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exotica-digest          Monday, May 29 2000          Volume 02 : Number 728



In This Digest:

(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Ken Nordine & Dippty Doo
Re: (exotica) The Out Islanders.......
Re: (exotica) Monday 29 May: a Free Design "orgy" on WHRB
Re: (exotica) The Out Islanders.......
(exotica) Hummin' and Dumbin'
Re: (exotica) Monday 29 May: a Free Design "orgy" on WHRB
(exotica) Black Belt Jones (Fro Fu) & TV
Re: (exotica) Black Belt Jones (Fro Fu) & TV
Re: (exotica) Ken Nordine & Dippty Doo
(exotica) leaving for a while
Re: (exotica) Enoch Light's "Brass Menagerie"
Re: (exotica) The Optic Earful
(exotica) My apologies
Re: (exotica) The (Very Expensive) Earful
Re: (exotica) Honda Accord, the Acura and Stereolab
Re: (exotica) Coffy/Jazz
Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere
Re: (exotica) Hey Lazlo My Posts  are not making it to the list test
(exotica) Fw: Persuasions do Zappa on NPR's Weekend Edition THIS WEEKEND
Re: (exotica) Hard Ride and Sam Ulano
(exotica) Missing email: Sorry sorry sorry
Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere
Re: (exotica) Honda Accord, the Acura and Stereolab
(exotica) Jack 'n BJ
(exotica) Enter the Dragon
Re: (exotica) The Optic Earful
Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere
(exotica) la danse a-gogo
(exotica) Guide to The Space Age Bachelor Pad : 80's edition
(exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)
Re: (exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)
Re: (exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)

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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:51:31 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

There's music for the original swinger on this week's Retro Cocktail
Hour webcast.  We'll hear some of the soundtrack from the 1959
movie "Tarzan the Ape Man", composed by Shorty Rogers!

Also, Latin spice from Si Zentner, Chuy Reyes, Perez Prado and
Tito Rodriguez;  Michel Magne's over-the-top exotica from "Tropical
Fantasy";  noir-ish jazz from "Staccato" and "Touch of Evil";  plus
tunes by Walter Wanderley, Balanco, Dusty Trails, The
Corporation, the Soul City Orchestra, Bullet, Danny Guglielmi (from
the classic "Adventures in Sound") and Bob Thompson, among
others.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web RIGHT NOW, go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Or listen to the live STEREO webcast tonight (Saturday) at 7:00pm
central time at:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/realaudio/index.htm

Visit the website for playlists, the album cover gallery and to enter
our CD giveaway (this week:  "Hi-Fi Latin Exotica" by Cabaret
Diosa).  As always, your comments, suggestions and requests are
welcome.

Thanks for da space!

Darrell Brogdon
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The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:59:54 -0700
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine & Dippty Doo

Was Nordine ever the voice on a old Dippty Doo Hair Gel Commerical from the
1960s?  I just heard a sound clip and I swear it's him.

Jerry



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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:24:13 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Out Islanders.......

Nate wrote:
>This looks to be studio-produced exotica and was wondering if it's any =
>good??  They mention someone playing sax on the liner notes........


That's _Polynesian Fantasy_ by the Out Islanders, I believe.

Mmmmm, how do you feel about the more orchestral,  Baxter-ish branch
of exotica?

If you're into that kind of thing, you may want to grab it. But to my
tastes it was a little on the "soundtracky" side, and you're right to
worry about the saxophone angle.

Plusses include some evocative tracks with wordless vocals, and
high-budget production values all around.

Didn't a track or two from this end up on the Ultra Lounge CDs?

cheers,
  --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 18:15:51 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Monday 29 May: a Free Design "orgy" on WHRB

>On Monday 29th May from noon there will be *10 solid hours*(!) of The
>Free Design broadcast on Harvard Radio (WHRB, 95.3 FM)
>
>Although the station broadcasts to the Harvard area, those of you
>nowhere near Harvard needn't fear as they broadcast over the web too!
>
>http://www.whrb.org/guide/guide.php3?month=5&day=29&year=2000

Aw phoo. Windows Media Player only.



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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 08:55:52 +1000
From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Out Islanders.......

on 28/5/00 7:24 AM, Ross Orr at [e-mail] wrote:

> Didn't a track or two from this end up on the Ultra Lounge CDs?

Yep. At leats these two:

Moon Mist on Mondo Exotica
Ebb Tide on Saxaphobia

Philip
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:47:28 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hummin' and Dumbin'

>Gone was the
>adventurousness of the '60's and in came the "we figured out what sells"
>approach. Plus daytime ads are still by and large rank because it seems to
>me a lot of the agencies equate "folks at home during the day" with "idiot"
>so the ads appear dumbed down.

The key to that phenomenon is that most people either unemployed or
otherwise idle at home (read: VULNERABLE) are likely to watch the tube
during the afternoo or the wee late hours.

Surprising it took admen until the seventies to give birth to Marketing(tm).
 They were just beginning, in awkward fits and starts, to realize that
cultural icons could be just as easy created in-house as found out there in
the news.  The whole picture compounded in the 80's when the NEWS realized
this as well; and hand in hand, Marketing and News Media have marched into
the boudoir to produce the fully mature Marketing Media Machine (soon to be
a Multi-Globular Ethnomonolithic(tm) Lifestyle Merger(r)).

Can you tell I got rid of my TV too?  I miss watching videos though, I gotta
say.

Hi everyone, I've been away in New Zealand for a while...good to be back in
the fold.  Reading past digests to catch up has a distinct Days of Our
Lives(tm) appeal, as Stormy Jack (void where prohibited) hissy-fitted
hisself out of the picture, etc. The vibe got so bad I almost ditched the
list myself, but there are too many good thangs here to outweigh the
occasional tantrums.

Keep on frothing along, Exoticats.

Cheerio!

Keith

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site for the artwork and
workshops of KEITH E. LO BUE
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:59:54 PDT
From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Monday 29 May: a Free Design "orgy" on WHRB

> >On Monday 29th May from noon there will be *10 solid hours*(!) of The
> >Free Design broadcast on Harvard Radio (WHRB, 95.3 FM)
> >
> >Although the station broadcasts to the Harvard area, those of you
> >nowhere near Harvard needn't fear as they broadcast over the web too!
> >
> >http://www.whrb.org/guide/guide.php3?month=5&day=29&year=2000
>
>Aw phoo. Windows Media Player only.


If its because you have a Mac, there is a WIndows MEdia Player for Macs now,
so check it out, I am! I think I downloaded mine for free at the Macrosift
site, or windows, or Download.com I cant remember but its out there.

added note: Just scored minutes ago an original Bruce Haack record and I am
very excited, its mint too, but unfortunately it came from a library and its
packaged in one of those awful things that libraries put records in, all
sealed up like a book. The album is "Together", from 1971, Haack used the
alias "Jackpine Savage", anyone know why? or does anyone know if it is a
gatefold cover inside, cause if it is, im ripping the shit off and getting
to the goods inside. Also picked up a Francois Hardy record called Maid in
France, so far leaving me a bit flat, shes like a hip and beautiful version
Nana Mouskouri in my opinion, lots of people rave about her, but I dont see
the big deal. Also got Rod McKuen's "Takes a San Francisco Hippie Trip"
havent listened to it yet, but its next up. Top it off with 2 new tiki mugs
for my collection, all for under $5, not a bad haul. Cheaper than $17.98
plus shipping! I love small town Salivation Armeez!


happy holidays

peece out!

or as they say in Canada.....Peace Oht

- -jonny
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:52:46 -0700
From: jim gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Black Belt Jones (Fro Fu) & TV

1. BBJ: Stole the "Fro Fu' term from the IMDB, which has some funny
reviews of this howler. BBJ has been showing on the cable Encore Action
Channel recently and is available on VHS. I'm no expert on blaxpoloit,
but this movie is a scream, and the music is badassss throughout - where
has Dennis Coffey been all my life??. Dunno if there was ever an OST but
didn't find a listing at blaxploitation.com or in a soundtrack price
guide. Main problem is the use of the same slap sound effect for every
punch and kick in the gol-darned movie (izzat cussin'?)- you can hear
this at the blaxploitation site. Jim Kelly (from Enter the Dragon),
Scatman Crothers (with a rug even Steve Allen would be too embarrassed
to glue on), cue-ball fu and all the ingredients for a blax classic
except maybe the lack of breastessesss and no Cleopatra Jones-style
wardrobe for the female lead.

2. TV: In the immortal words of The Tubes, "I Just Love
My...Television." Yes, there is a lot of crap on commercial TV, but I
have a digital cable package with about 40 movie channels. There is too
much stuff to watch and listen to in this lifetime, but TCM, AMC and the
many Encore channels are worth it. A few recent examples:

Easy to Love: Organista Ethel Smith works out big-time with many
close-ups on two latin numbers in this technicolor Esther Williams
musical featuring the ravishing pre-Lucy Lucille Ball. I think Cugie was
in this one too with a buncha fiery dancing senoritas. There are
countless latin numbers in 30's-40's musicals and rhumbas a-plenty in
film noir night club scenes, but y'all know that already. I'll have a
2-hr SP VHS tape compilation of highlights available by, uhhhh.....2001.

And God Created Woman: Famous conguero Patato Valdez (IIRC) pounds the
skins while Brigitte Bardot mambos. Au secours!!

Odds Against Tomorrow: The MJQ's John Lewis wrote a superb score for
this caper flick with Belafonte as a jazz vibraphonist - wonderful
integration of the score into the movie fabric, which is often the case
with Robert Wise-directed movies.

Sodom & Gomorrah: Miklos Rosza goes bombastica in Robert Aldritch's 1962
biblical camp-o-rama spectacular. Because of the year, Aldritch only
snuck in a smidgeon of kink, primarily through evil queen Anouk Aimee's
fascination with her harem girls. I never miss a
Sinbad/Harem/Arabian/Shanghai whatever movie as there is always at least
one exotica dance number.

Once a Thief: Great Lalo schifrin score for this so-so 1965 Alain
Delon/Ann Margret/Jack Palance film. Left hand low register piano riff
seems to foreshadow the M.I. theme. After the movie, TCM showed an
interesting promo short of Lalo composing, leading the studio band and
talking about the art of film scoring.

Don't forget that so many of the exotica and Exotica songs we know and
love come from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. More on this topic
someday, off-list discussions welcome. Thanks for reading, time to watch
Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 now on DVD.

JB (B for Bleary-eyed) Le Noir


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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:25:56 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Black Belt Jones (Fro Fu) & TV

<< Yes, there is a lot of crap on commercial TV, but I
 have a digital cable package with about 40 movie channels. There is too
 much stuff to watch and listen to in this lifetime, but TCM, AMC and the
 many Encore channels are worth it. >>

I just finished watching "Election", a recent high-school movie that was
quite excellent.

The folks that made this movie have good taste when it came to picking out
their music.

They used a Patience and Prudence single, "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now"
and a repeating, screaming theme by Ennio Morricone, originally from the film
"Navajo Joe'" that plays whenever Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) stresses
out.


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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:36:55 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ken Nordine & Dippty Doo

<< Was Nordine ever the voice on a old Dippty Doo Hair Gel Commerical from the
 1960s?  I just heard a sound clip and I swear it's him. >>

It's him, it's HIM!

You can find that spot on the Tee Vee toons commercial CD, still in stores,
been around awhile.

Hard to imagine that's it when it comes to vintage TV and Radio commericals
on CD.  Lots of videos, so I guess people just like watching them, not
listening to them.

So I rent the vid's, copy the audio to my hard drive and make my own discs.
More than one way to skinna cat...


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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:02:27 -0400
From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) leaving for a while

Hi, all,

Leaving the list for a short (1 week) trip. See you all when i get back.
PS, you'll probably be able to see what i look like in June, photos in
New York Times arts and leisure section and possible appearance on CBS
Sunday Morning show. Take care, see you in a week or so (unsubscribing
tomorrow),

ck
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 06:31:05 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light's "Brass Menagerie"

The Kooper/Stills version kicks some major butt too.

Peter


From: chuck <[e-mail]>
>
> Season of the Withch
> Donovan wrote it.  Vanilla Fudge had the underground radio hit with it in
the late
> 60's
>
> My favorite version is by Julie Driscoll/Brian Auger.





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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:14:32 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Optic Earful

Huh.
I'm just surprised nobody on this list has it somewheres.
Hmmm.


Peter


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>

> >THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!! That has got to be one of the most bizarre
> >ideas for a record ever.  I hope you can locate a copy.
>
> Are there any surprises left?  Name a concept and somewhere someone
> probably made a record like that.  The music of Ted Bundy created by
> sampling and editing the cries of dying birds?  Somewhere that record is
> probably languishing at the bottom of a dusty pile.
> The funny thing about that "optic earful" is how familiar it sounds.
> Someone describes a record which is essentially "music for fonts" - the
> equivalent of the proverbial dancing about architecture - and instead of
> going "What a weird idea", I'm sitting here scratching my head and
> wondering where I saw it, whether I once had it, who I gave it to.  Is it
> in that box near the New World of Stainless Steel or that Chevrolet Sings
> about Driving and Safety records?






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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:41:31 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) My apologies

Dear List Members,

Please accept my most sincere apologies for my outburst yesterday,
concerning differences of opinion re; "Coffy" soundtrack or anything else
concerning any topics discussed on this list

My only excuse is that out here in the SF Bay Area, we have been having a
horrid heat wave and I really hate the heat.  Really hate it
Added to that is the extreme high humidity level and if there is anything I
despise more than
the heat, it's humidity.

It makes me infinitely more crazy/neurotic than I already am
It makes the worst sides of my very Cancer (Mid July) personality come out
full force
and it is out of my control, when it gets this hot.  100 degrees +

Everyone and anyone is more than entitled to have whatever opinion on
anything in this world and I am no one and nothing to decide otherwise, for
anyone other than my self.

Thanks to all and good luck in your search for everything you desire in life.

Sincerely,
Jack




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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 05:30:14 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The (Very Expensive) Earful

Send the buyer an email after the auction closes and ask for a tape copy, a
CD perhaps.  Maybe you can offer to copy something in trade.  You never
know...


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <[e-mail]>

> "The Optic Earful" is now at 130 US dollars (thats almost 200
> Canadian for me) on Ebay,. which means I'm out of the running.
> And to think I used to have this LP. I'm going to go cry now!
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=334236845
>
> Guess I'll just have to keep combing those yard sales.
>
> Jane
> www.tikifish.com






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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:51:43 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Honda Accord, the Acura and Stereolab

In a message dated 5/25/00 9:45:45 AM Central Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< While driving into work today I heard the Accord commercial.  I think the
music
 sounded like it came from The TV Dinner comps on Scamp?  Does anyone know
what this music is?
 Moments later the Acura commercial came on,  the music was tremendous.  Any
info on
 who this is? >>

I don't recall the Accord commercial, but Acura is Arling & Cameron, if I'm
not mistaken.

- --Rod



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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Coffy/Jazz

And of course the one that started it all was a not
unprecedented post by its author, prone to inane
torrents of abuse toward anyone who differs with him
on any issue (depending on the humidity level, of
course). Usually these posts go uncriticized  - I
suspect because anyone who might be offended would
assume they were better off waiting until a less apt
to be rabid offender posted a rejoinder. Oh, and he
might unsubsribe. Boring, all of it.


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> Byron was displeased by the language used in the
> poem I previously posted in


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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:51:14 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere

- ----- Original Message -----
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
> > Has ayone heard Dmitri from Paris's new LP, saw it yesterday, nearly
bought
> > it but somone was on the record deck in the shop so i couldn't have a
> > listen, It's called somthing like "Sounds From the Playboys Mansion".
> >
> > Any comments would be taken on board.
>
> Mixed reactions to this motherfucker.  First of all, it seems to
> be Dimitri mixing other shit, not his own shit - I don't know enough
> about that kind of crap to know if it's other groups, or really his.
> That sick bastard Jimmy B probably can tell us all more about it.
> However, I don't fucking like it anywhere near as much as his
> kickass first release (and that goddamn Brian refuses to be in the
> same room when I'm playing the fucking thing).  It's more fucking
> funk/disco than anything else.  I would say listen to the fucker first,
> before buying - some motherfuckers on this list will probably love it,
> and other weak-ass sons of bitches will hate it (kind of like the
> reaction to his first release, I guess...)
>
> Well, that's more than one miserly little line of commentary, I guess.
> No profanity either...
>
> cheryl


I agree.  It's VERY disco, and not the kind of disco I like either, but a
more soul-y kind of disco.

No profanity indeed.

Peter





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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:42:51 +0200
From: "Marco \\\"Kallie\\\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hey Lazlo My Posts  are not making it to the list test

- ----- Original Message -----
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 5:59 PM
Subject: (exotica) Hey Lazlo My Posts are not making it to the list test


> There seems to be a major problem when you cc the exotica list.

Yep, I've had the same experience.

Marco




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Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:46:41 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fw: Persuasions do Zappa on NPR's Weekend Edition THIS WEEKEND

Picked this up from the Zorn list...
Is it Exotic?


- ----- Original Message -----
From: <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:14 PM
Subject: Persuasions do Zappa on NPR's Weekend Edition THIS WEEKEND


> I just now searched this out at
> http://www.a-cappella.com/persuasions.html :
>
> ///////////////
>
> FRANKLY A CAPPELLA (2000 on Island)
>
> A must-have for Persuasions fans, and a CD that could make you a
> convert! Frank Zappa
> gave them their first record deal back in 1969, and here they repay the
> musical debt with a
> tribute to his music. The (now) six singers say they worked harder on
> this album than any
> other, and it shows! The arrangements are an order of magnitude more
> sophisticated - from
> the "instrumental" version of "Lumpy Gravy" that opens the CD, to the
> rhythmic background
> of "You Are What You Is," to the "nose trombone" of "Cheap Thrills"
> (alternating seamlessly
> with Zappa's trombonist). More care was paid to production here than on
> any Persuasions
> album in recent memory, with layers of subtlety that slowly peel off
> with repeat listenings.
> Highly recommended! (43:03)
>
> Lumpy Gravy
> Any Way the Wind Blows
> Electric Aunt Jemima
> The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
> Interlude
> Cheap Thrills
> Hotplate Heaven at the Green Hotel
> Love of My Life
> You Are What You Is
> Interlude 2
> Harder Than Your Husband
> Find Her Finer
> Interlude 3
> My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
> Tears Begin to Fall
> Mystery Track





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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:26:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hard Ride and Sam Ulano

The Ulano lp is great, for any who are interested:
bongo solos and Nyawk accent describing how to get it down.

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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 22:06:54 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Missing email: Sorry sorry sorry

I am REALLY SORRY about all the email that went missing over the last week.
I was in Seattle for a conference and thought I had set things up so people
would get their messages bounced back to them when something went wrong, but
apparently I screwed up the configuration somehow.

Apologies for all the inconvenience.

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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 21:33:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere

This is so fucking REAL: godfuckindammit!

sooterkins (and 5 really good mai-tais),

bw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
> > > Has ayone heard Dmitri from Paris's new LP, saw
> it yesterday, nearly
> bought
> > > it but somone was on the record deck in the shop
> so i couldn't have a
> > > listen, It's called somthing like "Sounds From
> the Playboys Mansion".
> > >
> > > Any comments would be taken on board.
> >
> > Mixed reactions to this motherfucker.  First of
> all, it seems to
> > be Dimitri mixing other shit, not his own shit - I
> don't know enough
> > about that kind of crap to know if it's other
> groups, or really his.
> > That sick bastard Jimmy B probably can tell us all
> more about it.
> > However, I don't fucking like it anywhere near as
>

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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 07:28:15 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Honda Accord, the Acura and Stereolab

In a message dated 5/28/00 12:07:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< I don't recall the Accord commercial, but Acura is Arling & Cameron, if
I'm
 not mistaken.
  >>

the acura commercial is Bossa Per Due by Nicola Conte.


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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 07:59:02 -0700
From: "paul thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack 'n BJ

I originally sent this off-list to Tiki Bob who suggested that others on the list may appreciate this...

<< Bring back Jack, bring back BJ and lets introduce them to each other,
thats
  what I say! >>

 now that would be GOOD!

   ~~> Actually, it might be a disaster. They'd likely spawn and then their
porgeny would subscribe to the list and we'd have postings like "Check your
secuuuuriiiityyyyy" or "Waaaalteeeeer Waaaandeeerlyyyy is the BEEEEST! You
people SUUUUCK!"

    :) Couldn't resist!

       ~~Paul~~


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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 00:03:20 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Enter the Dragon

So, is this Schifin soundtrack closer to the blaxploitation angle, or the
Bullitt jazzy angle?

Just wondering.

Peter



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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 16:07:08 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Optic Earful

<< Huh.
 I'm just surprised nobody on this list has it somewheres.
 Hmmm >>

This may explain the $186 final price!

Yeow!

Somebody (two somebodies) wanted this one real bad  :)







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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:19:10 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Current Atmosphere

Perhaps a bit of paraphrasing thanks to Pete...In any case, I think I'll
wash my mouth out with soap now...

cheryl


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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:07:10 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) la danse a-gogo

Okay, now I know what that "La Danse A-Gogo" thing (scheduled after the
night's third run of "Movin' With Nancy") was.

It was a 10-minute short from the mid-60s, shot at Chicago's Bistro A-Go-Go
and Whiskey A-Go-Go (I only knew about the LA Whiskey before). Nothing
fancy. Just a quickie documentation. Dancers in glass booths, telephones
for requests, The Squires (or was it The Squiers?) for live music in
between the records. I think the audio was all post-dubbed though. A nice
little curio.

So how did they fill out an hour? TWO showings of "La Danse A-Gogo", plus
assorted items... movie trailers ("Last Of The Secret Agents", "Ghost In
the Invisible Bikini"), a jillion promos hawking the video/DVD version of
"Movin' With Nancy", little clips from the "Hollywood Backstage" series
(all with a 60s go-go angle) aaaand, a couple of Scopitones:

Gary Lewis & The Playboys doing "Little Miss Go-Go" (or something like that).

April Stevens & Nino Tempo doing "Land Of A Thousand Dances". Mesmerizing.
April & Nino also appeared in one of the Hollywood Backstage clips,
escorting the crew to the opening night of Gazzari's (spelling?) Broadway
A-Go-Go club "on restaurant row."

I hope some of you caught it. Keep an eye out if it runs again. A 5am
showing is pretty sneaky.


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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:42:50 -0400
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Guide to The Space Age Bachelor Pad : 80's edition

Went to an estate sale today on our block from the house of a man that lived
alone all his life. Aside from finding a record called "Sex and the Single
Girl: Lessons in Love - For Adults Only", and A Hartz Mountain :"How to
Train your Parakeet  7" (Companion to that How to Train your Canary "record
I found last week!) I found this very amusing book:  "Playboy's Moving Up in
Style: The Successful Man's Guide to Impeccable Taste". It's dated 1980 so
it would be the next generation of the Space Age Bachelor Pad manual but
it's a sure classic.  In case you're still not convinced, here are some
sample chapters:

 Clothing: Why the European Look Doesn't Work in America;
 Designing your Home: The Bauhaus Look;
 Buying Art in Style: What not to Buy - Schlock Art
 Designing your Office: Choosing a Sectretary.

There is (you'd expect otherwise!) a chapter on Music, as music is "stylish
on all three counts - It's been the passion of the priveleged since ancient
times, it's creative, and its a delight to the ear".  it also says "Rock is
more stylish than Country Western, Jazz more stylish than rock, but the most
stylish music has always been classical."  It even gives a list of
recommended recordings, but unfortunately only for classical music.

Thought I'd start with the "Man from Glad" style haircut of the model on the
cover and proceed accordingly on my way to becoming a sophisticated 80's
kind of guy. Yeesh....Why do I think there's probably a revised edition of
this one available???

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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:03:30 -0700
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)

SunVirgin wrote:
> I enjoyed your Exotica Website.  The graphics are nice and the site is
> easy to maneuver.  One correction though.  It was stated, paraphrased,
> that Les Baxter produced records for Yma Sumac.  He did not produce any
> of Yma Sumac's records, but he was the band leader on two of them.  He
> is not credited on "Voice of the Xtabay" as producer, correctly so, but
> he is credited as producer on "Miracles," incorrectly so.  He produced
> neither.  For the latter, there was even a law suit because he pulled a
> slight-of-hand and had the liner notes changed giving himself credit as
> producer, which caused the record to be pulled - the only reason it did
> not sell well and is hard to find today.

I think most credible and neutral accounts give Baxter credit where
credit is due. Whether the "official" line is all he did was write a
couple songs and "conduct" the orchestra, anyone with any sense knows
what Baxter's role was. I mean, the album is called "Xtabay" which
obviously is a pig-latinized version of Baxter's name!

>
> Some early pressings of "Legend of the Sun Virgin" also have him
> credited but he did not work on that album.  Yma Sumac dismissed him
> just as the record began because they did not get along at all and she
> could not work with him (probably because she is so difficult she can't
> work with anybody!).

Hmm... that wouldn't have anything to with my hypothesis above, would
it? :-)

>
> Thanks for listening and keep up the good work!

Thanks for the note, though I'm going to leave my wording as is since I
have several sources to base this information on. I am copying the
Exotica Mailing List lest the collective expertise feel it right to
correct my assertions.  Maybe the best thing about this "argument" is
that it continues the mystery that is Yma Sumac!!

>
> Don
>
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>
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>
> Official Authorized Yma Sumac Homepage
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 00:22:12 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)

i know we went thru this about a year ago, but what did we decide the correct
pronunciation of Xtabay was???

maybe BJ know!

tb


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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 08:09:29 PDT
From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Xtabay Producer (?)

>i know we went thru this about a year ago, but what did we decide the
>correct
>pronunciation of Xtabay was???


I could be wrong, but I have always pronounced it

"Eesh-tay-bay"

I have travelled a bit in Mexico and cities that started with the letter X
pronounced it  "Ish" or "Eesh". Its the native Mexicans pronounciation. Now
I know that Yma claims to be Peruvian and an Incan Princess and all that and
this is in Mexico.......but thats my assumption.

I could be way off base, but that is my assumption. Any other
pronounciations out there?

also does anyone know if she is recording anything new, I read that she had
a new song on a soundtrack coming out, but havent heard anything concrete on
that, guess I could ask the SunVirgin guy.

Anybody have any more juicy bits on the working relationship that Yma and
Les Baxter had. I hear that it was pretty much a love/hate kind of thing,
leaning more toward the hate part.

- -jonny

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