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exotica-digest       Thursday, February 3 2000       Volume 02 : Number 614



In This Digest:

(exotica) More for Magnus
(exotica) 101 Strings
Re: (exotica)The Conet Project
(exotica) Benito Urghu - Sexy Fonni
Re: (exotica) Soothing Sounds
(exotica) Re: The Conet Project!
(exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'
(exotica) A Sun story from Brad Bigelow
Re: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project!
(exotica) Fw: Be a Little Devil This Valentine
Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'
(exotica) More Tekkie Talk
Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'
(exotica) Si Zentner passes
(exotica) Conet Project Hoax?//Ghost Orchid
(exotica) [obits]Gary E. Cooper,Alex Kapral,Si Zentner,Willie B.,Lin Halliday
Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'
(exotica) Be a Little Devil This Valentine
Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 21:04:57 -0800
From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More for Magnus

Magnus Sandberg wrote:
> ...please make some suggestions on three new great
>reissues that i can get from an internet dealer like
>dustygroove or JD or amazon. I need something
different and weird and funny. Or something thats so sweet it
>just hurts. Maybe a french one, and a brasilian...>

After a few days scanning digests, I've compiled a few of the list's
recent faves - by title, (label) artist:

1. Uneasy Tempo Vol 11: Exotica Girls Like Ear-Splitting Music -
(WinoRed) - V/A incl. Yma Sumac, Florence Foster Jenkins, Mrs. Miller,
Jeannete McDonald, Diamanda Galas & Minnie Riperton
2. Metal Machine Music for Mamie - (Ike Records) The Three Suns
3. OST - The Incredible Shrinking Women - (Purge) with Calista Flockhart
& Lara Flynn Boyle
4. 250 Miles An Hour On The Rims- The Jerry Rooyden Funk Mixes
(Roadblock Records) - James Brown
5. Lemon Incest (Taboo Records)  Frank & Nancy Sinatra
6. You Make Me Feel like A Nat Woman (Sunshine or Soft? Records) v/a 72
minutes of ba ba da ba by Mel Tillis, Barbara Walters & others
7. Deneuve, Bardot, Fonda,Fondle: The Bedroom Tapes (bootleg?)  Roger
Vadim
8. Best of Grateful Dead Unplugged (RCA Dying Stereo) - Dr. Jack
Kevorkian
9. Calvert DeForest's Erotic Experience (Martini Records) - Calvert
DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman from Letterman gets some!
10. The Three Tenors Live at CBGBs - (Enough Already Records) with Tom
Waits, Hasil Adkins, & John Lithgow
11. World Wrestling Federation Hits Vol 5 - (Smackdown Records)v/a incl
The Gentle People, The Wusses, The Wimps, The Pussies, the Twits & The
Eunuchs
12. Divas 2000 Groove the Best of Blowfly (Tinnitus Records) - by Divas
2000 incl La Barbra, Jennifer Love, Rupaul, Kathie Lee G. & Nathan Lane
13. The Complete works of Carol Kaye & Hal Blaine (Bear Family Records)
7,249 Cd set, over 217,000 songs in special collectors mobile home.

These should keep you busy, but because of brisk sales only one of the
above is still available on the net.

JB Le Noir


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:12:27 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings

I need to ask the audience on this one, using one of my lifelines.

The Scamp Astro Sounds CD has a coupla bonus tracks, Whiplash and Instant
Nirvana that must come from a reocrd other than "Sounds Of Love" (adult
contemporary series with Bebe Bardon on cover) and "Sounds Of Today" (Karma
Sitar, pyschedelic cover).

What is the title of this LP and why is it so damn hard to find?

You guys know the record I'm talking about?  Anybody got a copy for CD-R
trade or purchase?  I'll pay $$$.

If you can't help me out, I'll need to use my other lifeline, "call a
friend".  Get Ashley on the line, please.

Thanks -



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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:27:10 -0500
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)The Conet Project

Peter G wrote:
>my friend was wondering about this. Its a collection of shortwave
>transmissions used by spies and such...

>[...]
>http://www.foundrysite.com/i.conet.html
>
>Has anyone actually heard this stuff?

Yes indeed. If you tune between the broadcast bands with a shortwave
radio, it actually is not that uncommon to hear them. But all the
ones I've experienced are the more vanilla types, where someone (or
more likely, a voice synthesizer) robotically reads groups of
numbers--perhaps punctuated by a dramatic flourish like saying "end"
at the end.

There are various fanciful unproved or semi-proved theories about
their origins, but it seems indisputable that they are passing some
kind of clandestine messages in code.

your former shortwave geek,
  --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:05:27 -0800
From: "mofo2148" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Benito Urghu - Sexy Fonni

Has anyone on this list heard of "Benito Urghu" and a song he did
called "Sexy Fonni"?

I'm playing it next week on my radio show, but wanted to get more info
if possible... and what better place to ask than here.

It's a Very Very Hip Cut. With Benito shouting and talking in Italian
and a woman moaning and saying, "je t'aime...." (among other words).
Italian meets French erotic lounge music with the kind of easy funky
bassline you can groove to.

Is Fritz Jonker on this list?  If you are please contact me regarding
this cut... I heard it on one of your compilation tapes.

thanks all,

Otis

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:48:39 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soothing Sounds

Peter Risser wrote:

> Someone mentioned that Soothing Sounds for Baby is a
> re-release.  Had this thing actually seen the light of
> day when Scott first made it?  Is it a re-release?

I think so; however it is very problematic to feature it for your Kahuna Award
in the category "Best new album"... even if it wasn't released before, it's
definitely not *new*.

I didn't find all my favorite things in your nominee's list...

Mo



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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 22:56:23 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project!

>>Has anyone actually heard this stuff?

>>pg

Yep!  My best buddy got the set, and from the five discs (read: Too Much of
a Good Thing!) I compiled a fanastic 70 minutes onto one CD.  It is indeed
otherworldly, and one of the truly effective late late night audio discs I
own.  It's totally mystifying and makes you realize that the world is very
big and very deep go its secrets.

Again, I'd only recommend the whole set if this sounds immensely compelling
to you (the packaging is great and well annotated)...otherwise, hunt out a
best friend who'll lend it to you!!

Also on the same UK-based label (name escapes me) is "The Ghost Orchid: An
Introduction to EVP".  This CD will make your skin crawl and is by far the
most creepy listen you could ask for.  EVP stands for "Electronic Voice
Phenomena" or put simply, voices from the dead speaking through radios.
It's been called 'The Conet Project from beyond the grave!'  You can read
reviews of the CD here:

http://parc.web.fm/december/evpreviews.htm

I'd highly recommend it; but it won't get lots of playing time, unless you
surreptitiously pop it into a multi-disc shuffle-play at your friend's next
party.

PS: If you've got the Stereolab "Transient Random Noisebursts..." record,
you can hear a snippet from a voice from the Conet Project on the tune
"Pause."

Ciao,

Keith

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:07:43 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

m p 3 FREE-FOR-ALL

The tiny Napster is shaking the music industry to its foundation.


Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that
lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the
purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone
could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the
company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious
Recording Industry Association of America.


http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/03/napster/index.html





PS

Money, money, money: Swedish '70s superstars ABBA have
turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite and go on tour. "It is a
hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for
us," Benny Andersson told the Swedish paper Aftonbladet. His
fellow band member Bjorn Ulvaeus agreed, "We have never
made a comeback. Almost everyone else has. I think there is a
message in that."


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 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 04:54:11 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) A Sun story from Brad Bigelow

Brad Bigelow thought you might be interested in this
Las Vegas Sun (http://www.lasvegassun.com/) story:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/feb/02/509794326.html

Message from sender:
Another sad passing--Si Zentner dead at 82.

Brad
- -------------------------

==================================================================

Famous trombonist, band leader dies in Las Vegas

 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trombonist Si Zentner, who started a highly
successful big band years after the era had passed, died Monday at
a Las Vegas hospital.

   He was 82.

   A Las Vegan the past 35 years, Zentner became well-known when he
recorded the hit "Up A Lazy River" in 1961. He went on to record
more than 30 albums and hundreds of songs for Liberty Records.

   He was frequently book at Disneyland's Carnation Plaza Gardens
during a 25-year span.

   Born Simon Hugh Zentner June 13, 1917, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native
played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before settling
in Los Angeles as a session musician.

   In 1958 he began to rehearse his own big band, ignoring the fact
that ballrooms were closing around the country and that Elvis
Presley and Buddy Holly already had transformed the nation's teens
into rock'n'rollers.

   Using a revised version of "Lazy River," Zenter recorded what
he called "the first big-band record you could twist to." The
song became a Top 40 hit and a Grammy Award winner.

   Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his
knack for recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed
at older ears. During the James Bond craze he reworked the movies'
themes, and when the Beatles exploded, he recorded a swinging
version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

   At one point, Zentner claimed to have played 178 one-nighters
without a night off.

   In 1965, Zentner moved to Las Vegas and his band played at the
Tropicana's Blue Room. He later became conductor for the "Folies
Bergere" show.

   He continued to perform at various Las Vegas venues and in
California.

   Zentner had battled leukemia the past two years.

   He is survived by a son, Howard Zentner of Sandpoint, Idaho, and
a daughter, Linda Berrow of Palmdale, Calif.

   No services are planned.




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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:33:59 +0000
From: dan hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: The Conet Project!

>Also on the same UK-based label (name escapes me) is

it's Ash International, "distributed" by Touch
http://www.touch.demon.co.uk/ashrip.htm


>"The Ghost Orchid: An
>Introduction to EVP".  This CD will make your skin crawl and is by far the
>most creepy listen you could ask for.  EVP stands for "Electronic Voice
>Phenomena" or put simply, voices from the dead speaking through radios.
>It's been called 'The Conet Project from beyond the grave!'  You can read
>reviews of the CD here:
>http://parc.web.fm/december/evpreviews.htm


and here:
http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/413.html



>I'd highly recommend it; but it won't get lots of playing time, unless you
>surreptitiously pop it into a multi-disc shuffle-play at your friend's next
>party.

and it's great to dj with, mixed ...

cheers,
dan.



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    ---+ new reviews on motion [3.2.2000]:
< pita | ponga | the highlanders | modern music for motor vehicles |
henry cowell | d'angelo >
             http://motion.state51.co.uk/   +---


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:27:40 -0000
From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fw: Be a Little Devil This Valentine

for all you londoners, dougee from the gentle people is hosting a nite on
feb 12th : details follow

- ---------------------------------

> Be a little devil this Valentine's Tasty Treat!
>
> It's the long awaited return of Tasty Treat, at our faboo new venue "Club
29."
>
> Check into this love vibration and make that Valentine's Connection while
> grooving to those sexy sounds provided by your DJ host Dougee Dimensional
(Gentle People)
> plus special CD set by Agent Cooper, and many more surprises!
>
> The Date:Saturday the 12th of February 2000AD
> The Time:9pm to late
> The Place:Club 29, 29 Maddox Street London W1 (Oxford Circus Tube)
> The Price: 3 English Pounds donation for this one off private party!
>
> Email:[e-mail] for more info.
>
> PS: Look for the transparent door!!!
> Ciao and hope to see ya all there!
>
> Dougee Dimensional
> The Gentle People




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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:03:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

In a message dated 02/03/2000 7:09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that
 lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the
 purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone
 could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the
 company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious
 Recording Industry Association of America.
  >>

Very interesting.

Some 19 year old makes a computer program and he knows from the start that
80-90% of the people using it are using it for the distribution of copywrite
infringing material and then as an afterthought he thinks that in rare
instances his product can be used for the legal distribution of music. Now
he's got an entire company behind him and investors a plenty trying to figure
out how they can create an atmosphere of propriety for this bootlegging
software and start shoveling in the profit.

God Bless America where people will rally behind you for being a creative
thief!!!

And soon after, as it was written in prophecy, the End Time grew nigh and
the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode into town and they told the people that
every thief was Robin Hood and the people believed and the dark clouds rolled
in and we all turned to cannibalism instead of visiting McDonalds.

(it's not an old joke, now it's a running gag)

- -Roy G. Biv


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:11:16 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Tekkie Talk

Nate wrote:

> Anyone familiar with the Tascam CDRW-700 CD recorder??
> It's on sale for $549.00
Tascam makes upper end, semi-pro products. The CD players in
our station are Tascams. They also make mixers, multi-track
recorders etc. and (should be) a cut above the usual home market
products like Pioneer, Sony etc. thus the higher price. I assume
this is a stand alone unit.  What I'd like to know is would a more
expensive unit make a better CD copy?  If all things digital are
exact copies then in theory aren't they all the same?  I was told by
a tekkie type here that the playability of a recorderd CDR on an
older player is not always related to the colour of the blank but to
the burner that made it.  This may expalin why some blue discs
work fine for me but others don't at all. Someday I'm going to buy a
burner. I was told the Yamaha is the best of the lot for computer
units but I'd be curious to know how this Tascam is rated against
other domestic variety stand alone units.

> Also on sale is a gemini turntable for $170 - "direct drive" - does this =
> mean it doesn't rely on a belt to turn the platter??
That's correct. The motor/spindle is all one piece. Gemini makes
DJ stuff so I don't think this high ens audio somehow. Beware
though, the advantage of the belt is no motor noise can be
transferred through, and I believe most high end audio types insist
on belt drive.  I have this old Ariston Audio belt drive turntable and I
scoured the world to find a belt a few years back.  The company is
from Scotland and long closed up. I lucked out in Boston with a
store having one left of old stock .  It's now time for a new one and I
don't know where to start! If anyone has a source for a belt for an
Ariston Audio - RD 11s, preferably in North America, I'd appreciate
the info.

Thanks,


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:12:30 -0500
From: "Josh Renaud" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

|
| In a message dated 02/03/2000 7:09:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
| [e-mail] writes:
|
| << Napster the software program -- a downloadable application that
|  lets users temporarily turn their computers into servers for the
|  purpose of swapping MP3 files -- is growing faster than anyone
|  could have imagined. To add to the excitement, Napster the
|  company is now embroiled in a lawsuit with the notorious
|  Recording Industry Association of America.
|   >>
|
| Very interesting.
|
| Some 19 year old makes a computer program and he knows from the start that
| 80-90% of the people using it are using it for the distribution of
copywrite
| infringing material and then as an afterthought he thinks that in rare
| instances his product can be used for the legal distribution of music. Now
| he's got an entire company behind him and investors a plenty trying to
figure
| out how they can create an atmosphere of propriety for this bootlegging
| software and start shoveling in the profit.
|
| God Bless America where people will rally behind you for being a creative
| thief!!!

Their logic is that if a company makes something that the majority of users
use for illegal reasons, they can sue the maker of that product, instead of
each individual who uses it illegally. This being the case, why don't they
sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say
that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape
deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the
exact same crime as copying MP3 files.

What they're really pissed about is that they think they've created such
great security for all these things so people will never again be able to
copy their media. When it turns out that its not so secure anymore, they
turn into little brats and sue everyone in sight. They need to accept that
they will never be able to stop piracy. They can only go after the
individual pirates.

JOSH






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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:14:59 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Si Zentner passes

Si Zentner

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Si Zentner, the Trombonist who started a highly successful
big band years after the era had passed, died Monday. He was 82.

Zentner became well-known when he recorded the hit ``Up A Lazy River'' in
1961. He went on to record more than 30 albums and hundreds of songs for
Liberty Records.

He played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before settling in Los
Angeles as a session musician.

Using a revised version of ``Lazy River,'' Zenter recorded what he called
``the first big-band record you could twist to.'' The song became a Top 40
hit and a Grammy Award winner.

Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his knack for
recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed at older ears. During
the James Bond craze he reworked the movies' themes, and when the Beatles
exploded, he recorded a swinging version of ``I Want to Hold Your Hand.''


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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:29:04 -0500
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Conet Project Hoax?//Ghost Orchid

GHOST ORCHID  An Introduction to EVP
       (Ash International R.I.P.)   14.98
       Essentially, The Conet Project From Beyond The Grave!!
       Huh? Peter Becker, who used to work for Asphodel (R.I.P.), has
presented an interesting theory that
The Conet Project (the awesome 4 cd documentation of shortwave radio
"numbers stations") was nothing
more than an elaborate hoax. While we think that he's mistaken and that
plenty of evidence points to the
validity of The Conet Project, here is a far more questionable recording,
because you've got to believe in
ghosts rather than a more corporeal conspiracy...
       The Ghost Orchid documents instances of something called "Electronic
Voice Phenomenon", the
paranormal appearance of strange voices (which at times sing and speak in
multiple languages) on magnetic
tape when there shouldn't be any voices there at all... Respected
parapsychologists have postulated that these
voices are those of dead people (i.e. ghosts) or possibly of
extraterrestrial origin! Unlike The Conet Project,
which cross referenced the audio tracks with written information, The Ghost
Orchid presents these
recordings with the audio commentary of one of several researchers (Nadia
Fowler, Raymond Cass, and Lief
Elggren - the Swedish performance/audio artist and a part time collaborator
with the Hafler Trio), explaining
the findings. These recordings are the findings of a number of
parapsychologists including Dr. Konstantine
Raudive, Friedrich Jurgenson, and Raymond Cass.
       While there is something wholly terrifying about these recordings,
there is an absurd question about
these ghostly voices that we have to ask...Why are the majority of these
recordings in Latvian? Our resident
Latvian, Byram, is unable to answer this question...but perhaps we will
hear from him in the afterlife...at any
rate, The Ghost Orchid manages to be both spooky and silly, and is
definitely a fascinating listen from a pure
sound perspective regardless of how disturbing and/or amusing you might
find the alleged sound source
itself...you might laugh at the voice of "Winston Churchill", for instance,
spouting nonsense from the
netherworld, but it's still a gripping, dark sound document.
       A word of caution, Jim's copy of this cd disappeared from its case
on the Aquarius counter-top at
6:35PM on 5/8/99 and reappeared in puddle of ectoplasmic goo at 3:20 PM on
5/9/99. Haunting.





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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:32:29 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits]Gary E. Cooper,Alex Kapral,Si Zentner,Willie B.,Lin Halliday

    ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- Gary E. Cooper, a longtime Roanoke radio
personality, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 62.
    Cooper spent 38 years as host of ``Swap Shop'' on WRIS until his
retirement in May. On ``Swap Shop,'' people call to buy, sell or
trade their personal belongings. Callers give a brief description
of what they have to offer and leave a telephone number.
    From 1965 to 1981, Cooper made announcements at the Lee-Hi
Drive-In.
    He spent three years in the Army before returning to Roanoke to
work at WROV and later WRIS.
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                            *Alex Kapral
    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Alex Kapral, whose 150 patents included a
quick-release glue used for diapers and name tags, died Jan. 23. He
was 92.
    Kapral, a chemist who once wanted to be an actor, helped save
the Czech Republic's sugar beet industry when it was thrown into
doldrums by sugar cane.
    Beet growers had produced a low-priced livestock feed that
proved popular among people. In 1931, Kapral found a way to make it
repulsive to people while still palatable to animals. That won him
a top post at Biochema Corp., a Czechoslovakian agricultural
chemical company.
    He was the company's managing director in 1942 when he was
arrested by the Nazis for aiding the Allied effort. Kapral's wife,
Zdena, the daughter of a sugar beet farmer Kapral had met through
his work, managed to free Kapral through underground channels about
a year later.
    They moved to India in 1947 for a job but left for Australia
when civil war broke out and later immigrated to the United States.
He opened his own chemical engineering company in Chicago in 1957,
pioneering an additive that kept cement from sticking to molds.
    After a number of other inventions, he devised a quick-curing
silicone-release adhesive coating in 1969 while repairing a gumming
machine at a paper mill in Menasha, Wis. He then bought the mill,
renaming it Akrosil Corp.
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                            *Si Zentner
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Si Zentner, the Trombonist who started a highly
successful big band years after the era had passed, died Monday. He
was 82.
    Zentner became well-known when he recorded the hit ``Up A Lazy
River'' in 1961. He went on to record more than 30 albums and
hundreds of songs for Liberty Records.
    He played with the bands of Les Brown and Jimmy Dorsey before
settling in Los Angeles as a session musician.
    Using a revised version of ``Lazy River,'' Zenter recorded what
he called ``the first big-band record you could twist to.'' The
song became a Top 40 hit and a Grammy Award winner.
    Zentner recorded hundreds of songs for Liberty, continuing his
knack for recasting contemporary hits into a big-band sound aimed
at older ears. During the James Bond craze he reworked the movies'
themes, and when the Beatles exploded, he recorded a swinging
version of ``I Want to Hold Your Hand.''
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From the Las Vegas Sun:


Big-band leader Zentner dies at 82

Jazz trombonist made 30 albums, performed for 3 decades in LV
By Ed Koch
<[e-mail]>
LAS VEGAS SUN

In 1968 Si Zentner and his Orchestra burst into "Up a Lazy River" for the
overture to the "Folies Bergere" at the Tropicana hotel.

Jazz fans in the audience would smile, for they knew that the Hoagy
Carmichael classic was not part of the French-themed cancan show, but rather
was a No. 1 instrumental hit for famed jazz trombonist Zentner nine years
earlier.

"We only did it for a short time because we figured people knew who Si was
and would appreciate it," said Maynard Sloate, the former Tropicana
entertainment director.

"Si had a recognizable sound. While Tommy Dorsey was a mellow trombonist, Si
was robust. He was unique and certainly well respected."

Si Zentner, who performed with the Les Brown, Jimmy Dorsey and MGM Studios
orchestras and later as a bandleader and musician won two Grammy awards,
died Sunday of leukemia at the University Medical Center. He was 82.

There will be no services for the Las Vegas resident of 35 years. Valley
Memorial Cremation is handling the arrangements.

"Si had such a great command of the instrument -- he was a superb, talented
man," said retired jazz saxophonist "Doc" Randal Grilott, who was performing
with the Bob Crosby band when he met Zentner in 1939 and became his longtime
friend.

"He could play everything from jazz to symphony. Si always had a desire to
take his music to higher levels."

Chuck Diamond, a veteran musician and bassist for the Royal Dixie Jazz Band,
said: "Si was an incredible musician whether in the studio or onstage. He
was a champion guy."

Zentner moved to Las Vegas in 1965, the year Sloate hired him and his
then-road orchestra to back up Mel Torme at the opening of the Tropicana's
Blue Room, a 500-seat lounge.

Three years later Zentner was music director for the "Folies Bergere," a
position he held until 1971. For the next 29 years he performed regularly in
Las Vegas and worldwide.

"While trombonists were not known much for their longevity in the business,
Si was an exception," said longtime Sun entertainment columnist Joe Delaney.
"And he was even playing well to the end of his career."

Zentner last performed at a musicians convention at a Strip resort last
July.

Born Simon H. Zentner on June 13, 1917, in New York City, Zentner started
learning the violin at age 4 but soon switched to the trombone.

He began his professional career as a classical musician but in the late
1930s switched to more commercially popular music. In 1940 he joined Les
Brown's band and a few years later became a member of the Jimmy Dorsey band.

From 1949 to 1955 Zentner was a member of the MGM band. His trombone can be
heard in the classic motion pictures "A Star is Born" and "Singing in the
Rain."

In 1957 Zentner started his band, which won 13 straight Downbeat Jazz polls.
Zentner also was named 11 times to the annual Playboy Jazz Readers' Poll
all-star band.

In 1959 Zentner got a contract with Liberty Records and that year released
five albums -- "Thinking Man's Band," "Big Band Plays Big Hits,"
"Desafinado," "The Stripper and Other Big Band Hits" and "Up a Lazy River,"
which produced the hit. single.

During his career Zentner made 30 albums, including "Si Zentner & His
Orchestra, Alive in Las Vegas" in 1992.

From the 1970s through the '90s Zentner and his band performed at major
resorts, on cruise ships and at colleges, including UNLV and the Community
College of Southern Nevada.

He was a member of the Masons and numerous music unions throughout the
United States. He was a past vice president of the Musicians Local 369 in
Las Vegas.

He was working on his memoirs at the time of his death, friends said.

Zentner is survived by a son, Howard Zentner of Sandpoint, Idaho; a
daughter, Linda Berrow of Palmdale, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/zentner.htm
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:55:23|AM&p=amg&sql=B25413
http://317x.simplenet.com/albums/z/sizentner/card.html
http://www.bigbandrecordlibrary.com/szentner.html
http://boneswest.org/photos.htm
http://www.boneswest.org/vegas.htm
http://www.afm.org/369/
http://nfo.net/.WWW/z1.html
http://www.cruisefan.com/themes.html
http://bsnpubs.com/libertyb.html
http://www.americanmusicclassics.com/music_z.htm
http://looksmart.infoplease.com/ipa/A0150541.html
http://www.personal.riverusers.com/~debed/guitmag.htm

Look for these videos:
Meet the bandleaders. [videorecording]. v.102, Harry James, Ray
 McKinley, Si Zentner. Indianapolis, IN: Kartes Video Communications,
 c1984. (52 min.)
THE BIG BANDS: HARRY JAMES, RAY MC KINLEY, SI ZENTNER, RALPH MARTERIE, M 1365 .H3, 1965 54 min.

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                             *Willie B.
    ATLANTA (AP) -- Willie B., the Zoo Atlanta gorilla who spent 27
years in isolation with only a caretaker and a television for
company before being introduced to other gorillas and finally
becoming a father, died Wednesday. He was 41.
    Willie had been sick since early January, when he caught the flu
and then contracted pneumonia, which caused stress on his heart.
    The silverback gorilla, named for former Atlanta Mayor William
B. Hartsfield, was captured in Africa and spent more than two
decades in a concrete-and-steel-bars cage at the former
Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo. Besides a caretaker, his only companion
was a TV set on a shelf in the corner of the cage. He played on a
tire swing.
    Willie was one of the first gorillas released into the new
habitat in early 1988.
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http://nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-g-kane.html
Gil Kane's NYTimes obit
- ---
Chicago Tenor Saxophonist Lin Halliday Dies At 63
Tenor saxophonist Lin Halliday, who started his professional career in the
late 1950s but wouldn't achieve wider notoriety until later in life, died
Tuesday (Jan. 25) in Chicago of natural causes. He was 63.
Continued at:http://elvispelvis.com/linhalliday.htm



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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:41:07 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

In a message dated 02/03/2000 10:14:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< This being the case, why don't they
 sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say
 that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape
 deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the
 exact same crime as copying MP3 files. >>

I don't think it's as much about the copying, as it is about the free and
instantaneous dissemination of the music.  To use a CD burner, tape recorder,
VCR, mini disc player you need to buy blanks and you need to physically pass
the copy on to another person.  It's a time consuming and costly way to
spread music. So I don't think it poses so much of a worry.

Software like Napster allow a shitload of people access to the music fast and
at little to no cost in time or recording media.  That's what scares the
record company folks, understandably.  And with the growth of high bandwidth
cable modems people can send better then CD quality mp3s along with all the
linernotes and graphics from the CD, in a couple of minutes.

Like I've said before, I'm glad the folks on this list are into piracy the
old fashion way.  Not on a global level, but on a case by case basis.:-)(-:

- -R.G. Biv


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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000  14:16:48 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Be a Little Devil This Valentine

Be a little devil this Valentine's Tasty Treat!

It's the long awaited return of Tasty Treat, at our faboo new venue "Club 29."

Check into this love vibration and make that Valentine's Connection while
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plus special CD set by Agent Cooper, and many more surprises!

The Date:Saturday the 12th of February 2000AD
The Time:9pm to late
The Place:Club 29, 29 Maddox Street London W1 (Oxford Circus Tube)
The Price: 3 English Pounds donation for this one off private party!

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PS: Look for the transparent door!!!
Ciao and hope to see ya all there!

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 00 08:41:55 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 'Holy shit! We are going to sue you.'

>Their logic is that if a company makes something that the majority of users
>use for illegal reasons, they can sue the maker of that product, instead of
>each individual who uses it illegally. This being the case, why don't they
>sue makers of CD burners? Or how about makers of tape recorders? I would say
>that the vast majority of people who use the "record" feature on any tape
>deck use it to make copies of their music (mix tapes and such), which is the
>exact same crime as copying MP3 files.

Not only that, but swapping an MP3 file with someone privately via email
isn't illegal in and of itself; it's the same thing as trading a tape or
CD-R with someone.  If there is no money involved in the trade, copyright
issues aren't involved.  It's only in the public broadcast of said file
(as in downloading or streaming from a server that has connected links to
a public accessible website or in charging money for copies that's a
direct violation, AFAIA).

>What they're really pissed about is that they think they've created such
>great security for all these things so people will never again be able to
>copy their media. When it turns out that its not so secure anymore, they
>turn into little brats and sue everyone in sight. They need to accept that
>they will never be able to stop piracy. They can only go after the
>individual pirates.

When I was in contact with someone who is a computer programming and
technology engineer by trade, he used to tell me stories of how it
doesn't matter what a company comes up with, there will always be
codebreakers and people who can reverse engineer a product out there and
that it's really a tremendous waste of money, time, and effort to think
you are actually going to stop these folks!

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


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