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exotica-digest      Wednesday, December 15 1999      Volume 02 : Number 567



In This Digest:

(exotica) Stop and Shop....for Xmas Music!
(exotica) Spinning On Line
Re: (exotica) [obits] Shirley Hemphill,Elizabeth Zimmermann
(exotica) Spinning On Line pt.2
(exotica) Tiki Room SOP Handbook-1970'S
(exotica) tv picks
(exotica) exotic morocco
(exotica) The Bobby Hughes Experience
Re: (exotica) The Bobby Hughes Experience
(exotica) Fwd: Charles Earland RIP
(exotica) Charles Earland RIP
(exotica) [obit] Joseph Heller
(exotica) [obit] Early Wright
(exotica) I screen, you screen...
(exotica) no need anymore for "Burning CD-Rs: Overview of CD labeling kits"
(exotica) all you virtual dj's
(exotica) VCR machines
(exotica) Re: a seedy burning question: declicking on mac
(exotica) [obit]Milton A. ``Mickey'' Rudin
(exotica) [obit] Paul Cadmus
(exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century
(exotica) Mondo this, mondo that
(exotica) Franck Pourcel 85th birtday?
Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century
Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:51:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stop and Shop....for Xmas Music!

Just like the 6ts and 7ts, my local grocery store STOP
AND SHOP is carrying holiday music on CD and
cassette...They have titles I already own, like the
Beach Boys and Elvis Xmas albums....but for Bompers, I
picke up the surprisingly really fab PAUL REVERE AND
THE RAIDERS featuring Mark Lindsey and what appears to
be a Salvation Army brass band(!)...It is pretty
groovy in a post psyche-faux Monkees(while we are on
them) kinda way...Recommended!  But you cats probably
know that already, eh?
And for us geezers on Exotica...I got a reissue
ca-sette of either a Jack Jones Xmas rekkid or at
least a best-of from his Kapp era!  Some shmaltz, but
a heap of swing and swaggah too!
Spending CHRISTMAS WITH THE DEVIL(spinal tap!)
Jane Fondle...


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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:57:22 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) Spinning On Line

So, we all know that WFMU rules, both on air and on line ( http://wfmu.org ),
but I think even 'FMU partisans (like myself) have to admit that one of the best shows broadcast in the New York City area is David Garland's Spinning On Air.
Garland has a great home page at http://3garlands.com , and even better, he now has several of his SOA shows archived in realaudio.
- -Lou
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http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/SOAaudioarchive.html
     Hawaiian War Chant Extravaganza
     Industrial Shows (with guest Steve Young!)
     Psychedelic Soundtracks
     Flying Saucers
     John Barry
     Zorn on Bacharach

If you dig any of these shows, write a note to WNYC asking them to archive more -- there's plenty more available that they haven't put on-line yet.
- -ls




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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:02:15 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Shirley Hemphill,Elizabeth Zimmermann

That's sad news  . . . that the Cosby show is still on, I mean.  I had no
idea.

Will

Will Straw
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:34:21 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Spinning On Line pt.2

[more on Spinning on Air]
After poking around the SOA realaudio page, I discovered that not all the available shows were listed.
Here's the complete current list of shows - try 'em all!
- -Lou


http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soamoog.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soabacharach.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soabarry.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soadjs.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soaflysaucers.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soahawaiian.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soalinnell.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soapsychodelic.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soayoung.ram
http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soaaskew.ram




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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:53:39 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Room SOP Handbook-1970'S

Just noticed this item at eBay
Lou
[e-mail]
(PS  I have nothing to do with this auction -- I just think it's a cool item. You Tiki Room freaks may want to download the *.jpg files!)


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=217323314

Offered in this auction is a copy
of the Standard Operations                                            Procedures for the Disneyland                                         Enchanted Tiki Rooms. These                                           SOP's are used in the training and                                    orientation of new Hosts and                                          Hostesses for the attraction.                                         These SOPs were mostly written                                        by experienced Cast Members and                                       are very hard to find outside of                                      the park.
This SOP handbook is 6 pages and                                      includes a brief history of the                                       development of the Enchanted Tiki                                     Room, the Tiki Room Story, Facts                                      and Figures, and the "live"                                           narration for the host or hostess                                     at the beginning of each show. This                                   is a B/W photocopy, as were all of                                    the copies made for training, on 8                                    1/2 x 11 white paper.



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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:36:07 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tv picks

Among other items...

More Chaplin features and shorts tonight (Monday) on TCM.

(and AMC is running Buster Keaton features every morning circa 6am)

Laura (1944)
easy list reference, Vincent Price too
AMC - Monday night, 8:30pm, 2:45am (eastern)

How To Commit Marriage (1969)
Bob Hope vs. Jackie Gleason 'mod' epic
AMC - Tuesday afternoon, 4:00pm

In Like Flint (1967)
2nd Flint adventure
AMC - Wednesday night, 6:00pm

Biography: Connie Francis
A&E - Thursday night, 8:00pm, Midnight

American Drinks: History In A Glass
History - Friday night, 8:00pm, Midnight, 4:00am
Saturday afternoon, Noon
Early Sunday, 4:00am

True Hollywood Story: Dean Martin
E! - Friday night, 9:00pm

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
one more for VP
AMC - Friday night, 10:30pm, 2:05am

The Thief Of Bagdad (1940)
classic Hollywood exotica
AMC - Saturday morning, 6:30am

Winter A-Go-Go (1965)
w/ The Hondells, The Astronauts and more
AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am


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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:58:53 PST
From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotic morocco

well, ok, i know it is. but i just decided to bugger off to morocco for a
few days to escape the pre-christmas ultra insanity, and i was wondering if
anyone on this list (where better) has any cool ideas for places to go,
things (ie records! oh, and musical instruments) to look out for.
love
rob

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:36:30 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Bobby Hughes Experience

I heard a piece on WFMU a while back by a group called The
Bobby Hughes Experience.  The piece, called "Seasons", came off
of the 18th Street Lounge Soundtracks "Jet Society" compilation
(which I've since picked up and would highly recommend). Anyway,
this piece reminded me an awful lot of the Duke of Burlington...
so I'm naturally interested in finding out a bit more!  I've seen other
releases by the group listed but nothing is available locally to listen
to.  Does anyone know more about the group or what their releases
sound like or whether the piece I heard is typical of their sound?

Thanks,


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:30:21 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Bobby Hughes Experience

At 3:36 PM -0500 12/13/99, Brian Karasick wrote:

>I heard a piece on WFMU a while back by a group called The
>Bobby Hughes Experience.  The piece, called "Seasons", came off
>of the 18th Street Lounge Soundtracks "Jet Society" compilation
>.........Does anyone know more about the group or what their releases
>sound like or whether the piece I heard is typical of their sound?

There's one album and one 12" EP, both one the usually fine Ultimate
Dilemma label out of Britain. All of the 12" tracks are on the LP (which
may or may not be available on CD, I'm not sure); they are all organ driven
funky breakbeat tracks. I felt the EP tracks were the best ones (and
they're superb), but I've only needle dropped the LP once and may check it
out again. It's available at stores that sell electronic dance records,
usually in the breakbeat section.......although it could be in leftfield,
trip hop or downtempo as well. You might be able top get it mail order from
Juno Records in London
http://www.juno.co.uk/

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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:20:51 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Charles Earland RIP

>>From rec.music.bluenote:
>
>  According to the Associated Press wire early this morning, organist
>Charles Earland died in his hotel room in Kansas City, MO on Saturday
>morning after a performance.  The cause of death was not immediately
>known, but the medical examiner said that Earland died of natural
>causes.  He had a history of heart disease, so maybe that was it, but I
>don't know yet.  He was only 58.

His soundtrack to the blaxploitation film "The Dynamite Brothers" remain
one of the most interesting of the genrre. He had some mean funky organ
records as well.

br cleve


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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:29:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Charles Earland RIP

At 07:20 PM 12/13/99 -0500, Br.Cleve  wrote:
>>>From rec.music.bluenote:
>>
>>  According to the Associated Press wire early this morning, organist
>>Charles Earland died in his hotel room in Kansas City, MO on Saturday
>>morning after a performance.

I haven't seen an "official" obit yet, but go to the following URL for more
info:
http://elvispelvis.com/charlesearland.htm

- -Lou




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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:03:47 -0500
From: "Lou Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joseph Heller

                          *By HILLEL ITALIE
                      *Associated Press Writer
 NEW YORK (AP) -- Joseph Heller, whose darkly comic first novel
``Catch-22'' defined the paradox of the no-win dilemma and added a
phrase to the American lexicon, died of a heart attack at his East
Hampton home. He was 76.
 Heller died Sunday night, according to his wife, Valerie.
 Published in 1961 to mixed reviews, ``Catch-22'' became a cult
favorite before it was recognized as an American classic. It
eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States
alone.
 ``Oh, God, how terrible,'' author and friend Kurt Vonnegut, who
last spoke to Heller a week ago, said today. ``This is a calamity
for American letters.''
 Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times and a
longtime friend and New York City neighbor of Heller's, described a
dinner party in East Hampton last month.
 ``He had this never-flagging satirical wit that was always
entertaining -- except when you were in the path of one of his
accerbic bullets. But that evening, he was sweet-tempered and
somewhat subdued,'' Gelb said. ``I asked him if he was feeling
well. He said he regretted to report that age appeared to be
mellowing him and that people would have to stop referring to him
as a curmudgeon.''
 Heller based ``Catch-22'' on his experience in the Air Force
during World War II. He was a bombardier in combat over Italy and
flew 60 missions before he was discharged as a lieutenant at war's
end.
 He wrote five novels after ``Catch-22'' and co-authored the
nonfiction ``No Laughing Matter,'' which told of his bout in the
early 1980s with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing nerve
disorder from which he fully recovered.
 All his books inevitably were compared to ``Catch-22.'' For
millions of readers, the exploits of Capt. John Yossarian and the
rest of his bomber squadron seemed not so much larger than life,
but part of life itself.
 ``Catch 22'' was a circular, pitch-black tale that suggested a
devious collaboration between Twain and Kafka. It was the literary
equivalent of Stanley Kubrick's ``Dr. Strangelove,'' a vivid
document of the system's poker-faced insanity.
 Started in 1953 and published eight years later, the tone of
``Catch-22'' perfectly suited the disillusion brought on by Vietnam
and Watergate. The title alone was enough to suggest a universe
where the only hope for escape was by going crazy -- which, as the
good Colonel Korn would point out, was proof you were normal after
all.
 ``There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which
specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers
that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind,''
Heller wrote.
 ``Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask;
and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have
to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and
sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.''
 The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) defines a
catch-22 as ``a condition or consequence that precludes success, a
dilemma where the victim cannot win.''
 ``Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy,''
Heller once said. ``Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts --
and the question is: what does a sane man do in an insane
society?''
 The son of a delivery man, Heller was born in 1923 in the Coney
Island section of Brooklyn. He loved writing as a child and was in
grade school when he tried, unsuccessfully, to get a story
published by the New York Daily News.
 After working as a blacksmith's helper, Heller enlisted in the
Air Force in 1942. He was sent into combat two years later and
discovered war was nothing like the movies.
 Vonnegut said he and Heller were both marked by ``the greatest
lunatic asylum of them all: World War II.''
 ``He said to me one time that if it weren't for World War II
he'd be in the dry cleaning business,'' Vonnegut recalled.
 Heller began ``Catch-22'' while working as a copywriter for a
small New York advertising agency.
 The book didn't make much of an impact when it was finally
released, despite newspaper ads captioned ``WHAT'S THE CATCH?''.
Reviews were mixed and an author tour was deemed unnecessary.
``Catch-22'' wasn't on any major bestseller list during its
original hardcover release.
 But in 1962, S.J. Perelman praised the book to a reporter from
the New York Herald Tribune. Other articles appeared referring to
the novel's underground following. The author remembered meeting
John Chancellor and being shown ``YOSSARIAN LIVES'' stickers the
NBC newsman said he was putting up around the network's offices.
 ``When `Catch-22' came out, people were saying, `Well, World War
II wasn't like this,''' friend and fellow author E.L. Doctorow said
today. ``But when we got tangled up in Vietnam, it became a sort of
text for the consciousness of that time. They say fiction can't
change anything, but they can certainly organize a generation's
consciousness.''
 In 1994, Heller brought back Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman and a
handful of others in the novel ``Closing Time.'' Many critics
called it a lukewarm followup, but Heller considered it a sequel
only in the loosest sense.
 Set in present-day New York, ``Closing Time'' was Heller's
mellowest work, and his bleakest. It contrasted the optimism of
Yossarian, now wealthy and involved with a nurse, with a world that
seemed unlikely to outlive him very long.
 ``I tend to see my people as living in a vacuum, not anarchy,
but living in a void of meaning -- even my King David, who despairs
because God doesn't talk to anyone,'' Heller said.
 ``It used to shock me and alarm me and discourage me that there
was a general decline of everything of value. But it doesn't
surprise me anymore. It seems inevitable and natural and there's no
way to resist it.''



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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:03:22 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Early Wright

                           *Early Wright
    CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) -- Pioneering radio personality Early
Wright, whose nightly ``Soul Man'' broadcast spanned more than a
half-century and drew national media attention to his hometown's
blues and gospel heritage, died Friday. He was age 84.
    ``Early Wright was a local figure who grew into a national
legend,'' Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine,
said Monday.
    Wright died after suffering a heart attack Nov. 8.
    In 1947, Wright became the first black disc jockey in
Mississippi when he went to work at Clarksdale's WROX Radio. Until
his retirement in 1998, he hosted one of America's longest
continuous-running radio shows and interviewed many celebrities,
including Elvis Presley, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Ike and Tina
Turner and Charley Pride.
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NYTimes Joseph Heller obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/121399ap-heller-obit.html




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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 12:24:05 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I screen, you screen...

And I thought a C/Band satellite dish would take up too much room...
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=219058844



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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:17:37 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) no need anymore for "Burning CD-Rs: Overview of CD labeling kits"

i've received that "Burning CD-Rs: Overview of CD labeling kits" article,
so no need anymore for you kind folks to mail it to me.

        Johan

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:34:04 -0500
From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) all you virtual dj's

mix master all of those groovy sndtrks and exotic tunage you got on MP3
with this crazy thing... http://www.tactilepix.com/

its been out a while and you probably have seen it already but i just found
out about it.

not sure i wanna go there just yet, but some of you might!

cheers
bump

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:50:00 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) VCR machines

A question for you multimedia people on the list.  A colleague has asked me
to find out the name of the manufacturer in the USA that makes a VCR which
will

1) play and record NTSC VHS tapes
2) play back (only) PAL (European) VHS tapes

Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Hugh.



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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:25:33 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: a seedy burning question: declicking on mac

    not much choice for the mac platform, if you don't have thousands
of $ to spend. i use Arboretum's "RayGun" plug-in ($99,
http://www.arboretum.com), which removes noise (though not very well),
clicks, hum and rumble.
    you can run it in the bundled HyperEngine recording software, but i
wouldn't recommend it, as it is unstable and unreliable and slowwwwwwwwww.
    to record and edit, i now use Bias Peak LE ($99,
http://www.bias-inc.com), which accepts Premiere type plug-ins, like
RayGun. Peak let's you apply filters to portions of the audio, instead of
the whole file, and is quite fast in processing (declicking 40 minutes
takes about 5 to  10 minutes). download the Peak LE demo, which also
includes a RayGun demo.

    something i cannot remove though is that damned crackling noise!
any suggestions?

        Johan

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Bump wrote:

>i use a mac based system and...
>ok, so the question is to the 3 of you left...
>is there some sort of software that takes the clicks and pops from a
>"recorded" record or at least minimizes them???




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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:40:39 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [obit]Milton A. ``Mickey'' Rudin

 *Milton A. ``Mickey'' Rudin
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Attorney Milton A. ``Mickey'' Rudin, who
represented such famous clients as Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe
and Lucille Ball, died Monday of pneumonia. He was 79.
    Others he represented during his 52 years of practice included
the Jackson Five and casino mogul Steve Wynn.
    All loved him for his tenacity on their behalf and his breadth
of knowledge, said Lee Solters, a Hollywood publicist and family
spokesman.
    ``He had a great, great sense of humor, and everybody respected
his being so shrewd,'' Solters said. ``Legal advice, business
advice -- he was everything. He wore 15 hats.''
    Rudin, who argued cases involving copyright law and the rights
of heirs before the U.S. Supreme Court, also made several cameo
film appearances, earning the nickname ``The Judge'' for the roles
he played.
- ---------
UNCONFIRMED (picked up in alt.obituaries):
Chuck Higgins, legendary and veteran L.A. honking sax man ("Pachuco
Hop"), discoverer of the late Johnny "Guitar" Watson and all-around cool
guy passed away according to informed sources, likely this past weekend.
He'd been in ill health for some time.

Bobby Marchan, female impersonating veteran vocalist of New Orleans'
based Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns and hitmaker in his own right
("There Is Something On Your Mind") also passed, again, according to
informed sources.
- ---------
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through to the present day complete with pictures. See how
owners, architects, designers, interior decorators, and
employees have attempted to attract customers through
changing styles and with imaginative gimmicks in a fiercely
competitive real estate strip.
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:42:55 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Paul Cadmus

December 15, 1999
          Paul Cadmus, Artist Whose Work
          Spanned 70 Years, Dead at 94

          By HOLLAND COTTER,NYTimes

              Paul Cadmus, an American artist noted for a virtuosic figurative style
               that he applied to subjects ranging from biting social satire to
          moralizing allegories to sensual, sometimes sentimental male nudes, died
          on Sunday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 94.

          Cadmus found his inspiration in the art of Italian Renaissance painters like
          Mantegna and Luca Signorelli. His career was remarkable for its
          unruffled stylistic consistency over 70 years, from his days as a
          precocious student in New York in the 1920s through his incendiary stint
          in the 1930s with the federal Public Works of Art Project, later folded
          into the Works Progress Administration, and up to the present. Although
          he stopped painting a few years ago, he continued to sketch until his
          death.

          Because he was a slow, meticulous worker who favored the
          complicated, time-consuming medium of egg tempera, he finished an
          average of only two paintings a year. He was, however, more prolific in
          other forms, including drawing, printmaking and, early on, photography.

          His narrative subject matter -- he proudly referred to himself as a "literary
          painter" -- and his near-illustrational style, which often veered between
          grotesque caricature and high-pitched melodrama, fell out of favor with
          the art establishment during and after the rise of Abstract Expressionism
          in the 1940s. But by that time Cadmus had already achieved more than
          one widely publicized succes de scandale.

          In 1934, when he was employed by the Public Works of Art Project, his
          painting "The Fleet's In," depicting uniformed sailors, prostitutes and a
          homosexual pickup in progress was included in an exhibition at the
          Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Outraged officials from the Navy saw a
          newspaper reproduction of the painting and pulled the work from the
          exhibition. It was kept from view until 1981 and is now temporarily on
          view at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami.

          More agitation followed. When Cadmus' cartoonish, Bruegelian "Coney
          Island" appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1935,
          Brooklyn realtors threatened to file a civil suit to protest what they
          perceived as a slur on the neighborhood. And the sardonic scenes of
          suburban life that the artist sketched out for post office murals in Port
          Washington, N.Y., in 1936 resulted in the cancellation of the original
          commission. (It was carried out in easel painting format.)

          Cadmus, who was personally unconfrontational, went into retreat in the
          wake of these controversies. But the public was fascinated: his first
          one-man show in New York, at Midtown Galleries in Manhattan in
          1937, attracted more than 7,000 visitors.

          Paul Cadmus was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Dec.
          17, 1904. His father, who had little money, was a commercial
          lithographer who had studied with Robert Henri; his mother was an
          illustrator of children's books. At 15, before he finished high school, he
          was enrolled in art classes at the National Academy of Design. Within
          two years he was admitted to the life drawing classes and by 1926 had
          completed his course work, having won numerous prizes and
          scholarships.

          He took jobs in advertising until 1931, while continuing his studies at the
          Art Students League. There he met painter Jared French, who
          encouraged him to abandon commercial art. The two artists became
          lovers and traveled together to Europe, staying on the island of Majorca,
          where Cadmus executed two of his best-known early pieces, "Shore
          Leave" and "YMCA Locker Room," raucous, mock-classical tableaux
          vivants that anticipate "The Fleet's In."

          Cadmus returned to the United States in 1933 and was soon hired by the
          Public Works of Art Project. After the furor that greeted his work in the
          1930s, interest in him quieted down and his conservative, anti-modernist
          style -- "I have never been part of any avant-garde," he said -- left him all
          but invisible in the postwar art world.

          Yet he continued to produce work at a steady pace and was part of a
          cosmopolitan circle of writers, artists, musicians and choreographers
          whom he considered colleagues and friends. They included Christopher
          Isherwood, W.H. Auden, Donald Windham, George Balanchine, George
          Platt Lynes, George Tooker, Lincoln Kirstein (the husband of Cadmus'
          sister, Fidelma), and E.M. Forster who, the story goes, read his
          homoerotic novel "Maurice" aloud to Cadmus while the artist was
          painting his portrait.

          Although Cadmus' work is in the collections of most major American
          museums, he has received scant institutional attention in terms of solo
          exhibitions. He was included in a handful of important group shows,
          among them "American Realists and Magic Realists" at the Museum of
          Modern Art in 1943, but has been the focus of only a few one-person
          museum showcases. His cycle of paintings titled "Seven Deadly Sins"
          was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995; his "Sailor"
          series at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1996.

          A career retrospective was organized in 1981 by the Miami University
          Art Museum in Ohio; It traveled to the Hudson River Museum in
          Yonkers, N.Y. An exhibition titled "Men Without Women: Paul Cadmus
          as Curator" appeared at the National Academy of Design last summer.
          He was elected an academician of the National Academy in 1980 and a
          member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in
          1974. This year received the first annual international arts award from
          Pridefest America, an annual gay cultural festival, in Philadelphia. His
          work is represented by D.C. Moore Gallery in Manhattan.

          Cadmus was, at the time of his death, a senior exemplar of a vital, if
          submerged, academic realist tradition in American painting, one that has
          meandered in various guises from Thomas Eakins to Ivan Albright and
          Reginald Marsh and has resurfaced, yet again transformed, in the work
          of younger painters today.

          But Cadmus, with his cordial personality and handsome features
          sustained into old age, wore his Old Master status with aplomb. When he
          was photographed by Bruce Weber for Italian Vogue in 1996 -- his eyes
          bright, his skin clear and his silver hair long -- he easily held his own
          among the youthful models who surrounded him. When complimented on
          his well-preserved appearance he gave full credit "to Mother Nature and
          Father Time."

          He is survived by his companion, Jon Anderson, who was the model for
          many of his most serene figurative studies.




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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:22:29 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century

Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' "
as the most-performed tune of the century. The composition -- penned by
Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil, and a No. 1 hit in 1965 for
the Righteous Brothers -- recently passed the 8 million mark in
performances on U.S. radio and TV.

In the runner-up position on BMI's "Top 100 Songs Of The Century" list is
"Never My Love" (by Donald and Richard Addrisi), followed by "Yesterday"
(John Lennon and Paul McCartney) and "Stand By Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry
Leiber, and Mike Stoller). Each song has 7 million performances
.
Rounding out the top 10, with 6 million performances each, are "Can't
Take My Eyes Off Of You" (Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio), "(Sittin' On) The
Dock Of The Bay" (Otis Redding and Steve Cropper), "Mrs. Robinson" (Paul
Simon), "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and
Eddie Holland), "Rhythm Of The Rain" (John Gummoe), and "Georgia On My
Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell).

Top writers are John Lennon and Paul Simon, with four songs each on the
top 100 list.


Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:30:06 EST
From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mondo this, mondo that

>Also highly recommended, by me ;0, is Kai Winding's take on MONDO CANE!á
>The
>whole album sounds like TELSTAR by the Tornadoes, but it's rockin'!
>Ya' know, Kai ain't brought up much here, and he's great!á I love the DIRTY
>DOG album, especially!
>Jane Fondle
>
>
> >From: Bump <[e-mail]>
> >To: exotica mailing list <[e-mail]>
> >Subject: Re: (exotica) Mondo Cane Soundtrack
> >Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 23:15:32 -0500
> >
> >
> >cool,
> >á be sure to check out the film too.
> >quite a few surprises in there as well! (if your tummy can take it ;)
> >i went on a MONDOKICK two years ago and rented as many Mondo films as i
> >could.
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:47:49 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Franck Pourcel 85th birtday?

some mystery dutch speaking radio guy in Germany named "Suit" asked me if i
knew where Franck Pourcel would celebrate his 85th birtday on january 1,
but i have no idea. anyone on this list knows? "cc:" your reply to
<[e-mail]>, that's Mr. mystery's address.

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:23:32 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century

In a message dated 12/15/99 10:23:34 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' "
 as the most-performed tune of the century. >>

I thought it would be the "Happy Birthday To You" song.  I read that it is
licensed and the most sung and performed song.

Strange!

TB


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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:30:08 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Most Performed Tune of the Century

At 07:22 AM 12/15/99 -0800, chuck wrote:
>
>
>Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' "
>as the most-performed tune of the century. >
>In the runner-up position on BMI's "Top 100 Songs Of The Century" list is
>"Never My Love" (by Donald and Richard Addrisi), followed by "Yesterday"

I wonder what the list would like if it was limited to instrumental covers.
 Perhaps "Yesterday" would still be there but I doubt "You've lost.." would
even be in the top one hundred.  And certainly Bacharach would do a bit
better.
And Gershwin.  And Ellington.
Or maybe I'm wrong about that.

It's not really surprising that so many of the most performed songs of the
century are focussed on the sixties and seventies but somehow I don't want
to believe it.

I wish I could do a computer scan of my record shelves and come up with a
non-scientific survey of most performed instrumentals.

Maybe "Poor People of Paris" would win the number one spot.  Or "This guy's
in love" (that had to be on the other list)  "Up up and away",  "Patricia".
 "Baubles, bangles and beads".  "Caravan".  "Light my fire".  "Quiet
Village".  "I know a place".

It's times like these where, for a moment, I wish my obsession extended to
cataloguing.

Nat



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