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exotica-digest        Thursday, March 16 2000        Volume 02 : Number 653



In This Digest:

(exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids
(exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids
(exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)
Re: (exotica) Wanteds & Up the Down
Re:  (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)
(exotica) Wanteds
Re: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids
Re: (exotica) Playlist for "The BackWard" March 15, 2000
(exotica) Heino-esque
VB: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)
Re: (exotica) What to do with that spare quarter of a million...
(exotica) shameless self promotion
(exotica) Tito Rivera?
Re: (exotica) Heino-esque
(exotica) [obits] Richard Collier,Tommy Collins,Andrew Ghareeb,Mary Elliott Cummings,
RE: (exotica) Heino-esque
re: (exotica) Diana Dors
Re: (exotica) Heino-esque
Fw: (exotica) Re:  Claus Ogerman
(exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood
(exotica) message bounces/test
re: (exotica) Diana Dors
(exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:20:06 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids

Been scrolling thru the digests and wanted to comment on this thread.

We've been married 21 years and the wife has noticed that I pick up
obsessions and gradually drop them after a few years. So it's about time
for me to get hooked onto something else. Out of consideration for our
joint finances I have "leveled" off over the past 1/2 year. But back to the
vinyl trough this weekend when I go thrifting with Think. ;')

The thing the wife hates the most is the smell of the records so I only try
to keep choice things I want to play regularly at home and on the show
upstairs in the living room with the turntable.

As for the kids. I stopped bringing them to the nearest used record place
because the free range rude shopkeeper didn't want them playing with the
toys she also sold. I say sold cause she closed up shop.

These days I buy one or two records at a pop, for a dollar each or less if
I can help it.
Can't seem to get the 4 year old into exotica. She knows the lyrics to
"baby do me one more time" or whatever it's called by Brittney Spears!
She's into the current scene.

My 14 year old listen to the top 40 rock stuff and was really into a disco
type song called "blue" that was IMHO lounge teckno.

For me it's been possible to have an record habit and a family. You just to
balance it out.


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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:08:23 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids

Well, it's just Madame and me, but for the times, my parents had a lot of
records, but didn't play them too terribly often.  They did have
um...VARIED tastes, which is mostly my Mother's doing.  Here is a
smattering of disques du Mom et Dad:

The Billie Holiday Story
Tito Rodriguez
My World - Jo Basile (one of the world's worst records.  Just trust me.)
The Living Voices of Christmas (sloooow version of the 12 Days of Christmas)
Le Sacre du Savage - L' Baxter
Le Sacre du Printemps - La Stravinsky
What a Wonderful World - Jerry Vale
Cesar Franck Symphony
Music of the Near East
Artistry in Rhythm - Stan Kenton
Victoria de Los Angeles (one of my Mother's favorite singers)
Orquestra Almendra (Dad dug this one)
Cinderella (a two-sided 78 that ends with her going to the Prince's fancy
Dress Ball!  I really wanted to see this conversation at the record
company: "Bob, we love duh fairy tale, but we gotta make some cuts.  Foist,
no glass slipper.   It tested bad in Chicago.  Second, we can't have her go
back to rags again.  Goils' hearts'll be broken...")

Any rock and roll we had were on 45s.  No albums.  The earliest 45 we had
was "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.  If any
records were played my brother and I were playing them.  When we had
company, I remember that the turntable was commandeered by Dad to listen to
Billie Holiday with a family friend.  When we first bought that record, we
listened to all of it and I was NOT amused, especially when he made us go
back over certain cuts.

Turns out I was wrong about that.  Yeah, like you all were hip at nine
years old.

The whole subject of music in the living became rather depressing when some
punk kids stole the receiver and one of the speakers.  We never replaced
them and the only turntables in the house were in my brother's room.

So, for them the balance was almost no music at all, but a lot of
records.  On the occasional Sunday, Dad would make pancakes and turn the
greasy, dusty Magnavox to the "classical" station.

The moral of the story:  if you want your kids to dig that type of music,
feed them and keep the radio out of reach!

Brian Phillips




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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:32:28 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)

I have forgotten all but some of the lyrics.

It is a song cut with no vocals of his, but with a woman vocalist other
than Keely Smith.  It's a live cut and most of what is sung very fast,
which really gets the crowd going.

The antiphonal section has her singing with the band answering:

Her: I
Them: I
Her: I want
Them: I want
Her: I want you
Them: I want you
Her: I want you to
Them: I want you to

Then the rapid fire vocals.  What is the song and who is the singer?




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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:39:06 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Wanteds & Up the Down

At 02:59 PM 3/14/00 +0000, [e-mail]
wrote:
>
>Are we really allowed to post our wants?

I guess you are.  And since some of your wants are in the same vein as some
of mine, maybe you can tell me what you know about them and then they'll
also become my wants.

For instance:

>Rajput and the Sapoy Mutiny - Flower Power Sitar
>The Hellers - Singers, Talkers, Players and Doers
>Berry Lipman - The Most Beautiful Girls in the World
>The Mohawks - The Champ
>Phillip Sarde - Max et les Ferraileurs soundtrack
>Maurice Pop - Play Together

Oh and btw, I have the Wozard record, mainly as a memento (momento?) of
days of hash.  I don't have a price but I would consider a trade.

Nat




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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:01:29 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)

In a message dated 3/15/0 5:33:46 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Her: I
>Them: I
>Her: I want
>Them: I want
>Her: I want you
>Them: I want you
>Her: I want you to
>Them: I want you to
>
>Then the rapid fire vocals.  What is the song and who is the singer?

I think its called "I Want You To Be My Boy" by The Exciters. The lead singer
was Brenda Reid. They are best know for "Tell Him" ("I know something about
love, you've gotta want it bad. If that guy gets into your blood, go out and
get him." then the chorus "tell him that you never want to leave him, tell
him that you're always gonna please him. Tell him, tell him, tell him, tell
him right now.")...Hope that helps...JB/played obscure oldies for years


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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:02:34 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Wanteds

In a message dated 3/15/0 5:34:23 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>The Mohawks - The Champ

Add that one to my wants as well..JB


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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 00 15:21:18 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) records/bachelorhood life/kids

>. . .So, for them the balance was almost no music at all, but a lot of
>records.  On the occasional Sunday, Dad would make pancakes and turn the
>greasy, dusty Magnavox to the "classical" station.
>
>The moral of the story:  if you want your kids to dig that type of music,
>feed them and keep the radio out of reach!
>
>Brian Phillips

Just to share a story that yours puts me in mind of:  It drives me crazy
when I have gone to my uncle's home to visit.  No judgment being passed
here because everyone is different, BUT:  there was never, ever a drop of
music played in that home, ever.  So my three cousins grew up listening
to no music in the home.  Even to this day, they have never owned a
stereo of any kind (either the piece of furniture [all-in-one] kind, an
a/v receiver-home stereo system or even a portable "record player").
They have one radio, in the kitchen, that's the kind you see in most
people's garages (portable, big handle on the top, one speaker mono).
When it's on, it's always tuned to an AM 24 hr. all-news station.  I
bring this up because it contrasts SO much to the atmosphere I grew up
in:  either the FM radio was always on, always tuned to what were
formerly 'easy listening' stations - OR - records were playing.  Or there
was a concert playing on tv (remembering the Leonard Bernstein 'Young
Peoples Concerts' on CBS on Sunday afternoons).  And we had musical
instruments in our home, too, where none existed in any of our other
relative's homes.  It was just SUCH a contrast!!

- --bj


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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:22:22 GMT
From: "james brouwer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for "The BackWard" March 15, 2000

"The BackWard" can be heard every Wednesday mornings at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Also available via RealAudio:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/

A Man Alone - John Barry, from "The Ipcress File" OST

A Spit in the Ocean - Fred Frith, from "The Best of Ralph"

Shadows of the Night - Corbert & Grean, from "Dark Shadows" OST

Radar Eyes - The Godz, from "Godz II"

Valley of Death - The Whatever, from "Acid and Flowers"

The Pass - Johnny Bond, from "That Wild Wicked but Wonderful West"

Five Brothers - Marty Robbins, from "More Gunfighter Ballads"

Rats - Syd Barrett, from "Barrett"

I'll Sell My Soul - The Allies, from "Acid and Flowers"

Ocean - The Velvet Underground, from "Loaded" (outtake)

The Amine B Ring (exc) - Lou Reed, from "Metal Machine Music"

Making The Nature Scene - Sonic Youth, from "Confusion is Sex"

Draft Morning - The Byrds, from "Notorious Byrd Bros."

Fotomodelle & Notte Di Mezza Estate - Piero Umiliani, from "Sweden Heaven
and Hell" OST

Rio Magic - Neil Richardson, from "Music for TV Dinners the 60's"

Zoom! - Francis Lai, from "Live For Life" OST

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye, from "What's Goin' On"

Krautrock - Faust, from "Faust IV"

- -jbrouwer
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:17:22 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Heino-esque

I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly horrible record ever,
in my obviously limited experience.  I say that because I'm sure there are
tons of records like this, especially in this genre.
The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info, the label is CNR
and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren".
If I had to guess what language it is, I'd go for Dutch.  But I wouldn't
guarantee it.
It reminds me of Heino, with a bit of a country and western influence.
Anyway, it's truly awful. If country and western Heino doesn't paint enough
of a picture, I don't think I can do any better.
But if it was just awful of course, I wouldn't be writing here.
It's awful but a bit of a "car-crash" too, in that you can't take your eyes
off it.
For moments here and there, you think "This is not THAT bad".  Then moments
later, you think "Wait, I spoke too soon".
I imagine it would be great to turn on at a party when you want people to
leave.
But I'm scared that if I keep it, I might start to like it.
I've grown to like so much that I never thought I'd like.  It's good to
hear something that I don't like.
I probably should never play it again.  Preserve the moment.

Nat



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:18:29 +0100
From: "JOACHIM TEVEBRING" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VB: (exotica) Louis Prima question (vague as can be!!)

>It is a song cut with no vocals of his, but with a woman vocalist other =

>than Keely Smith.  It's a live cut and most of what is sung very fast,=20
>which really gets the crowd going.
What is the song and who is the singer?


The song is I Want You To Be My Baby, sung by Keely=B4s succesor: Gia =
Maionen. It=B4s on the Prima album "Lake Tahoe Prima Style"

/Joachim



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Date: 15 Mar 2000 18:46:15 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) What to do with that spare quarter of a million...

At 02:25 PM 14-03-00 +0000, Robbie wrote:
>http://www.45s.com/45-rpm-records/ultimate-collection.htm

hmm.  I bet they could get into trouble for selling the core of the
collection.  Most of the singles are probably promotional, which means
the record company alone has ownership and selling is illegal.  Theoretically.

Still, they certainly know how to store a collection.  I bet that's either
a remodelled basement or garage.

http://www.45s.com/images-music/collection-1.jpg
http://www.45s.com/images-music/collection-2.jpg

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: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:20:51 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) shameless self promotion

http://www.iprimus.ca/~klymkiw/vinyl.html



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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:12:32 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tito Rivera?

Now here's a record with a surprise up its sleeve.

Tito Rivera & His Cuban Orchestra featuring Yo Yo Gonzales and Jose Morales
"Cha Cha Cha"
Golden Tone Stereo/Precision Radiation Instruments - 14042

Well, for one, it's practically an EP, with just 4 cuts per side. It
appears to be a typical budget label cha cha-sploitation album, with it's
obvious title and a cover photo featuring a very white dancing couple.

Surprise! Side one is terrific, zero-anglo-content Cuban music (or maybe
Puerto Rican, I'm not expert enough to say for sure). A small band, sparse
and soulful... percussion, upright bass, small horn section, guitar (maybe
replaced by tres on some cuts) and male vocals in Spanish. The tunes are
down-tempo, minor-key and sinuously serpentine. Latin noir. The sort of
stuff you would expect to find in Tom Waits' record collection. Very steamy
and very cool at the same time.

Side two, sadly, is watered-down. Two exploitation tracks: "In Old New York
Cha Cha" and "La Cucaracha Cha Cha" sound like the work of a different band
(definitely larger, definitely a different recording session). These sound
more anglo... a bit like Perez Prado arrangements, but not as frisky. The
two remaining tracks with the Side 1 band are also a bit of a letdown. "La
Virgen De La Macarena" (no, no obvious resemblance to the recent fad song)
sounds like something for the tourists -- a very different feel than the
Side 1 songs. A cover of "Adios" sounds a bit stiff, like it was
under-rehearsed and thrown together at the last minute to fill out a session.

But that Side 1... whew! It's so good it makes my stomache hurt.

So the question... has anyone heard of Tito Rivera, Yo Yo Gonzales or Jose
Morales in another context? Or are these more budget label imaginary artist
names?

Also, I think there was a recent thread on Golden Tone and Precision
Radiation Instruments. Would anyone like to refresh that? The technical
quality is actually darned good and genuine stereo. The back cover has a
listing of other Golden Tone releases, and it looks like pretty bland
going, to be honest.

Thanks,

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:21:01 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Heino-esque

>I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly horrible record ever,
>in my obviously limited experience.  I say that because I'm sure there are
>tons of records like this, especially in this genre.
>The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info, the label is CNR
>and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren".
>If I had to guess what language it is, I'd go for Dutch.  But I wouldn't
>guarantee it.
>It reminds me of Heino, with a bit of a country and western influence.
>Anyway, it's truly awful. If country and western Heino doesn't paint enough
>of a picture, I don't think I can do any better.
>But if it was just awful of course, I wouldn't be writing here.
>It's awful but a bit of a "car-crash" too, in that you can't take your eyes
>off it.
>For moments here and there, you think "This is not THAT bad".  Then moments
>later, you think "Wait, I spoke too soon".
>I imagine it would be great to turn on at a party when you want people to
>leave.
>But I'm scared that if I keep it, I might start to like it.
>I've grown to like so much that I never thought I'd like.  It's good to
>hear something that I don't like.
>I probably should never play it again.  Preserve the moment.




Yes, Tol Hansse's Dutch and in translation the songtitle means "Don't
whine", "Stop bugging me", something to that extent. His claim to fame
is his hit "Big City", which is bad enough, but probably not bad enough
by your standards. If you think Tol is truly awful, then we have much
more in store for you, look for Frans Bauer, Gerard Joling, Andre Hazes,
Koos Alberts, to name just a few. And Lee Towers, a former crane driver
discovered by talkshow host Willem Duys, who's perceived as the Dutch
Sinatra, but swings, well, as a crane driver, but fills a small stadium
with ease nevertheless. Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be
considered truely awful after he gained respectability, whatever that
means in this context, but started off as a producer and performer of
(soft) erotica schlagers, now that is dehors categories. Luckily that
material seems to be extremely obscure nowadays, so you won't run too
great a risk of spoiling your sex life for good.

Cheers, Ton



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:48:07 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Richard Collier,Tommy Collins,Andrew Ghareeb,Mary Elliott Cummings,

                          *Richard Collier
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Collier, a character actor who
appeared in more than 1,000 television shows and such movies as
``Hello, Dolly!'' and ``Blazing Saddles,'' died Saturday. He was
80.
    Collier, whose credits include the children's television show
``Mr. Giggles,'' died at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital,
where he had been living since April.
    A Boston native, Collier performed in theaters and clubs in
Massachusetts before an Army stint during World War II. After the
war, Collier began acting.
    He appeared in early TV shows such as ``Playhouse 90,'' ``Lux
Video Theater'' and ``Philco Theater,'' and had had guest spots on
``Bonanza,'' ``The Andy Griffith Show,'' ``Batman,'' ``The Beverly
Hillbillies'' and ``The Big Valley.''
    Collier played Dr. Sam Johnson in ``Blazing Saddles,'' and
Walter Matthau's barber in ``Hello, Dolly!''
- --------
                           *Tommy Collins
    ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- Tommy Collins, who wrote country
music hits for Merle Haggard, George Strait and other singers, died
Tuesday of complications from emphysema. He was 69.
    His hits included ``If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')'' by
both Strait and Ferlin Huskey, and Haggard's ``Carolyn.''
    Haggard wrote his 1981 hit ``Leonard'' in tribute to Collins.
    Born Leonard Sipes in Oklahoma City, he was renamed Tommy
Collins by Huskey after the Tom Collins cocktail.
    Collins helped craft the Bakersfield Sound of country music in
California during the 1950s before moving to Nashville.
    He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in
September.

                          *Andrew Ghareeb
    CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) -- Andrew E. Ghareeb, who translated the
works of the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran into English, died Sunday.
He was 101.
    Ghareeb came to Springfield in 1913 from his native Lebanon and
discovered Gibran's writing in a Lebanese magazine in 1918. His
first translation of the poem ``My Soul Counseled Me'' was
published in the Springfield Republican newspaper in 1926.
    Ghareeb sent the translation to Gibran, who was living in New
York City. It was the start of a friendship that lasted until
Gibran's death, and the poet gave Ghareeb permission to translate
all of his Arabic writings into English.
    Ghareeb's translation of ``The Prophet'' sold more than 8
million copies. The most famous of his translations, ``Prose
Poems'' was published in 1934 and is in its 31st printing.
- ----
L.A. Times -- Tuesday, March 14, 2000
Mary Elliott Cummings; Film Star, Actor's Ex-Wife

     Mary Elliott Cummings, 82, third wife of the late actor Robert Cummings
and a starlet in her own right. A native of Gaffney, S.C., she grew up
singing and dancing and was named state Azalea Queen. She began her
entertainment career in New York, where she understudied Betty Grable in
Broadway's "Dubarry Was a Lady" and later appeared in "My Sister Eileen."
The beautiful, blond Elliott also sang in night clubs and, as a model,
appeared on the cover of Collier's magazine and publicized the first rubber
swimsuit for Goodyear Tire Co. She later had film contracts with Paramount
and MGM and during World War II entertained troops in the North Atlantic and
South Pacific theaters. Among her films were "Girl Crazy," "Thousands Cheer"
and "A Guy Named Joe." She was introduced to the actor Robert Cummings by
portrait photographer Paul Hesse, and married Cummings in Riverside's
historic Mission Inn on March 3, 1945. Elliott abandoned her career to rear
their five children. The couple separated Oct. 25, 1967, and the actor sued
his wife for divorce. She countersued for separate maintenance. Their
divorce, granted Jan. 15, 1970, was one of the first finalized under
California's "no-fault" divorce law. In her charitable activities, Mary
Elliott Cummings served as president of the ARCS Foundation and worked
extensively with the National Charity League. On March 5 in Beverly Hills of
cancer.
- --
From Variety ---

Bill Lewis Downer
Bill Lewis Downer, a major figure in American music publishing for four
decades, died Feb. 26 of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles. He was
86.

Downer rose through the music-publishing ranks in the 1940s as head of Decca
RecordsÆ Northern Music satellite, a position he retained after the firm
merged with Universal Pictures and later MCA Music. At MCA, he acquired the
rights to several hundred major copyrights.

A longtime friend to jazz artists, he nurtured and provided material for
such performers as Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Al Hibler and Louis Jordan.
He also worked with such performers as Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Jo Stafford and Doris Day.

Among his publishing accomplishments, Downer promoted Victor Young and
Edward HeymanÆs ôWhen I Fall in Love,ö and Jay Livingston and Ray EvansÆ
ôTammy,ö as well as numerous compositions of Henry Mancini and Rod McKuen.

He also packaged a group of songs that Brenda Lee turned into hits,
including ôIÆm Sorry,ö ôDum Dumö and ôBreak It to Me Gently.ö

In his spare time, Downer was a horticulturist who contributed frequently to
the Los Angeles Times and the Brooklyn Horticultural Society.

He is survived by a sister.
- -----------
From today's Daily Telegraph ---
Mary Maskelyne
Last performer in a dynasty of magicians
MARY MASKELYNE, who has died aged 94, was the last performing member of
the Maskelyne family of magicians.
She was the grand-daughter of John Nevil Maskelyne, who had established
the family tradition of stage magic in 1873. By the 1930s a strong
feature of the Maskelyne show was an act by Mary and her brother Noel.
In one of their illusions Mary was seated on a chair at centre stage
covered with a cloth. Noel would have cards selected by members of the
audience and Mary from beneath the cloth would identify them. When it
came to the last card Noel would whip away the cloth to show that Mary
had vanished - only for her to reappear immediately at the back of the
theatre carrying the final chosen card.
Mary Maskelyne was born in London on 29 May 1905. Her grandfather and a
friend, George Cooke, had opened the Egyptian Hall, a theatre dedicated
to magic, in Piccadilly in 1873. They took a three-month lease on the
theatre but stayed for 31 years. An early poster proclaimed: "Patronised
by Royalty, Nobility, Clergy, Gentry and the Public."
One aspiring performer whom John Nevil Maskelyne rejected was Harry
Houdini, though later he became a good friend of the family.
After Cooke's death in 1905 John Nevil Maskelyne moved to St George's
Hall, near Oxford Circus. His new partner was David Devant. No family
outing to London was complete without a visit to Maskelyne's Mysteries.
John Nevil Maskelyne's eldest son, Nevil, followed in his footsteps.
Nevil had four sons and a daughter, Mary. She made her debut at St
George's Hall in the autumn of 1927.
She soon became assistant to her brother Jasper, and later another
brother Noel, in their magic acts. In 1930 she toured South Africa with
Oswald Williams in a magic show called Hey Presto.
Mary Maskelyne was an imposing woman of strong personality. As a woman
magician, she attracted much newspaper comment, and herself wrote
articles on fashion and etiquette. When Maskelyne's Theatre finally
closed in 1935, Mary continued to supply acts for social events.
In 1934 she married T C Sterndale Bennett, the tenor who, the year
before his bride was born, had begun his tour twice round the world with
the Westminster Abbey Glee and Concert Party. The wedding reception was
held at the Maskelyne theatre between the matinee and evening
performances, in which the bride performed.
Sterndale Bennett, a regular guest artist at Maskelyne's, died in 1942.
Mary Maskelyne later joined the Players' Theatre Club in London, where
she became a popular stage manager and wardrobe mistress.



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:37:12 -0800
From: Erik Hoel <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Heino-esque

Ton Rueckert [mailto:[e-mail]] wrote:

> >I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly
> horrible record ever,
> >in my obviously limited experience.  I say that because I'm
> sure there are
> >tons of records like this, especially in this genre.
> >The artist's name is Tol Hansse and if you need more info,
> the label is CNR
> >and this particular record is called "Moet niet zeuren".

... chop ...

> Yes, Tol Hansse's Dutch and in translation the songtitle means "Don't
> whine", "Stop bugging me", something to that extent. His claim to fame
> is his hit "Big City", which is bad enough, but probably not bad enough
> by your standards. If you think Tol is truly awful, then we have much
> more in store for you, look for Frans Bauer, Gerard Joling, Andre Hazes,
> Koos Alberts, to name just a few. And Lee Towers, a former crane driver
> discovered by talkshow host Willem Duys, who's perceived as the Dutch
> Sinatra, but swings, well, as a crane driver, but fills a small stadium
> with ease nevertheless. Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be
> considered truely awful after he gained respectability, whatever that
> means in this context, but started off as a producer and performer of
> (soft) erotica schlagers, now that is dehors categories. Luckily that
> material seems to be extremely obscure nowadays, so you won't run too
> great a risk of spoiling your sex life for good.

Tol Hansse, whose real name is Hans van Tol, was a trash-artist from
Amsterdam who became famous overnight with the hit single "Big City". His
popularity is mainly due to the fact that he can't sing and is a louzy
musician and record-producer and does nothing to hide it. This blended very
well with the rebellious atmosphere in A'dam at the time. I can see the c&w
aspects of this, I'm having trouble with the Heino part, but that's probably
a language issue.

Arguably more funny than his music was his appearance. Over 7 feet and
extremely skinny he always reminded me of a walking broomstick making a
screetching noise as it sweeps the stage.

This to me is the Las Vegas effect. Things being so ugly and out-of-place
that they become attractive. The good part is that otherwise mediocre music
sounds a lot better after sitting through Moet Niet Zeuren.

Erik
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:31:15 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: re: (exotica) Diana Dors

From Paul:

> I've been looking for _any_ cds available by Diana Dors.

You've heard her on the "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi? It's on loan to a friend so
I can't check to see if it's on the "Blonds" or "Brunettes" CD.

Which song did she do? The Rollercoster one? "Your mouth's a rollercoaster
and I want to take a ride" ;') Great song! Right up there with April
Stevens....


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:32:41 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Heino-esque

Ton Rueckert wrote:

> Last but not least, Vader Abraham, who can be considered truely awful

That reminds me: I'm still looking for Abraham's "Deine Monatsbinde". So if any
of the Dutch members occasionally runs into that song, either on LP or as a
Single, please get it for me. Will be extremely grateful!

Mo



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:39:17 +0100
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fw: (exotica) Re:  Claus Ogerman

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
> To: <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:29 PM
> Subject: (exotica) Re: Claus Ogerman
>
>
> > i'm just telling what someone else told me, a guy who works at
> > german radio WDR 4, he'scalled Suitbert Kempkes, his program is called
> > "Zauber der Melodien", wednseday, 21h.
>
> Well worth listening to! I heard about Suitbert about 2 years ago, when
he
> was a guest on a Dutch radioshow ('Instituut Schreuders' for all you
> Dutchies out there), but I only found out about his show on WDR 4 a
couple
> of weeks ago. Where else do you hear Esquivel, Al Caiola and Michel
> Legrand in one radioshow?
>
> Marco
>
>



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:41:09 +0100
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) records and bachelorhood
>
>
> > In the last two weeks, I haven't been quite the bachelor that I've
been
> for
> > the last number of years.
> > And I find myself thinking about records way way less often.
>
> Being in love is more than enough to make you forget about records, CDs,
> cassettes, DAT-tapes, MP3s, books, magazines, computers, Bill Clinton,
> cars, food, tv,.... And boy, do I know it. Spring is in the air!!
>
> Marco
> (still the bachelor that he's been for the last number of years - but
who
> knows what happens in the next couple of months...)
>



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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:44:58 +0100
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) message bounces/test

I am having some problems posting to the list. That's why the formatting
of my last two posts was a bit erm... exotic.

Marco

 Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:45:17 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: (exotica) Diana Dors


>> I've been looking for _any_ cds available by Diana Dors.
>
>You've heard her on the "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi? It's on loan to a friend so
>I can't check to see if it's on the "Blonds" or "Brunettes" CD.


If it's on the Brunettes CD, I'll eat my skating cap.

Ton


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:58:57 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day

So Its mardis Gras Day in New Orleans and Mondo Kayo Carnival Club has started its
parade at 7:45 am to the sounds of Jungle Madness off the Hypnotique album by
Denny.   After more Denny, some cuts  from , Le Guepe 3, some mambo & some
sitar(Jumpin Jjack Flash and moog (Cluade Denjean's Venus) and tons of Soca,
Soukous, Zouk, and Chutney mixed with mambo, surf, esquivel, shibuya-kei we play
near the mayors stand, the good ole version of the Tiki Tiki Tiki room followed by
a toast with Jungle Cruise playing in the background followed by Veggie Veggie
Fruit Fruit follwed by Mucha Mucha Cha

Its hard to imagine what the crowd thinks of 150 - 175 people parading down the
street, dressed tiki-tropical throwing real home grown golden bananas, with a sound
system loud enough to set off car alarms it passes with  the Tiki Room blaring from
the speakers.

It was Mondo Kayos (pronounced k-eye-yo) 17th parade and the first time the
carnival day streets were exposed to the Tiki Room.    I hope to play the Tiki Room
at carnival for many years to come.  Viva la Tiki Room!!!!!  Sign the petition!

Easy listening in the Big Easy

Chuck

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>
> The site of Chris Wingert who has been organizing a campaign against the
> closure of the Enchanted Tiki Rooms for years. It's possible, that the Tiki
> room would already be history without Wingert. I have posted this site 2 or 3
> times here and I call everyone again to sign the petition.
> Yeah! ...in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in the tiki
> tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room!
> welcome to a tropical hide-away, you lucky people you!....
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in the tiki
> tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in
> the tiki
> tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in
> the tiki
> tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room! in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room, in
> the tiki
> tiki tiki tiki tiki room all the birds sing words and the flowers croon
> in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Mo



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