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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:22:05 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics for the Exotica crowd
Here's a book for those with an interest in this subject:
- -lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
The Exotic in Western Music
by Jonathan Bellman (Editor)
Price: $25.00
Paperback - 416 pages (December 1997)
Northeastern Univ Pr; ISBN: 1555533191 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 8.90 x 5.95
Other Editions: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Exoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires.
In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic elements for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison.
The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies
About the Author
Jonathan Bellman is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of The Style Hongrois in the Music of Western Europe, also published by Northeastern University Press. He lives Greeley, Colorado.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:57:45 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jandek
I forgot to mention that there is a Jandek mailing list.
You can read the archives at:
http://tisue.net/jandek/mail/
lou
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:07:06 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Joseph H. Lewis, who directed ``Gun Crazy,'' ``The Big Combo'' and dozens of other B movies, died Aug. 30. Lewis was believed to be 93, although some reference books list his birthday as April 6, 1900.
Between 1937 and 1958, Lewis made 38 pictures with names like ``Singing Outlaw,'' ``Bombs Over Burma'' and ``Retreat, Hell!''
``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
Lewis, who was born in New York City, came to Hollywood in the 1920s. He was directing films by the mid-1930s, and for the next three decades cranked out everything from Westerns to war movies to science fiction films.
He directed all the musical sequences for ``The Jolson Story,'' the 1946 biopic of entertainer Al Jolson, and during World War II he made instructional films for the Army.
Lewis also directed episodes for television shows, including ``The Rifleman,'' ``Gunsmoke'' and ``The Defenders.''
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=B99636
Alan Caddy
Guitarist who found fame with the Tornados
Friday September 8, 2000
Alan Caddy, who has died aged 60, was a founder member of the Tornados, the only serious challengers to the Shadows as most popular British instrumental unit of the 1960s. The quintet are best remembered for 1962's million-selling Telstar.
If unable to build on a number one in the US - where no UK outfit had ever made much headway - the Tornados scored three more entries - Globetrotter, Robot and the Ice Cream Man - in 1963's domestic Top 10 before the advent of Merseybeat, with its emphasis on vocals. Suddenly rendered passΘ, they soldiered on with a still impressive workload while largely repeating earlier ideas on disc.
Unlike the others, Caddy, who was born in Chelsea, London, was classically trained, having served as a boy soprano in Westminster Abbey, and studied violin as leader of the orchestra at school in Battersea, before the onset of puberty found him looking for an opening in pop as a guitarist. It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
After a transitional period as Bats Heath and the Vampires, they went professional as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in 1958. Among few homegrown rock 'n' rollers regarded with awe, they made a television debut on ITV's Disc Break, with 1959's Please Don't Touch. Much of its charm emanated from Caddy's galvanising riffing.
However, because Caddy was riven with self-doubt about his ability, another guitarist picked the staccato lead on Kidd's climactic Shakin' All Over - which, while it knocked Cliff Richard from the top in August 1960, netted Caddy only a standard session fee of 15 guineas.
Within a year, Johnny Kidd was becalmed outside the Top 50, and Caddy and his fellow Pirates had abandoned the apparently sinking ship, retaining their stage costumes to be the Cabin Boys behind Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks, a huge attraction in Italy.
Hicks proved a difficult employer, and Caddy flew home to land on his feet as mainstay of the Tornados, assembled in the first instance to back Ken Charles, Pamela Blue, John Leyton and Mike Berry and similar protΘgΘs of the console boffin Joe Meek, in his RPM studio in Holloway Road, London.
Following a miss with Popeye Twist, written by Caddy and drummer Clem Cattini, the ethereal Telstar was taped as a routine backing track - albeit with a poignant "second subject" plucked by Caddy - hours before a show with Billy Fury in Great Yarmouth. Overnight, Meek transformed it into the quintessential 1960s instrumental. Though dismissing the RPM sound as "unadulterated lift music", Caddy remained a Tornado throughout their period of greatest celebrity as both respected sidemen, hit parade contenders and patron saints of myriad combos created in the same image - notably the Volcanos, with Polaris.
The first perceptible sign of danger occurred with Dragonfly, a comparative flop, coinciding with the exit shortly before of bass player Heinz Burt - and, with him, most of the group's teen appeal - in autumn 1963. As injurious a departure in its way was that of Caddy, after the release of 1964's Away From It All, an album containing four of his compositions. By then, Caddy was well-placed to make a living as a session musician, and even become a star in his own right, but, said Clem Cattini: "He never achieved his potential because he didn't believe in himself."
Caddy took a job as house arranger and producer for Avenue Records, a budget label specialising in covers of current hits. Next, he moved to a similar post in Canada. Back in England by 1975, Caddy was involved in a remake of Telstar by a reconstituted Tornados, but chose not to return to the public stage - although he was persuaded to pitch in occasionally when attending RPM Appreciation Society evenings - as he was a few months ago when he gave his last performance, which included a game, if ragged, crack at the timeless Telstar.
Alan Caddy is survived by his wife and daughter.
Alan Caddy, guitarist and song arranger, born February 2 1940; died August 16 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:07:17 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Joseph H. Lewis, who directed ``Gun Crazy,'' ``The Big Combo'' and dozens of other B movies, died Aug. 30. Lewis was believed to be 93, although some reference books list his birthday as April 6, 1900.
Between 1937 and 1958, Lewis made 38 pictures with names like ``Singing Outlaw,'' ``Bombs Over Burma'' and ``Retreat, Hell!''
``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
Lewis, who was born in New York City, came to Hollywood in the 1920s. He was directing films by the mid-1930s, and for the next three decades cranked out everything from Westerns to war movies to science fiction films.
He directed all the musical sequences for ``The Jolson Story,'' the 1946 biopic of entertainer Al Jolson, and during World War II he made instructional films for the Army.
Lewis also directed episodes for television shows, including ``The Rifleman,'' ``Gunsmoke'' and ``The Defenders.''
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=B99636
Alan Caddy
Guitarist who found fame with the Tornados
Friday September 8, 2000
Alan Caddy, who has died aged 60, was a founder member of the Tornados, the only serious challengers to the Shadows as most popular British instrumental unit of the 1960s. The quintet are best remembered for 1962's million-selling Telstar.
If unable to build on a number one in the US - where no UK outfit had ever made much headway - the Tornados scored three more entries - Globetrotter, Robot and the Ice Cream Man - in 1963's domestic Top 10 before the advent of Merseybeat, with its emphasis on vocals. Suddenly rendered passΘ, they soldiered on with a still impressive workload while largely repeating earlier ideas on disc.
Unlike the others, Caddy, who was born in Chelsea, London, was classically trained, having served as a boy soprano in Westminster Abbey, and studied violin as leader of the orchestra at school in Battersea, before the onset of puberty found him looking for an opening in pop as a guitarist. It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
After a transitional period as Bats Heath and the Vampires, they went professional as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in 1958. Among few homegrown rock 'n' rollers regarded with awe, they made a television debut on ITV's Disc Break, with 1959's Please Don't Touch. Much of its charm emanated from Caddy's galvanising riffing.
However, because Caddy was riven with self-doubt about his ability, another guitarist picked the staccato lead on Kidd's climactic Shakin' All Over - which, while it knocked Cliff Richard from the top in August 1960, netted Caddy only a standard session fee of 15 guineas.
Within a year, Johnny Kidd was becalmed outside the Top 50, and Caddy and his fellow Pirates had abandoned the apparently sinking ship, retaining their stage costumes to be the Cabin Boys behind Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks, a huge attraction in Italy.
Hicks proved a difficult employer, and Caddy flew home to land on his feet as mainstay of the Tornados, assembled in the first instance to back Ken Charles, Pamela Blue, John Leyton and Mike Berry and similar protΘgΘs of the console boffin Joe Meek, in his RPM studio in Holloway Road, London.
Following a miss with Popeye Twist, written by Caddy and drummer Clem Cattini, the ethereal Telstar was taped as a routine backing track - albeit with a poignant "second subject" plucked by Caddy - hours before a show with Billy Fury in Great Yarmouth. Overnight, Meek transformed it into the quintessential 1960s instrumental. Though dismissing the RPM sound as "unadulterated lift music", Caddy remained a Tornado throughout their period of greatest celebrity as both respected sidemen, hit parade contenders and patron saints of myriad combos created in the same image - notably the Volcanos, with Polaris.
The first perceptible sign of danger occurred with Dragonfly, a comparative flop, coinciding with the exit shortly before of bass player Heinz Burt - and, with him, most of the group's teen appeal - in autumn 1963. As injurious a departure in its way was that of Caddy, after the release of 1964's Away From It All, an album containing four of his compositions. By then, Caddy was well-placed to make a living as a session musician, and even become a star in his own right, but, said Clem Cattini: "He never achieved his potential because he didn't believe in himself."
Caddy took a job as house arranger and producer for Avenue Records, a budget label specialising in covers of current hits. Next, he moved to a similar post in Canada. Back in England by 1975, Caddy was involved in a remake of Telstar by a reconstituted Tornados, but chose not to return to the public stage - although he was persuaded to pitch in occasionally when attending RPM Appreciation Society evenings - as he was a few months ago when he gave his last performance, which included a game, if ragged, crack at the timeless Telstar.
Alan Caddy is survived by his wife and daughter.
Alan Caddy, guitarist and song arranger, born February 2 1940; died August 16 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:10:50 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: (exotica) Anyone hear this?
Sounds interesting:
<<Jess Franco's "Marquis de Sade's Philosophy In The Boudoir" (aka
"Eugenie... The Story Of Her Journey Into
Perversion") soundtrack by Bruno Nicolai, plus "The Tenth Victim"
soundtrack by Piero Piccioni
DOUBLE PLAY CD-
Hard to find CD with Bruno Nicolai's amazing psychedelic pop score to
the "lost" 1969
Jess Franco film! Also included is the original soundtrack to Elio
Petri's 1965 bizzaro
pop sci-fi / black comedy "The Tenth Victim"! Contains both original
complete
soundtrack releases on 1 CD for $21.98!>>
- - Nate
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:37:22 -0700
From: "Rob Crowther" <robcr@discovery.org>
Subject: (exotica) New job and contact information
> THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
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As most of you know, I am taking a position as a public and media relations
strategist at the Seattle PR firm of Parker LePla. Friday, September 15
will be my last day at Discovery Institute. The following contact
information will be in effect on Monday, Sept. 18. E-mail to my old
Discovery account will be forwarded to me for a while, but please update
your address books as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Rob
Work contact information:
Rob Crowther
PR Strategist
Parker LePla
1601 Dexter Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 285-5280
Fax (206) 206-285-5286
Email: robc@parkerlepla.com
www.parkerlepla.com
Personal e-mail:
mrsuave@mistersuave.com
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ct information will be in effect on Monday, Sept. 18. E-mail to my old=
Discovery account will be forwarded to me for a while, but please update yo=
ur address books as soon as possible.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks,<BR>
<BR>
Rob<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Work contact information:<BR>
<BR>
Rob Crowther<BR>
PR Strategist<BR>
Parker LePla<BR>
1601 Dexter Ave. N.<BR>
Seattle, WA 98109<BR>
(206) 285-5280<BR>
Fax (206) 206-285-5286<BR>
Email: robc@parkerlepla.com<BR>
www.parkerlepla.com<BR>
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Personal e-mail:<BR>
mrsuave@mistersuave.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:33:35 -0500
From: Matt Marchese <mjmarch@charter.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
nytab@pipeline.com wrote:
> ``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
And was more or less remade by Terrence Malick as "Badlands" with Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen...also a cult film.
> It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
Um, would one of our exotica pals in the UK care to translate "KKK Club" for us unruly colonists? I certainly hope that the members of this organization didn't wear of white sheets and hoods.
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Matt Marchese
mjmarch@charter.net
http://reality.sgi.com/mattm_americas/
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