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exotica-digest        Thursday, March 23 2000        Volume 02 : Number 660



In This Digest:

(exotica) Ranwood/Welk
(exotica) Skiffle and then some...
(exotica) Peddlers
Re: (exotica) Skiffle and then some...
(exotica) Mina
(exotica) mina/world standard
Re:  (exotica) Skiffle and then some...
Re: (exotica) exotic guitars
(exotica) Beat Jazz; Pictures From The Gone World on CD
(exotica) Help wanted:Italian Pop
(exotica) April 1 in Denver
(exotica) Tiki art
(exotica) Ranwood Records
Re: (exotica) Kahimi Karie
(exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Re: Rel. lps... oops
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
Re: (exotica) Ranwood Records
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Naughty Arthur and Jayne Mansfield????
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) [obits] Ross Russell, Ivan Hirst
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Joy
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Jayne Mansfield and Jimi Hendrix??
VB: (exotica) Jayne Mansfield and Jimi Hendrix??
Re: (exotica) Religious Records

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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:21:48 -0500
From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ranwood/Welk

        yep, a subsidiary of the Welk Music Group (along with
Vanguard & a few others)

        >At 5:48 PM -0500 3/21/00, [e-mail] wrote:
        >
        >>>Any comments on Ranwood Records
        >>
        >>I think the label belonged to Lawrence Welk....Can I get a
witness?  JB
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:49:39 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Skiffle and then some...

I was looking through the bins at a local store and came across
this German record set that appeared to be what Moritz would refer
to as Skiffle.  I think the group was The Hot Dogs or something like
that.  All the usual dixieland jazz instruments and for added bonus,
the group photo on the cover showed the band sitting in an alpine
meadow with three women in traditional alpine dresses, save for
the fact that the dresses were unbuttoned to the waist!
Nonetheless I passed on it.

However, I did pick up an odd record instead; Henry Mancini -
Symphonic Soul.  It's just as you would expect, soul music
performed with a full orchestra, arranged by Mancini himself.  It's
from 1975 and consequently the influence of soul vs disco is not all
that clear in parts.  Still it has one piece that Dimitri from Paris
sampled, as well as a long symphonic version of Peter Gunn. It
features Emil Richard on percussion and Lee Ritenour.  Can't say
I've ever come across it before and odds of its being reissued
seemed slim.  Anyone know more about this one?

Another thing I heard that I'd highly recommend is a recent CD
compilation of the best of the KPM green label.  It's primarily soul-
funk influenced and what I heard of it was quite good and it was an
excellent recording.  Reminded me of many a 70's exploitation film
soundtrack. It was almost $30 in the store and I think I can get it
cheaper elsewhere in town so I held off. It has a local distributor
here in Canada.


Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:37:16 -0600
From: "Mark D. Head" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Peddlers

br. cleve wrote:

<<Their grooviest track is their version
of "On A Clear Day You CanSee Forever",
from the "3 In A Cell" LP. It shows up
on a bootleg called 'Strange Beats', as
well as on a [legit] Irma compilation
"Groovy Vol.2".>>

I first ran across The Peddlers via that
track on Groovy Vol. 2 - and you're right,
Br. - it's very groovy, so much so I went
on a hunt for their stuff and found "Part 1"
as a CD, apparently a comp. of stuff from
earlier albums, and then I got the "3 In A
Cell" LP.  There are a number of items still
available through GEMM, although as of today
I don't see "Cell."
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:46:33 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Skiffle and then some...

Brian Karasick wrote:

> I was looking through the bins at a local store and came across
> this German record set that appeared to be what Moritz would refer
> to as Skiffle.  I think the group was The Hot Dogs or something like
> that.  All the usual dixieland jazz instruments and for added bonus,
> the group photo on the cover showed the band sitting in an alpine
> meadow with three women in traditional alpine dresses, save for
> the fact that the dresses were unbuttoned to the waist!
> Nonetheless I passed on it.

You might regret it: what if, say, PhanPlastic uses a skiffle sample on his
next album and it is becoming hip? And then we all start liking Skiffle?
Happens... you know: " Many people still regard music in those styles as
"obviously awful." Do Exotica fans REALLY enjoy this music or is it all some
ironic put-on?" Frequently asked question... you never know...

Mo "Just Kidding" Ritz



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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:49:35 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mina

> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:31:04 -0800
> From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) The Return of Me

> If you don't know or remember me, I'd like to re-introduce myself. After
> years doing jazzy-lounge radio in Italy (I'm a yank), i started producing...

Where were you in Italy? Which radio? Hope it wasn't round the
corner, I wouldn't forgive myself having missed it.

> P.s. I am an expert on the Italian diva mina and have virtually everything
> she ever recorded. This fact might come in handy in the future.

You got good taste man. Do you also have her first recordings, when
she still was called "Baby Gate"? Anything I can provide, just ask.
Welcome back, you "signor fortunato".
Gionni


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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:03:12 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) mina/world standard

And to bring 2 recent threads together - isn't Mina on World
Standard's Country Gazette CD?

- -Lou




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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:47:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Skiffle and then some...

In a message dated 3/22/0 2:51:54 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

> Henry Mancini -
>Symphonic Soul.  It's just as you would expect, soul music
>performed with a full orchestra, arranged by Mancini himself.  It's
>from 1975 and consequently the influence of soul vs disco is not all
>that clear in parts.    Anyone know more about this one?

I borrowed that one for a couple of months from Jane Fondle. Its Mancini
being influenced by the influx of disco and Philadelphia soul but still with
a Touch of Mancini dominating. I'd love to find a copy for myself as it falls
under my still evolving "disceau" genre. It is an easier and very palatable
version of Love Unlimited Orchestra and MFSB imho. And if you want to sell it
off Brian.....JB


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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:10:33 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotic guitars

At 03:33 PM 3/21/00 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Any comments on Ranwood Records' Exotic Guitars?
>I noticed today that they have a new 20 track (in 49 minutes! - you do
>the math) compilation, called Sonic Lounge.
>
>Can anyone shed light on who is in this band, and if it's worth wasting
>a few dollars on it?

I never kept an Exotic Guitars record but they sometimes had a cut or two I
kinda liked.  So a compilation of their best, assuming it was the "right"
best, could be pretty good.  And I'd still pick up any LP's I hadn't seen
before, hoping this was the one.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:45:55 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Jazz; Pictures From The Gone World on CD

New CD Add

$16.50 + shipping

Beat Jazz; Pictures From a Gone World.
Previously available only on LP in a limited pressing of 1,000
LONG out of print

20 Tracks, over 52 minutes of pure beat and beatnik instrumentals, spoken
word beat poetry and just flat out weird, wild and wonderful awesome stuff,
that you will NEVER find for less than
$30.00 per track, and MANY in the $100.00 range believe it;

18 tracks, 18 different artists

Frosty and the Diamonds-Destination Mars (killer beatnik jazz guitar
instro, from 78 rpm)
Slim Gaillard-Travelin' Blues (Spoken Word)
Kenneth Rexroth-State and 32nd (Jazz and Spoken Word)
Coleman Hawkins-Picasso (Jazz Instro)
Gregory Corso-Bomb (Spooky Cool Organ Instro)
Scotty MacKay-Black Cat (Instro)
Jack Hammer-Like (Spoken Word w/ fast paced bongo sounds)
Gil Melle'-The Gears (Instro)
Doctor Bop-Satin and Velvet (Spoken Word and Burnin' Bluesy Jazz)
Anita Ellis and David Amran-The Crazy Daisy (Spoken Word from film that
Jack Kerouac had made)
Bob Dorough-Dog (From Jazz Canto LP, 1957, Spoken Word and Beatnik Jazz)
Harvey Anderson-Monday Night at 8pm (Spoken Word)
Jack Kerouac-Cockroach (Spoken Word and Music)
Sun Ra-Dreaming (instro)
Roy Glenn-Big High Song for Somebody (Jazz Canto LP, Spoken Word with Jazz)
Ada Moore-Devil (Word/Music)
Moondog-Up Broadway (Percussive Instro with sounds of the Streets of NY)
Woody Leafer-Drums in My Typewriter (Weirdness sounds fucking with your
doper beatnik head Reverberated Percussion and Spoken Word; MUST BE STONED
TO DIG, dig ?)

Thanks again to all,
Jack

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the sweetness of the cheap price is forgotten.

Jack Diamond Music
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:11:33 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Help wanted:Italian Pop

Calling all experts on Italian pop music.
(Perhaps Giovanni?)
My friends are completing a lowish budget feature film.  They've been using
a cut by Paolo Conti in an important position in the film but they're
finding that it would be expensive to license it for the film.
So can anyone suggest Italian music of the same type that might be a bit
more obscure and therefore a bit more inexpensive?
Maybe something a bit older or less contemporary than Paolo?
I haven't heard the cut but they tell me it's "breezy".
Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Nat




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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:23:03 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) April 1 in Denver

Sat. April 1st, 8:00
Bluebird Theatre in Denver
Tickets are $15

    I am posting this promote the two opening bands
for the still amazing Dick Dale.  The Hellmen and
Maracha Five-0.
    The Hellmen, while at first could be hard to
describe put on one of the most entertaining shows
here in Denver.  A reference point could be the
Birthday Party, if Mr. Cave were even a bit bouncy
with youthful fun.
    Maracha Five-0 are finally what Denver has needed
since the loss of the Astronaunts a grand 30 some
years ago.  They are a fantastic surf band blazing
long lost trails for the rocky mountain region.

                          PATRICK g. ROBINson
                           BURN DENVER DOWN
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:26:21 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki art

I believe I posted this before but no one replied
this time I want all interested parties to contact Rob directly and
immediately
do not wait as the show may fill up and you will not be able to get your art
in it
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:51:40
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ranwood Records

Both Sides Now Publications added a page on Ranwood at their terrific
discography site late last year:

http://bsnpubs.com/dot/ranwood.html

From the page:

"Ranwood Records was founded in 1968 by Randy Wood (hence the label name),
erstwhile founder and President of Dot Records, along with Lawrence Welk.
It is still in operation today, issuing CDs. It was at the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, an extension of the Lawrence Welk Show."

Among the occasional diversions from the Welk repertoire was a 1971 album,
"Turn of the Century," by John Wood, whom I suspect was Randy's son.
Beautiful shiny silver gatefold cover.  John plays synth and a bunch of
other things through the wonder of multi-tracking.   Unfortunately, it
reminds me most of one of those homemade organ records you sometimes find
in thrifts:  lots of musicianship, not much music.

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:03:29 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahimi Karie

Okay, I know someone in Japan who can probably locate CD's for me =
cheaply.......what are some of the best Kahimi CD's - please post =
recommendations???

Thanks -

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:12:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Religious Records

I may be alone here, but I love religious records.
Mysterium, tremendum, facsinans: the overwhelming
force of the presence of the godhead has throughout
history inspired men, women and hamsters to great
things.

In 1969 it inspired Benny Dean, an ex-car thief, drunk
and junkie who'd lost his sight in a prison accident
to become humble good ol' boy and record, upon his
release, I'd Rather Be Blind: a wonderful C&W record
of songs dealing with eyesight, prison, vice and the
Lord. It is interesting to think what might have been,
like if Benny could haver found his Paul McCartney -
in say,  on a followup lp (when Fred's warbling
whistle kicks in on What a Friend We have in Jesus, I
get that holy rush I used to get when Jimi Hendrix's
solo kicked in, right after he  exclaimed "I'm a
Voodoo Chile").

The McGuire Sisters: I Should Have been Crucified. Big
ol' cross looming on the front cover, and, on the
back, hairdos as high as the hill of skulls. And one
look at these ladies... I concur with the title. Never
played the record.

Charlie the Hamster Leads the Choir: whereof one
cannot speak....

Perhaps best of allI have an lp put out in the 60s
called "For Mature Adults," while cover with
silhouettes of slouchy teens. Sounds risque, no? Well,
it's a bunch of real sappy teenage poetry put to folk,
bubblegum psych music and sung by cleancut church kids
or - and these are the best cuts - narrated by a "hip"
doctor of theology (Norman "Doc" Habel) who elocutes
as though he PhD'd at the William Shatner forensics
academy. Cool to hear his studied voice passionately
deliver a young girl's poem describing her feelings as
she comes into sexual awareness - in the 1st person.
Accompanied by precious harp strummings. You'd have to
be pretty mature not to be in stitches - or wonder
when Bugs Bunny's going to turn up.

Any other classics to look out for?

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:22:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Rel. lps... oops

Meant to ad Fred Lowrey's recordings - and include him
in the machine that could have been Benny and Fred.

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:56:39 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

<< I may be alone here, but I love religious records.>>

Nope, you ain't alone.

 Any other classics to look out for? >>

Sure.  For starters, check out Will's Show and Tell Music Site.  He has an
entire gallery devoted to the stuff.

http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/christian/christian.html

He and I got together and put out a CD-R with two classics, "The Game Of
Life" and "Flight F-I-N-AL" awhile back.  It's still available - talk to
Will...

Whistling and canary songster fanatic that I am, I can also vouch for a
number of whistling LP's by Ralph Platt and Fred Lowery.

There is at least one moog religious record that I know of by Ralph
Carmichael (Presents The Electric Symphony).

Of course there is Marcy, Jim and Tammy and Little Markie.

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:41:27 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ranwood Records

At 06:51 AM 3/23/00 +0000, you wrote:

>Both Sides Now Publications added a page on Ranwood at their terrific
>discography site late last year:

When I interned for National Public Radio, CD's were in their infancy.  I
remember that there was a news story at the time that was caused due to the
paucity of CD plants.  There was a recall of R-8213 - Polka Party - Myron
Floren (I think this was the title), because while the CD said Polka Party,
people ended up with a punk record.  Does anyone else recall this story?




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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:37:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

Great stuff, very inspiring. I have a Christian
percussion lp - can't recall the artist's name, but
the colorful cover pictures him in a sea of
instruments: guiras, vibes, bongos, bells, etc. The
narrative on the back of the cover explains all of the
instruments and the exotic proseltized lands from
which they originated. So much potential percussive
power - bland as unleavened bread.

Thank you for the info!

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> Sure.  For starters, check out Will's Show and Tell
> Music Site.  He has an
> entire gallery devoted to the stuff.

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:37:52 PST
From: "Albert Fish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Naughty Arthur and Jayne Mansfield????

Someone on eBay is selling "Pele" claiming that, a)the nude blonde woman is
Jayne Mansfield, and b)that the cover was banned.

Are either of these items true?
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 00 07:42:37 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

>I may be alone here, but I love religious records.
>Mysterium, tremendum, facsinans: the overwhelming
>force of the presence of the godhead has throughout
>history inspired men, women and hamsters to great
>things.

[snip]

>Any other classics to look out for?

I don't know anything about hamsters leading church choirs, and religious
records are definitely not my thing, but since you asked--there are many
good musicians on religious records.  Two good examples are Cliff
Barrows, former trombonist and announcer/host of televised Billy Graham
specials for decades and Ralph Carmichael--who has worked in both the
religious and non-religious world (he arranged and conducted the material
on Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" album, for example).

In the 1960s, Cliff Barrows made many records on the Word label--none
with trombone that I can recall, but with his youth choir singing many of
the hip-ly arranged tunes composed and arranged by Ralph Carmichael.
Good music in every sense of the word, but always with the message, of
course.

Ralph Carmichael has made many albums of his own (also on the Word
label), featuring young people singing his compositions and he's also
made albums featuring his instrumental orchestrations.  I'd recommend
both these people to you, but I'd have to also say that there is nothing
wacky or strange about either artist, just straightforward music.
Definitely no hamsters present.

Two others I can think of off the top of my head are the vocal recordings
of George Beverley Shea (whom my grandmother had several recordings of)
and the religious records of "pea-pickin'" Tennessee Ernie Ford.  I've
also heard that Johnny and June Carter Cash have made relgiious records,
too.

Regards,
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:12:04 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

For the newer members of the list, there is always Marcy (Wigner?).  A
woman with such a high voice that no one believe that it was a full grown
woman singing.  Her husband suggested that she make a doll, "Little Marcy",
so that kids would believe that Little Marcy would be the one singing.  Her
first record is the one to get, "Sing With Marcy", which features the
fabulous "Join the Gospel Express" (also anthologized on Incredibly Strange
Music #2), a wonder of sped-up guitar effects.

The rest of the album is not as novel, but a kind of saccharine torture
overall.

Did Kathryn Kuhlman ever make any records?  Her odd, swooping delivery of
sermons was something.

Brian Phillips

P.S. Being a Christian, I can wholeheartedly recommend James Cleveland with
the Angelic Choir's  "Peace Be Still" on Savoy.  It may feature a young
Billy Preston on organ.




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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:13:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

Johnny Cash, even with June Carter I just can't seem
to listen to irreverently. So I prefer to listen to
his secular efforts. Tenessee Ernie Williams is so
cornball he's fattening. Charlie the Hamster records
may not change your life, but they do put the fun back
in fundamentalism (forgive me). Think of Charlie
Feather's hiccupy vocals recorded for 33 1/3 played at
78....

Another interesting genre is Lesbian folk. I have a
wonderful lp on the Folkways label by a very angry
young woman named kathy Fire. One song celebrates
child abduction (lesbians snagging a child from the
wife-beating ex-husband), another, castration.
Excellent stuff, much passion. And their's a very
sweet one, by xxAlix on Gyn Records called To Gywnn
with Love or something like that.
- --- "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]> wrote:
...
>
> >Any other classics to look out for?
>
> I don't know anything about hamsters leading church
> choirs, and religious


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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:15:04 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ross Russell, Ivan Hirst

March 23, 2000
Ross Russell, 90; Recorded Charlie Parker
By BEN RATLIFF, NYTimes

Ross Russell, who recorded Charlie Parker on his small independent
jazz label, Dial Records, and wrote a biography of Parker as well
as a book on the history of Kansas City jazz, died on Jan. 31 at a
hospital in Palm Springs, Calif.
He was 90.

Mr. Russell was born and raised in Los Angeles and spent his early adult
years as a telegram deliveryman, a cub reporter and a writer of detective
stories for pulp magazines. He began collecting records in the 1930's,
and spent some time touring with the bandleader Luis Russell.

His professional involvement with jazz was brief but controversial. In
1945, with $5,000 back pay after leaving the Merchant Marine, he
opened a jazz record shop in Los Angeles, the Tempo Music Store.

Independent labels were flourishing, and that fall Mr. Russell took it upon
himself to record Charlie Parker when the saxophonist came to Los
Angeles to play an engagement at Billy Berg's nightclub as a member of
Dizzy Gillespie's sextet.

That period yielded a series of 78-rpm records, released on Dial, Mr.
Russell's label.
Mr. Russell supervised the recordings.

The first batch, done in February 1946, were among Parker's greatest
work.

But in July Mr. Russell brought Parker back to the studio, at a time when
the saxophonist was at his most tortured: his Los Angeles heroin source
had been arrested, and he was deep into alcohol binges.

During a version of the ballad "Lover Man," Parker's withdrawal
symptoms altered the control in his playing, giving him involuntary muscle
spasms, making him sound sick and adrift.

Elliott Grennard, a Billboard writer who witnessed the recording, wrote a
short story about it for Harper's magazine called "Sparrow's Last Jump."
The evening of the "Lover Man" sessions, Parker experienced a full
emotional collapse: he set his bed on fire with a cigarette and was
subsequently jailed and sent to Camarillo State Hospital, a psychiatric
institution near Los Angeles, for six months.

Mr. Russell released "Lover Man," and it became a symbolic tale of
cultural exploitation -- of artists who don't own their work set against
businessmen who do.

Mr. Russell remained an ally of Parker's for the rest of the time Parker
stayed in Los Angeles, becoming his legal guardian after Parker's release
from Camarillo.

But Parker later made no secret of his anger about the release of "Lover
Man."

Mr. Russell moved to New York in the late 1940's and by the 50's had
abandoned the record business.

He wrote a biography of Parker, "Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard
Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker," published in 1973; it was a vivid,
well-written book, although it has since been criticized for inaccuracies.
He also wrote "Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest" and a
novel, "The Sound," about a fictional jazz musician based on Parker.

In later years he ran a golf club in Massachusetts and lived at various
times in South Africa, England, Germany and Austria. He sold Dial's
catalog to Spotlite Records in England in 1990.
He is survived by a son, David, of San Jose, Calif.
- ----------
                            *Ivan Hirst
    LONDON (AP) -- Ivan Hirst, a British army engineer who was
instrumental in putting the Volkswagen into mass production after
World War II and getting the carmaker's famed Beetle to roll off
the assembly line, died March 10 in Marsden.
    Hirst, then a major in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical
Engineers, was sent to Wolfsburg in 1945 after British forces took
control of the Volkswagen factory, which was built to turn Adolf
Hitler's dream of a people's car into reality.
    The outbreak of war stopped production of the first Volkswagen --
known today as the Beetle -- before it began and the factory was
turned over to the task of making military vehicles. The factory
was heavily bombed by the allies and Hirst was one of a group of
officers posted there after Germany's surrender.
    His assignment was to set up a workshop to repair British
vehicles, and to dispose of the production line and machine tools.
However, no one wanted the equipment.
    However, two Beetles were produced by hand, and Hirst sent one
to the army for a test. The British army was so impressed that it
ordered 20,000, to be built as war reparations. By the end of 1945,
the factory turned out 1,785. By the next October, production hit
10,000.
    Hirst left Wolfsburg in August 1949, a month before the company
was formally handed over to a trust run by the West German
government.
    He later worked in the Foreign Office's German section, then
joined the secretariat of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development in Paris, retiring in 1975.



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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 00 08:25:22 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

>Johnny Cash, even with June Carter I just can't seem
>to listen to irreverently. So I prefer to listen to
>his secular efforts. Tenessee Ernie Williams is so
>cornball he's fattening.

Whatever.  You asked for suggestions and I gave you the ones I could
think of.  It goes without saying that every artist out there does not
fit each of our tastes/likes...

Regards,
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 00 08:24:25 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

>Johnny Cash, even with June Carter I just can't seem
>to listen to irreverently. So I prefer to listen to
>his secular efforts. Tenessee Ernie Williams is so
>cornball he's fattening.

Whatever.  You asked for suggestions and I gave you the ones I could
think of.  It goes without saying that every artist out there does not
fit each of our tastes/likes...

Regards,
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:14:43 +0100
From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Joy

Dr. Joy Browne, her attacks of silliness in front of her studio=20
audience make her fascinating and vaguely alarming to watch,=20
like a continuously exploding souffl=E9. A typical episode has=20
her listening to a man whose affair, he claimed, was an accident.
He hadn't meant to have sex. It just happened. "Oh please!"=20
Browne bellowed at him, jumping up so fast in her agitation that
she nearly fell over backward. "You have to unzip your pants" --
she gesticulated wildly, whirling her arms like windmills --=20
"You have to whip it out" -- grand penis-presentation gesture=20
here -- "It doesn't just happen!"

Browne, from New Orleans, sounds like Eve Arden mouthing off to=20
James Stewart in "Anatomy of a Murder": mature, smoky, wryly
secretarial. She talks too fast, but it adds to the impression=20
that the weight of her knowledge makes her nervous. This cagey
woman, who's got some pair of legs to go with that voice, does
her broadcasting from New York, which gives her a tasty range
of sonorities in her callers. Browne's also the only radio talk-
show host to slip the Ink Spots and Esquivel into her bump music.=20


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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:35:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

Sorry, BJ. As I did not mean to commit so many
mispellings and grammatical errors, neither did I
intend to offend you. I am familiar with Johnny Cash,
and like him very much. I am familiar with TEF, and do
not like him. These, of course, as you eventually
concluded, preferences, opinions - not insults. I do
appreciate your response and agree with much of what
you said.

- --- "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Whatever.  You asked for suggestions and I gave you
> the ones I could
> think of.  It goes without saying that every artist
> out there does not
> fit each of our tastes/likes...


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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:54:48 PST
From: "Albert Fish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jayne Mansfield and Jimi Hendrix??

   Does anyone know anything about a two song, 12 inch rekkid sung by Jayne,
with Hendrix as a studio musician? Supposedly only 500 copies were made.


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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:19:07 +0100
From: "JOACHIM TEVEBRING" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VB: (exotica) Jayne Mansfield and Jimi Hendrix??

>   Does anyone know anything about a two song, 12 inch rekkid sung by =
Jayne,=20
>with Hendrix as a studio musician? Supposedly only 500 copies were =
made.


It=B4s a 7inch record released in 1967 (London HL 10147, it was also =
released in germany, LondonDL-20841): As The Clouds Drift By b/w Suey. =
Hendrix plays on Suey only. I don=B4t know if it was only 500 copies but =
that=B4s proparbly what it sold at the time. It=B4s on the beatifully =
pop-up packaged Jayne-comp "Too Hot To Handle" (Legend).

Joachim





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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:26:30 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

At 06:12 AM 3/23/00 -0800, Ben Waugh wrote:
>
>I may be alone here, but I love religious records.
>Any other classics to look out for?

My only true classic is a spoken word record called "The Big Beat, A Rock
Blast" in which Frank Garlock "one of America's best-known authorities on
the dangers of rock music" - and also a faculty member at Bob Jones
University - lectures about the dangers of you-know-what to a bunch of
college students.  It's a two record set but I unfortunately only have one
of the records.
On side one of the record I have, his main targets are Dylan and Jesus
Christ Superstar.  My favorite part is when he plays a Dylan song and
interprets the lyrics.

Do you like religious records only when they're "campy"?  For camp value, I
have to throw my vote behind the already mentioned Little Marcy (and that's
Tigner, not Wigner).  She sort of reminds me of Jonathan Richman or even
Half Japanese in terms of the sheer volume of "original" songs she comes up
with.  Someday when I've got a CD burner and I've burned my way through the
records I actually like, I'm going to burn a torturous compilation of hers
and then burn the records themselves in an oil drum outside.

Nat




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