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exotica-digest        Wednesday, March 28 2001        Volume 02 : Number 943



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) The Golden Age
(exotica) CD Rom Blanks
(exotica) Copy Protection
Re: (exotica) The Golden Age
Re: (exotica) The Golden Age
Re: (exotica) CD Rom Blanks
(exotica) what does music do?
Re:  (exotica) The Golden Age of Space Junk
(exotica) Up with People
(exotica) [obits] catching up pt.1
(exotica) [obits] catching up pt.2
(exotica) [obits] catching up pt.3
Re: (exotica) Up with People
RE: (exotica) The Golden Age
(exotica) [obit] William Hanna
Re: (exotica) Re: Vic Mizzy release on CD
Re: (exotica) Up with People

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:25:07 +0100
From: edjunkita <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Golden Age

Nathan Miner wrote:

> <<shit...too bad u missed the 80's...now THAT was a sucky decade..JB>>
>
> Hey, wait-a-minute!  I loved the 80's - Flock of Seagulls, cool shirts with all those flaps and buttons, Tears for Fears, DEVO (new to me then at least) - that HOT girl from Missing Persons and her plastic bra..........
>
> - Nate
>

You must be a mutant or something!




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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:43:36 -0800
From: bigshot <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD Rom Blanks

exotica-digest wrote:

>I have heard so many theories
>now, why anything works out better than something else, be it the color of
>the media, the brand, the burners, the software or the system, and still
>there seems to be no logical explanation why you would get a problem with
>a specific CD-R. To me it seems that random mistakes, where ever they may
>occur, are the real reasons for failures. You can't protect yourself
>against it.

Check back when you first asked the question. I answered it. Different
brands of blanks work better in different burners. You can't recommend
your brand of blanks to me if you have a different piece of hardware.
What works for me doesn't work for you necessarily.

If you'd like me to provide you with links to webpages with scientific
research on this, I'd be happy to look them up.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:43:38 -0800
From: bigshot <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Copy Protection

exotica-digest wrote:

>I wonder if they really sell more CDs with this copy protection.

I haven't heard about this particular format, but CD's were
originally designed to have a Copy Protection flag in the
headers, but just as quick as it was introduced, hardware
manufacturers promptly made machines designed to ignore it.
I'm sure that will happen here too. Toast allows you to set
Copy Protection on or off, but it doesn't seem to make a bit
of difference.

See ya
Steve

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:36:21 -0600
From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Golden Age

"m.ace" wrote:

> Except, demonstrating the silliness of trying to build walls between
> decades, that album was released in 1978.

If I had to delineate the era most people consider "the 70s", I'd end it in
1976 when the Ramones' first album came out. But yeah, trying to start and stop
things on years ending with zeroes makes absolutely no sense.

As nostalgia cycles grow ever shorter, one wonders how the pundits will define
the next ten years. Will the next decade be remembered primarily for a couple
of Latin hunks and a teenage jailbait singer with a Pepsi button in her navel?

> BTW, Terry & Dale Bozzio's ties were marital, not familial. And now they're
> just alimonial.

Yeah, she popped up on VH1 a while back. No plastic bra these days tho' and she
was driving a minivan full of kids. I won't tell you what she looks like
nowadays as I've sworn off posting comments to the list that make reference to
the personal appearance of middle-aged female singers out of deference to
Alan...=^D

- --
Matt Marchese
"I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a
nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:05:24 +0100
From: edjunkita <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Golden Age

[e-mail] wrote:

> '88 was completely lost on me, did i miss something?

You were probably in the Amazones or Borneo when the acidhouse
"summer of love" took place.
1999 failed to live up to the eleven year cycle of innovation in pop music.
(fin de siecle anxiety?)




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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:30:36 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Rom Blanks

>
> exotica-digest wrote:
> Check back when you first asked the question. I answered it. Different
> brands of blanks work better in different burners. You can't recommend
> your brand of blanks to me if you have a different piece of hardware.
> What works for me doesn't work for you necessarily.
>
> If you'd like me to provide you with links to webpages with scientific
> research on this, I'd be happy to look them up.

For those of you with Burners & a PC a very useful little tool is CDRID.

http://www.gum.de/it/download/english.htm

"This little tool lets you read the ATIP (Absolute Time In Pre-Groove) of CDR
(CD-Recordable) media with most of the current CDR recorders.
This information tells the real manufacturer and type of dye used for this
media."

Cheers!

Mike

Auckland, New Zealand

















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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:34:56 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) what does music do?

I was listening to the new Tipsy record.  It's not what I expected.  I was
listening to one of the later cuts.  There were a lot of layers of music
happening at the same time.   I was trying to figure out how all that music
was affecting me.  What it was doing to me.  What it was making me feel.
If anything.
At the same time I was thinking about bigshot's "advice" that I start to
listen to classical music.
It's not that I don't like it.  I like it fine when I hear it.  I just
don't feel the ambition to start down another musical tributary at this point.
The other thing I was thinking about was bigshot's contention that he's
"educated" himself about these things.  Mostly I was thinking about him
saying that IF you educate yourself, you will appreciate more.
I suppose that's true.
But are you appreciating something MORE or just in a different way?
I educated myself in jazz.  Occasionally I can go "Oh that sounds like
Elvin Jones on the drums".  I recognize things.
But does that necessarily lead to more enjoyment?
One of the "themes" of my film was that record collecting is NOT about the
music.
I know that it is sort of about the music. It's always partly about the music.
But if you're sitting in a club and a piece of music comes on and you go
"Ooh, this is Lush Life.  Have you heard the Johnny Hartman/John Coltrane
version?", is that about appreciating the music more?
I'm not sure.
I'm thinking about this because I don't necessarily feel that just because
classical music is more subtle, more expressive, more beautifully played
etc, that there is more for me to appreciate there.
It seems to me that classical music is a certain kind of music.  That
sounds self evident except that some people who listen exclusively to
classical music say that they can get everything they need to get out of
that one kind of music.
And I want to say "I don't think you can get from classical music what I
get from Hank Williams.  Or the American Music Club.  Or Sarah Vaughn.  etc
etc etc".
But all this begs the question of what you get from music.  How do you get
what you get?  Does the music do it?  Or is it your association with the
music?
If I drenched myself in classical music, would I ever find a record that
reminded me of how I felt when my last girlfriend left?
Maybe. But not the way the right lyric can.

Anyway I'm thinking about a lot of very basic questions.
I have all these different genres of music here (Everything but classical
and rap.)
Sometimes when I stand in front of the shelf and wonder what I want to
hear, I wonder what I'm really thinking about.  Is there some subconscious
process going on?

Does anybody know anything about how music enters your brain?

AZ




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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 18:31:19 -0800
From: "jim gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) The Golden Age of Space Junk

As the Mir hurtled toward earth this week I was reminded of  my favorite
DEVO song "Space Junk." . That first DEVO album was and still is KILLER all
the way through, even though there was that song about the guy who wore a
hat and had a job and brought home the bacon so that no one knew he was a
_________.

And face it folks, the spudboys were right, look around, the world IS
devolving. Send in the clones, or at least a few spare Stepford Wives.

Jb -"Are we not men?  That is the Law......... Law no more................."



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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:21:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Up with People

I recently pruchased my first "Up with People" album and am enjoying it
quite a bit. The title song is a damn catchy tune. My question is:
Is there more than one UWP album out there, or is this it?

- - bruce

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:28:23 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] catching up pt.1

Apparently people don't stop dying just 'cause I leave town for a week or=
 so.
Here's some that "piled up."

Lou
(after this I've got to start catching up on the 600+ messages in my mailbox
- - most from you busy busy people).

Sunday, March 18, 2001

Lancelot Pinard; Musician Brought Calypso to U.S.

From L.A. Times Staff and Wire Reports

    Lancelot Victor Pinard, who under the name Sir Lancelot was a
significant figure in introducing calypso music to American audiences, died
March 12 in Anaheim. He was 98.
     Accompanying himself on guitar and singing old-time calypso tunes like
"Rum and Coca-Cola," "Mary Ann" and "Take Me, Take Me," Pinard offered
lively performances to packed houses at venues around Southern California in
the 1940s and '50s.
     Born in Cumuto, Trinidad, to well-to-do Anglophile parents, Pinard was
educated in the West Indies and trained to be a pharmacist. He moved to New
York City to pursue a medical career but switched to music after hearing a
concert by a tenor named Roland Hayes. In an interview with The Times some
years ago, Pinard recalled how he made the switch from classical music,
which first captured his attention, to calypso.
     "This orchestra leader from Trinidad who had a nice band in New York
heard one of my concerts and said, 'Would you condescend to record a couple
of calypsos for me?' " Pinard said. "This is the music of my country,"
Pinard replied. "I'd be proud to do it."
     Pinard's performance debut as a calypso man came in 1940 at the New
York club the Village Vanguard. That was quickly followed by a West Coast
tour, which brought him to the Wilshire Ebell in Los Angeles. The critical
response was positive and Pinard was quickly signed to appear in the 1941
film "Two Yanks in Trinidad." He went on to make more than 15 other films,
ranging from a role in the Bogart-Bacall classic "To Have and Have Not" to B
films like "Zombies on Broadway."
     But Pinard's success in America with calypso didn't yield many
dividends in his homeland.
     "They have a whole British style down there and figured this is the
music of the lower classes," Pinard recalled. "Gentlemen didn't sing
calypsos at that time. I was the first, and when I went back . . . my
friends did not receive me."
     But Pinard's efforts helped legitimize calypso. He was popular
throughout Europe in the 1960s.
     A devout Roman Catholic, Pinard also wrote and recorded many "Gospel
Calypsos" before he gave up singing in the early 1970s.
     He emerged briefly in the 1980s, performing locally at McCabe's Guitar
Shop with a band composed of some legendary figures in the L.A. music scene:
Van Dyke Parks on piano, Ry Cooder on guitar and Jim Keltner on drums.
     "I had heard of him since I was a child," Parks said some years ago.
"This man is an innovator who did a lot to advance [his] music. I've met a
lot of calypsonians who all gave reverence to Sir Lancelot."
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
John Phillips
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/18/us.obit.phillips.ap/index.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/546161.asp?0cm=3Dc21
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010319/re/britain_director_dc_1.html
Monday March 19 12:56 PM ET
Veteran Director Ralph Thomas Dies at 85

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran British director Ralph Thomas,
whose credits include the Dirk Bogarde ``Doctor'' films, has died
at the age of 85, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Thomas was perhaps best-known for his medical comedies --
Doctor in the House, Doctor at Sea, Doctor at Large, Doctor in
Love, Doctor in Distress and Doctor in Trouble -- between 1953
and 1970.

Apart from Bogarde they starred, at various times, Kenneth
More, Donald Sinden, Margaret Rutherford, Dora Bryan, James
Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe and, on one
occasion, a young Brigitte Bardot.

Toward the end of his career he was responsible for sex
comedies such as Percy and Percy's Progress.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-16/News_and_Views/Daily_Dish/a-103537.asp

Ramone's Battle for Health

One of New York's original punk rockers is fighting for his life. Joey=20
Ramone, 49, lead singer of the Ramones, a band out of Forest Hills that=20
spearheaded the downtown punk scene in 1974, is in a New York-area=20
hospital battling lymphoma.

The group, which Joey formed with Marky, Dee Dee and Johnny =8B all of=20
whom adopted the same last name as the band =8B broke up only five years=20
ago. But the mark they left on the genre, due in large measure to their=20
early albums =8B which featured such tracks as "I Wanna Be Sedated,"=20
"Teenage Lobotomy" and "Cretin Hop" =8B are forever part of New York=20
musical history.

Ramones spokesman Arturo Vega told me that the patient has had a good=20
week.

"Joey watched a tape of 'The Sopranos' on Wednesday," said Vega. "He's=20
doing better and better."
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Voiceover Actress Norma Macmillan Dead at 79

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Norma Macmillan, who voiced characters=
 for
"The Gumby Show'' and other animated TV series, died Friday of a heart=
 attack.=20
She was 79.=20

During a career that spanned four decades, Macmillan earned a long list of
credits in TV, radio and movies. She was the voice of Goo and other=
 characters
on "The Gumby Show,'' Sweet Polly Purebread in the "Underdog'' series, and
Kokette in the "Mean Moe'' series.=20

She also provided voices for "The First Family,'' a comedy album that=
 satirized
John F. Kennedy's family during his presidency.=20

She appeared in several movies, including the recent comedy "Head Over=
 Heels''
as well as 1996's "Big Bully.''

Macmillan's children also pursued acting.  Her daughter, Alison Arngrim of=
 Los
Angeles, played Nellie Oleson on the TV series "Little House on the=
 Prairie.''

Her son, Stefan Arngrim, played Barry Lockridge on the TV series "Land of=
 the
Giants.''
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Norma Macmillan, the voice of=
 television's
Casper the Friendly Ghost, Gumby and other animated characters, died Friday=
 of
a heart attack. She was 79.=20

Macmillan entertained a generation of children by giving a voice to popular
cartoon characters such as Casper, the mild-mannered ghost who refused to
frighten children, and Sweet Polly Purebread of the Underdog series.=20

Among Macmillan's acting credits was the 1986 television movie ``Mrs.=
 Delafield
Wants to Marry,'' with Katharine Hepburn, and guest appearances and=
 recurring
roles on television shows.=20




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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:29:16 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] catching up pt.2

Rush Street playboy meets violent end

March 20, 2001

BY FRANK MAIN CRIME REPORTER

Richard W. Hauff was a Rush Street playboy in the 1960s, dating Zsa
Zsa Gabor and other Hollywood stars and golfing with mob pals.

The Iranian immigrant was 24 when he bought Mount Prospect Country
Club with a gangster's brother.

Though he had long faded from the spotlight when found murdered last
month, Hauff once boasted, "I personally know Frank Sinatra, Perry
Como, Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey and Phil Harris. No one can call them
hoodlums, and I hope to have them as guests at my golf course when
they are in Chicago."

In 1960, he told a reporter, "Yes, I'm a playboy. I'm as bad a playboy
as can be. If it wasn't for Zsa Zsa and those other broads, I wouldn't
be in the papers."
<<snip>
=========
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Randall Hylton, a bluegrass performer who wrote ``Room
at the Top of the Stairs,'' died Monday after suffering an aneurysm. He was 55.

Hylton, who played guitar in the fingerpicking style of Chet Atkins and Merle
Travis, was known for his ability to instantly write songs to fit any occasion.
His songs were performed by more than 150 singers, including Ralph Stanley and
Vern Gosdin.

The 6-foot-6-inch performer also told jokes and did guitar tricks, such as
playing a song backward or two songs at once.
======
Taken from the CP Wire:
Charles Johnson, head of the International Flat Earth Society for nearly
30 years, has died in Lancaster, California.  He was 76.

Johnson was president of the group whose belief is that the Earth is
actually shaped like a platter, with a magnetic North Pole in the middle.
Believers reject science & satellite photos as part of an elaborate hoax.

The society, which claims a membership of approx 3500, was founded in
Illinois at the turn of the last century.
Johnson, who published a quarterly newsletter from his Mojave Desert home, also
believed the nation's space program was an elaborate fraud perpetrated by the
government.

Flat-Earthers, who base some of their arguments on the Bible, claim globalists
have been lied to and deceived for centuries.

The Flat Earth Society was founded in Zion, Ill., at the turn of the last
century, and moved its headquarters to England a few years later. The
headquarters was relocated to Johnson's Hi Vista home when he became the
organization's president in 1972.
========
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Adolph Levis, the entrepreneur who made a fortune off
the beef snack Slim Jim and gave millions to charity, died Tuesday at the age
of 89.

Levis, who dropped out of school at 16, and his brother began selling spices,
pickles, relishes during the Great Depression. He later began curing meat for
nationwide shipping and peddled pickled sausage and other products to bars,
serving about 6,000 wholesalers.

After seeing pepperoni products selling consistently at bars, Levis came up
with a three-month meat curing process. He packaged the meat snack and called
it Penn Rose, but later changed it to Slim Jim.

He sold the product to General Mills in 1967.
=======
Cartoon Pioneer William Hanna Dead at 90

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Animation pioneer William Hanna, who with partner Joseph
Barbera created such beloved cartoon characters as Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear
and Tom and Jerry, died Thursday.  He was 90.

Hanna died at his North Hollywood home with Violet, his wife of 65 years, at
his side, said Sarah Carragher, a spokeswoman for Warner Bros., which owns
Hanna-Barbera Studios. She said he had been in declining health for the last
few years.
<<snip>>
====
Anthony Steel

ANTHONY STEEL, the actor, who has died aged 81, was the boyish, square-jawed
star of such films of the 1950s as The Wooden Horse, Albert RN and The Sea
Shall Not Have Them; but at the height of his fame he married the Swedish
actress and former Miss Universe Anita Ekberg, and thereafter his career
took a rapid turn for the worse.

Steel was a tall, handsome, former Guards officer, and thus ideally cast in
such tales of wartime endurance as The Malta Story (1953). In the late
1940s, fresh out of the Army, he was put under contract by J Arthur Rank
after having been introduced to him by his girlfriend, Rank's niece. Within
a few years he was, with Dirk Bogarde, Rank's best paid actor.

His break came in The Wooden Horse (1950), Eric Williams's story of
ingenious escape from a PoW camp. He followed up this success with another,
Where No Vultures Fly (1951), a scenic account of life in East Africa. Steel
played a game warden who, with the aid of Dinah Sheridan, deals with such
hazards as a nasty outbreak of rinderpest. A sequel to this, West of
Zanzibar (1954), briefly gave Steel a hit song, Jumbo.

In 1954, British cinemagoers rated Steel and Jack Hawkins as their favourite
actors, and that year he strengthened his appeal with his portrayal of the
indefatigable, duffle-coated Air Sea Rescue officer who saves Bogarde and
Michael Redgrave in The Sea Shall Not Have Them. The next year he made Storm
Over the Nile, a version of The Four Feathers, which also proved popular
with audiences, but in December he met Miss Ekberg at a film premiere.

He was instantly taken with her personality and her figure (39-23-37),
declaring that "Anita is the most beautiful woman I have ever met". After
various vicissitudes, much prevarication, and a trip to Malmo to meet her
parents, the couple were married at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, in 1956.

Although the wedding had been the talk of the newspapers for weeks, Steel
was rather a private man and it was not a showbusiness affair (although Miss
Ekberg took care to look her best for any photographers who might happen to
be present). The best man was a journalist covering events for the Daily
Mirror; the witness was a passing art student. Steel gave his bride an
emerald flanked by 12 diamonds, said to have cost $24,000.

But it soon became clear that all was not well between the pair. There were
rumours of arguments, alcohol and mutual jealousy, and though Steel could be
the most gentle-mannered of men, he also acquired a reputation for
hell-raising. On one occasion he lashed out at Italian paparazzi following
him and Anita Ekberg, and twice he was arrested for drink driving.

At the root of the trouble, perhaps, was his wife's insistence that Steel
should move to Hollywood, where he was soon overshadowed by her much-admired
profile. In 1959 they divorced, and Steel returned to England. He told
reporters: "It was no fun being married to a glamour girl." His career never
afterwards recovered its former lustre.

No longer seen as a matinee idol after his divorce from Ekberg, he found
work harder to come by in the 1960s, although he appeared in Anzio (1968).
For some years he lived in Rome and had roles in a number of Italian films,
but by the 1970s there were few pictures for his type of actor, and he was
reduced to taking parts in such grubby fare as The Story of O (1975),
Hardcore (1977) and the straightforwardly titled Let's Get Laid (1977), with
Fiona Richmond.




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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:31:25 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] catching up pt.3

Performer Elena Del Rubio Dies

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Elena Del Rubio, whose 60-year singing career with her
sisters as the Del Rubio Triplets got a boost with campy covers of 1980s tunes,
died Monday of cancer. She was believed to be in her 70s.

"It was a terrible blow to me,'' said Milly, the only surviving sister.  "Now
I'm left alone.''

Another triplet, Eadie, died in 1996.  The sisters lived together in a mobile
home overlooking the ocean.

The trio that promoted itself as ''3 Gals, 3 Guitars, 1 Birthday'' performed
for six decades in showcases ranging from television comedy to retirement
homes.

The three were in their 60s when they hit the Hollywood scene, dressed in
identical miniskirts, go-go boots and big blonde hairdos.

Calling themselves "song stylists,'' the sisters' diverse acts included
mariachi strolling, country western music, Hawaiian-Calypso and holiday theme
music.
=======
NEW YORK (AP) - Herbie Jones, a jazz musician who worked with Duke Ellington
and Billy Strayhorn, died March 19 of complications from diabetes. He was 74.

Jones, a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator, toured five
continents with the Ellington band. His recorded arrangements for the band were
``El Busto,'' ``Cootie's Caravan,'' ``The Prowling Cat'' and ``The Opener,''
and he contributed to Ellington's first and second Sacred Concerts.

After leaving the Ellington band, Jones became the first director of Arts and
Culture Inc., a New York City alternative school, and as a volunteer directed
the Bugle Corps of the Police Athletic League in Harlem.

In Ellington's 1973 memoir, ``Music Is My Mistress,'' he called Jones ``a great
asset'' to his orchestra in the 1960s. Jones often played first trumpet but
rarely soloed.
=========
Sigurd M. Rascher, a classical saxophonist compared by some to Casals
and Segovia for his influence on his instrument and its concert
repertory, died on Feb. 25 at his home in Shushan, N.Y. He was 94. In
the course of a 50-year career, Mr. Rascher played with virtually all
the major orchestras, many of which have never had another saxophone
soloist. A critic for The New York Times wrote that the saxophone had
gained "aesthetic respectability" on Nov. 11, 1939, when Mr. Rascher was
the first solo saxophonist for the New York Philharmonic in 3,543
concerts. Mr. Rascher was proud of playing dance music, but he feared
his instrument's potential to add rich tones to more serious musical
fare was too often unachieved. For that failure, he blamed both
mechanical modifications in the original design of Adolphe Sax's
instrument and bad musicianship.
========
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Choreographer Birgit Aakesson, one of the most
prominent figures in modern Swedish dance, died Saturday on her 93rd birthday.

Aakesson made her debut at the Theatre du Vieux Colombier in Paris in 1934 with
a performance of solo dance without music. She soon became known among the
French as ``the Picasso of Dance.''

She started a dancing school in 1936 in Stockholm and had an artistic
breakthrough 10 years later, also with an evening of solo dance without music.

Aakesson spent time in later years doing research into African tribal cultures
and wrote a book, ``The Mask of Spring Water,'' in 1983.
========

Comedian Jackie Kahane Dead at 79

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Canadian-born comic Jackie Kahane, who appeared as Elvis
Presley's opening act over a five-year period, died Monday of cancer.  He was
79.

Kahane, whose career spanned six decades, appeared with Elvis at the Las Vegas
Hilton during performances from 1972 until Presley's death in 1977.  He was
selected along with Bill Cosby as one of Time magazine's outstanding young
comedians in 1961.

In addition to Presley, Kahane performed with Wayne Newton, Tina Turner, Tony
Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Sophie Tucker and Joe E. Lewis.

His television appearances included "The Ed Sullivan Show'' and "The Tonight
Show with Johnny Carson.''
====
From the CBC online news service

Jazz legend Moe Koffman dies
WebPosted Wed Mar 28 20:09:17 2001

TORONTO - Canadian jazz great Moe Koffman died Wednesday afternoon from
cancer.

Koffman is best known for his song "Swingin' Shepherd Blues." It is the only
jazz flute solo to become a hit on rock and roll hit record charts. Another
of his songs, "Curried Soul" has become well know to Canadians as the theme
song to CBC Radio's As It Happens.

Koffman recorded "Swingin' Shepherd Blues" in 1958. He originally named his
smash hit "Blues a la Canadiana" but it was changed to "Swingin' Shepherd
Blues" by a producer.

He was a popular soloist, on both the flute and the saxophone, who became
known for his be-bop jazz style.

Koffman was honoured for his outstanding work and service to the arts in
1993 with his appointment to the Order Of Canada.

Rob McConnell, Koffman's longtime friend and leader of Canada's well-known
Boss Brass told radio station CJRT that besides his musical talent and
versatility the jazz world had lost a "really, really, really nice guy." Moe
Koffman was 72.






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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:05:55 -0500
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Up with People

At 11:21 PM 3/28/01 -0500, Bruce Lenkei wrote:
>
>
>I recently pruchased my first "Up with People" album and am enjoying it
>quite a bit. The title song is a damn catchy tune. My question is:
>Is there more than one UWP album out there, or is this it?

I bet there's a hundred more.  But I have three.
I kind of like a couple of the songs too but I'm not sure you need more
than one.
On the other hand, there's a slow and a more rockin version of their theme
song and you probably should have both.
Being that you're an Up With People completist.

AZ



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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:25:39 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) The Golden Age

>>I still play Devo incessantly, and I always hear something new
>>in it, especially the first album produced by Brian Eno.
>
>Except, demonstrating the silliness of trying to build walls between
>decades, that album was released in 1978.

Reading myself back, that may have come out with an unintended harshness.
If so, sorry about that. It was intended as a neutral observation, not a
personal jab. I should have said "futility" instead of "silliness." Time
being a continuous and disorderly stream and all that sort of thing... or
is it an illusion... delusion... never mind.

If you want to keep name-checking 80s-ish people, go right ahead. But don't
forget the Yma of the new wave, Lene Lovich.

Or the B-52s, who were way ahead of the curve with the thrift-store record
influences.

Thrift-store records... I should try posting about them sometime.

- --m.ace



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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:13:17 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] William Hanna

Thanks to the Scout Report, here's a bunch o' links to more on the life and
times of Mr. Hanna.
Lou


William Hanna, 1910-2001
Boomerang [QuickTime]
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/boomerang/
Big Cartoon Database -- Hanna Barbera
http://www.bcdb.com/pages/Hanna-Barbera/
"Legendary American cartoonist dies" -- BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/tv_and_radio/newsid_1237000/1
237370.stm
"The Passing of a Cartoon King" -- ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/hanna010322_obit.html
"William Hanna; Innovator in Television Cartooning With Joseph
Barbera" -- _Los Angeles Times_
http://www.latimes.com/obituary/20010323/t000025191.html
"William Hanna, Who Created Cartoon Characters, Dies at 90" -- _New York Times_
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/arts/23HANN.html
MGM Animated Shorts - William Hanna
http://www.geocities.com/mgmshorts/creators/hanna.htm
William Hanna -- IMDB
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hanna,+William
Scooby Doo
http://www.scoobydoo.com/
Randy's Tom and Jerry Cartoon Information Site
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6859/tj.html
Unofficial Flintstones and Hanna Barbera Homepage
http://members.optushome.com.au/webrock/
The Jetsons Unofficial Home
http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/

Legendary cartoonist William Hanna has died at his home in Los
Angeles at age 90. Hanna, along with his partner of over 50 years,
Joseph Barbera, created some of the world's best known and most
beloved cartoon characters, including Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones,
Scooby-Doo, Snagglepuss, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and many, many
others. Hanna got his start as a lyricist and composer with
Harmon-Ising Studios, the company that created the Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies cartoon series, in the early 1930s. In 1937 Hanna
moved to MGM and soon afterward partnered with Barbera. Their first
success was "Puss Gets the Boot," a cat and mouse cartoon that earned
an Academy Award nomination and provided the genesis for Tom and
Jerry. Between 1943 and 1952 the team won seven Oscars for their
animated shorts. After MGM closed its animation division in the
1950s, Hanna and Barbera formed their own company and moved to
television, producing numerous successful animated comedies. Probably
the best known of these were the Flintstones, a parody of the
Honeymooners and the first prime-time cartoon series, and Yogi Bear,
who was modeled after Phil Silvers' Sergeant Bilko. Over the years
since its creation in 1957 the Hanna-Barbera company developed over
150 cartoon and live-action television series and produced more than
5,000 TV animations, winning eight Emmys in the process. As a
testament to the continued appeal of Hanna and Barbera's characters,
the Cartoon Network recently created the Boomerang cable network,
which exclusively showcases the Hanna-Barbera library.

Readers would do well to begin exploring the artistic legacy of
William Hanna with the official Boomerang site, which lists a
different H-B cartoon for each year between 1958 (Huckleberry Hound)
and 1976 (Jabberjaw), along with the hit movies and records and a few
news items from that year. The site also provides a program schedule
and some QuickTime clips. Another fine resource is the Big Cartoon
Database's amazingly deep database of over 5,700 H-B cartoons. News
reports on Hanna's life and career are available from the BBC and ABC
News, while the _Los Angeles Times_ and _New York Times_ (free
registration required) have printed obituaries. The MGM Animated
Shorts page offers some background information and a detailed
filmography of William Hanna's years at MGM. An even more extensive
filmography of Hanna's works can be found at the Internet Movie
Database. Finally, the official Scooby Doo page and fan sites
dedicated to Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, and the Jetsons provide
further information, sounds, images, and proof that we will never
tire of watching Tom get smacked on the head by irons, frying pans,
bowling balls, or any other heavy object that is handy. Thank you
William Hanna.




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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:38:52 -0500
From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Vic Mizzy release on CD

There are a few MP3 samples at Percepto but not in the store.  Go to
http://www.percepto.com and click on the "catalog" link.  It'll give you a
track list and nine samples.

It zounds great but pricy!

Paul

Johan wrote:

> has anyone heard it? no online zounds, and pricy! ($20)
>
>
>> VIC MIZZY - SUITES & THEMES
>>
>> Buy it here:
>> http://store.percepto.com/percepto/movtvsoun.html



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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:58:10 +0200
From: Edward Milhuisen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Up with People

alan zweig wrote:

> At 11:21 PM 3/28/01 -0500, Bruce Lenkei wrote:
> >
> >
> >I recently pruchased my first "Up with People" album and am enjoying it
> >quite a bit. The title song is a damn catchy tune. My question is:
> >Is there more than one UWP album out there, or is this it?
>
> I bet there's a hundred more.  But I have three.
> I kind of like a couple of the songs too but I'm not sure you need more
> than one.
> On the other hand, there's a slow and a more rockin version of their theme
> song and you probably should have both.
> Being that you're an Up With People completist.

I have UWP's "People are the energy". Their music is terrible, but I like the
album cover and their whole concept. What  is their background? They seem
to have a message, but whatever it is, it's so unspecific, I can't figure it
out.





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