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exotica-digest         Friday, March 17 2000         Volume 02 : Number 654



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day
(exotica) dianadors
(exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, Roger Longrigg
re: (exotica) Diana Dors
Re: (exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, Roger Longrigg
Re: (exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood
(exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis
Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis
(exotica) New release
Re: (exotica) New release
(exotica) Alfredo Mendez
(exotica) Skiffle
(exotica) Bad records and then some
Re:  (exotica) Skiffle
(exotica) New Arrivals #87
Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis
Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis
Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis
(exotica) Re: Pandora's Box (Boston nightclub)
Re: (exotica) Skiffle
re: (exotica) Skiffle
(exotica) *C*A*U*T*I*O*N* !!!
(exotica) I'm still giggling
Re: (exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, (No exotica content-type anecdote)
Re:  (exotica) Skiffle

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 15:12:24 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TIKI Music On Mardis Gras Day

>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 ...

Hey, NICE choice of musics!!  After seeing it for years, I was very
saddened to learn that the Kitchen Kabaret at EPCOT (home of the Veggie
Veggie Fruit Fruit song) got closed down.  Dang, why can't they leave
classic stuff alone?!!  Along with the soundtrack from the attraction, I
believe I still have a kitchen towel and some refrigerator magnets from
the heyday of the Kitchen Kabaret.

>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.

LOL!

- --bj


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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:51:32 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) dianadors

There are some sparse tracks from the lady on:

1) Music For A Bachelor's Den, vol. 7: Sex Kittens In Hi-Fi -
    The Blondes ("Roller Coaster Blues");
2) Cocktail Mix, vol. 3: Swingin' Singles ("Come By Sunday");
3) Va-Va-Voom! Screen Sirens Sing! ("So Little Time", "Come By
    Sunday", "Crazy He Calls Me", "It's Too Late").

n. 1 is on DCC;
n. 2 & 3 are on Rhino.
I believe they're all available on CD, though I have n.3 on double
(pink) vinyl.

Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:46:32 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, Roger Longrigg

    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Versatile TV funnyman Durward Kirby, who for
years played second banana on ``The Garry Moore Show'' and for a
time was co-host of ``Candid Camera,'' has died at age 88.
    Kirby died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Shell Pointe
Village Pavillion, a nursing home in Fort Myers in southwest
Florida, his son, Randall Kirby, said Thursday.
    Starting out in radio in the Midwest, the tall (6-foot-4), blond
Kirby teamed up with Moore off and on for 30 years, serving as
announcer and performer on Moore's early, live ``The Garry Moore
Show'' on CBS-TV in 1950-51 and the highly successful variety show
of the same name that ran from 1958-64 and 1966-67.
    The variety show was known for making a star of Carol Burnett
and for its nostalgia segments, called ``That Wonderful Year.''
    Kirby was co-host of ``Candid Camera'' from 1961-66. The show
created by Allen Funt, which secretly filmed unsuspecting citizens
in amusing situations, had at one point been a segment of ``The
Garry Moore Show.'' Kirby occasionally took part in the pranks.
    Kirby could be sketch actor, singer, dancer and with ease switch
from slapstick to suave sales pitches for a sponsor's product. He
became so well-known to TV viewers that the Rocky and Bullwinkle
cartoons had a plotline about the search for ``Kirward Derby,''
which could make its wearer the smartest man in the world.
    Critic John Crosby called him ``one of the most versatile
muggers and comedians on the air.''
    ``Growing up with him was a lot of fun, a lot of good times,
parties, celebrities and laughter,'' Randall Kirby said Thursday.
``He was a funny guy, funnier than most people realized. He could
hang in there with the best of them.''
    In a 1960s interview, Kirby said: ``I've done just about
everything in broadcasting -- covered news, special events,
disasters, sports, political conventions. I've had a news
commentary show, done interviews, audience participation shows,
sold products.''
    In television, he explained, ``the audience must accept you as a
human being before it can accept you as a star, a comedian, an
announcer or whatever.''
    Kirby wrote three books: ``My Life, Those Wonderful Years,''
``Bits and Pieces of This and That'' and a children's book called
``Dooley Wilson.''
    Legendary broadcaster Arthur Godfrey once told Randall Kirby
that his father was only guy in show business with whom everyone
could get along, the son said.
    Born in Covington, Ky., Kirby was at Purdue University, studying
to be an aeronautical engineer, when he walked past the campus
radio station one day and was waylaid to pinch-hit as an announcer.
    He worked in radio in Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago and
served in World War II before beginning his television career in
New York shortly after the war.
    In addition to Randall, of Studio City, Calif., survivors
include son Dennis, of Ossining, N.Y., and three grandsons. His
wife, Mary Paxton, died in 1994.
    His son recalled the ``loose and wild'' days of early television
and the pranks that stagehands would play. One time, his father was
doing a detergent commercial and was supposed to pick up a gigantic
box as a prop. The crew filled it with cement and waited.
    Kirby picked it up anyway, amazing the stagehands.
    ``He had a charmed life,'' Kirby said. ``He accomplished many
things.''
- ----------
    LONDON (AP) -- Novelist Roger Longrigg has died at age 70,
bringing an end to the literary careers of Rosalind Erskine, Laura
Black, Ivor Drummond, Megan Barker, Grania Beckford, Frank Parrish
and Domini Taylor.
    Longrigg adopted those pseudonyms for various literary
enterprises, though he also wrote a dozen books under his own name
as well.
    He died Feb. 26 at the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice in Farnham, his
family said. The cause of death was not announced.
    Longrigg's work in advertising supplied the setting and
inspiration for his first novel, ``A High Pitched Buzz,'' in 1956.
Further comic novels from the world of expense-account living
included ``Switchboard'' (1957), ``Wrong Number'' (1959), ``Love
Among the Bottles'' (1967) and ``The Jevington System'' (1973).
    Styling himself as a randy 15-year-old named Rosalind Erskine,
Longrigg had a best-seller in 1962 with ``The Passion Flower
Hotel.'' The biographical notes described the author as having been
``educated at home by a series of governesses, because of her
excitable and highly strung temperament.''
    Supposedly a true story about schoolgirls who set up a brothel,
``The Passion Flower Hotel'' was translated into German, French,
Dutch and Japanese. It was also the basis for one of Nastassia
Kinski's first film roles in ``Leidenschaftliche Bluemchen''
(1978).
    Longrigg was devoted to horse racing and other country pursuits,
and wrote books on the history of racing and foxhunting. Under the
pseudonym of Ivor Drummond, he wrote thrillers set in the worlds of
racing, yachting and jet-setting.
    ``Mother Love,'' a story of a jilted woman's obsessive love for
her son, was published as the work of Domini Taylor in 1983. It was
adapted as a British Broadcasting Corp. mini-series in 1989,
starring Diana Rigg and David McCallum.
    Longrigg is survived by his wife, Jane Chichester, and three
daughters. A funeral service was held March 3.





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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:56:44 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[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.

It was indeed "Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi: The Blondes".  Diana Dors was
the "British Marilyn Monroe" and her album "Swingin' Dors" (Columbia
CL 1436) is considered quite collectable.  At least, I've seen copies
go for upwards of $200(!).  It's a pretty good album, too, and the
source for the tunes on the various CD comps.

Despite the dumb blonde image, she was a  fine singer. Too bad she
didn't make more albums (she died in '84).


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 16:03:08 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, Roger Longrigg

>    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Versatile TV funnyman Durward Kirby, who for
>years played second banana on ``The Garry Moore Show'' and for a
>time was co-host of ``Candid Camera,'' has died at age 88.
>    Kirby died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Shell Pointe
>Village Pavillion, a nursing home in Fort Myers in southwest
>Florida, his son, Randall Kirby, said Thursday.
>    Starting out in radio in the Midwest, the tall (6-foot-4), blond
>Kirby teamed up with Moore off and on for 30 years, serving as
>announcer and performer on Moore's early, live ``The Garry Moore
>Show'' on CBS-TV in 1950-51 and the highly successful variety show
>of the same name that ran from 1958-64 and 1966-67.
>>    Kirby was co-host of ``Candid Camera'' from 1961-66. The show
>created by Allen Funt, which secretly filmed unsuspecting citizens
>in amusing situations, had at one point been a segment of ``The
>Garry Moore Show.'' Kirby occasionally took part in the pranks.

I'm always sad to hear about the passing of another person from the days
of classic tv.  We lost Alan Funt last Labor Day weekend, and now his
sidekick/co-host is gone as well.  Hopefully there will be a tribute to
Mr. Kirby on a future edition of the newer Candid Camera show which is
hosted by Alan's son, Peter Funt.

- --bj


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:12:42 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Fw: records and bachelorhood

At 07:41 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek wrote:
>>
>> 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!!

(Or maybe someone else said that and Marco was just responding to it...)

In any case, I just wanted to clarify my remarks.
I've always been extra-curious about records and I'm sure I always will be,
no mattter how little time I may have in the future.
But without the time available to feed it, the obsessive aspect of my
interest will probably die.
And I do think there's a huge difference between being very interested and
being obsessed with it.  Or between loving it and being obsessed with it.
I crossed a line a few years ago.  Maybe it's not a line exactly.  Someone
cut out of my film said it's more like you start walking into a forest and
you don't notice that the trees are getting denser and denser.  But they
are.  And soon you're lost.
In my case, I think the forest got really dense when I started making
compilation/survey tapes for myself.  It was like I had to keep finding the
records just to make the tapes, not the other way around.
Right now, even with someone in my life, I still have time to look for
records when I'm out in the world.  But I don't have as much time when I'm
at home.  And that makes me less interested in finding those great piles of
stuff I used to grab.
It's like the tapes were a means of "absorbing" all this stuff and without
that, I have to now try and limit my purchases to stuff that can be
appreciated simply as another record to play occasionally.

I'm just writing this by the way, in case some of you are as interested as
I am in the "psychology" of collecting/accumulating.

In my film, I argue that "it's not the music".  And I think that when it's
as obsessive as my habit has been, that's true.  But with less time to
pursue my lonely obsessions, I think it will start to be more about music
and less about the object.

Then again, like I said, I don't really expect this to last.  But even if
she leaves, I have a feeling that the extra edge my obsession had, is not
going to return.

Yeah right. It'll just be replaced by burning CD's instead of making tapes.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:59:59 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis

Alright, all you endless founts o' golden knowledge!  Help!

Can anyone tell me what would be the version of 'The Baby Elephant Walk'
that is done on a creaky, echoey sounding organ?  I imagine it was the
'original' recording of it??  I heard a snippet of it on the CD 'Music for
Little Ones' coming from an amusement park ride...y'know those little
machines you plop yer spud on and drop two bits in and it rocks queasily?
Absolutely incredible tune/sound quality, and since 30 seconds of it is
looped on the ride, I need the whole song!!

Next question...who owns it???  Trades anyone???

Thanks for the info....

Keith

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 17:21:18 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis

>Alright, all you endless founts o' golden knowledge!  Help!
>
>Can anyone tell me what would be the version of 'The Baby Elephant Walk'
>that is done on a creaky, echoey sounding organ?  I imagine it was the
>'original' recording of it??  I heard a snippet of it on the CD 'Music for
>Little Ones' coming from an amusement park ride...y'know those little
>machines you plop yer spud on and drop two bits in and it rocks queasily?
>Absolutely incredible tune/sound quality, and since 30 seconds of it is
>looped on the ride, I need the whole song!!
>
>Next question...who owns it???  Trades anyone???
>
>Thanks for the info....
>
>Keith

Keith:  I'd recommend the original Henry Mancini arrangement (not done on
an organ per se, but does have the sound you want.  Can't remember right
off what the instrument is that's playing the melody--I don't think it's
a caliope, but it's very close to it).  Anyway, it's on ANY NUMBER of
HM's LPs and CDs as well as on his compilations, etc.

(working from memory here as I'm not home at the moment, so I can't
verify...) Originally, the song is from the Soundtrack of the movie
"Hatari", if memory serves.  So, you could either buy that ST, or one of
the jillion other Mancini LPs it's on (it's definitely on one of the
"Best of HM" albums, and others).

- --bj


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:06:17 -0800
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New release

Anybody heard this?

Adventures Of Superman: Music From The 50's TV Series
   Varese 66093  15.99
   -Superman And The Mole Men/Superman On Earth/
    The Evil Three/Crime Wave/The Monkey Mystery/etc->

Thanks,

Jerry


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 18:08:59 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New release

>Anybody heard this?
>
>Adventures Of Superman: Music From The 50's TV Series
>   Varese 66093  15.99
>   -Superman And The Mole Men/Superman On Earth/
>    The Evil Three/Crime Wave/The Monkey Mystery/etc->
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jerry

Wow, no, I haven't--but that is one of my favorite classic kids shows.
Somehow I will have to make way in the budget to get that, for definitely
sure.  IMHO, George Reeves was the best Superman in the history of
Superman, and I practically had some of those episodes memorized.  When I
was in college in the 1970s, the series was rerun on a syndicated channel
and for the first time I saw it in COLOR!  I personally like the music
from that series a lot and if they did a faithful digital mastering of
it, it should be very enjoyable.

- --bj


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:28:15 -0600
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alfredo Mendez

Over the weekend, I picked up an armful of cool records at a
quarterly show I go to in Kansas City.  Played one of them for the
first time tonight  -- "Fiesta for Pipe Organ" by Alfredo Mendez (RCA
LPM-1444, released 1957). Pipe organ with Latin percussion, a goofy,
impossible-to-hate combination.  I've got a couple of Three Suns
albums that feature Mendez, but that's about it for the Mendez wing
in my LP collection.

The liner notes on "Fiesta" really caught my eye, though.  Dig this:

"Performing is not Alfredo Mendez' sole talent.  As an arranger and
conductor he has directed the sessions of many of South America's
finest vocalists.  Several years ago, Mendez embarked on a series of
musical compositions with one objective -- reality.  The result was
the widely respected suite for strings and percussion, Suite Amazon.

A tone poem, Mi Toreador, was written employing the progressive
method of musique concrete.  A more recent development of the
artist's was a concerto for pipe organ and the sounds of space and
motion.  Unique?  Imagine, if you will, a pipe organ accompanied by
vacuum cleaners, blenders, air conditioners and other appliances!"

The Dean Elliott of the pipe organ?  Does anyone know anything about
this guy?  More importantly, are there recordings of these pieces out
there anywhere? I did a web search but didn't turn up very much.

Any assistance much appreciated.  Thanks!

Darrell Brogdon
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:42:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Skiffle

Hey there,

Can anyone tell me what the hell skiffle is, where it
came from and where it went?

Peter

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:47:57 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bad records and then some

Nat wrote:
> I think I may have just heard the most fascinatingly horrible record ever,
> in my obviously limited experience...  The artist's name is Tol Hansse
> It reminds me of Heino, with a bit of a country and western influence.
Yikes.  I know this feeling!  Had the same experience with Big Walter Solek
and his Polish House Party.  Yes I should have known better but how could
you resist that name! Then there was that Joe Burghardt Orchestra & Chorus
- - Gemutlichkeit In Winnipeg which Allan sent me.  It was a centennial
project after all and I am from there originally but...  What I'd like to
know though are there any Dutch acts from this era that are good?  There are
plenty from Germany, France and Italy though the percentage of bad to good
ones is much higher.  Still, acts from Holland beside Heintje were never all
that known here.  I know Johan has featured some really good things from
Holland and Belgium in some of his earlier Fantastica shows. I may be sorry
I asked since the odds of finding any of this stuff here in Canada are slim,
but still, I pursued Schlager in spite of the odds and have been pleasantly
surprised even here...

> Subject: (exotica) shameless self promotion
> http://www.iprimus.ca/~klymkiw/vinyl.html
Not to detract from Nat's movie but the owner of said webpage makes many of
the subjects in Nats's movie seem well....uh... normal!  I think Greg may
even have been in the movie come to think of it!

Anyway one more item:
Just bought this record for more than I would have liked to spend, but still
less than a new domestic CD.  It's as "now" sound as one can get and then
some! It's on a cheapie Canadian budget label of yester year (Trans-Canada).
It's called "A Little Bit of Beat" by Juergen Franke Sextet.  Anyone know
more about them?





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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:19:28 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Skiffle

In a message dated 3/16/0 10:43:08 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Can anyone tell me what the hell skiffle is, where it
>came from and where it went?

late 50's Brit Shit..EG "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost
Over Nite" by Lonnie Donegan....possible followup" "Concrete And Clay" by
Unit 4 Plus 2...JB


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:49:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Arrivals #87

Here's excerpts from the latest Aquarius Records new-release newsletter.
Anyone got any comments on any of these? Any worth seeking out?

- -Lou


>                       <(    Aquarius Records    )>
>                   <()   )   New Arrivals #87   (  ()>
>----*  Records of the Week :

>MILK CULT  "Project M-13"  (0 To 1)  cd  13.98
>   Wow -- one of the rare AQ Unanimous Staff Favorites. Ex-members of ye
>olde local band Steelpole Bathtub have put together this AMAZING Milk Cult
>record. Sounding nothing like Steelpole whatsoever, this is an experimental
>melange of dance, rock, and lounge music that's so f***ing accessible and
>so kickass serious fun that we sell a copy almost every time we play this
>in the store. It features everything from throaty French singers to
>earth-trembling bass to random noises and disco, plus lovely wailing guitar
>soloes, exotica, bird calls, you name it. The recipients of a French arts
>grant, Milk Cult spent a month recording "traditional Corsican singers;
>Buddhist chanters; Algerian folk improvisors; French folkies; industrial
>noisicians; rockers; jazzbos; hip hop artists; spoken word artists;
>electronics experimenters; a thirty-piece African orchestra; a Conch
>player; all of whom played along with backing tracks prepared by Milk Cult
>but never with each other..." The entire thing is put together so well it
>is seamless, and we think you will love it. Highest recommendations for a
>record that really shouldn't be overlooked.

>JANDEK  "Later On"  (Corwood Industries)  cd  8.98
>   The isolationist. The neurotic. The one. The only. Jandek. In what may
>be a response to the queries about the status of his earliest work (which
>has been out of print for almost two decades), this hermetic Texan has now
>been re-issuing these records. "Later On" is his second album of
>lithium-soaked folk; a pseudo-jangle on the guitar barely carrying a
>tuneand daydreaming poetry crooned with a creepier voice-crack than Will
>Oldham could ever conjur. The mysteries of Jandek, personal and musical,
>may never be fully revealed, but his peculiar genius is highly recommended
>none the less.
>

THE ANANDA SHANKAR EXPERIENCE & STATE OF BENGAL  "Walking On"
      (Real World)  cd  16.98
   Ananda Shankar (RIP) met up in '99 with British "Asian Underground" DJ
State of Bengal for this sitar-funk-electronica session. Indeed an
"illustrious cult figure in the secret history of pop culture", Shankar was
famed for his East-meets-West psychedelic pop experiments decades ago, and
this is a fun and fitting finale to his career. If you were into the
"Untouchable Outcaste Beats" comp (which featured an old Shankar track
alongside folks from the new Asian/UK DJ scene) and/or are a fan of the
likes of Talvin Singh, you should check this out.

SUMAC, YMA  "The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection"  (Capitol)  cd  15.98
   21 tracks of vintage Yma Sumac exotica, and we do mean exotica: monkeys,
volcanos, and pagan rituals all figure into these songs, taken from classic
albums like "Voice Of The Xtabay" and "Legend Of The Sun Virgin". This is a
good starting place for anyone who has yet to explore the Technicolor work
of this "Peruvian" singer and her lounge-y '50s sounds. Her four and a half
octave voice will wow you, the liner notes are informative, and you get the
"hits" here plus some unreleased tracks ("Inca Waltz" for one) as well.

V/A  "Clicks & Cuts"  (Mille Plateaux)  2cd  17.98
   Following the awesome 'Modulations & Transformations' compilations,
Mille Plateaux presents yet another veritable encyclopedia of electronica
minimalism. A nice addendum to the 20' to 2000 series, 'Clicks & Cuts'
features a handful of electronica technicians recontextualizing digital
residue into a variety of melodic & rhythmic structures. While only a few
of the tracks are exclusive to the compilation, it's still quite a handy
collection. The artists include Wolfgang Voigt's All moniker, Thomas
Brinkmann (recording under his dead sister's name and sampling Blixa
Bargeld), Pan Sonic, Kit Clayton, Vladislav Delay, Goem, Pole, Panacea, Kid
606, Stillupsteypa, and more!

V/A  "Knitting On The Roof"  (Knitting Factory Records/JAM)  cd  15.98
   Yes, it's "The Fiddler On The Roof" as interpreted by an interesting
selection Knitting Factory friends. The Magnetic Fields do "If I Were A
Rich Man," Negativland does "Tevye's Dream", The Residents do
"Matchmaker"...you get the idea. Definitely a fun concept.
   (Although whether this has a deeper meaning in the context of the
downtown nyc new Jewish music movement I don't know). Kf's michael dorf
says "the inspiration for this project came from a combination of humor and
commercialism." Other participants include David S. Ware, Uri Caine, Eugene
Chadbourne, Elliott Sharp, Come, Hasidic New Wave, The New Orleans Klezmer
Allstars, Naftule's Dream, Jill Sobule, and The Paradox Trio.

V/A  "In His Own Sweet Way: A Tribute To Dave Brubeck"  (Avant)  cd  21.00
   Jazz legend Dave Brubeck gets the tribute treatment courtesy of John
Zorn's Avant label, who have gathered together a bunch of the usual
suspects to cover Brubeck's compositions. For me, the highlight is the
Ruins' version of "Blue Rondo A La Turk", a piece tailor-made for their
hyper, heavy, and humorous delivery, but we also hear from the likes of
Bill Frisell, Uri Caine, Dave Douglas, Joey Baron, Eyvind Kang, Erik
Friedlander, Anthony Coleman, and Medeski, Martin, & Wood among others.
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:55:48 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis

I've got so many great recordings of that song.  It's one of those hard to
lose tunes, if it's on an LP it's usually cool no matter who arranged it.  I
will try to rack my brain and see if I can find the version you have
described.  Did it have female wordless vocals by any chance.  There is a
great version on the Anita Kerr Singers "We Dig Mancini" LP.  I have a
version on a demonstration LP.  The LP was made to sell a brand of electric
organs.  It's the organ with a drummer and bass player backing him up.
KILLER Baby Elephant on that one.  Also a crazy Take 5 & Caravan!
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:26:20 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis

<< Can anyone tell me what would be the version of 'The Baby Elephant Walk'
 that is done on a creaky, echoey sounding organ? ...I heard a snippet of it
on the CD 'Music for Little Ones' coming from an amusement park ride.. >>

That's a tough one.  For starters, I wonder how many people even have that
ice cream truck / kiddie ride CD, which contains field recordings from
Fairyland in Oakland.   My hat's off to Mark Simon and Melinda Fay for
putting this (Sounds For Little Ones) and also "One of One" together.

I know just the track, 25.  Wrinkled Grey Elephant.  Who did it?  I'd like to
know too.  Wonderfully creepy!

I can see a how many versions of BEW thread coming...


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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 22:15:19 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baby Elephant Walk Crisis

><< Can anyone tell me what would be the version of 'The Baby Elephant Walk'
> that is done on a creaky, echoey sounding organ? ...

To continue the post I started earlier on this, I'm home now and just a
casual perusal of HM recordings revealed BEW on these albums:

Mancini/Galway "In the Pink" album has BEW
Disk 2 of the "Days of Wine and Roses" HM boxed set has BEW
"Hatari" soundtrack album has BEW
HM, A Legendary Performer (compilation) has BEW
HM, Pure Gold (compilation) has BEW
HM All Time Greatest Hits (compilation) has BEW
HM Collection (compilation) CD has BEW
The Best of Mancini (compilation) has BEW

All eight of the above are CDs I checked; I haven't gone through any LPs
yet, of which BEW is on several!!!!  Anyway, the compilations and the
boxed set are still available at many locations.

I also checked in Mancini's biography entitled "Did They Mention the
Music?" and on page 110, it says:  "I was always looking for unusual
instruments and somehow had become aware of an electric calliope made by
a man name Mr. Baccigalupi in Long Beach.  You didn't get all the spit
and whoosh you do with a regular steam calliope.  It had a perfect sound;
light, airy, and perfect for what I had to put there on the screen, and
there was only one like that in the world.  On top of that, I thought
that because the elephants were little creatures, I would use an E-flat
clarinet over the calliope.  It created something with a really different
sound to it, especially in the middle of Africa [where filming took
place]."

Hope this helps.

Regards,
- --bj
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:37:34 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Pandora's Box (Boston nightclub)

******PANDORA's BOX*******
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60's euro sexploitation flicks & 60's french music vids
Performances by gogo gals Suzie Solitaire & Carrie Nation
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Dj's spinning 60's euro soundtracks,Frenchie yeye,europop,loungecore,& more!

check out our cool flyer at:
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:54:38 +1100
From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Skiffle

on 17/3/00 3:19 PM, [e-mail] at [e-mail] wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 3/16/0 10:43:08 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me what the hell skiffle is, where it
>> came from and where it went?
>
> late 50's Brit Shit..EG "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost
> Over Nite" by Lonnie Donegan....

Also "My Old Man's A Dustman"

Lonnie Donnegan has just done a skiffle album with Van Morrison.

Philip

>

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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:01:48 +0100
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: (exotica) Skiffle

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Skiffle
>
>
> > In a message dated 3/16/0 10:43:08 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > >Can anyone tell me what the hell skiffle is,
> >
> > late 50's Brit Shit..

 Why shit? The Beatles emerged from the skiffle scene. That does make it
at
 least a bit interesting, doesn't it?

 Marco




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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:32:55 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) *C*A*U*T*I*O*N* !!!

"The dangers of passive or involuntary listening are
only beginning to enter the realm of public awareness."

British M.P. Robert Key, introducing a bill to ban Muzak
from public places because it raises blood pressure and
cholesterol levels and increases muscle tension.


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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:53:37 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I'm still giggling

My vote for best new word of the year goes to:

"Cha-cha-sploitation."





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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:05:29 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Durward Kirby, (No exotica content-type anecdote)

At 04:03 PM 3/16/00 -0800, you wrote:

> >       TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Versatile TV funnyman Durward Kirby, who for
> >years played second banana on ``The Garry Moore Show'' and for a
> >time was co-host of ``Candid Camera,'' has died at age 88.

This is a sad loss, but here is an interesting (well, to ME) sidelight:

Rocky and Bullwinkle had an episode arc, Missouri Mish Mash which featured
Boris Badenuv looking for the Kirward Derby, a hat that makes the wearer
the smartest man in the world.  I don't know whether Kirby hated the show,
or whether he had heard enough jokes about his name, but Kirby sued over this!

Pryin' Bills Up




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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:15:32 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Skiffle

At 11:19 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote:


>In a message dated 3/16/0 10:43:08 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>
> >Can anyone tell me what the hell skiffle is, where it
> >came from and where it went?
>
>late 50's Brit Shit..EG "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost
>Over Nite" by Lonnie Donegan....possible followup" "Concrete And Clay" by
>Unit 4 Plus 2...JB

Skiffle actually has it's roots in America and was recorded back in the
1930's.  Here is an essay about it: http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=J267

The song DJJimmyBee is referring to was originally called "Does Your
Spearmint...".  Donegan was immensely popular and honestly believed that
this Rock 'n' Roll nonsense would pass and the kids would come back to
skiffle.  Donegan had both the Music Hall side "My Old Man's a Dustman" and
the folk side, "Jack of Diamonds", "Rock Island Line", going for him.  I
suppose that the English considered this music, um...well, exotic.

There was even a skiffle band called the Quarrymen, but little, if any
documentation exists on what happened to that band.

I am no great skiffle fan, but to my great surprise, there are a number of
good songs on Mungo Jerry's first album.  "In the Summertime" is one of the
lesser songs on the record.

A dollar is a dollar and a dime is a dime,
I'd type another message, but I haven't got the time,
Brian Phillips




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