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exotica-digest        Monday, December 20 1999        Volume 02 : Number 572



In This Digest:

(exotica) holiday tv
(exotica) Alessandro Alessandroni
Re: (exotica) Obituaries
(exotica) Fwd: epulse 5.47 [excerpt]
(exotica) Looking for information
Re: (exotica) Looking for information
(exotica) annoying music cd
(exotica) [obits] Rex Allen Sr.,Grover Washington Jr.,Desmond Llewelyn,Andy Wiswell,Gloria Caruso Murray
Re: (exotica) Alessandro Alessandroni
(exotica) Liza! & Neil Young
(exotica) Stuff
Re: (exotica) annoying music cd
Re: (exotica) annoying music cd
Re: (exotica) cover scan Zounds! What sounds!
Re: (exotica) [obits] Desmond Llewelyn,An...
Re: (exotica) [obits] Rex Allen Sr.,Grover Washington Jr.,Desmond Llewelyn,An...
Re: (exotica) Liza! & Neil Young
Re: Re: (exotica) [obits] Desmond Llewelyn
(exotica) [obit] Hank Snow

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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:35:38 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) holiday tv

Coming right up is:
Black Orpheus (1959)
Bravo (US) - Early Monday, 4:00am (easterm)
Monday afternoon, 4:00pm

Don't miss the brainwashing scenes:
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
AMC - Monday afternoon, 5:45pm

TCM has another Monday night full of Charlie Chaplin.

AMC continues with Buster Keaton every morning, 5 or 6-ish.

TBS has cheesy 70s occult documentaries Monday through Thursday at 2:00pm.

A classic police procedural with lots of NYC street footage:
The Naked City (1948)
AMC - Wednesday afternoon, 12:30pm

The bizarre 'military nerds fly to Mars and pointlessly shoot stuff' epic:
The Angry Red Planet (1959)
AMC - Early Friday, 4:00am

Sci-Fi runs a batch of Abbott & Costello monster movies Saturday, beginning
at 9:00am.

Have an Ape Law Christmas -- TBS runs the Planet Of The Apes movies
Saturday, beginning at 9:30am. Followed by Nicholas Ray's "King Of Kings"!

TCM runs a foursome of Hitchcock movies Saturday night, beginning at 8:00pm
(Dial M For Murder, Suspicion, The Birds, Marnie).


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 05:38:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alessandro Alessandroni

I have only heard a few tunes he was involved with,
but each one is the balls.  Does anyone have any
opinions on this person or suggestions of a place to
start?

Thanks!
Peter

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:48:04 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Obituaries

I love 'em, learn a lot and have written down a few notes to check out =
various writer's works, etc......

Exotica or not - they're great!

(Whiners..........)

- - Nate




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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:38:07 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: epulse 5.47 [excerpt]

epulse mailing list <[e-mail]> wrote:
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CONTENT / December 17, 1999

3. WEIRD KIDS' ALBUM OF THE WEEK:

Ever since today's generation discovered the aural delights of Esquivel,
Les Baxter and other lounge music practitioners, musical archeologists have
ventured into ever darker corners looking for forgotten gems. So it was
only a matter of time before the fertile field of children's music became a
subject for further study. 'LISTEN COMPUTE ROCK HOME: THE BEST OF DIMENSION
5' (Emperor Norton), created by BRUCE HAACK, ESTHER NELSON and DIMENSION 5,
is a prime example of a late-'60s time capsule that, upon airing, renders
the jaw slack in mute amazement. The recordings here -- testament to an
innovative child-development program -- are low-budget DIY but as vivid as
a B-movie before the Hays Code, bursting with odd noises, silly voices and
overall weirdness, like some freeform multimedia art project of that era.
Some will hear the influence of drugs, no doubt, but what it really sounds
like is unbridled creativity without a hint of self-consciousness. The late
Haack, who had some renown as a electronic musician (he did an album for
Columbia in 1973 called 'The Electric Lucifer'), and Esther Nelson were
worthy co-conspirators, whether simulating a "Motorcycle Ride" in
easy-to-follow directions or warning of "Army Ants in Your Pants." This CD
may be too loopy for today's kids (the 2-year-old I lab-tested appeared not
to listen at all) but adults will find it fascinating, if occasionally
unsettling. (Melton)


This week's epulse8 contributors: Peter
Melton

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 07:12:30 -0800
From: "Brian Linds" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Looking for information

Hi everyone! I have a few queries...I'm new to this list, so if this pushes
the boundries of Exotica let me know.....
1. Does any one know who has the lowest singing voice in the world? J.D.
Sumner held this record for six years. Who is it now?
2. For my Canadian friends....Does anyone recall a 1974 7" called Fight On
Manitoba by Alden Diehl? It's like Eddie Lawrence's The Old Philosopher but
relates to 6 months of a Manitoba winter. (Your car won't start...The pipes
have burst....But FIGHT ON MANITOBA...FIGHT ON!)
3. Walt Pascoe...Wilma The Belgian Mare. The story of the world largest
horse who was saved from the dinner table and put on show for all the
kiddies to enjoy. Any background information that's not on the record
jacket?
4. Weight Control by Audio Therapy. A Lions Club Fund Raising Activity.
Subliminal suggestions as every pause in the narraration is taken out so the
listener can enjoy the record at 500 words a minute. Of course, backed by
lush strings. Who is the Better Life Institute?
5. Superman and the Mystery of the Mad Minnows. Anyone know the voices
behind this Power records release?
Thanks,
Brian




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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:44:40 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Looking for information

Brian Linds wrote:
>
> Hi everyone! I have a few queries...I'm new to this list, so if this pushes
> the boundries of Exotica let me know.....

> 2. For my Canadian friends....Does anyone recall a 1974 7" called Fight On
> Manitoba by Alden Diehl? It's like Eddie Lawrence's The Old Philosopher but
> relates to 6 months of a Manitoba winter. (Your car won't start...The pipes
> have burst....But FIGHT ON MANITOBA...FIGHT ON!)

Welcome to the list!
Having spent many frigid winters in Manitoba, yes, I remember that
"song" well - it was played pretty regularly on Don Percy's morning show
(it's been awhile - I can't remember the station).  It was quite
amusing, although it tended to get a little monotonous after many
repeated listenings!

cheryl (who no longer has to deal with Winnipeg winters!)


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:50:20 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) annoying music cd

There's a show on Chicago's public radio station called "The Annoying Music Show" (which sounds like a knockoff of Irwin Chusid's old "Atrocious Music show".)

They are selling a CD. From the show's website:
The Annoying Music Show! CD. To order call 888.590.OUCH.

Has anyone heard this CD, know what's on it, or can recommend for/against it??


Lou
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:16:29 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Rex Allen Sr.,Grover Washington Jr.,Desmond Llewelyn,Andy Wiswell,Gloria Caruso Murray

Our motto: Celebrating the life, not morbidly dwelling on death.
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    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Rex Allen Sr., a singer and actor in
Westerns who also served as the voice on Walt Disney films and TV
shows, died from injuries suffered when he accidentally was run
over by a car. He was 78.
    Police believe his caretaker did not realize Allen was behind
the car when she began to back it up, police spokeswoman Judy
Altieri said. Detectives were attempting to determine whether Allen
had fallen before he was hit.
    Allen, who grew up on an Arizona ranch, starred in several
western movies, including a 1949 film called ``The Arizona
Cowboy,'' and in a television series called ``Frontier Doctor.''
    His signature stallion for the western movies, Koko the Wonder
Horse, was added in his second film, ``The Hills of Oklahoma.''
    Among his narration credits are more than 80 Walt Disney films
and the animated classic, ``Charlotte's Web.''
    He got into music before reaching his teens, playing guitar and
singing with his fiddle-playing father at dances.
    His professional break came in the 1940s when country star Roy
Acuff heard him with a band in Quakertown, Pa.
    Though the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville hired Eddy Arnold instead
and Arnold went on to fame, Allen joined with the National Barn
Dance on WLS in Chicago and subsequently was signed by Mercury
Records. His hits included ``Streets of Laredo'' and ``Crying in
the Chapel.''
    Allen, who would have turned 79 on New Year's Eve, moved to
Tucson from Willcox about three years ago.

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    NEW YORK (AP) -- By fusing jazz with soul music, saxophonist
Grover Washington Jr. became one of the first young musicians on
the jazz-funk scene.
    Washington, who died Friday at age 56, once described his own
style as short stories without words, impressions turned into
sound.
    ``There's a record player playing in here all the time,'' said
Washington, pointing to his head in a 1989 interview with The
Associated Press. ``I'm listening to everything. The screech of
brakes. Three or four people walking and you can hear their heels
clicking. Railroad tracks.''
    Washington died Friday night after a television taping.
    He collapsed Friday evening, after taping a performance for CBS'
``The Saturday Early Show,'' and later was pronounced dead at St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital.
    Washington was one of the first musicians to enter the jazz-funk
scene.
    His career highlights included playing at President Clinton's
50th birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall in 1996. He also
played in a jazz and blues jam with the president and other jazz
greats including Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis in 1993 after a
White House concert celebrating jazz.
    Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Washington was introduced to music by his
saxophone-playing father. He joined his first band -- The Four Clefs
- -- as a teen-ager in 1959.
    In the early 1960s, Washington moved to Philadelphia, which
became his home for life. He honed his rapid-growing abilities,
playing in clubs until being discovered by organist Charles
Earland, who put the young Washington on one of his albums.
    Washington's career took off in 1970 when he was featured on
Johnny ``Hammond'' Smith's ``Breakout.''
    Producer Creed Taylor signed Washington in 1971, who soon after
released his debut album, ``Inner City Blues.'' It nearly wasn't
his big moment, though. The solo had been intended for tenor
saxophonist Hank Crawford, but Crawford couldn't make the studio
date at the last minute.
    After signing with Elektra, Washington put out his most
successful piece. ``Winelight'' made it to No. 5 on U.S. record
charts. The album, which featured vocals by Bill Withers on the
song, ``Just the Two of Us,'' reached the No. 2 position on the
nation's charts in 1981.
   NEW YORK, Dec 18 (AFP) - US Grammy-award winning jazz
saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. died of a heart attack, a St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital spokesman said Saturday.
   The spokesman said Washington, a pivotal figure in the US pop
music scene  whose work bridged jazz, funk and rhythm and blues,
died in the emergency room of the hospital in Manhattan at 7:30 pm
Friday (0030 GMT Saturday).
   He was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed while taping a
television program for CBS television. Washington celebrated his
56th birthday last Sunday.
   The artist, famous for his unpretentious manner, lived in
Philadelphia, where he met his wife Christine, and married her in
1967. His relationship with Philadelphia-born Bill Cosby led to him
recording the theme music for numerous seasons of "The Cosby Show."
   He was due to play next month at the inauguration ceremony of
Philadelphia Mayor-elect John F. Street, who described him as "the
jazz legend who lived next door."
   "Despite his worldwide celebrity, he had a deep sense of civic
and community consciousness," said Street.
   "He was always there when Philadelphia needed him. And, wherever
he traveled, he never let anyone forget that he was a true son of
Philadelphia."
   Washington's love of music began as a child growing up in
Buffalo, New York where his mother sang in church choirs and his
father, an amateur C-melody saxophonist, bought him a saxophone at
age 10.
   He claimed to have played professionally from the age of 12
onwards, "a lot of RetB, blues, and what we used to call 'gut
bucket'" and after joining the Army he continued to play, mainly in
New York and Philadelphia.
   Washington stepped into the national spotlight in 1971 with his
interpretation of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues," and his
best-known album, "Winelight," was a US top-10 record that won two
Grammy awards.
   His 1974 hit album "Mr. Magic" sold more than half a million
copies, a number unheard of for a jazz-soul record.
   His single "Just the Two of Us," featuring Bill Withers on
vocals, reached number two on the US charts in 1981; his most recent
album, "Soulful Strut," was released in 1996.
   "I like to think of myself as a singer whose voice is a
saxophone," said Washington.
   He said his style was to "approach each song as a self-contained
short story."
   "I honor melody. I'd rather caress a melody than overwhelm it. I
see myself as a servant of melody, a respectful interpreter."
   Although critical acclaim during the 1970s made Washington a
sought-after performer in concert halls across the United States,
some jazz purists dismissed his "fusion" jazz style as too strongly
influenced by pop music.
   The style, however, laid the foundation for contemporary
smooth-jazz saxophonists.
   Washington performed at President Clinton's 50th birthday
celebration at Radio City Music Hall.
   He leaves a son Grover III and daughter Shana.


    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- With a combination of technical prowess and
heart-on-his-sleeve passion, Grover Washington Jr. brought jazz to
the masses and influenced a generation of young musicians.
    The 56-year-old saxophonist, who won a Grammy award with his
1980 breakthrough album ``Winelight,'' died late Friday after
collapsing at a television taping in New York City. He had lived in
Philadelphia since 1967.
    ``As a person he was the sweetest guy in the world ... so humble
for such a giant of a talent, which is a rare quality in this
profession to find in a person,'' Peter Nero, conductor of the
Philly Pops orchestra, said Saturday.
    ``He will sorely be missed. Whether we'll ever hear anything
like him again, I don't know,'' he said.
    Washington's virtuosity on soprano, tenor, alto and baritone
saxophones -- amplified by his crossover style that blended elements
of jazz, pop and soul -- resulted in numerous Grammy nominations
during his 40-year career. ``Winelight'' won two Grammy Awards, for
best jazz-fusion recording and for best R&B song for the title,
``Just the Two of Us.''
    President Clinton said in a statement that he would ``always be
grateful for the honor of playing saxophone with Grover back in
1993, after a White House jazz concert, and for the wonderful music
he performed at my inaugural celebrations and my 50th birthday
celebration.
    ``Grover Washington was as versatile as any jazz musician in
America, moving with ease and fluency from vintage jazz to funk,
and from gospel to blues to pop,'' Clinton said. ``I will miss both
the man and his music.''
    Washington played as a guest with the Philly Pops for four
performances last year and was a collaborator on one of Nero's
recordings.
    ``He was a great role model for kids through his work bringing
music to schools,'' Nero said. ``He was a rare human being and a
rare artist.''
    At the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, an
institution believed to be the only music school ever established
specifically for jazz instruction, Washington often made speaking
appearances and mentored young talent, including the local combo,
Pieces of a Dream.
    ``Grover is the father of the modern saxophone, the father of
the new sound. The thing Kenny G and some of the others are doing,
Grover was doing first,'' said Lovett Hines, 56, the Clef Club
education program director and who knew Washington since 1966. ``He
could play all the horns with the same emotion, facility, warmth,
beauty, polish and passion.''
    Hines called a past July 4 performance in Philadelphia by
Washington ``the most devastating performance I ever heard. He
switched horns four times but you never heard a break'' in the
flow.
    ``I just can't see anyone else like him coming along,'' Hines
said. ``I haven't heard anyone at this point with the originality
and more than anything else, that groove that he had.
    ``Other guys play the melody really pretty and they do all the
high notes, but I never heard anyone do it like Grover. Maybe it's
a lost art,'' he said.
    Clef Club teacher Charles Bowen, 56, also started playing with
Washington in 1966 and said his style is often imitated but will
never be duplicated. While some critics have called his ``smooth
jazz'' style too commercial, Bowen said Washington simply played
from the heart.
    ``People gravitated toward his music because it was real,''
Bowen said. ``We tell our students that to play something as a way
of making a living is dishonest; to play something that comes from
the depths of your soul is honest. And Grover was honest.''

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    FIRLE, England (AP) -- Desmond Llewelyn, who starred as the
eccentric scientist Q in a string of James Bond films, was killed
in a head-on car crash Sunday, police said. He was 85.
    The collision, which happened near the town of Firle in East
Sussex, came as Llewelyn was returning alone from a book signing.
The three occupants of the second car were believed to be in stable
condition.
    The actor was best-known for his role of Q the gadget expert who
equipped 007 with the latest spy tool -- from toxic fountain pens to
deadly umbrellas -- in 17 Bond films dating back to ``From Russia
with Love'' up to the recent ``The World Is Not Enough.''
    Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal
mining engineer. He landed the coveted role of Q despite the
director's attempts to have the character speak with a Welsh
accent.
    ``My interpretation of the character was that of a toffee-nosed
English,'' he once said. ``At the risk of losing the part and with
silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using
the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English.''
    Despite achieving near-cult status for his on-screen dexterity
with gadgets, Llewelyn said he was a bungler in real life.
    ``Most gadgets expire or explode as I touch them,'' he said in
an interview in October.
    Llewelyn lived in Bexhill, East Sussex. He leaves two sons,
Ivor, 50, and Justin, 45, and two grandchildren.
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                           *Andy Wiswell
    AIKEN, S.C. (AP) -- Producer Andy Wiswell, whose musical career
spanned crooner Rudy Vallee to the 1960s Broadway musical ``Hair,''
died Friday following a short illness. He was 94.
    Wiswell got his start at his alma mater of Yale University,
playing trombone in the Yale Collegiate Band with Vallee. He won a
1968 Grammy as producer for best score from an original cast album
for ``Hair.''
    In between, the producer worked on recordings with Perry Como,
Kate Smith, Judy Garland, Harry Belafonte, Chet Atkins and Barry
Sadler of ``Ballad of the Green Berets.''
    He had five other Grammy nominations for his work with Broadway
cast albums, including ``I Do! I Do!'' with Mary Martin in 1967.
Some other noted Broadway musicals he worked with were ``Music Man,
``Hello, Dolly,'' ``Show Boat,'' and ``The Unsinkable Molly
Brown.''
    Wiswell, who was born in Maine, retired to Aiken in 1973.
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 *Grant King
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Former Indianapolis 500 car owner and
builder Grant King died Friday from injuries in a traffic accident
near his Danville, Ind., home.
    King, 67, disregarded a stop sign and pulled into the path of a
pickup truck about 9:15 a.m. Friday, Indiana State Police said.
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 *Gloria Caruso Murray
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Gloria Caruso Murray, a visual artist
who was the last surviving child of opera tenor Enrico Caruso, died
Dec. 5 of cancer. She was 79.
    As a child, Gloria Caruso tried to live up to the musical
world's hopes that she had inherited her father's vocal abilities.
Her mother was Dorothy Benjamin, the daughter of a wealthy New York
attorney, who created a stir by marrying Caruso in 1918.
    Only hours after his daughter's birth on Dec. 18, 1919, Caruso
tossed the girl into the air, peered into her mouth and announced,
``Ah, she has the vocal cords, just like her Daddy!'' according to
a New York Times report at the time. Caruso died 1 1/2 years later.
    His daughter made her first record at the age of 8, then, as an
11-year-old, made a test recording for the RCA Victor label and
took singing lessons from renowned tenor John McCormack.
    Over the years, though, it became apparent that Mrs. Murray did
not have the voice to follow her father. In 1942, she told a
reporter that she was studying art at the Art Students League in
New York and that she had come to prefer the visual arts to music.
    ``I've always been torn between art and music,'' she said.
``Daddy drew and sculptured as a hobby.''
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December 20, 1999
Dorothy Allison, 74, `Psychic Detective'
Consulted by Police
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:45:28 +0100
From: Dj Batman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Alessandro Alessandroni

Peter wrote:
>I have only heard a few tunes he was involved with,
>but each one is the balls.  Does anyone have any
>opinions on this person or suggestions of a place to
>start?

oops. You shouldn't ask for it in this list. You could end up buying an
Alessandroni DAM CD on mp3.com (yup, on of the artists I represent on
the'net!) :)

take a look at
http://www.mp3.com/alessandroni
for a few free mp3's, some info and a dam cd... we should improve graphics
on that one but I am not able to do it until I get a better cover scan...
btw - the cd is still specially priced at a ridiculous $6.
"El Puro" came out a few years ago on Film Music Art Studio/Hexacord in
Italy, co-produced and distributed by Soundtrack Deletions (UK) which
specializes in this kind of film music material. The cd audio is now
deleted and I got a license for Internet distribution... I am now in the
process of renewing it and hopefully get some new Alessandroni jewels
online... keep your fingers crossed... :)

Also, the Maestro was featured artist on riffage.com in August (ahem - if
you notice a couple of paid downloads on that site: we are now going to
changer that and put more free stuff on it plus more mp3's for sale, as
those tracks on riffage are already all free on mp3.com)

err. sorry for the gratuitous plug. ;)

Nicola/DjB


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:27:16 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liza! & Neil Young

Hi Elizabeth

You are great to move up to those $75 seats.   I recently did the same for
Neil Young ($150)  and it allowed me to go backstage after the concert and
meet the man.  It was a prootional  charitable concert for Bridge House.
Well Neil is lead around the room to shake hands with everyone.

I swear Elizabeth,  he was the wierdest human I ever met.  Glassy stare,
looked like he'd been heavily sedated,  strange grimacing smile.  he walked
like a zombie and had to be lead to each person.   His hands were wrinkled
but incredibly soft.   It was one strang experience and all because I moved
up from the $35 to the $150 front seats.

Liza sounds like a riot!  As usual I'm a wishing I lived in NY.

So what have you heard recently that caught your fancy??

Any new articles in the Villiage Voice or elsewhere?    I really think you
write fantastic and you sound so intelligent

Chuck

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:52:41 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stuff

Howdy, everybody:

I've been quiet on the list for the last few months, but enjoying it all and
I thought I'd weigh in with some holiday greetings.

I was in Mexico City about a month ago.  Videovisa has a nice new
series "Estrellas del cine a go-go", with music-themed movies
and fab Mexican sexadelic stuff.  I picked up the Esquivel film
La Locura del Rock'n Roll, which is truly wonderful, and another
one, from 1970, entitled Click Fotografo del Modelos, about, well,
a photographer who luvs the women and lives in a bachelor pad
decorated in the kinds of colours that 1970s film stock gives you.
I'd have bought all the others in the series, but I ran out of money,
and am trying to get friends to bring them up on their next visits, though
there is one about two comic priests that I hope they'll overlook.

My friend Johanne and I spent most of last week trolling through
Vermont and New Hampshire where every downtown, it seems,
has been turned into antique/collectibles row, while the real people
shop at malls near the interstate.  Lots of pretty good albums at 50 cents
a throw, and a treasure trove of 1950s crime magazines for $3 each in
upstate New Hampshire.  The prize was the "Professional Copy:  for use
by physicians" of the Capitol boxed set of 78s, "Listen and Relax" (Organ
by Buddy Cole), but that's probably going to be my Christmas present
for keir-from-bossanovaville, late of this  list, unless I can find him
something
else and have a reason to keep that.

Fo much of the trip, we listened to the first tape Nat
Kone ever sent me, which mostly consists of  those late 1960s/early 1970s
country songs which use sitars and have gruff voices singing about
meeting hippies on the street and what we'd do to Jesus if he came
back to today's world.  That had me searching for more of this kind of
stuff in all these junk and antique stores, but to little avail.

More later,

Will





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Will Straw, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:18:28 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) annoying music cd

>There's a show on Chicago's public radio station called "The Annoying
>Music Show" ...>They are selling a CD. ... >Has anyone heard this CD, know
>what's on it, or can recommend for/against it??

Haven't heard the CD or the show, but I did listen to an NPR interview with
one of the hosts--very witty. Sort of Golden Throats/What Were They
Thinking?!? stuff..i.e., Senator Sam Erwin doing White Room (made that up)
but it's typical of the programming. Could you, would you please send the
URL for the show? Thanks! And thanks, Lou, for posting the obits. Mimi




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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:12:45 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) annoying music cd

Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Haven't heard the CD or the show, but I did listen to an NPR interview with
one of the hosts--very witty.
Could you, would you please send the
URL for the show? Thanks!

The Annoying Music Show's URL is:
http://www.wbez.org/schedule/ams/ams.htm

- -Lou
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:46:59 +0100
From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) cover scan Zounds! What sounds!

Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek wrote:

> Could someone please send me a gif or jpg of the cover of Dean
> Ellliott's Zounds! What sounds?

Thanks to Kini, Byron and Brian I now have enough covers to decorate an entire
wall! Thanks for the quick response guys. And happy holidays to all you exotic
people out there.

By the way, King Kini alerted me to this site, which looks very promising:
 http://www.showandtellmusic.com

Marco

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 Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
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 Record Collector's Heaven
 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:42:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Desmond Llewelyn,An...

In a message dated 12/20/99 10:57:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< The actor was best-known for his role of Q the gadget expert who
 equipped 007 with the latest spy tool -- from toxic fountain pens to
 deadly umbrellas -- in 17 Bond films dating back to ``From Russia
 with Love'' up to the recent ``The World Is Not Enough.''  >>

An interesting note regarding the above statement that I am glad they got
correct!

I was loosely listening to one of the game shows (possibly Jeopardy!) and
they asked the question "Only one actor has appeared in all the James Bond
movies,  Which character did he play?"  To which they had the correct answer
as "Q".

The character "Q" was not mentioned in Dr. No.  He was refereed to as Major
Boothroud -- Armorer.  And he was not played my Llewelyn.  Being a (past?)
James Bond fanatic I found the error glaring.  They specifically said "actor"
and Llewelyn was not in that first movie (Dr. No)

As a side note, Major Ammasva (spelling?)  [Barbara Bach] in The Spy Who
Loved Me does greet "Q" as "Major Boothroud".  That was the first time in the
series that they confirmed that the original armorer character was actually
"Q".

TB


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:43:42 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Rex Allen Sr.,Grover Washington Jr.,Desmond Llewelyn,An...

In a message dated 12/20/99 10:57:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< ``My interpretation of the character was that of a toffee-nosed
 English,'' he once said.  >>

what is  "toffee-nosed"?

tb


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:46:00 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Liza! & Neil Young

In a message dated 12/20/99 11:27:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I swear Elizabeth,  he was the wierdest human I ever met.  >>

when did this happen?


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:39:03 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) [obits] Desmond Llewelyn

>they asked the question "Only one actor has appeared in all the James Bond
>movies,  Which character did he play?"  To which they had the correct >answer as "Q".


Llewelyn was also not in "Never Say Never Again" nor "Casino Royale."


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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:42:42 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hank Snow

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Hank Snow, whose gaudy rhinestone suits
and million-selling hit song ``I'm Movin' On'' made him a country
music legend for more than 40 years, died today. He was 85.
    Snow died shortly after 12:15 a.m. at his Nashville home, said
his son, Jimmy Snow. The cause of death was likely heart failure,
but an autopsy will be performed, he said.
    Snow, known as ``the singing ranger'' because of his flamboyant
cowboy attire, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in
1979.
    His self-penned ``I'm Movin' On'' was on the country music
charts for almost a year in 1950, including 21 weeks at No. 1.
Other hits, many of which he wrote, included ``I Don't Hurt
Anymore,'' ``Golden Rocket,'' ``Music Makin' Mama From Memphis,''
``Rhumba Boogie'' and the humorous ``I've Been Everywhere,'' with
lyrics that string together a multitude of place names.
    His heyday was between 1950 and 1965, but he performed regularly
on the Grand Ole Opry until the mid-1990s.
    He recorded more than 40 songs that were in the top 10 of the
country music charts and sold an estimated 70 million records. He
made several concert tours overseas to perform for American troops,
becoming one of country music's top ambassadors.
    He was only in his 20s when he became a leading country
performer in his native Canada. He was signed to a record contract
in 1934, and his 45-year relationship with RCA, from then until
1979, was said to be a record.
    He moved to the United States in the mid-1940s and began singing
on the Grand Ole Opry regularly in 1950. He became a U.S. citizen
in 1958.
    His ``I'm Movin' On,'' about boarding a train to leave a wayward
lover, was recorded in 36 languages.
    In the mid-1950s, Snow was a mentor to Elvis Presley just as
Presley was breaking into the music business. He made concert tours
with him. Presley would later cover ``I'm Movin' On,'' as would Ray
Charles and many others.
    Snow sang for American troops in Korea, Vietnam, Germany,
France, Norway, Italy, England and Japan. He said in a 1991
interview that his appearances for troops were the highlight of his
career.
    ``This was a great experience, one that money couldn't buy. It
was the most important part of my life as far as entertaining is
concerned.''
    He continued singing regularly on the Grand Ole Opry into his
80s. In August 1996, when he returned to the Opry stage after a
seven-months absence due to ill health, he got a standing ovation.
    ``We have always been one big family here,'' he told the
audience. ``Everybody on the Opry came up and said how glad they
were to see me back.''
    He said in February 1992 that his career had been full.
    ``I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I
wanted to do.''
    In 1986, he was involved in a dispute with CBS-TV. He refused to
appear on a TV special saluting the Opry because he felt slighted
when asked to sing only one verse of ``I'm Movin' On.''
    He was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, on May 9, 1914. Leaving
home at age 12, he became a cabin boy on a freighter for four
years. As a teen-ager, he used $30 in earnings from a two-week
stint unloading salt from a ship to buy his first guitar. His style
was heavily influenced by the U.S. country singer Jimmie Rodgers.
    In the mid-1970s, Snow became interested in fighting child abuse
and disclosed that he had been abused by his stepfather. He
organized benefit concerts and formed a foundation for the
prevention of child abuse and neglect.
    Snow's son said his father had been in declining health for
about three years. He was released from a hospital about two weeks
ago after treatment for pneumonia.
    ``My dad only had a fifth-grade education, but he was a
remarkable person with a remarkable drive to succeed,'' Jimmy Snow
said.
    ``He always had an insecurity about his lack of education, and
he tried to compensate for that.''
    Hank Snow once recalled a letter he received from a woman in
England:       ``It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to
see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request:
that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in
England, I'm in a casket.''
http://www.hanksnow.com/index.html
http://www.gentleman-jim.com/hanks.htm
http://elvispelvis.com/hanksnow.htm
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=4:34:05|PM&p=amg&sql=B1811




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