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exotica-digest         Tuesday, March 28 2000         Volume 02 : Number 667



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Drugs, Alcohol & Music (long)
(exotica) classic titles
Re: (exotica) Drugs and Music
(exotica) Exotic travel and drugs
(exotica) drugs n stuff
Re: (exotica) Exotic travel and drugs
(exotica) [obits] Ian Dury, Jack Haley, Alex Comfort
Re: (exotica) classic titles
Re: (exotica) Drugs, Alcohol & Music (long)
Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy? was travel and drugs
Re: (exotica) drugs n stuff
Re: (exotica) classic titles
Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy?
Re: Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Harry Gibson
Re: (exotica) drugs n stuff
Re: (exotica) religous records
Re: (exotica) Ferrante & Teicher NEWSFLASH
Re:  (exotica) classic titles
Re: (exotica) Drugs and Music
Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy?
Re: (exotica) Drugs & music (getting shorter)
(exotica) "Beat Jazz; Pictures From a Gone World"
Re: (exotica) "Beat Jazz; Pictures From a Gone World"

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:37:06 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs, Alcohol & Music (long)

At 05:09 PM 3/27/00 -0600, Mark D. Head wrote:
>
>

>I also remember reading somewhere where there is a
>high correlation between "creative" types and
>"melancholy" personality tendencies - witness writers,
>painters, and so many famous creatives from history
>who struggled mightily with depression/melancholy
>and also used drugs and/or alcohol more than common
>folk.

Right.  But don't you understand?  They should just listen to BJ's sage
advice and stop drinking or taking drugs.  And if they feel like they're
flying a bit too close to the sun, they should just fly a little lower.
And they're probably only melancholy because they drink so much.  And if
they drank less and played music more, maybe they wouldn't be so depressed.
This will work for any musician or artist.  Just ask Nancy Reagan.
There is absolutely no personal price to be paid by those in society who
feel things a bit deeper than others and any artist who hides behind that
is just weak.
We don't tolerate the paper boy getting drunk because of the pressure of
making change.  We should no more tolerate the artist for whatever pressure
they feel.
All they have to do is sit down at the piano and let their natural talent
flow and then they'll have all kinds of good ideas and then they can just
execute those ideas and live a long happy life and we'll all be the richer
for it.

Nat



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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:37:00 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) classic titles

At the record show yesterday...
I got this record by the Challengers.  I have another record where they
team up with Billy Strange.
And they're not exactly the hottest Venturesque instrumental guitar band
around.
But they'll forever more hold a warm place in my heart for the title of the
record.
"Light my fire with Classical Gas".
They can't be the only band that came up with something so obvious but
brilliant.

I got a lot of records.  I went for quality over quantity and it pretty
well worked but in the end it just meant I spent a bit of extra money to
try and get both.
I got the Ventures in Space, which I already had on CD but I guess I forgot
what a truly great record it is.  Especially that cut "The Bat".  Whoohoo!

Got lotsa soft pop too including two more Orpheus records (a JimmyB fave)
and a double Association live.  Also The Cowsills answer to "Sergeant
Pepper", II by II.

And an great soundtrack record which I first saw at Will Straw's.  "The
Wild Eye".  I never even heard it but wanted it anyway.  Now that I've
heard it, wow!

The only more "loungey" stuff I got was Les Baxter's Teen Drums and "Basie
meets Bond".  I must say that the cover on the Baxter left me totally
unprepared for how "exotic" the music inside is.

Anybody got any other titles as good as that "light my fire" one?

Nat



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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:45:42 +0000
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs and Music

  Don't you think a lot of this is cultural? I mean, we know smoking,
drinking and doing drugs is injurious to our health now but that wasn't as
well known in, say, the mid 50s. If you look at films like 'All About Eve'
or 'The Maltese Falcon' or 'The Thin Man' just about everyone is smoking
cigartte after cigarette and  downing martini after martini (of course
Bogart, William Powell and Bette Davis were cancer victims). Magazines of
the 50s and 60s were loaded with page after page of cigarette and alcohol
ads. Now you'll see one or two alcohol ads and virtually no cigarette ads.
Same goes for films today...even 'period' films like LA Confidential have
hardly any smokers or drinkers.



I know we've probably had enough on the subject but this comment is
interesting. America seems so set on a moral crusade these days. Hollywood
leads can't drink, smoke or take drugs, eat fatty foods or tell anyone they
love them but they can kill anyone who looks at them funny.
It seems that as America's moral sphincter tightens, common sense and
'balance' are being lost in a bizarre moral panic. Using cannabis, for
example and drinking have been going on for well over 4,000 years and
haven't killed many people but of course, both have been made illegal by
the American government within the last 100 years, while gun laws seem open
and overly-relaxed, prison populations are huge and people are being locked
up for longer, for lesser crimes. Trends in the media towards a moral high
ground seem to be based on a more and more confused distinction between
what is right and wrong. Alcohol? killing? sex? a joint? an unhealthy diet?
homosexuality? And if the media is a reflection of the zeitgeist of the
country, is it indicative of a similarly confused population?


Apologies for the continuing of this wildly OT subject now.


Charlie





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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:33:51 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Exotic travel and drugs

A few years ago I attended a great weekend workshop, taught by the singer
Donovan himself, which was called "Music and the Myth"  Some of the things I
learned there might be applicable to the recent drugs, music, and exotic
locations theme going around.

Long ago, travel was a very risky business.  Many times it was associated with
going off to some foreign land to fight some battle, or leaving for years to
search for ones fortune.  Much of the classic mythology concerns this theme -
leaving home, and being able to tell tales to one's family and neighbors of
their tales when they return.  When one left home, it was with a strong
possibility that one might not return.  Not everyone survived, but when they
did, they were looked upon as heroes.  The urge to 'go out, experience the
world, and return home' may be a universal trait that hits many of us.

In the last 100 years, with the rise of jet travel, the ability to fly across
the world has been made much easier.  It doesn't amaze us as much when we meet
someone who has traveled to Mongolia, or Bali, or any other exotic location.
Exotic travel has lost a bit of its glamour.

Yet, the urge to experience other worlds and new things is still quite strong.
We still perhaps honor the people who choose to venture off into dangerous
worlds and who make it back safely..... and some of this attitude is applied to
those who venture off into the potentially dangerous world of drugs.  Our
culture is filled with people who experimented with drugs, and later cleaned up
their act and wrote and told us about it. Often we honor them in the way
today's culture can - financially through various book and movie deals.  For
those of us who live routine lives, their experiences can appear to be very
exotic.

Many people take drugs just because they are too bored with their lives, and
they are looking for a little excitement.  Unfortunately, for too many of them,
drugs may appear to offer the only opportunity for an exciting life.

Many of the most effective drug counselors today are ex-addicts themselves.
Teenagers will often respond more readily to their 'tales of adventures' rather
than some adult who has never taken such a journey and simply says 'Just say
No'  Young people still want to hear of people risking their lives and making
it back alive (i.e. the popularity of John McCain), and for many, simply
hearing the tales is all they need to fulfill their lives.  Others may feel
that itch to explore further - and some end up doing something creative and
worthy, and some end up doing the drug route.

thanks for reading,
Vern









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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:42:29 +0100
From: Reader Geoff <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) drugs n stuff

I can't remember where I read it,  may have been here,  but there was a
piece about a Jazz programme on a BBC radio show and the attitude of people
in that community to drugs, how they felt it had been misrepresented.

Briefly, it came out as a communal rebellion against straight life,  part of
the sense of a group outside society.  I apologise if this is a (typically)
misremembered reposting of something already said,  I will try and find the
original article.

Just a different angle on the drugs thing.

On a personal note,  I was a young and twisted man,  drank too much,  took
too many drugs,  wrote many songs and poems.  Some of them I'm even proud
of.  As I've grown older,  sorted out my life,  drink much much less,
drifted away from drugs,  I'm just not driven the same way.  Not to be
misunderstood,  I think it was the things that made me miserable that made
me write,  and made  me drink.

But I feel thats not the kind of songwriting that this list is really about.
Most of the songs we celebrate here (in the purer Exotica sense) are crafted
songs written by professional songwriters,  who didn't write to exorcise
what made them sad,  but to make money and capitalise on a talent that they
had for tunes or the crafty rhyme.  though I do recognise that many of us
have an affinity with the darker stuff.  Myself included.

And I was disappointed to read recently that Scott Walker had *experimented*
with heroin,  and as BJ says you must say 'Scott,  you've got to stop it'.

Sorry to ramble

El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:02:47 +0000
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic travel and drugs

Travel and drugs, a different way of life and drugs or just rebellion
against society.

My ex-girlfriend grew up in a hippy, drug-filled house and rebelled against
her parents in her late teens by refusing to snort any more of her father's
cocaine or smoke any more of her mother's skunk. Her parents threw her out
of the house and she got mixed mixed up with the wrong people, turning to a
life of abstinence, dinking mineral water, eating vegetables and going to
debates and spritiual meetings. After years of this she ended up in an
institute, a complete nervous wreck, seeing visions and spouting bizarre
prophecies. She was never the same again.

Only kidding (most of it)!


So can we start a thread about direct references to drugs in music? Wasn't
Brian Wilson tripping when he wrote (composed? cobbled together?) Good
Vibrations? Cocaine turning reggae into ragga? Acid house, Ecstacy and
raving? Speed, mods and Northern Soul? The psychedelic movement? Be-bop
skag and tea?


Charlie


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:53:51 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ian Dury, Jack Haley, Alex Comfort


    LONDON (AP) -- Singer Ian Dury, who rode the punk bandwagon in
the 1970s with the singles ``Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'' and
``Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3),'' died Monday. He was 57.
    Dury, whose clever, exuberant, Cockney-accented lyrics were
backed by a band called the Blockheads, died after a five-year bout
with colon cancer, which spread to his liver.
    A statement from his record label, East Central One, said he
died peacefully at home with his family, with ``a smile on his
face.''
    Dury was partially crippled by polio at age 7, and he was a
lifelong campaigner for acceptance of disabilities and eradication
of polio.
    Despite his battle with cancer, he continued to work for
children's aid organizations and appear in television ads.
    After graduating from school, Dury pursued a career in art as an
illustrator and teacher. It wasn't until 1970 that he turned
seriously to music, forming a group called Kilburn and the High
Roads that was characterized by Dury's wry, gravel-voiced vocals.
    The group mostly struggled for seven years, but the formation of
Ian Dury and the Blockheads in 1977 helped him finally taste
success -- even though, at 35, he was almost two decades older than
the archetypal punk rocker.
    Dury and the Blockheads were signed to independent Stiff
Records, and the group's 1977 tour with other Stiff artists,
including Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, served as a springboard for
the so-called New Wave, a gentler, more thoughtful offshoot of
punk.
    As rock 'n' roll became ``exhausting,'' Dury segued into acting,
taking roles in movies ranging from Roman Polanski's ``Pirates'' to
Peter Greenaway's ``The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover.''
    He also wrote a musical, ``Apples,'' that was staged at London's
Royal Court Theatre in 1989.
    Among Dury's survivors are his four children -- two from his
first marriage, which ended in divorce in 1985, and two from his
second marriage to sculptress Sophie Tilson.
    Funeral arrangements were pending.
- --------------
    SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Jack Haley, the surfer who helped
usher in the ``golden age'' of the sport from the 1940s to the
1960s, has died of cancer. He was 65.
    Haley, who won the first U.S. Open of Surfing at Huntington
Beach in 1959, died Saturday.
    Haley was inducted last year into the Huntington Beach Surfing
Walk of Fame and the Seal Beach Surfing Hall of Fame. He was a
longtime lifeguard at Seal Beach.
    He opened a surfboard shop in Seal Beach in 1960, and in 1965
opened Captain Jack's, a Sunset Beach restaurant that remains one
of the best known in Orange County.
    His oldest son, Jack Jr., played professional basketball,
including two seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers.
    Haley is survived by his mother, Virginia Haley of Seal Beach,
wife Jeanette, sons Jack and Tim, daughter Sondra and two
grandchildren.
- -------
    LONDON (AP) -- British author Alex Comfort, who gained
international fame for his best selling ``The Joy of Sex,'' has
died. He was 80.
    Comfort, who was also a poet and nuclear disarmament campaigner,
died Sunday night in Oxfordshire. The cause of death wasn't
immediately available. He had suffered a series of strokes in the
past nine years and was being cared for at a nursing home.
    ``The Joy of Sex'', published in 1972, sold 12 million copies
worldwide and was translated into two dozens languages. Billed as
the ``gourmet guide to lovemaking,'' it contained text and
illustrations of love making.
    The book gained Comfort a reputation -- unfairly in the view of
his supporters -- as an advocate of promiscuity.
    Comfort, who frequently said he was irritated that he was always
remembered for the sex manual rather than his other extensive work,
nevertheless acknowledged that it was pioneering.
    ``Before my book, writing about sex gave the impression of being
written by non-playing coaches,'' he once said.
    ``The Joy of Sex'' was one of 50 books written by Comfort. He
also produced novels, poetry, criticism, scientific textbooks and
books on oriental philosophy. It was followed in 1974 by ``More Joy
of Sex'' and ``The New Joy of Sex'' in 1991.
    He was a leading anarchist, pacifist and a member of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and was a conscientious objector
during World War II.
    In the 1970s, he moved to the United States, lecturing at the
Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University from 1974-1983.
From 1980-1991 he was a professor at the Neuropsychiatric Institute
at the University of California.
    Comfort's first marriage ended in divorce. His second wife, Jane
Henderson, died in 1991.
    He is survived by a son from his first marriage and three
grandchildren.
    There were no immediate details of funeral arrangements.
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:08:10 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) classic titles

<< And an great soundtrack record which I first saw at Will Straw's.  "The
 Wild Eye".  I never even heard it but wanted it anyway.  Now that I've
 heard it, wow! >>

I didn't know about this Italian OST, but the era (late 60s) and your "wow"
is enough to put it on my list.  Composed by Gianni Marchetti on the RCA
label.  Marty Manning is in there too according to my guide.

First place I check for it?  Ebay.  Where I find three VG+ to NM mint copies
which all closed recently with no bids with minimums under ten bucks.

Ebay tip:  search the completed items.  if something closes with no bids,
contact the seller anyway.  9 times our of 10 they will be happy to sell it
to you.

thanks for the tip-off Nat...






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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:57:33 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs, Alcohol & Music (long)

I'd say a couple of things. First, Mark, thanks for speaking your heart
with such frankness. Your comments struck me as balanced and shrewd.

Second, I think some artists use drugs to simulate the transcendence one
feels in the sublime state of creating art. I'll out myself as a poet here
(hence Blake) and say when I've been composing my best poems, my state of
consciousness shifts. The only thing that matters, the only thing I'm
conscious off is the world of the poem and my role as midwife in bringing
the poem to life. And that act of composition is sublime. To be lost in the
state of making is to switch one's reality. It is a higher state of
reality; no interference with yakety yak thoughts of paying bills, what's
for dinner, the trouble my kid is having with the schoolyard bully, daily
prosaic worries. I imagine this state of consciousness also visits some
musicians.

To have that capacity is a gift but a gift that comes with burdens,
drawbacks, responsibilities. Burdens in that it's hard work to develop a
talent. Craft is demanding. I screw up a lot, I fail to meet my vision, or
I come close, very close, but know the poem isn't there. And I can't figure
out how to solve the problem. Frustration a go go. It's painful. Drawbacks
in that there's always a part of me that wants to return to that sublime
state of creation. This is a constant and  sometimes infernal hunger. It is
an obligation that I cannot always meet, even as that hunger prods me.
Responsibilities because in making poems I need to figure out always the
purpose of the poem: why is this poem coming to life? How can I, with all
my limitations, make this poem the best it can be? Do I have an obligation
with this poem to make it clear and easily understood by anyone who might
encounter it? Or are there other principles operating in the poem--this
poem is meant to be for other poets only? It's meant to make sense only for
itself?

=46or me, drugs or alcohol have never loosed a poem or helped me achieve the
visionary transcendence. Personally I can't handle pot or psychedelics, and
alcohol only dulls me. But these substances have been used with great
affect by other artists--they become a way to directly connect to that
place where one can create. Coleridge's famous "Kubla Khan" was a direct
result of a vision he had from laudanum or opium--I can't remember which.
The poem was unfurled in his head in a laudanum dream. But also because of
laudanum, he passed out and was able to reconstruct the poem later in
fragments only. And laudanum use also eroded his gift. Poe--poor Poe. Jim
Morrison came up--he used drugs for the purposes of transcendence as well
as a way to quiet his demons. Brian Wilson is a tragic walking example of
what too much bad acid can do to an artist. I personally think Janis Joplin
and Billy Holiday used drugs and alcohol to get give themselves a cloak of
safety that allowed them to sing their naked, heartwrenching blues. They
weren't brave enough to face that stuff without that cloak of safety.
Sometimes artists can get beyond that need--Stevie Ray, for example. Others
are also burdened with madness that gives them extraordinary creative gifts
even as it cripples them. I'm thinking of the bipolarity/manic depression
of Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Robert Schumann.

Another point. Didn't Moritz bring up the difficulties of simply surviving
as an artist? I don't delude myself that I'll ever make enough money from
writing poetry to be able to live by poetry alone. Still, I am constantly
prodded by a need to write poems. I'm off, skewed when I don't do it. The
same is true of my husband, a novelist, who's enjoyed some modest success
with his books but not enough to be able to survive by his fiction. Most
artists need day jobs  and day jobs mean that energy that should be going
to their art is subverted. Another conflict resulting from creative gifts.

What does all this mean? Jesus, I've no profound conclusions to offer. It's
obvious to say that artists have their own sets of demons and small wonder
they reach for any means of escaping those demons. It's also understandable
that a blocked artist would reach for any aid they can grasp to access that
world of creation. Some are able to handle it, to back off, to contain
their hunger for transcendence without drugs or alcohol.  Others cannot.
And their art suffers, they suffer, those who love them suffer, and even
their audiences suffer from their inability to control themselves.

One last point. Moritz: A root known as kava kava was widely used in
Polynesian cultures, ritually and socially, to achieve vision and
connectedness. In the US it is now widely used as an over-the-counter
antidepressant and sedative. You can probably get it in Europe.

What a way to start the day.
Mimi




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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:23:21 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy? was travel and drugs

>So can we start a thread about direct references to drugs in music? Wasn't
>Brian Wilson tripping when he wrote (composed? cobbled together?) Good
>Vibrations? Cocaine turning reggae into ragga? Acid house, Ecstacy and
>raving? Speed, mods and Northern Soul? The psychedelic movement? Be-bop
>skag and tea?

Yeah! And does anyone know the song, "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs.
O'Leary's Ovaltine"? I recall it as a Dizzy tune, but I'm probably wrong
here--just like I can't remember the Mrs.'s name right. Anyone? And is this
bop vocal number available on any CDs/records? Thanks for info, Mimi






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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:11:51 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) drugs n stuff

At 02:42 PM 3/28/00 +0100, Reader Geoff wrote:
>
>Most of the songs we celebrate here (in the purer Exotica sense) are crafted
>songs written by professional songwriters,  who didn't write to exorcise
>what made them sad,  but to make money and capitalise on a talent that they
>had for tunes or the crafty rhyme.

What's your evidence for an assumption like that?  You've seen pictures of
them and they don't look like drug-taking hippies?  Or the tunes themselves
are neat and precise and clever without any long passages about nirvana or
Alice in Wonderland allusions?
I've done no research myself into the personal habits of the "professional
songwriters" of the exotica/lounge era but I'd be surprised to find out
they were a bunch of sober, well-adjusted, demon-less craftsmen.

Nat




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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:23:51 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) classic titles

At 10:08 AM 3/28/00 EST, [e-mail] wrote:
>
><< And an great soundtrack record which I first saw at Will Straw's.  "The
> Wild Eye".  I never even heard it but wanted it anyway.  Now that I've
> heard it, wow! >>
>
>I didn't know about this Italian OST, but the era (late 60s) and your "wow"
>is enough to put it on my list.  Composed by Gianni Marchetti on the RCA
>label.  Marty Manning is in there too according to my guide.

Wait a second.  Don't go by my "wow" just yet.
I liked it because it had a nice lush romantic cooing Mancini-esque sound
but ALSO has a few what-you-might-call "bonuses".  A sorta crime jazz cut
or two.  A sorta biker film cut.  An exotic little electric sitarish cut
that's only a minute long but will go great on a tape someday.
What I like about it is that it really sounds like a soundtrack.  It almost
reminds me of collage of typical soundtrack sounds.
But if you don't like the overall lush wordless female vocal "Umbrellas of
Cherbourg" kind of sound, you might not go "wow" like I did.
It's not wall-to-wall "Groovy Delivery Boy" or lesbian vampires.

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:38:00 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy?

>Yeah! And does anyone know the song, "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs.
>O'Leary's Ovaltine"? I recall it as a Dizzy tune, but I'm probably wrong
>here--just like I can't remember the Mrs.'s name right. Anyone? And is this
>bop vocal number available on any CDs/records? Thanks for info, Mimi

Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - "Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's
Ovaltine"

Serves as the title track on a comp CD from Delmark.


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:38:36 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Harry Gibson

Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Yeah! And does anyone know the song, "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs.
O'Leary's Ovaltine"?

Harry "The Hipster" Gibson is your man.
Check this page for info:
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B39032

- -Lou



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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:57:07 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) drugs n stuff

Nat Kone <[e-mail]> wrote:
> At 02:42 PM 3/28/00 +0100, Reader Geoff wrote:
>
>Most of the songs we celebrate here (in the purer Exotica sense) are crafted
>songs written by professional songwriters,  who didn't write to exorcise
>what made them sad,  but to make money and capitalise on a talent that they
>had for tunes or the crafty rhyme.

What's your evidence for an assumption like that?  You've seen pictures of
them and they don't look like drug-taking hippies?  Or the tunes themselves
are neat and precise and clever without any long passages about nirvana or
Alice in Wonderland allusions?
I've done no research myself into the personal habits of the "professional
songwriters" of the exotica/lounge era but I'd be surprised to find out
they were a bunch of sober, well-adjusted, demon-less craftsmen.

Nat
=======
There's lots of good first person info on the golden age of left coast
session life at uber-bassist Carol Kaye's site:
http://www.carolkaye.com/

Be sure to check the CK message board. In one place Kaye writes:

She describes studio work, the physicalness of it, it is very
exhausting work (hence our 10-12 cups of coffee every day for not
only the physicalness but the boring times too out in LA with the
multi-varied styles we recorded and created every day).


From her FAQ:
Q. Did you record from 9 to 5, regular business hours?

A. Whoa....(smiling), I wish it was only 9-5. But you had to run when they called you...and we all
wound up recording from about 9AM in the morning to almost midnight almost every day of the
week mid-60s on. The business had
grown so hot by then. You didn't dare say "no", it was highly competitive. You had to be on call for
anything and everything in the way of styles, the studios, hours, who you worked for etc. and be on
time etc. It was a clean, highly professional on-time no-nonsense business. Only the top musician
professionals were allowed in the studios and stayed in for any length of time.

Q. How did you stay awake and keep the tension off while working so many
record sessions?

A. Believe it or not, we drank tons of coffee, and while the guys smoked a lot (from boredom,
there's no tension once you've done 2-3 dates, just trying to stay awake is the problem), I never
acquired that habit. Also, you never saw any drugs used by session musicians until a a little in the
70s. Drugs and booze were totally frowned on (and always have been in the TV and movie score
sessions) while drugs were sometimes popular with live-players.

- ---
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:15:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) religous records

In a message dated 3/28/0 1:45:34 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I have a Word record called "Carillion" which is
>specially produced to be played from Church spires

Let the good Word multiply:     My favorite Word rekkid is by three NOT very
good looking white grrrls called...are you ready?  The White Sisters! They
all have the typical early 6T's grrrl group haircuts with the "spoolied"
curls at the neck, lopsided innocent country grins and blue funny-collared
dresses to match the background of the LP cover.  Actually, now that I study
the LP cover further, the one in the middle is kinda cute...JB


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:17:49 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ferrante & Teicher NEWSFLASH

Love the site!!  I have the Rhapsody album, but who was behind Urania
records?  All I can find is a listing of their releases.




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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:20:46 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) classic titles

In a message dated 3/28/0 4:35:07 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Anybody got any other titles as good as that "light my fire" one?

I Can't Get No Satisfaction when I Pump It Up  (sorry)


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:23:21 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs and Music

In a message dated 3/28/0 4:50:29 AM,
[e-mail] wrote:

>America seems so set on a moral crusade these days. Hollywood
>leads can't drink, smoke or take drugs, eat fatty foods or tell anyone they
>love them but they can kill anyone who looks at them funny.
>It seems that as America's moral sphincter tightens, common sense and
>'balance' are being lost in a bizarre moral panic.

You're so right! Just ask the two or three dozen British Isle recipients of
Oscars trophies the other night...JB


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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:43:40 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Benzedrine tune--Dizzy?

>Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - "Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy's
>Ovaltine"

This title puts an odd spin on another chocolate drink mix: "You can't
drink it slow if it's [Nestle's] Quik"!

Sorry.

Brian Phillips




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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:12:31 +0100
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Drugs & music (getting shorter)

Mimi Mayer wrote:

> To have that capacity is a gift but a gift that comes with burdens,
> drawbacks, responsibilities. Burdens in that it's hard work to develop a
> talent. Craft is demanding.

Sometimes it's amazing how non-artists even if they are skilled writers take
for granted that art "just happens". I remember this article by Diedrich
Diedrichsen, who was a writer-guru in Germany for the generation X on pop
subjects for a while, in which he tried to describe how hip hop was created
"in the streets" "just by itself". He really thought art comes from a road.
And not from artists.

> One last point. Moritz: A root known as kava kava was widely used in
> Polynesian cultures, ritually and socially, to achieve vision and
> connectedness. In the US it is now widely used as an over-the-counter
> antidepressant and sedative. You can probably get it in Europe.

Thanks for taking this on. I thought nobody would notice my twist of the drug
talk into a regular exotica related subject. Yet I already hear the majority
of listees breathe with relief when this thread is finally over and we can
return to record finds and play-lists at last.

So you think kava kava is available in Europe? Maybe under a different name
:-)
Can you remember where you got this information from? I can't remember
anything about drugs in any Thor Heyerdahl book, and those are almost my only
sources about
the South Sea.

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:42:10 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Beat Jazz; Pictures From a Gone World"

This is one beautiful collection of beat music, spoken word and crazed goofballed
lyrics.  Way out there selections of many unknown beat artists at their most
primitive level spewing forth undergroud sounds and styles of a bygone era.  No
Zane or kitch here but straight ahead songs that ooze the beat feel!

This is a fantastic selection of music.  For me its the beat of this genre on one
cd    .

Beat Jazz (label ?? date??) see review at:
http://www.jackdiamond.com.spokenwordcds.htm


Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:49:09 -0800 (PST)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Beat Jazz; Pictures From a Gone World"

The link should be
http://www.jackdiamond.com/spokenwordcds.htm

This is one beautiful collection of beat music, spoken word and crazed goofballed
lyrics.  Way out there selections of many unknown beat artists at their most
primitive level spewing forth underground sounds and styles of a bygone era.  No
Zane or kitch here but straight ahead songs that ooze the beat feel!

This is a fantastic selection of music.  For me its the beat of this genre on one
cd    .

Beat Jazz (label ?? date??) see review at:
http://www.jackdiamond.com/spokenwordcds.htm


Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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