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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:07:50 EST
From: Thinkmatic@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Quadraphonics Revitited?
I've got some Enoch Light, Hugo Montenegro albums and others that were
recorded in quadraphonic stereo, and I've always wanted to hear them in that
form, but I don't and probably won't ever get a Quad system. It's kind of
like having a bunch of Stereo Action albums, but only having a mono deck to
play them on, I'm missing out on some aspect of the art, and I hate that.
Can someone quickly recap for me how Quad sound works? My feeble brain seems
to recall it being a stereo signal with some weird little carrier signal that
allows the receiver to subdivide the left & right channels into two
desecrate, predetermined parts.
I'm just trying to rudimentarily figure out if a digital audio application be
created to take recordings made from a quad album and easily convert the
signal to 5.1 surround sound or just 4 seperate wav/aiff tracks for real quad
playback on a home theater system or a computer.
If this seems to tech-noid for group discussion please respond to me directly.
- -Royberto
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:10:09 -0500
From: <nytab@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Eulalie M. Banks,John Benson Brooks,Arthur K. Marshall,Gene Levitt
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1999; 6:27 a.m. EST
LOS ANGELES ûû Eulalie M. Banks, a muralist, writer and illustrator of more than 50 children's books, died Nov. 12. She was 104.
At 18, she wrote and illustrated her first book, "Bobby in Bubbleland," published in London in 1913. After marrying Arthur L. Wilson, she moved to Pittsburgh and illustrated her first American children's book, a version of Mother Goose in 1921.
Her 1952 illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses," for which she earned $950, has sold more than 2 million copies and is still in print.
She returned to England for the decade surrounding World War II, continuing to work there, illustrating books, magazines, calendars and greeting cards. Several examples of her card designs were exhibited at the British Industries Fair in 1948, shortly before she returned permanently to California.
John Benson Brooks
NEW YORK (AP) û John Benson Brooks, a jazz composer, arranger and songwriter, died on Nov. 13 at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.
Brooks attained prominence with the composition "Just as Though You Were Here" (1942), which featured lyrics by Eddie DeLange. The song was recorded by Tommy Dorsey's band with vocals from Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.
His best-remembered hit, "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" (1948), with lyrics by Bob Russell, was originally recorded by Ray McKinley and his Orchestra.
Other songs of which Brooks was composer or co-composer included "Where Flamingos Fly," "Over the Weekend," "A Boy From Texas, a Girl From Tennessee" and "A Door Will Open."
A 1957 recording of jazz musicians improvising on music Brooks had written, "Folk Jazz, U.S.A.," on which Brooks played the piano, was praised by John S. Wilson in The New York Times.
Wilson wrote that Brooks's arrangements of "Shenandoah" and other familiar folk songs, based on the tunes' chord structures rather than their melodies, "emerge as relatively new compositions melodically, while retaining the evocative nostalgic quality of the source tunes."
"It's a good trick and it works out as valid jazz," he added.
Other jazz albums of Brooks's music were "Alabama Concerto" (1958) and "Avant Slant" (1968), which was a mixed-media collage featuring a performance of his 12-tone jazz work, "The Twelves." .
Born in Houlton, Me., he attended the New England Conservatory in Boston. In the early 40's he wrote musical arrangements for swing bands, including those of Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey.
He is survived by his wife, Peggy; two daughters, Stephanie Lee Brooks and Wendy Brooks Mitchell, both of North Palm Beach, Fla., and a grandson.
Arthur K. Marshall
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) û Arthur K. Marshall, the Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the first palimony case involving actor Lee Marvin and former live-in lover Michelle Triola Marvin, died Sunday of cancer. He was 88.
After the California Supreme Court issued its landmark Marvin vs. Marvin decision û legalizing suits for palimony by unmarried couples û Ms. Marvin had to take her case to a lower court judge for a ruling on how much money she was owed for her six-year relationship with the actor.
Before the state's high court ruling, non-marital relationships were seen by the law as "meretricious" and akin to prostitution.
Marshall awarded Ms. Marvin $104,000 for "rehabilitation," by computing $1,000 a week for two years based on her highest salary as a sometime singer, "so that she may have the economic means to re-educate herself and learn new employable skills."
The decision was later tossed out by an appeals court, leaving her with nothing.
Gene Levitt, 79, a TV Writer; Created 70's Hit `Fantasy Island'
By NICK RAVO,NYTimes
Gene Levitt, a television writer, director and producer who created "Fantasy Island," a popular show in the late 1970's, died on Nov. 15 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79.
The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Diana.
Born in Brooklyn on May 28, 1920, Levitt hitchhiked to Wyoming on a whim after seeing a billboard about the west. A few years later, he received a degree from the University of Wyoming.
He then went to work for City News Service in Chicago. His career in journalism was interrupted by World War II; he joined the Marines and served as a bomb disposal officer in the South Pacific.
After the war, he renewed a friendship with Robert Mitchell, whom he had met at the University of Wyoming, and they started working together. Their first joint project was the 1947 radio drama "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe." The series ran until 1949, with Gerald Mohr playing Raymond Chandler's detective. Mitchell, who went on to write for various television shows including "Charlie's Angels" and "CHiPs," died on Oct. 13 in a car crash.
Levitt wrote, directed and produced numerous television features and series. His best known credits include "Barnaby Jones," "Hawaii Five-O" and "Alias Smith and Jones."
His big hit, however, came in 1978, when he created "Fantasy Island," a romance about a faraway resort where guests' wishes were fulfilled by the suave Ricardo Montalban.
The phrase "Da plane! Da plane!" with which Montalban's diminutive assistant, played by Herve Villechaize, greeted the guests, has become part of the American lexicon.
The enormous success of the show, as well as others he produced, gave Levitt the freedom to pursue other interests; he lived on a sailboat in Hawaii for three years. He was also an avid poker player.
Besides his wife, Levitt is survived by three sons, Chris, of Seattle, Jon, of Cleveland, and Doug, of Santa Monica, Calif.; a daughter, Lisa Levitt of Pasadena, Calif.; two stepsons, Randy and Tony Markes, both of Los Angeles; two stepdaughters, Julie Markes Schine of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Jennifer Markes of Los Angeles, and four grandchildren.
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:02:34 -0500
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jaded
>At 02:01 PM 11/23/99 -0800, Peter Risser wrote:
>>
>>Anyway, does anyone else have a vaguely cheezy song
>>that sticks in the craw that just makes you super
>>happy to listen to?
I Want to Be Happy--I Want to Be Happy Cha Chas, Enoch Light
Cherokee-- xxxxx Percussion 2, Ted Heath
Bond 77--The Spy Who Loved Me OST, Marvin Hamlisch buries the Bond theme
under every conceivabl--Birthday Party, Nick Cave repeats same line, moving
from growling murmur to screams
Peter, please tell us where to send tapes. I'd love a copy of this
compilation! Thanks, Mimi
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:07:11 -0500
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jaded
Whoops that should be..
>Bond 77--The Spy Who Loved Me OST, Marvin Hamlisch buries the Bond theme
>under every conceivable disco cliche
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