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exotica-digest          Thursday, May 4 2000          Volume 02 : Number 708



In This Digest:

(exotica) More Vocal Musings, On Liberty Records.
(exotica) Playlist for "The Back Ward" May 2, 2000
RE: (exotica) Lady in Cement
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
Re: (exotica) Schlager (was: Re: exotica- ??)
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
Re: (exotica) Mars Attacks
(exotica) Mars Attacks
(exotica) Guantanamera
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
Re:  (exotica) Guantanamera
(exotica) Thunderbirds
Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds
Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds
(exotica) the ventures??
Re: (exotica) Guantanamera
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
Re: (exotica) Heidi Bruhl
Re: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #680/Lady In Cement
(exotica) Puffin Billy
(exotica) Denny Japan Comp
(exotica) [obit] Teri Thornton
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
(exotica) Virgin Suicides
Re: (exotica) National Lampoon
Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides
(exotica) Virgin Suicides
(exotica) jane
Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides
(exotica) Tiquana Taxi (?) Animated Short.
(exotica) Re: Bear Family Records, the Japanese model
(exotica) Re: How 'bout an "Exotica Etc. Essentials" web page
Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides
Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides
(exotica) schlager muzik
Re: (exotica) Re: Bear Family Records, the Japanese model

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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:38:56 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More Vocal Musings, On Liberty Records.

Picked up an interesting vocal LP last week, but  it's not the vocals that
made it cool per se but the arrangements: "Sittin' on Top of the World by
the Jones Boys. Spencer-Hagen Orchestra" This is on Liberty records. The
Jones Boys were a 4 Freshmen type group that played the Catskills.
Spencer-Hagen arrangements were very Rugolo-esque. If you ever see it pick
it up.

A couple of other new things (for me) on Liberty:
"Lucille Star. The French song. I think this lady was really from Canada.
Produced by Herb Albert and Jerry Moss. But what was really interesting is
it's arranged by Herb Albert and Julius Wechter taking a great from
Tiquana/Baja Marimba sound.  I usually hate the song "Dominique" but this
one was done very well.

"Kay Stevens in Person at the Copa". She looks like Lucille Ball and sounds
like a lounge lizard version of Ethel Merman with a big band with a lot of
that weird talking back to the audience.
Anybody here like Timi Yuro? What does she sound like? Usually when I see
something on Liberty I pick it up, but the copy I saw was really beat up.

Domenic




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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:51:00 GMT
From: "james brouwer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "The Back Ward" May 2, 2000

"The Back Ward" can be heard Wednesday mornings at 10 on CFRU 93.3fm
in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. A two hour show
this week.

Also available in RealAudio
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/

Theme from 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' - Hugo Montenegro, from "Come
Spy With Me"

New Threads on Display - Artie Butler, from "The Love Machine" OST

Shortage of Minis - Pat Williams, from the "How Sweet It Is" OST

Opening Ceremony - Monkees, from "Head" OST

Pot Party - Mike Curb, from "Teenage Rebellion" OST

Rose of Smiling Faces - The Freakscene, from "Psychedelic Psoul"

Citizen Freak - 49th Parallel, from "49th Parallel"

Pursuit of The Pimpmobile - Isaac Hayes, from "Truck Turner" OST

Carol's Theme - Ed Bogas, from "Heavy Traffic" OST

Beauty and the Bass - Roy Budd, from "Diamonds" OST

On The Way to San Mateo - Lalo Schifrin, from "Bullitt" OST

Ironside - Alan Tew, from "Easy Project, House of Loungecore"

Standing Tiptoe on The Highest Hill - Twink, from "Think Pink"

Susie's Gone - The Afterglow, from "Beyond The Calico Wall"

Rattle of Life - Oshun, from "Only in America"

Mystery Track - from "Psychedelic Obscurities #6"

Chelsea Street Scene - John Scott Orchestra, from "Sounds of Silence"

Season of the Young - Rudy Toth, from "Toronto"

Embassy Row - Domenic Frontiere, from "Washington Behind
Closed Doors" OST

I Can Only Give You Everything - Mc5, from "Kick Out The Jams"

I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges, from "The Stooges"

Soul Desert - Can, from "Soundtracks"

Robert Kennedy assasination recording, from "1968, The Incredible Year"

Sighs - Goblin, from "Suspira" OST

The Riot - Perry Botkin jr, from "R.P.M." OST

Light My Fire - John Andrews Tartaglia, from "Tartaglian Theorem"

Free Form in 6 - T. Swift and The Electric Bag, from "Are You Experienced?"

Question of Temperature - Balloon Farm, from 45"

Enchanted Farm - Forbidden Five, from "Only in America"

Are You Experienced? - Associated Soul Group, from "Top Hits of Today"

Gear Down - Stu Phillips, from "Jud" OST

Corn-Flakes - Klaus Wunderlich, from "Moog Sound 2000"

Flower King of Flies - The Nice, from "The Nice: The Immediate Story"

Otce - Plastic People of The Universe, from "Pasijove hry Velikonocni"

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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:55:37 -0500
From: "Indy Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Lady in Cement

Brian Phillips wrote:

> >That's an evil little tale.  Was it Doug Kenny that wrote it?
>
> Yup, that was the late Doug Kenny.  He is the one who leads the band into
> an alley on "Animal House".

Yes! He was Stork, the character that uttered the great line, "What are we
*supposed* to do, you mo-ron?"

I believe he met his unfortunate end by falling off of a cliff in Hawaii...

- -Indy Rutks ([e-mail])



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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:04:30 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

In a message dated 5/3/0 12:43:05 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>The first 3+ years of National Lampoon are truly some of the funniest
written
>material around.

Its crowning glory has to be the High School yearbook parody. Kefauver High
School Class 'o' '64. The JFK tributes,. the names of the class members (Ben
Dover, C. Howard Fields, etc), the Freshman class so huge with each of their
photos compressed onto one page and so small you need a magnifying glass to
see them (Baby Boomer bust years). JB/still have my copy when I need a quick
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 20:19:19 +0100
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schlager (was: Re: exotica- ??)

Return of The Incredible Bongo
Band" which I'd never seen offered anywhere before.  Now I just
have to find the first release which is supposedly more common.




Ahhhhhhhhhh. I passed the Return Of.... (with highway men and a girl on the
tracks - is that right) at a record shop years ago. I'm still waiting for
it to turn up again. How much did you pay? I have a couple of copies of
Bongo Rock - one is original and shabby but loud, the other is a reissue
from about 18 months ago that looks the same as the original - same label,
packaging. What an LP that is!

Heino or the Incredible Bongo Band. Ummmmmmmmm, let me think for a minute.

Charlie


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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:56:18 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

In a message dated 05/03/2000 3:04:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee
writes:

<< Its crowning glory has to be the High School yearbook parody. Kefauver
High School Class 'o' '64. The JFK tributes,. the names of the class members
(Ben Dover, C. Howard Fields, etc), the Freshman class so huge with each of
their photos compressed onto one page and so small you need a magnifying
glass to see them (Baby Boomer bust years). JB/still have my copy when I need
a quick chuckle >>

How about the follow up News Paper parody, also the handy work of PJ O'Rorke.
What an undertaking that was.  It's amazingly detailed.  Some of the folks
from Kefauver High show up in the paper.  Also 2 of the Radio Hours were
dedicated to a drama that takes place at Estes Kefauver High.

- -Roy


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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mars Attacks

Oh yes:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002JCL/qid%3D957384515/002-3109743-2986636

Humanoid from the Deep,

BW

- --- Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]> wrote:

> i thought you Americans stopped making this kind of
> nutty B-movies in the
 1950's? ;-)
 music by Danny Elfman, with lots of theremin! (or
 something that sounds
 like one ayway)
> haven't checked yet to see if there exists a
> soundtrack cd.


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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:59:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mars Attacks

Hi Johan

This is one fantastic soundtrack!!!!  Now I'm not saying you should play it all
the way through but 2 or 3 cuts are soooo GREAT!!!  they make this a must
own cd for outer space thereimin lovin Sci Fi horror exoticats like me.

I reviewed this when it first came out.   God knows what I said about it back
then!


Don't give us Americans so much credit,  probably the whole movie was stolen from
the Brits by hollywood;-)

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

 --- Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]> wrote:

> i thought you Americans stopped making this kind of nutty B-movies in the
> 1950's? ;-)
> music by Danny Elfman, with lots of theremin! (or something that sounds
> like one ayway)
> > haven't checked yet to see if there exists a soundtrack cd.


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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:06:29 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Guantanamera

Here's a song that I never thought I would stop hearing when I was growing
up.  It seemed every variety show, talk show and exceptionally well-trained
animal had a version of this song.

Who did the original?

Brian Phillips




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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 19:21:47 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

Were there any National Lampoon albums besides "Good-Bye Pop" (still have
it, I think) and "Radio Dinner" (gave it away)?


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:57:44 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Guantanamera

In a message dated 5/3/0 6:07:29 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Who did the original?

I can only locate the Sandpipers, but it has that sound of an old Island-y
folk song doesn't it...


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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:30:50 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds

Does anyone know the source info for this Barry Gray track?

Jack



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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 21:56:16 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds

I have this one on an excellent (but short) compilation called "No
Strings Attached", by the Barry Gray Orchestra, (Castle CD, 1990)

cheryl

Jack Diamond wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the source info for this Barry Gray track?


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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:00:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds

<< Does anyone know the source info for this Barry Gray track? >>

I don't know this but can recommend a site for fans of Gerry Andersons great=
=20
shows to check out.  Full episode guides with credits and alot more.  Go her=
e:

http://www.kikgraphics.demon.co.uk/fanderson.html

They also sell CD's and videos.  I found this site after researching a=20
Supercar CD that sold on ebay for close to $150.  They have it alright - loo=
k=20
under "Fanderson Sales".  The catch is, you must join the club to be eligibl=
e=20
to make purchases.

This CD looks like a real good one.  I want it  :)

SUPERCAR AND FIREBALL XL5 - Original Television Soundtrack=20
Composed and Conducted by Barry Gray=20

Superb compact disc album featuring the original recordings of the themes an=
d=20
incidental music composed for Supercar and Fireball XL5, digitally remastere=
d=20
from Barry Gray's master tapes. 52 tracks including both first and second=20
season versions of the Supercar theme song, Fireball XL5 opening and closing=
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titles, "Formula 5", "This Is The Twist", "Batonga Theme", "Zizi's Song",=20
numerous character themes and individual episode scores. (Note: many of thes=
e=20
tracks formed part of the scores for the later Gerry Anderson series,=20
including Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Space:1999.)=20

CD comes complete with 16 page full colour booklet detailing the origin of=20
each track, recording dates and musicians listing.=20

Running time: 72 mins=20
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:38:55 PDT
From: "w m" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) the ventures??

hi all,

  awhile back there was a lot of talk about the ventures...now for my
question. i have this japanese compilation called "PUNCH THE MONKEY!2 lupin
the 3rd; remixes and covers II". its basically covers and remixes from an
anime series. and the other day i was looking at the track list and noticed
this: "lupin the 3rd '78" by the ventures. any idea if this is the same
ventures? sometimes japanese bands have the same names as western bands(ie
there is a japanese band called coil). so does anyone  else have this and/or
know if this is the same ventures?

      william in taipei.
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 23:37:26 -0400
From: "Chuck Collazzi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Guantanamera

Probably Celia Cruz, or somebody in her generation-
Sandpipers version = way later, big hit, watered-down bubble-gum version
IMHO


> In a message dated 5/3/0 6:07:29 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
>
> >Who did the original?
>
> I can only locate the Sandpipers, but it has that sound of an old Island-y
> folk song doesn't it...
>




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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 23:45:56 -0400
From: "Chuck Collazzi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

 > > Were there any National Lampoon albums besides "Good-Bye Pop" (still
have
> > it, I think) and "Radio Dinner" (gave it away)?


National Lampoon's "Lemmings"  (1973)
 My copy's on Banana/Blue Thumb B-6006---nice gatefold with several pages of
 info/pix bound-in.  Cast features John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Christopher
 Guest, et al...
 don't know what it's about, never got around to spinnin' it.
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 23:26:38 -0400
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Heidi Bruhl

<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Been meaning to ask about Heidi Bruhl since I found 6 of her songs
> posted as MP3's on usenet a while back, including the brenda lee song
> "All Alone Am I" aka "Was Der Wind Erzahlt." Never see her records
> anywhere, and have been looking for CD's without success
You must give me the location for these mp3's! I've been (thus far
unsuccessful) looking for live streaming Schlager but what I've got so far
isn't exactly what I was looking for... I don't hold much hope for success
somehow.  Haven't even begun looking for mp3's!

>  Heidi seems to be from the belter school, tho haven't heard
> her shatter glass like Caterina or Little Peggy can - I have a German CD
> of Peggy's and I love to blast her english semi-hit "Hello Heartache" in
> freeway traffic.
I've heard the Peggy March "In Der Carnaby Street" on Bear Family and it's
really good!  Moritz also personally recommended another in the series.
There was another series on Teldec with a comp by Caterina Valente (Includes
my very favourite German version of  both "Itsy Bitsy Weenie Teenie Weenie
Honolulu-Strand-Bikini" and "The Peppermint Twist".  There's also a comp on
this same label by Manuela I'd buy if I could find, and one by each of
Drafi Deutscher & Vico Torianni which I'd probably pass up. The songs by
Heidi on the "Get Easy Moritz" tape are "Chico Charlie" and "Mister Love".

>  Now i know where to find more Heidi, and that Twist in
> Germany CD at Bear looks great with artists like Joey Dee mit Fats and his
Cats !!! I bet few people know France Gall did a number of records in
German.  Had to get a friend in Germany to find it for me but there is a CD
available and it's VERY good! For any one interested here's the details:

France Gall - En Allemand - Das Beste in Deutsch (Eastwest Records, 39842
16042, Germany) 1998.

Bear Family is also known for their catalogs which are so well done you will
want to file them with your music books!  There is a small one specifically
on "Deutscher Schlager".  I had Moritz go through it and make some
recommendations and he picked 12 to start! Now to wait for this dealer here
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:15:24 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #680/Lady In Cement

In a message dated 5/3/00 10:55:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Also, I still feel that I don't know enough about the topic of exotica -
or
 music in general, if you prefer to think of it that way - to post very
often.
 But I do enjoy being a member of this list and I've learned a great deal
from
 all you guys! >>

Good to hear from you.  Feel free to post more often.  As you have probably
noticed we all love to give opinions about records, or for that matter
anything.

If nobody has answered the Lady In Cement question yet, YES, the go-go guitar
music from the bar scene IS on the record.

Larry


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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 12:58:53 -0700
From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Puffin Billy

Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:23:42 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Artist Info

>well, this would explain a couple of things.  we watched the movie Toy Story
>the other night and there is a short called "Tin Toy" at the begining.  it
>opens with a TV playing in the background and the Puffin' Billy song plays,
>then you hear the channel change and it is The Price is Right game show.

We used Puffin Billy in a commercial we did for the Old Navy store.

http://www.spumco.com/entertainment/oldnavy/oldnavy01.html

The cue is part of the Chappell Music Library. That's the same
stock music library that the Betty Page: Danger Girl CD was
culled from.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 23:02:51 -0700
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Denny Japan Comp

Don't suppose anyone has done a translation of the Martin Denny "Very
Best of" EMI compilation CD from Japan???

BTW- I've been pushing off getting this one for a while and I must say I
am sorry I waited. If anyone else is on the fence then get it now!!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/music-glance/B000006Y5B/qid=957419996/sr=1-12/104-3821994-4301234

Some will argue this is the best Denny comp, though I still prefer the
UL/Capitol version for all the unreleased material (esp. Denny's
fabulous recording of Taboo). But the EMI one is very, very strong.

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:00:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Teri Thornton

Teri Thornton

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- Teri Thornton, a jazz singer who won
critical acclaim in the 1960s and late 1990s and suffered near-career
oblivion in between, died Tuesday from complications of bladder cancer.
She was 65.

Her career highlights included singing ``Somewhere in the Night,'' the
theme for the television show ``Naked City,'' in 1962, and winning the
Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition, one of the most
prestigious in jazz, in 1998.

Thornton, a Detroit native, started performing in the 1950s. She moved
to New York in 1960, and landed national television spots, club dates
and record deals. But her career never had the sustained momentum she
hoped for, and the dates began fizzling out.

A move to Los Angeles didn't help her career, and Thornton returned to
New York in 1983, where she found steady work with small jazz bands.

It was in 1998, after Thornton had been diagnosed with cancer, that she
had her comeback by winning the Monk competition, then releasing her
first album in decades on Verve Records.




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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 08:25:59 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

>  > > Were there any National Lampoon albums besides "Good-Bye Pop" (still
>have
> > > it, I think) and "Radio Dinner" (gave it away)?

A few, of varying quality:

That's Not Funny, That's Sick
Missing White House Tapes (best feature about this is a hacked up Nixon
speech, "I...come first, the people...come last")
White Album
Gold Turkey

By the way, http://www.nationallampoon.com has the classic Doug Kenney (not
Kenny, I HATE it when I misspell a name) article on their site, plus Radio
hour excerpts.

Brian Phillips




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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:42:41 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

Anyone else disappointed by Air's Virgin Suicides soundtrack?  I know a lot
of people on Amazon and the like were comparing it to Pink Floyd, and I
suppose I hear some of that, but mostly it just seems a little weak.  It
does have a couple really strong songs, but for the most part I found it
lacking.  Am I missing something?  Anyone totally wow'ed by it?


Just wondering,

Peter


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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:50:10 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Lampoon

In a message dated 05/03/2000 7:21:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Were there any National Lampoon albums besides "Good-Bye Pop" (still have
 it, I think) and "Radio Dinner" (gave it away)? >>

There is "Lemmings" as Chuck mentioned.  It's a parody of Woodstock, with a
bunch of impressions of various Woodstock-ish acts, SO-SO.

There's, "The National Lampoon Stereo Test & Demonstration Album".  A parody
stereo demo album.  It's got John Belushi and Chevy Chase (back when he was
funny) and other Lampoon alumni.  It's rather funny in places and it can
actually be used as a stereo test & demo album.  It's super rare, I think it
was only sold through the magazine, I think.  I got my copy from a store in
Toronto.

"National Lampoon Golden Turkey" - album full of bits from the "National
Lampoon Radio Hour".  The radio show was killer, but these bits are not some
of the best material.

"That's Not Funny That's Sick", This is still my all time favorite comedy
album, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, Richard Belzer, Brian Doyle Murray and
others.  Lots of great material and Bill Murray does his awesome Del Close
(Murry was a student of Close) "Man who plays the bass" character. Chris
Guest does a great Joao Gilberto impression and there's just tons of creative
cussin' and inspired nastiness.

"National Lampoon's White Album" - heard it a long time ago and it was bad.

There's also a Watergate tape album, which I don't recall being great, plus
one or two others from the 1980's which I wouldn't waste my time on.

There is a Rhino box set of 3 CDs (they relesed it as 2 CDs then the next
year it came out as 3) of the Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour, I
haven't hear it but I read the track listing and it's most of the good stuff
from the show, plus the included book makes it a must have if you're into
that sort of thing.

- -Roy G. Biv


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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:15:55 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

Peter:

No, you're totally vindicated to be experiencing HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT =
towards Air's Virgin Suicides.........It's definitely an inferior =
follow-up to their Moon Safari.

I dunno why, but I hear a big Beatles sound (which is an immediate =
negative to these ears.....).

Also, there are TOO MANY DAMN VARIATIONS OF THE SAME SONG included on the =
CD, not to mention some just plain lame cuts.

Definitely not worth it.

Anybody want a copy for $8??

- - Nate

>>> "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]> 05/04/00 08:42AM >>>

Anyone else disappointed by Air's Virgin Suicides soundtrack?  I know a =
lot
of people on Amazon and the like were comparing it to Pink Floyd, and I
suppose I hear some of that, but mostly it just seems a little weak.  It
does have a couple really strong songs, but for the most part I found it
lacking.  Am I missing something?  Anyone totally wow'ed by it?


Just wondering,

Peter




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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

Its disappointing for me also Peter. I have only played it a few times and figured
it would grow on me but I haven't had the interest to play it again.

I remember liking one song (the first I believe).

I also think  the Metropole Orchestra tears up Raymond Scott.  Yeah they're hot!!!

Easy listening in the Big Easy
and heading out to the Jazz Fest
Chuck

- --- Peter Risser <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Anyone else disappointed by Air's Virgin Suicides soundtrack?  I know a lot
>
> PS: The Metropole Orchestra Raymond Scott project is fantastic!  Woohoo!
>


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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:10:39 EDT
From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) jane

From:
        "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
To:
        [e-mail]
CC:
        [e-mail] Save Address
Subject:
        The Death of a Moai and the ACLU
Date:
        Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:05:00 EDT

Jane Fondle is back, and this beeeeech is superfuckingpissed at all this
desecration of the sacred TIKI.
Thank (tiki) God the ACLU is supporting that TIKI in our blessed 50th
State...we could sure use that superliberalism here in what is supposedly
Ted Kennedy's MA.

As we TIKI-obsessed MA exotica list members know all-too-sadly, the Aku-Aku,
which was graced inside by gorgeous Tikiana and Polynesian ART, and had the
sentries outside of two TWO STORY high Moais, has been closed and bought by
tasteless, small-minded club whores here in Boston...They are turning the
fabled Aku AKu into a yuppie-fuck seafood restaurant.  How original.

And then, I read the news that those giant Moai Gods were hauled away
recently(WHERE WAS THE INS WHEN *I* NEED THEM???!??!) in a raid to a design
centre, to be TRANSFORMED into what will in effect be the Gorton's
Fisherman:  yellow cap, scraggly beard, and pipe!
Instead of being two giant tiki mugs, they will be like two John
Barelycorns...pass the Pabst.

Anyway, I just had to share this tiki yin-and-yang with you all, and to say
I miss being a regular contributor to this list...If anybody knows where
Magnus and Chuck are, tell 'im hi from me!
Otherwise, I have in my possession about two hundred more rekkids than when
I last wrote, and no time to write about them...
Much love and lust..from Jane Fondle
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:11:57 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

At 9:15 AM -0400 5/4/00, Nathan Miner wrote:

> Air's Virgin Suicides.........
>......there are TOO MANY DAMN VARIATIONS OF THE SAME SONG included on the CD

don't miss the point - - - it's a film soundtrack!! It's supposed to have
variations of the same song.

br cleve


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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:28:17 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiquana Taxi (?) Animated Short.

Hi friends,
I wonder if somebody here can clear up a little childhood mystery for me.

I remember seeing this animated short. In the US they have not shown shorts
for years but as a kid around 1969-72 daddy took us on the Italian ocean
liners: The Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci.  On one trip the
movie theater played this cartoon/ animated short/music video over and over
again. Loved it. It was a very Mexican/Spanish cartoon with a lot of
"bouncing", most of the colors might have been yellow and orange. I always
wanted to know what the music was. Maybe "Tiquana Taxi"? Maybe done by
Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass? They were very popular around that time.
Anybody know  this?

This morning I finally picked up a copy of their greatest hits, the only
place I could find Tijuana Taxi. I?ll listen to it tonight and see if it
jar?s any memories! But it's been so long I may not recognize it.

Thanks!

Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5 Friday?s 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://www.wjul.cs.uml.edu/ (On Real Audio)




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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:21:00 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Bear Family Records, the Japanese model

Brian Karasick wrote:

>Following the Japanese model they
>do not delete anything...

    uh? i have the impression that in Japan,
    they delete cd's after only 2 years of sale.
    All the Japanese cd's i have, not only mention
    the release date, but also the delete date
     -- or am i misinterpreting that?

        Johan

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 16:36:58 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: How 'bout an "Exotica Etc. Essentials" web page

i'm (still ;-) working on such a thing -- sort of. it will list more than
just essential cd's & rereleases. it will be based upon my "eXotica
Releases Overview" (
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm )
and will inded include reviews from mailing list subscribers.
i'll keep ya posted!


        Johan

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:34:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

I happen to like it. If you're listening to it as a follow-up to "Moon
Safari," yeah, I can imagine how people would hate it. But it's not intended
as such -- it's a very different, 70s-prog-rock-influenced cinematic
moodpiece. And from that perspective, I think it succeeds.

As for the comment about several songs being too similar to one another, most
film scores are like that. You'll have a theme and various plays off them,
perhaps even a reprise, etc.

- --Rod
www.hitchmagazine.com


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Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:44:38 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Virgin Suicides

heck.. I like it.. it took me a while, but I think it's beautiful, just right
for laying in bed late at night reading.. the ending track is a bit of a
downer tho, but it makes you think.

/\_/\
Johanna


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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:12:45 MST
From: "Kevin Leeeeee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) schlager muzik

one more schlager fan here.  but only because a friend from germany made me
a mix tape. i have to admit some of it was hard to take.  this is all late
70's/80's stuff.  very ABBA for the most part.

found some cool french "schlager".  what would be the french name?

kevin


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Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 14:56:06 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Bear Family Records, the Japanese model

>uh? i have the impression that in Japan,
>they delete cd's after only 2 years of sale.


I've heard that's one reason so much stuff has come out in Japan:  they do one or two pressings and that's it (except of course for popular or strong catalog items).

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