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exotica-digest          Monday, May 21 2001          Volume 02 : Number 976



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) more praise for The Book Of Tiki
Re: (exotica) Pop-Shopping
(exotica) Mark Bennett
(exotica) "Ukulelia"
Re: (exotica) "Bing Crosby" (or Road to Trinidad)
Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer
(exotica) Tease-o-rama 2001  in New Orleans
(exotica) The Toledo Show
Re: (exotica) Broaden your scope
(exotica) AMC - American Pop
Re: (exotica) Big Lounge Festival in Italy
(exotica) May 27th: World's Largest Mai Tai
Re: (exotica) AMC - American Pop
Re: (exotica) Broaden your scope
Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer
(exotica) soft pop psychedlia fans alert
(exotica) Re: Salvation Army gets Greedy
(exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, May 20
(exotica) California Dreaming
(exotica) Tiki e-greeting card
(exotica) I monster

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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:25:04 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) more praise for The Book Of Tiki

At 11:10 AM 5/17/01 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>
>I *finally* got my hands on "The Book Of Tiki" and hey hey, it is mighty
fine.
>
>Praise and appreciation to everyone who was involved, including of course,
>the people who happen to be on board here. Nice job, gang.

I have virtually no interest in tikis and I try to avoid discussion of them
here.  BUT after browsing through this book in my favorite bookstore here,
I almost bought this it and I still might.

AZ



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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:08:47 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pop-Shopping

I wasn't going to buy this LP,  but as the proud owner of a Ford Capri Mark
II, I now feel obliged.  I've set the mp3 to start up every time I start my
PC.

Rockin'.

El Maestro Con Queso

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RealPlayer.  Last time I checked, they were offering the great track "Ford
Capri II" by Christian Bruhn as a free mp3 download.





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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 07:25:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mark Bennett

More pop art panditry insinuating that the 50s and
consumer culture in general are steeped in a tawdry
evil. Most of Mark Bennett's stuff though, with which
I was unfamiliar until I browsed the local galleries,
consists of blueprints of classic TV characters (The
Clampett House, Dr Robinson's Space Ship, etc):



http://yp.washingtonpost.com/E/E/WASDC/0002/98/41/

http://www.augengallery.com/Prints/bennett.html

http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/profile.html

Detail of Mr Ed's Stable:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/dd.html

Home of Wilbur & Carol Post, 1995:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/gallery/96/50/d.html


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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:05:52 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Ukulelia"

Is a brand new ukulele weblog:

http://boingboing.net/uke/



- --m.ace



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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:57:49 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Bing Crosby" (or Road to Trinidad)

>>According to a note on page 657, the Lion also wrote "Four Mills
>>Brothers" and was still performing as of 2000.
>
>A collector I know, Lou Curtiss mentioned the name of the band that backed
>him and other Calypso singers of the era, but I forgot the name!  They are
>a "peppy" bunch.

If it was a NYC session, might it have been Gerald Clark and His Caribbean
Serenaders? They seem to have played on a lot of the NYC calypso sessions
back around the 30s. Some of the backup bands from Trinidad sessions are
Audley Francis Washboard Orchestra, Sa Games Rhythm Boys, Clemons Smith and
His Broadway Syncopators, John Buddy Williams and His Blue Rhythm Orchestra.

Swiping this information from the booklet of "Fall Of Man: Calypsos On The
Human Condition 1935-1941" (Rounder). Mighty fine, with tracks by The Lion,
Atilla The Hun, King Radio, Lord Beginner, The Caresser, Mighty Destroyer,
The Growler, The Tiger and The Executor. Sounds like a wrestling league...


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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:10:38 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer

Gumnaam can be bought here:


http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/Videodetail.asp?itemid=188250&place=US&majorcat=music&subcat=audiocds





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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tease-o-rama 2001  in New Orleans

Wow, I walked into the Circle Bar last night to catch a Teaseorama
warmup party.  There were all these burlesque artists lounging
around and cool tiki music coming from the back room. The band from
San Francisco consisted of a Bongo/drummer, bass and Vibes.  The
band, The Fishermen (if I remember or it has slipped into
oblivion), is the same band that played at Otto and Baby Doe's
wedding.  The band did a Martin Denny Tiki version of She Said She
Said by the Beatles that was fantastic.  The vibes guy was intense!
 It was pleasurable to hear live Tiki music.  The guest singer was
from Hawaii and sounded so sublime.

Teaseorama is a huge gathering of modern burlesque groups/artists
that are putting on shows down at a couple of clubs in New Orleans.
 Otto djs Friday night, and Br. Cleve Sunday night.

The dancing last night to the dj and the band was truly
unbelievable.  The dj was from a surf type band called the
Pendletons and he spun a raucous mix of cool 60s
rock/soul/dance/neworleans toons that got every one to shimmy and
grind.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:37:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Toledo Show

Any of you Los Angeles cats know if Toledo still performs every Monday?
I have forgotten where and would love to go.

To anyone on this list... you MUST see Toledo live before you die.
His show is a brilliant mix of crime jazz, seedy dames and cigarettes, sweat
sex and noir.  The music is tight and brilliant smoky jazz and vocals, the
band is on fire and the women in fishnets walking on my table... Oi!

Chris


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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:09:37 -0400
From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Broaden your scope

Steve wrote:

> You missed my point I think. There are areas of really good music that
> the dealers and pickers don't know about, or don't bother with. If you
> are looking for Esquivel or Elvis, there is bound to be a lot of
> competition. If you are looking for Ambrose or the Alveno Rey big band,
> or if you are set up to transcribe defunct formats like audiophile reel
> to reel or 78s, you can get as much good music as you can carry away
> for a lot less scratch.
You just can't get away from those 78's... I'm not looking for a good deal,
I'm looking for music I like! And LP records are quite defunct enough for me
thank you... I already have more than my share of defunct technology.

> The gist of my point is, don't resign yourself to pay more, or give
> up entirely. Just broaden your interests by experimenting a little.
I'm not depressed or despondent about this situation as much as  I'm merely
noting a trend that is the result of the way the market works for any
product that is no longer produced. Paying more for a quality product (and I
don't mean solely condition) is something I have no problem with. As for
broadening interests, I find this comment somewhat amusing coming from a
person who expressed such a very rigid definition of just what constitutes
good music!

> It's a lot easier to take a risk on a 50 cent 78 than it is a thirty
> dollar "lounge" record.
I'l reiterate my comment of never having bought a lottery ticket. But
nevertheless any record I would buy in the upper price range would almost
always be electronic or experimental, and not the kind of thing you find in
the 50 cent bins!

> The market isn't the problem. Your tastes are just too close to the crowd.
I'm afraid you really don't know me or my tastes at all!  In fact
having tastes too close to the crowd is just about the last thing I've ever
been accused of! Anyway I really don't have any interest in arguing
the point any further. I've simply made an observation based on my
experiences, and I don't think it is my place or yours to be telling people
what they should be
listening to or what they should be spending their money on...

Brian



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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 21:34:48 -0400
From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) AMC - American Pop

Say what happened to the American Pop series on AMC? I was just about to ask
for any takers interested in a Showcase for AMC video swap and I can't find
any reference to this series anymore?  Did anyone tape the films they ran;
Ski Party, Head, etc?  I can offer lots of Showcase/Bravo (Canada) derived
goodies in exchange!

Brian



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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 00:19:26 -0400
From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Lounge Festival in Italy

> Il Giaguaro Expo 2001
> June 8 and 9, 2001
> Palazzo Veronese, Viale Carducci, Cesenatico
Now THAT's a festival! I won't follow with the rest of the descriptions as
you probably all read it too, and well... like most of us I only wish I
could be there, as I''m now feeling seriously deprived!!! Leave it to the
Italians to do it in style...

Brian



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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:16:10 -0700
From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) May 27th: World's Largest Mai Tai

They're building the World's Largest Mai Tai at the Hawaiian Village on
May 27th.

If you can make it over there for a swim in the mix, please drop us a
line and let us know how it goes... :-)

http://www.975kpoi.com/pages/47639.asp

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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:21:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brett Leveridge <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) AMC - American Pop

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Brian wrote:
> Say what happened to the American Pop series on AMC?

It's still on. 10pm eastern, every Saturday night.

This week they're showing that JD classic, HIGH SCHOOL CAESAR.

Brett



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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 03:59:38 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Broaden your scope

At 01:22 PM 5/15/01 -0700, bigshot wrote:
>. There are areas of really good music that
>the dealers and pickers don't know about, or don't bother with. If you
>are looking for Esquivel or Elvis, there is bound to be a lot of
>competition. If you are looking for Ambrose or the Alveno Rey big band,
>or if you are set up to transcribe defunct formats like audiophile reel
>to reel or 78s, you can get as much good music as you can carry away
>for a lot less scratch.

That's a huge exaggeration.  I don't disagree that one can choose to
channel one's taste towards those records that are still relatively easy to
find for very little money.  And away from the records that are often
relatively expensive.
I did that for about five years.
But there's a price to be paid if you choose to go there.  It's not as if
the moment you start buying cheap records, the world of music opens up.  It
clearly closes down.  There are certain things you find at thrift stores
and certain things you don't.
And that's even more true of 78's.  If you have the patience to go through
piles of 78's - and the patience to play them - you will undoubtedly find
thousands of cool and obscure records. But you will find them in a fairly
narrow group of genres.
And however much you may be able to stretch your tastes in order to
accomodate the records that you find, most people can't stretch it endlessly.
Finding a box of of Russian opera 78's is not necessarily a sure ticket to
becoming a lover of Russian opera.
The other thing that should be noted while we're here is that if you find
an old 78 of Turkish music and you really want to hear more of it, the
cheapest and most efficient solution would be to buy a CD compilation of
Turkish 78's.
Unless you really like looking for them.
Another thing we have to acknowledge is that when thrift store owners start
putting high prices on records, it usually has nothing to do with whether
the record is actually popular or sought after.  It has to do with their
misguided delusion that all records are worth something by virtue of being
old.  So it doesn't really matter whether your taste is close to the crowd
or not.
The only good reason to limit your shopping to thrift stores is because you
love the hunt more than the find.
Like I said, I've been there.  For at least five years, I tailored my
tastes to match the records I could find for cheap.
Then one day, those records led me to this tributary and I got a couple of
miles upstream before I realized that I wasn't going to find those records
at a thrift store.  And it wasn't that those records were so close to the
popular taste.  It was that they'd been identified as somehow "collectible".
I tried to turn around and get back to the main stream but the current was
against me.
And thus I was banished from the world of thrift stores.

"Broaden your scope" is bullshit.  If you truly broaden your scope, the
thrift store will recede in the distance.

AZ



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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 12:36:26 -0400
From: buMp <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost World trailer

thanx mr. schmoove,
i just bought that and the soundtrack on cd!!!
http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/musicdetail.asp?itemid=91419&maj
orcat=music&subcat=audiocds&place=US

yea!
bump


>Gumnaam can be bought here:
>
>
>http://www.indiaplaza.com/catalog/catalogdetail/Videodetail.asp?itemid=188250&p
>lace=US&majorcat=music&subcat=audiocds
>

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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 15:30:24 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) soft pop psychedlia fans alert

If I didn't have this, I would definitely bid on it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1431950382



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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:11:06 -0400
From: "Robert Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Salvation Army gets Greedy

> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:10:27 -0400
> From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army gets Greedy
>
> I've been concerned about the supply lines lately, and I think
> statistically, things must be getting tighter. But then again, last
weekend
> I snagged Julie London's "Julie Is Her Name", Denny's "Quiet Village" and
> Chaino's "Jungle Echoes" all for a buck each (and the Beach Boys Christmas
> Album for, uh, free). So we're not quite dead yet.
>
> And yes, when I found those three, I practically levitated out of the flea
> market.
>
> m.ace  [e-mail]

Our local Goodwill tried records at $2 each for almost 2 years.  I was
probably their biggest customer, but they weren't selling many records.
They just recently reduced the price to $1, supposedly permanently.
Naturally, I'm delighted, but I don't know how long it will last.  Hopefully
it really is permanent.

As for supply, my opinion over the last 10 years has not changed.  Many
BILLIONS of lp's were pressed from 1948 to 1988, and there are still
billions of them out there.  I live in the Northeast, where records have
been a way of life during that whole period.  I can't speak for other parts
of the country, but I have good vinyl finds on a regular basis, at thrift
stores, flea markets, and in the summer, very much at yard sales.  I expect
this to continue indefinitely into the future.  I also expect the demand for
vinyl to decline because those of us who were raised on vinyl are getting
older.  The younger crowd were raised on CD's, and whatever comes next, so
the emotional attachment to vinyl won't exist for most of them.  Just my
opinion.  My interest in vinyl is as strong as ever, and I expect it to
continue.  And I expect that the value of the records we collect will
continue to decline over time, with a few exceptions (the really, truly
extremely rare items).

Bob Cohen




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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:50:03 -0500
From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour

On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, we'll preview "Dad
Music", the newest CD by those Ambassadors of Lounge, Dead
Ringer.  "Dad Music" features a sexy, sassy mix of Mancini, torch
songs, Latin tunes and bossa nova.  Also, during the show we'll
meet Dead Ringer's chanteuse, Kathleen Frasca, who joins us
from L.A.

Elsewhere on the show, you'll find the usual mix of tunes, this
week with Arling and Cameron, "Popshopping", Henry Mancini,
Jack Costanzo, The Harmonicats and Yma Sumac.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, visit:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Visit the Retro Cocktail Hour website right now and enter to win a
free copy of "Dad Music"!  To learn more about Kathleen Frasca
and Dead Ringer, visit their site at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~deadringer/home.html

Thanks!!


Darrell Brogdon
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KANU FM 91.5
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Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:34:34 -0400
From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, May 20

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in
Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #143   The Mile High Compilation


This week, we're playing a great breakbeat compilation put together by Sol
of Mi Senor Records.  There are a few new discoveries, and a lot of old
favourites - making for one hour of on-air entertainment!  Thanks, Sol!

Ursula 1000:  Psyche Rock Remix
Resident Filters:  Big Train
Hardwire:  Rock Right
Oh! Polo:  The Italian Job
Stereo de Luxe:  Let's Have Some Fun
Gents International:  Bitch Sell Crack
Tito Puente:  Hit The Bongo
ESG:  The Beat
Mansfield:  Groove Room

I, Monster:  Daydream
Osymyso:  Think & Sing
Hairy Diamond:  Givin' Up
Pimple Jackson:  Wiese Nicht Ich
Jacknife Lee:  Jacknife Is Your Friend


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 18:44:37 +0100
From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) California Dreaming

After escaping from a conference in the middle of Disney in Florida earlier
in the year, it now appears I have to attend another conference in Anaheim
in July. Turns out the hotel is the Disney California Grand, in the middle
of Disney Land (or is it World?). This time I WILL try to get into a fight
with Mickey or Goofy or some other be-suited fun loving Disney employee.

Anyway, the point is, does anybody have any recommendations for the Los
Angeles area (big question, I know)? I will have about four days to explore
and will probably need a car. In fact, is it possible to exist in CA without
a car??

Thanks all.

Charles Moseley
Editor - C3 magazine
3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD

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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 23:04:44 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki e-greeting card

If it's a Tiki e-greeting you are needing:


http://www.expressit.com/110_Greetings/cardform.asp?cid=FL000533&Sec=1



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Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:57:01 +0100
From: "Richard BADGER(LFM)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I monster

Hi everyone

Anyone out their got any info on the band "I Monster"?
I heard their new single on BBC Radio 2 the other day, and was the coolest
thing I've heard in a long while.

badge




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