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exotica-digest         Friday, March 24 2000         Volume 02 : Number 662



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Space music
(exotica) more Dick Dale shows/READ THIS
Re: (exotica) The Buy-Nat-Kone-A-CD-Burner Fund
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
Re: (exotica) Space music
RE: (exotica) Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull
Re: (exotica) Kahimi Karie
Re: (exotica) Space music
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) RE: Religious Records 2 Favorites.
Re: (exotica) The Buy-Nat-Kone-A-CD-Burner Fund
Re: (exotica) Tennessee Ernie
(exotica) Re: Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull
RE: (exotica) Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) Re: Mina
Re: (exotica) Religious Records
(exotica) the paisano rollcall
Re: (exotica) Smokey (was The Buy-Nat-Kone...)
(exotica) Ed Lincoln Page
(exotica) [obit] Jean Howard

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:07:35 -0800
From: "claudia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

> >Did Kathryn Kuhlman ever make any records?  Her odd, swooping delivery
of
> >sermons was something.
>
> Did she ever!  Just happen to have a near-pristine copy of
> An Hour With Kathryn Kuhlman            Logos M-120
> She was a strange one!

Man oh man do I remember her.
Saw her live in 1967-68,don't remember exactly.

It was at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles.

It was also about that time that there was talk about her and Dino.
Now there is a work of art !!

But anyway..
here is the kicker.
They passed around Col Sander's giant buckets for the collections.

And they announced over the loudspeakers "No change please "

I will never ever forget how dramatic she was..it was a site to behold.





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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:53:13 -0800
From: "Brian Linds" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Space music

Hi folks. I have a couple of requests....I need a list of Canadian bands
doing songs about outer space. Can be instrumental or vocal. Any ideas?
I would also like to pick the brains of all you wonderful people. Could you
list all your favorite outer space/moon/rocket/satellite/galaxy/etc.
recordings. It's for some radio work I'm doing and it  would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
Brian



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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:36:42 -0800
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more Dick Dale shows/READ THIS

Dick Dale, The Challengers, The Chantays, The Lively Ones, The Belairs, The
Nocturnes, Jon & the Nightriders and Space Coffacks (that's the way they
spelled it in the L.A. Times... isn't it the Space Cossacks?) Anyway, this
show is happening on Sunday at the Galaxy Theatre, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd.,
Santa Ana, California, 8 p.m., $30 (to stand, I think) and $50 (to sit, and
you can order food if you sit.  Wo.)  [phone].
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:25 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Buy-Nat-Kone-A-CD-Burner Fund

At 03:50 PM 3/23/00 -0800, Benito Vergara wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>The subject header says it all. So Nat, if I contribute a few exotica bucks
>to the Buy-Nat-Kone-A-CD-Burner Fund, will you burn me a few CDs before you
>burn the records?

You don't have to send any money, exotica or otherwise.  Someday when I
have a little bit of money, I'm going to buy a good computer and then I'm
going to get a CD burner and I will definitely burn Little Marcy CD's since
I have...

1.  Little Marcy sings Sunday School Songs
2.  Marcy sings Sunday School Songs (same record, different cover)
3.  Marcy sings Jesus Loves Me
4.  Walking in the Sunshine with Little Marcy
5.  Favourite Songs and Choruses by Marcy
6.  Marcy sings Nursery Rhymes
7.  Little Marcy visits Smokey Bear (no "the", obviously a different bear)
plus...
"Some Golden Daybreak" with Lorin Whitney on organ, Bill MacDougall on
vocal AND Marcy Tigner on trombone.

So as you can see, that's WAY TOO MUCH MARCY.  But how can I get rid of
them until I somehow archive it for all time?
I once used one of her nursery rhymes "I love little pussy" on my answering
machine but then it was sampled and used by local hiphop artists and it
became old very fast.  Okay that was an exaggeration.

So if you want to someday get the ultimate Little Marcy CD - it really
should be a box set - you just have to stay on the list and someday your
wish will come true.
Just pray.  For as Little Marcy sings - in 1 minute and 33 seconds - "God
Can do anything but fail".

Nat




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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:50:12 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

At 08:32 PM 3/23/00 -0800, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>At 10:52 PM 23-03-00 -0500, m.ace wrote:
>>Soooo, what about religious records from faiths *other* than Christian?
>
>You know, I have yet to see ANY from other religions...but somehow that
>doesn't surprise me.

Well it depends what you mean by religious records.  There are Jewish
records.  However I've yet to find a Jewish record that tried to shove
Judaism down the record buyer's throat....
Ooops, Sorry.  I let my prejudice show there.
There are Jewish records with famous Cantors and by
legends-in-their-own-congregations too, singing various prayers.  Or even
singing the entire Passover service.  Or singing my favourite Jewish blues
song, "Kol Nidre".
Jan Peerce also made records like this.
And Theodore Bikel did Jewish folk songs.
There are lots of Jewish comedy records.  Brian mentioned Mickey Katz.
He's highly recommended, even if you don't understand Yiddish.  His band
was shit hot in my prejudiced opinion.
Then there's The Barry Sisters.  Can't say enough about them.  Can't say
too much either.
The closest thing I have to a religious "lecture" record is "Abba Eban at
the U.N, June 6, 1967" which is the actual complete address delivered by
Abba Eban, Foreign Minister of Israel, before the Security Council of the
United Nations.. on that date.
But then again, Zionism and Judaism are NOT the same thing.  (Contrary to
what Muslimgauze would have you believe.)

Nat





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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:52:46 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Space music

At 10:53 PM 3/23/00 -0800, Brian Linds wrote:
>
>Hi folks. I have a couple of requests....I need a list of Canadian bands
>doing songs about outer space.

What about a Canadian country song about extra terrestrials?  I think he's
welcoming all et's that want to come to Alberta.
If that interests you, I'll fish it out.

Nat



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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:54:19 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull

At 12:26 PM 3/23/00 -0800, Ron Grandia wrote:
>And now to the question portion of today's post - Was the Song "Lesbian
>Seagull" as featured in the Beavis and Butthead Movie an actual song as I
>have heard some insist?  Or am I dreaming this too?

You're not dreaming but it does depend on what you mean by an "actual
song".  I have never heard the Beavis and Butthead version but I do have a
record by Tom Wilson called "Gay Name Game and other songs".  It's from
1979 and it appears he wrote all the songs on the record.
He reminds me a lot of Biff Rose, if that rings a bell.  And "Lesbian
Seagull" is by far the most twisted song on the record.
And hey, Billy Mure and Moe Wechsler play on the record.  Also someone
named Gary Mure, for you Mure family fans.

This is my fourth reply this morning.  Does that have anything to do with a
distressing call I got from a particular woman?  What does she mean by
"friends" anyway?

Nat



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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:46:48 +0900
From: Jamie LePage <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahimi Karie

 [e-mail] wrote:

> > [e-mail] wrote:
>
> >what are some of the best Kahimi CD's - please post recommendations???
>
> I really like the one with "Mike Alway's Diary" and "Candyman" on
> it...Blissful 6T's derivative pop with that super-soft purring voice 'o'
> her's ..  JB/G-r-r-owl

Hey, JimmyB, I like this too. Candyman is a direct lift
>from "The Hustle." Very cool. This is the s/t US LP by
Kahimi on Minty Fresh. The CDNOW link that follows has
several sound clips if anyone is interested. It is a long
URL, so be careful of those pesky carriage returns!
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/ddcn=SD-9660+20+2/from=cr-6135437

For Kahimi fans, please note three imminent releases from
her Japanese label Polydor KK:

Release Date: March 29
Title: Once Upon a Time
Cat# POCH-1913
Notes: 5 song mini-album produced by Olivia Tremor Control

Release Date: April 26
Title: Journey to the Centre of Me
Cat# Unknown
Notes: mini-album produced by Momus

Release Date: May 24
Title: Tilt Vol. 2!!
Cat# Unknown
Notes: Brand new full length album, details unknown but
features guest artists including Arto Lindsay.

I have "Once Upon a Time" already, and it is rather
interesting, although not quite as cutesy as her s/t album.
Her voice is just as super-soft as ever, and Olivia Tremor
provide a strange enough ambient backing to compliment her
trademark vocal style.

For the real deal in super-soft purring, however, I just
gotta recommend the late 60s album Priscilla Loves Billy
by Priscilla Paris, a smoky collection of Billie Holiday
covers sung by Priscilla with a small jazz ensemble
including John Guerin on drums. A personal late-night tiki
room fave.

Regards to all,

Jamie
n.p. Misty Mirage, the brand new release of late 60s
recordings by Curt Boettcher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:44:09 +0000
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Space music

Brian Linds wrote:

> Hi folks. I have a couple of requests....I need a list of Canadian bands
> doing songs about outer space. Can be instrumental or vocal. Any ideas?
> I would also like to pick the brains of all you wonderful people. Could you
> list all your favorite outer space/moon/rocket/satellite/galaxy/etc.
> recordings. It's for some radio work I'm doing and it  would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.

Probably not quite what you're looking for but how about Rare Air's
album "Space Piper" (if bagpipes are your thing...)


Robbie

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 21:47:17 +1100
From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

on 24/3/00 2:52 PM, m.ace at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Soooo, what about religious records from faiths *other* than Christian?
>
I have "The Science Of Mysticism" which is an intro to Rosicrucianism. It
lists on the back half a dozen more including children's stories and Rosa
Rio playing meditative organ music - these would be 1960's I guess. The
cover still smells strongly of incense!

I also have a double album of Swami Satchidananda which is mostly very
looooong answers to very short questions but includes some chanting and a
couple of great "hippy" songs. Swami is pictured on the back cover opening
Woodstock '69.

Philip

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:09:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RE: Religious Records 2 Favorites.

Excellent topic.  Two of my favorites are:

MIKE CRAIN - Karatist Preacher.
Yes, Mike Crain preaches the gospel along with his inbred, homely wife (who
also sings). But Mike also knows "kara-tay."  He is shown on the back during
the 1973 Super Bowl half-time show breaking ice with his head.  On the cover
he's giving the smackdown to a block of ice.  Contains a bunch of bad songs
and some good ol' preaching filled with karate euphamisms.

GERALDINE & RICKY - Trees Talk Too
Geraldine does ventriloquisim (to me the work of the devil) ON RECORD.  What
is the point?  The point is that the lovely Geraldine and her adult man-child
puppet Ricky do some super songs such as "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" with
both of them switching off lines."  If I am not mistaken, it also has some
dialogue about how to get right with god and how to not touch "Al-kee-hall."
Classic.  Here's a family picture from the sleeve:
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/preview/he/hedcandy/rickyfamilypicture.jpg

Chris


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:04:01 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Buy-Nat-Kone-A-CD-Burner Fund

In a message dated 3/24/00 4:32:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I'm
 going to get a CD burner and I will definitely burn Little Marcy CD's since
 I have...

 1.  Little Marcy sings Sunday School Songs
 2.  Marcy sings Sunday School Songs (same record, different cover)
 3.  Marcy sings Jesus Loves Me >>
       etc . . . . .

And how about the seldom heard Little Marcy's "Songs of The Brit Milah"?

I understand it is quite exotic, as there are screaming sounds in the
background.

TB


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:36:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tennessee Ernie

To this I must confess, I have not heard either the LP
Ol' Rockin' Ern or the rock and roll soundtrack he was
included on (High School Confidential?). I have heard
these are not bad. I suppose I was traumatized by
Dad's record collection..........

- --- "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> His "How Great Thou Art" albums are a bit hard to
> take, but
> his earlier hits like "Shotgun Boogie" and "Sixteen
 Tons"
 are just about as hip as you can get.

 See ya
Steve


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:31:45 -0500
From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull

While I don't think I ever made it all the way through _Flight
FINAL_, I absolutely agree you can hear some startling shit on
religious records.

Whenever the WORD label (or whoever) put out a record there was an
implied promise: "These people are on The Right Side."  So even if
the concept was a little, er. . .  eccentric, the thing still sold
copies.

But just to bring it back around to exotica, does anyone else have
the religious album by Alvino Rey--the steel guitar genius who put
the "Zhwiiing" sounds in Esquivel's records? It's called _Refreshing
Melodies_ (Sacred Productions, Waco Texas).

Unless you are really up on your hymns, it's not that overtly
Christian. . . just Ralph Carmichael conducting very lush string
backgrounds behind Alvino, who does a bunch of "restful" selections
(including a couple of Hawaiian ones). Nice big cover photo of the
60-ish Alvino doing his thing on a Fender console.

It's actually one of the most relaxing records I own. . .


>Was the Song "Lesbian
>Seagull" as featured in the Beavis and Butthead Movie an actual song as I
>have heard some insist?  Or am I dreaming this too?

Don't know about the song--but biology-wise, aren't the "gay gulls" for real?

cheers,
  --Ross

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:47:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Religious Records/Lesbian Seagull

I don't know about records, but I was at a meeting in
NC earlier this month and a couple of people started
talking about this person. After the off-topic ice was
broken, we all began to share our memories. There
seems to be a secret brotherhood of Hinn fans (next to
Reverend Bob, he was the most amusing of them all).

- --- Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Speaking of toads, did Benny Hinn do any records?


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:05:11 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

At 04:50 AM 3/24/00 -0500, you wrote:

There is an Al Jolson record of him singing something in Hebrew, but I can
never remember the name.  It's the only one I want by him.  There is a
website that also features Yusuf Islam's (the former Cat Stevens, whose
birth name wa...AIIIEEEE!) music but you have to sign up for it
http://catstevens.com/multimedia/audiovideo.html

It probably isn't funny, but I got a bit of a smile when I saw one of the
interviews was "Yusuf Islam from the Dolly Parton Treasures special".

There was a record on Lyrichord, I believe, which was music of the Bene
Luluwa, which I believe was one of the influences on the Talking Heads'
Remain in Light album.  Another album (and I don't remember ANY details!)
which was Ethiopian in origin sounded very similar to the parts of the
Catholic Mass I have heard.  Ah, the joys of the similarities!

It's not entirely religious, but there are some striking songs on the
Moving Star Hall Singers LP on Folkways.  The Gullah (indigenous to the
islands off of South Carolina) accent is hard to understand at times, but
it comes with a lyric sheet.

A friend of mine told me that Chano Pozo, the famous Cuban drummer and a
pioneer of the Afro-Cuban Jazz genre, ran afoul of the some of the
followers of Santeria, who believed that he was using some of the sacred
rhythms, so by extension, I suppose that I may have been listening to
religiously influenced music then!

Do Yma Sumac's albums The Legend of the Sun Virgin and Legend of the Jivaro
count in some way?

Lastly (and are we not all relieved!?) I would like to mention Exuma, The
Obeah Man.  He was from the Bahamas and sang of zombies and how he was born
on a lightning bolt.  His second album even features a zombie revival!

By the way, here is a simple key:

Benny Hinn
http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/resource/benhinn.htm

Benny Hill
http://www.vgernet.net/tpelkey/bennyhill/

Ben E. King
http://www.castboy.com/beneking.html

Jack Benny
http://members.aol.com/VARTOX/benny.htm

Bunny Wailer
http://www.furious.com/perfect/bunny.html

Benihana
http://www.arubadining.com/benihana.html

Boney M
http://www.fuzzlogic.com/argus/b/Boney_M.shtml


I hope this clears up any confusion.

Brian "A Christian who's going to have a LOT of explaining to do in a
couple of days" Phillips




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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:34:20 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mina

> > Domenic Ciccone (howdy to your Pa; are you the uncle to little Maria Lourdes?!) asked:
>
> > Mina: Was she a co-host on some variety show in Italy in the mid 70's?  I
> > lived in Italy at that time and me and all the kids in school all had the
> > hots for her. Back then they called he La Mina.

Steve "Mr. Lucky" Sando replied:

> I think she was too big by then, but she guested a lot, probably with
> Rafaella Carra' (who is not worth pursuing.)
> She was banned for years because she had a child out of wedlock. Then she
> made a triumphant return and I believe she introduced the mini-gonna (mini
> skirt). She was a real looker but became increasingly more bizarre with her
> make up, clothes and then eventually her weight.
> She still has a great voice.

Mina is without any doubt (that's not what I personally think, it is
agreed by each and every one Italian music lover) the most beautiful
voice that ever came out of a female Italian throat in the last 40
years.
She started as "Baby Gate" in the late fiftes, covering the current
hits onto Italian language. Then she became Mina, and scored hits
over hits over hits. She retired from the scenes in the seventies and
left for Switzerald (just over the border); she's not making a public
appereance from 25 years, but her records still come
regualry out and go straight to n.1, without any promotion.
She is a real character and very strong personality. Actually she
writes for some newspapers and airs on public radio from time to
time. She uses to insert on her records some songs from unknown
writers, songs that they receive as demos to her.
She just turned 60 yesterday, but evryone here stiil refers to her
60's image, when she was the queen of national TV.
Her voice is so powerful, intense and skillful that makes Dionne
Warwick sound outta tune.
You gotta love her.
Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:34:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Religious Records

Ahh, Rat Stevens. I have not had very much in a kind
way to say about that turd ever since he voiced his
support of the hit put out on Salman Rushdie for
offending the sensibilities of pious folks.

I don't know if Mickey Katz or Yma Sumac (etc)
recorded religious music. To me, Mickey Katz was more
ethnic parody, good-humored, and accompanied by great
music, and Yma Sumac's song myths an instance of
exotica (like Les Baxter's Sacred Idol and probably
other better examples I can't think of at the moment).
I may be alone in this - I find "religious records" to
be typically Christian, self-righteous, freakish - and
if they consciously attempt humor or cuteness, it
comes off like something out of a bad flashback (cf.
Charlie the hamster, Little Marcy). When I listen to
Merrill Womack, it's not because of his beautiful
operatic voice, but because his face looks like
something they removed from Mr Reagan's fundament and
I listen to Benny Dean not because I pine for the
sounds that filled truckstops across the country in
the 70s, but because he'd rather be blind than hanging
out with drunks and junkies and stealing cars (you
know, like those are the only options). In short,
religious records can only be enjoyed when listened to
perversely, that is, contrary to the manner in which
the "artist" hoped the message would be received. That
said, I will see you all in hell.
- --- Brian Phillips <[e-mail]> wrote:

> There is an Al Jolson record of him singing
> something in Hebrew, but I can
> never remember the name.  It's the only one I want
> by him.  There is a
> website that also features Yusuf Islam's (the former
 Cat Stevens,

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:47:09 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) the paisano rollcall

The current posting about Italian pop makes me want to ask something
I've always wanted to post about but somehow never did.
I have noticed through the years many listers bearing Italian last
names.
How many are you? I believe it's a majority!
Just the first who come to mind:
Vaccaro
Ciccone
Collazzi
Lo Bue
Vicentelli
Botticelli
Vergara
Tepedino (spanish?)

Others?
Ciao paisani.
Gionni


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 00 07:02:24 -0800
From: "B.J. Major" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Smokey (was The Buy-Nat-Kone...)

>7.  Little Marcy visits Smokey Bear (no "the", obviously a different bear)

No, same bear.  The official name of the forest fire mascot *is* Smokey
Bear, not Smokey the Bear.  This is one of those items whose name has
been "corrupted" by the public over many decades.  Confirmed by this
official website run by Smokey's backers, The Ad Council:

www.smokeybear.com

Print publications obtained through the Forest Service also confirm his
name to be "Smokey Bear".

- --bj
Home Page w/Links to my music and tv sites:
http://bjbear.freeservers.com/main.html
http://members.xoom.com/bjbear71/main.html


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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:11:04 -0000
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ed Lincoln Page

Its put to shame by Keths lovely F&T site,  but I gotta plug it:

I finally got my page on the Great Ed Lincoln up and in an acceptable state,
for anyone who I haven't done a tape I will explain:  Ed Lincoln was the
'other' great Samba Organist of the 60's alongside Walter Wanderley.  His
style is a little more off the wall than Wanderleys.  I love his records and
I'm on a mission to spread the word.

I can't actually find out much about him (my Portuguese is non-existent) but
with the help of lurker Christian Courtis and some lucky finds I've put
together some sleeve scans and a bit of biography, but more importantly I've
managed to get streaming working from a friends site.

The track I've got on there is 'O ganso' which is the first thing I heard,
and its barmy,  Kazoos and Trumpets and wordless vocals and the organ.

I'd recommend it for all the other listers who can't pass up organ LP's.

have a good weekend


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:11:39 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Jean Howard

March 24, 2000
Jean Howard, the House Photographer for
Hollywood's Glamour Set, Dies at 89
By DOUGLAS MARTIN, NYTimes
Jean Howard, who rode the comet of her extraordinary beauty,
ethereal glamour and insouciant intelligence to become a Ziegfeld
girl, a Hollywood starlet, a legendary hostess and the house
photographer of the film colony, died at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
on Monday. She was 89.

Ms. Howard's circle included Tyrone Power, Vivien Leigh, Laurence
Olivier, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Jennifer Jones, Merle Oberon,
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland and Marilyn
Monroe -- impressive company for the daughter of a traveling salesman.
She thrived in a seemingly ancient time when stars socialized for purposes
other than publicity, including simply enjoying each other's company.

They played croquet in matches that lasted years (with timeouts for rest,
refreshment and the occasional movie), played on California beaches and
hung out in Palm Beach, Palm Springs and the south of France. They also
mingled at Ms. Howard's Spanish-style home on Coldwater Canyon
Drive in Beverly Hills; she and her first husband, Charles K. Feldman,
who used his success as the first super-agent to become a producer,
bought it for $18,000 in 1942.

Everywhere, Ms. Howard snapped pictures. One shows Gene Tierney,
then a top star at 20th Century Fox, in pigtails, looking longingly into the
handsome face of the mysterious millionaire Howard Hughes. Another
shows a tipsy Richard Burton kissing everyone in sight, including a
less-than-charmed Clifton Webb.

Still another shows Dietrich almost touching heads with Ann Warner,
wife of Jack, the studio head, as they intensely discussed
never-to-be-known secrets over a smoky table at the Trocadero
nightclub in Los Angeles. Linda Christian can be seen being fitted for her
wedding gown to marry Tyrone Power.

Many of these photographs were stored in shoe boxes. Meanwhile, Ms.
Howard studied photography and began to get assignments taking
pictures for magazines like Life and Vogue. Years later, the idea
coalesced to combine her snapshots and professional work in a picture
book.

In 1989, Harry N. Abrams published "Jean Howard's Hollywood: A
Photo Memoir." James Watters wrote the text, which is delivered
through Ms. Howard's first-person voice. The book evokes a lost world
where stars lived lives that were breathtakingly glamorous, but still
somehow life-sized.

In the pictures, everyone, it seems, is smoking. Everyone is holding a
drink, everyone is dressed in black tie or cocktail dress. People gather
around the piano and sing. Conga lines end up in swimming pools.

"These photographs bring back memories of a time and a place that have
long since faded," Ms. Howard wrote in the book's introduction.
"Hollywood has changed and things don't happen as they once did.
Never mind. The people who crowd these pages are clear as
snowcapped mountains on a bright sunny day."

Ms. Howard was born Ernestine Hill in Longview, Tex., and grew up in
Dallas. She became acquainted with a local photographer, who had
discovered several child stars, including Ginger Rogers, and believed she
had a bright future. So she changed her last name to that of the
photographer, Mahoney, even though her father continued to foot the
bills for her fashion shows and beauty contests.

Her father took her to Hollywood one summer in the late 1920's. "I was
his coverup while he was on a two-week toot with a girlfriend behind my
stepmother's back," she said in the book.

She soon returned to Hollywood and checked into the all-girl Studio
Club, founded by Mary Pickford to help young hopefuls working toward
movie careers. In 1930 she landed a contract with Metro Goldwyn
Mayer, appearing first as a chorus girl in "Whoopee," Eddie Cantor's
Broadway musical hit.

Florenz Ziegfeld, who had produced the Broadway show and was a
partner in the film, asked her and three other showgirls to go to New
York for his next musical, "Smiles." Ziegfeld cast her under the name
Jean Howard, which he deemed less cumbersome than Ernestine
Mahoney. She got a part in the last "Ziegfeld Follies," where one review
cited her "pulchritude, figure and charm."

As an MGM contract player she had small roles in a number of movies in
the 1930's and 1940's, including "Broadway to Hollywood" and "The
Prizefighter and the Lady." The studio chief Louis B. Mayer, passionately
attracted to her, proposed marriage and promised to divorce his wife.
She said later that when she rejected him he got drunk and tried to throw
himself out of a window.

She became engaged to Feldman, a lawyer and film agent, who is
credited with being the first to sell director, actors and other talent as a
single package. According to The New York Times of Aug. 26, 1934,
the two had attended a Friday night dinner party at the Colony restaurant
in New York and decided to get married immediately.

Mayer's jealous threat to torpedo Feldman's career did not materialize,
and the agent went on to play an increasingly prominent role in
Hollywood, eventually producing "A Streetcar Named Desire," in 1951,
among other films.

The couple had a famously tempestuous relationship, which resulted in a
divorce in 1948. But they continued living in the same house, with its
tortoise shell pedestals and Chinese porcelain lamps and a garden room
where Judy Garland belted out songs on many occasions. They called it
their "can't live with you, can't live without you postmarital relationship."

In a 1989 interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune, Ms. Howard
said she "wanted to be the other woman in his life."

Ms. Howard traveled extensively, often with her friend Cole Porter. That
resulted in another picture book, "Travels With Cole Porter," published in
1991.

In 1964, she felt seasick on a Mediterranean cruise and got off the yacht
in Capri. She went to a nightclub called Number Two, where a band
called the Shakers was playing. She asked a band member, Tony
Santoro, if he would play a song she had written. He did, though not
necessarily because of its quality.

"I was more interested in this beautiful woman than the music," he said in
a telephone interview. They lived together for nine years, mainly in Capri
and Rome, and were married in 1973. He is her only immediate survivor.

Ms. Howard once said that "glamour is flimsy." She knew the stars as
people, including one of her favorite subjects, Marilyn Monroe. "She
didn't know who she was or who she belonged to," Ms. Howard told the
San Diego paper. "The marriages never gave her anything to go on.
There was the ballplayer (Joe DiMaggio) and Arthur Miller.

"Miller was a very good writer and all of that, but I have never seen him
in anybody's living room, and I have been in a few living rooms."

Then there was the party she gave for Senator John F. Kennedy during
the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, at which he won his
party's nomination. After everyone had left and she was cleaning up, she
heard someone scratching at the window screen, according to a 1993
article in Town & Country.

She looked out and saw Kennedy, who said, "I'm starving and nothing's
open at this hour." She led him to the kitchen and fed him scrambled
eggs. She said the senator then pulled her to him and kissed her. She told
the magazine that people would have to read her autobiography to find
out what happened.

But she never published one.
- --
L.A. Times --- Thursday, March 23, 2000
Jean Howard; Ziegfeld Girl Became Hollywood Hostess and Photographer
By MYRNA OLIVER, Times Staff Writer
Jean Howard, who rose from humble Texas obscurity to become a
Ziegfeld girl, a starlet and the wife of powerful Hollywood agent
Charles K. Feldman, and who established herself as a legendary hostess
and photographer of the film colony, has died. She was 89.
Howard died Tuesday in the home on Beverly Hills' Coldwater Canyon
Drive that she and Feldman bought in 1942 for $18,000.
Decorated by William Haines, a silent film star turned interior
decorator, the Spanish-style house with deep green walls, tortoise-shell
pedestals and Chinese porcelain lamps has changed little since it
welcomed such luminaries as Greta Garbo, Tyrone Power, Laurence Olivier,
Humphrey Bogart, Merle Oberon, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bugsy
Siegel and John F. Kennedy.
Howard, a striking beauty, showed little interest in becoming a
film star, although her longtime friend, director Curtis Harrington,
said Wednesday that she easily could have done so. But Howard came to
wield power over Hollywood as a favorite hostess and photographer. She
turned her intimate portraits into two well-received books, "Jean
Howard's Hollywood" in 1989 and "Travels With Cole Porter" in 1991.
"I think of Hollywood as a person," Howard told The Times shortly
before the first book was published, showcasing her photos from the
1930s to the 1960s. "In the '30s, Hollywood was still sort of a teenager
and was still growing up in the '40s. Hollywood came into its own in the
'50s--really achieved its maturity. I call them the Nifty '50s."
Howard saw it all.
The pretty girl named Ernestine Mahoney (some sources list her real
name as Ernestine Hill) arrived from Longview, Texas, in 1930, and
quickly won a role in Ziegfeld's "Follies." She became one of the first
of the chorines called the Goldwyn Girls, and soon was an MGM contract
player with small roles in several films in the 1930s and
1940s--"Broadway to Hollywood," "The Prizefighter and the Lady,"
"Dancing Lady," "Break of Hearts," "We're on the Jury," "Claudia" and
"The Bermuda Mystery."
Louis B. Mayer's passionate attraction to Howard (she changed her
name quickly) became Hollywood legend. She enjoyed telling the story of
how he proposed marriage, promising to divorce his wife, and, when she
rejected him, got drunk and tried to throw himself out of a window.
After she married Feldman in 1934, the jealous Mayer banned the agent
from his studio and threatened to ruin him in Hollywood.
With decorator Haines' help, Howard threw a truly lavish party in
1938 to prove that the Feldmans were far from down and out.
Years later, Howard's connection to the Kennedy family was cemented
when the future president's sister, Pat Lawford, called her saying that
John F. Kennedy was in town for the 1960 Democratic National Convention
and wanted to see some Hollywood people, and the Lawford home was far
too small. Howard hastily assembled 60 members of the movie industry
elite and threw a party for Kennedy that lasted until 4 a.m. After it
ended, she was straightening up when she heard a scratch at the screen.
It was Kennedy, saying he was starving and every place in Los Angeles
was closed. Howard took him into her kitchen and scrambled some eggs,
and they talked till dawn.
Howard last saw Kennedy when she was invited to a White House
dinner in 1962. He asked her to photograph him, but he was killed before
she got the chance.
"When people ask me if I have any regrets," she told Town and
Country magazine in 1993, "that's one."
From her early days in Hollywood, Howard benefited from her close
friendship with Linda Porter, the wife of composer Cole Porter. It was
from Linda Porter that she learned how to dress, how to serve simple
food for small lunches, how to manage giant parties, how to be a friend
to the famous. After Linda's death in the mid-1950s, Howard talked Cole
Porter into traveling. She accompanied him, and the photographs she took
in 1955 and 1956 ultimately resulted in her second book.
"The book doubles as a travelogue and a memoir of a 33-year
friendship," a Times review noted after it was published in 1991. "It
also reads as an essay on privilege. The high style that Porter traveled
in was astounding. . . .
"[But] only half the book is about him," the reviewer continued.
"Roughly 50% of it is given over to pictures and explanations of
European landmarks and the contents of European museums."
Howard, who studied photography at the Art Center in Los Angeles in
the 1940s, became competent at her craft. But reviews of her books and
her work on Hollywood sets for Life and Vogue magazines in the 1950s
lavish the greatest praise on Howard's ability to get intimately close
to her subjects when they were relaxed and doing anything but posing
formally. Her insider status far outweighed her portraiture.
"Howard's great skill," a Times reviewer wrote of the Cole Porter
book, "was clearly her talent for friendship with highly accomplished
and rather difficult people."
Howard sued Feldman for divorce in 1946 with Hollywood's,
celebrated attorney Jerry Geisler representing her, and formally won the
divorce in 1948. But both Howard and Feldman continued to live in their
fabled house and attend and give parties together, maintaining what one
observer called their "can't live with you, can't live without you
postmarital relationship" until his death in 1968.
Howard, who inherited a fortune in jewels from both Linda and Cole
Porter, lived for a decade on the Italian island of Capri, where she
married her second husband, Italian musician Tony Santoro, who survives.
Ensconced in her Beverly Hills home again for the past couple of
decades, Howard and Santoro continued entertaining until near the end of
her life.




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