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exotica-digest        Wednesday, April 26 2000        Volume 02 : Number 699



In This Digest:

(exotica) fwd: MORE GHOST WORLD NEWS
(exotica) removal of tiki as improper
(exotica) This Sat in Minn.
Re: (exotica) Les Djinns Singers/international
(exotica) WHIZZER!!  (Sonovox)
(exotica) Mike (Discussion in Percussion) Simpson's JUNGLE ODYSSEY
(exotica) Scanning Slap on Hand
Re: (exotica) Dennis Coffey
Re: (exotica) Mike (Discussion in Percussion) Simpson's JUNGLE ODYSSEY
Re: (exotica) sounds galactic
(exotica) Dennis Coffey
Re: (exotica) Dennis Coffey
Re: (exotica) Page Cavanaugh and the woes of "digital remastering"
(exotica) Scanning LP's 101
(exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page
(exotica) George Montalba is not Anton Lavey
(exotica) Re:  "Exotiquarium" Book
Re: (exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page
Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise
(exotica) Pandora's Box 4/30 (Boston)
Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise
Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise
(exotica) Lulu
Re: (exotica) Lulu
Re: (exotica) Lulu
Re: (exotica) Lulu
Re: (exotica) Lulu
Re: (exotica) Lulu
(exotica) Hugo Montenegro
Re: (exotica) Lulu

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) fwd: MORE GHOST WORLD NEWS

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:47:37 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Fantagraphics eList April 25, 2000

MORE GHOST WORLD NEWS
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It's been a while since TERI GARR, one of our favorite actresses, was in
a halfway-decent movie (not that we weren't delighted with her perfect
casting as Phoebe's mother on FRIENDS a few years ago). Surely the
serious actress of THE CONVERSATION and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD
KIND and the adorable comedienne of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and TOOTSIE (to
say nothing of AFTER HOURS) deserved better than being remembered for
MR. MOM and a spectacularly embarrassing Academy Awards song performance
a few years back. Well, it's Terry Z. to Teri G,'s rescue, as Ms. Garr
becomes the latest actress to join the GHOST WORLD cast, playing Enid's
stepmother Maxine. Let's hope her appearance here gives her a Travolta-
like resurgence!
    Meanwhile, Crispin Glover's father, Bruce Glover, has signed on
for the role of the trivia-loving, Little Rascal-riding Feldman. (It's a
Small World Dept.: Crispin wrote the introduction to Clowes's PUSSEY!)
    On May 12, The Sundance Channel's "In Production" will be airing a
preview of the GHOST WORLD film. The Sundance crew visited the set last
week, interviewing Clowes and Zwigoff and shooting lots of behind-the-
scenes footage. Check your newspaper's local listings for times and
channel information.
    Meanwhile, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, and SEVENTEEN
MAGAZINE all visited the GHOST WORLD set recently for upcoming features
about the movie. Surprisingly, SEVENTEEN was only interested in speaking
with the film's young stars, THORA BIRCH and BRAD RENFRO. "I don't get
it," quipped fiftysomething director Terry Zwigoff. "I love 17-year-old
girls. Why don't they want to interview me?" While no word yet as to
when the AH and SEVENTEEN features will run, the ET report is scheduled
to air sometime in the next two weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.
    Speaking of set visiting, your intrepid friends at Fantagraphics
visited Clowes & Zwigoff prior to embarking on The "Making Waves" CBLDF
fundraising cruise earlier this month (details on which to follow as
soon as the ground stops rocking). The crew was filming scenes set in
Josh's apartment, taking over a dilapidated fourplex in Los Angeles'
Jefferson Park district, including the all-important first love scene
between Josh and Enid (Renfro and Birch). We also saw raw footage of
much of everything else that had been filmed to date.
    What can we tell you? Not much, due to those protective Hollywood
types, but we were thrilled and elated to see Clowes's vision so
faithfully captured on screen. Take it from us -- the defiantly cynical,
the proudly pessimistic --  that this is gonna be one helluva movie
Steve Buscemi and Birch, in particular, are delivering exemplary
performances; the strained romance between Seymour and Enid makes
AMERICAN BEAUTY look like AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER.
    Check out the Fantagraphics website for exclusive, soon-to-be
uploaded snapshots of most of the cast, taken on location.


IRONY ISN'T DEAD
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Many of you, being the erudite, tasteful art lovers that you are,
probably missed Monday night's ABC TV movie, "Trapped in a Purple Haze,"
about a young man who succumbs to the evils of heroin addiction
(apparently no one at ABC realized that "Purple Haze" is a euphemism for
LSD, although we hear "Smack Down" was already taken). If so, you missed
a quality scene in which the budding junkie and his budding junkie pal
rob a comic store (hey, nobody said that they were budding master
criminals). One of the comics shown being stolen was an issue of HATE.


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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:05:58 -0700
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) removal of tiki as improper

Saturday, April 22, 2000 Search

ACLU sees removal of tiki as improper
By James Gonser
Advertiser Leeward Bureau


The Hawaii office of the American Civil Liberties Union is calling improper
the removal last week of a 10-foot-tall tiki of the Hawaiian figure Kanaloa
from in front of Waianae High School. The civil rights group wants to
participate in community discussions to reconsider the removal.

Hazel Sumile, superintendent of the Leeward Oahu school district, had the
sculpture taken down after a Leeward pastor called her and complained that
it was a religious symbol and shouldn=B9t be erected at a public school. It
was carved by students in a high school art class and put up in February.
Jeff Yamashita, pastor of the Waianae Assembly of God, said yesterday that
he had called Sumile and Waianae High principal JoAnn Kumasaka about the
tiki, but never asked that it be removed. He said he only wanted to discuss
the matter.

Yamashita said he and members of his congregation objected to the tiki
because it represents a Hawaiian god. He said it would not be a problem if
the tiki were only temporary, because it could be considered an educational
tool. But having it mounted in concrete in front of the school for all to
see is not fair to other religious groups, he said. =B3If they do that, then
all religions have the right to put up symbols if they wanted,=B2 he said.
=B3I=
f
the Christian Club said it wanted to put up a cross, how could the school
refuse? =B3A lot of our parents have kids going to school there. I knew Mrs.
Sumile, so I called her. I didn=B9t want to cause big problems. I wanted to
g=
o
through the school, not the media.=B2

The ACLU=B9s executive director, Vannessa Chong, said the tiki represents a
real man and was an art project put up as part of a campus beautification
project, so it should not have been removed. The civil rights group says a
school=B9s actions violate the First Amendment only if they have a religious
intent, a primarily religious effect, or create excessive entanglement
between church and state. =B3The ACLU believes the (state Department of
Education) was off base in removing the tiki,=B2 Chong said. Most people
view
the tiki as a cultural, instead of religious, icon, she said, adding, =B3On
the other hand, a cross is clearly a religious symbol to nearly all people.=
=B2


Department of Education spokesman Greg Knudsen said it was prudent to remov=
e
the tiki because some people considered it to be an religious object. Peopl=
e
other than Yamashita called to complain, he said. =B3We are still open to
the
possibility of relocating it as a display of a work of art,=B2 Knudsen said.
=B3Even if it wasn=B9t intended to be seen as a religious object, it is by
some
people.=B2 The tiki has been stored inside the school for the past week.

Yamashita said a private meeting will be held at the school Monday to
discuss the tiki, and he is optimistic the parties can reach an
understanding. The ACLU has not been invited, Chong said.
=B3It took a protracted lawsuit to force the removal of a cross at Camp
Smith
(in 1997), despite the fact that it offended large portions of the
non-Christian population in Hawaii,=B2 Chong said. =B3Here, the state
immediately removed the tiki based upon complaints of a few Christians. Not
only does this show a bias in favor of Christian religion, it shows a
complete lack of sensitivity to Native Hawaiian culture.=B2

=A9 COPYRIGHT 2000 The Honolulu Advertiser, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.


"William E.McEuen" <[e-mail]>



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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:46:55 -0700
From: "Otto" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This Sat in Minn.

**** LAST MINUTE REMINDER*****


"THE SON OF VOODOO!"

MINNESOTA CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
with
THE VIENNA SAX QUARTET
VANESSA TOMLINSON
VIC VOLARE
JANET GOTTSCHALL-FRIED
and
KING KINI

THIS SATURDAY!  - APRIL 29th

Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis * [phone]
Doors open at 8PM * Tickets $13 advance - $15 day of show
all Ticketmaster outlets

With the success of last year's standing-room-only show at the Fine
Line Cafe, Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble (MCE), will again present
an eclectic evening of music including noire, lounge, contemporary,
and experimental. We will perform works by LA  bassist Joey Altruda,
a leader in the "new cool school" movement in Los Angeles, who's
music is featured in the movie "Swingers".

We will also give the world premiere of a new work by Robert Drasnin,
the former head of CBS television's music division for 20 years and
last year's featured artist by MCE.  Other highlights of the evening
include Leonard Bernstein's classic and rarely performed "Prelude,
Fugue, and Riffs", The soundtrack to Orson Well's "Touch of Evil",
XTC's "Man who Sailed Around His Soul" featuring Vic Volare, and two
works by Yma Sumac with Janet Gottschall -Fried, performer with the
Minnesota Opera and the Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

This year's show features an outstanding line-up of soloists
including internationally regarded percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson, a
frequent performer with Germany's "Ensemble Modern", giving the world
premiere of Erik Griswold's Every Night the Same Dream. We will also
have as guest artists the Vienna Sax Quartet performing their
arrangement of Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint which was
re-written in collaboration with the composer.  The MCE band will
also include Doug Little from the Motion Poets on solo tenor sax and
flute.

In between sets,  audience members will be treated to Minneapolis'
own "lounge/exotica" expert, King Kini, spinning vinyl from his truly
unique and unmatched collection of vintage recordings.


  http://www.tamboo.com/clubvelvet/CVevents.html




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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:21:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Les Djinns Singers/international

In a message dated 4/25/00 10:48:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I was thinking today about that long time list member who just unsubscribed
 to the list, forget his name and his comment about this list has become too
 "international" >>

My memory may be failing me but I thought the person departed because the
list was not "international" enough?  Either way it's silly and just an
excuse as this list is very open to the discussion of just about any kind of
music as far as I can tell ---- and that's a good thing.  That's what keeps
it alive and vibrant.  We all collect records, and are passionate about
INTERESTING & UNUSUAL recordings.  It's great to hear about the unknown stuff
and also to read and/or participate in discussions about old favorites.

VIVA EXOTICALIST!


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:17:26 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) WHIZZER!!  (Sonovox)

Rusty and Sparky were not the only ones on kiddie records talking through a
sonovox.

A recent gem I stumbled upon is Whizzer The Talking Airplane.  Two 78's on a
label I've never heard of - Jackalee (going on memory here, folks..)

All about a airplane race - great stuff.  A temporary site is up with a cover
pic and two minute MP3 sample.

look and listen here:

http://www.metro.net/basichip/whizzer.htm

This and 49 other interesting oddio oddities will be part of an upcoming site
I am slowly putting together.

Enjoy the preview!



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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:19:04 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mike (Discussion in Percussion) Simpson's JUNGLE ODYSSEY

Will at

http://www.showandtellmusic.com

turned me onto this one.

In the 4 or 5 years I've been on this list, I can't recall it ever being
mentioned.  Never seen it offered from a dealer either.  Who has it?

Came out on a label called Evolution around 1965.  Upbeat instrumentals
written around real animal noises recorded from Kruger Park in South Africa.

The cover and 5 MP3 files can be found here:

http://www.metro.net/basichip/jungle.htm

This and 49 other interesting oddio oddities will be part of an upcoming site
I am slowly putting together.

Check it out!


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:14:39 +0000
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Scanning Slap on Hand

>Even with the standard scanning area, you should be able to capture the cover
>in two passes.  Granted, you'll lose about a half inch or so from the top and
>bottom.  But nobody will notice.  I've scanned hundreds of LPs and have yet
>to have anybody point out that the finished image was cropped :)
>
>Try the two step method and don't sweat it.

Ooooooo....Ford!!  I've gotta chastise you for that one!  You can lose a lot
in an inch of album cover: catalog #'s, scotch tape marks (always a fave),
tops of heads; not to mention that it mucks up the intended compostion.
Yes, it's a drag, but give me Photoshop and a 2-pixel-blurred marquis in
four segments and I'll show it to you complete!

That said, I'd give my nipples for a scanning bed big enough to do it in one
pass.  mmmmmm.

Keith

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:37:20 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dennis Coffey

<< Does anyone know where (or if) it's possible to buy Dennis Coffey's
 incredibly gritty, low-down 70's instrumental funk albums on CD?  >>

A quik search turns up some bleak news if original LP's are what you want in
CD format.

The All Music Guide shows nothing in print.  :(((

Ebay will get you the original LP's on a regular basis and pretty cheap too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310543706

will take you to a M- promo copy of 1971's Evolution (Sussex) for $9.99,
closing in less than 24 hours with no bids.




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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:48:30 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mike (Discussion in Percussion) Simpson's JUNGLE ODYSSEY

>  Who has it?
>
>Came out on a label called Evolution around 1965.  Upbeat instrumentals
>written around real animal noises recorded from Kruger Park in South Africa.
I don't think I "have it", BUT I have "had it"
I remember now selling it a loooooooooooooooooooooong time ago
No big deal
JD



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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:21:15 +1000
From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sounds galactic

on 25/4/00 6:39 PM, [e-mail] at
[e-mail] wrote:

>
> I know its probably redundant and vaguely pinickity but John Keating
> generally uses a VCS3 (also called the Pitney, I think) - a British synth
> made by EMS, 'The World's Longest Established Synthesizer Manufacturer'
> The synth has a joystick and lots of plastic pegs which you stick into a
> patch-type matrix to create your sounds. I would kill for one!

This synth was also available in a portable suitcase model, the EMS
synthi-AKS. Lots of fun fiddling with those patchbay-pins and trying to keep
the thing in tune. Very collectable nowdays.

Philip (who first learnt about synthesis on a VCS3 25 years ago)

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:28:55 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dennis Coffey

Sonicnet.com says it has RA sound samples of him,
More later

http://www.sonicnet.com/artistinfo/4706.jhtml



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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:56:00 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dennis Coffey

Dennis Coffey plays that fucking thrashy/steel guitar that ruins all of his
records. Good breaks, always nice and funky but with his trademark
screaming guitar stupidity.

Having said that I have:

Going for myself (Sussex) - This is the LP with Scorpio (breaks) and its
quite good. Very easy to find this one.
Hair and Thangs - recent bootleg - This is a slow groover, very funky but
covered in Dennis' guitar which keeps it firmly on my shelf.
Theme from Black Belt Jones - recent reissue 12" - Great funky theme but no
soundtrack LP (or was there?)

I think I have one called Back Home with another track with a break on it
but then again, maybe I'm just deluded.




Charlie




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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:05:54 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Page Cavanaugh and the woes of "digital remastering"











Earlier today I picked up the CD reissue of Page Cavanaugh's "Plays and
Sings for the Cocktail Hour" (1956). I've always been somewhat fond of this
record for its marginally cheesy piano-bar jazz with vocals.

Anyway, once I popped it in, I immediately noticed that the clarity was
considerably lower than the several digital recordings I've made myself off
my old record.






If you own the record, and you've made digital recordings of it, why buy a
CD?

Charlie






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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:33:51 +0000
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Scanning LP's 101

I just sent this to ck, and thought some of you might want to read it as
well...if you already have your method down for scanning, or don't own a
scanner, please ignore!  Hope this helps someone.  This is my own way of
scanning record sleeves, and it makes for an excellent quality scan.

With some good packing tape, affix something straight and raised (I use a
folded piece of heavy card stock) just above and just below the  scanning
bed (hold an lp up to the glass to see where to affix it).  This will act as
an alignment guide, so you can slide the record horizontally across the bed
and keep the alignment of the sleeve consistent.  Make sure the bar is
absolutely lined up perfectly with the edge of the glass.

Put the lp on the bed against the lower guide, and off to one side so in
effect 1 corner of the record is in good scanning position on the glass.  In
my scanning software, I select 150 dpi at 50%, choose the entire surface of
the scanning area, and scan.  I also use a medium to high descreening filter
(med. is for magazine quality images, high is for really tight printed
images, 'art-print' quality.  Some of the early covers were actually
silk-screened color, and on those I use no filtering at all.

Once I've got that first image, let's say it's the upper LEFT corner of the
record visible, with a good portion of the cover scanned, I will go under
IMAGE>CANVAS SIZE and increase it by almost half in each dimension, then
click the upper left square, to make the image you scanned stay in the upper
left corner when the canvas gets bigger.

Leave that document open (you may even save it at this point, in case
there's a freeze), slide the record along the lower guide until the upper
RIGHT corner is well onto the scanner bed, and repeat the scan.  But this
time, instead of increasing the canvas size, go to the marquis tool (top
left tool on the bar), double-click on it and in the 'options' field that
pops up, enter "2" in the 'FEATHER' box.  Then drag a marquis around MOST of
this second image, being careful not to get too close to the edges of the
window (for a clean feathering).  Copy (EDIT>COPY), then click on the first
scan and paste (EDIT>PASTE) the second image in there.  Using the Move tool
(to the right of the marquis tool), you can then move that image around to
align it with the first, as it will be on a separate layer.  Keep in mind
that even on a good scanner (I've got an excellent UMAX S-12) the light will
vary depending on what area of the glass the image is on, so you may need to
very slightly lighten or darken the image to match up
(IMAGE>ADJUST>BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST).

Now open the scanner again and move the lp straight up til the top edge of
the record hits the guide you put on the top edge of the glass.  Now the
bottom RIGHT corner will be visible on the glass, and you can scan that
corner, then the last one.  Each time, just marquis the corners, not too far
into the cover image.  This will ensure that you're keeping the first two
images you scanned as the 'bulk' of the image.  After you've adjusted each
segment brightness-wise so they disappear into one another, flatten the
image (in the layers palette, choose 'flatten layers').  Then choose the
marquis tool, enter "0" in the feather box, and drag your marquis around the
edge of the lp scan.  I like to crop as close to the edges without seeing
any white...I think that picking up hints of sleeve wear is central to the
visual of the record image.

Last step: once you've cropped to the edge, you should go into IMAGE>IMAGE
SIZE, and in the top two boxes change 'pixels' to 'percent.'  THEN, go down
to the PRINT SIZE options in that window and (with the 'constrain
proportions' box UNCHECKED) enter 4.75 in each box with INCHES selected as
the option.  Hit OK.

DONE!  The file will be 1.46 MB.  I usually do the same with the back cover
as well (for the tray card), and I scan the record label at 120% for the CD
itself.

Voila!

PS: If you're doing the scan for a REAL printing job, i.e., not just an
ink-jet printer, do the same thing, but at 300 dpi, and leave the whole
thing large, like 7" x 7".  But be warned--at this resolution, it's a fat
file, something like 10 MB.

Ciao,

Keith

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:15:13
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page

Just added to the Space Age Pop Music Page:

    --New biography of Michel Legrand:  he plays, he conducts, he composes, he
scores, he sings (he tries), he dances ... er, he "Plays for Dancers"

http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/whatsnew.htm

Has anyone on the list heard his album, "Violent Violins" on Mercury?
Thumbs up?  Thumbs down?

Brad




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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:18:51
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) George Montalba is not Anton Lavey

Jack Diamond wrote a few days ago that George Montalba, of "Pipe Organ and
Percussion" on Somerset, was really the famed Satanist, Anton LaVey.

I found the following in reference to that:

LEGEND: In the 1950s ASL traveled to Nice, France, where he recorded an
album of organ music under the pseudonym of "Georges Montalba".
REALITY: ASL's first and only trip to France was in the mid-1970s, when his
Dutch disciple Maarten Lamers, Amsterdam sex club owner, financed his
voyage. The "ASL=Montalba" story appeared in 1989, when a gullible Church of
Satan member found a Montalba album and suggested that it was similar to
ASL's own music. ASL, never pleased by competition, responded with the
preposterous "pseudonym" claim - which is still ardently supported by his
posthumous followers.
SOURCES: Diane LaVey, Zeena LaVey.

http://www.houseofsatan.com/tswc/legend.html

I once considered adding a bio page on LaVey to the Space Age Pop Music
page, but who has the time to sift through fact and fiction on this guy?

Brad


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:33:03
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  "Exotiquarium" Book

m. ace wrote:
>>Ever pick up Exotiquarium...?  lots of great album covers to be found there.
>
>Isn't that the one that swiped text from some of our list-members'
>websites? Not to mention the title from Johan. Whoops, I mentioned it.

A number of pages from this book were lifted wholesale from my Space Age
Pop Music site. And then they listed the original URL for the site, which
had been extinct for two years at the time of publication.

And, while I'm grousing, "Forever Lounge" lifted many of its discography
listings directly from my site.  I can tell because several of my typos are
faithfully reproduced.

Not that I'm planning on taking up litigation as my new hobby ....

Brad


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:33:24 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New on the Space Age Pop Page

Legrand's Violent Violins is also Michel Legrand Plays for Dancers, which
you mentioned.

2 good tracks, featured on In Flight Entertainment comp. Otherwise string
laden entertainment but not brilliant. See the archives for more info.






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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:26:45 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise

<<Also listed, more definitely on the exotica side, are 4 volumes of
"Adventures In Paradise" -- comps featuring artists like Alfred Alpaka, =
Roy
Smeck, The Islanders, The Tahitians.>>

I've got one of those albums......my tiny brain seems to recall that this =
was a television series(?) - the music's your standard Hawaii kinda =
stuff......nothing special.

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:05:53 -0400
From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pandora's Box 4/30 (Boston)

Boston-area list members -- here's your chance to have a
swingin' good time AND catch my live DJing debut. DJ Vinny
and Sir Richard have been kind enough to invite me to guest
DJ in their company at Pandora's Box, this Sunday April 30th.

I've put more work into my set than I've ever done for my radio
show so hopefully my lack of experience in the arena of
spinning for the dancefloor will not be obvious.

Expect '60s Now Sound, sitars, Europop, groovy soundtracks,
and even some stuff in a "jazz style" (the records have no
documentation as to whether or not the musicians improvised
so I figured better safe than sorry).

For more info on Pandora's Box (like directions) check their site:
     http://www.project3.com/pandora.htm


Hope to see some of you there!
(and thanks for the space)

Peter
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:13:36 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise

>I've got one of those albums......my tiny brain seems to recall that this
>was a television series(?) - the music's your standard Hawaii kinda
>stuff......nothing special.

Nate got big brain!

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052440

P.S. Check out Lani Kai's real name!




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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:40:07 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Adventures in Paradise

<<Nate got big brain!>>

Aw shuks!

- - Nate




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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:51:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lulu

Anyone ever heard of a slinky blonde girlie from the
60's called "Lulu"? I have an lp called something like
"Lulu sings To Sir with Love and Other Now Hits." Just
got around to playing it the other night and it
actually is alright (Of course I feel that way about
fundamentalist hamsters and Cleft-palate spoken word
records). One of the songs is a jaunty number with
"love" in the title about 5 times, lots of brass,
conga and double picked fuzz guitar. I think she was
English - production credits go to John Paul Jones and
Mickey Most (didn't he work with the post-Kidd
Pirates?).

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:58:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

Finally found something. She looks like a cross
between Hillary Clinton and Heino:

http://www.geocities.com/philmike_2000/lulu1.htm

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:02:23 +0100
From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

Ben Waugh wrote:

> Anyone ever heard of a slinky blonde girlie from the
> 60's called "Lulu"?

I'm sure a few million have...

http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B19043

> I think she was English - production credits go to John Paul Jones and
> Mickey Most (didn't he work with the post-Kidd
> Pirates?).

She's Scottish and until recently was appearing every Saturday evening
on the BBC's godawful National Lottery show...


Robbie

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:15:11 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

<< Anyone ever heard of a slinky blonde girlie from the
 60's called "Lulu"? I have an lp called something like
 "Lulu sings To Sir with Love >>

Sure - that's her smash number one hit from 1967.  Stayed number one for a
few weeks.

She makes her screen debut (17 years old) and sings the song in the Sidney
Poitier movie - if you haven't seen it, you should - it's a classic.
Original sountrack (British composer Ron Granier) is out now on CD I think.
Long overdue.

In the movie, she is more skanky than slinky.  The cutie in the film is
Pamela Dare (Judy Geeson) who pops up every now and then as the neighbor in
the show "Mad About You".

The Mindbenders are also in there with a couple of numbers.  Remember them?
"Game of Love" (1965) and "A Groovy Kind Of Love" (1966)



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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

With Mr Wayne Fontana, oh yeahhhhhhh

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> The Mindbenders are also in there with a couple of
> numbers.  Remember them?
> "Game of Love" (1965) and "A Groovy Kind Of Love"
> (1966)


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:43:11 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

Ben Waugh wrote:
>
> Anyone ever heard of a slinky blonde girlie from the
> 60's called "Lulu"? I have an lp called something like
> "Lulu sings To Sir with Love and Other Now Hits." Just
> got around to playing it the other night and it
> actually is alright (Of course I feel that way about
> fundamentalist hamsters and Cleft-palate spoken word
> records). One of the songs is a jaunty number with
> "love" in the title about 5 times, lots of brass,
> conga and double picked fuzz guitar. I think she was
> English - production credits go to John Paul Jones and
> Mickey Most (didn't he work with the post-Kidd
> Pirates?).

'Love loves to love love' and 'The Man who sold the World' are the two
tracks to look for. She also does not too bad a cover of 'Feeling
Alright' as well... She is very famous in the UK, although finding
actual albums of hers can be quite tricky. Cheapo compilations on labels
like MFP are very common though... but always trashed for some reason.
Oh, and she's just released her latest single, done in the
Madonna+William Orbit vein...


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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:50:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro

Anyone have an opinion about Hugo Montenegro's
Great Songs from Motion Pictures on the Time label?

I love his other stuff on time, but I'm worried that this album will
contain a lot of romantic lush slush.

- - bruce lenkei

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lulu

Thanks all for the Lulu info... now who's this Yanni
guy? (kidding, please no).

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> In the movie, she is more skanky than slinky.

I will rent this over the weekend: slinky and skanky
melts my heart.

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