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exotica-digest      Wednesday, February 16 2000      Volume 02 : Number 628



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
Re: (exotica) Completist collecting
Re: (exotica) LuxuriaMusic
(exotica) Re: Nina Rota OST specials from CAM
(exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
(exotica) re:  For fans of Anandar Shankar and the
(exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan
Re: (exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan
Re: (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...
Re:  (exotica) Collecting/Thrifting Ray Coniff
Re:  (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...
Re: (exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan
Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
Re:  (exotica) Collecting/Thrifting Ray Coniff
(exotica) RE: Kahunas! (Barbarella)
(exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
(exotica) Luxuria and Sci-Fi
Re: (exotica) [obit,Alan Smithee
Re:  (exotica) Luxuria and Sci-Fi
(exotica) Tina Louise vinyl queries
(exotica) Hoku Ho (aka Don Ho: The Next Generation)
Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators
Re: (exotica) RE: Kahunas! (Barbarella)
(exotica) Kahunas! (Barbarella)
Re:  (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...
(exotica) Re: louis louis
(exotica) For fans of the like...
(exotica) italian e-z beat remixes
(exotica) Philadelphia record stores
Re: (exotica) Philadelphia record stores
(exotica) Their Moai, Our Moai, My Moai
Re: (exotica) For fans of the like...

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:35:58 GMT
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

> From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
>
> But either way, you're unlikely to find "Ursula 1000" at a thrift store.
>

True. Although having said that, over the past couple of months I did
manage to pick up vinyl copies of "The Sound Gallery", "Vampyros
Lesbos" and "Soundtracks for Living" by the Gentle People in charity
shops. YMMV.

> There are often surprises but there's still generally a rationale behind
> which records end up at a thrift store and which ones end up at a used
> record store.
>

Few-to-none of the used record shops round here really have anything
you could call an EZ/Exotica section. So I generally don't find stuff
I want there, either.



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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:59:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Completist collecting

At 1:00 AM 2/15/0, Dj Batman wrote:
>If I ever get the rights to a certain Rota cd I'm trying to get, I think I
>already have one cd sold... ;D

One only? Please! We're talking a caseful, honey.
We apostles of the Order of Nino take our evangelistic duties seriously.
Please make my day by telling us that certain Rota CD is, is...Nights of
Cabiria!

Do that, I'll switch allegiances and found the Order of DJ Batman.

Mimi,
squirming with excitement and collector's lust and dying to own many copies
of the mambo from NoC




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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:47:41 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) LuxuriaMusic

In the middle of Br Cleve's message we have:

Throughout the process, LuxuriaMusic.com will depend on the anticipated keen
instincts of its visitors. "If somebody can hip us to some incredibly cool
and funky Thai organ music or Serbian tango music, that's great," says
co-founder The Millionaire.....

Well, not quite,  but this weekend I was given an LP of Korean Organ music.
Strange stuff.  On the 'OASIS' Label (OL 1201)  The sleeve looked at first
glance like a Greek record for some reason,  but the script was obviously
all wrong,  almost the only European characters on it are the labels address
in Seoul Korea.

Its hard to know when to start,  the Black and White leather finish cover
features a man singing into a microphone,  not remarkable except its an all
instrumental LP,  The back has a track listing,  it also has the tracks
again, with other catalogue numbers so i imagine its a comp.  The back also
has a picture of a different guy in a suit and glasses standing at a couple
of keyboards.  They seem to have drawbars on like 70's 'quality' organs
would have.  The other English language on the sleeve is for the track list,
not the titles (no, too easy) but the rhythm presets that whoever it is uses
on the songs.  eg tracks 1 & 5 on side 1 and 3 & 5 on side 2 are 'SLOW
ROCK',  tracks 2,4 & 6 on side 1 and 2 on side 2 are 'SOUL'.

For some reason my auto-detecting turntable thinks its a 7.

The music.  Well it sounds like US style Exotica.  Played on an organ.
Vague Easternisms over a western preset rhythm.  Its been double tracked,
probably no more, with mindbogglingly clumsy stereo,  the main organ and
rhythm track will suddenly drop to one side while another part comes in on
the other channel,,  then they reverse. You get the idea.  There may be an
underamplified  guitar on there too, or it could be a good impression of one
on the keyboard.

I don't recognise any of the songs,  but god knows I'm no expert anyway
(only recently got a non-surf Miserlou),  but I like it.  Perhaps its the
organ thing.  I can't get onto the web to do a search for some reason,  so
I've not been able to do any more research on it.

El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:08:44 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Nina Rota OST specials from CAM

>Chuck from the Big Easy wrote offlist:
>>I just got Juliet of the Spirits in  and its absolutely fabulous.  One of
>>the most >>joyful soundtracks I have ever heard and certainly helped make
>>this great movie >better.
>
>Oh, that's my fav fav favorite! I even drop a theme from JotS on most
>tapes I make for people--a little signature tune, if you will. Had it on
>my phone answering machine tape for a long time, too.
>
>>What else would you recommend by him??

>The others I really love include Rota's scores for
>8 1/2
>La Dolce Vita
>Casanova--witchy and very pretty. Working music.
>Amarcord
>Tutti Fellini--out of print for a long time, glad it's available again. Go
>for Fellini et Rota -I Film, Le Musiche, for Rota-only themes--no Fred &
>Ginger, for example.
>
>You can order these OSTs direct from the Italian label CAM at savings
>right now--about US$8.26 a disk. Such a deal! (I paid $18 plus shipping
>for La Dolce Vita last year). US$11.06 for the Tutti Fellini 2-CD
>set--cuts from all the Fellini OSTs. A terrific collection and a solid
>overview. Find CAM at www.cam-ost.it and search through artists for Nino
>Rota or Giovanni Rota, his formal name. Funny, I spent much of Sunday at
>the CAM web site--lots of RA samples, so you can hear before you order.
>
>Check out the specials too--an alluring 3 CD bargain of themes from erotic
>films, US$19. In the same spot, you can save if you order at least 5 Rota
>Fellini OSTs from the site.

>Enjoy,
>Mimi






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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:37:06 -0500
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

Mo wrote:
>Todays thrifting is only an
>echo of that and I guess it's almost over for many categories, unless you
>start looking for something different, unexpected, that noone else has on
>his/her list, like vintage computers

On this eternal Thrift question "is it over?" perhaps we could get
some thoughts from the Poet Laureate and World's Leading Authority on
all Thrift-related matters--who is known to lurk hereabouts, and who
has written on this very subject. . . .

Suffice to say that you might all just scamper directly to
http://www.girlreporter.com for further enlightenment. (And
attractive discounts on back issues!)


My view is that a great thrift score always involves some kind of
"information gap." You buy something really cool, from someone who
doesn't realize it's cool, and so the price they have set is
correspondingly ludicrous.

However with eBay and the explosion of "collectibles" and price
guides, it seems that a lot of those old information gaps are
narrowing--at least for the items which *our* demographic would be
interested in. So to us, it seems like there's just more and more
dreck in the thrift shops.

But that Horizon of Revulsion, that definition of what is "obviously"
worthless, shifts for each successive generation. And just as surely
as the sun will come up tomorrow, there is some young person out
there who has started to collect Pat Benatar records. .  .

yours thriftily,
  --Ross

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


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 00 09:44:03 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

>...echo of that and I guess it's almost over for many categories, unless you
>start looking for something different, unexpected, that noone else has on
>his/her list, like vintage computers (I saw an Apple 2 in a wooden chassis
>for
>8$ in Glendale)

Ahem!  If it was an Apple cpu in a wooden chassis, it was not an Apple
][; it was an Apple I.  Last sold at auction for something like 15 GRAND.
 There were an extremely limited number of those made.  You should have
snapped that up, whether it was in working condition or not!!!!!!!!

Regards,
- --bj
The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:46:31 -0500
From: "Chuck Collazzi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re:  For fans of Anandar Shankar and the

"East Meets West"
Ahmed Abdul-Malik on early RCA
a wonderful LP
haven't seen it in years
Regards
Chuck


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:59:01 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/news/021500/101/3527.htm
'60s Recording Artist Oliver Dies At 54

Allmusic bio at:
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=12:46:20|PM&p=amg&sql=B25314
- -----
Alan (Allen) Smithee, director of numerous films, television programs
and music videos, has died in Hollywood. Smithee, one of the
entertainment industryÆs most infamous auteurs, worked steadily in the
entertainment industry for 45 years. His age was unknown. He always
managed to maintain a low profile in a notoriously high-profile
industry. As with such geniuses as Thomas Pynchon, little or no recorded
interviews or television appearances appear to have survived his career.

Smithee's first film was the 1955 television production of "The
Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis," starring Angela Lansbury. In 1967, he
championed the Richard Widmark film "Death of a Gunfighter," released
two years later. Smithee received favorable reviews from such
publications as the New York Times and Variety for the effort. Other
films helmed by Smithee include "Appointment with Fear," "Shrimp on the
Barbie," and "Let's Get Harry." Smithee was also assistant director of
1983's "Twilight Zone: The Movie."

In the 1990's, Smithee continued to direct at a brisk pace, mainly via a
series of low-budget horror movies. He also helmed episodes of various
television series, including the "McGyver" pilot and an episode of "Twin
Peaks." Additionally, Smithee was the guiding force behind a series of
music videos, for artists as varied as En Vogue, Porno for Pyros and
Whitney Houston.

In 1997, the University of Pennsylvania held a retrospective and
conference on Smithee's films.

Smithee was scheduled to take over for director Walter Hill on the
recently released science fiction film "Supernova." Instead, the film
was finished by close friend Thomas Lee.

According to the Director's Guild of America, Smithee passed away
quietly sometime in late January. According to a spokesperson, all
projects currently on Smithee's schedule will be handled by Lee.

No services have been announced.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=12:49:35|PM&p=avg&sql=EAlan|Smithee
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Smithee,+Alan
- -----
ACTOR DILIP DHAWAN DEAD

Mumbai - Well-known character actor Dilip Dhawan died at
his Bandra residence here today after a massive heart
attack, family sources said. He was 45. Starting his
career as a child artiste in 'Sangarsh', featuring Dilip
Kumar, Dhawan acted in over 50 films, including 'Ek Bar
Kaho', 'Virasat', 'Swarg', and 'Heena', reports PTI.

He came into the limelight on the small screen with his
portrayal of 'Guru' in the popular TV serial 'Nukkad'. He
enacted powerful roles in serials like 'Janam', 'Deewar',
'Tere Mere Sapne' and 'Aur Ek Din'.

Dhawan, son of noted character actor late Krishan Dhawan,
also produced a feature film 'Saath Saath', directed by
Raman Kumar. He is survived by wife and mother.



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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:06:18 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan

Am I wrong, or is Alan Smithee that famous "nom de plume" that Hollywood
uses when a writer/producer/director doesn't want to put his name on a
finished project?  He doesn't really exist, does he?

cheryl

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Allmusic bio at:
> http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=3D12:46:20|PM&p=3Damg&sql=3DB25314
> -----
> Alan (Allen) Smithee, director of numerous films, television programs
> and music videos, has died in Hollywood. Smithee, one of the
> entertainment industry=92s most infamous auteurs, worked steadily in th=
e
> entertainment industry for 45 years. His age was unknown. He always
> managed to maintain a low profile in a notoriously high-profile
> industry. As with such geniuses as Thomas Pynchon, little or no recorde=
d
> interviews or television appearances appear to have survived his career.
>


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:17:17 -0000
From: "ark edgar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...

dont forget the classic Guru Vin
- -----  on The Distant Galaxy By Don Sebesky-Man it is beautiful, and very
groovy

cheers

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:20:11 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Collecting/Thrifting Ray Coniff

In a message dated 2/14/0 5:54:01 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I have yet to find this soft pop cut DjJimmy played on his show

Look for the later 6T's LP's with top 40 radio fare of the day. They all have
that certain softness to them. One track is bound to grab you here or there
and they shouldn't be hard to find. Again, good-looking women grace the
covers as per usual...JB


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:27:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...

In a message dated 2/14/0 10:09:32 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>At 01:38 PM 2/14/00 EST, [e-mail] wrote:
>>In a message dated 2/13/0 5:54:11 PM, [e-mail]
wrote:
>>>Anyone got any recommendations for more East/West crossover albums?

We've all been busy, haven't we!  Last but not least, let's not forget the
early 7T's soul tracks by artists attracted to the sitar: several by The
Stylistics, Bloodstone's "Outside Woman", Natural Four's "Heaven Right Here
On Earth"....more, but I can't think off the top of my head...JB


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:29:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Oliver,Alan Smithee,Dilip Dhawan

yes, you are correct. I just heard someone interviewed on NPR recently
about the decision to stop using Smithee.

So long, Al!




On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, cheryl wrote:

>
> Am I wrong, or is Alan Smithee that famous "nom de plume" that Hollywood
> uses when a writer/producer/director doesn't want to put his name on a
> finished project?  He doesn't really exist, does he?
>
> cheryl
>




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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:41:30 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

At 11:32 AM 2/15/00 +0100, Moritz R wrote:
>
>Don't forget, the habit to search thrift stores for records evolved
>sometimes in the 70s when it wasn't hip at all and when you could still find
>near mint Martin Denny's Exoticas for 50c a piece. Todays thrifting is
only an
>echo of that and I guess it's almost over for many categories, unless you
>start looking for something different, unexpected, that noone else has on
>his/her list,

Well even in the mid-nineties when I started, I found Dennys and even
Esquivels and for a while there, it was the BEST place to find Command
records, since very few used-record stores would carry such things.

But I want to make a plea here for the kinds of things you can still find
at thrift stores and that I assume you still will for a few years to come.

First of all, it's probably still the best place to find 78's of all kinds,
unless like I said before, you're only interested in delta blues or
something.  At least up here, you're very unlikely to find those.  But I've
found mint Elvis Presleys, all kinds of country, Slim Gaillard, Mickey
Katz, and all kinds of cool ethnic stuff plus "rare" stuff like Berliners
etc.  I've stopped buying them because I have five milk crates of coolish
stuff and I haven't played any of it for two years but it's fun just to
take em home and play them once.

But mostly my plea is for the classic easy listening stuff that doesn't
rise to the level of exotica or any other groovy label you might be pursuing.

It took a little while, it happened gradually, almost involuntarily but
somewhere in there I grew to genuinely like stuff I once considered kinda
boring.  And I really don't think my taste got worse; in fact I think I
could make an argument that it got better.

When I started on this road, I was only interested in the stuff with what
you might call more "overt" dynamics.  Lots of percussion, stereo effects,
bird calls, whatever.  Extreme arrangements.  Command stuff being a prime
example.

But now I enjoy a well-arranged tune.  Percy Faith, Kostelanetz, Billy Vaughn.

(In fact I put a Billy Vaughn tune on my exotica-ring tape.  But that's
because it's a moog tune with a strange theremin-sounding overtone.)

I still like "over-the-top" arrangements but now I can hear it in stuff
with what you might call more "subtle" elements.  The other day I was
listening to Bert Kaempfert doing "Games People Play" and it started off
with mostly horns but then suddenly, in come these strings and wordless
vocals and it was all kind of stupid and unnecessary and I loved it.

I don't know how to advise someone if they want to start liking this stuff
too.  With me, I think a lot of it came from having a friend who loved it
and watching him react to stuff I once would have passed over.

And it wasn't peer pressure.  It was good influences.  I think.

That and the fact that you can still find lots of it cheap.

Nat



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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:35:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Collecting/Thrifting Ray Coniff

Don't know if this has been discussed (I haven't
followed this thread), but Ray Coniff has a rockabilly
LP... something like Let's Bop or Do the Bop. Only RC
in my collection. It's worth picking up cheaply. I've
included as many tracks from this as from Billy
Daniels and the Rhythm Rockers (thrillingly bad: aging
lounge crooner with a rockabilly beat) on the
Schlockabilly comp. tape I've put together.
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:42:31 -0500
From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Kahunas! (Barbarella)

        Peter Risser wrote:

        >Now, the list:
        >Drum roll please......
        >Best soundtrack (new or re-release):
        >Bob Crewe - Barbarella

Is this the vinyl reissue-of-questionable-origin or a CD? If the latter, any
tips on where to find? I picked up a vinyl copy a little before Xmas & was a
little troubled; sound seemed kind of brittle & there was a skip. I got the
"Enter the Dragon" OST also, same day, same store, also "not on the original
label" & it sounded fine, so I'm wondering if I got a bad copy, or if it had
something to do with mastering, running time & thinner grooves ("Enter" is a
little over 25 minutes long, while Barbarella clocks in at a little over 25
per side). I ended up returnin it, since the cassette I made off an
ex-housemate's mint LP ($5 sealed at a used LP store in Tulsa Oklahoma!!) A
shame since I've been looking for this one for several years.




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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:39:49 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

In a message dated 2/15/0 8:36:43 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Few-to-none of the used record shops round here really have anything
>you could call an EZ/Exotica section.

Sometimes you can find interesting items in the Jazz Dept. Yesterday I found
a sealed Cal Tjader on Verve from 1964 produced by Claus Ogerman, Gary
McPartland's "Soft Samba", and a 1963 Ramsey Lewis LP in mint condition in
stereo. I also got "F&T with Percussion" in the EZ section


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:34:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Luxuria and Sci-Fi

Hey!  Bet y'all forgot all about me...:(
I've been lurking, and have a bunch of great new/old
rekkids to talk about, but not right now...

I am proud to say I have an article on the Luxuria
site...scroll to the right and click on the article
about Tampa!  I wrote it and my dahling brother took
pix...

Also, a quick note to letchuze know Astroslut will be
playing the SciFi Marathon in Brookline this Sunday-at
the Coolidge Corner Theatre!  Imagine...Astroslut in
the same town JFK was born...

More love later, Jane Fondle

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:59:02 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit,Alan Smithee

At 12:59 PM 2/15/00 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>-----
>Alan (Allen) Smithee, director of numerous films, television programs
>and music videos, has died in Hollywood. Smithee, one of the
>entertainment industry=92s most infamous auteurs, worked steadily in the
>entertainment industry for 45 years. His age was unknown.

Hey Lou, if you start reprinting joke obituaries like this one, I'm going
to have to question all your obituaries.
Smithee was the answer to a recent question on "Who wants to be a
millionaire?" Unfortunately, the contestant - finally a woman who was
starting to win real money - tried to be logical and guessed the name wit=
h
"McGuffin" in it when asked "What is the name that appears on the credits
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:02:23 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Luxuria and Sci-Fi

In a message dated 2/15/0 2:52:06 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Imagine...Astroslut in
>the same town JFK was born...

Hey Janey, he started the Space Program, and he DID have an eye for the
ladies. What goes around cums around ya know?   JB ;--)~


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:56:42 PST
From: "Albert Fish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tina Louise vinyl queries

hello,
   Anyone know which label she released her lp on, (I think she had a single
on United Artists).
  Also, save for a miracle at Salvation Army, how much do you expect/suggest
I pay for it?

Thanks
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:00:36 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hoku Ho (aka Don Ho: The Next Generation)

http://www.donho.com/hoku.html

Why did I just pick up the SnowDay soundtrack CD? I've got a 9 year
old daughter, that's why! (Also one of her classmates, Zena, is in the flick)
So let's not get sidetracked about this, OK?!

Anyway, the lead off cut is by Hoku, Don Ho's daughter! Her tune is
"Another Dumb Blonde." I'm sure that if you're anywhere near any of
those video shows that show the interchangeable Britney/Christina/Mandy
type singer, you'll be sure to see the Hoku video. And then you can
say "She's good but she ain't her Dad!". And nobody will know what
you're talking about...

Lou




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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 00 14:41:36 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Collectors and accummulators

>I still like "over-the-top" arrangements but now I can hear it in stuff
>with what you might call more "subtle" elements.  The other day I was
>listening to Bert Kaempfert doing "Games People Play" and it started off
>with mostly horns but then suddenly, in come these strings and wordless
>vocals and it was all kind of stupid and unnecessary and I loved it.
>
>I don't know how to advise someone if they want to start liking this stuff
>too.  With me, I think a lot of it came from having a friend who loved it
>and watching him react to stuff I once would have passed over.

I didn't have to acquire a taste for such music as it was played to me as
a very young child at home.  So, I grew up loving the concert music and
tv soundtracks of Henry Mancini (and the work of Leroy Anderson as well)
the way my schoolmates loved the Beatles and the Beach Boys, and it
seemed very natural to me--not forced by any means.  Then in 1966, a
different kind of music from our neighbors to the south started to really
move me, and my likes expanded to include it as well.  Little did I
realize what influence both were to have on me as an adult.  Instead of
interest waning, it has only intensified in recent years.

>That and the fact that you can still find lots of it cheap.

Heh.  Not me.  I never found one Mancini (or Wanderley) LP in a thrift
store, only in used record stores.  And the area where I live is
populated by LOTS of thrift stores:  several Goodwill stores, and at
least one Value Village, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, etc., etc.

Regards,
- --bj
The Walter Wanderley Pictorial Discography
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:48:35 -0500
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Kahunas! (Barbarella)

George Hall wrote:
>
>                 >Best soundtrack (new or re-release):
>                 >Bob Crewe - Barbarella
>
> Is this the vinyl reissue-of-questionable-origin or a CD?

It's available in both formats - Dusty Groove usually has them in
stock.  The vinyl (which I have) isn't much different from the CD
quality, from what I've heard - mine doesn't skip, but the sound is
pretty mediocre.  Given the choice, I'd have bought the CD, but it
wasn't available last year when I bought the LP.  Although the LP is red
vinyl, which is fun... And they're both of "questionable origin".

cheryl


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:57:56 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kahunas! (Barbarella)

I would say the best deal for Barbareela for a long time has been at
http://www.jackdiamond.com  Jack has  it paired with Jimmie Haskel's "Countdown"
another great album.   The sound quality is as good as the other  solo cd release
so its worth the extra 4 bucks to get it from Jack with Jimmie Haskel's lp on it.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:20:29 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re:  (exotica) For fans of Anandar Shankar and the like...

At 2:27 PM 2/15/0, [e-mail] wrote:
>We've all been busy, haven't we!  Last but not least, let's not forget the
>early 7T's soul tracks by artists attracted to the sitar: several by The
Stylistics,....more, but I can't think off the top of my head...JB

Delphonics, Jimmy Bee, Delphonics, more of the Philly Soul sound. I wonder
if future Stylistic Thomas Bell got Delphonics to use that sound in their
arrangments. The CD booklet says that's guitar not sitar on Didn't I Blow
Your Mind This Time, Over & Over Again, and the minor hit, Delphonics
Theme.

Other east-west hybrids:
Mahavishnu John McLauglin, My Goal Beyond
Wonderwall Music, George Harrison, nicely psychedelic

More contemporary stuff: Najma.

Mimi




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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:50:39 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: louis louis

> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:53:28 -0500
> From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Louis Louis???
>
> Sort of a silly question, but when these questions pop into one's head,
> they don't go away...
> Did Louis Prima ever record a version of "Louie Louie"?

Unfortunately no, he didn't (he did "Route 66", though). Neither did
it Louis Jordan nor Louis Armstrong.
But Mongo Santamaria did a great version, if we're talkin' exotic.
Ciao
gionni gionni


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:22:18 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) For fans of the like...

In a message dated 2/15/0 6:05:58 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Delphonics, Jimmy Bee, Delphonics, more of the Philly Soul sound. I wonder
>if future Stylistic Thomas Bell got Delphonics to use that sound in their
>arrangments. The CD booklet says that's guitar not sitar on Didn't I Blow
>Your Mind This Time, Over & Over Again, and the minor hit, Delphonics Theme

Thom Bell and Linda Creed, Gamble & Huff, Vince Montana, Bobby Eli...don't
get me started because honey you are speaking to Mr. Philly Soul!  You are
correct about the sitar sound in the Delfonics without no doubt. As a Philly
Soul compleatist for the banner years 1968 through 1979 and owner of many
many "rootsy" Philly 45's from '64 through '67, I should really go through my
stuff to select the sitar based instrumentation within the songs (which
REALLY are all about vocal harmonies and pyrotechnics with the sitar-sound
used more than likely to attain a contemproary sound). Exotic soul is what
Philly was about in the day: cascading strings, glockenspiels, exotic
percussive F/X, jazz-based, but NOT jazz-bo arrangements and a whole lotta
soul. Check it out exoticats and kittens and thanks for bringing it up Mimi.
....JB/would be willing to make the ultimate Philly Soul collection recording
for our digest-based CD-R executives to run off for all of us if there is any
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:25:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) italian e-z beat remixes

I got the Piero Piccioni 12" remixes of "Mr. Dante Fontana", "Esculapio" and
one other one from Dusty Groove. A question to the fellas from the Boot (DJ
Batman, Gionni Paludi): Are there any other Italiano 12" vinyl remixes worth
getting? These are really mind-blowingly fabulous and I want more!...Thanks
in advance...J. Botticelli


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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:23:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Philadelphia record stores

Can anyone recommend some good places to get records
in Philly?  Thanks a lot.

regards,

mark
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 00 20:25:58 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Philadelphia record stores

>Can anyone recommend some good places to get records
>in Philly?  Thanks a lot.

Wow, this thread is starting to make me feel homesick now!!!  Of course,
with twenty years of living away from there, I don't have any
recommendations for you, fish wich, but I can tell you where I USED to
shop all the time:  Sam Goody's downtown.  Alas, back then it was not the
ubiquitous small mall chain store that it is now, but a REAL record
store.  Two stories high.  I bought all my original jazz and latin albums
there in the early 1970s, many of which I still have.  Another place I
used to like to buy records was the classic John Wanamaker store right
near it (also no longer JW's).  They had a good record section where I
bought my still haves Ray Conniff and David Rose Xmas LPs, among others.
And I also frequented at least two of Philly's Record Museums.  Have no
idea whether that chain still exists or not.  But the downtown Sam Goody
was THE BEST.  Bought all my Mancini and Wanderley LPs there too.  What
memories.

Wish I could go back in time, go there, and fill in the rest of my
collection!!!!!!  I passed up buying then what I need now (how many of us
have muttered that phrase?!)....

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: 15 Feb 2000 21:21:12 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Their Moai, Our Moai, My Moai

Nova tonight went to Easter Island (Rapa Nui).

Very interesting, hope you caught it.  The website is quite good as well...
first time I ever saw a map of the place:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/easter/

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 07:20:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) For fans of the like...

Groovemaster Jimmy Bee scrawls:
>Thom Bell and Linda Creed, Gamble & Huff, Vince Montana, Bobby Eli...don't
>get me started because honey you are speaking to Mr. Philly Soul!

I thought so...that's why I was surprised when you didn't bring up
Delphonics. Figured all you needed was a nudge.

Great description of the Philly sound, too:
>stuff to select the sitar based instrumentation within the songs (which
>REALLY are all about vocal harmonies and pyrotechnics with the sitar-sound
>used more than likely to attain a contemporary sound). Exotic soul is what
>Philly was about in the day: cascading strings, glockenspiels, exotic
>percussive F/X, jazz-based, but NOT jazz-bo arrangements and a whole lotta
>soul.

And profoundly mushy lyrics.


>....JB/would be willing to make the ultimate Philly Soul collection recordi=
ng
>for our digest-based CD-R executives to run off for all of us if there is a=
ny
>interest

Ooh ooh! How could I encourage this?

You know one of the greatest things about living in Motown all those years
was near total-immersion in soul--odd for a suburban white girl. I've loved
this music for a long time and would be delighted to sit at your feet, o
master, and learn more.

Mimi, now living in a town where soul means Muscle Shoals, not Philly Groove





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