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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:35:49 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: (exotica) New/Old Stuff on vinyl......
Okay, I know about Dawn of the Dead, but how's about the other one??......
Goblin's "Dawn Of The Dead" 1979 score! 1 extra track!
John Barry's "Game Of Death" 1978 score to the Bruce Lee film!
Reviews please?
- - Nate
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:54:17 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] James Carr, Isaac Guillory
January 10, 2001
James Carr, Soul Singer Whose Life Reflected the Blues, Dies at 58
By JON PARELES
James Carr, a singer whose 1966 recording of "(At the) Dark End of the Street" was a masterpiece of Memphis soul, died on Sunday in Memphis. He was 58 and lived in Memphis.
The cause was cancer, said his friend and producer Quinton Claunch.
With a robust baritone that embraced both amber-toned purity and desperate growls, Mr. Carr could turn an unhappy love song into three minutes of heartsick drama. But a combination of bad breaks and psychiatric problems limited his career.
"He had a hard life," Mr. Claunch said. "He felt the blues, man, that's for sure."
Mr. Carr was born in Clarksdale, Miss., in 1942 and grew up in Memphis. The son of a minister, he began performing with gospel groups when he was 9.
He married when he was a teenager and had children, working as a day laborer while he sang in local gospel groups, including the Southern Wonders Juniors and the Harmony Echoes. He never learned to read or write.
In the early 1960's Mr. Carr started singing soul music. He was turned down by the fledgling Stax Records, which sent him to Mr. Claunch's label, Goldwax.
Mr. Carr made his first single, "The Word Is Out," in 1964, and in 1966 he made his two best-selling singles: "You've Got My Mind Messed Up" and "(At the) Dark End of the Street," both Top 10 rhythm- and-blues hits.
His was the first recording of "Dark End of the Street," written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn and later performed by Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt and many other singers.
Mr. Carr made a triumphant 1966 appearance at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and toured the South and East.
He continued to record for Goldwax through the 1960's, putting out songs like "Pouring Water on a Drowning Man," "I'm a Fool for You," "Forgetting You" and "A Man Needs a Woman."
But Mr. Carr was a manic-depressive and could not sustain a career on the soul-music circuit. He grew moody and withdrawn. Mr. Claunch recalled him sitting at a recording session, not saying a word for hours, then singing one song.
In 1970 Mr. Carr recorded four songs for Atlantic Records; two were released as a single in 1971.
For the rest of his life, while he lived with his sister Rose, he made occasional efforts to tour or record. He released a single in 1977 and toured Japan in 1979.
In 1992 Mr. Carr played his first New York engagement in 25 years at Tramps. He was also in and out of psychiatric hospitals, sometimes every few weeks.
"His first priority was a marijuana cigarette, a drink or a woman," Mr. Claunch said. "That would take precedence over his music. But he loved to sing."
Mr. Carr made albums with Mr. Claunch in 1991 ("Take Me to the Limit" on Goldwax) and 1994 ("Soul Survivor" on Soul Trax). A compilation of 13 songs from those albums and 7 other songs is to be released on the Soul Trax label in the next few weeks, Mr. Claunch said.
"The Essential James Carr," a collection of his recordings from 1964 to 1969, was released in 1995 by Razor and Tie Records.
Mr. Carr is survived by three sisters, a brother and five children.
http://www.retroactive.com/jan97/carr.html
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http://www.google.com/search?q=isaac+guillory
ISAAC GUILLORY, 52, FORMERLY OF CRYAN' SHAMES
By Rummana Hussain
Tribune Staff Writer
January 5, 2001
Isaac Guillory was a different kind of rock star.
As a member of Chicago's Cryan' Shames, he released two albums on a major record label and mingled with such pop culture royalty as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.
Yet, while he fit in as the quintessential hip musician, Mr. Guillory's quirky style, classical background and cerebral wit set him apart from his colleagues, friends said.
"He had this dashing, mysterious, continental thinker flare about him. You knew he was going to end up in some foreign country," said fellow band member Jim Pilster.
Mr. Guillory, 52, died Sunday, Dec. 31, of cancer at his home in Wallsend, England.
Mr. Guillory played guitar, bass and keyboards and wrote numerous songs on "A Scratch in the Sky" and "Synthesis," two of the three Cryan' Shames albums that were released by Columbia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
During the band's heyday, Mr. Guillory penned such distinctive songs as "In the Cafe," which veered away from such typical pop fare as his group's hit "It Could be We're in Love."
"This whole song ["In the Cafe"] was done in French and it had mandolins and squeeze box," Pilster said, recalling his bandmate's originality.
Mr. Guillory moved to England in the late 1970s because he believed European audiences were more suited to his type of music, which was a hybrid of folk and classical.
He released six solo albums in Europe and continued touring and teaching guitar until his death.
The son of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer and a prominent Cuban flamenco guitarist, Mr. Guillory was exposed to music from his birth on the Guantanamo Naval base in Cuba. He began studying classical piano at the age of 6 at the Conservatory of Music in Havana and learned guitar from his mother, Victoria.
As he grew up and moved to Florida, Mr. Guillory began experimenting with the saxophone and cello.
Mr. Guillory moved to Evanston with his mother and sister in 1965. He studied guitar at the Chicago School of Music and taught at the Skokie Music Centre before taking courses at Wright College.
When in college, he joined the band The Ravelles. In 1966, he was invited to join the Cryan' Shames, who already had one hit album, "Sugar and Spice." In addition to his mother, Mr. Guillory is also survived by his wife, Victoria; four children, Jacob, Ellie, Sienna and Jace; and his sister, Claire.
Funeral services were held in England. Pilster said surviving Cryan' Shames members are planning a memorial for Mr. Guillory in the near future.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) New/Old Stuff on vinyl......
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<P><BR><BR></P></DIV>>John Barry's "Game Of Death" 1978 score to the Bruce Lee film!
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<DIV>Picked this one up today, its pretty good, not as good as Enter the Dragon, but not bad, some interesting things, a little bit on the stringy side, but all John Barry. One track with all Kung Fu fighting sounds </DIV>
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<DIV>UH!! HOOOOYAAAAH!! Whack WHaCK Whack!!</DIV>
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<DIV>not essential unless you are a big fan of Bruce Lee Soundtracks. On the Tam label out of Japan, got mine for $13, thats about the going price for it, there is another New/Old Bruce Lee OST on the Tam label, but Im not sure of the title, as I remember it had a Chinese composer.</DIV>
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<DIV>which Bruce Lee soundtrack did Peter Thomas score? Id love to have that one. Anyone Know??</DIV>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:20:54 -0000
From: "james brouwer" <jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) you might want to keep an eye out for these records...
Alan wrote:
>Anyway I'm about to start SELLING records on ebay. I've sold about a
>thousand records for a buck or two each - at the most - but I kept a couple
>of hundred hoping they might get twenty bucks.
>(God, I know I don't believe in you but can you stop me from buying records
>on ebay?)
I find it pretty addictive too. And we're Canadian, so it practically costs
twice as much for us. I STRONGLY recommend the selling thang. I make it a
rule (now) to only spend $$ on eBay according to the $$ I've brought in
selling on eBay. I even have a separate bank account for it so it's very
simple to keep track of. I've been surprised at how much people are willing
to spend on a record I just threw on eBay for the off chance it was worth
something. I'll NEVER be bringing my half-decent records into a record store
to sell ever again. When I think of the stuff i let go for next to nothing
'cause there was no ebay, well it'd make ya cry.
I now have a closet full of collectable paperbacks, books, photographs,
posters, and records to throw on ebay. i just gotta find the time to do it.
so the rule: the best way to ebay is to sell as well as buy, especially if
>Hi everyone! You've been a real help to me when I'm putting together
>segments for the segment I do on CBC here in Canada. The topic is "laughing"
>records this Sat.Next month the topic is "food" related songs and spoken
>word entrees.
>Any ideas?
not-so-exotic stuff but as for laughing my friend Luigi Restuccia has an electronic track called Smiling Death with his own weird laugh sampled through the latest part especially (http://www.mp3.com/restuccia).
As for food one of the best thing I can think of is "Don't take five" by the Jams aka the KLF (they mention stealing apples, oranges, mangos etc. and destroy Brubeck's "Take Five" at the same time). It should be somewhere in the 'net (look for the Justified ancients of mu mu or the Jams on Listen.com).
I can't think of anything else (maybe if you can consider as a food song an instrumental about italian drinks then "Aperitivo" on the Aperitivo compilation - http.//www.mp3.com/aperitivo - and sorry for the gratuitous plug would also fit).
p.s. sorry for disappearing from the list.
I'm sooooo busy... I'm also late with the Aperitivo and Flabby mp3's, anyway if you have a my.mp3.com account (if you don't have one yet why don't sign for one now??) they have just inserted Alessandroni's album in a promotion. You can download it for free (the entire disc!) until the 30th of january as a "net cd promotion".
talk to you soon - hope you all are having a happy new year :)
Nicola (Dj Batman)
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:08:49 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <crajnai@att.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Food songs
Geez, lets see. Outside of exotica included are...
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Coconut Woman -- Forget the Artist, it on the Phonomolies comp in the
exotica ring
Peaches - The Presidents of the Unites States of America
