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exotica-digest        Friday, January 28 2000        Volume 02 : Number 609



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film
(exotica) Sat Feb 5th show
(exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Re: (exotica) Kahuna Nomination List, SO FAR
Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads
(exotica) shrunken head at a "real" auction
(exotica) [obit] Friedrich Gulda
(exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
(exotica) Re: Rusty in Orchestraville
(exotica) 3 more SOA shows: Francoise Hardy, year 2000, Fay Lovsky
Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads
Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
(exotica) Air performance at Sundance
(exotica) May I take all your belongings?
(exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads
(exotica) fwd: Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com
Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982
RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers!
(exotica) Shrunken Heads
RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers!
(exotica) more OT industry stuff
(exotica) Volcano sorry etc
(exotica) wheels and notes
(exotica) Fwded.....
(exotica) Lake George HoJo Tiki Resort

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:57:02 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film

> No!
> That scene doesn't count because that was filmed at The Derby (the famous
> neo-Swing club where later Swing dance sequences are shot) on a Lounge night
> and my friend Chris Nichols did the decor for that room and the filmakers
> shot that scene in front of Chris' set without getting permission or
> crediting Chris. For the filmakers to create that set via rentals would have
> cost them about $400.00
>
> Aloha
> Otto
>
> [e-mail]
> www.tikinews.com
>
> ----------
> >From: "Josh Renaud" <[e-mail]>
> >To: "Exotica List" <[e-mail]>
> >Subject: Re: (exotica) Tikis In Film
> >Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 6:30 AM
> >
>
> >
> >| Had any other sightings (famous or obscure)?
> >
> >
> >Does the scene in Swingers (Vince Vaughn, and others) where they're at the
> >Bamboo Lounge count? Thats all I can think of...
> >
> >JOSH


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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:34:24 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sat Feb 5th show

I am not involved in this show but am attending because, well, how could I
resist
See you there?

When: Saturday February 5th sometime after dark
Where: The Cell  2050 Bryant between 18th and 19th street

A real casino in San Francisco? It must be Chicken John's Lost Vegas
an event that brings out the ooze in loser, the con in convulsion and
the die in divest. You meager entrance fee is your first bargain, you
get entrance to the first floor, $25 worth of gambling chips, a
ticket for the buffet, the worlds smallest shrimp cocktail and a
black mark on your permanent record. Lost Vegas features 6 for real
live action Vegas games,just like the big boys. Crackjack, big dice,
poke-her, foolette, the wheel of smut and crap. You place the bets,
you call the numbers, you cash out at the redemption center for
useless prizes. It's all about you, baby.

Who is the band, you ask? Why none other than Mr. Lucky and the
Cocktail Party featuring Ralph Carney on the horn. Monga-Lounge (all
DEVO lounge cover band). Other entertainment? The hoochie-kootchie
room upstairs for V.I.P's., Rev. Hal will perform short duration
Sub-genius style marriages, The Devil-Ettes, all of 'em, will kick
and scream through 3 performances, and the Earth's only one-man-band
*Elvis* impersonator! Wow what a night!
Admission $8. doors open at 9:00.

Aloha
Otto

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 07:08:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville

Anyone familiar with a record called "Rusty in Orchestraville"?  Who did the
music?  What does it sound like?

Sean


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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:27:41 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahuna Nomination List, SO FAR

Oh, it's some kind of "whats-the-best-music" kinda listy thingy.......I =
don't know what category you'd put these guys in, (new lounge??) but =
MONTEFORI COCKTAIL deserves some kind of award.

This happenin' CD throws out some wicked tunes in a lounge/dance style =
with sly references to "manah manah" singing style......

- - Nate

>>> Moritz R <[e-mail]> 01/25 9:41 AM >>>

Have I missed something? WHAT is this Kahuna thing?

Mo




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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:52:17 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads

Otto wrote:

> Mo
> these types of heads are tourist items and are REALLY cheap all over South
> America
> back in the 80s you could get em for about $5.00
> but if you could speak Spanish you could get them for as little as $1.00
>
> they are also available in New Orleans in a few of the voodoo shops there
> and of course are much more expensive

You mean, they are not real? I was assuming they were real, because I know there are
real ones around; in a shop in Hamburg, Harry Rosenberg's Hafenbazar, there is a real
shrunken head. The owner doesn't sell it, but you can look at it, if you give him 2$.

Mo




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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:21:52 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) shrunken head at a "real" auction

Currently up on ebay is a catalog from a "real" auction.
The last line is the one of interest here.
- -Lou

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=246433396
Presenting for you the illustrated catalogue for the February 14, 1999 auction of Natural History at
Butterfield & Butterfield simultaneously in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Natural history has become the
latest craze in the world of blue-chip auctions. This softcover catalogue lists approx. 300 lots in 99 glossy
pages, including minerals, meteorites, dinosauria, trilobites, and an authentic shrunken human head that was
retreived from the Jivaro tribe of eastern Ecuador. (Sold for $13,800.)

see also:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=242655633



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:06:24 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Friedrich Gulda

Filed at 11:27 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Friedrich Gulda, an eccentric man widely
considered one of Austria's foremost classical and jazz pianists, died
Thursday of an apparent heart attack at age 69, the Austria Press
Agency reported.

Gulda was praised by music critics for his interpretation of the piano
music of Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. But in the 1950s, Gulda
increasingly devoted his attention to jazz and became one of Europe's
pre-eminent crossover musicians.

To the public at large, however, Gulda was better known for eccentric
behavior in which he mocked what he considered the pretensions and
stuffiness of Austria's staid artistic establishment.

Fond of wearing an embroidered cap and rejecting staid concert hall
attire, Gulda often shocked people with the harsh language he used to
criticize the artistic establishment.

On March 28, Austrian media received a death notice that Gulda himself
had circulated to see the reaction. A few days later, he celebrated a
``resurrection party'' together with a go-go group known as the Paradise
Girls.

The Austria Press Agency said Gulda died at his home in the village of
Weissenbach in the Salzkammergut area of western Austria.

Last year, Gulda ``forbade'' obituaries after his death, saying he wanted
to make sure that the ``filth thrown'' at him by journalists during his
lifetime would not be repeated after he was gone.

Gulda was born in Vienna and began performing in public at age 14. At
age 20 he played New York's Carnegie Hall. After moving into jazz,
Gulda played at the Newport Jazz Festival.

He had planned to celebrate his 70th birthday with a concert May 15 in
Vienna.

He is survived by two sons. Funeral plans were pending.
http://www.darvas.de/gulda.htm
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=11:50:58|AM&p=amg&sql=B8661
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=11:50:58|AM&p=avg&sql=BP|29226

Plug this URL:
http://archiv.bz-berlin.de/bz/archiv/970930_pdf/BZ056003.htm
into:
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
for a short interview.



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:15:39 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

I was playing a Hugo Montenegro album I had picked up a while back in near
mint sealed (except for a small area where mildew had crept in all over the
cover in a nice white and black and grey powdery mixture that easily brushed
off to reveal a nice shiny cover)

Well it was straight ahead easy listening music except for a country flavored
guitar, and I thought what year is this?  The album is from 1982.  Its called
"Beautiful Music".

Now I don't get it.  I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead
easy listening music before.   I just assumed the genre died in the late
70's.  What ever happened to easy listening music?   Is it still being made
today?


I am going to have to read that Elevator Music Book

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:36:24 -0800 (PST)
From: wams <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Rusty in Orchestraville

> Anyone familiar with a record called "Rusty in Orchestraville"?
> Who did the music?  What does it sound like?

Yessir. I own this set:

  Rusty in Orchestraville
  Capitol Album BC-35, (3-10" 78s, six sides)
  Written and produced by: Alan Livingston, (of WB "toon" Fame)
  Talking and singing sound by: "Sonovox"

Along the same lines as "Tuby the Tuba." Haven't listened to it though,
(so MANY records, so LITTLE time!)

Cheers!

R.D. "Gus" Frederick
Wolverine Antique Music Society
http://www.shellac.org/



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:40:53 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) 3 more SOA shows: Francoise Hardy, year 2000, Fay Lovsky

January 21, 2000
Francoise Hardy on Spinning On Air
Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa012100.ram
French songwriter and singer Francoise Hardy was born on January 17, 1944, and this program,
originally broadcast on her 50th birthday, features an hour of Hardy's recordings. Her songs blend
some of the mainstream pop trends of the sixties-through-eighties with a quality that's more intimate,
personal, and inventive.

January 14, 2000
Spinning On Air
Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa011400.ram
Spinning On Air in the year 2000! The year 2000 has long been a significant chronological landmark,
inspiring prophesies, predictions, fantasies, and...music.  David Garland explores
some of the ways the past has envisioned this future of today. From Edward Bellamy's utopian novel of
1888, "Looking Backward 2000-1887," to Y2K novelty songs and the forecasts of crackpots and
science fiction writers, we'll find out what has and hasn't come true.

January 7, 2000
Spinning On Air
Listen: http://wnyc.org/musicculture/spinning/ram/soa010700.ram
Composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Fay Lovsky came all the way from
Amsterdam to New Amsterdam to join David Garland on WNYC and present and talk about her work.
Fay's whimsical and/or insightful songs straddle categories and touch down in pop, experimental, and
old-style cabaret. She claims to play the Musical Saw best of all her instruments, but for this show she
brought along her guitar and her theremin.



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 00 10:47:04 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

>I was playing a Hugo Montenegro album I had picked up a while back in near
>mint sealed (except for a small area where mildew had crept in all over the
>cover in a nice white and black and grey powdery mixture that easily brushed
>off to reveal a nice shiny cover)
>
>Well it was straight ahead easy listening music except for a country flavored
>guitar, and I thought what year is this?  The album is from 1982.  Its called
>"Beautiful Music".
>
>Now I don't get it.  I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead
>easy listening music before.   I just assumed the genre died in the late
>70's.  What ever happened to easy listening music?

Nothing "happened" to it at all, AFAIA.  But like any other form of
music, its popularity comes and goes with the general public, though
there are those of us for whom it is never out of style!

>Is it still being made
>today?

Of course; it's just a bit harder to find.  In yesteryear, easy listening
was a mainstain of record stores; now it occupies a much smaller section
of the store, but it's still there.  Unfortunately, a lot of folks who
made easy listening are no longer with us (Henry Mancini, Lawrence Welk,
Liberace, Sinatra, etc.) or are retired (Perry Como) or are just not
recording any longer but still do personal appearances (Andy Williams).

Even my hero Walter Wanderley continued to make LPs through at least part
of the 1980s; the most recent I can find is "Perpetual Motion Love" which
came out in 1981.  With the addition of ARP synthesizer to the piano and
organ as well as the type of material chosen for the LP, this album has a
much more general pop and easy listening sound to it than his early Trio
and even further back Brazilian albums that sound decidedly more
"cultural" (though I have to confess that there is nothing he recorded
that I can honestly say I don't like or enjoy).

>I am going to have to read that Elevator Music Book

Someone once asked Henry Mancini if he minded that his music was becoming
"elevator music".  His reply was "not at all; with the likes of Cole
Porter, Ellington, Basie, Gershwin, etc. in the same elevator, it's
getting quite crowded in there, though!"

Regards,
- --bj
The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography
http://bjbear3.freeservers.com/Wanderley/main.html


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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:23:10 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

In a message dated 1/27/0 1:15:48 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>What ever happened to easy listening music?   Is it still being made
>today?

One theory has it that fellas like Yawn-ni and record labels like Windham
Swill are the state of current easy listening...In other words in the year
2525 people like us will be collecting it...JB


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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:02:51 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

chuck wrote:

>  What ever happened to easy listening music?   Is it still being made today?
>

In my entirely humble opinion, I believe that what once was Easy Listening has
been taken over by what one could call Meditation music. Since the 70s you find
all kinds of esoteric records, later CDs, with elegic electronic world music
tunes, designed to "relax" "mind and body", just what Easy Listening once was
made for. Today there's a new section called Chill Out music and you could even
call that the Easy Listening of today.

Mo



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:07:57 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads

>You mean, they are not real? I was assuming they were real, because I know
there are
>real ones around; in a shop in Hamburg, Harry Rosenberg's Hafenbazar, there is
a real
>shrunken head. The owner doesn't sell it, but you can look at it, if you give
him 2$.

Josh Renaud wrote:

> Real shrunken heads? Is that scientifically possible?? perhaps they could
> just use monkey heads

Naaah, what I have seen wasn't a monkey. Of course it's possible. You take out
the skull carefully, you sew up the neck, the eye lids and the mouth - I think
you take care that the nose holes are left open, to let the air escape, and
then you start the shrinking process; don't ask me which chemicals, herbs,
smokes and whatever you need to get this working. The result however is a black
little head the size of a small fist. If you contact me off-list I can send you
a jpg of the head I've seen.

Mo




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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:37:52 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

At 09:15 AM 1/27/00 -0800, chuck wrote:
>
>Now I don't get it.  I have never bumped into 1980 or 1990s straight ahead
>easy listening music before.   I just assumed the genre died in the late
>70's.  What ever happened to easy listening music?   Is it still being made
>today?

I don't think easy listening ever stopped being made but certainly it was
still being made in 1982.  It's all a bit of a blur now but there were easy
listening radio stations and I think all the usual suspects who were still
alive, like Hagood Hardy and Frank Mills continued to make records till the
end.  And there were still soundtracks that had that sound.
I'd have to go to a big record store to prove this but I suspect it's still
being made.  And I don't think relaxation and new age records have replaced
it, just added to it.
The difference between eighties easy listening and the earlier stuff that I
like, I think, has to do with the markets they were trying to please.  I
think by the eighties, they were no longer trying to sell to kids or to
grownup kids looking for a little rock experience.  Or to light jazz
lovers.  Or to fantasy-driven bachelors.
I think they were just trying to provide a little light classical muzak to
those who truly liked their music "easy".

Nat



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:18:38 EST
From: "William Walton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Air performance at Sundance

Not sure how strict the Exotica posting rules are, but I'm wondering if
anyone was present, or heard/read reports of Air's performance at this
year's Sundance Film Festival.

Thank you.
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:14:27 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) May I take all your belongings?

Hey all!

If anyone has any of those self-recorded 78's (paperboard 'Recordio Discs',
or 'Duodiscs', etc.) and would be willing to part with them for some cool
swappables, I'm putting a CD comp together of these homemade ancient
ditties...any help is greatly appreciated!!

Ciao,

Keith

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workshops of KEITH E. LO BUE
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:20:41 -0500
From: Mark Renwick <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville

I am the original owner of a 12" LP copy of "Rusty in
Orchestraville."  Rusty is Side 1, "Sparky's Musical Mix-Up"
is Side 2.  Music is by Billy May!

The sonovox uses some kind of mouthpiece and transducer to
impart actual human laryngeal tone qualities on any sound
sent through it.  Thus, the record really sounds like the
orchestral instruments (trumpet, clarinet, etc.) are
talking.  I loved it as a kid, and it's still neat!

Didn't Peter Frampton use something along these lines on a
hit record he had in the 1970s?

- --Mark Renwick
  Jacksonville, Florida, USA
  [e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:25:02 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads

This has been posted before (probably by Linkmaster Lou), but...

How to make a shrunken head:
http://freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/shrunken.htm



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:24:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com

 Recording Industry Association of America Vs. MP3.com
1) MP3 Website
http://www.mp3.com
2) MP3 Essentials -- CNET
http://home.cnet.com/category/topic/0,10000,0-4004-7-274644,00.html
3) "RIAA Sues MP3.com" -- _Wired_
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33634,00.html
4) "MP3.com Response to RIAA Lawsuit Letter" -- MP3.com
http://www.mp3.com/response.html
5) "MP3 Under Fire from Music Biz" -- ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425788,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop
6) "RIAA vs. MP3.com Lawsuit Repeats Case Involving VCRs" -- On24 [RealPlayer]
http://www.on24.com/vuwindow/scripts/vuwin.asp?ref=comt&id=12660&type=av
7) "Record Industry Sues MP3.com for Copyright Violations" -- NPR [RealPlayer]
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20000124.atc.02.ram
8) "Record companies sue MP3.com" -- BBC
http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid%5F617000/617664.stm

On January 12, 2000, MP3.com launched Instant Listening Service and
Beam-it, free services that allow users to listen to their music CDs
through their computers using MP3's applications and technology. A
user loads CDs into his or her CD ROM drive, and the CD is then
matched to one of the 40,000 CDs in MP3.com's database. Then MP3.com
transfers a MP3-formatted copy of the CD from their database into the
user's MP3.com account. The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that these
technologies infringe on the Copyright Act of 1971, which allows only
the copyright owner to make a copy of a recording. An exception to
this law, the Home Recording Act of 1992, was created by Congress in
order to protect consumers from being sued by record companies for
copying recordings for their own use. The RIAA believes that MP3.com
is not covered by the Home Recording Act, because the company has
made the copies, not the consumers, themselves. In a letter to
MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson, RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen sums up her
organization's stance: "Simply put, it is not legal to compile a vast
database of our members' sound recordings with no permission and no
license."

The official Website (1) for MP3.com offers a broad listing of MP3's
cataloged free music, downloadable software, and computer music
industry news; it also connects to My.MP3.com. This inclusive guide
to MP3 (2) was first reviewed in the March 26, 1999 _Scout Report_. A
three-page article from _Wired Magazine_ (3) offers in-depth coverage
of the MP3 lawsuit with analysis from leading Internet experts. MP3
CEO Michael Robertson responds to a letter from RIAA about the
allegation of the violation of copyright laws (4). A short article
from ZDNet (5) explains the reasons for the lawsuit and offers a
space for readers to voice their concerns. This five-minute piece
from On24 (6) features multimedia Internet analyst Philip Leigh.
National Public Radio (7) details the problematic nature of MP3 and
offers sound bites of MP3 CEO Michael Robertson defending MyMP3.com.
This short article from the BBC (8) divides the issues surrounding
this lawsuit into five parts.




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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:29:38 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro in 1982

About a year ago, one of our national newspapers, The National Post,
ran an article entitled "Musical stardom is all a matter of taste
These Canadian recording artists are all  best-sellers. So why are they not
more  famous?".  Once you get below Celine and Shania, it seems the
most successful Canadian recording artists include "Michael Jones, a
psychologist and
former motivational  speaker living in  Orillia," whose piano albums, with
titles like Pianoscapes, have sold almost two million, and "Hennie Bekker's
the  65-year-old
Toronto composer [who] has sold two million albums  worldwide,
with 14 Solitudes albums and several other wildlife  recordings that 'explore
nature through music.'"  The surprising thing about Bekker is that he's
also the
"B" in "BKS", a highly successful dance-music group.

I sort of agree that this is the new easy listening music, and sort of don't,
because of the meditation quality to which others have referred.  Schlock
versions of current movie themes by orchestras from the former Eastern
Block seem better examples.

Will

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

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:52:39 -0800
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers!

Speaking of unbearably bad music, am I the only list member to own a copy
"Jack Carson Sings College Fight Songs?" Apparently he was an actor who
thought he could sing.  The results frighten my wife, so I don't play it too
much.

Jerry



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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:20:15 -0500
From: "Lou Smith" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Shrunken Heads

From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shrunken Heads
Date: 27 Jan 2000 23:07:57 +0000

>Naaah, what I have seen wasn't a monkey. Of course it's possible. You
take out
the skull carefully, you sew up the neck, the eye lids and the mouth - I
think
you take care that the nose holes are left open, to let the air escape,
and
then you start the shrinking process; don't ask me which chemicals,
herbs,
smokes and whatever you need to get this working.
- --------------------
It probably won't surprise you to learn that every niche interest has a
domain to serve it.
Full instructions for the traditional art of head shrinking are
available at:
http://www.head-hunter.com/prep.html

An explanation for the practice is at:
http://www.head-hunter.com/tsantsa.html

An 1921 National Geographic article on the Jivaro is at:
http://www.head-hunter.com/ng.html

And there's more, including an image gallery at
http://www.head-hunter.com/gallery.html
and stories of counterfeit shrunken heads dating back to the late 1800's
are at
http://www.head-hunter.com/fakes.html

Another site with Jivaro/shrunken head info is:
http://www.ci.riverside.ca.us/museum/exhibit/jivaro1.html

Head shrinking was practiced by others besides the Jivaro.
There's a photo of a Buchenwald prisoner's  head, shrunken by the SS at:

http://www.jentaoris.simplenet.com/holo/holo31.htm

- -Lou





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Date: 27 Jan 2000 20:17:08 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) The Wurst of the Worst Singers!

At 06:52 PM 27-01-00 -0800, Jerry wrote:
>Speaking of unbearably bad music, am I the only list member to own a copy
>"Jack Carson Sings College Fight Songs?" Apparently he was an actor who
>thought he could sing.
Jerry,

No, but I do have another Jack Carson LP I played just once.  Not great
singing,
but it was amusing.  He always seemed to play these shady characters on mostly
TV.


Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth


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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:08:29 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more OT industry stuff

I'm sorry, this is off-topic (though relating to threads that have drifted through previously), but here's a really succinct analysis of the DVD Copy Control Authority and their lawsuit frenzy:

http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000127.htm



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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:21:36 PST
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Volcano sorry etc

I was down in a volcano and got my skeleton completely crushed, when I woke
up a little dragon was sitting by my bed. Before this I flew all over the
universe, visiting people and talking to them. there are human life
everywhere!
So many strange things happening, that I wasnt aware of earlier. I would
like to say I am sorry for any kind of feelings I might have hurt while on
the huge ego ride last year, I was really scared and thought the whole world
was after me. Now it seems the holy ghost wins the round. I am no longer
afraid of death.

I got slapped in the back by the sun as a punishment.

I got a new cat named Tiki (Hes got an M on the forehead and is the kindest
cat I have ever seen, i believe he is an reincarnation of Oscar, the cat I
had before cause he uses the same grunts)

Magnus
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:45:34 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) wheels and notes

Its been a slow old week after the new year frenzy.  if it carries on like
this I may be come off the digests and go back on the regular list.

Been asked to dig out a copy of 'Wheels',  to lend someone for a performance
they're doing.  All I can find so far is the Joe Loss cha cha version off
the Studio 2 sampler (Impact I think).  Good not great.  In my typical state
of mental confusion I had it mixed up with Eso Beso for some reason.
(Charles,  stay off that weed see what it did for me).  Anyway any ideas on
a good version of this?

And similarly i must cough to confusing Klaus Wunderlicht and Bert
Kaempfert.  I always do and I don't know why.  It was Klaus who did the Moog
2000 LP.  But I was playing his LP 'Sudamerikana vol3' (in the new pops
style) last night,  and what a great version of '1 Note Samba'.  Moogy and
daft,  and certainly the equal of most of Moog 2000.

Enjoy the weekend.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:49:03 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwded.....

A strange turn from the Cowabunga surf music group.....one of the bands' =
songs was turned into Muzak!

<< Funny, I heard Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't=20
Fear the Reaper" in Muzak and thought it sounded pretty cool. I think =
they=20
caught a lot of flak way back when for recording a song about suicide. >>

Actually Muzak caught flack over songs a lot more innocuous than that. =
When=20
Judy Collins had her hit version of "Amazing Grace" Muzak added an=20
arrangement by Frank Chacksfield only to find some of their clients from =
down=20
South threatening to cancel.

Denis wrote<<You might be interested to know that in Time Magazine's =
Worst=20
Moments of the Century, Muzak is part of the list.>>

Yeah? Well, F Time Magazine. There's nothing wrong with piped in music,=20
nowadays it can done pretty well. Today the programmers behind the piped =
in=20
music are more adventurous and interesting than their counterparts in =
radio=20
(I realize that's not saying much, but it's true). Just the other day I =
was=20
shopping for groceries at Raley's and their music service was playing a =
great=20
mix of oldies, stuff that I would never hear on one of the oldies =
stations=20
here (and I know, 'cause I used to work for one of 'em). I was buying =
carrots=20
and baby food to the strains of "Foot Stompin'" and I was a happy =
shopper.=20

The only place where I heard Brian Wilson's "Imagination" single getting =
any=20
play was on the music service used by my local Goodwill. (You might =
think=20
that's a good thing, but I kinda liked the song, especially the acapella=20=

version that was an extra track on the single.)

The music programmers that I've had to deal with in radio are the most =
lame=20
chickensh*t drones that I've ever come across. It's no wonder that the =
pool=20
of people who listen to radio keep shrinking. And I bet it's gonna get =
even=20
smaller if satellite radio takes off. Satellite radio sounds really=20
promising: a small antenna on your car, a small monthly fee and you get=20
access to a sprawling variety of music programming, chosen by people =
who=20
might actually have some taste and balls. I hope it happens.

So Time magazine thinks that Muzak is one of the worst moments of
the century? I tell you, it's gotta be better the last 20 CDs recommended =
by=20
Christopher John Farley. I kinda dig the idea of a group of mad scientists=
=20
trying to use boring music to make work less boring.

In it's earliest incarnations Muzak was not music for music's sake, it =
was=20
music to serve a purpose. It was functional music. I dig my Muzak=20
demonstration LPs. They are filled with all sorts of nifty charts and =
graphs=20
explaining how it's supposed to work. I've even played them on the radio, =
if=20
only to explain the point that although Muzak has become a generic term it =
is=20
actually a specific product, like Band-Aids.

And before you dismiss the notion of functional music as vapid or =
worthless,=20
consider this: something as cool as The James Bond Theme, which has =
been=20
covered by countless surf bands, started off as a just another cut that =
John=20
Barry did for a stock music library. The cut is also used in a the =
pre-Bond=20
film "Beat Girl" whenever Christopher Lee's character shows up and it =
makes=20
watching the movie a very strange experience.

I came across another example of the power of stock music when I was =
watching=20
a 1950s documentary about the Holocaust that used one of the same cuts =
that=20
is in Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space." It was extremely disturbing =
to=20
hear sounds that I associate with Tor Johnson and flying saucers accompanyi=
ng=20
these horrific images.

I won't go as far as saying "Muzak rules" but I might suggest that folks =
send=20
'em some CDs. Who knows how they tracked down "Tiki Cabana," but they =
are=20
probably looking for more songs like it.=20

Scott W

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:10:07 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lake George HoJo Tiki Resort

> >I am also considering swapping the Montreal Tiki Tour for a
> sojourn to the
> Lake
> >George Howard Johnsosn Tiki Resort and Waikiki Supper Club -
> IF they are
> still
> >indeed Tiki-themed.

Can somebody tell me where this resort on Lake George actually is?  At least
what state?  I would be interested in checking the place out too.

Charlieman


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