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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:27:43 -0800
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) Get accordion lessons from one of the Three Suns
I was doing some research on the Three Suns the other year for an article, and I discovered that Tony Lovello is alive for sure, and has a website and offers custom accordion lessons! Can you believe that? It's really nice to know. You can email him too, so everyone let him know how much you love the Three Suns.
http://www.accordionmusic.com/
Mr. Unlucky
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:14:20 -0800
From: bigshot <bigshot@spumco.com>
Subject: (exotica) Three Suns
exotica-digest wrote:
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:56:40 -0500
>From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
>Subject: (exotica) three suns
>
>If someone out there prefers the Three Suns when the arrangements are more
>subtle or the playing less frenetic or the overall effect more quiet, then
>they can choose other records
I really like the older Three Suns when they were just a trio, without
all the studio tricks and orchestral accompaniment. I got a collection
of 78s at ebay that has great stuff I've never seen on CD. You gotta
love a song titled "The Goofy Gal From Tagoosiegalpa"! I really like
the CD of V-Discs by the Three Suns too.
See ya
Steve
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:11:39 -0500
From: "m.ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) sad news on Piero Umiliani - and what happened to this list?
>hello, I'd like to know what happened to this list. I don't even get my
>own messages anymore.
>Did anyone see my obituary for poor Piero "mah'na mah'na" Umiliani??? :((
The one with this subject line?
"(exotica) [obit] Piero Umiliani :-(((((((((((("
I received it yesterday.
Sad news, yes. And the list server is awfully flaky lately.
- --m.ace
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:26:36 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns
citerar bigshot <bigshot@spumco.com>:
"The Goofy Gal From Tagoosiegalpa"!
Steve, I got this one too and it is really great! That goofy girl must
be made of jello.
I really like the CD of V-Discs by the Three Suns too.
Whats this?
Magnus
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:01:32 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) turntable recommendations
At 10:11 AM 2/21/01 -0800, Benito Vergara wrote:
>
>All right folks, I'm thinking of taking the plunge very soon and finally
>buying a turntable. God knows I've gone so long without it. I'm not going to
>DJ or anything with it, so I don't need fancy belt drives or anything like
>that.>
>Any recommendations for a good brand for, say, ~$150? (Also, if there are
>any older, discontinued models that live forever, I'd appreciate those as
>well.)
I may be wrong but I don't think DJ's use "fancy belt drives". I think
they use direct drive.
(I switched from belt drive to direct drive myself because it's more
condusive to winding backwards and I like to wind backwards when I make
recordings.)
I wouldn't be surprised if there were new turntables in the $150 range but
if I were you, I'd pick up a used Technics.
I had mine for 25 years and it was still working fine but like I said, I
traded it in for a direct drive.
There's lots and lots of used turntables out there. At least there are
here. Buyer beware and all but I think it's easy to find a good used
turntable and it doesn't really matter what the brand is.
AZ
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:53:56 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Reid Russell Diamond,Joe Ferguson III,Ronnie Hilton
February 20, 2001
Shadowy Men Bassist Dead at 42
Reid Russell Diamond, best known as the bassist for Canadian instrumental trio Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, died in his Toronto home on Saturday, Feb. 17, as a result of complications related to cancer. He was 42.
Diamond formed Shadowy Men with drummer Don Pyle and guitarist Brian Connelly in 1984. In contrast to the dark, gloomy fare favored by many local acts at the time, the trio opted for a clean, guitar-oriented sound. "We just wanted to have fun, and that was a bit infectious," Diamond told Raygun in 1993.
The band, most widely recognized for providing the musical interludes on the '90s comedy series The Kids in the Hall (the show's theme, "Having an Average Weekend," was culled from the first Shadowy Men single), released three full-lengths: Savvy Show Stoppers (1988); Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham (1991); and Sport Fishin' (1993).
Although frequently pegged as a surf band (a label they rebuked on the 1993 album track "We're Not a Fucking Surf Band"), the group's style was extremely broad, encompassing everything from classic and B-movie film scores to rockabilly and swing, all of it earmarked by irascible humor.
"I find it most annoying when people think we're an escapist, retro band, that we want to hearken back to simpler times of cars and girls," said Diamond in 1993. "I'm not even vaguely interested in living a life like that."
Shadowy Men also played on Just Fred, the 1996 solo album by Fred Schneider of The B-52's, and 1995's Shame-Based Man by Kids member Bruce McCulloch.
Following the amicable dissolution of Shadowy Men in 1996, Diamond and Pyle went on to form Phono-Comb with Beverly Breckenridge of Fifth Column and Dallas Good (the Sadies). Working in collaboration with Jad Fair (Half Japanese), the group released one album, Fresh Gasoline, in 1996.
Diamond is survived by his wife, Rebecca Diederichs; his parents, Margaret and W. Boyd Diamond; brother Grant, and sister Dallas. "Remember him in all his guises and for his talent and for his energy, his spark, his tenaciousness, and remember him as one who lived his life," read an announcement in the Toronto Star. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday. ù Kurt B. Reighley
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Rites held for Joe Ferguson III
Musician performed with Texas Playboys
02/21/2001
By Lisa Murillo / The Dallas Morning News
Services for Joe Frank Ferguson III, who played with the Texas Playboys and the Light Crust Doughboys, were Saturday in Fort Worth.
Mr. Ferguson, 86, died Feb. 14 of complications following surgery.
Born in 1914 in Fort Worth, Mr. Ferguson learned to play the guitar, bass, saxophone and fiddle on his own. On New Year's Eve of 1935, Mr. Ferguson performed in a musical amateur competition in Tulsa, Okla., and won first prize.
Bob Wills, founding member of the Texas Playboys, heard Mr. Ferguson on a Tulsa radio station and immediately hired him. Mr. Ferguson played and recorded popular hits over the next two years, and his version of "Marie" became famous. It was more or less "his anthem," said his daughter Judy Spracklen of Fort Worth.
Mr. Ferguson left the Playboys in 1938 and moved to Nashville. After brief stints with several smaller groups, he came back to his hometown to perform.
He became one of the Light Crust Doughboys in 1940 but left two years later to join the Coast Guard. After two years there, during which his daughter said "he really missed music," he began to support himself with jobs such as ranching in Oklahoma and welding. He played music in the evenings and on weekends.
"He never really made a living at it," Mrs. Spracklen said, "but singing was his first love."
He retired from other jobs at age 62 after a heart attack but was able to continue performing, she said. He played with the Texas Playboys again from 1977 to 1989. His final show was a Christmas concert Dec.15 at the Johnny High Music Review in Arlington.
In addition to his daughter, Mr. Ferguson is survived by his son, Joe Frank Ferguson IV of Arlington; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
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Ronnie Hilton
Homegrown singing star whose easy listening ballads formed part of the soundtrack to the 1950s
Michael Freedland
Thursday February 22, 2001
The Guardian
Ronnie Hilton who has died, aged 75, was one of those 1950s vocalists whose career coincided with rock 'n' roll's 1956 onslaught on the ballad-dominated hit parade. But for a time Hilton was a star - strictly for home consumption - with nine top 20 hits between 1954 and 1957, that transitional era between 78 and 45rpm records. A quarter of a century later he became the voice of BBC Radio 2's Sounds Of The Fifties series.
Hilton's approach owed much to the "nice 'n'easy" style of Americans such as Bing Crosby, Eddie Fisher and Perry Como. Together with the likes of Dickie Valentine and Michael Holliday, his was the kind of voice and style to which youngsters smooched as they edged across those dance floors not yet vibrating to Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and Elvis Presley's Blue Suede Shoes.
The British singer had made his stage debut as Ronnie Hilton in July 1954, at one of the principal nurseries for his kind of singing, the Dudley Hippodrome. He was so successful that he almost immediately got his first BBC radio series. Along with it came a series of hits for EMI's HMV label.
Veni Vidi Vici and I Still Believe in December 1954 were followed in April 1955 by a cover of Nat "King" Cole's A Blossom Fell - which was a bigger hit for Valentine, a bigger star - and that September came Stars Shine in Your Eyes. In November, Hilton's cover of Mitch Miller's US hit, the Yellow Rose Of Texas brushed the charts - just as Rock Around The Clock went to number one.
What became Hilton's signature tune, No Other Love, was a May 1956 number one and was followed by two more minor hits in 1956, Who Are We and Two Different Worlds. In summer 1957, as skiffle and Elvis gripped the charts, Hilton's cover of Around The World was a bigger hit than the Bing Crosby original. A decade later there was A Windmill In Old Amsterdam, which eventually sold a million, and became a fixture across decades of Children's Favourites.
Born Adrian Hill in Hull, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory in the early days of the second world war before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry. Demobbed in 1947, he became a fitter in a Leeds sewing machine plant.
But Hilton had a passion for singing. In the evenings he performed with the Johnny Addlestone band at the Starlight Roof in Leeds and it was there that he was heard by HMV's A&R manager, Walter Ridley. Ridley recommended that he change his name, have an operation for the reconstruction of a hare lip and take up his offer of a recording contract. Hilton accepted all three suggestions and success followed.
He appeared in three Royal Variety Performances. Long after that most successful period in his life, he continued to appear in summer seasons and Christmas shows.
A stroke in 1976 hindered his activities for a time and he was beset with financial problems. In 1989 the British Academy of Song Composers and Authors awarded him its gold medal for services to popular music.
His first wife, Joan, died in 1985. His second wife, Chrissy, whom he married in 1989 survives him, as do four children, three from his first marriage.
ò Ronnie Hilton (Adrian Hill), singer, born January 26 1926; died February 21 2001
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