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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:49:22 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Michael Smith, Morton Downey Jr.
Michael Smith
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Michael Smith, the drummer for the 1960s rock band Paul Revere and the Raiders, died March 6 in Kona, Hawaii, of natural causes. He was 58.
Smith, who played the part of the madcap jokester on stage, joined the band in 1962. The Raiders were known for their tri-cornered hats, colonial costumes and wild stage act.
The Raiders were signed by CBS' Columbia Records in 1963, and in 1965 they were hired to host ``Where the Action Is,'' a daily afternoon television show on ABC produced by Dick Clark Productions.
The Raiders' hit singles included ``Just Like Me,'' ``Kicks,'' ``Good Thing'' and ``Indian Reservation.''
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Morton Downey Jr.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Morton Downey Jr., the chain-smoking, often-combative talk-show host who reigned over ``Trash TV'' in the 1980s, died Monday of lung cancer and other respiratory problems. He was 67.
A chain smoker for years until losing a lung to cancer, Downey was known for deliberately blowing smoke into the faces of guests who annoyed him when he was host of one of the most popular talk shows on television in the 1980s.
After his cancer surgery in 1996, he became an anti-smoking crusader.
Downey, who was the son of popular singer Morton Downey and his dancer-wife, Barbara Bennett, pursued a number of professions including businessman, author, radio host, singer and songwriter, composing such hit surf-rock songs as ``Pipeline'' and ``Wipeout'' in the 1960s.
(Is this true??? Somehow, I'm doubting it! - Lou)
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:53:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Re: A Brighter View of Our Dark Age of Music
One of the trends in classical music and especially Bach was to
bring the music back to its period instruments and the style it was
originally meant to be played in. Philippe Herreweghe and the
Harmonia Mundi label from France haunted me when I first heard Bach
played that way. I was familiar with Bach ala Bernstein and
especially Wendy Carlos. Just loved Walter Carlos interpretation,
caught my attention big time. But Philippe Herreweghe was just too
beautiful an interpretation of Bach for me to resist. No more tick
tock clock notes, not too many notes too fast filling up every
second, but a beautiful peaceful flowing music is the way Bach may
have originally sounded, at least in Herreweghe's interpretation.
Mo I also attended a symphony the other night. Beautiful but it
was a little old fashion and tedious sitting sitting still that
long. I found it much easier to go park out at the lake front last
night, with a delicious bottle of French wine, French bread and
Italian cheese and listen to the new Tipsy, P-5, Thievery
Corporation and Chicklett with my girlfriend. I guess parking at a
lake front and watching the waves crash is old fashioned but at
least Tipsy, P 5 and Thievery Corp aren't. As for Chicklet they
sounded like a 1966 band with sweet girl vocals on top.
I think we are in some of the best times for modern music
releases/interpretations (such as Senor Coconut). The music scene
today is as diverse as ever. Great modern Bossa Nova, Power Pop,
Pop, modern sunshine Pop, modern soft pop, Ambient, Electronica,
breakbeat, Tiki(Don Tiki), surf. And even more amazing in this
modern world is Brian Wilson rose from the dead, toured and did the
whole Pet Sounds album live with a symphony orchestra. For those
who aren't familiar with the modern pop scene I highly recommend
Caroline Now on the Marina label available at DustyGroove as a
great introduction.
Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
- --- Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com> wrote:
> That brings me to the question, who really rediscovered Bach and
> when? I only know that Jaques Lousier made him pretty popular
> again in the jazz scene of the 50s and beyond. For myself it owes
> to Walter (now Wendy) Carlos, who gave Bach a new kick. Both
> musicians changed Bach significantly to update him though.
> Funny you mention Bach. Only last night I was in a classical
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:55:30 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) FW: Florida scores!
At 10:25 AM 3/13/01 -0000, Charles Moseley wrote:
>
>> Lots of finds in FL including:
>>
>> Jazz for the Jet Set - Dave Pike (easy jazz)
>> Layers - Les McCann (top quality moody jazz with Clavinet and Arp)
>> Lots of Enoch Light and Command/Project3 LPs - about 10 including Brass
>> Menagerie that turned out to have a Bill Cosby record in it. Drat!
>> James Bond thing with Kenyon Hopkins and a couple of other jazz artists.
This certainly proves my..."theory" that there are still tons of records
out there if only you're in the right place.
I don't know how many tracks Dave Pike made that are as groovy as that
track with the electric sitar that I heard on a compilation a few years
ago. But judging from the records I've heard of his, I don't think many.
Still because of that one track, the name of Dave Pike was elevated and his
records became more expensive and more scarce.
I think I've seen that "Jazz for the Jet Set" LP. It has a girl with a
space suit on it? If so, that's a very attractive album cover and a lot of
stores would put 40 dollars or so on it, even if the record turns out to be
mellow vibes jazz that you could get in many other packages for A LOT less.
I love those stores - and they're rare around here - where they see a cool
record and think "Oh someone might pay an extra dollar because of the
cover" and they put it out for 5 bucks.
I was in a store like that in London, Ontario.
The coolest record in the store, which would have been forty bucks here,
was on the wall there for ten bucks.
Anyway nice to see you back Charlie. Thanks for that offer you made me.
And nice to see you found a place with lots of records. It makes sense
somehow that Florida would be a minefield of used vinyl.
No hanging chad jokes here.
AZ
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:08:11 -0800
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Disappearing Records
Gee, I'm really sorry I asked anyone about their favorite album covers the other week. I just wanted to know about some albums to look around for to see their design, beyond the albums I have, and the books of album cover art I have, and on and on and on. I didn't know that my inquisitiveness would be so awful for certain readers. Maybe I should keep this in mind and only ask about things I am certain NO ONE knows about. Or only talk about things I was really into ten years ago, like Yma Sumac, so that there's no sense of the status quo being rocked here. Or keep totally off topic and bring up things like foot fungus. I come to this list to learn. And just like many others here, there's nothing really new anyone could tell me about Sergio Mendes, or Martin Denny, but I have no problem answering questions people posit, because with knowledge comes responsibility. I just don't get why someone would be so bothered about someone bringing up topics that have been brought up before. So what? Just delete the message.
Mr. Unlucky
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