> Can u tell that work's winding down here? I'll post about anything today!
> I don't think that the "Murder Inc" LP on Time by Irving Joseph is
> OST-related. In fact, was there ever an OST released on Time, Crown,
> etc.??
That's true. The Irving Joseph "Murder, Inc" on Time Records is not
the soundtrack from the movie of that name. There WAS, I think, a
soundtrack album for the "Murder, Inc" movie, with songs by Sarah
Vaughan. Very rare, apparently, and commands a high price.
Saw one on auction a couple of weeks ago and the bidding was
well over $100.
Darrell Brogdon
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:21:36 EDT
From: Stilgloria@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) "MURDER inc."
In a message dated 6/12/00 10:12:24 AM, DJJimmyBee writes:
<< Can u tell that work's winding down here? I'll post about anything today!
I don't think that the "Murder Inc" LP on Time by Irving Joseph is
OST-related. In fact, was there ever an OST released on Time, Crown, etc.?? >>
Hmmm, Jimmy, you may very well be correct. I'll have to go home and take a
look. I just assumed, which I shouldn't have. Thanks for pointing that out.
Good to hear from you.
Glori
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:41:04 -0400
From: "m.ace" <ecam@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "MURDER inc."
>The movie is with Peter Falk and May
>Britt, Sammy Davis' first wife.
Real good movie, whichever way the soundtrack issue plays out. Includes the
novel experience of seeing "Columbo" knife "Buddy" ("Dick Van Dyke Show")
in the gut!
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:24:49 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Adolph Hofner
Music pioneer Hofner dies at 84
By Jim Beal Jr.
San Antonio Express-News
Adolph Hofner, the Western swing pioneer who popularized "Cotton-Eyed Joe," died early Friday at his West Side home.
He was 84.
"He had cancer of the left lung," said his wife, Susan. "At about 3, he woke me up and he said, 'Honey, I love you. I want to thank you for being so good and helping me through all of this.' Then he told me to call all the kids and tell them to come home. They all came over, and he went real peacefully."
Hofner was born in Moulton in 1916. His family moved to San Antonio in 1928. A singer and guitarist, Hofner came to musical prominence in the '30s with Jimmie Revard and his Oklahoma Playboys.
Hofner, who fused country, western, pop, jazz and Czech and Bohemian waltzes and polkas, went on to lead his own groups, including the long-running Adolph Hofner and the Pearl Wranglers, until he was sidelined by a stroke in 1993.
The Hofner bands featured a wide repertoire and top-flight musicians, including his brother Emil "Bash" Hofner, a trailblazing steel guitar player.
In the early '40s, Hofner recorded the hits "Maria Elena" and "Cotton-Eyed Joe."
Hofner and his band, which at the time included fiddler J.R. Chatwell, learned "Cotton-Eyed Joe" from a fiddler in Sabinal.
"Somebody requested it, and we didn't know it," Hofner said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News in February. "An old-timey fiddler was sitting there, and he showed us the song at intermission. That's one of the babies that made me. 'Maria Elena' really made me.
"At the time it was released you could turn on any radio station and hear 'Maria Elena.' I mean any radio station, whether they were playing pop or country or what have you."
" 'Maria Elena' was a monster hit," said country music legend Johnny Bush, the author of the song "Whiskey River" and one of many musicians influenced by Hofner's music. "Several people called him the hillbilly Bing Crosby. He was a pioneer of what we call Texas country music today. He incorporated western swing, hillbilly country, pop and the Bohemian songs.
"Adolph had the swingingest band around. He was doing the same thing Bob Wills and Milton Brown were doing at about the same time. He was as much of an innovator as they were. He will be missed."
In 1945, Hofner moved to California where his nine-piece band, the Texans, spent three years doing radio shows and rotating among Los Angeles-area nightclubs owned by promoter Foreman Phillips.
"I moved from Corpus Christi in about 1961 to work with Adolph," said bassist Junior Mitchan, who left Hofner's group to play with Bob Wills and now works regularly with Bubba Littrell.
"We played swing and all the German and Bohemian polkas and waltzes. Adolph had a real good memory. If you'd walk into a place we were playing, Adolph would remember your name and your wife's name, and he'd introduce you and play your favorite song."
Fiddler Cliff Bruner, a year older than Hofner, worked with Milton Brown's Musical Brownies and then fronted his own highly successful swing band the Texas Wanderers.
"Adolph is one of the legends," Bruner said. "He was one of the pioneers of country and western music. We were working at the same time, but there was no competition. We helped each other out. Musicians all over the world loved Adolph Hofner. We grieve along with millions of people at the loss of Adolph."
Hofner also influenced a younger generation of musicians.
"It's ironic. I read that Pearl Beer is staying in San Antonio, and, for years, Adolph Hofner was Pearl Beer," said Billy Mata, leader of the Texas Tradition band. "So a cornerstone of San Antonio history is staying while one left."
Mata was on his way to Nocona to sing with the Texas Playboys, a group dedicated to the music of Bob Wills.
"There'll be some sad guys on the bandstand tonight," Mata said.
Hofner is survived by his wife; daughters, Kathy Hofner Fielding and Oma Darlene Hofner Biggs; and son, Robert Price, all of San Antonio.
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:59:53 -0400
From: "Peter Risser" <risser@cinci.rr.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Coffy/Jazz
> > ...but did the original question ever get answered? (i.e. which Roy
> > Ayers records to buy). This is particularly topical since they see to
> > have all been reissued or booted in the past couple of weeks.
>
> I finally heard "Coffy" (thanks to Ton and the Ring), and to be honest,
> I was pretty disappointed after all the fuss about it...I thought it was
> okay jazz, but the blaxploitation stuff sounded an awful lot like some
> other well-known works... I'm glad I didn't buy this one.
>
> cheryl
See! See! I'm not the only one who thought it was mediocre, so all you
corn-shucking "jazz lovers" kiss my lily-white butt!
Heh heh.
Honestly, it's at best mediocre, with a few annoying tracks and I think one
or two decent cuts. I'm not knocking anyone liking it, but I just can't
fathom how it ends up on people's Top Blaxploitation LPs.
Feeling slightly vindicated, though he really doesn't care quite that much,
Peter
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:05:05 -0700
From: "paul thomas" <hepcatpaul@mailcity.com>
Subject: (exotica) Don Shirley
Hello!
I recently received the latest Collectors Choice catalogue and as usual there's innumerable things I'd like from it.
One thing that sounded intriguing was a series of cds by Don Shirley ... he combined classical and jazz piano techniques. It sounds nifty. Does anyone know anything about him and his music ... yea or nay?
