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exotica-digest          Monday, April 9 2001          Volume 02 : Number 952



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25)
(exotica) shelving cd's
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25)
(exotica) [Fwd: [popnouveau] Re:exotica]
(exotica) Brazilian wierdness
(exotica) [obit] Francis Grasso
(exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
(exotica) Fwd: Woweee!
Re: (exotica) Fwd: Woweee!
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems
Re: (exotica) shelving cd's
(exotica) [exotica]flexi-disc bites the dust
(exotica) FS: Stereolab/Monade
(exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout"
Re: (exotica) Curdxotica
(exotica) Doggie Down
Re: (exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout"
(exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001
Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001
Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001
(exotica) Wynder K Frog
Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s
(exotica) StereoLab
(exotica) Josie & the PussyCats Rhino Handmade Early Warning 31

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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:54:49 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

At 01:44 AM 4/7/01 -0700, bag wrote:
>
>Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday.
>
>It was called Corporate Anthems:
>
>http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2
>
>I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which
>extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the
>people who sold them.
>
>A guy named Steve Young has collected more than 150 LPs of industrial
>musicals and I can't say I have seen even one!
>


Corporate Anthems  -- Rex Doane of NPR's On the Media has the story of
corporate anthems -- elaborate songs and even shows that were geared not to
the customer, but to the employees. The songs -- like a school fight song or
a national anthem -- were meant to elevate morale. (7:30)
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010406.atc.09.rmm


This is one of those "small world" kind of things. The Corporate Anthems
piece was put together by Rex Doane who has a must-hear show on WFMU.
http://www.wfmu.org/FPWR/
He lives down the other end of Prospect Park from me, not far from Tony Wilds.
Steve Young used to be on this list. He produces the Dave's Record
Collection segment on Letterman's show, and did the similar section on the
official Letterman web site. He also had an article in one of the early
issues of Cool and Strange, about this Industrial music.

One of my proudest bits of meddling was to remind Steve Young and David
Garland of each other, which led to this radio meeting on Spinning on Air:
Industrial Shows
Here are some Broadway-style musicals never meant for Broadway. Instead,
they were intended for corporate pep-rallies and trade shows, to praise the
product and motivate the work-force. Comedy writer Steve Young (David
Letterman, The Simpsons) shares his unique collection of musicals containing
such show-stoppers as "My Bathroom," "My Insurance Man," and a song about
new trucks. First broadcast 12/14/97 5/15/98
http://www.wnyc.org/new/music/spinning/ram/soayoung.ram


Extra Credit: who can name Garland's theme song at the top of his show?


Steve's a great guy, based on the very few times I've met him. He only
collects these Industrial shows and he's completely sincere about them. If
you're in NY you can find some Industrial LPs at Footlights. Don't worry -
Steve will have already seen them.

Lou







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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:10:57 -0500
From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25)

Art deco theatres from the 20s-40s seem ripe for tiki designs. For
instance, the Fox Theatre in Detroit has fabulous plasterwork depicting
scowling sheiks, palms--a gilded fantasy desert in downtown Motown. Does
anyone know of art deco theatres with tiki themes? How about any books on
the subject? Thanks for any info, Mimi




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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:51:41 -0700
From: "warren beath" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) shelving cd's

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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 11:57:43 -0600
From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

i bought one of these industrial records once -- i can't remember the
corporation but the song that caught my attention was about nuclear
energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. it was done as a
skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the bad old
gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town that was going to
clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum. i didn't keep it because it
was badly recorded, like they only had one microphone, and i thought it
was boring. had i only known...

mike

basic hip wrote:

> I'd like to collect them, but I can't.  I can't find them.  Not only are
> they highly collectible by the types that will pay whatever they have to pay
> to get them (and they do), but even more discouraging are that opportunities
> to find them come along once in a blue moon.  Better not think about it!


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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:32:47 -0500
From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

At 1:44 AM -0700 4/7/01, [e-mail] wrote:
>I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which
>extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the
>people who sold them.

Can't talk about records but a longtime pal of mine makes a lush living
writing and producing these extravaganzas, mostly for auto companies. The
corporados jet in their dealers and suppliers to a resort then pamper them
with sumptuous dining and drink as well as R&R often entailing golf. The
climax is a sophisticated show where celebrities and spokesmodels extol the
virtues of the new product lines in skit and song based on topical themes
and current hits or standards--all to get a sales force geeked.
Capitalism. Ain't it grand?
Mimi




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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:45:48 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

At 09:06 AM 4/7/01 -0700, basic hip wrote:
.>
>I've looked all over for records of this type ever since - probably six
>years now - and have had very little luck finding anything like them..

I think I have two or three.  It depends on how loosely you describe the
category.

I think this is the kind of thing you can only get two places.  Thrift
stores or ebay.  I guess if you concentrated on this kind of thing, you
could get a few.
Anyway here's what I have:

There's one on Capitol Custom
"Music from Bach to Rock -a salute to the 150th Anniversary of Gas" by
Harry Fields his piano and quartet

I love this sentence in the liner notes "Seldom has an artist been as
intimately identified with an entire industry as Harry Fields is with the
natural gas industry".

The music is okay.  It's basically a mostly original lounge/exotica record
but not very good.  No singing.

Then there's
"Impressions" put  out by Bergstrom Paper.
This also has no singing but it's probably the most interesting on a
"musical" level.  The record is by a guy named Bill Walker and it's a
musical salute to the printing press.  It's kind of like "Zounds What
Sounds" except all the sounds are from printing presses.  The tune starts
off with the particular rhythm of a press and then the music comes in.
It's slightly above average lounge music.  This record could possibly make
it on its own.

The third one, I'm not sure it counts but it's the closest to the Bathroom
one:

Chevrolet Sings of Safe Driving and You

There are eight songs.  Each one of them starts off with a spoken word bit
to explain the concept and then the song continues from there.  The style
of music is kind of in the Up With People style.  A bit like a rock musical
I guess.  I think everyone here would recognize the style and be singing
along in no time.
The song titles are followed by the theme:

1.  "An Exciting Thing"
   (Driving a car)
2) Grown up Baby
   (Driving psychology)
3. Cities and Towns
   (Driving in city and heavy traffic)
4. Nowhere Fast
   (Observance and Enforcement)
5. Gentle Things
   (Adverse Driving Conditions)
6. When the Wrong thing happens
   (Stopping distances)
7. The Natural Laws
  (Laws of Motion)
8. Man-Made laws
  (Common sense driving)



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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 14:57:19 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25)

Hey Mimi,

This is a whole sub-genre of Art Deco often called Tropical Deco.  You see it
a lot in Miami Beach, but it was also popular after the Pan Pacific
Exposition.  I've got one book titled, what else, Tropical Deco.  Also,
there's a gorgeous book on The San Francisco Fair - Treasure Island 1939-40,
when Treasure Island was turned into a Deco Wonderland for a couple years.
Several of the exhibits there had a strong Pacific vibe.

- -David

<< Art deco theatres from the 20s-40s seem ripe for tiki designs. For
 instance, the Fox Theatre in Detroit has fabulous plasterwork depicting
 scowling sheiks, palms--a gilded fantasy desert in downtown Motown. Does
 anyone know of art deco theatres with tiki themes? How about any books on
 the subject? Thanks for any info, Mimi
  >>


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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 21:48:34 +0200
From: Edward Milhuisen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [Fwd: [popnouveau] Re:exotica]

Kevin Lee wrote:


> if you've not heard of the exotica list... well, where you been??  i've been a
> member off and on for some 9 years now.  yikes.  anyway it's not just
> exotica exotica.  it runs the gaumt:  space age, lounge, moog, novelty,
> spoken word... pretty much anything that's exotic in the general sense of
> the word.  dare i say they're much bigger and much more active than our
> little forum.  so don't say i didn't warn you when you get a flood of email.
> even the digests add up.  i can't keep up with it but there's a lot of
> knowledgable folks there.  too knowledgable if you ask me!
>






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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:18:27 -0700
From: "Brian Linds" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brazilian wierdness

Hi. What can folks tell me about a self titled record by Lulu Cortez and Ze
Ramhalo? It's twisted Brazilian
semi psych sounds with lots of animal sounds in the background.
Brian Linds



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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 16:26:33 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Francis Grasso

April 7, 2001
Francis Grasso, 60's D.J. and Master of the Club Mix, Dies at 52
By NEIL STRAUSS,NYTimes
Francis Grasso, a pioneering club disc jockey credited with first mixing
records together in the late 1960's by matching their rhythms, was found
dead on March 23 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 52.

The cause is unknown, pending results of an autopsy.

Mr. Grasso was born in Brooklyn and, at an early age, discovered a talent
for music, playing drums, guitar and saxophone. After he was injured in a
motorcycle accident, a doctor told him that dancing would be a good form of
physical therapy and soon he was a fixture on the Manhattan club scene.

In 1968 at a Central Park club called Salvation 2, Mr. Grasso went behind
the turntables for the first time when the club manager asked him to fill in
for the house D.J., who was ill. Soon, Mr. Grasso had the job.

With an understanding of the psychology of the dance floor, he slowly began
to retool the job of the D.J. As he saw it, his job wasn't simply to play
records, it was to keep the crowd on the dance floor. The best way to do
that was to make one song seem to stretch on forever, without a break. This
helped create the notion of the disc jockey as artist and live remixer.
Working with two seven- inch singles, at first he would start a new song on
the same beat that ended the previous song (by holding the record still as
the turntable spun below it, a technique known as slip- cueing).

Later, he began matching the beats of records, trying to keep two songs
playing simultaneously for as long as possible, which was an extremely
difficult task since most turntables then lacked conveniences like pitch
control.

One of his best-known tactics was his simultaneous playing of
percussion-heavy songs, like Chicago Transit Authority's "I'm a Man," with
sexually charged vocals, like Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love,"
anticipating the rise of disco.

Mr. Grasso developed and refined many of these techniques when he moved his
headquarters to Sanctuary, a hedonistic club in Hell's Kitchen, and presided
over the dance floor there until it was closed by city authorities in 1972.

In 1971 the movie "Klute" featured a scene with Mr. Grasso working at the
Sanctuary. When the club closed, he worked as a D.J. off and on until 1981,
when he left the profession for good and found a job working in construction.





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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:57:32 -0800
From: Dean Keasey <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

I have a few of these, "Impressions in color" put out by Bergstrom
Paper. It's compositions inspired by the sounds made by the printing
press at different speeds.  pretty jazzy. It includes actual sounds of
the press as well.  Another one I have was put out by Valvoline in 1969,
"Swinging sights and sounds" and it's classic now sound stuff.  Still
another is called Dimension 70, motorola's insight to creativity, has
great moog instrumentals...the opener "dimension 70" sounds like it
could be used for a Gerry Anderson TV show theme.

>I saw "The Eight Seasons of Chromalox" on ebay once, that is probably the
best place to begin your search for a needle in a haystack....

I have heard this, and it's pretty amazing in my opinion. At times it
sounds like Free Design and even Stereolab..

Dean

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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 00:09:29 +0200
From: Edward Milhuisen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

I have a whole bunch of corporate records, but I've never made the
distinction
between  made for consumers / made for employees. I guess on a lot of of
the ones
I have, the distinction would be very blury.
What I like most about these records is that so many of them have
religious overtones.
It's almost like they took a gospel song and substituted the word Jesus
or Lord for their brand name.
A tip for thrift store scavengers: there seems to be a lot more of these
on 7" than on LP, and a
lot of collectors don't bother going through the 7"s.I have two
excellent 7's from Ford
("Ford leads the way"), a couple by KLM ("Come fly on my Golden Wings").
And a great
spoken word 7" by Philips with suave 7T's cocktailmusic in the
background called
"For the love of Mike": a woman with a sexy voice declares her desire
for Mike
(meaning Philips microphones) and is misunderstood by a dorky character
called Mike.
And a 1979 Volkswagen instrumental LP which is boring except for one
track with a groovy
Moog that encaptures that conveyer belt feeling.
I have vocal one by Fokker, a former Dutch aircraft builder. Everytime
they sing Fokker, it
sounds like they sing Fucker:

"Fucker on the wing,
 on our way to new horizons
Fucker on the wing
Together we're strong
Fucker on the wing
The sky is our destination
Fucker on the wing
Come fly along!
Fucker on the wing
And spread your wings
to our song!"

I thought this genre died out in the late 7T's / early 8T's until I
recently found this site:

http://corporateanthems.raettig.org/

there's even one by Netscape!

[e-mail] wrote:

     Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday.

     It was called Corporate Anthems:


http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2


     Anyone out there collect these recordings?  Tell us about your
favorites!



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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 01 18:55:01 -0400
From: "Michael D. Toth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Woweee!

Hey there:

Someone just sent me this monumentally amazing link that I felt obligated
to pass along.

(Requires Flash plug-in:)

http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/hatten.swf

From context in the song's lyrics and the visual imagery, "hatt"
translates as "hat" in English???

Any idea what country a ".se" domain is? I'm trying to figure out its
origin.

You're so very welcome,

Michael David Toth
[e-mail]
[e-mail]



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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 01:35:10 +0200
From: Edward Milhuisen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Fwd: Woweee!

"Michael D. Toth" wrote:

> Any idea what country a ".se" domain is? I'm trying to figure out its
> origin.

that would be Sweden





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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:38:22 -0500
From: clayton black <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

> There's one on Capitol Custom
> "Music from Bach to Rock -a salute to the 150th Anniversary of Gas" by
> Harry Fields his piano and quartet
>
> I love this sentence in the liner notes "Seldom has an artist been as
> intimately identified with an entire industry as Harry Fields is with the
> natural gas industry".
>
> The music is okay.  It's basically a mostly original lounge/exotica record
> but not very good.  No singing.

I've got another one of Harry Fields's albums, "Music for Cooking with Gas,"
hawking the "Caloric" line of gas kitchen products.  But once again my
tastes don't align with Alan's.  The version of "Green Dolphin Street" on
this album is terrific.

Clayton



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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:12:47 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems

In a message dated 4/7/1 12:55:55 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>i bought one of these industrial records once -- i can't remember the
>corporation.......

Shame on you Ken Doll!  What kind of corporate weenie are you, anyway? The
whole idea of this LP ( called "Perspective of the 70's", by Westinghouse at
their Sixth Future Power Forum-February, 1969 ) was to familiarize you with
them..Apparently they failed royally...congratulations are in order, but to
whom remains uncertain, but with U on the exotica list I cast my vote your
way. ;-)

>but the song that caught my attention was about nuclear
>energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. it was done as a
>skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the bad old
>gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town that was going to
>clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum.

The track to which you refer--so irreverently I might add!-- is "The Nuclear
Kid"  which is according to the liner notes "...a saga of a stranger who came
to town one day--nuclear power. He was neat, clean, and friendly, but the
stories of his unruly youth made a lot of the townfolk afraid. Then one day
he outgunned the fossil bad men and became everyone's hero."


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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:40:28 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) shelving cd's

In a message dated 4/7/01 12:52:14 PM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< I'm running out of space for all my cd's and want to inquire if there is
any good reason for not stacking them flat. I've read it's recommended to
shelve them upright, but I'd buy some time before I have to get new shelving
if I could stack some flat to take up the rest of the shelf space. I'd be
interested if any of the experts have an opinion.  Thanks,  >>

It really makes no difference stcking them flat or upright. The only concern
you have with a flat stacking is that you may do damage to the CD case
(especially the ones on the bottom). Unlike albums which should be kept
upright as excessive weight can cause warping or other damage, a CD sits
firmly nestled in it's "jewel-box" tray housing so even if there is a tall
stack, the weight is distributed around the box and does not rest on the CD
itself.

Ashley


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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 11:58:18 +0200
From: Edward Milhuisen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [exotica]flexi-disc bites the dust

Don Joyce wrote:

> Forwarded by Negativland.
>
> >
> >Waiting for Eva-Tone to blame this on Napster.
> >
> >-- Mara Schwartz
> ><http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?render=y&eetype=Article&eeid=4141591
> >&ck=&userid=330736652&userpw=.&uh=330736652,2,&ver=2.5>
> >
> >
> >Novelty Discs Spin To Halt
> >By DAVID DALEY
> >The Hartford Courant
> >March 10, 2001
> >
> >This is the way a once-proud technology ends: not with a snap and crackle of
> >low-fidelity static, not with the incessant clicking of a needle stuck in a
> >groove, but with absolute radio silence.Once upon a time the flexi-disc -
> >those novelty records stapled into magazines, tucked under cereal-box tops
> >and mass-mailed to millions by presidential candidates - was a kitschy yet
> >honored way of distributing sound recordings.
> >



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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:25:33 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Patrick Carey)
Subject: (exotica) FS: Stereolab/Monade

Hi all,

I have a mint copy of the following for sale:

# Stereolab & Brigitte Fontaine/Monade - "Calim=E9ro/Cache Cache"
  UK CD (Duophonic Super 45s: ds45-cd25) 1999  [Fontaine: words
  and vocals, Stereolab/O'Hagan: music.  Monade track is Laetitia
  with help from Mary & Tim.  Mint.]

Please email if interested.

Thanks


- -Patrick
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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:08:21 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout"

Or as the cover puts it in full:

"Organ Freakout!
A Happening -- With The Mustang"

"The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia"

(Somerset SF-28600)

A decent batch of organ-dominated soul-a-gogo tracks from circa 1967. Sort of a budget substitute for when you can't get Booker T. & The MGs. Track titles like "Golden Gate Freakout", "Tennessee Waltz Frug", "Old Time Religion Gone New", "The Acid Test". Follows the budget label habit of deriving the tunes from public domain sources such as spirituals ("Joshua Got Busted") or slightly altered lifts from hits ("Wild Flowers '67" = "I Walk the Line"; "California Time" = "Shotgun"). Cover features five frugging women surrounding an organist with his back to the camera.

I think this one was discussed on the list not very long ago, but I can't recall if we ever established The Mustang's true identity. Anyone? And are there other Mustang albums out there?

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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:26:24 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Curdxotica

Here are some scrapple recipes using less outre cuts of meat:
http://www.berksweb.com/pam/scrapple.html

And here's a rather angry version that gets into skull-splitting and tooth bashing:
http://www.chickenhead.com/scrapple/recipe.html
I sense some childhood trauma there.

And here's a Florida band called Scrapple:
http://www.mindspring.com/~kconnell/scrapple/
Quote: "Take the 'k' out of 'funk' and you have 'fun' music...the true essence of our sound."
"Last update -- 7-22-98."


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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 14:33:07 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Doggie Down

Speaking of San Francisco landmarks, Shock! Terror! "Doggie" went down in high winds last Sunday night.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/02/MN197235.DTL



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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:08:18 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout"

At 02:08 PM 4/8/01 -0400, m.ace wrote:

>"Organ Freakout!
>A Happening -- With The Mustang"
>
>"The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia"
>I think this one was discussed on the list not very long ago, but I can't
recall if we ever established The Mustang's true identity. Anyone? And are
there other Mustang albums out there?

What am I? The local Paul Griffin expert?
The Mustang was Paul Griffin.  There are other Mustang records
One is "Dance to Swing Organ" also on Somerset.
Another is an all-Beatles record.  That's the better one by far.
Paul Griffin also has records on Somerset.
One is called "Sock it to me!! The Sounds and voices of the Now Generation".
It's not as good as the title.  (There are also vocal R&B tunes on the
record by Donnie Burks and Little Joe Curtis.)
Then there's "Paul Griffin pours on some Soul Sauce".
And finally in my former collection - now only on CDR - there is/was "101
Strings with Hammond Organ featuring Paul Griffin".

The thing about these records is that Paul/the Mustang plays this very
heavy handed, ham-fisted style of organ.  Big chords held for a long time.
He's not the only organ player who favors that style but I find it gets
tiresome after a while.
I LOVE ORGAN but there are some good organ players whose style leaves me
pretty bored.  Like Sir Charles Thompson for instance.  Too polite. Too
pianistic.

He's not my favorite but the Mustang Beatles LP is worth finding.

AZ



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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 03:12:36
From: "Daniel Shiman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001

There are exotic riches to be found among many jazz artists' legacies; this
week I began my show with a focus on African-themed recordings.  Also,
whistling.  I realize now that I truly hadn't lived before hearing the
theremin line from "Good Vibrations" being whistled.
- -Dan


OLIVER NELSON    Message    Afro/American Sketches    LP    Prestige

SHELLY MANNE    Wameru    Daktari    LP    Atlantic

COUNT BASIE     Kilimanjaro    Afrique    LP    Philips

THE HERBIE MANN AFRO-JAZZ SEXTET    Uhuru    The Common Ground    LP    Atlantic

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY    Lehadima    Accent on Africa    LP    Capitol

RAMSEY LEWIS    Afro-Boogaloo Twist    Maiden Voyage    LP    Cadet

FREDDIE RODRIGUEZ    Lu-Lu Boogaloo    La Versatilidad de Freddie Rodriguez    LP    UA
Latino

PEPE DOMINGUIN    Bongo Bash    !Wild! Stereo Drums    LP    Capitol

TITO PUENTE    Cha-Cha-Son    Mucho Cha-Cha    LP    RCA

MIGUELITO VALDES    Guaguanco Africano    Inolvidables    LP    MGM Latino Series

TINO LA TINO     Canto Misterio    La Tino Cha Cha Cha    LP    Crown

CAL TJADER    Wachi Wara    Tjader Plays Mambo    10" LP    Fantasy

RAMON MARQUEZ Y SU ORCHESTRA    Mambo Negro    Mambo!    10" LP    Columbia

ESQUIVEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA    Sentimental Journey    Infinity in Sound vol.
2    LP    RCA

FRED LOWERY    Sunrise Serenade    Walking Along Kicking the Leaves    LP    Decca

FRED LOWERY    Abide With Me    Abide With Me    LP    Word

LES BAXTER    The Lonely Whistler    Confetti    LP    Capitol

PROVOL'S GOLDEN BIRDS    Ciribiribin    Golden Voiced Canaries    LP    Decca

HUGO MONTENEGRO    Good Vibrations    Good Vibrations    LP    RCA

HUGO PERETTI    Whistling at Dawn    ...And So to Sleep    LP    Mercury

MUZZY MARCELLINO    Beyond the Reef     Whistling on the Beach at Waikiki    LP    Coral

ROBERTO DELGADO    Albatross    Blue Hawaii vol. 2    LP    Polydor

THE ISLANDERS    City Under the Sea    The Enchanted Sound of The
Islanders    LP    Mayflower

SANTO AND JOHNNY    Reflections    Hawaii    LP    Canadian-American

THE GENE RAINS GROUP    Tiki    Rains in the Tropics    LP    Decca





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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:03:19 -0700
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001

> FRED LOWERY Sunrise Serenade Walking Along Kicking the Leaves LP Decca

> FRED LOWERY Abide With Me Abide With Me LP Word

> PROVOL'S GOLDEN BIRDS Ciribiribin Golden Voiced Canaries LP Decca

> MUZZY MARCELLINO Beyond the Reef Whistling on the Beach at Waikiki LP
Coral

Anybody that puts Fred Lowery and canary songsters in their playlists is OK
in my book.

No foolin', Dan - I love the stuff :)

I've never seen the Golden Birds on LP - mine is a three 78 set - just six
titles in all.

If you like that, you'll love The Artal Orchestra's "The Canaries"
http://www.basichip.com/covers/artal.jpg or Johan Dalgas Frisch's "Symphony
Of the Birds".  Not to be confused with Jim Fassett's masterpiece of the
same title.

And one of my all time favorites would be the AMERCIAN RADIO WARBLERS, a
series of 4 records which came on 78s and 45s, I believe.  Absolutely
stunning paper sleeves, which are harder to get than the records.

View those covers here, front:

http://www.basichip.com/covers/warblers.jpg

and back:

http://www.basichip.com/covers/warblersR.jpg

In this day and age, it is hard to imagine an organ player, surrounded by
cages of canaries, broadcasting live radio shows.

To find these, try ebay, they come up everynow and then.  nobody cares about
this stuff, which makes it good for people that do  :)




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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:29:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001

citerar Daniel Shiman <[e-mail]>:


> THE ISLANDERS    City Under the Sea    The Enchanted Sound of The
> Islanders    LP    Mayflower

What is this Daniel? Looks interesting. Everything that has the
word "enchanted" in it is usually good. Underwater themes the same.

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:15:06 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Wynder K Frog

Someone gave me a copy of this (re-issue on CD) after I played them Ananda
Shankars Jumping jack Flash,  I think just because it also has a version of
the song.  Its a bit more serious than I generally like, I don't recall it
being particularly groovy or even as psychy as, say Brian Auger.  I mentally
filed it as late 60's blues/rock, and haven't touched it since I'm afraid.
Theres the Shake Sauvage comp from last year has some good Brian Auger
stuff, not too Jazzy, good groovy continental settings.
Harry Stoneham can be good, but is often not.  usually on the same LP,
swinging wildly between the wildly swinging and TV sitcom themes.
The Ed Lincoln LP 'Orgao and Piano Electrico' is much more funk led than the
Ed Lincoln LP I recorded for you. Rough Trade had it in their Convent garden
Shop a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the Italian Soundtracky stuff is pretty good,  (Alessandro
Alessondri is it?)  plays on some of Piero Umiliani's tracks and has some
bits of his own.  good tracks on the ep's that came with Il Giaguaro.  And
theres a couple of stormers on the Italia Erotica comp.
The Happy Hammond and its ilk tend to be a bit plodding, I've found.

thats enough disinformation from me.

El Maestro Con Queso

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One thing I did get recently that hasn't yet arrived is a classic (so =
I'm
told) Hammond LP - Wynder K Frog - Out of the Frying Pan. Does anybody =
have
any comment on this one or other Hammond recommendations?

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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:36:23 +0100
From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s

Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 05:57:42 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s

> The original randall and hopkirk was pretty cool. Excellent theme tune.
sorta
> john Barry esque, dunno who it actually was though.

>Stumbled across a a soundtrack CD from this series at CDNow. It's a little
>pricey -- is the music worth it?

I only know the main theme, which is good, as for the incidental music i
couldn't say.
I would think you could get the theme tune on a TV themes compilation though,
i'll keep my eyes peeled.

Thanks for the ghostbusters tip- i think you might have it there.


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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:37:47 +0100
From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) StereoLab

I heard a great StereoLab record yesterday - Simple Headphone Mind. Does
anybody have any other recommendations for further similar listening?

Thanks all.

Charles Moseley
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 06:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Josie & the PussyCats Rhino Handmade Early Warning 31

Nice to see this get the official Rhino treatment!

- --- "Webmaster (Rhino)" <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> It has been a uniquely hectic week at The Institute.
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> This is a single disc collection of all of the Capitol JOSIE
> AND THE PUSSYCAT masters. It comes with a 20-page booklet
> that tells the story of the band and features quite a bit of
> really cool Hanna-Barbera artwork and ephemera.
>
> PLEASE NOTE:
> Rhino Records, Our Corporate Benefactor, Will Be Releasing A
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