Times obit)
Friday, October 29, 1999
Studio Composer Frank DeVol Dies
Hollywood: Despite many Emmy and Oscar nominations, he was best known for 'Brady Bunch' theme.
By ELAINE WOO, Times Staff Writer
Frank DeVol did not invent the microwave oven. He did not climb the world's tallest mountain. Nor did he write a computer program that people cannot live without. He did more. DeVol wrote theme songs, winsome, bouncing, haunting ditties for television and the movies that invaded Americans' psyches and lodged there--like it or not--for years.
Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls . . .
DeVol wrote the music for those lyrics that have burrowed into pop culture history as the theme song for "The Brady Bunch," the kitschy 1970s sitcom enjoying perpetual life in rerun heaven. One of Hollywood's most popular musical arranger-composer-conductors, DeVol died Wednesday at age 88 in a nursing home in Lafayette, Calif.
His compositions include classic TV themes for "My Three Sons" and "Family Affair," as well as songs for such movies as "Pillow Talk," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "The Dirty Dozen" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
He began to write music for TV and film after a successful career in radio during the big band era, when he also arranged and conducted recording sessions for such stars as Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Jaye P. Morgan and Ella Fitzgerald.
During his seven-decade career, he received five Academy Award and five Emmy nominations. The latter included a nomination for the "Brady Bunch" song, which never failed to elicit the most rousing reaction whenever he mentioned or played his compositions. "People gave him tremendous ovations when they found out what he did," said Bob Weiss, DeVol's former publicist and longtime family friend. "They'd say, 'Oh, you're 'The Brady Bunch,' you're 'My Three Sons.' "
DeVol was born in Moundsville, W.Va., but was raised in Canton, Ohio, where his father was bandleader for the local vaudeville theater. DeVol joined the musicians union when he was 14 and played violin and piano for his father's band. Saving his earnings from $35-a-week appearances at a Chinese restaurant in Cleveland, he bought a saxophone next, learning to play it by watching other musicians.
By the late 1930s, he was playing and arranging for the Horace Heidt orchestra. When guitarist Alvino Rey left that band, DeVol began to arrange for him. By the early 1940s, DeVol was living in California and working the graveyard shift for Lockheed when he received a phone call from KHJ, then a Mutual Network radio station, inviting him to be the bandleader for a musical program. Before long, he was musical director for a host of radio personalities, including Ginny Simms, Rudi Vallee, Jack Smith, Dinah Shore and Jack Carson. That led to DeVol reading parts in comedies and becoming a radio personality himself.
Decades later, he married another figure from the big band era, vocalist Helen O'Connell. That marriage occurred in 1991, after the death of DeVol's first wife, Grayce. O'Connell died in 1993.
DeVol's break into movies and television came in 1954, when a friend got him a job on a low-budget Robert Aldrich film called "World for Ransom." The entire music budget was only $3,500, but DeVol took it because "I never turn anything down," he said. That movie earned him his first Oscar nomination and established him as a Hollywood composer. He wrote music for 16 Aldrich movies alone, including the 1967 box office hit "The Dirty Dozen."
By the early 1960s, DeVol had movie composing down to a science. "I make a chart," he told The Times in 1965. "If I'm scoring a picture and I know I've got to write 85 minutes of music and I've got 15 days to do it, that means I've got to produce five to six minutes of music a day. This way I don't dawdle along."
All together, DeVol wrote music for 47 movies and seven television series. He also acted, making appearances on the Jack Benny television show, the original "Parent Trap" movie and "Fernwood 2-Night," the 1977 sitcom about a talk show on which DeVol played a studio orchestra leader who ran a dental office on the side.
Overshadowing all those accomplishments over a seven-decade career, however, was that 21-line song about a "lovely lady" and "a man named Brady" whose notes DeVol wrote in a day. Although never a ratings hit, "The Brady Bunch" has provided much grist for analysis in the pop culture mill. Its depiction of a family happily solving mundane disputes over who does the dishes or gets to use the phone was so far removed from Vietnam era woes that it generated a camp following. Whenever DeVol, who was popular on the cruise circuit in his later years, spoke of his work to audiences, he found it was always the "Brady Bunch" tune that stirred them most. "When I mention 'Brady Bunch,' " he said a few years ago, "that's when the audience really applauds."
DeVol, a longtime resident of Toluca Lake before moving to San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Hills, is survived by two daughters, Linda Morehouse of Lafayette and Donna Copeland of Denver, and two grandsons.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Hollywood Hills. Donations may be sent to the Musicians Relief Fund, 817 N. Vine St., Hollywood CA 90038.
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:13:47 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <Quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Psychedelic Percussion (speaking of bootleg CDs...)
stroboscopica@hotmail.com wrote:
>>Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD
sound quality is - at least - as good as one can expect from a
pirate cd. i find the music itself brilliant: psychedelic exotica, with
percussion instruments run through special effects. 5 points on 5 for me.
Johan
quiet@village.uunet.be
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:24:00 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) fwd: crimeboss
Here's something to browse while listening to all that crime jazz.
- -Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
Crimeboss
http://www.crimeboss.com/
Created by Richard Wolfe to share some of the gems of his collection
of crime comic books from the 1940s and 1950s, this site features a
gallery of more than 100 crime comic covers in all their lurid and
exploitative glory. Comic fans and anyone else who gets a kick out of
trashy titles like "Crimes By Women," "Gangsters and Gun Molls,"
"Crime Does Not Pay," "Murder Incorporated," and "Teen-Age Dope
Slaves" will thoroughly enjoy this site. Although thumbnails are only
available for a few of the titles, all images load quickly and are of
excellent quality. Wolfe also offers commentary on several of his
favorites, the text of some articles on the history of crime comics,
