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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:52:59 -0700
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Betty Page on E!
>Anyone manage to catch the 2-hour documentary on Bettie Page
>over the weekend on the E! channel?
I saw a bit of that one. Not knowing what she sounded like, I was most
surprised to find that she had a Southern accent!
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:45:09 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <quiet@village.uunet.be>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Playlists??
>Like, do you people mind when playlists are posted?
not when they're annotated ;-)
Johan
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:38:43 EST
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hala Kahiki / Trader Vic's
In a message dated 02/07/01 9:24:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mjmarch@charter.net writes:
<< Hey, are you guys following me? I ate there last month while on a
business trip. It was definitely the most crowded Vic's that I'd ever
been in. Oddly, almost every woman in the place was wearing leopardskin. >>
The Vic's at the Beverly Hilton is the busiest of the one's in the chain.
The Vic's are what I call elegant Tiki and uphold a pretty high standard. I
was at the Beverly Hills Vic's a few weeks ago on a Friday (and Sat) night.
The Friday night was so crowded you could not move. Which is GOOD because I
want those things to stay open.
BTW, the Beverly Hills location is often rented out (the whole joint) for
Hugh Hefner's parties.
Tiki Bob
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:44:45 EST
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hala Kahiki
In a message dated 02/07/01 10:25:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
chuckmk@yahoo.com writes:
<< Matt I am surprised the Trader Vics in Atlanta was crowded. I
heard from this list that the Atlanta Trader Vics was an endangered
species. When I went to the Trader Vics in Chicago we were the
only people in there.
Does anyone know if Trader Vics are experiencing an upswing in
popularity in Atlanta and other locations? >>
The one in Atlanta thrives more on the mid-week conventioneers crowd. They
have been "slower" the last few years. I know two bartenders, a hostess and
manager there and they "inform" me periodically as to what is going on. At
this point there are no plans to close the Atlanta location. The bar
business during conventions is enought to keep it open. Plus, the Hilton
likes an alternative to the standard Hilton run Lobby Bar AND it moves the
drunk conventioneers to the basement (where Vic's is located).
I go to Vic's about twice a year in Atlanta and once a year in LA. I can say
with some degree of confidence that these two are in no danger (at this time)
of being closed.
TB
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:19:44 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) FPM
I recall there was some recent queries/comments re. the sound of FPM's new release. Here's the decsription (with some realaudio links) from Other Music's latest newsletter.
lousmith@pipeline.com
FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE "Beautiful" (Avex Trax, Japan) CD $31.99
J.J. Johnson; Innovative Bebop-Era Jazz Trombonist
and Composer
By JON THURBER, (L.A.) Times Staff Writer
<<snip>>
By the 1970s, Johnson had moved to Los Angeles to try his
hand at writing for movies and television. And although he
had virtually given up playing in favor of his compositional
work, Johnson continued to win readers' polls in popular
jazz magazines as the finest player on the trombone.
In Hollywood, Johnson wrote music for such popular
television shows as "Mayberry R.F.D.," "The Danny
Thomas Show," "That Girl" and "Mod Squad." He also
found movie work, either orchestrating or writing the
music for films such as "Shaft" and "Cleopatra Jones."
But Johnson never believed he got the opportunities his
distinguished career as a musician and composer merited.
And race, he believed, was the reason.
"Film scoring is still a white world," Johnson told
Heckman in 1996. "That's the way it is, that's the way it
always has been. . . . The four or five major films I did
were all about black people.
"A black film composer will never do a big budget picture
like 'Jurassic Park' or 'The Fugitive'--the biggies," he said.
"We won't get there."
In the early 1990s, he returned to Indianapolis. His first
wife, Vivian, died after suffering a stroke when a Johnson-
led band was on the road in Tokyo. After a period of
depression, he remarried and began playing again,
recording his last album, "Heroes," in 1998.
He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Johnson. Funeral
arrangements were incomplete.
===
Singer-Actress Dale Evans, 88, Dies
By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dale Evans, the singer-actress who teamed with husband Roy
Rogers in popular Westerns and co-wrote their theme
song, ``Happy Trails to You,'' died Wednesday at 88.
Evans died of congestive heart failure at her home in Apple Valley in the high
desert east of Los Angeles, said Dave Koch, son-in-law of
Evans' stepson, Roy ``Dusty'' Rogers Jr. She had suffered a heart attack in
1992 and a stroke in 1996.
Evans' son and other family members were at her side. A memorial service will
be held Saturday, Koch said.
She was the ``Queen of the West'' to Rogers, the ``King of the Cowboys.'' She
rode her horse, Buttermilk, beside him on his celebrated
palomino, Trigger.
The first movie she made with Rogers, already an established singing cowboy
star, was ``Cowboy and the Senorita'' in 1944. They married
in 1947, and together appeared in 35 movies, including such Saturday afternoon
favorites as ``My Pal Trigger,'' ``Apache Rose'' and
``Don't Fence Me In.''
When the B Western faded in the early 1950s, they began their television
career. ``The Roy Rogers Show'' ran from 1951 to 1957; later
incarnations included ``The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show,'' 1962, and
``Happy Trails Theatre,'' 1986-89, a show of repackaged
Rogers and Evans movies on cable TV's Nashville Network.
In 1951, she co-wrote ``Happy Trails,'' which became their theme. She also
wrote the 1955 gospel music standard ``The Bible Tells Me
So,'' with the refrain, ``how do I know? the Bible tells me so.''
She and Rogers recorded more than 400 songs. Their most recent album was
``Many Happy Trails,'' recorded in Nashville in 1985.
Rogers died in July 1998 at age 86. In a statement, Evans remembered him as
``a wonderful human being. What a blessing to have shared
my life together with him for almost 51 years. To say I will miss him is a
gross understatement. He was truly the king of the cowboys in my
life.''
Through her life, she was active in Christian evangelism, which she called
``the most meaningful, the most enjoyable part of my life.'' She
wrote more than 20 books, including the best-selling ``Angel Unaware,'' a
poignant account of their daughter, Robin, the only child born to
the couple. Robin, who was retarded, died of complications from the mumps
shortly before her second birthday in 1952.
It wasn't the couple's only taste of tragedy. Korean-born Debbie, one of the
couple's adopted children, was killed with seven others in a
1964 church bus crash; the following year, their adopted son John choked to
death while serving in the Army in Germany.
``In the Bible, it doesn't say you're going to get by without having
troubles,'' Rogers once said.
The couple also adopted another daughter and raised a daughter by foster
parenthood. In addition, Evans had a son by a previous marriage,
and Rogers had a son and two daughters, one of them adopted, with his first
wife, Arline. She had died in 1946, shortly after giving birth to
Roy Jr.
Evans was born Frances Octavia Smith on Oct. 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas. When
she was a girl her family moved to Osceola, Ark., where
she attended high school.
She was working as a secretary in Chicago when she tried to launch a show
business career, she recalled in the 1984 interview.
``I wanted to get a foothold in radio, but I couldn't get a job,'' she said.
``Finally I succeeded in Memphis, then I got jobs in Louisville and
Dallas before going back to Chicago.''
From local radio singing jobs, she worked up to national radio, signing on in
1940 as a singer on a weekly CBS radio show ``News and
Rhythm.'' Shortly afterward, she started working in Hollywood, appearing in
films such as ``Orchestra Wives'' and ``Swing Your
Partner.''
She said she felt sorry from some of today's rock stars: ``They are overnight
successes making unbelievable amounts of money. They're like
meteors, shooting up and then falling just as fast. People like Bob Hope, Jack
Benny, Roy and me, we paid our dues. We've known the hard
times and the good, and we appreciate what we've got.''
Besides Roy Jr., she is survived by her son by her first marriage, Tom;
adopted daughter Dodie; foster daughter Marion; stepdaughter Linda
Lou; adopted stepdaughter Cheryl; 16 grandchildren; and more than 30
great-grandchildren.
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:18:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Hemmel@gmx.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlists
"Mr. Fodder" mofo@thebranflakes.com wrote:
>>I like to post my playlists,
I did miss your playlist here from time to time and would welcome if you
would post your list regular again.
I also would like to see the tracklist from Darrell Brogdons The Retro
Cocktail Hour here. Why not ?
I sadly do not have the possibility to check out all the great radio shows
all the time, so the playlists are a good help to decide where to tune in
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Exotic Club Pop Entertainment
with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System
at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night
http://www.atomic.de/
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 04:25:17 +0100 (MET)
From: Hemmel@gmx.net
Subject: Re (exotica) Mardis Gras
Mardis Gras
Sounds like BIG FUN, I wish I coud be there! Please give us after it a
report (In germany we only have street parades with stupid commercial techno and
house music. (i like a lot of the real techno and house stuff, but you will
never hear it on these parades)
>>Mardis Gras day, the New Orleans Carnival is scheduled for February
27. At 8:00 am that morning, Mondo Kayo,(pronounced K-eye- Yo)
the only Tiki flavored carnival club, will take to the streets for........<<
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:39:05 -0800
From: "Larson/Thomas" <jlarson1@san.rr.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) top 10 or 50 Exotica/Lounge records...
Take a look at http://www.spaceagepop.com/
Jerry Larson
> Just wondering if anyone had done a top "whatever number" of
> Exotica/Lounge records,
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:27:44 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TIKI BARS
Colleen Pyles schrieb:
> Does anyone know if there is a list of Tiki Bars around?
this is a very good question. I've been waiting for such a list for a while and was hoping, that Otto's Tiki News homepage would have it one day, as I believe that most infos about Tiki places come together on Otto's computer. We should really throw our knowledge together and create this list. I'll be glad to co-publish it on my own tikiland homepage. Otto, what do you think?
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:28:00 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bars in Massachusetts?
edowning@lightbridge.com schrieb:
>
> We do have a large polynesian resturant that is in Mass. It's called
> Kowloon...
I was not aware that the Kowloon still exists. I have an old Kowloon tiki mug and it's certainly one of the weirdest in my collection. Next time you go there you should take your camera with you, to take some sightseeing shots and make them available to the general public.
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:26:52 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone...
edowning@lightbridge.com schrieb:
> "Mondo Morricone" by Ennio Morricone is a great 60's-70's lounge
> album....check this out...
it has a follower More Mondo Morricone, which is also pretty neat.
But speaking of Morricone... is there anybody in this list, who has been dipping deeper into the sheer unlimited record output of this amazing musician? This man must have made hundreds and hundreds of records and most of what I ever heard is between good and ingenious. Of course he has an entire mailing list dedicated to his oevre...
