From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query Date: 01 Mar 1999 00:22:39 +0000 At 12:08 AM 01-03-99 EST, BasicHip wrote: >>It [The Basta Theremin 3 CD Set] is also very expensive, close to fourty bucks. Each CD is less than 20 minutes long... I would have preferred all three on one CD and a more affordable price tag.<< There is a point at which artfulness gets too much. I would have to say this is it. As a customer, I would gladly pay $20 for a nicely done "full-platter" CD with the contents of all 10-inch EPs. However, I just don't think it reasonable to expect anyone to fork over more than that to get the amount of music a normal CD would hold...just for the sake of some artistic display. What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with the audio (I have heard samples which really have impressed me) but its ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set. Give me art but give me practicality, too! Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query Date: 01 Mar 1999 11:37:55 +0100 >>>It [The Basta Theremin 3 CD Set] is also very expensive, >close to fourty bucks. Each CD is less than 20 minutes long... >I would have preferred all three on one CD and a more affordable price tag.<< > >There is a point at which artfulness gets too much. I would have to say >this is it. As a customer, I would gladly pay $20 for a nicely done >"full-platter" CD with the contents of all 10-inch EPs. However, I just don't >think it reasonable to expect anyone to fork over more than that to get the >amount of music a normal CD would hold...just for the sake of some artistic >display. > >What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with the >audio (I have heard samples which really have impressed me) but its >ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set. > >Give me art but give me practicality, too! > >Byron When buying in Europe, you have to push aside your American notion of prices. $20, that's about the price bestselling CD's go for here, so $30 (that's what the box actually costs...) is not hugely overpriced for a 'nicely done' 3 CD set with an hour of exquisite music. The thing is, you're just not used to buying overseas like we are with all the extra costs for shipping and handling that go with it, I mean, you can easily get outraged when you don't realise how lucky you are. 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And share your bananas. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Mantra for the Modern Jungle. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) The People's Court Date: 01 Mar 1999 09:24:51 -0500 Apparently Alan Tew wrote "The Big One" which was used as production music for the People's Court. Didn't someone here say that a long version existed on some comp somewhere? I'd love to know what that was. Two other things: One, does anyone remember the intro music for General Cinema's? I'd love a copy of that. Two, Henry Mancini wrote the theme for "What's Happening?"! Where's Oranj Symphonette when you need them? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Moldy-oldies! Date: 01 Mar 1999 10:01:57 -0500 Well, I will NEVER be one to complain about getting a lot of sealed vinyl. However, some of my recent scores, sealed while they are, havesome water damage from being stored in a basement for who knows how long! So even though "mint", there is some mold on them, as well as in the inner parts of the covers that are gate-folds. Some other of the records in the same haul also have mold either on the jackets or the vinyl itself. Is there a way after cleaning these, to prevent the MOLD from further, uh, growing and spreading? EEEK! Jane "goldbond" Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager & XoTiCa Date: 01 Mar 1999 10:57:41 -0500 Johan writes: > >I don't think the French 'Ye-Ye' is the equivalent of the Schlager. As > >far as I know 'Ye-Ye' refers only to French sixties-music. Sort of the > >French answer to the Beatles and beat in general. > correct. "ye-ye" is french for "yeah yeah", like in > "she loves you, yeah yeah yeah". I have to admit to being a bit baffled but I hate to classify music and in trying to do so I bring on myself this sort of problem. While ye-ye seems to refer to a rather narrow range of music, unless someone else knows otherwise, I sense Schlager refers to a much wider range of music, covering the range from the dreaded Heino to the poppy German vocals of of France Gall, who is of course herself French (but amazingly good in German!). The question then is, can some Schlager also be the equivalent of ye-ye or are the French the only Europeans that can claim ownership to this particular musical style? Or are the two terms simply not compatible? > > I was in Virgin today and saw that XTC have returned to the studio > > after a 7-year break. The blurb describes the new album it as > > superb "orchestral pop" which sparked my interest. Has anyone > > heard anything of it? Say I don't know what all the fuss is about this, after having listened to the samples on the website. Maybe its just that I best remember XTC from their pioneering new wave days but there is little if any sign of renewed life in this new recording, at least from what I heard! But, that's only one person's opinion so... Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:12:15 -0500 At 02:58 PM 2/28/99 EST, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > >Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? I have four. Three >are excellent and one disappointing. The excellent ones are: > > "Dynamica" Ray Martin Orchestra > "It's Magic" Marty Gold Orchestra > "Futura" Bernie Green Orchestra Well before I go ahead and put my foot in my mouth, I wish you'd mentioned the one you have that you don't like. But I'm going to guess that it's Leo Addeo's "Paradise Regained" which I have and only keep because it's Stereo Action. I would add the other Ray Martin one "Excitement Incorporated" and Dick Schory's "Running Wild" to your list. I can't say that the Ray Martin is better than the other one but it has a grey cover if you're impressed by that kind of thing. (I must be if I'm mentioning it.) And I love that title. On the Stereo Action "sampler" called "Unlimited" there's a cut each by Keith Textor and Guitars Unlimited Plus 7 that make me want to hear each of the records that those cuts come from, especially the latter. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour this week Date: 01 Mar 1999 11:35:41 +0000 This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, hear a modest musical tribute to the Big Apple with Phil Moore's wonderful "New York Sweet"; "Sub-Manhattan Blues" by Bob Thompson (from "The Sound of Speed"); Susan Barrett sings "Manhattan", conducted by Kenyon Hopkins(!); and David Shire's amazing '70s crime jazz from "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3". Also, music from Del-Fi's new "Jungle Jive" CD, plus Yma Sumac, Dick Hyman, Don Ralke's "Bongo Madness", Warren Kime and the Brass Impact Orchestra and Maynard Ferguson with "Mambo La Mans" from the very rare LP "Straightaway Jazz Themes" (soundtrack from a short-lived early '60s TV show about race drivers). We'll hear a track from Martin Denny's "Latin Village" - indications are it's one of the notorious "ghosted" LPs recently discussed here (Bob Florence at the piano?). Important note for Retro Cocktail Hour listeners. Since so many are still using RealPlayer 5.0, this week we've established a 5.0 archive of shows alongside the G2 shows. For the time being, new shows will be available in both 5.0 or G2 streams. So, if you've not yet upgraded to RealPlayer G2, you can still hear the show! To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Requires at least 28.8 Internet connection and, of course, RealPlayer 5.0 or G2. If you tune us in, please drop us a line. Thanks for the space. Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) The People's Court Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:48:55 -0500 At 9:24 AM -0500 3/1/99, Peter Risser wrote: >One, does anyone remember the intro music for General Cinema's? >I'd love a copy of that. oh yeah, I always loved that. In fact, I just wrote a homage/take off of it for the Cinemax cable channel (for their "Friday Premiere" trailers; I think it starts airing today). I haven't been to a General Cinema in years; I wonder if they still use it? Last time I heard it, the soundtrack seemed to be falling apart. The earliest I remember hearing/seeing it was around 1966. For years I've wondered who it is playing the electric harpsichord on it - could it be Dick Hyman? Sounds like him, and he did play a Baldwin electric harpsichord. for those of you who don't have any idea what we're talking about: this was a 30 second clip of the General Cinema Corp logo (GCC), which looked like a movie projector. As the reels moved, it was accompanied by a trade off between electric harpsichord and snare drum played with brushes, that followed the animation. The harpsichord dropped out after 12 measures, leaving the snare to finish the last 4. When it ended, either the words "Coming Attractions" or "Feature Presentation" appeared on the screen. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Tell me about these, PLEASE! Date: 01 Mar 1999 16:05:12 +0100 >From: Jack >Can anyone tell me if these are good or not ? > >"Stroboscopica" Italian 70's psychedelic b-movies soundtracks & sonorizations. Groovy jazzy funk, like the "Easy Tempo" compilations, but nothing special. my rate: 3 on 5 >PULSAR MUSIC LTD. "Milano Violenta" Looks like a music library album (Pulsar Music LTD is a music library), only on the back it says "Milano Violenta original movie soundtrack"... mellow cop funk, jazzy funk, "dramatic" funk, 1 really beautiful EZ track, and 3 dark & moody tracks that are described as: dramatic, suspense/ neurosia, stress/ painful, obsessing. my rate: 3 on 5. these 2 are not bad, but i find that after a while, all these funky 70's library records start to sound the same. i'm not wild about any of them... recommended however is * Nico Fidenco: Black Emanuelle's Groove (A collection of famous original soundtracks' themes) CD/LP, Abraxas Records/Dago Red 101, Italy, 1998 Compilation from the "Emanuelle Nera/Black Emanuelle" soft erotic film series from the 60's and 70's. Fidenco combines flute and wordless vocals and lush strings, with subtle exotic percussion, electric guitar and organ, and a really weird bass guitar sound (at least, I THINK it is a bass, run through some effect pedal). The result is a very original sound of his own, both sensous and mysterious, or Black Emanuelle painted in sound. Dusty Groove says: This nifty set brings together 17 very sexy tracks from the classic Emanuel softcore erotic film series. All the music is composed by Nico Fidenco, and it's got a sound that's different from a lot of these other Italian soundtracks, and which sounds a bit like some of the French stuff of the 70's, particularly the scoring that was being done by Serge Gainsbourg at the time. There's lots of isolated instruments, slowly gyrating basslines, choppy guitar, and cool electronic bits on keyboards or other instruments. titles include "Red Hot Wax", "Emanuelle's Theme", "Kamasutra In Love", "Sweet Bossa", and "Samba Safari". Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager Date: 01 Mar 1999 19:10:17 +0100 Brian Karasick wrote: > The question then is, can some Schlager also be the > equivalent of ye-ye or are the French the only Europeans that can claim= > ownership to this particular musical style? = I think that during a certain period in the sixties a lot of European popular music was influenced by what was happening in England. So it's true that there must be Schlagers that sound like the French Y=E9 Y=E9, j= ust like Italian or Dutch hits were influenced by the Beatles at the same time. So Schlager refers to a very broad range of music, but at one time it certainly included things that could be the equivalent of what the French were doing. Marco -- = Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +-----------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html +-----------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query Date: 01 Mar 1999 19:10:27 +0100 bag@hubris.net wrote: > What bugs me about this is that Basta has done a wonderful job with > the > audio but its > ill-conceived presentation argues with me not to buy the set. > Give me art but give me practicality, too! What's more practical than having exact copies of the original records in their orignal sleeves? Wouln't it be great to have, for example, all of the Esquivel-reissues in this manner? I've always wondered why the CD was introduced in these stupid plastic boxes. Why didn't they issue CDs in cardboard sleeves right from the start? Marco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +-----------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html +-----------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Box Query Date: 01 Mar 1999 19:10:33 +0100 Ton Rueckert wrote: > When buying in Europe, you have to push aside your American notion of > prices. $20, that's about the price bestselling CD's go for here, so > $30 (that's what the box actually costs...) is not hugely overpriced > for a 'nicely done' 3 CD set with an hour of exquisite music. > The thing is, you're just not used to buying overseas like we are > with all the extra costs for shipping and handling that go with it, I mean, > you can easily get outraged when you don't realise how lucky you are. I agree. And think of what you would pay for one of the original records! I think one of the original 10-inch records would set you back at least 20 bucks - if you're lucky enough to find one. Marco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +-----------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html +-----------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) too many obits Date: 01 Mar 1999 13:49:18 -0600 *John L. Goldwater =09 NEW YORK (AP) -- John L. Goldwater, creator of the syndicated comic character Archie, died Friday. He was 83.=20 Goldwater grew up in East Harlem as an orphan and, as a teen-ager, left to travel across the country, working odd jobs as he went. He returned to New York several years later and worked loading magazines at the docks before creating the Archie character in 1941.=20 Far from being a ``superhero,'' Archie is an average teen-ager with a penchant for getting into trouble. The red-haired character was an instant success and remained popular decades after his first appearance in print.=20 In the late 1960s, Archie made his TV debut. In 1973, Goldwater wrote ``Americana in Four Colors.'' ``Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again,'' a television movie based on the Archie characters, was broadcast on NBC in= 1990.=20 Goldwater ran Archie Comic Publications until his retirement in 1983. The Archie comic books are now published in over 35 countries. Goldwater also founded the Comics Magazine Association of America and served as its president for 25 years. He was also a national commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League.=20 *Michael Avallone =09 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Angelo Avallone, a mystery writer who penned the Ed Noon series and whose original novels were based on the television series ``The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' and ``Hawaii Five-0,'' died Friday after suffering from heart failure. He was 74.=20 Avallone wrote more than 200 books and short stories during his 45 year career, including Westerns, horror stories and children's books. He was best known as the author of the Ed Noon series of detective novels published between 1953 and 1988.=20 Avallone also wrote movie novelizations, including ``Beneath the Planet of Apes'' and ``Shock Corridor.''=20 The author, whose works were translated and published around the world, once said he began to write ``when he discovered pencils'' and said: ``I never wrote a book I didn't like.''=20 His first novel, ``The Tall Dolores,'' was published in 1953 and featured his detective character Ed Noon. He went on to pen 36 Ed Noon novels. His last Noon novel, ``High Noon at Midnight,'' featured an older detective, much like the author, and addressed the author's thoughts on aging.=20 He also wrote gothic romances under the pen name Edwina Noone. =20 March 1, 1999 Michael Avallone, 74, Author of Ed Noon Detective Stories By ERIC PACE,NYTimes Michael Avallone, a prolific writer of detective stories and other novels that were sometimes reminiscent of old-fashioned pulp fiction, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74 and lived in Middlesex County, N.J., for 30 years until 1995. The cause was heart failure, said his son-in-law, Carr D'Angelo.=20 Avallone wrote more than 200 books, about half under his own name and the rest under pseudonyms, D'Angelo said, and he published many short stories in collections.=20 He is perhaps best known for his Ed Noon series of detective novels, published from 1953 to 1988.=20 The first was "The Tall Dolores" and the last, "High Noon at Midnight," was his final book. Ed Noon is a wisecracking private eye based in Manhattan whose Runyonesque views on baseball and movies echo those of Avallone.=20 Other fiction he wrote included horror tales, novels of the old West and mysteries for children. For Gothic romances he used female pseudonyms.= =20 In a 1973 interview, Avallone said that one book he wrote in the Partridge Family series of children's mysteries had sold 2.5 million copies. More than two million copies of Avallone's 1965 espionage novel "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Thousand Coffins Affair," were sold in the United States and elsewhere, D'Angelo said. That book's spy protagonist was borrowed from the television series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Much of his work was translated into foreign languages and sold abroad.=20 Avallone was sometimes called "the Fastest Typewriter in the East." In a recent issue of the weekly New Times, he was called a "pulpmeister." Avallone liked to say, "I never wrote a book I didn't like," and the critic John Gross called him "a formidable figure."=20 But Gross objected to some of Avallone's sentences, like, "The whites of his eyes came up in their sockets like moons over an oasis lined with palm trees." In describing what he called irresistibly bad prose, the critic Newgate Callendar cited another Avallone excerpt in The New York Times: "The footsteps didn't walk right in. They stopped outside the door and knocked."= =20 He was born in Manhattan, one of the 17 children of a stonemason who was also a sculptor, and grew up in the Bronx. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946, mainly in Europe, rising to sergeant.=20 Avallone belonged to the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame and was on the awards committee of the Mystery Writers of America from 1961 to 1971.=20 An early marriage ended in divorce.=20 He is survived by his wife, Frances; two sons, Stephen, of the Bronx, and David, a writer and film director, of Los Angeles; a daughter, Susan, who is a screenwriter, of Los Angeles; four brothers, Nicky Iacovetti and Patrick, both of Brooklyn, William, of Middle Island, N.Y., and Gerald, of Florida, and three sisters, Marie Antoinette Fernandez of Brooklyn, Madelyn Fortmuller of Plainview, N.Y., and Grace Conlan of Carlsbad, Calif.=20 *Stanley Dance =09 SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Jazz critic Stanley Dance, a confidant of Duke Ellington and Earl Hines who won a Grammy in 1963, died Tuesday of pneumonia. He was= 88.=20 Dance was one of the genre's most respected critics and his work spanned 60 years.=20 Revered by fans and musicians, Dance coined the term ``mainstream'' as a way to describe a jazz style. He won a Grammy Award in 1963 for writing the liner notes for the album ``The Ellington Era.''=20 Dance also wrote liner notes for the Sweet Baby Blues Band and was featured chanting on the track ``Sometimes it be That Way'' on singer-pianist Jeannie Cheatham's 1987 album ``Homeward Bound.''=20 ``Stanley was a giant, a lifelong jazz devotee and one of the most honest men I've ever met,'' Ms. Cheatham said. ``He didn't bite his tongue, he said what he thought, and that was that.''=20 Born in England, Dance began writing about jazz professionally in 1935, eventually marrying Helen Oakley, who was in charge of Variety Records and produced several of Ellington's small group records in the 1930s.=20 Dance read the eulogy at Ellington's funeral in 1974. The jazz critic co-wrote Ellington's autobiography and other books, including ``The World of Swing'' and ``The World of Earl Hines.'' His work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, Down Beat and Jazz Times. He was also book review editor at Jazz Times from 1980 until last fall.=20 *Harry Rossoll =09 ATLANTA (AP) -- Harry Rossoll, who as a U .S. Forest Service illustrator created the Smokey Bear fire prevention messages that became one of the most successful public relations campaigns, died Thursday of an intestinal aneurysm. He was 89.=20 A native of Norwich, Conn., he provided the rough draft for Smokey Bear in 1944 as the character to promote forest fire prevention after rejecting figures including a forest ranger and a beaver.=20 Rossoll drew more than 1,000 ``Smokey Says'' cartoons that were published in newspapers across the nation for 25 years. He also talked with foresters in the field and gave talks about Smokey and fire prevention to school children.=20 March 1, 1999 Betty Roche, Singer of Blues and Be-Bop, Dead at 81 By BEN RATLIFF, NYTimes Betty Roche, a singer who performed with Duke Ellington in the 1940s and '50s and was noted for her strong, dramatic delivery of blues material, died on Feb. 16 at the Mainland Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Pleasantville, N.J. She was 81.=20 "She had a soul inflection in a bop state of intrigue," Ellington wrote about Ms. Roche in his oblique style of praise, "and every word was understandable despite the sophisticated hip and jive connotations."=20 Born Mary Elizabeth Roche (pronounced ro-SHAY) in Wilmington, Del., she began her career by winning an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. In 1941 she sang with the Savoy Sultans.=20 Ms. Roche joined Ellington in 1943, replacing Ivie Anderson just before Ellington's first Carnegie Hall concert and scored highly with the critics and audience in her section of the Ellington suite "Black, Brown and Beige."= =20 Her feature within the suite was the "Blues" sequence, meant to express the feelings of blacks who settled into urban life at the start of the 20th century. With its famous pyramidal lyric scheme -- it begins, "The blues/the blues ain't/the blues ain't nothing/the blues ain't nothing but a cold gray day" -- it became one of Ellington's greatest pieces for a singer.=20 But Ms. Roche's rendition, in a concert recording, was not released until the 1970s because when Ellington made a studio recording of the suite in 1944, Ms. Roche already had been replaced by Joya Sherrill. In a similar bit of unfortunate luck, Ms. Roche sang "Take the A Train" with Ellington in the 1943 film "Reveille With Beverly" but wasn't recorded singing Ellington's signature tune until nine years later, in a be-bop style, on the album "Ellington Uptown."=20 Ms. Roche also performed and recorded with the pianist Earl Hines, the trumpeter Clark Terry and the singer and pianist Charles Brown. She made three recordings under her name for the Bethlehem and Prestige labels in the late 1950s and early 60s.=20 She is survived by three grandchildren. http://elvispelvis.com/bettyroche.htm March 1, 1999 Charles Allan Gerhardt, 72, Record Producer and Conductor By ALLAN KOZINN,NYTimes Charles Allan Gerhardt, a record producer who recorded many of the great classical music performers of the 1950's and 1960's and who also conducted a series of classic film-score albums, died on Feb. 22 at Mercy Hospital in Redding, Calif. He was 72 and lived in Redding.=20 Robert E. Benson, a music critic and friend of Gerhardt, said the cause was complications from surgery for brain cancer.=20 Gerhardt was born in Detroit in 1927 and grew up in Little Rock, Ark., where he began studying the piano at age 5 and composition at 9. After service in the Navy as a chaplain's assistant during World War II, he studied music and science at several colleges, including the University of Illinois and the University of Southern California.=20 Gerhardt, who was fascinated with recordings, joined the technical staff of RCA Victor in 1950, first to prepare long-playing reissues of recordings by Enrico Caruso and Artur Schnabel and then to assist at sessions for Vladimir Horowitz, Wanda Landowska, Kirsten Flagstad and William Kapell. He also worked closely with Arturo Toscanini, who encouraged him to study conducting. By the early 1960's, he was overseeing RCA's productions in London.=20 As a producer, Gerhardt's first major project was "A Festival of Light Classical Music," sold through the Reader's Digest in 1960.=20 He also produced a Beethoven cycle conducted by Ren=E9 Leibowitz, in 1961, that is prized by collectors and has recently been reissued by Chesky Records.=20 In 1964, Gerhardt formed an orchestra of London musicians for use at his recording sessions. It was incorporated as the National Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970, and besides producing its recordings with a variety of conductors and soloists, Gerhardt conducted it himself on recordings of standard repertory works and contemporary pieces.=20 His best-known series was an extensive collection of film scores that began in 1972 with "The Sea Hawk," the first major overview of Erich Korngold's film music, and included volumes devoted to the works of Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Dmitri Tiomkin, Bernard Hermann and John Williams. The success of his Korngold disk also led to a reinvestigation of Korngold's serious music, and in 1975 he produced the first recording of the composer's opera, "Die Tote Stadt."=20 Gerhardt retired from RCA in 1986 and worked as a freelance producer until 1997. No immediate family members survive.=20 Death anniversaries for the week of 1 March - 7 March: Monday, 1 March 1984 - Jackie Coogan; actor, "The Addams Family" TV series 1988 - Joe Besser; comic actor, "The Three Stooges" Tuesday, 2 March 1987 - Randolph Scott; actor Wednesday, 3 March 1966 - William Frawley; actor, "I Love Lucy" 1991 - Arthur Murray; dance instructor Thursday, 4 March 1994 - John Candy; actor 1996 - Minnie Pearl; TV & stage performer Friday, 5 March 1980 - Jay Silverheels; actor, Tonto on "The Lone Ranger" 1982 - John Belushi; actor # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Re: Stereo Action Date: 01 Mar 1999 14:35:27 -0500 Dick Schory is alright. It has some great tracks, but others are sorta lame. Lest we not forget: Three Suns Movin' and Groovin was Stereo Action. Fever and Smoke may have been also, but I don't know. And apparently Esquivel had at least one Stereo Action release. If you are interested in knowing a few RCA Artists up close and personal, you can pick up the RCA Space Age Pop series of CDs, which include cuts from many of those albums. They are all great. BTW, I haven't heard the whole Leo Addeo album, but I *love* the ocarina cuts on this comp. They rule, especially Stumbling. So there. A different 2 pence. Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Tech: I Have Seen The Future Date: 01 Mar 1999 15:26:21 -0500 >> . . . The old concept that you are >>going to pay to own the object looks to be in real trouble here. . . > >I think the object will always be important to me and to others as crazy as >me. I think I'd make a distinction between new and old music here. When you spend months going through spore-infested record bins, unearthing music that has nearly vanished into oblivion, then finally come upon some surprise killer track that just tickles you to death--Well, then I think you can't help wanting the object. It becomes a kind of talisman embodying that sucessful hunt. That's how I see it, anyway--anyway I'm sure not giving up any of *my* LPs. But I was talking more about NEW music--where often I might not particularly care about getting the packaging or a complete album as a unit. Basically my problem is that I don't have the time or income to sift through all the hundreds of new groups and find ones I like. So what I do end up buying is a very skewed and random selection of what my friends are listening to (particularly if something turns up as a used CD). So I actually might be interested in a kind of personalized "subscription" service, where you could download compilations of different artists. (Particularly if they could ever figure out a reliable "if you liked THAT you'll probably like THIS" algorithm, which would still periodically send you a wild card or two.) Also, perhaps the definition of "the object" that you feel you need to possess might evolve slightly in the digital world. I was thinking about this when I found out about those maniacs who have lovingly archived the ROM images of all the classic arcade videogames from the late 70s and early 80s. I generally don't care about games at all--but when I tried out the "genuine" Asteroids on my mac, even I had to laugh at the audacity of the Trinitron going black and perfectly displaying all those goofy wireframe graphics-- right down to the "Copyright 1977 Atari" across the bottom of the screen. So in that case what they're "collecting" isn't a physical thing anymore--but it still has some of those same elements of searching out and rediscovering something from the past, that was apparently going to be lost. Maybe when we all have fiber-optic lines coming into our houses and MP3 data compression is unnecessary, there will be collectors who ransack old backup archives for MP3's of obscure bands. . . the ones who never got a recording contract, who bravely put their songs on the web and then sank into oblivion. . . cheers, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Tell me about the, PLEASE! Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:30:16 -0800 Dusty Groove says: Johan agrees I reviewed that Black Emmanuelle's Groove for KFJC and though I didn't say it in my review, it did nothing for me at all. So, different strokes fo' diffowent fokes JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) you rang? Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:14:09 -0500 Hello, Hugh and the rest of the world! Boston is woefully lame when it comes to great places just to "hang out," especially for free! >JAKE IVORY'S 1 Landsdowne Street: Karaoke with live pianists to belt out songs from the Fifties to the 80's. Loud, brash and raucous. Never been, probably stoopit college students spending their parents money on karaoke to the strains of Billy Joel. >HIBERNIA, 25 Kingston Street: Boston's trendiest small night club is tucked away on the edges of the Financial District. Most of Boston's bars tend to embrace the Cheers look with a tad too much enthusiasm, but Hibernia bucks the tweed and pine trend. Cool, with loud, loud music. But the "loud,loud music" is probably nothing this list wants to hear, EVER! >THE GOOD LIFE, 28 Kingston Street: No compost but plenty of crooning in a trashy but trendy bar. Live music Wednesday to Saturday tends towards mellow jazz. Exudes a sense of Sinatra-esque sleeze, red leatherette walls, chrome chairs and an impressive cocktail menu. >The lastmentioned sounds wonderful, but might it warrant the Lounge Laura stamp of approval? Hugh. I have never been, but all of my friends have here. Yes, there is a good jazz trio on Thursdays, who play with a singer of standards on Saturdays. The drinks are suppossedly expensive. This means: BRING YOUR OWN FLASK! post script: Ain't been to the new place where our Brother Cleve bartends, but it's on my "to do" list! The best things in Boston are our THREE (or more) Tiki Restaurants, and the glorious record stores... Jane Fondle, the artiste formerly known as Lounge Laura, or something The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) The People's Court Date: 01 Mar 1999 10:39:45 -0800 Br. Cleve wrote: > for those of you who don't have any idea what we're talking about: this= was > a 30 second clip of the General Cinema Corp logo (GCC), which looked li= ke a > movie projector. As the reels moved, it was accompanied by a trade off > between electric harpsichord and snare drum played with brushes, that > followed the animation. The harpsichord dropped out after 12 measures, > leaving the snare to finish the last 4. When it ended, either the words > "Coming Attractions" or "Feature Presentation" appeared on the screen. And I miss the old Loew's intro theme (before Sony bought 'em out), with a peppy vixen singing, "Thank you for coming to Loew's / Sit back and relax / Enjoy the show!" EZ does it, Jeff Phillips --=20 Director of Concert Production |=AF( http://www.philharmonia.org Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | \ jphillips@philharmonia.org 333 Market Street, Plaza Suite | =BA \ phone (415) 495-7445 San Francisco, California 94105 |=86=86=86=86| fax (415) 495-747= 3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) General Cinema Date: 01 Mar 1999 18:11:28 -0500 >>One, does anyone remember the intro music for General Cinema's? >>I'd love a copy of that. > ME TOO!!!! good call. i loved that, luckily almost every movie i went to see as a kid was at a general cinema...i would play air drums to it while bopping around in my seat! it still plays in my head to this day... i believe i have it on a trailer tape somewhere????? >oh yeah, I always loved that. In fact, I just wrote a homage/take off of it >for the Cinemax cable channel (for their "Friday Premiere" trailers; I >think it starts airing today). I haven't been to a General Cinema in years; >I wonder if they still use it? they still use the "tune" but it is so washed out and made ultra mellow by cheesy/spacey keyboards and it just plain souless. they used the one we are talking about well into the 70's. wish i had cable, i would love to hear your homage! bump out =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "...there's a whole lots of times i wish i could say i'm not white." --FZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) More good Stereo Action titles Date: 01 Mar 1999 18:16:12 EST >DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? I have four. Three >are excellent and one disappointing. The excellent ones are: > "Dynamica" Ray Martin Orchestra > "It's Magic" Marty Gold Orchestra > "Futura" Bernie Green Orchestra >Anyone have others to recommend? Thanks. The following additional Stereo Action titles get my personal thumbs up: Guitars Unlimited + 7 -- Crazy Rhythm The Three Suns -- Movin' and Groovin' (strong contender for their best) Dick Schory -- Runnin' Wild Like Nat Kone, I'm not wild about Leo Addeo's Stereo Action records. I don't care much for Marty Gold's Stereo Action Goes Hollywood, either. It's Magic is better, but even it is not one of the best in the Stereo Action series (IMHO). While we're on the subject, anyone who has a lead on a copy of Bernie Green's Futura (CDR o.k. too) for less than $30, please let me know. I'd love to follow the sound of it around my living room. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Leeteg documentary Date: 01 Mar 1999 18:18:59 -0600 At 04:43 AM 2/27/99 EST, you wrote: >For those of you who missed the opening of the Tiki art show and Leeteg >exhibit at the Huntington Beach Art Center There's a RealAudio story on Leeteg from last Saturday's NPR Weekend= Edition: http://programs.npr.org/archives/WESAT/Day.cfm?Date=3D02/27/99&Program_ID=3D= WESA T&FileName=3DWESAT022799 Scroll down to: =A0 Black Velvet -- An art exhibit at the Huntington Beach Art Center honors the originator of black velvet painting. Scott talks to curator Greg Escalante about the fine line between kitsch and art. (2:45)=20 -Lou =A0=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) New MP3 search engine Date: 01 Mar 1999 19:19:51 -0600 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 MAR 1 (NB) -- By Matt Hines, Newsbytes. A new search engine has been launched to help Internet users find links to music downloads utilizing the controversial MP3 format. Dubbed MP3meta, the site was created by SavvySearch Inc. which operates a multi-engine Internet search by the same name. The tool searches across a number of different Web engines and returns links to sites which carry MP3 files. MP3 allows computer users to download and distribute songs over the Web but is attracting criticism from recording companies which claim there are insufficient parameters in place to protect their copyrights. Last Friday, a standards group, which includes major players from the recording and computer industries, met to discuss guidelines for secure online music applications including MP3.com, the leading online source for MP3 files. MP3.com claims that it successfully bought advertising time during the television broadcast of last week's Grammy Awards, but that its spots were canceled leading up to the event as a result of the recording industry's distaste for the MP3 format. The recording industry has become increasingly concerned as new modes for copying and distributing music over the Internet have popped up. The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was established at the end of last year in order to protect the record companies' copyrights on the Web. The initiative was founded by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and includes support from major labels such as Universal, EMI, Sony, and Time Warner. SDMI was created partly in reaction to the high-profile court battle ongoing between a number of record companies and Diamond Multimedia. Diamond was brought to court over its Rio device which uses the MP3 platform. The goal issued by SDMI is to provide a forum where technology companies can work together to create an open architecture and specification for digital music security. The group wants to insure interoperability among digital products as well as protect copyrighted music in existing and emerging digital formats, according to SDMI spokesmen. The MP3meta search engine is located at http://www.mp3meta.com MP3.com is located online at MP3.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Mirium Burton-African Lament Date: 01 Mar 1999 16:47:46 -0800 Anyone have this LP who would care to elaborate ? I know it's a super dooper rare 1, I do know that JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny articles Date: 01 Mar 1999 17:42:38 -0800 I finally obtained issue #7 of Cool and Strange Music, featuring the excellent interview with Martin Denny. Besides the article on Denny in "Incredibly Strange Music", or things on the net, are there any other good articles on Denny that anyone can point me towards. I've got a lead on an Utne Reader article. If you've seen this, please comment (to see if my pursuit is worth it). Thanks, Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ulimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) "Tiki" vs. "Jungle" exotica Date: 01 Mar 1999 17:47:21 -0800 http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/whatis.htm#exotica They ID two strains of Exotica music: "Jungle"- Les Baxter and hollywood creations "Tiki"- Denny and Lyman, et. al. "The strictest definition limits exotica to the imitations of Polynesian, Afro-Caribbean, and Hawaiian music that were produced by Les Baxter and others from the mid-1950s to the very early 1960s. This music blended the elements of Afro-Cuban rhythms, unusual instrumentations, environmental sounds, and lush romantic themes from Hollywood movies, topped off with evocative titles like "Jaguar God," into a cultural hybrid native to no place outside the San Fernando Valley. There were two primary strains of this kind of exotica: Jungle and Tiki. Jungle was definitely a Hollywood creation, with its roots in Tarzan movies (and further back, to W.H. Hudson's novel, Green Mansions. Les Baxter was the king of jungle exotica, and spawned a host of imitators while opening the doors for a few more genuine articles such as Chaino, Thurston Knudson, and Guy Warren. Tiki was introduced with Martin Denny's Waikiki nightclub combo cum jungle noises cover of Baxter's "Quiet Village," although Denny's vibe player, Arthur Lyman, soon became the style's most representative artist. Tiki rode a wave of popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s marked by the entrance of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 and the introduction of Tiki hut cocktail bars and restaurants around the continental United States. Tiki exotica is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and Tiki mugs and torches that once collected dust in thrift stores are now hot items." Do others concur with this? Thanks, Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ulimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny articles Date: 01 Mar 1999 23:01:27 -0500 The Utne Reader (Sept/Oct 1994) article (slightly under one page on Martin Denny, actually) doesn't really tell you anything you probably don't already know. Don't bother searching too hard for it, if that's all you're interested in. The Cocktail Nation article in the same issue is a lot of fun, however - lots of info on ComEd, cocktail recipes, etc. Both are excerpted from "Cake", a journal from Minneapolis. cheryl Kevin C. wrote: > > I finally obtained issue #7 of Cool and Strange Music, featuring the excellent > interview with Martin Denny. > > I've got a lead on an Utne Reader article. If you've seen this, please comment > (to see if my pursuit is worth it). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The People's Court Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:29:09 EST In a message dated 3/1/99 9:58:55 AM EST, risser@goodnews.net writes: << Apparently Alan Tew wrote "The Big One" which was used as production music for the People's Court. Didn't someone here say that a long version existed on some comp somewhere? I'd love to know what that was. >> It is available on "The Hanged Man" soundtrack CD/LP Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:53:39 -0500 At 07:10 PM 3/1/99 +0100, Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek wrote: > >Brian Karasick wrote: > >> The question then is, can some Schlager also be the >> equivalent of ye-ye ? > > Schlager refers to a very broad range of music, but at one time >it certainly included things that could be the equivalent of what the >French were doing. I'm way out of my element here but I'd say Brian, that it's wishful thinking on your part that "Schlager" and "ye ye" be the same thing. I believe that the "ye ye" style of Schlager is the style of Schlager that you overwhelmingly prefer. If Schlager and ye ye were the same thing, you wouldn't have to dread this "Lolita sings in German" record that I'm thinking of bringing you when I come to Montreal next week. You wouldn't have to worry about all your friends buying you yodelling polka records and expecting you to be thrilled. You could just wholeheartedly declare yourself a Schlager fan and not fear the flood of crap that might come your way as a result of the declaration. But life's not that easy, is it, my poor record-collecting colleague? Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Stereo Action Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:53:41 -0500 At 02:35 PM 3/1/99 -0500, Peter Risser wrote: > >BTW, I haven't heard the whole Leo Addeo album, but I *love* the ocarina >cuts on this comp. They rule, especially Stumbling. So there. A >different 2 pence. Not so fast pardner. There's more than one Leo Addeo record on Stereo Action. There's no cut called "Stumbling" on "Paradise Regained" which means it's probably on the record called "The music goes round and round", I think. I was only referring to Paradise which is essentially a Hawaiian record. I've heard a lot of great, wildly-over-the-top Leo Addeo. At his best, his use of extraneous touches is rivalled only by Esquivel. But that usually doesn't happen on his Hawaiian records. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) "Tiki" vs. "Jungle" exotica Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:55:36 EST In a message dated 3/1/99 8:46:47 PM EST, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << There were two primary strains of this kind of exotica: Jungle and Tiki. Jungle was definitely a Hollywood creation, with its roots in Tarzan movies (and further back, to W.H. Hudson's novel, Green Mansions. Les Baxter was the king of jungle exotica, and spawned a host of imitators while opening the doors for a few more genuine articles such as Chaino, Thurston Knudson, and Guy Warren. Tiki was introduced with Martin Denny's Waikiki nightclub combo cum jungle noises cover of Baxter's "Quiet Village," although Denny's vibe player, Arthur Lyman, soon became the style's most representative artist. Tiki rode a wave of popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s marked by the entrance of Hawaii as the 50th state in 1959 and the introduction of Tiki hut cocktail bars and restaurants around the continental United States. Tiki exotica is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity, and Tiki mugs and torches that once collected dust in thrift stores are now hot items." Do others concur with this? >> Actually the whole Tiki thing started much earlier. It was a result of GI's whio fought in the Pacific during WW2 and bringing back mementos to the mainland. Remember a big influence on exotica music was the musical "South Pacific" which I believe hit Broadway around the mid-50s (based on James Michener's book "Tales Of The Souuth Pacific" which was a best seller was published in 1947). The whole thing really got big when "South Pacific" was made into a movie (1958) and given further ammo with the Hawaiian statehood in 1959. By that time, establishments that had been around since the '40s like Don The Beachcomber's and Trader Vic's really started to rake it in. That's when the tiki bars/restaurants aping the style of these entrereneurs started to crop up. I have to disagree with the statement about Arthur Lyman being exotica's "most representative artist." Lyman only left Denny's band because he was offered a lucrative deal by Henry J. Kaiser to replicate Denny's style so Kaiser could continue to get the crowds who wanted to hear "exotica" music at his Hawaiian Village. The reason Denny left the Hawaiian Village was beacuse Kaiser wanted him and his band exclusively, including for recording contracts. Denny baulked at this deal and jumped ship, while Henry J. Kaiser nearly broke up the band -- gaining Lyman and one other member of his original band. Denny was the arranger who came up with the idea of having his band do the jungle noises. Lyman was primarily a jazz vibist, a damn good one mind you, but his arrangements were really not in the same league as Denny. Also Martin Denny insists that his music was more of an "exotica" rather than "tiki" sound as you mentioned. "Exotica" has always been a mixture of world musics from the far east, middle east, Africa, Latin America and Polyenisia. Denny denies having any real knowledge of "tiki" culture, rather it was an adaptation of these worl d musical elements into what were standards, jazz and easly listening music of the time. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Ye-Ye/Schlager & XoTiCa Date: 02 Mar 1999 11:28:38 +0100 The term "Schlager" seems to come up in 1880 in Vienna, describing the success of a popular song comparing it to the hit of a flash. The German word "Schlag" means "hit" or "beat" as in "Blitzschlag", the hit of a flashlight. Popular music was always considered as a lower form of music, but you could say that Schlager is the German word for Pop. Today by the mention of "the German Schlager" most people would probably think of it as in his "great old days", i.e. in the 1960s. It was often pointed out in this list that the German pop music at that time was heavily influenced by Rock'n'Roll, so the term seems to refer most to a time when the music lost most of its own unique character. Which has been mostly a development of the "Operette" mixed with mild Jazz elements up to those days. The performers of the Schlager in post-war Germany draw a line between them and the ever popular "Volksmusik", which was considered as old-fashioned and provincial, if not Nazi. Today they often go together, at least in TV shows, a combination that Heino had sort of invented. To many this had made him a dangerous right-winger and the most hated singer in Germany. As English music gained more and more popularity since the 50s the term Schlager was more and more used mainly for music of German language; but you could read sentences like "Paul Anka, Canadian Schlager-singer...." as well, showing the universal meaning of the term. The word is also used for popular products in general, "the new VW became a huge Verkaufsschlager", ie. sales hit... Exotic influences were early: In the 1920s the "Comedian Harmonists" let all kinds of foreign musical influences slip into their repertoire ("Onkel Bumba aus Kalumba tanzte Rumba", "Mein lieber Schatz, bist du aus Spanien" etc.). They sang in at least five different languages and were incredibly successful even in the States at that time. As most of their 6 members were Jews you guess what happened to them after 1933... The Schlager of the 50s and 60s was full of escapist ideas, the lyrics were dreaming of the "white sands of Athens", as well as of a "fiesta Mexicana", they wished to recieve a "telegram from Tennessee" or expressed their "desire for Samoa"... The exotic element became a cornerstone for the Schlager, unfortunately rather in its lyrics than in the music. Today's Schlager revival a la Guildo Horn also refers mainly to the 60s and is all about singing in German and having fun at the same time, an attempt that seems to have a rebellious character to many people, yet cannot quite hide its ironical character. -Mo #Exotica mailing list frequently asked questions at: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) film music Date: 02 Mar 1999 12:28:05 +0100 Nat Kone wrote: >I don't really like to talk about how music complements a film I still think film music is something interesting to talk about, but you're right, when you say there isn't *one* way of making film music. Sometimes the music is like "the sound of the situation" sometimes it is "the sound of the state of mind of the main figure". As a film maker you probably have to make clear where you are, especially when you mix these different perspectives in one film. >it's kind of silly to separate the music from the film Nobody did that. A statement like "you can't separate the music from the soundtrack of a film" would make more sense to me. >And yet even when they fail, they seldom ruin the film. I can't agree with you here. For me the soundtrack is not more and not less than half of the truth of a movie. But I'm too lazy now to prove this with a number of examples. Just try to look at a film without the sound and compare the experience to listening to a film from the TV in the next room without seeing it. >From my knowledge and experience of how the process works, I think that a >true symbiosis is usually a happy accident. When you leave behind the >tried-and-true, it's a shot in the dark. Sometimes you're lucky and >sometimes you're not but you get away with it anyway.Hm. Of course you can work like that, try and error, in a more unconcious way, and it's probably much more creative; intuition is the strong side of the artist. But it doesn't mean you can't tell what happened when you look at the results afterwards. It's still an interesting point to analyze how soundtrack and music work.... >I also think that some of your examples of perfectly chosen scores are more >examples of things that you can't imagine any other way because that's how >you're used to seeing them. >Everybody now knows the story of how Bogart wasn't the actor originally >cast in Casablanca.but before that, it was a story of perfect casting.I didn't know the story, but I think Bogart was a perfect cast. So what? >I understand that you're a musician. Maybe this is just a classic case of >musician versus filmmaker.I made music, I made films, but in this case the misunderstanding apparently was about the perspective of what we were talking about: The motives of the artists (you), the way film music works (me). Actually I like to discuss this in free creative way, I don't state I know the truth, esp. not at such an early point of discussion, I'd rather collect ideas and come closer to a subject slowly. It's really not about being right or wrong. >Sometimes I subscribe to the theory that the score shouldn't even be >noticed. But I must admit I'm not consistent. Still, though I own a few >soundtrack records that I enjoy, I seldom walk out of a film commenting >about the music beyond acknowledging that it worked.I often do, especially when it didn't work. :) -Mo #Exotica mailing list frequently asked questions at: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: studio@wayno.com Subject: (exotica) Stereo Action discography Date: 02 Mar 1999 04:54:32 PST At 02:58 PM 2/28/99 EST, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > >Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? I have four. Three >are excellent and one disappointing. The excellent ones are: > > "Dynamica" Ray Martin Orchestra > "It's Magic" Marty Gold Orchestra > "Futura" Bernie Green Orchestra *************************************************** Here's a Stereo Action discography I assembled about three years ago, which I believe to be complete: LSA2287 Ray Martin and his Orchestra - Dynamica (1961) LSA2290 Marty Gold and his Orchestra - It’s Magic (1961) LSA2306 Dick Schory’s Percussion and Brass Ensemble - Runnin’ Wild (1961) LSA2344 Vic Schoen and his Orchestra - Brass Laced with Strings (1961) LSA2353 Leo Addeo and his Orchestra - The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round (1961) LSA2365 The Chorus and Percussion of Keith Textor - Sounds Terrific! (1961) LSA2371 The Guitars Unlimited Plus 7 - Crazy Rhythm (1961) LSA2376 Bernie Green and his Orchestra - Futura (1961) LSA2381 Marty Gold and his Orchestra - Stereo Action Goes Hollywood (1961) LSA2382 Dick Schory’s Percussion and Brass Ensemble - Stereo Action Goes Broadway (1961) LSA2396 Henri Rene and his Orchestra - Dynamic Dimensions (1961) LSA2414 Leo Addeo and his Orchestra - Paradise Regained (The Exotic Music of the Pacific) (1961) LSA2418 Esquivel and his Orchestra - Latin-Esque (1962) LSA2422 Ray Martin and his Orchestra - Excitement, Incorporated (1962) LSA2425 The Chorus and Percussion of Keith Textor - Sounds Sensational! (1962) LSA2432 Manny Albam and his Orchestra - More Double Exposure (Twenty Tunes - Two at a Time) (1962) LSA2485 Dick Schory’s Percussion and Brass Ensemble - Holiday for Percussion (1962) LSA2489 Various Artists - Stereo Action Unlimited! (1961) LSA2532 The Three Suns - Movin’’n’ Groovin’ (1962) LSA2508 Manny Albam and his Orchestra - I Had The Craziest Dream (1962) *************************************************** The Keith Textor LPs are among my favorites in the series. Textor added sound effects and vocal choruses, resulting in a sort of souped-up children's record sound. Other highly recommended Stereo Action titles are Guitars Unlimited Plus 7, Henri Rene, Esquivel (natch), and the Three Suns. I find most of the Marty Gold and Ray Martin material to be boring, but every Stereo Action LP has its interesting moments. Wayno ----- Sent using MailStart.com ( http://MailStart.Com/welcome.html ) The FREE way to access your mailbox via any web browser, anywhere! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 02 Mar 1999 08:52:01 -0500 I've seen it both ways, Mais Que Nada and Mas Que Nada. What does it mean, and which way is correct? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pmazz@cysource.com (Paul Mazzucca) Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action discography Date: 02 Mar 1999 08:39:06 -0500 I think the manny albam ' i had the craziest dream ' is awesome. marty gold i've actually passed up on and the 'stereo action unlimited'. isn't that good i have: latin- esque runnin' wild sounds terrific, (least favorite) the music goes round and round craziest dream movin' n' groovin i never paid more than a $1.50 for any of these gems. ( the guy in an old junk shop thought he better up to $1.50 instead of his usual $1.00) it is possible. carrie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 02 Mar 1999 15:03:41 +0000 Mas - more # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 02 Mar 1999 15:03:12 +0000 More than nothing? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Sound Gallery vol. 1 Date: 02 Mar 1999 10:22:02 -0500 I'm wondering if anyone can tell me more about this one - I'm assuming it would be a worthy addition to my collection? (I found a copy used, but haven't bought it yet). Ashley? Johan? cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Wives and Lovers Date: 02 Mar 1999 10:26:28 -0500 1. Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married? That's a perfect pairing, if you ask me! I bet they went to a lot of ski lodges together.... 2. YEESH! I found out this weekend that Mamie VanDoren and __Ray Anthony__ were married...It's a puzzling a mix as Julie London and Jack Webb! Hot dames and SQUARESVILLE hubbies.... Hmph!- Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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During a 30-year recording career, he released several pop, country, gospel and nostalgia albums. He later managed and owned two radio stations before selling them and returning to Paducah in 1985. Survivors include his wife, Virginia; a daughter, two brothers, a sister, and a granddaughter. *Cora Cheney Partridge TACOMA PARK, Md. (AP) -- Cora Cheney Partridge, a writer of children's books and one of the oldest women to be ordained an Episcopal priest, died Feb. 21 of complications from a stroke. She was 82. Partridge wrote more than 20 books of fiction, history and folklore. Her first book was ``Skeleton Cave,'' in 1954 describes a boy who finds American Indian relics near his home. She went on to write as many as 15 children's novels, among them ``The Pegged Leg Pirate of Sulu,'' `The Girl at Jungle's Edge,'' ``Tales from a Taiwan Kitchen'' and ``The Case of the Iceland Dogs.'' She was ordained an Episcopalian priest at age 65 and helped establish rural church missions in Vermont, Delaware and Florida. She worked with shut-ins and the elderly, often using a portable altar made from an ironing board. In 1989, Partridge helped organize an abortion rights march of ``the matriarchs,'' a group of women in their 60s and 70s, in Tallahassee, Fla. March 2, 1999 John Goldwater, Creator of Archie and Pals, Dies at 83 By RALPH BLUMENTHAL,NYTimes NEW YORK -- He is survived by Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica in Riverdale, U.S.A. Their creator, John L. Goldwater, an orphan from East Harlem who hitchhiked his way west in the Depression and invented prototypical teen-age America in the comics, died of a heart attack on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. Archie Andrews and his pals remain forever 16 going on 17. In 1941 Goldwater, a struggling writer distantly related to the late Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, dreamed up the carrot-topped, freckle-faced character perpetually torn between two loves, one blond, one dark-haired. He was a hapless teen-age Everyman counterpoised to the hyperpotent Superman, who had made his debut just a few years earlier. Naming his creation Archie, after a school chum, Goldwater surrounded him with other characters patterned after teen-agers he had met in the Midwest, gave them jalopies and typical teen-age problems, placed them in the mythical and idyllic town of Riverdale, and found a young artist, Bob Montana, who provided what became indelible faces. Millions worldwide came to chuckle over Archie's misadventures at school with his spinster teacher, Miss Grundy, and the fussy principal, Mr. Wetherbee; his intractable romantic triangle with the sweet Betty and spoiled, rich Veronica; the hamburger obsession of the nerdy Jughead; the rivalry with the handsome, conceited Reggie. In time, the supporting cast members grew to star in their own comic books. Over the years the settings have been updated -- Archie and his friends now exchange e-mail and go in-line skating -- but the problems have not changed. The guiding idea, Goldwater always said, was simple. It came down to Archie. "He's basically a square, but in my opinion the squares are the backbone of America," he told The New York Times in 1973. "If we didn't have squares we wouldn't have strong families." The formula clearly hit a responsive nerve. The comic strip once ran in 750 newspapers. Comic book sales sometimes reached 50 million a year, though they have leveled off at about 15 million a year. Goldwater's touch catapulted him to the pinnacle of the comics world, with a multimillion-dollar fortune and publishing empire, Archie Comic Publications Inc. of Mamaroneck, N.Y., one of the industry's big three, along with Marvel and D.C. Comics. Archie was on the radio, on television and in the movies. There was even a short-lived chain of Archie restaurants. Goldwater was also instrumental in creating the Comics Code Authority, which was formed in 1954 to self-police the industry's depictions of sex and violence. He was also a national commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and his wife, Gloria, was the first national chairwoman of its women's division. His childhood world of East Harlem was no Riverdale, U.S.A. His mother died giving birth to him in 1916 and his father succumbed to grief, abandoning his baby and dying soon afterward. Young John was raised by a foster mother and grew up to complete high school, where he knew a red-haired boy who became the prototype for Archie. Goldwater was six feet tall and husky with dark hair, more the Reggie type. With the Depression worsening, he left New York, hopping freight trains and bumming rides to the Midwest, where he worked for a time in Kansas as a news reporter. Assigned to school sports, he hung around with football teams, meeting the players and the girls they attracted, who would later supply him with ample comic material. After a few years he continued west to the Grand Canyon, where he worked at a lodge, but was dismissed for socializing with the female help, affording him more future material. The lodge paid his way to San Francisco, where he found work again as a reporter and saved enough to book passage on a ship back to New York. On board, he met two young women bound for the novitiate. Both fell for him, which later gave him the idea of the Betty-Veronica rivalry. Back in New York, he got a job on the docks and his experience with shipping gave him an idea. He went to a magazine publisher and offered to buy his outdated issues at a penny each. Then he shipped them abroad to an avid market. The business prospered and Goldwater soon joined with a pulp magazine publisher, Louis Silberkleit, to found a magazine publishing business in 1941, just as the war was restricting paper supplies. Their Archie venture, with illustrations by Montana, himself then a teen-ager, began as a four-page insert in another comic. It proved an immediate hit and Archie and his pals quickly got their own comic. In 1954, with national critics decrying brutality, vulgarity and sex in the comics, Goldwater helped found the Comics Magazine Association of America, whose Comics Code Authority persuaded magazines to voluntarily weed out offensive copy as well as ads for guns, knives and war weapons. He was president for 25 years. In 1973, he went further, licensing Archie for evangelical Christian messages. Although Jewish, Goldwater said the sentiments were in line with his wholesome family message. In 1983, the Archie comics company, then public, was acquired by a son, Richard, from Goldwater's first marriage, and by Silberkleit's son, Michael, and returned to private ownership. It now employs 32 writers and artists and publishes more than 30 comics. In addition to his wife and his son Richard, of White Plains, N.Y., he is survived by two other sons, Jonathan, of Scarsdale, and Jared, of Manhattan. This is not Goldwater's first obituary. When he was 48, in June 1964, The New York World-Telegram and Sun reported that he had died at age 89, confusing him with someone else with a similar name. In a letter to the editor, Goldwater responded, "This is a unique experience, and I guess that I am one of the very few men in the world who is able to laugh at his own obituary." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Gallery vol. 1 Date: 02 Mar 1999 15:34:28 +0000 A big thumbs up, well put together, top tunes, quality pressing, fantastic, now soundy, KPM style, danceable and worth every penny. Buy it now! And I still can't get over the quality tracks on the French and German Get Easy LPs. They are currently my faves and regularly make it onto tape and minidisc compilations. After all the talk about schlager this morning, I feel like I've had an education. I always thought Schlager meant whipped cream and denoted sickly sweet music. We live and learn. Charlie Charles_Moseley@mckinsey.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers Date: 02 Mar 1999 15:38:28 GMT > From: > > 1. Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married? That's a perfect > pairing, if you ask me! I bet they went to a lot of ski lodges > together.... > 2. YEESH! I found out this weekend that Mamie VanDoren and __Ray > Anthony__ were married...It's a puzzling a mix as Julie London and Jack > Webb! Hot dames and SQUARESVILLE hubbies.... > I just found out that Caterina Valente and Roy Budd are (were?) married. Do/did they make sweet music together? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) "Tiki" vs. "Jungle" exotica Date: 02 Mar 1999 07:49:11 -0800 (PST) It always seemed to me that a primitive "exotica" sound was captured somewhat (though not in the refined Denny way) in the early 30's with Cugat in the song "Jungle Drums" Maybe I'm way off here but that song feels more then "latin" to me. Its been injected with a dose of Hollowood exotica of a mysterious distant land. It seems that Cugat in his radio shows was marketed as an exotic creature, though definitely he was marketeed first as latin/rhumba. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---LTepedino@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/1/99 8:46:47 PM EST, kevin@kevdo.com writes: > > << There were two primary strains of this kind of exotica: Jungle and Tiki. > Jungle was definitely a Hollywood creation, with its roots in Tarzan movies (and Actually the whole Tiki thing started much earlier. It was a result of GI's whio fought in the Pacific during WW2 and bringing back mementos to the mainland. Remember a big influence on exotica music was the musical "South Pacific" which I believe hit Broadway around the mid-50s (based on James Michener's book "Tales Of The Souuth Pacific" which was a best seller was > published in 1947). The whole thing really got big when "South Pacific" was Also Martin Denny insists that his music was more of an "exotica" rather than "tiki" sound as you mentioned. "Exotica" has always been a mixture of world musics from the far east, middle east, Africa, Latin America and Polyenisia. Denny denies having any real knowledge of "tiki" culture, rather it was an adaptation of these worl d musical elements into what were standards, jazz and easly listening music of the time. > > Ashley > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) "Tiki" vs. "Jungle" exotica Date: 02 Mar 1999 08:20:45 -0800 LTepedino@aol.com wrote: > I have to disagree with the statement about Arthur Lyman being exotica's "most > representative artist." Lyman only left Denny's band because he was offered a > lucrative deal by Henry J. Kaiser to replicate Denny's style so Kaiser could > continue to get the crowds who wanted to hear "exotica" music at his Hawaiian > Village. The reason Denny left the Hawaiian Village was beacuse Kaiser wanted > him and his band exclusively, including for recording contracts. Denny baulked > at this deal and jumped ship, while Henry J. Kaiser nearly broke up the band > -- gaining Lyman and one other member of his original band. Denny was the > arranger who came up with the idea of having his band do the jungle noises. > Lyman was primarily a jazz vibist, a damn good one mind you, but his > arrangements were really not in the same league as Denny. > Ashley I wasn't buying the props for Lyman either, so I'm glad I'm not totally out of it. I like a lot of the Lyman stuff, especially since he often threw more "native" Hawaiin sounds (ukelele, etc) into the mix. But in almost all cases I prefer the Denny arrangement for songs that overlap (though, to be fair, in some cases Lyman did record some songs first (like Miserlou)). Lyman's also a lot more "vibey" to be considered "tiki", IMHO. -Kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Sound Gallery vol. 1 Date: 02 Mar 1999 08:27:01 -0800 (PST) This album is one great cut after the other. It stands for me with Karminsky Inflight comps as defining cds of the "now sound". One of the first and still one of the best. Used? What good luck you have! Its for sale hear at Virgin for $16 or so. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---cheryl wrote: > > > I'm wondering if anyone can tell me more about this one - I'm assuming > it would be a worthy addition to my collection? (I found a copy used, > but haven't bought it yet). Ashley? Johan? > > cheryl > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Subject: (exotica) Sound Gallery vol. 1 Date: 02 Mar 1999 16:35:26 -0000 Its a fine LP culled from the British Studio 2 imprint, (recorded at Abbey road's Studio 2). A good selection of 60's style swinging orchestral songs. Not massively stereo or exotic, more e-type music. The vinyl is well pressed (better than some of the original releases, the John Keating tracks are a lot fuller and more attacking than on his LP). it seems to have been compiled by the DJ's from London's 'Smashing' club. Definitely well worth having. Lots of fun. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me more about this one - I'm assuming it would be a worthy addition to my collection? (I found a copy used, but haven't bought it yet). Ashley? Johan? cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "dymaxia@ripco.com" Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers Date: 02 Mar 1999 11:27:10 -0600 (CST) On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > > 1. Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married? That's a perfect > pairing, if you ask me! I bet they went to a lot of ski lodges > together.... No doubt they looked fabulous in their parkas and sympatico silver / gold hair. But no, they split up in the mid-to-late 70s, I believe, after Burt had some sort of emotional/physical/spiritual breakdown. He was married to Carol Bayer-Sager for a while, with whom he perpetrated the horrific "That's What Friends are For", I believe. Now he's married to some youngish frosted blond woman. I used to have such a crush on BB until I learned that he's only 3 feet tall. This was all in that Bacharach documentary that was on PBS a couple of years back. -- Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 02 Mar 1999 12:37:20 EST In a message dated 3/2/99 11:13:15 AM, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY- EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM wrote: >More than nothing? I think its (mais que nada) more of a Brazilian/Portugese colloquialism, but I believe roughly translated means "But For Nothing" or "But what, nothing" or maybe even "But whatnot". In New York slang, something along the lines of "butkus" (.02 from yours true) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) SOUNDPROOF date?? Date: 02 Mar 1999 12:59:57 +0000 Any of you fine trivia-bent folks able to cough up a recording date for Ferrante and Teicher's 'SOUNDPROOF' LP? How about 'BLAST OFF'? I'll be yer best friend..... Thanks in 'vance, Keith # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: THOMAS, PETER: Kriminal Filmmusik Date: 02 Mar 1999 16:08:25 +0100 >From: Jack >Anyone have/heard this 1 yet ? * Kriminalfilmmusik cd, Prudence/BSC Music 398.6533 distr. Rough Trade, Germany, 1998 Music from "Der Zinker", "Die seltsame Gr=E4fin", "Der Hexer", "Das Verr=E4tertor", "Das Geheimnis de weissen Nonnezimmer 13", "Das Indische Tuch", "Das R=E4tsel der roten Orchidee", "Die weisse Spinne". There's a lot of gentle, ultra-light cocktail music without any surprises, nothing special really; only about half of the tracks are worth hearing, so this one's only for Peter Thomas completionists. my rate: 3/5 Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 3.2.99 Date: 02 Mar 1999 13:05:59 EST "Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, 88.1, Cambridge Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m. -----Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----- John Schroeder Orchestra-Soul Coaxing-CD Space Age Soul (request) Les Baxter-Tropicando-CD Que Mango (Scamp) (request) Jerry Van Royen-Lullaby In Red-CD 250 MPH (mixes well with Tropicando) Fatback Band-Feeling Mellow (Instrumental)-LP Feel My Soul Xavier Cugat-Autumn Leaves (bossa nova)-LP Cugat's Gold John Barry-Main Theme-CD OST The Knack David Amram-Harold's Way-CD Crime Jazz Volume 1 (Rhino) Johnny Hawksworth-Danger Girl-CD Danger Girl Betty Page James Taylor Quartet-Car Chase-CD The Money Spyder -George Cates-Pagan Love Song-LP Polynesian Percussion -The Executives-Moonglow Cha Cha Cha-CD Jungle Jive (Del-Fi) -Horst Jankowski-Pink Balloon-LP Black Forest Explosion -Heinz Kiessling Orchestra-Feeling Young-Get Easy (German Pops) -Chim Kothari-Guantanamera-LP Sound Of The Sitar -Ananda Shanker-Light My Fire-CD-R Basic Hip -Cornershop-Coming Up-CD Born The 7th Time (hip-hop beat w/ sitar samples) Love Unlimited Orchestra-Love's Theme-LP Under The Influence Of Love (request) Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds-Trouble Man/Trouble-LP Songs From Black Films Hugo Montenegro-Ilya-CD Man From Uncle Dave "Baby" Cortez-Summertime-LP The Happy Organ (RCA Living Stereo) Orpheus-Leslie's World-LP Orpheus (excellent soft-pop, great album) T-Bones-What Now My Love-LP Sippin' & Chippin' Barry Lipman Orchestra-The Girls From Paramarimbo-CD Get Easy (German Pops) Miss Toni Fisher-The Big Hurt-7" 45 RPM on Signet Records, 1960 -Warren Barker/Frank Comstock-The D.A.'s Man-LP TV Guide's Top TV Themes -Bernie Green-Ping Pong-LP Futura -Billy Mure-Peg 'O' My Heart-LP Fireworks (RCA Living Stereo) -Al Caiola-Guns Of Navarone-LP Solid Gold Guitar -Creed Taylor Orchestra-Its A Lonely Old Town-LP Lonelyville, The Nervous Beat -Universal Robot Band-Disco Trek (Star Trek Theme)-LP Freak In The Moonlight -Down To The Bone-Carlito's Way-CD From Manhattan To Staten -United Future Organization-United Future Airlines-CD Get Easy (Future Collect) -Frank Zappa-Peaches En Regalia-LP Hot Rats -Charles Earland-Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head-LP Black Drops (Prestige) -----Wayne Newton-Wives & Lovers----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Cash for CDs Date: 02 Mar 1999 13:33:26 -0600 Has anyone used this service? - Lou Title: Cash for CDs http://207.71.196.181/cashforcds.asp Description: What a great way to make money! Sell the used music CDs you have laying around! This site will quote you a price for four or more CDs. If you accept their quote they send out a prepaid mailer for you to send your CDs in. Once they are received you get a check! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Fwd: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 02 Mar 1999 10:45:59 PST > >Mas - more > Literally more than nothing but it means more than anything. rob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) fwd: ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 02 Mar 1999 15:04:13 -0600 >Return-Path: >Apparently-To: ultralounge@hollywoodandvine.com >Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:52:18 -0800 >From: Hollywood And Vine >Subject: ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER > >WHAT'S ONLINE AT HOLLYWOOD AND VINE >Tuesday, March 2, 1999 > >---------------------------------------------------------- >The Little Voice Soundtrack includes legendary performances by >Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and more! >To listen go to http://hollywoodandvine.com/littlevoice >---------------------------------------------------------- >The newsletter of >SEE Hollywood and Vine >http://hollywoodandvine.com >---------------------------------------------------- > >MORE MUSIC TO MIX MAI-TAI'S BY >THE TIKI SAMPLER > >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE featuring selections from >Ultra-Lounge Volumes 13-18, On The Rocks Parts 1&2, >Ultra-Lounge releases by Martin Denny, Les Baxter & >Jackie Gleason... > >PLUS six bonus tracks you won't find anywhere else in the >Ultra-Lounge... > >All luxuriously decanted in exotic bamboo-look packaging! > >In stores 5/4/99 > > >KEEP THOSE TIKI TORCHES BURNING! >THIS JUNE, ULTRA-LOUNGE BRINGS YOU > >WILD, COOL & SWINGIN' - the new series > >Six solo sets of finger-snappin', hip-shakin' vocals performed >by the coolest cats and kittens this side of the Copa. > >* LOUIS PRIMA & KEELY SMITH (2-cd SET) >* BOBBY DARIN >* SAM BUTERA >* JULIE LONDON >* MRS. MILLER >* WAYNE NEWTON > >(C) 1999 Capitol Records, Inc. > >For all the latest on the Ultra Lounge visit >http://www.ultralounge.com/ > >http://hollywoodandvine.com/signmeup/ >------------------------------------------------ >Questions? Write to mail@hollywoodandvine.com >Copyright 1998 Capitol Records, Inc. All rights reserved. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers Date: 02 Mar 1999 18:06:54 -0500 >> 1. Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married? > >No doubt they looked fabulous in their parkas >and sympatico silver / gold hair. But no, they split up >in the mid-to-late 70s, I believe, after Burt >had some sort of emotional/physical/spiritual breakdown. >He was married to Carol Bayer-Sager for a while, with >whom he perpetrated the horrific "That's What Friends >are For", I believe. Not to mention "Arthur's Theme" (Christopher Cross) and "On My Own" (Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald). Gives one more appreciation for the significance of under-appreciated Hal David. Burt and Ms. Bayer Sager are said to have met on the Merv Griffin show, which seems fitting. They were married in '82. The breakup with Angie was in the early 70s. The current wife is supposed to be #4, so we're missing one somewhere along the line. Wait a minute -- found her: singer Paula Stewart in the 50s. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Re: fwd: ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 02 Mar 1999 17:12:55 -0600 Never doubt Kini. >>MORE MUSIC TO MIX MAI-TAI'S BY >>THE TIKI SAMPLER >> >>Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award >>winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE featuring selections from >>Ultra-Lounge Volumes 13-18, On The Rocks Parts 1&2, >>Ultra-Lounge releases by Martin Denny, Les Baxter & >>Jackie Gleason... >> >>PLUS six bonus tracks you won't find anywhere else in the >>Ultra-Lounge... >> >>All luxuriously decanted in exotic bamboo-look packaging! >> >>In stores 5/4/99 visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: Fw: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for March 3, 1999 Date: 02 Mar 1999 18:44:39 -0500 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Les Baxter - It's a Big Wide Wonderful World "Sensational!" Enoch Light and his Light Brigade - Theme from Zorba the Greek "Magnificent Movie Themes" Tony Hatch - Out of this World "House of Loungecore" The Electric Indian - Broad Street 7" Piero Umiliani - Mah Na' Mah Na' "Svezia - Inferno and Paradiso" The Saint Orchestra - Funko "House of Loungecore" The Electric Indian - Keem-O-Sabe 7" The Dave Pike Set - Do You Know the Way to San Jose? "Got the Feelin' " The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination - A Different Forrest "I Was Young & I Needed the Money" X-Ray Tango - Ghost Riders in the Sky "Spy Fidelity" Riz Ortolani - Day of Anger "Day of Anger" [ost] Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" [ost] Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera - Nucleo Antirapina "Beretta 70" Claude Larson & his Computor Controlled Oscillators - Highway E1 "Electronic Toys" Killer Watts - Sleep Walk "House of Loungecore" The Dave Pike Set - Spooky "Got the Feelin' " Thanks for reading, Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) More on Bruce Haack Cassettes Date: 02 Mar 1999 18:54:56 EST I received this from Miss Nelson, listing what Bruce Haack albums are available: << The list of cassettes that are available from Dimension 5 are: 1. DANCE SING & LISTEN (1963) 2. DANCE SING & LISTEN AGAIN (1964) 3. DANCE SING & LISTEN AGAIN & AGAIN (1965) 4. THE WAY OUT CASSETTE (1968) 5. THE ELECTRONIC CASSETTE (1969) 6. DANCE TO THE MUSIC (1972) There are also cassettes that Bruce did the music for that correspond to books I have written, and they are 1. THE SILLY SONGBOOK CASSETTE 2. THE FUNNY SONGBOOK CASSETTE 3. THE FUN-TO-SING SONGBOOK CASSETTE 4. EVERYBODY SING & DANCE These books are also available from Dimension 5.>> Below is the track list of the amazing Hush Little Robot comp and the three albums the tracks come from. So there is alot of material to still be heard with no overlap. I think Jack has this great CD for sale. 1. Electric To Me Turn [1] 2. This Old Man [2] 3. Bods [2] 4. Elizabeth Foster Goose [2] 5. Four Dances [2] 6. Wooden Bread [2] 7. Program Me [1] 8. School For Robots [3] 9. Shine On [2] 10. Rubberbands [3] 11. War [1] 12. Chant of the Unborn [1] 13. Incantation [1] 14. Song of The Death Machine [1] 15. Word Game [1] 16. Thank You [2] 17. Campus Radio Voice A [?] 18. Campus Radio Voice B [?] [1] - Electric Lucifer (1969) - 7 titles [2] - This Old Man (1974)- 7 titles [3] - The Way Out Record (Cassette) (1968) - 2 titles [?] - I dunno - 2 titles # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rod Lott Subject: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 02 Mar 1999 13:38:43 -0600 I'd say this answers everyone's questions about the mysterious Tiki Sampler, as well as the state of the Ultra Lounge in general. This came to me from Capitol via e-mail today. --Rod >WHAT'S ONLINE AT HOLLYWOOD AND VINE > >Tuesday, March 2, 1999 > >MORE MUSIC TO MIX MAI-TAI'S BY >THE TIKI SAMPLER > >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE featuring selections from >Ultra-Lounge Volumes 13-18, On The Rocks Parts 1&2, >Ultra-Lounge releases by Martin Denny, Les Baxter & >Jackie Gleason... > >PLUS six bonus tracks you won't find anywhere else in the >Ultra-Lounge... > >All luxuriously decanted in exotic bamboo-look packaging! > >In stores 5/4/99 > > >KEEP THOSE TIKI TORCHES BURNING! >THIS JUNE, ULTRA-LOUNGE BRINGS YOU > >WILD, COOL & SWINGIN' - the new series > >Six solo sets of finger-snappin', hip-shakin' vocals performed >by the coolest cats and kittens this side of the Copa. > >* LOUIS PRIMA & KEELY SMITH (2-cd SET) >* BOBBY DARIN >* SAM BUTERA >* JULIE LONDON >* MRS. MILLER >* WAYNE NEWTON > >(C) 1999 Capitol Records, Inc. > >For all the latest on the Ultra Lounge visit >http://www.ultralounge.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Bell Book and Candle Date: 02 Mar 1999 19:47:42 -0800 Bell Book and Candle at your fave place in the entire galaxy! EBay!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=73015813 Love ya, especially chicks that dig Mundell Lowe (nudge nudge wink wink) JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@greennet.net (Craig Carlson) Subject: (exotica) Re: Goldwater Obit Date: 02 Mar 1999 23:50:45 -0800 To Lou and list, I may be mistaken about this, but I believe that the Archie characters were based on Bob Montana's schoolmates from Haverhill (MA) High School ca late '20s early '30s. John Goldwater was indeed the publisher of Archie comics (he was the "J" in MLJ publications, who also put out some of the most violent "Golden Age" comics during WW II), but the Archie series was pretty much Montana's creation. Some of the people that the Archie characters were based on (Big Moose, Betty, in particular) still live in the Haverhill and southern NH area and have commented on Montana's works in the recent past. The "Thinker" statue which can be seen in various depictions of Riverdale High School in the strips and comics is still extant in front of the former Haverhill High building (now the city police staion). Indeed, the name "Riverdale" is probably a reflection of the fact that the city Haverhill is hard on the banks of the Merrimac River. Craig ccarlson@greennet.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: (exotica) Pervirella Date: 03 Mar 1999 02:07:56 -0500 Chello everyone. Don't know if this one has been mentioned but... Gotta tell ya about a great NEW soundtrack from 1999! Pervirella on Dionysus Records. (recorded in Pervidelity!) I saw the flick a few months back and i must say i like the sndtrk better. The movie is debaucherous RnR fairytale made in the UK. It reminds me of Monty Python meets the Dark Brothers. the music however is all over the proverbial place. and it is all really good, from jazzy organ bop to garage RnR (a member of thee Headcoats stars in it), loungeyness and more. it has got an incredibly cheesey theme song i cannot get out of my head that sorta reminds me of the theme song to the Hammer adventure The Lost Continent. along with the great cover and the purple vinly you cannnot go wrong. bands include: Francois Evans and the London Gay Symphony Orchestra Les hommes Qui Adorent Les Femmes The Diaboliks Dave Kraft Five Frat Shack All-Stars Sexton Ming and the Diamond Gussetts Bradley Ghoulstein Combo The Constellations Baine Watson Orchestra and more.... bump out =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "...there's a whole lots of times i wish i could say i'm not white." --FZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 03 Mar 1999 09:39:00 EST In a message dated 03/02/99 7:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlott@jordanet.com writes: << >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE >> this continues to bug me. the Grammy Award was for the packaging -- not the music, arrangements, etc. of course the packaging award in hollywood is probably treasured (if at not at least winked at) in the back room meetings and discussions. "To Hell with the talent -- It's packaging my boys!!!!!" robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 03 Mar 1999 09:36:38 EST In a message dated 03/02/99 7:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlott@jordanet.com writes: << I'd say this answers everyone's questions about the mysterious Tiki Sampler, as well as the state of the Ultra Lounge in general. This came to me from Capitol via e-mail today. --Rod >> And it is exactly as I said. It does not deal specifically with "Tiki stuff" but continues where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin") sampler leaves off. Namely to drag newbies into ultimately sell Vol. 13 thru 18 plus the "bonus" track samplings. robert Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "dymaxia@ripco.com" Subject: (exotica) Singer Dusty Springfield Dies At 59 (fwd) Date: 03 Mar 1999 08:52:44 -0600 (CST) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --------------4D2D62D23DC0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-ID: I just found this out. I knew that she had cancer, but my heart has just sunk to the floor. > Singer Dusty Springfield Dies At 59 > > LONDON (Reuters) - Dusty Springfield, the 1960s British pop star > famous for her husky voice and blonde beehive hairdo, has died at the > age of 59, her agent said Wednesday. > > Springfield, who had fought a long battle against breast cancer, died > Tuesday night at her home in Henley-on-Thames, west of London, agent > Paul Fenn said. Her cancer had first been detected in 1994. > > Born Mary O'Brien in London, she teamed up in the early 1960s with her > brother Tom to form the Springfields, which became one of the > country's top pop and folk acts. > > Once described as Britain's finest white soul singer, Springfield's > 1963 solo debut ``I Only Want To Be With You'' is now a pop classic. > > Worldwide success came in 1966, with ``You Don't Have To Say You Love > Me,'' which sold a million copies to become her only British number > one hit. > > In 1968, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she recorded ``Dusty > In Memphis,'' regarded by some critics as one of the decade's finest > albums. At the same time she released her classic single ``Son Of A > Preacher Man.'' > > After disappearing from the charts, Springfield let slip in a 1975 > newspaper interview a veiled admission that she was bisexual and moved > to Los Angeles. > > She recorded little, preferring to spend time with tennis star Billie > Jean King and campaign for animal rights. > > In the 1980s, she found renewed success when she teamed up with > Britain's Pet Shop Boys, who persuaded her to duet with them on their > hit single ``What Have I Done to Deserve This?.'' > > The group also wrote the theme song to ``Scandal,'' the film of one of > Britain's most notorious political scandals of the 1960s, which also > became a hit for Springfield. > > In May last year, Springfield announced a financial deal in Los > Angeles under which she would get millions of dollars in exchange for > future royalties from her hits. > > Just two months ago, Springfield was honored by Britain, being granted > an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). --------------4D2D62D23DC0-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 03 Mar 1999 10:53:18 -0500 I've seen it both ways, Mais Que Nada and Mas Que Nada. According to that funny but helpful tool the Alta Vista Translator, Mas Que Nada, gives you "But That Nothing" and Mais Que Nada gives you "More Than Nothing". If you go to BMI's site, it is listed as "Mas Que Nada" According to this page http://www.brmusic.com/uptodate/up1/lyrics.htm The winner is... "Mas Que Nada" Here are the lyrics in English: BUT NO WAY=20 Oaria raio=20 Oba Oba Oba (repeat)=20 But no way=20 Get out of my way=20 I want to pass=20 'Cause the samba's hot=20 What I want is to samba This samba=20 That's mixed with maracatu=20 Is old black mens' samba=20 Black man's samba you=20 But no way=20 A samba as great as this=20 You're not gonna want me To get to the end. But what he is singing is, Oari=E1 rai=F4=20 Ob=E1 Ob=E1 Ob=E1 (bis)=20 Mas que nada=20 Sai da minha frente=20 Eu quero passar=20 Pois o samba est=E1 animado=20 O que eu quero =E9 sambar=20 Este samba=20 Que =E9 misto de maracatu=20 =C9 samba de preto velho=20 Samba de preto tu=20 Mas que nada=20 Um samba como esse t=E3o legal=20 Voc=EA n=E3o vai querer=20 Que eu chegue no final=20 No Mais, No Mais, Brian Duran Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 03 Mar 1999 08:22:10 -0800 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 03/02/99 7:14:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, > rlott@jordanet.com writes: > > << >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award > >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE >> > > this continues to bug me. the Grammy Award was for the packaging -- not the > music, arrangements, etc. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if it wasn't for the packaging many of us wouldn't care. There are lots of us who will be turned by anything with "tiki" in the title. Thus, the fact that the UL folks have a good tradition of packaging actually makes a big difference in this case. As someone who is in the "any release of this music is fine by me" camp, I'm looking forward to the Tiki Sampler for the music, and yes also for the packaging. -Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE Date: 03 Mar 1999 16:26:36 +0000 I saw all that Ultralounge crap in the CD department of HMV and it looked cheap and tacky. I did not investigate further for fear of embarrassing myself in front of the sales assistants who had obviously put a rack of the stuff there as some sort of wind-up. Johan Dada Vis - that MP3 file is superb, where are the rest? Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Mossman, Springfield, Tapscott obits Date: 03 Mar 1999 11:52:21 -0600 *Stuart Mossman WINFIELD, Kan., (AP) -- Stuart Mossman, a guitar maker, entertainer and entrepreneur, died Tuesday after a long hospitalization following a heart attack. He was 56. Mossman built 6,000 guitars from 1968 to 1984, first in his garage and later in a factory with 28 employees. His guitars attracted the attention of professionals and celebrities, including John Denver, Eric Clapton, Albert Lee, Doc Watson, Hank Snow, Cat Stevens and Merle Travis. The Carradine brothers -- actors David, Keith and Robert -- own Mossman guitars and found him parts in the movies ``The Long Riders,'' ``Cloud Dancer'' and the made-for-TV movie ``Murder Ordained.'' Mossman stopped making guitars when he suffered severe headaches and a skin condition caused by the chemicals used in guitar-making. The company was sold to a former employee and moved to Garland, Texas, where Mossman guitars are still being built. *Dusty Springfield LONDON (AP) -- Singer Dusty Springfield, whose husky voice fueled such 1960s hits as ``Son of a Preacher Man'' and ``Wishin' and Hopin','' has died after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 59. Springfield died Tuesday night at her home in Henley-on-Thames, about 30 miles west of London, said her agent, Paul Fenn. ``She was one of the icons of the music industry,'' Fenn said. ``She was one of the most talented female singers of this century.'' Springfield's first hit was 1964's ``I Only Want To Be With You,'' followed by a string of smashes, including ``I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself'' and ``You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.'' In the 1990s, she resurfaced with another hit, teaming up with the Pet Shop Boys for the single ``What Have I Done to Deserve This.'' Springfield's breast cancer was diagnosed in 1994 shortly after she recorded her most recent album, ``A Very Fine Love.'' LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- British pop singer Dusty Springfield has died after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was 59. Her agent, Paul Fenn, said today she passed away Tuesday night at her Henley-on-Thames home in Oxfordshire, some 30 miles west of London. Born in north London as Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, Springfield won early fame for her 1964 Motown-influenced hit ``I Only Want To Be With You.'' Among her other hit records during the 1960s were ``Wishin and Hopin,'' and ``Son of a Preacher Man.'' Her agent Paul Finn told the British Broadcasting Corp.: ``She was one of the icons of the music industry. She was one of the most talented female singers of this century.'' Her doctors first diagnosed her cancer in 1994. Among those reacting to news of her death, Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the group Gerry and the Pacemakers said: ``I think Dusty would want us to remember her now with a load of fun. I don't think she would want us sitting around moping. And Mike Gill, a friend and business associate of the singer's for nearly 32 years, said: ``We're all terrifically sad this morning. She was very warm and great fun to be with.'' Springfield was also widely-known for her blonde beehive hair and trademark heavy-black ``panda-style'' make-up. She took on the Springfield name after working with her brothers Tom and Tim Field in a folk trio, The Springfields. Her career nose-dived in the 1970s, when in 1972, claiming she was ``bored with Britain,'' she picked up and went to Los Angeles and lived there for 15 years. But the Pet Shop Boys rediscovered her in 1987 and her collaboration with them produced, ``What Have I Done To Deserve This?,'' which reached No. 2 on the British charts. Even after her cancer diagnosis she continued to record -- making her most recent album ``A Very Fine Love in 1995.'' Reflecting on her cancer diagnosis, she once told The British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, ``When hard times come, my family knows how to stare it in the face and get on with it.'' She was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this month in New York, along with Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen. http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B5503 http://elvispelvis.com/horacetapscott.htm Unconfirmed reports that Lulubelle, of Nashville's "Lulubelle and Scotty" and Hee Haw fame, has died. Horace Tapscott, Jazz Pianist and Community Advocate, 64 By BEN RATLIFF,NYTimes Horace Tapscott, whose accomplishments as a jazz pianist and band leader were matched by his legacy as a local community organizer, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 64. The cause was cancer, his manager and publicist, Corine Hunter, said. Few jazz musicians with an individual style and a recognized name reject the promise of an international solo career, but Tapscott, for the most part, stayed at home. His anchor was the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (Ugmaa), a collective he set up in the Watts neighborhood in 1961 to find employment for musicians, dancers and visual artists in Los Angeles. He also taught and guided hundreds of youths who could not afford music lessons. One of his methods of teaching young students was to enlist them in his Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a group he conducted, supplied with compositions and kept together until his death. Tapscott was born in Houston and was taken to Los Angeles at the age of 9 by his mother, a stride pianist and tuba player named Mary Lou Malone. They lived close to Local 767, the city's black musicians union, and he often spent time around older musicians and friends of the family like Buddy Collette and Gerald Wilson. As a teen-ager, Tapscott was a trombone player during the golden era of Central Avenue, which was the Los Angeles equivalent of New York's 125th Street -- a mecca of black American entrepreneurship and entertainment. Among his friends were soon-to-be-famous young players from the area, including the trumpeter Don Cherry, the saxophonists Eric Dolphy and Frank Morgan and the clarinetist John Carter. But by the early 1950's the scene had changed: the black and white musicians' unions integrated, enabling blacks to find work playing on film and television soundtracks, and simultaneously the Central Avenue clubs sputtered out. After spending four years in the United States Air Force during the 1950's, Tapscott began to think about new ways that jazz could gain some measure of respect and support within the black population of Los Angeles; a disillusioning tour of the South that he took with Lionel Hampton's big band in 1958 sharpened those ideas and led him to organize his own union. The organization limped along until 1965, when the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles erupted in riots. Tapscott and his Arkestra rode through the thick of it, playing on the backs of flatbed trucks. In the aftermath of the riots, the union got some state and Federal funding, and the Arkestra began to cohere through weekly performances, often in universities and churches. In 1968, Tapscott composed and arranged music for a memorable album by the alto saxophonist Sonny Criss called "Birth of the New Cool." The first recording under his own name, "The Giant Is Awakened," appeared in 1969 and introduced the saxophonist Arthur Blythe, who would become an important player in New York a decade later. The Arkestra was not recorded until 1978, and despite all its continuous activity -- musicians like David Murray, Butch Morris and Azar Lawrence were members for a time -- it never became a touring band; its first European concert was in 1995. ( Tapscott himself had never played a significant concert in New York until he was booked at the Village Vanguard in the summer of 1991.) He began playing the piano in the late 1950's, after a car crash that weakened his embouchure for the trombone. He developed a loose-limbed, Thelonious Monk-inspired style, with banged dissonances and dark, seductive harmonies; it suited the percussive vamps and odd time signatures of his writing. Seven of his recordings since the mid-70's were released by the small record label Nimbus; other recordings since the 80's appeared on the Hat Hut and Arabesque labels. The latest, from 1997, is the trio recording "Thoughts of Dar es Salaam." Tapscott is survived by his wife, Cecilia; a sister, Robbie Byrd of Dallas; nine children; 21 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B7657 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Schlager Date: 03 Mar 1999 13:00:59 -0500 Charles wrote: > After all the talk about schlager this morning, I feel like I've had an > education. I always thought Schlager meant whipped cream and denoted sickly > sweet music. We live and learn. Yes, thanks to Moritz for the details. Since it was through Moritz and the gang at AtaTak that I first heard about Schlager in the first place, I'm confident we're getting it from a reliable source! Peter wrote: > I just found out that Caterina Valente and Roy Budd are (were?) > married. Do/did they make sweet music together? While we're on the Schlager subject many may not know Caterina Valente made some fine records in German including an expert version of the song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" in German, under the name "Club Honolulu" as well a some more straightforward material in the style of say Connie Francis or Doris Day and I think some even more serious yet. But... mix that with Roy Budd and I'd say musically not a bad match! Don't know if they ever performed together but she did a lot of singing with I think her brother under the group Caterina & Silvio. Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 03 Mar 1999 13:29:10 EST In a message dated 03/03/99 11:21:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << As someone who is in the "any release of this music is fine by me" camp, I'm looking forward to the Tiki Sampler for the music, and yes also for the packaging. >> My point is this: When I heard Leopard Skin Sampler the first time I could see how the music would have a varied "Lounge" theme (Exotica included). When lots of folks on the List heard "Tiki Sampler" we discussed the hopeful event that this would be new (i.e. cuts not already available on released UL CDs) and material directly related to Exotica/Tiki. To those of us wishing for something new this is a disappointment. And don't think that I don't enjoy the UL series. I have all but a few of them. I just don't know if I need a sampler of music I already have. Let's look at if differently. When the Vols 1-12 were relatively new and you could buy the Sampler to see which ones you want that was great. Vols 13 thru whatever have been out for almost 2 years now. For me at least, this was done backwards. And while UL can release whatever they want and call it whatever they want I think "Leopard Skin Sampler Number II" would have been more appropriate. With the notice of "Look for a Tiki Sampler" being out for close to a year now I was hoping for a more Tiki/Exotica oriented CD. Of course I was also the one that FROM THE MOMENT THEY ANNOUNCED A TIKI SAMPLER suspected (and voiced at this forum) that it would probably be a continuation of the Leopard Skin Sampler idea and include no new music. UL/Capitol did not disappoint us (or did they?). Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: (exotica) San Francisco: opportunity to hear music Date: 03 Mar 1999 11:55:12 -0800 Sound Annex. For those of you who want to get out and hear some music of the ilk discussed here, I'll be DJ-ing at 563 Second St (btw Brannan and Bryant at Deboom Alley, close to Montgomery Station) in San Francisco. The date is this Saturday, March 6. Doors Open 8p, Music 9p, You Leave 1a. The music will be all over the map, with many stops in the lands of Now!, Brit. Swinging Scene, and Brazil, likely with brief layovers in the airports of Jazz, Soundtracks (to the lives of the stars), and Electronic Music from the 40s to the 90s. Bring no luggage and you won't have any luggage to lose; leave your baggage with your shrink. Cover is $5 (inside, you'll find 1$ drafts) with proceeds going to support Annex, an artist-initiated exhibition. (Annex: Twenty artists will show work of their choice in enclosed units of differing sizes at California Mini-Storage in SF. More info on Annex at the event.) 3 bands (Applesaucer, The Giraffe had a Voice, and Shantigs) will also be playing. I have no idea what any of them sound like. It think they are mostly of the guitar/bass/drums variety. I will be playing before, after, and between sets. It'll be a good time. Say hi if you show up. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) another Springfield obit Date: 03 Mar 1999 15:27:56 -0600 LONDON, March 3 (AFP) - British 1960s singer Dusty Springfield died late Tuesday after a long battle against cancer, her agent said. Paul Fenn said the 59-year-old died at her home in Henley-on-Thames, near Oxford, west of London. The singer had been fighting breast cancer since it was diagnosed in 1994. Springfield achieved huge chart success in the 1960s, starting with her debut and most famous single "I Only Want to Be With You" and clocking up 17 hits throughout the decade along with a series of acclaimed albums. She was awarded the title of Officer of Order of the British Empire (OBE) in January this year while being treated in hospital. A spokesman for Queen Elizabeth II said the sovereign was "saddened to hear of her death so soon after she was awarded an OBE". Other figures from the music business around the world paid tribute. Elton John said from America that Springfield was "the best white British female singer to come along at the time ... as good a singer as Aretha Franklin ... completely timeless". Fellow 1960s star Cilla Black, a friend for many years, said: "She was an incredible artist. I'm very sad and deeply shocked." The Pet Shop Boys, with whom Springfield collaborated at the end of her career, called her Britain's "greatest female singer". Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in north London on April 16, 1939. She changed her name when she teamed up with her brother Tom in the folk trio The Springfields in the early 1960s and they had several significant hits. But they split after seeing The Beatles at the Cavern in Liverpool. "We saw the writing on the wall," she said. A visit to Nashville at that time gave her the musical edge on her contemporaries, and she began her solo career with "I Only Want To Be With You" in 1964. It was the first record to be played on the BBC's new youth music programme "Top Of The Pops" and its Motown sound took it to number four in the charts. Throughout the mid-1960s Dusty Springfield's husky soulful style was rarely out of the hit parade. Springfield was known for her glitzy gowns, peroxide-blonde beehive and panda-like eye make-up, which she achieved by leaving her caked-up mascara on for three weeks at a time. The image was almost a parody, dreamed up by the convent girl to appear simultaneously attractive and unthreatening. "It was a good thing to hide behind. Without the mask I was a quivering wreck. I was terribly shy," she said later. Unusually for a woman singer of the time, she insisted on heavy involvement in production and gained a reputation for being "difficult". Eventually Springfield was eclipsed by the advent of a growing taste for rock after 1967. She left Britain in 1970 and lived in Los Angeles for more than 15 years before returning in the late 1980s. During this time she recorded with numerous US artists, releasing one of her most famous tracks "Son of a Preacher Man". During her time in the United States, she brought herself low by years of drink and drugs. After returning to Britain in semi-retirement, she had a hit in a duet with the Pet Shop Boys singing "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" The success brought her a new generation of followers, especially in the gay community, where she became an icon. She recorded her most recent album "A Very Fine Love" in 1994 shortly before her cancer was diagnosed. She underwent extensive chemotherapy until 1995, when she was diagnosed as being clear of the disease. However, the following year the cancer returned. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "NIELS KREISHOLT" Subject: (exotica) Trade Date: 03 Mar 1999 13:18:48 PST Hello there, I have the CD re-issue of Jean Jacques Perrey: Moog Indigo for trade. I am looking for the Henry Mancini tribute: Shots in the dark. Please contact me off-line. Niels Kreisholt nkreisholt@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format Date: 03 Mar 1999 16:33:33 -0600 BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 MAR 3 (NB) -- By Matt Hines,Newsbytes. A panel representing IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) and Toshiba Corp. has created new content protection standards for the Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)-Audio platform, paving the way for its commercial introduction later this year. DVD-Audio is a music industry format based on high capacity DVD technology which claims to offer significant improvements over present audio formats. The new framework uses watermark and encryption technologies to protect the music made available on prerecorded DVD-Audio disc. The copy protected DVD-Audio discs can be played only on licensed players, in a method similar to that used for today's DVD-Video discs and players. The guidelines provide consumers with the ability to make one digital copy, per recorder, of the original audio content for personal use at a sound-quality equal to CD-Audio or less. For example, a consumer who purchases a DVD-Audio disc would be able to make one copy on a CD or MiniDisc for their automobile or other personal music players. Content owners will have the option of allowing additional copies at various levels of quality, up to and including the full quality of the prerecorded DVD-Audio original. Information technology manufacturers including IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) and Toshiba Corp. have been developing a content protection framework for DVD-Audio in conjunction with BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. The collective organization issued a statement calling the public release of the music industry-supported copyright protection guidelines the last major step enabling DVD-Audio to be commercially introduced into the marketplace this year. All of the involved technology companies are building new applications for DVD-Audio and the group was interested in appeasing the copyright concerns of the recording industry so that the new products are accepted free of protest. The recording industry has become increasingly concerned as new modes for copying and distributing music over the Internet have popped up. Last week, a group called the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) met in order to begin establishing other standards for protecting copyrights online. Among the issues being debated by that organization is the validity of the popular but controversial MP3 digital music format. IBM, Intel, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba have all actively contributed to developing methods to protect digital entertainment content from unauthorized copying including participation in the efforts to develop the DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Fantastica JJ Perrey special on www.xtabay.com Date: 03 Mar 1999 14:55:10 -0800 Okay kiddies... For an encore I just uploaded one of my FAVORITE = Fantastica programs: #21, the JJ Perrey special. Perrey with Kingsley, = Perrey with Chazam, Perrey with Breuer, Perrey with Perrey...and many = MANY more... all cut together with neato bits from Forrest Ackerman = Editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and "Spacemen." Also added are = links to the Fantastica playlist archive which is a fun read all by = itself. Look for it all under the "Streaming Audio" link. I REALLY need reports about how the MP3 stream is working.. especially = from users with slow modems. Also, if'n ya dig it, send Johan a note... = there is a Mailto link on the page. Also added to the main page is opportunity to subscribe to an occasional = email update of the page. There will be a lot of changes soon, and I = would like to be able to send off-list updates. Please make use of it. Enjoy! Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format Date: 03 Mar 1999 18:27:41 -0500 Yeah, yeah, copy-protect this, digital-watermark that. Big Warner Brother is watching. I just want to know what sampling rate they finally decided on. :::::::::::::::::::: More importantly, goodbye to Dusty... thanks always for your art and soul. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format Date: 03 Mar 1999 15:30:36 -0800 =20 > Yeah, yeah, copy-protect this, digital-watermark that. Big Warner = Brother > is watching. Hehehehe... too true, brotha... It's kinda funny, really... They are = gonna pour bajillions into copy protection to try and save a relative = pittance, and the College kids will copy them all to ANALOG, redigitize, = and post 'em on the net....WITHOUT the copy management scheme. Meanwhile legitimate consumers will have to put up with all the hassles = of crippled copies. They are shooting at the birds to shoo away the = squirrels. Just my $.00000002 Million # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) SOUNDPROOF date?? Date: 03 Mar 1999 19:22:53 -0500 At 12:59 PM +0000 3/2/99, Keith E. Lo Bue wrote: >Any of you fine trivia-bent folks able to cough up a recording date for >Ferrante and Teicher's 'SOUNDPROOF' LP? 1956 >How about 'BLAST OFF'? 1958 br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 03 Mar 1999 19:23:00 -0500 > I've seen it both ways, Mais Que Nada and Mas Que Nada. I just purchased a very good 'a cappella' version of the song 'Mas Que Nada'. It is performed by a Singapore vocal group called Vocaluptuous, and is based on the arrangement by Sergio Mendes. The only non-vocal instrument is a small rattle - all other instruments and percussion are simulated with the human voice. It all works rather well. The CD is called 'aka a cappella' , and is the third in a series of compiled songs from the annual Singapore a cappella festival. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers Date: 03 Mar 1999 19:31:26 -0500 > Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married? A monument to this marriage can be found at the East Norwich Inn, a hotel located on Long Island near New York. This hotel used to be owned by Burt Bacharach. In the pseudo breakfast lounge area just off from the main desk, there is a framed photograph showing a picture of Burt and Angie (and I can't remember who else) sitting at a table. The photograph was most likely taken in that very same room. This must have been in the 70's, because the background wall was made up of a cheap looking plywood panels, similar to the style Calvin Klein used in his controversial 'underage teen' ads a few years back. I asked the clerk if Burt still owned the hotel, and she said he sold it several years ago during one of his divorces. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Fwd: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 03 Mar 1999 19:14:05 EST This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_920506446_boundary Content-ID: <0_920506446@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_920506446_boundary Content-ID: <0_920506446@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-path: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/3/99 8:48:43 AM Central Standard Time, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: << And it is exactly as I said. It does not deal specifically with "Tiki stuff" but continues where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin") sampler leaves off. Namely to drag newbies into ultimately sell Vol. 13 thru 18 plus the "bonus" track samplings. >> Well, not *exactly.* You were convinced it was the same sampler as in the MusicHound Lounge book, which it is not, given the cuts from On the Rocks, the Denny/Gleason/Baxter discs and the six bonus tracks. I don't think anyone ever thought it was going to be truly "tiki." As for the UL series being promoted as Grammy-winning, I don't have a problem with it. A Grammy is a Grammy, as far as I'm concerned. I think consumers are pretty astute to know something like UL wasn't up for Album of the Year. --Rod --part0_920506446_boundary-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 07:54:23 EST In a message dated 3/3/99 9:43:07 AM EST, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: << << >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE >> this continues to bug me. the Grammy Award was for the packaging -- not the music, arrangements, etc. of course the packaging award in hollywood is probably treasured (if at not at least winked at) in the back room meetings and discussions. "To Hell with the talent -- It's packaging my boys!!!!!" >> That's right up there with my other favorite Grammy award - best liner notes! Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Atlas, Simmons, Springfield obits Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:15:46 -0600 *Jack Atlas LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jack Atlas, who made some of the earliest movie trailers and started a company devoted to making the previews, died Friday. He was 81. Atlas became a key figure in the trailer industry during the past 40 years of their evolution and was an authority on their history. He began his career in MGM's publicity department and later worked full-time creating previews. MGM was one of the first studios with a full-time trailer production staff, and only a dozen companies in the world produced trailers at the time Atlas started. Trailers grew in popularity with ``talkies,'' and over the years evolved into a key marketing strategy for new film releases. Today, more than 100 companies make trailers. After working for MGM and then Columbia, he started his own production company, Atlas Organization, in 1973, which made trailers for films and Ted Turner's television enterprises. *Shirley Satin Simmons NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Shirley Satin Simmons, who appeared in television commercials and exercise videos with her son, fitness guru Richard Simmons, died Sunday. She was 87. Mrs. Simmons, a New York City native, was a tap dancer when she met Leonard D. Simmons Sr., a singer and master of ceremonies, at a theatrical boarding house in Philadelphia in 1938, according to Leonard Simmons Jr. They married and performed under the stage names Bobby and Shirley Leonard. They moved to New Orleans in 1939, where Mrs. Simmons tap danced in Bourbon Street variety shows. After Leonard Jr. and Richard were born in 1946 and 1948, she abandoned show business and went to work selling cosmetics. She retired in 1965. When Richard Simmons became well known through his exercise programs and fitness videos, his mother often was with him. She appeared in commercials with him and did an exercise video, ``The Silver Foxes,'' with the parents of other celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone's father and Dustin Hoffman's mother. ---------------------- Sr. Wences still going at 102. S'awright! March 4, 1999 Dusty Springfield, 59, Pop Star of the 60's, Dies By STEPHEN HOLDEN,NYTimes Dusty Springfield, the smoky-voiced English torch singer whose interpretations of pop ballads were suffused with a heartbroken wistfulness, died on Tuesday at her home in Henley-on-Thames, near Oxford, west of London. She was 59. The cause was breast cancer, said her agent, Paul Fenn. Ms. Springfield had one of the longest recording careers of any contemporary pop star, beginning in 1961 when she had the first of several hits with her folk-pop trio, the Springfields, and ending with her 1995 album, "A Very Fine Love." She had most of her major hits in the 1960s when she was considered the British equivalent of Dionne Warwick; she recorded only intermittently after the early 1970s. Her career was briefly rejuvenated in 1987 when the English duo the Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe), who were longtime fans, produced her Top Five hit, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" They also wrote and produced "Nothing Has Been Proved," the dense, swirling post-disco theme song that she sang on the soundtrack of the 1989 movie "Scandal," about the Profumo sex scandal that had rocked the British government in the early 1960s. Ms. Springfield became an international pop star in 1964 with "I Only Want to Be With You," a perky early-Beatles-style love song. Other major '60s hits included "Wishin' and Hopin"' (1964), and "The Look of Love" (1967), both written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the team that supplied Ms. Warwick with most of her early hits. Ms. Springfield's sultry rendition of "The Look of Love," from the soundtrack of "Casino Royale," anticipated the heavy-breathing eroticism of Donna Summer a decade later. Her best seller, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), was a big-belting tear-jerker that reached No. 4 on Billboard's singles chart and won her her first Grammy nomination. The country-soul ballad "Son of a Preacher Man," her Top 10 hit from 1969, won her new respect and her second Grammy nomination after being prominently featured in the 1994 movie "Pulp Fiction." Dusty Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on April 16, 1939, in Hampstead, London. While attending British convent schools, she discovered the music of Peggy Lee, whose intimate come-hither style was a major formative influence. She got her professional start with an Andrews Sisters-style group called the Lana Sisters, but quit to form her own folk-pop group, the Springfields, with a friend, Tim Field, and her brother, Dion O'Brien, now known as Tom Springfield, who is her only survivor. Promoted as a British answer to Peter, Paul and Mary, the group had a popular British television show and scored several English hits before breaking through in the United States with a Top 20 single, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles." While visiting New York with the trio, Ms. Springfield recalled many years later, she heard the Exciters' brash, aggressive song "Tell Him" coming out of a Broadway record store and decided that she wanted to go pop. "I was deeply influenced by black singers from the early 1960s," she said. "I liked everybody at Motown and most of the Stax artists. I really wanted to be Mavis Staples. What they shared in common was a kind of strength I didn't hear on English radio." Ms. Springfield subsequently broke up her folk group and signed as a soloist with Philips Records. Her first single for the label, "I Only Want to Be With You," established her new direction. Ms. Springfield, with her teased beehive hairdo and eyes heavily blackened with mascara, was a 1960s pop fashion icon. From 1964 and 1967, when she left Philips, 11 of her singles hit the American pop charts. "Son of a Preacher Man," a song that Aretha Franklin had rejected but later recorded, became Ms. Springfield's first single for Atlantic Records and was featured on her Atlantic debut album, "Dusty in Memphis," which is widely regarded as a pop masterpiece. To make the album, the Atlantic producing team of Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, who had brought Ms. Franklin to her peak of popularity, took Ms. Springfield to Memphis to record with a hot rhythm section. The record, which included "The Windmills of Your Mind," an early collaboration of Michel Legrand with the lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman that was written for the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair," was a perfect blend of warm country-soul and New York pop sophistication. For many singers, including Melissa Manchester, Linda Ronstadt and k.d. lang, it provided a blueprint for stylistically adventurous vocal showcases. But "Dusty in Memphis" was not a big hit, reaching only No. 99 on Billboard's album chart. In 1970 Atlantic released her much-admired rhythm-and-blues-flavored album, "A Brand New Me." Recorded in Philadelphia, the album fared no better than its forerunner. Thereafter Ms. Springfield, who was awarded the Order of the British Empire in January, recorded only sporadically. Although her subsequent American albums -- "Cameo" (1973, ABC-Dunhill), "It Begins Again" (1978, United Artists), "Living Without Your Love" (1979, United Artists), "White Heat" (1982, Casablanca) and "A Very Fine Love" (1995, Columbia) -- found her voice as full and compelling as ever, the material and production rarely matched the singing. After the 1970s she led a peripatetic existence, living sometimes in Los Angeles, at other times in the Netherlands and Britain. In 1997 Mercury Records released the 3-CD, 77-song "Dusty Springfield Anthology Collection." Last month Rhino Records released an expanded version of "Dusty in Memphis." http://elvispelvis.com/dustyspringfield.htm http://www.cjnetworks.com/~roryb/outta.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:15:49 -0600 At 06:27 PM 3/3/99 -0500, m.ace wrote: >I just want to know what sampling rate they finally decided on. Here's excerpts from a Press Release that answers some questions: OneClick DVD and DVD AV Workstation Enable Seamless DVD-Audio Production NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1999--Sonic Solutions announced today the Phase 1 release of the world's first complete DVD-Audio authoring systems, Sonic DVD AV Workstation and OneClick DVD(TM). DVD-Audio is the next-generation consumer audio format that extends the wildly successful DVD-Video format into a very high-quality musical experience. DVD-Audio enhances consumer audio with 24-bit, uncompressed digital audio at high-resolution sampling rates of 96kHz and 192kHz, and surrounds listeners with the realism of multi-channel High-Density Audio(TM). It also provides an interactive interface for the listener, such as real-time text, on-screen slide shows graphics, menus, and integrated digital video. About DVD-Audio Designed to store 4.7 Gigabytes of content -- seven times CD capacity -- on a single-layer, single-sided disc, DVD-Audio enables dramatically greater sound quality and provides a multitude of new features, such as multi-channel High-Density Audio, menu navigation, direct Web connections and added-value content such as visual display of lyrics, artist commentary and audio/video discography. DVD-Audio discs will be playable on many new DVD-Video players as well as on specialized DVD-Audio players. Virtually all DVD player manufacturers intend to support the new format. The DVD-Audio format is supported by the industry's leading audio companies, electronics manufacturers, content developers and computer manufacturers including Intel, LG Electronics, MEI, NEC, Nippon Columbia, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sonic Solutions, Time Warner, Toshiba, Victor Company of Japan, Yamaha and many others. About Sonic Solutions Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the Web at: http://www.sonic.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Hey, NY! Date: 04 Mar 1999 10:32:52 -0500 I've been having e-mail problems, so I hope this isn't a duplicate...but...are there any safe, clean and cheap places to stay in NYC? You can reply directly to the venerable Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:29:07 EST In a message dated 03/03/99 7:10:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, RLott writes: << Well, not *exactly.* >> As I said: "(to) not deal specifically with "Tiki stuff" but (to) continue where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin") sampler leaves off." It will be interesting to see what cuts are on the Tiki one. I suspect that it will be the same as the ones on the Hound one with the Rocks, "bonus" ones added. Time will tell on this. I suspect they will add a couple/few more cuts and repackage. My main argument was that it would not be "new" music not already available on currently released UL CD's. Maybe my prediction was not 100% Dionne Warwick correct so I apologize for using the word "exactly". Substitute "mainly" or "mostly" if we are being so picky. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Dion McGregor on WNYC Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:33:43 -0600 >DION McGREGOR "Dion McGregor Dreams Again" (Tzadik) cd 15.98 > How long would last if your roommate screamed his dreams out loud every >night? Would you have the foresight to capture these disturbances on tape? >Lucky for us back in the 1960's Dion McGregor's roommate stuck it out long >enough to provide us with this aural document of one man's nocturnal pain >and pleasure. Dion's dreams range from queeny dress up parties to drooling >descriptions of large breasted women and cunnilingus contests. Equally >disturbing as it is riveting. Note from Phil Milstein: Just wanted to let you know about an upcoming radio show that will focus on Dion McGregor, and on the new CD "Dion McGregor Dreams Again." The show will be an episode (or perhaps a portion of an episode, I'm not sure) of David Garland's "Spinning On Air." The program is on WNYC, 93.9 FM, with the McGregor episode airing Friday, March 12 at 10pm. David interviewed both Phil Milstein and Michael Barr, the man who recorded the McGregor tapes, and will also hopefully include an excellent outtake entitled "Tenses." http://www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/dion/index.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 11:35:31 EST In a message dated 03/04/99 4:26:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, an exoticat writes: << While we're on the subject of UL Sampler packaging. Does anyone know how many different versions of the Sampler there are? I own the one with White text outlined in Gold on a Purple background. I've seen at least two other variations of the glossy cover plaque but can't recall them at the moment. Please help, I'm considering getting them all! Also, mine came with an Ultra Lounge drink coaster inside, is it possible there are variations of these as well? >> And to repeat: "I'm considering getting them all! " It is the same CD in each sampler. I say this carefully, so the point is to collect different packages of the same sampler? I am totally lost on this but I am sure the Capitol Packaging department know what they are doing. I musta missed the boat because I only want/need the one Sampler I have (and I am not sure what the color of the logo is). Robert P.S. They sent me a set of six coasters (all of different colors!!!!) when I returned the little survey card. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 3/4/99 Date: 04 Mar 1999 12:50:06 -0500 "Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Thursday's from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91.5 in Lowell Massachusetts. http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/ The playlist: (Abbreviated 2 hour program due to technical difficulties.) Fugue (Vivaldi. arr.:J.S.Bach), Swingle Singers (LP) You'd Be Surprised, Marilyn Monroe O Morro Nao Tem Vez, Stan Getz If I Were A Bell, Miles Davis Siboney, Xavier Cugat (LP) He's A Tramp, Peggy Lee (From Lady And The Tramp) Opus 1, Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge Casino Royal, OST Casino Royal, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass (LP) The Look Of Love, OST Casino Royal, Dusty Springfield (LP) Sooner Of Later, M.V.L. Ciccone Mercy Mercy Mercy, Cannonball Adderly and his Sextet (LP) Mack The Knife, Patty Page (LP) Caravan, Les Brown and His Band of Renown (LP) Rat Pack Six Pack: I've Got a Lot of Livin' To Do, Sammy Davis JR. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Sammy Davis JR. Love Me My Love, Dean Martin Ain't That A Kick In the Head, Dean Martin You Make Me Feel So Young, Frank Sinatra I Won't Dance, Nnenna Freelon Get Otta My Girl, The Wonderful World Of Joey Vertigogo, OST Four Rooms/ Combustible Edison That Old Black Magic, Esquivel! Slow Boat To China, Holly Cole Trio Alice In Wonderland, Adam Markowicz Go Ahead And Burn, 4 Piece Suit Something Wonderful, Nina Simone Angel Eyes, Frank Sinatra (The last of the 6 pack that rolled away) Never Never Land, Madeline Eastman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Fantastica MP3 file Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:56:23 +0100 At 09:53 -0700 99/03/03, Charles Moseley wrote: >Johan Dada Vis - that MP3 file is superb, where are the rest? thanx for the suppport! the credits for the MP3 file itself go to Ron; he's the man that - hopefully - will put up more episodes (he has a dozen of them on MiniDisk, and I've got many more here at home, so ... to be continued. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: More on Bruce Haack Cassettes Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:48:27 +0100 At 09:53 -0700 99/03/03, BasicHip wrote: >I received this from Miss Nelson, listing what Bruce Haack albums are >available: > ><< The list of cassettes that are available from Dimension 5 are: > 1. DANCE SING & LISTEN (1963) > 2. DANCE SING & LISTEN AGAIN (1964) > 3. DANCE SING & LISTEN AGAIN & AGAIN (1965) > 4. THE WAY OUT CASSETTE (1968) > 5. THE ELECTRONIC CASSETTE (1969) > 6. DANCE TO THE MUSIC (1972) these are all Nelson & Haack collaborations. the best is "THE WAY OUT CASSETTE", followed by "THE ELECTRONIC CASSETTE" and "DANCE TO THE MUSIC". the "DANCE SING & LISTEN" series has its moments... Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 04:34:38 -0500 -----Original Message----- >And it is exactly as I said. It does not deal specifically with "Tiki stuff" >but continues where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin") >sampler leaves off. Namely to drag newbies into ultimately sell Vol. 13 thru >18 plus the "bonus" track samplings. It's shameless I know, but I'll be there at the cash register when it comes out : ) I love the music and wish to spend quality time listening to it. Digging through thrift store record bins to find scratched and carelessly kept versions of these wonderful pieces just doesn't fit into my schedule anymore. I used to do it, but trying to do so with my infant son along soon broke me of the habit. Of course, back then I had totally different treasures to hunt and I now regret passing on many quality items that would've fit right in on this list. Kevin : ) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 04:25:29 -0500 -----Original Message----- >this continues to bug me. the Grammy Award was for the packaging -- not the >music, arrangements, etc. > >of course the packaging award in hollywood is probably treasured (if at not at >least winked at) in the back room meetings and discussions. > >"To Hell with the talent -- It's packaging my boys!!!!!" Robert, While I totally agree with your sentiment I must point out that had it not been for the UL-Leopardskin Sampler package, I would never (or would have much later) discovered my love of Exotica. That damned fuzzy sheath with the glistening retro logo, blew my mind! Honestly, I bought it solely because of the package. At that moment it didn't matter what was on the disc, but that first glance sold me. All the talk about first impressions and Love at first sight apply 100% in this particular case. (Did I just make a punny? 'case' as in situation/ 'case' as in CD packaging? LOL) Anyway, I too will praise the packaging gods for bringing my attention to Lounge/Exotica through this wonderful little sheet of leopard skin print fuzz covered cardboard. Blessed be! ;-) While we're on the subject of UL Sampler packaging. Does anyone know how many different versions of the Sampler there are? I own the one with White text outlined in Gold on a Purple background. I've seen at least two other variations of the glossy cover plaque but can't recall them at the moment. Please help, I'm considering getting them all! Also, mine came with an Ultra Lounge drink coaster inside, is it possible there are variations of these as well? Kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE / XoTiCa Date: 04 Mar 1999 04:52:53 -0500 -----Original Message----- >I saw all that Ultralounge crap in the CD department of HMV and it looked >cheap and tacky. I did not investigate further for fear of embarrassing >myself in front of the sales assistants who had obviously put a rack of the >stuff there as some sort of wind-up. While on the subject of packaging, and in light of the recent XTC release of Apple Venus vol. 1, I picked up issue 25 of Launch today which reviewed a 1998 compilation of early XTC material performed both live in concert and live in the BBC studios for various programmes. The Launch reviewer used a 1-7 scale 7 being the high mark and rated this compilation a 5 due to what he considered poor liner notes and overly 'kitschy' packaging. Eyes of the beholder I suppose. ;-) Ciao 4 now! Kevin : ) XTC - Transistor Blast/The Best of the BBC Sessions 1998 Cooking Vinyl PO Box 1845 London W3 OZA (Released by arrangement with the BBC) Made in England Manufactured and Distributed by TVT Records 1998 http://www.tvtrecords.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 05:04:00 -0500 -----Original Message----- >To those of us wishing for something new this is a disappointment. And don't >think that I don't enjoy the UL series. I have all but a few of them. I just >don't know if I need a sampler of music I already have. Ahh, now I understand : ) Thank you Robert. This discussion occurred before my arrival on the list. I agree with this thinking. I make my own compilations on tape all the time, just for use in my car. However, I have a gut feeling that Lounge/Exotica hasn't reached it's current mainstream peak yet. The Tiki Sampler will bring a great many more of us out of the woodwork. A scary thought, especially considering that most of them will be gone when the next fad comes along. I just thought of something... I wonder which one of us on the list works for Capitol and is taking notes? hee hee If the answer is NO ONE, maybe we should invite someone in and help them give us what we REALLY want? ;-) Ciao 4 now! Kevin : ) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 14:32:09 EST In a message dated 3/4/99 3:21:16 PM, kbonnett@coax.net wrote: >However, I have > >a gut feeling that Lounge/Exotica hasn't reached it's current mainstream > >peak yet. The Tiki Sampler will bring a great many more of us out of the > >woodwork. A scary thought, especially considering that most of them will be > >gone when the next fad comes along. Since my arrival on this list this sound has come and gone twice. The first time it "yielded" to the "Swing" sound which I think many agree is recycled Jump music that merely talks about swing and zoot suits while it imitates jump in its own digital way. The second time it "yielded" to Rockabilly which has allegedly been enjoying a minor re-birth in these parts, itself a second re- birth following its first re-birth in the early 8T's. Yet there continue to be MANY listeners of what once was called "Lounge" music and now I just think of as instrumental pop since it includes SO many genres. (My .02 for you) Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 14:56:16 EST In a message dated 03/04/99 2:21:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, kbonnett@coax.net writes: << However, I have a gut feeling that Lounge/Exotica hasn't reached it's current mainstream peak yet. The Tiki Sampler will bring a great many more of us out of the woodwork. A scary thought, especially considering that most of them will be gone when the next fad comes along. >> I hate to say this Kevin, but most of us feel (and are pretty sure) the peak of Lounge/Exotica "mainstream" interest peaked about 1.5 to 2 years ago. We are the weirdos that are holding on (or the weirdos that were here all along). Anyway, that was about the time that the UL folks stopped keeping their page up and making "new" releases. It was also about the time the Swing stuff started. (bletch) And if you notice the recent UL "Notice" highlights the "Wild, Cool and Swingin' " stuff . Emphasis on "Swingin' ". It is not as Wild, Swank and Loungeing as most of us would prefer. (Don't freak out people I said prefer, not like.) This discussion has upset most here in the past: The days of lots of new CD releases of Lounge/Tiki/SABP/etc. are gone. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Back issues of Tiki News Date: 04 Mar 1999 12:24:42 -0800 Anyone willing to sell or otherwise photocopy any of the following issues of the Tiki News? #1-4,6-8,9 Am willing to make it worth your while... please let me know. :-) Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Tiki Sampler, Part 2 Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:12:19 -0500 I was pretty much ignoring the Tiki Sampler thread until someone mentioned "bonus tracks". What are those? Are they from the UL discs as well, or are they Tiki Sampler only tracks? Did the first sampler have bonus tracks? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Re: Ma(i)s Que Nada Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:08:16 -0500 I spoke with a Brazilian exchange student, and she wasn't sure, but she guessed it was probably Mas Que Nada, which she said was idiomatic and meant something like, "It's nothing." She said "Mais Que Nada" would be approximately "More than Nothing" in Brazilian, but she said it didn't quite make sense. From that, I'd deduce it's probably Mas. Still, I'd like to hear from someone in the know, ya know? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) About the liner notes... Date: 04 Mar 1999 15:55:14 -0500 >That's right up there with my other favorite Grammy award - best liner notes! Granted, some of the WINNERS of that category have been pure hokum. Domingo "Sam the Sham" Samudio won for a heartfelt but not all that great essay on the "Sam-Hard and Heavy" album and whoever (Pete _______ ?) wrote the liners for Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" may have been shocked when his notes were deleted from the next pressing. However, if you have written something scholarly, such as the Robert Johnson box set notes, when there was no information because two folklorists and two of Johnson's relatives (in other words, one relative per folklorists) didn't see eye to eye, thus ending a nearly twenty year embargo of facts AND pictures, I will grant that there is no music in liner notes but there is information to be had, sometimes even accurate things :^). Sometimes liners are fun to read, such as Jon Hendricks' notes to a King Pleasure two-fer reissue on Prestige. I have no King Pleasure in my collection, because I am looking for a copy of that reissue, with those wonderful notes, which go on for quite a while and may not contain much info about Pleasure, but they rhyme all the way through! There have been many threads about the wonderful and unintentionally hilarious notes on the albums we find in the thrift stores, such as the one that I found that ends with "...Pow! Zap!". There are also the touching ones, such as John Coltrane's notes to "A Love Supreme". So is it a legitimate category, you bet, in my opinion. Does Grammy have taste? Not always. As far as packaging goes, doesn't that include artwork, too? If so, what's wrong with recognizing album art? I certainly would once again debate the winners, but just think if you were as good an artist as David Stone Martin, wouldn't you like a little recognition for your covers? And yes, covers do help sell what is inside, just as much as they can turn us off from them. Blow Fly's album covers are aesthetic nightmares and whoever designed the Narada label albums so they all looked like assembly-line products may have wanted to think twice, too. Some of us have galleries of album covers (some just stick to record labels, uh...hee, hee!) on our sites, so I cannot be too upset about the category, although I cannot think of a better name for it. Packaging does indeed sound like a Clio award, but if they didn't have that the art would go languishing. So while I see the point of missing the music when you are lauding the package, I also see the need to recognize the art, too. It's better than nothing, I guess. Brian Phillips, winner of the 1994 Ondioline "Best Post - Work Category" Award # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) RCA Stereo Action Series Date: 04 Mar 1999 16:19:51 -0500 >Can anyone furnish a list of "good" RCA Stereo Action LP's? Jimmy, "Brass Laced With Strings" Vic Schoen "Runnin' Wild" Dick Schory's Percussion and Brass Ensemble These are pretty good. BTW my copies are missing the thick die cut jackets. But I do have the glossy paper inserts. I also own "It's Magic" (Minus jacket). Marty Gold's music is usually pretty mello. Here he really cuts loose (for him). I found a copy of the "Stereo Action Unlimited" LP a few weeks ago. It's the sampler of the series. I assumed most of the tracks would be on the 3 sampler CD's reissued on RCA. I was pleasantly surprised to find only one duplicate track. So I have 4 samplers! A good crossection. Domenic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Sampler, Part 2 Date: 04 Mar 1999 17:04:55 EST In a message dated 03/04/99 3:29:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, risser@goodnews.net writes: << What are those? Are they from the UL discs as well, or are they Tiki Sampler only tracks? >> YES, YES, YES <> NO, NO, NO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 21:48:37 -0500 Kevin Bonnett wrote: > I love the music and wish to spend quality time listening to it. Digging > through thrift store record bins to find scratched and carelessly kept > versions of these wonderful pieces just doesn't fit into my schedule > anymore. I used to do it, but trying to do so with my infant son along soon > broke me of the habit. I can relate to that. Children and record stores don't mix well too often. It's hard to look through record bins with a two-year-old swinging from them, or crawling underneath them. Or leaving a food trail through the store. Or trying to take the records from the display window.... However, there are many CD compilations out there of a similar genre, that are far superior (IMHO) to the Ultra-Lounge series. U-L is fine as a starting point, but that's it. Unfortunately, they had more visibility (read: money for in-store displays and promos) than any of the others, which helps to explain their relative popularity. For a much better alternative, I would recommend getting the 3 CDs in RCA's "Space-Age Pop" series (deleted, but still available) and the 4 "Cocktail Mix" CDs on Rhino. Then there are the Sound Gallery CDs on Scamp, and "Easy Project" vol. 1 and 2 on Sequel. And that's just for starters. (I won't even get into the Get Easy and Karminsky Experience compilations...) Far more varied than the Ultra Lounge compilations, and they don't have any annoying song medleys on them! Once you've listened to these, you may begin to understand the relative merits and drawbacks of the U-L series! cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER Date: 04 Mar 1999 19:54:11 -0700 On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 07:54:23AM -0500, LTepedino@aol.com wrote: >> "To Hell with the talent -- It's packaging my boys!!!!!" >> > > That's right up there with my other favorite Grammy award - best liner notes! My favorite piece of meaningless Liner Note trivia: Rory Guy, "Best Album Notes - Classical" winner for his work on a 1974 Korngold disc for Angel, went on to become internationally famous under the name "Angus Scrimm" as The Tall Man in Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" movies... That's a good one to haul out in rental racks at the local video store... -- Lazlo Nibble - lazlo@studio-nibble.com - http://www.studio-nibble.com -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Wierdness, Hipness, and Del Close Date: 04 Mar 1999 19:41:21 -0800 >Return-Path: >From: geets@3-cities.com >To: jack@jackdiamond.com >CLOSE AND FRIENDS MAKE FINAL DAYS A LAUGHING MATTER > >Ellen Warren & Teresa Wiltz >March 4, 1999 >To celebrate the life of Chicago comedy legend Del Close, show business >friends from around the country flew in to party at Illinois Masonic >Hospital with the grievously ill pioneer of improv theater. > >At the request of the flamboyant Close, comedian Bill Murray and Close's > >partner, Charna Halpern, organized a bash Wednesday night in a hospital >dining hall. > >Close, a Second City veteran and co-founder of ImprovOlympic, was listed >in >serious condition with emphysema late Wednesday. > >Ordered up for the private party, in a hospital dining hall, were: >saxophone >players, catered food and martinis for 40 or so of Close's friends, >including Second City alums Aaron Freeman, Tim Kazurinsky and Second >City >owner Andrew Alexander. > >"He wants to die on his own terms," said Halpern. "He wants a party. >It's >(for) his 65th birthday as well as his bon voyage party. Del is being a >comedian to the end." > >A crew from Comedy Central was expected to film the event, Halpern said > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) no ms. know-it-all Date: 05 Mar 1999 10:44:43 -0500 Hmm...whilst going thru Ebay, today I spy: ALAKAZAM THE GREAT - Original Film Soundtrack LP record. Vee-Jay LP-6000 [mono-1961] score by none other than our pal Les Baxter... Some cartoony soundtrack, with the likes of Jonathan Winters(!) doing voices (All OSTs with Jonathan Winters, have to be good, right DJJimmy Bee?) Can anyone tell me what this album is like? OOo, Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) no ms. know-it-all Date: 05 Mar 1999 17:14:25 +0100 : >ALAKAZAM THE GREAT - Original Film Soundtrack LP record. Vee-Jay = LP-6000 >[mono-1961] >score by none other than our pal Les Baxter... > >Can anyone tell me what this album is like? Its the cutiest little thang! Its not that spacey or anything but a must = for soundtrack/Les Baxter collectors. There is a speaker voice introducing all tracks, telling the stort about = Alakazaam the little monkey. Alakazaam fights monsters and becomes king = of all the animals in the world. He even meets a little girl monkey! (I = wish I would too...). Some are instrumentals but most has vocals. It = sure swings! I am thinking of letting it make it to CDr togheter with Milton DeLuggs = "Gullivers travels beyond the moon". I dont want money for it, because i = rather trade for another CDr (or an LP). I have more scheduled CDrs so = please email me if interested. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) no ms. know-it-all Date: 05 Mar 1999 10:46:34 +0000 > ALAKAZAM THE GREAT - Original Film Soundtrack LP record. Vee-Jay > LP-6000 [mono-1961] score by none other than our pal Les Baxter... I've seen this movie! It's a Japanese animated film that got re-dubbed with new songs by Frankie Avalon, Dodie Stevens, et al. Saw it when I was a kid and it was sooo cool! I can still sing the title song--well, the first part of it anyway ("Ala-ki, Ala-ko, Ala-kazam..."). Then years later it got written up in one of those "50 Worst Films of All Time" books. So maybe I shouldn't try to see it again...? I'd hate to find out it really does suck. Darrell Brogdon Program Director KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 dbrogdon@ukans.edu http://kanu.ukans.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Caddy-isms Date: 05 Mar 1999 12:30:24 EST In a message dated 03/05/99 11:18:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << He even meets a little girl monkey! (I wish I would too...) >> reminds me of one of my many favorite lines from Caddy Shack when Bill Murry calls Mrs. Green a "monkey woman". Makes me laugh every time. Anybody else for a little low brow (Caddy Shack) humor? Send 'em on. Loggins and Messina so it is music related (and damn, could that "Golfer" dance!) Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: King Kini Subject: (exotica) Fwd: "VOODOO!" Date: 05 Mar 1999 16:46:09 -0600 >> "VOODOO!" >> MCE LIVE WITH 3 LEGENDS OF L.A. MUSIC: >> ROBERT DRASNIN, SKIP HELLER, AND D.J. BONEBRAKE >> >> Fine Line Music Cafe -April 23rd - Doors open at 8PM >> Tickets $13 advance - $15 day of show - all Ticketmaster outlets >> >> Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble (MCE), called "one of the country's leading >> advocates of the new in music" by the Dallas Morning News and "a 70 minute >> blast of brilliance" by Pulse, will present three living legends of the Los >> Angeles music scene accompanied by 14 members of MCE. >> >> Robert Drasnin, you have heard his music a million times! He was the head >> of music at CBS Television for 17 years and scored episodes of Twilight >> Zone, Mission Impossible, Man from UNCLE, Wild Wild West, I Spy, and many >> MANY more! The 1959 album "Voodoo" is his only recorded work released under >> his own name and is considered a masterpiece of the "exotica/lounge" genre. >> With Robert Drasnin conducting, MCE will present the first ever live >> performance of "Voodoo" in its entirety, a once in a lifetime opportunity!! >> >> If Robert Drasnin is California's old master, Skip Heller is it's new >> vision! His set will focus on his patented 50's Hollywood noire and >> feature his new release "Couch Los Angeles", a baffling eclectic overview >> of vintage and contemporary space age pop. A journalist, composer, >> guitarist, arranger, and producer, Skip Heller is the only living >> contemporary composer to have worked with "exotica" masters Les Baxter, Yma >> Sumac, Korla Pandit, and Robert Drasnin. His work shows influences of such >> progressive figures as John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Gustav Mahler, and Don Byron >> as well as works by American composers Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Allen >> Toussaint, and Reverend James Cleveland. >> >> D.J. Bonebrake is the drummer of the seminal and legendary Los Angeles punk >> band "X". He also performs with the Heller, Drasnin, Bonebrake combo and >> is a percussionist with the Palisades Symphony Orchestra. >> >> In between sets, audience members will be treated to Minneapolis' own >> "lounge/exotica" expert, King Kini, spinning vinyl from his truly unique >> and unmatched collection of vintage recordings. >> >> Please contact MCE by phone, fax, or email for photos, interviews, >> or questions. >> >> >> ************* >> MCE >> classcial music that doesn't suck >> >> 515 Ontario St. SE >> Minnepaolis MN 55414 >> www.newmusicmce.org >> MCE@NewmusicMCE.org >> (612) 331-3785 >> fax 331-2696 visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) HELP!QUICKLY! Date: 05 Mar 1999 13:28:04 -0500 Could someone please provide me an opinion of the following: The Love Machine Soundtrack, featuring Dionne Warwick I need it in a few hours(it's noon EST here!) xoxox-Jane Fondle, who owes you a back rub for your trouble The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) no ms. know-it-all Date: 05 Mar 1999 21:48:35 EST laura taylor writes: << Hmm...whilst going thru Ebay, today I spy: ALAKAZAM THE GREAT - Original Film Soundtrack LP record. Vee-Jay LP-6000 [mono-1961] score by none other than our pal Les Baxter.. >> In that same group (KEYWORD: Baxter) is Hell's Belles. Despite the seller advertising that this is not an original (which tops out around $30) and is a "later" release, it is at currently at 45 bucks with a number of days to go before closing. I'm 99.9% sure it is the same record that was recently reissued and can be had for $8.99. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, March 7 Date: 05 Mar 1999 21:51:24 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and very soon to be on RealAudio! All comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #38 Aloha Oe The Ventures: Hawaii Five-0 "Hawaii Five-0" Laika & The Cosmonauts: Oahu Luau "Zero Gravity" Easy Aloha's: Aloha "Easy Tune Vol. 3" Werner Muller: On The Beach At Waikiki "Hawaiian Swing" X-Ray Tango: The Hero Of Waimea Bay "Spy Fidelity" Caterina Valente: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu-Strand-Bikini "Die Grossen Hits" Roberto Delgado: Sun Of Hawaii "Blue Hawaii" Tiki Tones: Kon Tiki "Play Songs For The Suburban Savage" Galaxy Trio: Surficide "In The Harem" Laika & The Cosmonauts: O.C.C.C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center) "The Amazing Colossal Band" Martin Denny: Quiet Village "Exotic Moog" Martin Denny: The Queen Chant "Exotica" Don Tiki: Hot Like Lava "The Forbidden Sounds Of..." Johnny Pineapple: Hawaiian War Chant "Hawaii" Arthur Lyman: Taboo "Shaken Not Stirred" X-Ray Tango: Tanqueray Sunset "Spy Fidelity" Arthur Lyman: Hawaii Five-0 "Sonic Sixties" Thanks for reading. cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 05 Mar 1999 22:37:54 -0500 I haven't bought any records recently so I don't have any thrift store or record purchase report to post. But I wish I did. It's pretty quiet here on the list lately. I pretty well ignored all those UltraLounge posts but now I wish they'd return because it's better than nothing. Then again, maybe it's good to say nothing when you have nothing to say. (If it is good, it's also clearly something I haven't learned. And this post isn't the only example of that.) I'm just wondering if maybe we've said all we can say about this stuff and we need a bunch of new people so we can engage in the annual "Cugat vs. Ros" debate or so that I can tell them why Arthur Lyman is truly a "poor man's Martin Denny". Alternatively maybe we should recruit some people and some threads from the Lawrence Welk mailing list or some such parallel group. Or maybe someone can find a way to include Star Trek and Star Wars in their posts and then things would really start hopping. I need a fix. If I don't get one soon, I'm going to have to talk about this Cozy Cole record I have or these two Sam the Man Taylor records which kind of sound like exotica. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Assignment to Kill Date: 05 Mar 1999 23:05:46 EST I've been watching this movie on the Mystery Channel called "Assignment to Kill" made in 1968. So far it is utterly hip with an equally cool soundtrack. The Internet Movie Database does not list the soundtrack's composer. Does anyone (Ratso perhaps?) know who penned this very groovy soundtrack? Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Assignment to Kill Date: 05 Mar 1999 23:33:33 -0500 At 11:05 PM -0500 3/5/99, Pearmania@aol.com wrote: >I've been watching this movie on the Mystery Channel called "Assignment to >Kill" made in 1968. So far it is utterly hip with an equally cool soundtrack. >The Internet Movie Database does not list the soundtrack's composer. Does >anyone (Ratso perhaps?) know who penned this very groovy soundtrack? According to the All-Movie Guide (www.allmovie.com), the composer is William Lava, who wrote his first score in 1937, and continued into the early 80's. He evidently did music for the 'Zorro' TV series produced by Disney in the 50s/60s. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Assignment to Kill Date: 06 Mar 1999 00:11:11 EST Didn't Bill Lava replace Carl Stalling as the Warner Bros. cartoon composer in the sixties? --Didn't # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 06:51:30 +0000 Nat wrote (with simmering angst, one detected....) > >I need a fix. > >If I don't get one soon, I'm going to have to talk about this Cozy Cole >record I have Please do! I've often wondered if it was Cozy himself who sort of moaned quietly in odd places on his records. Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Lee Hazlewood Story Date: 06 Mar 1999 10:45:33 +0100 Received this yesterday... (Couldn't get those quote characters away, sor= ry, Netscape is a very unperfect programm) > > > > A Brief Introduction to Lee Hazlewood > > > >Born on 9 July 1929, in the town of Mannford, Oklahoma, Barton Lee > >Hazlewood spent his early years moving with his family between there a= nd > >towns in Arkansas and Texas, where they settled long enough for Lee to > >attend high school and meet his future wife, Naomi Shackleford. After = a > >stint at SMU in Dallas, Lee was called into service in Korea. > > > >After his discharge, Lee attended broadcasting school in California, a= nd > >upon graduation was hired by KCKY in tiny Coolidge, Arizona. It wasn1t > >long before his eccentric on-air performances, which consisted of > >conversations between an elaborate dramatis personae with all the voic= es > >done by Lee himself, garnered him a local following. One devotee, a > >teenage guitarist named Duane Eddy, began dropping by to rid the stati= on > >of its excess country records. Lee befriended Duane and, along with > >Duane1s pianist buddy James 3Jimmy Dell2 Delbridge, they began fleshin= g > >out some songs Hazlewood had written, recording them at a local studio. > >The trio also began driving to Phoenix for country music shows, where > >they came to know the house band, particularly the young guitarist Al > >Casey, forging some important alliances for the years to come. > > > >By 1955 Lee had moved to KRUX in Phoenix (where he was the first DJ in > >town to play Elvis), and started the Viv label as an outlet for his > >productions. Using Ramsey Recorders as his home studio, and a phalanx = of > >talented local players including Eddy and Casey, Lee finally struck > >paydirt in 1956 with his tune 3The Fool2, sung by Casey1s high school > >chum Sanford Clark, birthing the Phoenix music scene in the process. I= n > >1957, Lee gave up DJing for writing and producing full-time when he > >accepted a job as staff producer with Dot Records, and moved to LA. > > > >Soon after, Hazlewood hooked up with producer Lester Sill, forming a > >partnership that would alter the course of American music. Still makin= g > >regular pilgrimages back to Phoenix, where he continued to explore the > >sounds he was hearing in the now-familiar context of Ramsey and his > >erstwhile group of session players, Lee finally broke through when he > >suggested that Duane play the simple, repetitive melodic riffs they ha= d > >written on the lower strings of his guitar. It was a radical departure > >from the searing, high pitched runs of the Chet Atkins style. Although > > >the sound had its genesis in Lee1s head, he couldn1t possibly have bee= n > >prepared for how sublimely it tumbled from Duane1s amplifier, and just > >how far the two would be able to take it. > > > >Knowing they had the makings of something bigger, Hazlewood and Sill > >began liscencing the Eddy masters to Philadelphia-based Jamie Records = in > >1958, and enjoyed a huge string of international instrumental hits whi= ch > >helped define what people were just beginning to call 3rock and roll2. > > > >Hazlewood was obsessive about acheiving new sounds, and this pursuit l= ed > >to the installation of a gigantic grain tank onto the side of the > >building which housed the studio. The tank was outfitted with a mike a= nd > >speaker setup, and became a truly monstrous echo chamber, heard to gre= at > >effect on those early Eddy sides. Another of Lee1s many innovations in > >this period was the 3stacking2 of bass players; Fender bass for crispn= ess > >on top of an upright bass for depth of tone underneath. > > > >What most people don1t know is that observing these sessions, and no > >doubt absorbing most of Lee1s techniques, was a young wannabe producer > >newly recruited by Sill, by the name of Phil Spector. And it1s also no > >coincidence that many of Lee1s hand-picked session players, including = Al > >Casey, Steve Douglas, Jim Horn and Larry Knechtel, went on to become p= art > >of the legendary 3Wrecking Crew2, Hollywood1s most in-demand group of > >session musicians, and the interpreters of countless milestones of > >American music from the 60s and 70s. > > > >The early 60s saw Hazlewood establish a new label, LHI (Lee Hazlewood > >Industries), and branch out into new territory both as writer/producer > >and as a performer, with his first solo albums, 19631s Trouble Is A > >Lonesome Town and The N.S.V.I.P.s, the following year. In 1967 LHI > >released the first album by Gram Parsons1 short-lived group, the > >International Submarine Band. > > > >By the mid-sixties, Lee had acheived some significance with mega-hits = and > >artistic milestones, and had garnered the respect of his peers (not to > >mention a swimming pool and a nice little stockpile of Chivas Regal). = So > >with the advent of the British Invasion (which was itself profoundly > >fueled by those pioneering Duane Eddy records), and the sea-change > >brought upon the Industry by more self-contained artistic projects lik= e > >the Beatles et al, he had become quite taken with the idea of > >3retirement2 from the music business. That is, until he met Nancy. > > > >The young daughter of the Amercian icon, Nancy Sinatra was an aspiring > >diva with a string of disappointments even her father1s usually > >indomitable influence couldn1t make into hits. Thus she was delivered = to > >Hazlewood by fellow producer and Reprise bigwig Jimmy Bowen. The resul= t, > >to almost everyone1s satisfaction, was wall to wall hits for about the > >next 5 years. > > > >Described by detractors as a tuneless drone, Nancy1s voice was more > >importantly a tough and life-wisened instrument, and certainly not > >lacking in a canny sexuality which, inadvertently or not, anticipated > >liberated, strong female singing from Nico and Pat Benatar to Kim Gord= on > > >and Joan Jett. Hazlewood, naturally, saw these elements for the streng= ths > >that they were, and knew exactly how to highlight them sonically. He > >sculpted, again with the help of his now famous session men, a > >countryfied pop brew to bathe tunes which, though not without their > >3novelty2 aspects, were more 3novel2 in the literary sense: concisely > >constructed layers of sophisticated artifice operating on several leve= ls > >of meaning, depending on how deep you were willing to go. > > > >The first string of hits, 3These Boots Are Made For Walking2, 3Sugar > >Town2, 3How Does That Grab You Darlin1?2, made Nancy Sinatra a worldwi= de > >star, and is perhaps what gave her the confidence to begin sharing th= e > >mike with Lee. The duet hits that followed include the hardcore C&W > >rollick of 3Jackson2, and the sublime 3Some Velvet Morning2, perhaps > >Lee1s finest moment as a lyricist. It1s important to note that Lee was > >stalking the very top of the pops with vaguely cloaked S&M and drug > >references, amid other implications of miscellaneous naughtiness, yet > >because of the context in which he worked was the epitome of unhip. By > >contrast, Lou Reed was addressing similar subjects in his eventually m= ore > >celebrated style, but within the hermetic confines of Warhol1s Factory= , > >an association which inevitably made his 3vanguard2 work infinitely le= ss > >assailable. > > > >Lee1s other Hollywood (mis)adventures included producing Frank and Nac= y1s > >hit duet 3Somethin1 Stupid2, writing and producing the Dean Martin hit > >3Houston2, and the record The Cowboy And The Lady, a hilarious duet LP > >with the actress and singer Ann-Margaret. He also contributed music to > >the films Tony Rome and Sweet Ride, and even acted in the latter and i= n > >The Moonshine Wars, alongside Richard Widmark. > > > >Newly minted from this second wave of success, Hazlewood began traveli= ng > >abroad, landing in Sweden in 1970, where he met director Tobj=F6rn Axe= lman. > >The two embarked upon a collaboration which would produce several film > >and music projects, beginning with Cowboy In Sweden, and continuing > >through Smoke and A House Safe For Tigers. The Swedish Viking label al= so > >issued two very rare but strong Hazlewood solo albums. Requiem For An > >Almost Lady, released in 1971, is an aching meditation on love lost (w= ith > >some harrowing narration), while 13, from the following year, is a > >horn-laden departure from the Hazlewood formula that succeeds on the > >strength of its exuberantly dazed mania. > > > >It1s during this period that Hazlewood emerged as a singer and perform= er > >inseperable from his writing and production. After hearing these 70s > >albums, one gets the feeling that Lee is perhaps the best interpreter = of > >his own ideas, and without a doubt the albums benefit from everything = he > >had developed up to that point: a singular signature sound synthesizin= g > >swinging cowboy shanties, the rhythmic heat of rockabilly, and soaring > >symphonic pop, punctuated by dark, poetic lyrics at once esoteric, wit= ty > >and honest. > > > >Towards the end of the 70s Lee gradually retired (again) from music, > >taking up short residences in different locales across the globe and > > >working only sporadically. By the 90s, the first compact disk issues o= f > >Lee1s solo work - most of them illegal - began to appear on shady > >European labels, while his original LHI LPs steadily began fetching > >higher prices in the collector1s market. All of this, combined with hi= s > >reclusive lifestyle and the enigmatic nature of his available oeuvre, > >afforded quite a mythology. > > > >After Rhino Records reissued their hit 60s duets on CD as Fairytales & > >Fantasies, Lee and Nancy reunited in 1995 for a small-scale world tour= to > >rave reviews. Backstage at the Limelight in NYC, the members of Sonic > >Youth were able to meet the man, and two years later drummer Steve > >Shelley managed to track down the elusive Hazlewood and sell him on a > >reissue project, to be released on his own Smells Like Records label. = It > >was decided that six old titles would be reissued: Trouble Is A Loneso= me > >Town (=8C63), The N.S.V.I.P.s (=8C64), The Cowboy And The Lady (=8C69)= , Cowboy > >In Sweden (=8C70), Requiem For An Almost Lady (=8C71), and 13 (=8C72). > >Additionally, an album of old pop standards titled Farmisht Flatulence= , > >Origami, ARF!!! and me, recorded between 1996 and 1998, and featuring = Lee > >backed by his old pal Al Casey, will be Hazlewood's first domestic > >release in over two decades. A CD compilation of 45rpm singles origina= lly > >released on LHI will round out the series. > > > >Lee1s music has been covered over the years by the likes of Einsturzen= de > >Neubauten, Petula Clark, Lisa Germano, Roland S. Howard and Lydia Lunc= h, > >Dusty Springfield, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Billy Ray Cyrus. 3Boot= s2 > >and the Duane Eddy tracks continue to make appearances in films, some > >recent ones including Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Ready To Wear, > >Fargo, Natural Born Killers, Feeling Minnesota and Austin Powers. Ther= e > >has always been a small but loyal group of Hazlewood fanatics, but wit= h > >seemingly more and more music lovers discovering and appreciating Lee'= s > >place in the history of American music, now is finally the time for hi= s > >solo work to be made widely available on CD. > > > >NYC1s Anthology Film Archives to screen Lee Hazlewood films > >Smells Like Records, in association with Anthology Film Archives, is > >proud to present 3 unique films featuring the talents of the endearing= ly > >iconoclastic singer/songwriter/producer Lee Hazlewood, produced in > >collaboration with the Swedish director Torbj=F6rn Axelman. Known prim= arily > >for his work as a songwriter and producer for Duane Eddy and Nancy > >Sinatra, Hazlewood was also a performing and recording artist in his o= wn > >right, releasing a string of sterling solo albums throughout the 60s a= nd > >70s. > >Cowboy In Sweden, released in 1970, sets a suite of Hazlewood > >compositions to Axelman1s footage of various Swedish landscapes; a > >long-form music video made well before the advent of MTV. A critical a= nd > >commercial success in Sweden, the soundtrack, performed by Lee with th= e > >help of singers Nina Lizell and Suzie Jane Hokom, went gold in that > >country. > >In The N.S.V.I.P.s, a Swedish television special from 1973, Hazlewood > >sings and stars in a sentimental series of vignettes based upon songs = by > > >the late Harry Chapin. Directed again by Axelman, it won both the Gold= en > >Rose of Montreux and the International Press Prize at The Montreux > >TV-Festival in Switzerland. > >Nancy & Lee in Las Vegas, from 1972, intertwines a vintage performance= by > >this incomparable duo at Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin1s Riviera with > >backstage/behind the scenes shenanigans as seen through the eyes of > >co-director Axelman. Hazlewood1s verit=E9-style editing manages to cap= ture > >both the surreal glitz and the lighter side of the Vegas experience. > >The screenings will take place on the 22nd of April 1999, and will > >coincide with the re-release of two Hazlewood albums on CD: the album > >Cowboy In Sweden, and Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and me (th= e > >first new Hazlewood album in two decades). These will be the first in = a > >series of Hazlewood re-issues by Hoboken based Smells Like Records, an > >independent label run by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. > > > > > > > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > >smells like records pobox 6179 hoboken nj 07030 > > 201.659.1556 fax > > > >available now: CDs by Bluetile Lounge, Scarnella, > >Two Dollar Guitar and the Rondelles > > > >coming soon: music from Lee Hazlewood, Robert Gordon, > >and the Clears > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 10:16:01 -0500 At 06:51 AM 3/6/99 +0000, Hugh Petfield wrote: > >Nat wrote (with simmering angst, one detected....) >> >>I need a fix. >> >>If I don't get one soon, I'm going to have to talk about this Cozy Cole >>record I have > >Please do! I've often wondered if it was Cozy himself who sort of moaned >quietly in odd places on his records. Well okay, but I don't think this is going to solve the problem. (Maybe it's just the low end in the cycle and it'll pick up again soon.) I know Cozy Cole as basically a jazz drummer and I have one pretty good straight ahead bebop record where he's the leader. But then I have this record on "King" called "The drummer man with the big beat" and the music there is a little harder to classify. It's definitely not bebop or even jazz at all. I guess it's basically rock n roll in the spirit of Bill Doggett or Sam the Man Taylor or the Bill Black Combo. Or Earl Bostic, whose records are pictured all over the back of the record. (But even having said that, I have these two Sam the Man records - "Blue Mist" and "More Blue Mist" - which kind of roll over into lounge/exotica...) There's something about this Cozy Cole record though. It's like one of those happy accidents. They went in to make another generic dance record but something happened. Not on all the tunes mind you. But some of them. There's this one cut "Dmitri" which I've thrown onto a number of tapes of all kinds because it has this sort of crime jazz/reggae feel to it. Then there are just the names of some of the tunes. "Teen age ideal". "Blop Up". "Blop Down". "Marimba Rhythm" also has a bit of that crime jazz feel. The tunes are mostly written by "Cole-Catalan-Kelly". There's also this slow dance tune called "Strange" that sounds like it could have been a hit. Is this a relatively unexplored part of the lounge/exotica sound? Instrumental rock n roll dance records from the late fifties? Even on this record, a lot of it is pretty generic with wailing sax and a driving beat. But I bet there are more gems out there like Dmitri and this other tune "International Cha Cha". Is there perhaps a CD compilation of this stuff? And what about Earl Bostic? I have a couple of his 78's but they did nothing for me. I know that Coltrane played with him for a while but I'm not sure I've heard those records or that if I did, I would recognize Coltrane in the mix. I'm just trying to see if there are other roads we can go down so that I won't get that disappointing "you have no new mail" announcement. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 15:53:19 -0000 While we're on the subject of Cozy Cole, I have a 1952 Johnny Guarnieri LP (which feels like a slab of slate!) with Tony Mottola on guitar, Bob Haggart on bass and Cozy Cole on "traps". It's quite bland though... Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pmazz@cysource.com (Paul Mazzucca) Subject: (exotica) more exotica not less Date: 06 Mar 1999 10:01:09 -0500 i was suprised to read that some people are tiring of this site orthe music in general. more for us, less for them. but i thought i would add some tidbit. last summer at a great old junk shop, full of moldy oldies, (not for the light of heart) i bought for a buck, a nice big band blues album, called " al nevins and his orchestra, dancing with the blues" and although it is somewhat big bandy the arranging is superb, for some reason my brain works slowly, and it took me til last night to put 2 x 2 togoether and remember, al nevins is the brain behind the 3 suns. not only that but the arranger on this is the same, charles albertine, that did their movin' n' groovin', fever, and smoke, etc. good stuff. so take that extra minute and listen to what moved them and where else it went. on another note, my husband swears that emerson, lake, and palmer stole their ideas on moog directly from dick hyman, electric eclectic moog. any comments? carrie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 06 Mar 1999 16:05:30 +0000 What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? And do you know Eris Soya's 17 soundtrack? Recommendations? criticisms? And who wants to trade MDs? And who found what records recently? And where is everybody? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:03:06 EST In a message dated 3/6/99 2:55:55 AM, tribute@dircon.co.uk wrote: >Cozy Cole Is he the guy that did "Topsy Part 2"? (which begs the question, was there a part one?) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Record Scores Date: 06 Mar 1999 08:05:49 -0800 Hello all, I get so many killer records all the time and since MOST of them are for sale, I just forget about them. Though every great once in awhile I do score. I just traded with a major player on EBay and scored a Classical Martenot record, accompanied by Harp. I'm REALLY looking forward to playing that on my show Even though I've had it for a few days, I haven't listened to it yet:) I also just got the original ORIGINAL 10" release of Spellbound on ARA, which I only had on 78's for quite a few years and that's VERY exciting. Very clean too. Haven't scanned it yet and though it came in 2 different covers, this is the more plain cover BUT THE BACK COVER has 6 or 7 black and white photos from the film that are waaaaaaaaaay cooooooool. Though it's going up on EBay, a VG++/Mint Dean Elliot Orchestra-"Zounds ! What Sounds!! in Stereo. http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/Zounds_whatsounds.JPG The scan could be better, but this will have to do until now OH FUCK! I got this record from a guy who is "usually" really expensive and who hadn't listened to it, thank god, because by looking at the cover" you'd think it was just music and Music for Schlitz Beer Commercials but in reality it is 30 Schlitz Beer Radio Commercials all intact with different music. FUCKIN AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! 10 BUCKS, MINT! Then, awhile back you were al talking about this 1; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/toklas.jpg Another AMAZING record score from the WORD label is "The Game of Life" Check this 1 out. I just played a few minutes of it on my show last week and it is the most amazing record there is! Definitely top 5! If there even is a top 5;) http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/Game_of_life.JPG Then, of course also on the WORD label; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/addicts.jpg I've had this a few times and was in a scannin' state of mind, soooooooo http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/Revel_outofspace.JPG Same with this 1; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/Dissvelt_fantasyorbit.JPG Just sold this on EBay; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/lsd2.JPG Just bought this on EBay http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/life_is_a_lousy_drag.jpg http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=jack@jackdiamond.com Until another time; out,out,outJack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com 1960's German & Italian Import CD/LP Reissue Soundtracks, US Reissue CD/LP Soundtracks, Moog & Electronic CD's, Psychedelic CD's/LP's AND Instrumental Guitars of all Kinds, Rockabilly, Outer Space Electronique CD's/LP's, Crime Jazz, Bossa Nova, Science Fiction Soundtrack CD's/LP's, Western Swing, Exotica CD's, Country Jazz, Steel Guitars, Musique Concrete, Easy Listening, Male/Female Lounge Vocals and Lounge in General, Latin/Afro Cuban, Bongos/Percussion For Days, Sitar Rock, Theremin, Whistling, 1950's West Coast Jazz CD's and LP's, Exotica CD's/LP's, Spoken Word CD's, Ken Nordine, Beatnik Poetry CD's et al..., Cheesecake and Outre Album Covers. Also of great note is that I have THOUSANDS OF LP'S NOT YET ON MY SITE as well as MANY MANY CD's not yet POSTED, so if you have any particular wants or needs, I just may have it. One of a Kind CD/LP 1950's-70's Re-Issues and Original Out of Print LP's for sale and trade. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:03:47 -0500 There is also this record of Cole's http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar/swing.html Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Assignment to Kill Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:07:21 -0500 Didn't Bill Lava replace Carl Stalling as the Warner Bros. cartoon composer in the sixties? As I understand the succession, Carl Stalling (although someone preceded him), Milt Franklyn (who was Stalling's assistant), John Seely (who seems to have used stock music) and then William Lava, who was hampered by a shrinking Warner Brothers budget and orchestra in the 1960's. Brian Phillips Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:17:55 EST In a message dated 3/5/99 11:38:12 PM, bruno@yhammer.com wrote: >I need a fix. > >If I don't get one soon, I'm going to have to talk about this Cozy Cole >record I have or these two Sam the Man Taylor records which kind of sound >like exotica. I sympathize with this. If I may make a suggestion, this is what I try to do when I feel I have run into a wall. I return to the source (vinyl supply outlets) and look for something new that augments what I have already found and researched ad nauseum. For example, there exists a whole world of early 7T's jazz funk (pre "fusion") LP's by the likes of Charles Earland, Ramsey Lewis, Soul Searchers, Bohannon, Nite-Liters, El Chicano, Billy Preston, Johnny Griffith, Phil Upchurch, Hugh Masekela, Ripple, The Meters, Lou Donaldson, etc. that do not necessarily meet the guidelines of exotica/now sound, but are great, hook-laden, often wordless vocally-arranged instrumental pop with strong compelling playing that can be quite satisfying. And it often mixes well with already discussed stuff from this list. It also gives you a new way to look at the stuff discussed here. When in doubt, branch out, but stay here too, its good for you... Jimmy Botticelli/My .02 for you # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Record Scores Date: 06 Mar 1999 17:20:51 +0100 =20 Another AMAZING record score from the WORD label is "The Game of = Life" Check this 1 out. I just played a few minutes of it on my show last = week and it is the most amazing record there is! Definitely top 5! If there even is a top 5;) http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/Game_of_life.JPG =20 =20 It's awesome Jack! What a record!=20 Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 06 Mar 1999 17:52:44 +0100 > >What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? On the "HI FI In a porn shop" LP :) >And who found what records recently? From the US: Bruce Haack -Electronic record for children -Dimension 5 Frankie Stein -Introducing Frankie Stein and his ghouls -Power records Frankie Stein -Ghoul music -this one has the ghouliest (is that a = correct word?) cover of them all! -Power records Three rare ones that i found together on a LP mailing list under = "Goofball" Paid $35 for all together. I dont know much about Frankie Stein, I bought them because I remembered = his name from a cd-collection of rare Horror tracks from the 50s and = 60s. Both records have great dance music (A la Swim, Watusi, Monkey etc) = in a surf/las vegas grind kind of way. And the eerie astonishing monster = sounds fits in perfectly. On the back sleeve three more Frankie Stein = LPs is listed. I want them all! And yes, the Haack LP is amazing. More on that later. Today at the flea a swedish childrens record "Alice in wonderland" 78 rpm set of two = records from 1951.=20 Moving with Nancy -N Sinatra. I see this all the time but the condition = is always too poor. Finally a good copy. A swedish moog record with Bo Hansson interpreting the Tokien saga = "Lords of the rings" (or what it is called?) In swedish its "Sagan om = ringen". A nice one! Beautiful painting on the cover. I am not sure = about this but I think Bo Hansson was the first part of the swedish band = "Hansson and Karlsson" who actually inspired Jimi Hendrix a bit. And just now i got hold of a copy of Miriam Burtons masterpiece "African = Lament". Thanks Jack! So i have scored some big ones lately. Yes, I am happy! Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Assignment to Kill Date: 06 Mar 1999 09:18:14 -0800 Dlsmay@aol.com wrote: > Didn't Bill Lava replace Carl Stalling as the Warner Bros. cartoon composer in > the sixties? > Indeed he did.... I have always wondered if I really hated his music, or am just reacting to the strangeness of a WB cartoon without Stallings music. (Also, these later cartoons are pretty weak with or without music.) Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Carl Stalling Date: 06 Mar 1999 17:14:10 +0000 Can anybody make recommendations as to which Carl Stalling LPs are worth tracking down? And are his works like his cartoons? Did he ever get serious with his music? Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larson/Thomas Subject: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 09:20:20 -0800 I've seen the following CD's for sale recently, and while I am somewhat familiar with each performer I don't know enough about their individual albums to say whether these rank among the best. Hene Rene - "Music for bachelors" Robert Maxwell - "Ebb Tide" Any opinions? Thanks, Jerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 09:53:47 -0800 I guess it all depends what you are looking for. I vote no on both. > Hene Rene - "Music for bachelors" If it were not for Jayne Mansfield (and a barely perceptible nipple) I would not own this record. Snooze-o-rama. The cover is a keeper. > Robert Maxwell - "Ebb Tide" I like Harp music, but most of it is pretty listless and drab. You want some harpin? Get a Dorothy Ashby record. Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Basic Hip - WHISTLING FOR YOU Date: 06 Mar 1999 13:41:05 EST The 26 track list for my recently completed collection of whistling and bird recordings. Rather than including anything and everything that had whistling on it, I focused only on whistling and bird albums. Not making the final list where an assortment of various canary training, bird song field recordings and goose call records, which I passed up in favor of the two very rare Max Gilstrap selections, which transferred beautifully from cassette tape, compliments of Mickey McGowan. Despite my frantic search, I never managed to locate that elusive copy of Marcellino's "Birds Of A Feather". The cover I chose to scan and edit for the jewel case is from a set of four 78's, Fred Lowery's "Whistling For You", circa 1947. If this is of interest, let me know. BASIC HIP INTRO John Brent and Del Close played over Joe Puma and the Audibon All-Stars (Flight Patterns "Like Tweet") WALKING ALONG KICKING THE LEAVES Fred Lowery Walking Along Kicking The Leaves (Decca DL-8476 Mono) THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY Muzzy Marcellino House Party Music Time (Capitol T-1284 Mono) MY FAVORITE THINGS Sister Jean, P.M. The Fabulous Whistling Nun Presents The Sound Of Music (ACE Recording Stereo) - thanks to Frank for sending the tape from which this comes Medley: JEANNIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR / GOLD AND SILVER WALTZ The Artel Orchestra The Canaries (United Artists UAS-6251 Stereo) INTRODUCTION / BUFFO Jim Fassett Symphony Of The Birds (Ficker CD-R Mono) RED RIVER VALLEY Fred Lowery Whistle A Happy Tune! (Decca DL-8995 Mono) - with the Anita Kerr Singers HILO MARCH Muzzy Marcellino Whistling On The Beach At Waikiki (Coral CRL-57441 Mono) WHISTLING LESSONS / BIRD CALLS Max K. Gilstrap Adventure In The National Parks No. 1 (Gilstrap Records Mono) YELLOW BIRD Art Coates Whistling Like the Birds (Dot DLP-25781 Stereo) WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE Virginia Belmont Virginia Belmont's Famous Singing And Talking Birds (Virginia Belmont Enterprises VB-713 Stereo) BEYOND THE SUNSET Fred Lowery Whistles Your Gospel Favorites (Word WST-8326-LP Stereo) THE CONTINENTAL Muzzy Marcellino House Party Music Time (Capitol T-1284 Mono) WIVES AND LOVERS Toots Thielemans The Whistler And His Guitar (ABC Paramount ABC-482 Mono) THE BIRDS Alfred Hitchcock Movie Trailer (Video Cassette) - my latest thing, snatching audio from Driver's Ed scare films, drive-in movie snack bar intermissions and personal hygeine / sex education / anti-drug PSA's SUKIYAKI Johan Dalgas Frisch Symphony Of The Birds (MGM SE-4442 Mono) GYPSY LOVE SONG Fred Lowery Whistle A Happy Tune! (Decca DL-8995 Mono) ON THE BEACH AT WAIKIKI Muzzy Marcellino Whistling On The Beach At Waikiki (Coral CRL-57441 Mono) INDIAN LOVE CALL Susan Zagon Susan Zagon - Whistler (Zagon Records Stereo) Medley: LA CINQUANTAINE / WINE, WOMEN AND SONG The Artel Orchestra The Canaries (United Artists UAS-6251 Stereo) GETTING IN TUNE WITH NATURE Max K. Gilstrap Adventure In The National Parks No.1 (Gilstrap Records Mono) PAGAN LOVE SONG Fred Lowery Walking Along Kicking The Leaves (Decca DL-8476 Mono) MY JESUS I LOVE THEE Ralph Platt The Birds Sing His Praise Volume 2 (Sacred LPS-4041 Stereo) WHISTLING YODELING POLKA Unknown Artist 45 RPM (Simon Says Mono) THE ENTERTAINER Ron McCroby Breezin' The Classics (Pro Arte Digital PAD-258 Stereo) AVE MARIA Virginia Belmont Virginia Belmont's Famous Singing And Talking Birds (Virginia Belmont Enterprises VB-713 Stereo) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! Date: 06 Mar 1999 13:57:28 -0500 >on another note, my husband swears that emerson, lake, and palmer stole >their ideas on moog directly from dick hyman, electric eclectic moog. >any comments? I don't know the exact chronology of who did what when, but when you hear Hyman's "Minotaur" it sure seems that way. My basic instinct is to leave my childhood prog rock years deeply buried (sort of like the Wonder Years, but with overlong solos), but with two mentions of ELP in one morning -- not to mention Bo Hansson -- synchronicity seems to be at work. Has anyone else seen the documentary film of the Isle Of Wight rock festival? (happened in 1970, I think) I saw it a few weeks ago, and unexpectedly and unbelieveably, ELP appear in it with the impact of punk rockers from outer space! Demonstrating that context is everything, I suppose. The Isle Of Wight Festival was intended as Europe's Woodstock, but was a bit of a disaster. Finances in a shambles, "free festival" protesters battering the concentration-camp-like walls, a fire in the stage roof, and lots more more fun. The lineup was mostly sensitive hippy staples, getting all weepy over the political battles going on behind the scenes. And in the midst of all this, suddenly here's Emerson, Lake & Palmer firing *cannons* from the corners of the stage and blasting huge quantities of aggressive notes at the crowd. It was like a reality fracture -- there was no connection to anything else that was going on. And then there's Keith Emerson, dressed like a bondage-VegasElvis-pimp, literally hurling his Hammond around the stage, doing show-off tricks like playing from behind the organ (upside-down and backwards) with only his pinkies and index fingers (Satan!). Insane! I can't imagine what the crowd made of it. But not many years later, ELP played the boring old fart role. Context. Magnus -- your Bo Hansson record -- is that on "The Famous Charisma Label"? That's the case with my copy. Yes, he worked with Janne Karlsson. Quoting the back cover notes (by Grammy winner, Stratton Smith (only kidding)): "A few years ago one began to hear from Scandinavia of a brilliant organist, BO HANSSON. He formed that rarity, a rock duo, with a fellow Swede, Janne Karlsson. The two toured regularly from '67 through '69, and released three albums, now something of collectors' pieces. Few British musicians of the time were unaware of them; Jimi Hendrix not only jammed regularly with them, but invited them to tour with his Experience. "Bo split to concentrate on his writing. Professor Tolkien's trilogy fascinated him, reached deep into his remote and rather other-worldly nature. The music thus inspired was recorded on a portable eight-track, in a rented house on an island off Stockholm. It is very much Hansson's album: Apart from the writing, he plays organ, guitar, Moog Synthesiser, and bass. Helping him are RUNE CARLSSON (drums), GUNNAR BERGSTEN (saxophone), STEN BERGMAN (flute), and a few anonymous 'friends'." And now I think I need to listen to some Boredoms to balance back out... m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Spaced Out Website redesign Date: 06 Mar 1999 19:11:39 -0000 Just to let you all know that I've redesigned the Spaced Out site to make it much more reader-friendly. So, rather than dark red text on a starry black background(!) it's now a clean and simple black on white. This has been applied throughout the whole site, though echoes of the previous design can still be seen, particularly in the interviews section. There has been another major improvement to the site, namely the addition of four Shockwave Flash animations which bring four of Enoch Light's LP covers to life. As many, if not all, of the covers on later Grand Award, Command and Project 3 labels are highly suggestive of movement, it struck me that they would make great animations - and I wanted an excuse to learn Flash anyway! I hope to gradually build up a huge library of singing, dancing cover art for the site. But for the time being you can feast your eyes on animated versions of Persuasive Percussion, Vibrations, Permissive Polyphonics and Discotheque. Shockwave Flash requires a plug-in to your browser but I believe recent browsers come with this plug-in pre-installed. If you don't have it you can get it from http://www.macromedia.com/ Hope you like the new look. Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James G Subject: (exotica) Yin/Yang Award Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:13:50 -0800 Brian wrote re liner notes and album covers: I hereby present Brian with the Yin/Yang Award for mentioning 'Trane and Blowfly in the same post. Think I'll dig out some Blowfly today, maybe exercise to his aerobics tune "F*** the Fat Off," while I contemplate aesthetic nightmares. And on a more personal note, I actually showed my parents the liner notes from "A Love Supreme" during the "discussion" we had in 1969 after they learned I was "on" LSD. Well, it made sense to ME at the time..... JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip, instro r&r Date: 06 Mar 1999 14:16:47 -0500 >Is this a relatively unexplored part of the lounge/exotica sound? >Instrumental rock n roll dance records from the late fifties? Even on this >record, a lot of it is pretty generic with wailing sax and a driving beat. >But I bet there are more gems out there like Dmitri and this other tune >"International Cha Cha". >Is there perhaps a CD compilation of this stuff? Ace Records (British label) has an excellent series called "Teen Beat", which is up to four volumes. Every disc is packed with 30 tracks. They compile R&R, R&B and genre-vague instrumentals from the 50s into the mid 60s. Some surf, but fortunately not much (that stuff is so easily available elsewhere). Some primitive, many smooth -- not necessarily fitting into "official" list genres, but much would probably be enjoyable. The booklets are illustrated with 45 labels and promo ads from old trade magazines. And no, no relation at all. I wish. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 06 Mar 1999 14:21:15 -0500 >What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? You can *see* it here: http://www.lpmusic.com/Product_Showcase/Sound_Effects/lp_vibraslaps_II.html They say: "It has appeared in more recordings, soundtracks and advertisements than any sound effect ever made." Stout words. You hold the wire frame with one hand, strike the knob against your other hand, and it goes, "KKKKKKKkkkkkkkk..." m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Mp3spy/Shoutcast Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:28:24 -0800 I have been parked at my front window all mornign waiting for the Covad truck to come and bring me 768kbps of symmetric connectivity. When he leaves, the first thing I am gonna do is put up an audio stream onto the Shoutcast server. I will post the details, but if anyone wants to "Tune in" you can download the latest version (necessary to work with shoutcast) version of Winamp at http://www.winamp.com. I've been goofing around with shoutcast for a few weeks, and it's neat stuff.. the most interesting aspect is the fact that anyone with a dial-up account can stream audio. It's also possible for that sam edial-up stream to be "mirrored" by other servers, thus expanding the number of potential listeners. To hear scores of home-based netcasts, go to http://www.shoutcast.com. I'll post more info when I have my server up and running. I intend to stream some recorded programs, and hope to have a live signal running by 9pm or so Pacific time. Woohooo! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 06 Mar 1999 14:25:50 -0500 >>What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? > >You can *see* it here: >http://www.lpmusic.com/Product_Showcase/Sound_Effects/lp_vibraslaps_II.html D'oh... I forgot to add... The Flex-A-Tone: http://www.lpmusic.com/Product_Showcase/Sound_Effects/lp_flex_a_tone.html is a lot more fun. Boi-oi-oi-oing... m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! Date: 06 Mar 1999 20:38:29 +0100 M Ace wrote: >Magnus -- your Bo Hansson record -- is that on "The Famous Charisma = Label"? No its on Silence. A swedish only release i guess.=20 Bo Hansson -"Sagan om ringen" SRS 4600=20 I just listened to it and it is really great. Do you know when it was = released? >That's the case with my copy.=20 Is your copy an international release? Please tell me about "The Famous = Charisma Label" From now on I will buy every Bo Hansson LP I see, because I see them = allatime. I have neglected music by swedish guys I think... >Yes, he worked with Janne Karlsson. Yeah here we know him as "Loffe". He is known here as one of swedens = most tiresome comedians, but he is a fantastic drummer. In the late 90s = Hansson och Karlsson performs again. Reports says they sound swell. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 14:53:59 -0500 At 09:20 AM 3/6/99 -0800, Larson/Thomas wrote: > >I've seen the following CD's for sale recently, and while I am somewhat >familiar with each performer I don't know enough about their individual >albums to say whether these rank among the best. > >Hene Rene - "Music for bachelors" If this is the original LP, it's not among his best, I don't think. Unless you like things more subdued. >Robert Maxwell - "Ebb Tide" I don't have this one but I like all his records. Nat, proud of everyone for turning on the faucets today # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 15:01:03 -0500 At 09:53 AM 3/6/99 -0800, Ron Grandia wrote: > >> Robert Maxwell - "Ebb Tide" > >I like Harp music, but most of it is pretty listless and drab. You want some >harpin? Get a Dorothy Ashby record. I can't agree. Of course I've never heard a Dorothy Ashby record so I can't disagree either. But I have records by a number of other harpists and overall I'd put the Robert Maxwell records at the head of the class. Of course I can't comment on the quality of the actual harp-playing but it's not the harp playing that makes Robert Maxwell records cool. It's the energy, the arrangements and the often exotic ambience. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 06 Mar 1999 14:42:44 +0000 You'll find some Jurassic Percussion on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast! We'll hear what may be the earliest of the "percussion show-off" records - Jimmy Carroll's famous "Speed the Parting Guest". Also, playful and pretty percussion by Candido, Mr. Bongo, Bobby Rosengarden and Phil Kraus (with a track from Phil's rare LP on Golden Crest, "The Percussive Phil Kraus"). There's music for teenage rebellion from "Hot Rod Rumble"; seduction bachelor-style with Bryce Bond and Bernadette; Vic Damone's exotica LP "Strange Enchantment"; rock and roll meets the mambo; plus the Markko Polo Adventurers, Lenny Dee, Lalo Schifrin, Esquivel and... Ginger sings! We now offer The Retro Cocktail Hour in streaming format for BOTH RealPlayer G2 and 5.0. Just use the format that best suits your particular player. Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer. Download RealPlayer for free at: http://www.real.com/products/player/50player/index.html?src=download Then, to hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html And while you're there, tour the album cover gallery (this month's theme is Exotica), scan playlists of past shows and enter our CD giveaway. Thanks for the space! Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Jungle Jive (Go Exotic) Date: 06 Mar 1999 13:31:05 -0800 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I081/qid=920755565/sr=1-3/002-8104371-1054018 anyone familiar with this CD, Jungle Jive, go exotic with Kari Wuher! -kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lloyd Kandell Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 11:59:30 -1000 Nat Kone wrote: > Of course I've never heard a Dorothy Ashby record... me neither. i've seen a couple of titles recently in catalogs and at dustygroove. anybody know her stuff, any recommendations? impulse! has released 3 alice coltrane titles on cd... buy them all! alice rules my house. deep, moving, spiritual, otherworldly and exotic in an egyptian/indian jazzy sort of way. titles are ptah the el daoud, journey to satchidinanda, and a monastic trio. hope it sounds like this in heaven... fluid floyd don tiki/taboo records # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Jungle Jive (Go Exotic) Date: 06 Mar 1999 23:22:14 +0100 >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I081/qid=3D920755565/sr=3D1= -3/002-8104371-1054018 > >anyone familiar with this CD, Jungle Jive, go exotic with Kari Wuher! > >-kevin I listened to parts of the first track that was available as a real = audio file. Voices Of Africa -Seduction. Sounded like Yma Sumac. This is = interesting, lots of (for me) new names on this cd. But the other tiny = soundfiles were not as thrilling as the first.=20 Anyone heard of "Voices of Africa"? Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Cozy Cole...drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 22:32:36 +0000 JimmyBee wrote: > >>Cozy Cole > >Is he the guy that did "Topsy Part 2"? (which begs the question, was there a >part one?) Yes, on the other side of part 2. And, he later did a record called 'Turvey' pts 1 and 2. Well, could we now discuss the 'Little' prefix phenomenon? I got to thinking last night at 01.55am (as you do) about various artists who either because of their stature or age (both potentially non-PC concepts....) had stage names starting with 'Little'. e.g., Little Stevie Wonder (Little later dropped) Little Anthony Little Richard Little Peggy March Little Eva Little Jimmy Dickins (spelling?) To provide balance, we ought to mention Big Maybelle Big Bopper Finally, someone mentioned Phil Upchurch. What instrument did he play in his combo please? (assuming he did). Thanks, Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 03:43:16 -0500 Oh Nat, why oh why did you give us this opening! The Cantina Band from Star Wars was such a wickedly original thing! The setting, the added effects, surely it counts as some kind of Space Exotica!! And Star Trek, the original series... my god, I grew up on that, man! Remember the Orion Slavegirl? Yeah, the one with green skin. Well, there was nothing hinting at the Exotic there, nah... Both would/could be valid lines of discussion here. But I'm only teasing. : ) Come to think of it, I see now that the Star Trek theme, heard weekly, and eventually daily in re-runs, has obviously had a deep impact on the trends in my musical taste. Voluntary brainwashing? I tell ya, that Captain Kirk was one helluva Space-Age Bachelor wouldn't you say? And oh what a Bachelor Pad he had! ALL the amenities, and cocktails replicated from hundreds of planets throughout the galaxy... that's the life, man! Yeah, baby! Smashing. ;-) Kevin B (playing Devil's Advocate) }:-) -----Original Message----- >Or maybe someone can find a way to include Star Trek and Star Wars in their >posts and then things would really start hopping. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Jungle Jive (Go Exotic) Date: 06 Mar 1999 18:47:08 -0500 >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I081/qid=920755565/sr=1-3/002- 8104371-1054018 > >anyone familiar with this CD, Jungle Jive, go exotic with Kari Wuhrer! Listening to the samples, it seems to be a comp of 50s/60s material from the Del-Fi vaults. Seems to be mostly rock 'n' roll that fits into a loose "jungle" theme. Dig those hot rod sounds on "Jungle Fever"! Kari Wuhrer is a tv/b actress who's apparently indulging her Bettie Page impulses on the cover. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: VANESSA COX Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: (exotica) Carl Stalling]] Date: 06 Mar 1999 22:04:39 +0000 Return-Path: Received: from send202.yahoomail.com ([128.11.68.126]) by mta3-svc.virgin.net (InterMail v4.00.03.01 201-229-104-101) with SMTP id <19990306221404.DXV252.mta3-svc@send202.yahoomail.com> for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 22:14:04 +0000 Message-ID: <19990306221616.15723.rocketmail@send202.yahoomail.com> Received: from [206.27.167.238] by send202.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:16:16 PST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---VANESSA COX wrote: Perhaps YOU could help??? Can anybody make recommendations as to which Carl Stalling LPs are worth tracking down? And are his works like his cartoons? Did he ever get serious with his music? As far as I know, there aren't any 'serious'(and I'm assuming you mean 'non-cartoon') Carl Stalling recordings out there...but if there are, I for one would like to hear them. There are two compilations of Carl Stalling cartoon scores available on compact disc titled "The Carl Stalling Project". They offer bits and pieces of his musical scores from various cartoons throughout his career at Warner Brothers. Both are quite good, yet the zaniest music in most Looney Tunes wasn't written by Mr. Stalling, but by a man named Raymond Scott.(For those of you who know who Raymond Scott is, you might as well go on to the next letter.) Raymond Scott, an accomplished musician who was VERY SERIOUS about his work, recorded such cartoon soundtrack staples as "Powerhouse", "The Tin Trumpet", and "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" as far back as the early 1930's...yet he never wrote or played a song for a cartoon during his entire career. Some of his original songs can be heard in certain "Ren & Stimpy" episodes. A Raymond Scott compilation (titled "Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights") is available on CD. The liner notes have an extensive biography on Mr. Scott's life, career, inventions, innovations...and his music. Well, I'm done. I hope I didn't bore anybody. Denver _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Sinatra and the FBI Date: 06 Mar 1999 19:28:26 -0500 For the Sinatra fans; Today's Washington Post Magazine has an interesting article tracing the history between Frank Sinatra and the FBI. A brief mention is made of the 1962 show at the Villa Venice niteclub Wheeling, Ill with Frank, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Matin, and Eddie Fischer at the Villa Venice Club. There's some other interesting things in their too. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Cozy Cole...drip drip drip Date: 06 Mar 1999 19:40:28 -0500 To provide balance, we ought to mention Big Maybelle Big Bopper Finally, someone mentioned Phil Upchurch. What instrument did he play in his combo please? (assuming he did). Upchurch was/is a guitarist. To add to your list, there was also a fellow with TWO nicknames, Lucky Big Carter who sang "I'm Gonna Break That Lock" on Sun Records and there was also a Little Jack Little. "Just the right-sized" Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Taro HOSHIJIMA Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 09:40:47 +0900 On Sat, 06 Mar 1999 10:16:01 -0500 Nat Kone wrote: > Is this a relatively unexplored part of the lounge/exotica sound? > Instrumental rock n roll dance records from the late fifties? Even on this > record, a lot of it is pretty generic with wailing sax and a driving beat. > But I bet there are more gems out there like Dmitri and this other tune > "International Cha Cha". > Is there perhaps a CD compilation of this stuff? One of my all-time favorite CDs is "Rock Instrumental Classics, Volume 1: the fifties" (Rhino R2 71601)". I guess it's worth mentioning in this list since it includes Cozy Cole's "Topsy II" and Preston Epps' "Bongo Rock" which was also discussed here. It doesn't include Sam Taylor but "Harlem Nocturne" by the Viscounts, if that matters. Taro # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) ELP? 'Elp! Date: 06 Mar 1999 20:17:52 -0500 >>Magnus -- your Bo Hansson record -- is that on "The Famous Charisma Label"? > >No its on Silence. A swedish only release i guess. >Bo Hansson -"Sagan om ringen" SRS 4600 >I just listened to it and it is really great. Do you know when it was released? >Is your copy an international release? Please tell me about "The Famous Charisma Label" My copy is a British release. The label says 1972. "The Famous Charisma Label" was a British label. My perception has always been that they more or less specialized in prog rock. They had stateside distribution through Buddha Records (yes, the big bubblegum label). Then through Atlantic. The switch to Atlantic was probably fueled by their main act: Genesis (I deeply apologize for mentioning that name here -- I hate myself...). That's all I can really say about them. Oh yeah: their label design featured Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat -- John Tenniel illustrations or a facsimile thereof. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Robert Maxwell Date: 06 Mar 1999 21:23:47 EST At 09:53 AM 3/6/99 -0800, Ron Grandia wrote: > >> Robert Maxwell - "Ebb Tide" > I third the thumbs up on Robert Maxwell. Ebb Tide is his own composition, too. It, along with his tune Shangri-La, are two exotica standards that have been covered on many great exotica/spage age records. Bobby isn't one of the pillars of exotica, but his records are almost always listenable and at times, quite hip. Check out his version of "Nature Boy" on Shangri-La. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Recommendations Date: 06 Mar 1999 21:57:34 -0500 At 11:59 AM 3/6/99 -1000, Lloyd Kandell wrote: > impulse! has >released 3 alice coltrane titles on cd... buy them all! alice rules my >house. deep, moving, spiritual, otherworldly and exotic in an >egyptian/indian jazzy sort of way. titles are ptah the el daoud, journey >to satchidinanda, and a monastic trio. hope it sounds like this in >heaven... Wonder why they haven't released other records of hers. I have one called "Huntington Ashram Monastery" - on Impulse like the others - and I don't believe it's been reissued. It's just a trio with Alice, Ron Carter and Rashied Ali so it's a bit different than the others but it's definitely got that heavenly sound. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Mr. Lucky live appearance tonight Date: 06 Mar 1999 21:56:49 EST hey gang, hey gang, two shows in march: beauty bar: this sunday, march 7, 9 pm, at the beauty bar on the corner of 19th and mission, the church of frank sinatra will be saying mass and distributing the great sacrament of scotch and water. saint marci will be your hostess, msgr. giancarlo will be spinning discs and... mr. lucky will be singing accompanied by kevin gerzevitz on piano in a reprise of mr. lucky's legendary ring-a-ding-duo which ushered in the dawn of the post-modern swing/lounge movement. promises to be quite a party! club deluxe: saturday, march 27, 10pm to 1am (three sets), just off the southwest corner of haight and ashbury, it's ... "the cocktail party" a quintet featuring mr. lucky, ralph carney, j. raoul brody. this wild-style band will be covering lots of favorites and raucous music from the era. the last show set the crowd on its ear--so...lucky's back at the deluxe and you're all invited. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This mailing list is brought to you by Slick.ORG at http://www.slick.org to remove yourself from the list, send e-mail to majordomo@slick.org and include the words "unsubscribe tikievents" in the message (not in the subject). For web-based help, go to: http://www.slick.org/cgi-bin/majordomo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Taboo Tiki 2 Date: 06 Mar 1999 21:56:54 EST just a reminder Thursday, March 11 9:30 - 1:30 at 9th & Harrison Tiki News, Space Cowgirls & Sounds Good music productions bring you TABOO TIKI Djs Alvin A Go-Go & DJ The Now Sound The Hobnobbers featuring Frank Novicki Exotica dances and best lei contest Bring your wildest lei or make one at the club (or ruin everyone else's so yours ends up winning by default) Lei contest hosted by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Sister Kitty and Sister Dana prizes for the winners!! Also don't miss Otto DJing every Tuesday at The Beauty Bar 9:00 - 1:30 Mission @ 19th and the first Thursday of the month at Li Lo Lounge 9:00 - 1:30 Connecticut @ 18th * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This mailing list is brought to you by Slick.ORG at http://www.slick.org to remove yourself from the list, send e-mail to majordomo@slick.org and include the words "unsubscribe tikievents" in the message (not in the subject). For web-based help, go to: http://www.slick.org/cgi-bin/majordomo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Showbiz, don't ya love it Date: 06 Mar 1999 22:20:52 -0500 Lawrence Welk fans, stop reading here. The rest of you, I have a little story. It doesn't really go anywhere but it does have lounge/exotica content. Mostly though it just makes me think about showbiz and smoke-filled rooms. It starts off with this friend of mine who's a musician and also owns a used record store. He goes to the biggest music store here in Toronto, "Long and McQuade" to buy some Burt Bacharach sheet music and it turns out that the guy who sells it to him once played trombone with Bacharach. Don't ask me when because I don't know. Anyway, when this guy hears that my friend has a used record store, he tells him that he's been looking for this Nelson Riddle record."The Joy of Living". Apparently he's interested in the trombone player on the record. My friend says he thinks he does and the guy says he'll call in a couple of days. As it turns out, my friend does have the record, just like I do. I think it's a pretty drab record but I keep it for the cover. It turns out that my friend hasn't put it out for sale for the same reason. He likes the cover. But this guy is so eager to find it - and willing to pay good money for it - that my friend decides to sell it to him. So I'm in the store today, sampling records and I'm playing Lawrence Welk's version of "The theme from S.W.A.T" just as this guy phones to see if my friend has the record. Well, for me the story could end when this guy, hearing the tune through the phone, identifies it as the Lawrence Welk version. That's pretty impressive right there. But then he tells my friend this story. It seems that Michael Caine and Milton Berle were at a party and Berle was smoking a cigar. So Caine asks Berle what kind of cigar it is. And Berle says "It's a Lawrence Welk". And of course Caine asks "A Lawrence Welk??" And Berle says "Yeah. It's some crap with a band around it". Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: Subject: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 06 Mar 1999 19:39:42 -0800 >What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? Ah yes, the good 'ol vibra-slap. I LOVE VIBRA-SLAP'S BOING! No! Not Schwing! BOING! Kind of anyways. It is a hand held percussive instrument that is held straight up and has a FLAT polished piece of wood, much like a large paddle, with a handle that you hold. If I remember correctly as I only saw it played once a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ASS TIME AGO BY CE in a tiny tiny little club in San Jose, CA, where I 1st spoke with Cleve. So, attached to this paddle thing, is a curved wire or piece of metal of sorts that has a wooden ball or something on the end of it and when you SLAP IT against the palm of your hand it RATTLES a WOODEN BUZZZZZZZZZ. You'd know it when you hear it. I can't remember who uses it or a particular title or soundtrack, BUT I'M SURE CLEVE OR ASHLEY WILL COME TO YOUR RESCUE! I am sure Ennio Morricone uses vibra-slap's a lot in his stuff. It is a CLASSIC SOUND! I love vibra-slap's:) ((((((((((BOING)))))))) (((((((((((BUZZZZZZZZ)))))))) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Harp Rekkids Date: 06 Mar 1999 19:50:26 -0800 I like Harp music, but most of it is pretty listless and drab. You want some >harpin? Get a Dorothy Ashby record. Harpo Marx, believe it or not was a killer harp player and made a couple of GREAT records. Dorothy Ashby, yeah. Robert Maxwell's "Spectacular Harps" is overdubbed "Prepared Harp" and is freakin' awesome. Let's not forget that the Fortune Tellers are led by Robert Maxwell:) Thjat's a killer rekkid too. Also, Betty Glamann on Mercury Funk Jazz Harp by Dot; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/dot_ashby_afro_harping.jpg There's more, but I'mm a tired boy and I gotta prepare for my show, tomorrow AM http://www.kfjc.org Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Showbiz, don't ya love it Date: 06 Mar 1999 23:05:51 -0500 Nat's posting reminded me of something I read in today's paper, which I just had to share with you all ;-) Fort Lupton, Colorado (Robert Weller, Associated Press) They don't take requests at this after-hours club, and there's definitely no karaoke. The DJ is a police officer, and he's ready to bounce anyone who dances or talks. Municipal Judge Paul Sacco requires people convicted of violating the city's noise ordinance to listen to music they don't like. The noise scofflaws - most of whom got in trouble for playing their stereos too loud - gather once a month, on a weekend night, to listen to court-selected songs. The offenders are mostly young, so there is a heavy dose of lounge music, including Wayne Newton and Dean Martin, plus some Navajo flute music, bagpipes and John Denver songs. God help us all. During the most recent session, the group of seven heard one of the judge's own jazz compositions, I'm Sleeping In My Car. Seventeen-year-old David Mascarenas was apparently scared straight. "I'm not going to jam no more," Mascarenas said. "I took my stereo out already. I don't want to be hassled no more." Court co-ordinator Patrice Redearth, who suggested the one-hour music treatment, said she got her first playlist by asking her 17-year-old "what the kids would hate." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Showbiz, don't ya love it Date: 06 Mar 1999 22:18:11 -0800 cheryl wrote: > > Court co-ordinator Patrice Redearth, who suggested the one-hour music > treatment, said she got her first playlist by asking her 17-year-old > "what the kids would hate." > As a public serveice, we should put our heads together and cook up a mix for them. I'll start with TAmmy Faye Bakker's, "Oops. there comes a smile." Add some Little Marcy - Throw in some Mrs. Miller (Cuz they won't get it) Oh, and some BeeGees. R # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Harpists Date: 06 Mar 1999 22:27:01 -0800 More harpists; Jazz, Pop and beyond Daphne Hellman Quintet with Mundell Lowe-Guitar I think it's on Harmony, BUT it's not a reissue/2nd pressing from Columbia It's the original label. Great rekkit, great cover Fondle, where are ya ? Corky Hale on GNP Gene Bianco's 2 records on RCA Camden has at least 1 good track for each LP, also featuring Mundell Lowe-Electric Guitar. Janet Putnam played in The Jazz Modes on the Dawn label, mid to late 50's Who's the lady on that Surfmen-Exotic Island LP on Somerset ? Mimi Allen on Mercury has some good licks Am I missing anyone ? JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Cozy Cole...drip drip drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 02:28:51 EST In a message dated 3/6/99 6:36:37 PM, tribute@dircon.co.uk wrote: >Finally, someone mentioned Phil Upchurch. Keys plus from what I knw # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sinatra and the FBI Date: 07 Mar 1999 02:32:59 EST In a message dated 3/6/99 8:32:47 PM, itsvern@ibm.net wrote: >Dean Matin, and Eddie Fischer Who? ;-) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 00:11:44 +0000 At 03:43 AM 06-03-99 -0500, Kevin wrote: >Come to think of it, I see now that the Star Trek theme, heard weekly, and >eventually daily in re-runs, has obviously had a deep impact on the trends >in my musical taste. Really, the original Star Trek theme had all the elements of exotica... except it has become TOO familiar. Listen some time...the bongos, the wordless vocals (although this may only be in the first year). Stretch out the theme for another couple of minutes (see the "2nd pilot" episode beginning which has an extended theme to give you an idea) and you can hear the true exotic connections. I have often thought if the theme had any ties to Desi Arnez, being that the first year of Star Trek was produced by Desilu before becoming part of Paramount. I have often considered that it was Desi himself playing the bongos. Oh, but my mind meanders! Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Jungle Jive (Go Exotic) Date: 07 Mar 1999 00:11:53 +0000 At 06:47 PM 06-03-99 -0500, m. ace wrote: >Kari Wuhrer is >a tv/b actress who's apparently indulging her Bettie Page impulses on the >cover. She is a regular on the Sci Fi Channel's (formerly Fox's) Sliders TV series. She has done some pretty sexy things there...and dressed quite provacatively at times as well. I am certainly tempted by these CDs because she is on the cover, but I guess that is the idea. Ah, those clever marketers! Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Info please... Date: 07 Mar 1999 10:21:23 +0000 Just bought an ancient (1955 or so, I'd say..) 10" LP by Bill Snyder and his magic piano and orchestra. Eight tracks inc. Bewitched, Drifting Sands (vocal: Ralph Sterling), Choppin' up Chopin, etc. Definitely an American outfit: anyone any info please, especially the US label? It's a UK record on London American series, most of which show the US label name, but this early one doesn't. It's actually very listenable. Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Cozy Cole...drip drip drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 06:10:38 -0500 At 10:32 PM 3/6/99 +0000, Hugh Petfield wrote: >Well, could we now discuss the 'Little' prefix phenomenon? I think the only one of those who truly deserved the name was Little Jimmy Dickens who couldn't be taller than four feet. Then again calling him "little" was kind of redundant. And if you only know him as the "mascot" of the Grand Ole Opry, you're missing some good country records. >To provide balance, we ought to mention > >Big Maybelle >Big Bopper And best of all, "Big Tiny Little" >Finally, someone mentioned Phil Upchurch. What instrument did he play >in his combo please? (assuming he did). Guitar. He also played electric sitar on a record called "Lovin Feelin". There's a tune called "Sitar Soul" but your imagination of what it could be is probably better than what it actually is. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: (exotica) Alice Coltrane Date: 07 Mar 1999 13:00:38 +0100 > impulse! has >>released 3 alice coltrane titles on cd... buy them all There are currently 5 Alice Coltrane LPs up on Ebay.=20 Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jill Mingo" Subject: (exotica) The Hip Trip - March/April Date: 10 Feb 1999 02:58:53 PST For any of you groovers in Scotland over the next couple months... Check out Glasgow's newest weekly Sunday night club where you can experie= nce the now sounds of tomorrow... The Hip Trip! An eclectic mix of funkadelic lounge, triptastic pop and groovy beatz wit= h your hostess DJ Mingo-go. Upcoming guests include: March 7: Andrew Divine March 14: Stephen Pastel March 21: Sean! March 28: Hush Puppy April 3: Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits) April 10: Andrew Divine April 17: Chris "Beans" Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) April 24: DJ Westworld Located in The White Lounge in Club Alaska, Bath Lane, Glasgow, Sundays, = 11pm - 3am. Entrance =A33/=A32 (Student, OAPs, UB40s) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Carl Stalling Date: 07 Mar 1999 14:18:02 +0100 Charles Moseley wrote: > > Can anybody make recommendations as to which Carl Stalling LPs are worth > tracking down? The 2 volumes of The Carl Stalling Project (CD, Warner Brothers) are highly reccommended. I am not awar of any LPs with his music. The CD Bugs Bunny on Broadway is also very nice. It's not credited to Stalling though, but to the Warner Bros Symponhy Orchestra. MArco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +-----------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html +-----------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) playlist for Fantastica MP3 file on Ron's web site "Xtabay" Date: 06 Mar 1999 15:20:20 +0100 Fantastica # 05 title: Stan Freberg's DIY grand piano - identification: piano chord 1. Button Down Brass: "Frere Jacques" o album "Ha! Ha! Ha!" (Hee-Hee-Hee) o LP, Fontana LPS 16255 | +++ 2. Rex Brown Company: "Round up" o compil. "Electronic Toys" o CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media Indigo 0983, Germany, 1996 | ++++ 3. Hot Butter: "Tequila" o album "Hot Butter" o LP, Musicor MS 3254 (st) | +++ 4. The Frivolous Five: "A taste of honey" o album "Sour Cream & Other Delights" o LP, RCA LPM-3663 | +++++ o info: Novelty, "so bad it's good" categgory covers of Tijuana brass classics 5. Lew Davies and his Orchestra: "April in paris" o album "Two Pianos & Twenty Voices" o LP, Command RS 33-813 | +++ 6. LEITMOTIV: Stan Freberg: "The Do It Yourself grand piano" o album "The Stan Freberg Show #10" (1957) o cassette, Radio Yesteryear COM 23, USA, 198? | not rated 7. Ferrante & Teicher: "Susanna's last stand" o album "Hi-Fireworks" o LP, Columbia CL 573 mono, 1955 | +++++ o info: Prepared piano; contains 2 tracks not found on "Fireworks". 8. The Creed Taylor Orchestra (music by Kenyon Hopkins): "The chase" o album "Panic: Son of Shock" o CD, half of the LP on Fear (bootleg) | +++++ o info: nervous jazz with sound effects 9. Esquivel, his Piano & Group: "Oye negra" o album "Four Corners of the World" o CD, RCA Living Stereo 29856 2, Germany, 1995 | +++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/A/Esq4.htm" 10. Robert C. Pritikin: "Sawthing (Something) (edit)" o album "There's A Song In My Saw" o LP, P&G 108 | +++ 11. The Three Suns: "Danny's inferno" o compil. "Cocktail Mix Volume 1: Bachelor's guide to the galaxy" o CD, Rhino R2 72155, USA, 1995 | +++++ o info: my favorite volume of the series 12. Bobby Christian: "Doll dance" o album "Mr. Percussion" o LP, Mercury SR-60015 | +++ 13. Koka: "Poor Elise 2" o album "Fantasy, Pastiche Sabotage" o CD, Koka | +++++ o info: Sonorisation novelty music. 14. Sound FX: "Piano chord VII (rhythmic pounding)" o album "Living sound effects vol 6" o CD, Bainbridge BCD-2006 | ++++ 15. Jack Fascinato: "Spring, sprang, sprung" o album "Music from A Surplus Store" o CD, Junkyard (bootleg) | +++ o info: big band with sound effects 16. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: "Blue bonnet rag (edit)" o album "Stratosphere Boogie" o CD, Razor & Tie RE 2067, USA, 1995 | +++ 17. King Uszniewicz and his Uszniewicztones: "The crusher" o album "Teenage Dance Party with" o LP, Norton 208, USA, 1989 | ++++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/A/Kingu.htm" 18. The Red Hot Chili Dogs: "Wild thing" o compil. "Barnyard Beat. Livestock rock and jungle jams" (a parody album) o CD, Rhino R2 71989, USA, 1995 | +++++ o info: Animals doing rock classics. 19. Groupe Folklorique Temaeva: "Mama tu" o compil. "Drums of Bora Bora and songs of Tahiti" o CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2214, USA, 1993 | +++ o info: ethnic exotica 20. Country Rockers: "Wipe out" o album "Free range chicken" o CD, Telstar TR004CD, USA, 1992 | ++++ o info: Novelty 21. Anton Szandor LaVey: "Strange music" o album "Strange Music" o 10", Amarillo AM-586, USA, 1994 | ++++ 22. The 52 key Verbeek fairground organ: "And I love her" o compil. "The exotic Beatles Part 1" o CD, Exotica Pele 3, distributed by Revolver, UK, 1993 | +++++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/T/Exobtl.htm" 23. The In Group: "The man with the golden gun" o compil. "Shaken Not Stirred" o CD, Rykodisc 1443 50337 2, USA, 1996 | +++++ 24. Jimmy Smith: "Walk on the wild side" o album "Bashin'" (the unpredictable Jimmy Smith) o LP, Verve CLP 1596 | +++++ o info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 25. Milt Buckner: "The Beast" o compil. "Ultra-Lounge Volume 4: Bachelor Pad Royale" o CD, Captiol 35177, USA, 1996 | +++++ 26. Jan August: "Cumana" o album "Accent!" o LP, Mercury MMC 14086, 1961 | +++ album ratings: +++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk the radio pages + "eXotica Releases Overview" on my web site: Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) playlists for Fantastica MP3 files on Ron's "Xtabay" web site Date: 06 Mar 1999 16:12:23 +0100 Fantastica # 05 title: Stan Freberg's DIY grand piano - identification: piano chord 1. Button Down Brass: "Frere Jacques" o album "Ha! Ha! Ha!" (Hee-Hee-Hee) o LP, Fontana LPS 16255 | +++ 2. Rex Brown Company: "Round up" o compil. "Electronic Toys" o CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media Indigo 0983, Germany, 1996 | ++++ 3. Hot Butter: "Tequila" o album "Hot Butter" o LP, Musicor MS 3254 (st) | +++ 4. The Frivolous Five: "A taste of honey" o album "Sour Cream & Other Delights" o LP, RCA LPM-3663 | +++++ o info: Novelty, "so bad it's good" categgory covers of Tijuana brass classics 5. Lew Davies and his Orchestra: "April in paris" o album "Two Pianos & Twenty Voices" o LP, Command RS 33-813 | +++ 6. LEITMOTIV: Stan Freberg: "The Do It Yourself grand piano" o album "The Stan Freberg Show #10" (1957) o cassette, Radio Yesteryear COM 23, USA, 198? | not rated 7. Ferrante & Teicher: "Susanna's last stand" o album "Hi-Fireworks" o LP, Columbia CL 573 mono, 1955 | +++++ o info: Prepared piano; contains 2 tracks not found on "Fireworks". 8. The Creed Taylor Orchestra (music by Kenyon Hopkins): "The chase" o album "Panic: Son of Shock" o CD, half of the LP on Fear (bootleg) | +++++ o info: nervous jazz with sound effects 9. Esquivel, his Piano & Group: "Oye negra" o album "Four Corners of the World" o CD, RCA Living Stereo 29856 2, Germany, 1995 | +++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/A/Esq4.htm" 10. Robert C. Pritikin: "Sawthing (Something) (edit)" o album "There's A Song In My Saw" o LP, P&G 108 | +++ 11. The Three Suns: "Danny's inferno" o compil. "Cocktail Mix Volume 1: Bachelor's guide to the galaxy" o CD, Rhino R2 72155, USA, 1995 | +++++ o info: my favorite volume of the series 12. Bobby Christian: "Doll dance" o album "Mr. Percussion" o LP, Mercury SR-60015 | +++ 13. Koka: "Poor Elise 2" o album "Fantasy, Pastiche Sabotage" o CD, Koka | +++++ o info: Sonorisation novelty music. 14. Sound FX: "Piano chord VII (rhythmic pounding)" o album "Living sound effects vol 6" o CD, Bainbridge BCD-2006 | ++++ 15. Jack Fascinato: "Spring, sprang, sprung" o album "Music from A Surplus Store" o CD, Junkyard (bootleg) | +++ o info: big band with sound effects 16. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant: "Blue bonnet rag (edit)" o album "Stratosphere Boogie" o CD, Razor & Tie RE 2067, USA, 1995 | +++ 17. King Uszniewicz and his Uszniewicztones: "The crusher" o album "Teenage Dance Party with" o LP, Norton 208, USA, 1989 | ++++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/A/Kingu.htm" 18. The Red Hot Chili Dogs: "Wild thing" o compil. "Barnyard Beat. Livestock rock and jungle jams" (a parody album) o CD, Rhino R2 71989, USA, 1995 | +++++ o info: Animals doing rock classics. 19. Groupe Folklorique Temaeva: "Mama tu" o compil. "Drums of Bora Bora and songs of Tahiti" o CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2214, USA, 1993 | +++ o info: ethnic exotica 20. Country Rockers: "Wipe out" o album "Free range chicken" o CD, Telstar TR004CD, USA, 1992 | ++++ o info: Novelty 21. Anton Szandor LaVey: "Strange music" o album "Strange Music" o 10", Amarillo AM-586, USA, 1994 | ++++ 22. The 52 key Verbeek fairground organ: "And I love her" o compil. "The exotic Beatles Part 1" o CD, Exotica Pele 3, distributed by Revolver, UK, 1993 | +++++ o Review: "http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/critiq/T/Exobtl.htm" 23. The In Group: "The man with the golden gun" o compil. "Shaken Not Stirred" o CD, Rykodisc 1443 50337 2, USA, 1996 | +++++ 24. Jimmy Smith: "Walk on the wild side" o album "Bashin'" (the unpredictable Jimmy Smith) o LP, Verve CLP 1596 | +++++ o info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 25. Milt Buckner: "The Beast" o compil. "Ultra-Lounge Volume 4: Bachelor Pad Royale" o CD, Captiol 35177, USA, 1996 | +++++ 26. Jan August: "Cumana" o album "Accent!" o LP, Mercury MMC 14086, 1961 | +++ * *** * Fantastica # 21 title: SPECIAL: Jean Jacques Perrey - identification: Forrest Ackerman 1. Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam: "Neutronia" o album "Eclektronics" o LP, Basenotic B.A.T.C. 001 (Distr. in France: Discograph) France, 1998 | +++ o info: Jean Jacques Perrey is back, which on itself is great, although this LP is certainly not the best thing he ever did. Side A is more a novelty than a Moog record, full of musical jokes. The whole LP lacks good melodies. Instead of writing the melody first, and then playing it with lots of funny sounds, they seam to have worked the other way 'round, by chaining wacky sounds without hardly any melodic structure. About half of the tracks are remarkably serious for the clownesque Mr. Perrey, with modern trip-hoppy/technoid influences that might be too aggressive for the typical "old" J.J. Perrey fan, but then again, they might attract a whole new and young public, which is great! 2. Jean Jacques Perrey: "Mister James Bond" o album "The amazing new electronic pop sound of Jean Jacques Perrey" o CD, Vanguard VMD 79286, UK, 1996 | +++++ o info: Not as groovy as Moog Indigo with its "E.V.A." cult track, more in the lines of the Kingsley collaboration: that means fun! But also a couple of heavenly beautiful melodies with wordless vocals 3. LEITMOTIV 1: Forrest J. Ackerman: "The tin age story" o album "Music for Robots" o LP, Science Fiction Records MFR-1001A (repro), USA, 199? | +++ o info: Forrest travels through space to the future and talks about the robots he encounters. 4. Perrey & Kingsley: "Strangers in the night" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o CD, Vanguard VCD 71/72, USA, 1988 & 1996 CD, Vanguard VCD 71, UK, 1997 | +++++ o info: Combines "The In Sound From Way Out" and "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight on the Moog". It says ESSENTIAL, OK?! 5. Perrey & Kingsley: "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o see above mention of this record for more details. 6. LEITMOTIV 2: Hiller, Gaburo, Brun, Martirano: "fragments" o compilation "Electronic music from the University of Illinois" o LP, HELIODOR Hs25047 | not rated 7. Jean Jacques Perrey: "Passport to the future" o album "Moog indigo" o CD, Vanguard 6549, USA, 1996 CD/LP, BGP, UK, 1996 | +++++ o info: Source of cult hit "E.V.A.", and "Gossipo perpetuo" which was featured on "Incredibly Strange Music 2". 8. Perrey & Kingsley: "Cosmic ballad" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o see above mention of this record for more details. 9. Jean Jacques Perrey: "E.V.A." o album "Moog indigo" o see above mention of this record for more details. 10. Jean Jacques Perrey & Gilbert Sigrist: "L'homme a l'index coupe" o album "DynaMoog" o LP, Crea Sound MON 33, Canada, 197? | +++ o info: A really nice Moog LP that grows. Three tracks are funny in a tipically Perrey way, others are more ambient. Besides Moog & Moog sequencer, also used are: Ondioline, Ondes maetinot, electric piano, "Eminent" organ, Clavinet, and guitar & drums. 11. Jean Jacques Perrey: "Porcupine rock" o album "The amazing new electronic pop sound of Jean Jacques Perrey" o see above mention of this record for more details. 12. Jean Jacques Perrey: "In the heart of the rose" o album "The amazing new electronic pop sound of Jean Jacques Perrey" o see above mention of this record for more details. 13. Harry Breuer & Jean Jacques Perrey: "Moog foo yong" o album "The happy Moog" o LP, Pickwick 3160, USA | +++++ o info: Electronic Keystone Kapers in space. Six out of the 10 tracks are (co-)written by Perrey. 14. Jean Jacques Perrey & Gilbert Sigrist: "Le fugitif" o album "DynaMoog" o see above mention of this record for more details. 15. Jean Jacques Perrey: "Mary France" o album "The amazing new electronic pop sound of Jean Jacques Perrey" o see above mention of this record for more details. 16. Jean Jacques Perrey & David Chazam: "An elephant on the roof" o album "Eclektronics" o see above mention of this record for more details. 17. Perrey & Kingsley: "Jungle blues from Jupiter" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o see above mention of this record for more details. 18. Perrey & Kingsley: "Countdown at 6" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o see above mention of this record for more details. 19. Harry Breuer & Jean Jacques Perrey: "Re-entry to the moon" o album "The happy Moog" o see above mention of this record for more details. 20. Jean Jacques Perrey: "Flight of the bumble bee" o album "Moog indigo" o see above mention of this record for more details. 21. Perrey & Kingsley: "Moon river" o album "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" o see above mention of this record for more details. album ratings: +++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk the radio pages + "eXotica Releases Overview" on my web site: Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Phil Upchurch Date: 07 Mar 1999 07:59:32 -0800 Phil Upchurch is/was 1 of THE MOST under rated guitarists EVER! He was a MAJOR studio player in the 60' and early 70's and made a few really good solo records on Cadet (late 60's) as well as being part of the "Soulful Strings", also on Cadet. Many times, as with all studio musicians, you are hearing him and diggin' him, ya just don't know it though. Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) JJ Perrey Date: 07 Mar 1999 08:18:24 -0800 I totally disagree (as well as KFJC-FM in general) about the Jean Jacques Perrey/David Chazam collaboration; Eclektronics LP They played the livin shit out of it, when we 1st got it. Then again, I am talking about people that listen to SO MUCH MUSIC and SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC ALL THE TIME, that our hearing is much different than "regular" people that listen to music "all the time" Many times, it has been proven time and time again how the personal tastes of this list differ greatly from person to person. Also of great note in reference to this record is that it was created and released in 1998 as opposed to 1968. Is anyone familiar with the concept of doing something new ? Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) drip drip drip/Star Trek Date: 07 Mar 1999 10:58:36 -0500 Byron wrote: >>Come to think of it, I see now that the Star Trek theme, heard weekly, and >>eventually daily in re-runs, has obviously had a deep impact on the trends >>in my musical taste. Did you know the lyrics to the original Star Trek theme were penned by Gene Roddenberry himself? And you wondered why the theme went instrumental. The Theme from Star Trek Beyond The rim of the starlight My love Is wand'ring in star-flight. I know He'll find in star-clustered reaches Love Strange love a star woman teaches. I know His journey ends never. His star trek Will go on forever. But tell him While he wanders his starry sea Remember, remember me. Try singing the lyrics to the melody. Guaranteed to unnerve your spouse, disturb your pets, and set your babies to crying. MimiM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) errors in playlist Fantastica # 21 Date: 07 Mar 1999 15:55:04 +0100 the playlist i posted for Fantastica # 21 has errors... Ron has the first version of that show. when JJP released his new "Eclektronics" LP, i replaced some tracks from Perrey & Kingsley's "The essential Perrey & Kingsley" by 2 tracks from "Eclektronics" (that's so nice about an MD, it's a piece of cake to replace tracks when you want)... but i can't remember what the original (first version) tracks were... Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) http://members.aol.com/cdr870/ Date: 07 Mar 1999 14:57:25 +0100 someone (Ron?) posted this URL of a page about using standard (cheapo) CDR's on a Philips Audio CD Recorder, but the URL is no good ("not found").... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) budget label audacity Date: 07 Mar 1999 13:02:31 -0800 someone mentioned: > Though it's going up on EBay, a VG++/Mint Dean Elliot Orchestra-"Zounds ! > What Sounds!! in Stereo. A few months ago I found an LP by 'The Polyphonics' with the same title, "Zounds! What Sounds!" I bought it thinking that even if it were a watered down imitation of the Dean Elliot record, it still should/could be pretty decent. No such luck. It's just another one of those attempts by a budget label (Seeco records) to cash in on a trend. The cover has a cool, zany appearance, but the music is dullsville and even sounds like one of those records that had existed for many years and just got re-released as a public domain item with a new name. What is most stunning is the direct theft of the title. Weren't these things copywrighted? I could understand a title that cleverly referred to another, but taking the exact words is low even for a budget label. -- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James G Subject: (exotica) Jungle Jive & Del-Fi & San Quentin & Basin St. Date: 07 Mar 1999 10:50:36 -0800 The whole Jungle Jive CD can be heard at broadcast.com, along with 58 other Del-Fi releases in their entirety. JJ and the similar Beach and Pool Party comps cover the basic Las Vegas Grind/Jungle Exotica territory, nothing to turn somersaults over, but I bought a couple cuz i'll but almost anything if its cheap (and i HAD to have the Soupy Shuffle song with the bad White Fang impression.) But then for almost the same price you COULD get the newly re-issued OST of "I Want To Live" with the Gerry Mulligan jazz versions tacked on as a bonus to Johnny Mandel's score (plus the movie trailer!); OR you could get Herbie Mann's "Flautista! herbie mann plays afro cuban jazz," recorded 1959 at Basin St. East, with Herbie on flute, Johnny Rae(?)on vibes/marimba, and an ass-kicking 3 man percussion section of Patato Valdez, Jose Mangual and Santos Miranda. (No topless pictures of hairy Herbie included, but you get almost 10 minutes of Caravan.) Whatever floats your boat. JB, off to listen to Jack's show........... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick obit Date: 07 Mar 1999 15:42:49 -0500 This is a rough week. BBC obituary here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_292000/292357.stm m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Mel Henke's Dynamic Adventures Date: 07 Mar 1999 14:16:01 +0000 At least seven months ago I found the cover of "Dynamic Adventures in Sound", Mel Henke's debut LP on Warner Brothers. Cost me $1...but I held out hope I would eventually find the record, besides which there is some nice graphics and good info about Mr. Henke. Today, guess what? I found the record without the cover and got it for 25 cents. The record has a slight warp, but plays through. Now, some of the cuts from this made it as bonus cuts on the La Dolce Henke CD...but it is good to get the whole album now. Every cut is great! Those folks at Scamp must have really fought over which cuts to put on the CD, because I certainly would wanted to include ALL of them (if only CDs had more than the approximate 72 minutes of audio on them). This was the ONLY record I saw in the bins that I wanted, which is unusual because I usually find several. Still, I'd rather find only this one than hundreds of lamer LPs. I feel lucky today. Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Re: Drip Drip Drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 09:03:55 -0500 << Is this a relatively unexplored part of the lounge/exotica sound? Instrumental rock n roll dance records from the late fifties? Even on = this record, a lot of it is pretty generic with wailing sax and a driving = beat. But I bet there are more gems out there like Dmitri and this other tune "International Cha Cha". >> I wouldn't say relatively unexplored, except maybe on this list. One of my major beefs with the UL comps is that they stray so far into = this territory all the time. Too far sometimes, I think. To much early = rock combo instrumental, and not enough "and His Orchestra" straight = lounge. Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Jungle Jive & Del-Fi & San Quentin & Basin St. Date: 07 Mar 1999 15:42:40 +0000 At 10:50 AM 07-03-99 -0800, JB wrote: >The whole Jungle Jive CD can be heard at broadcast.com, along with 58 >other Del-Fi releases in their entirety. Thanks! This was the best CD of the Del Fi series, and only about half of them were my kind of exotica, the rest R&B or Rock type entries (which I also enjoyed, but not as exotica). I tried some of the other CDs offered by Del-Fi and the only other one that interests me is Emil Richards' Yazz Band with "Yazz Per Favore" (its latin flavored jazz, basically). There is also Bob Keane and His Big Orchestra and the Shots in the Dark (Mancini covers) collection. Byron Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: Re: (exotica) Cozy Cole...drip drip drip Date: 07 Mar 1999 21:13:47 -0500 Little Steven played with Bruce, didn't he? Also, did we say Little Jimmy Scott? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Fantastica Date: 07 Mar 1999 21:16:02 -0500 I for one have downloaded BOTH Fantastica "releases" from Ron Grandia's site and have been bowled over by both. I'm looking forward to more, if it's possible! Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) New Crippled Dick release ? Date: 07 Mar 1999 19:25:43 -0800 Anyone know about this ? GenevaCRIPPLED DICK HOT WAX (GERMANY): O.S.T.: Signor Rossi CD (CDHW ? CD). "Signore Rossi -- original music from the classic animation series - music composed, arranged and performed by Franco Godi. Original Soundtrack and Dialogues from the well-known TV-cartoon-series & CD-debut for Signor Rossi! For the first time since the seventies the soundtrack to the cartoon-classic by Bruno Bozzetto (Allegro Non Troppo) with its intelligent and full-of-fantasies musical ideas by Franco Godi and his Ensemble is available. With the help of carefully re-created German and Italian original-tapes that had been lost for so long, this unique collection of musical highlights mixed with some high dialogues was put together. We join Signor Rossi and his friend Gastone on their 'looks for happiness' through the stoneage, the antique and from the middle-ages into the future, travel with them through the Orient, Wild West, (Town-) Jungle and even on their holidays. Beneath the German, English and Italian version of the famous titel-track"Viva la Felicita" , many more unreleased tracks are the special attraction on this unique record for fans and young-at-hearts."=20 O.S.T.: Signor Rossi LP (CDHW ? LP) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Henry M.usic TV Date: 07 Mar 1999 23:04:50 -0500 "A Shot In The Dark" (1964) AMC - Monday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am (eastern time, late show is supposedly in letterbox format). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Instrument/questions Date: 14 Mar 1999 21:01:36 -0800 >>What is a Vibra-slap? and where can I hear one? >They say: "It has appeared in more recordings, soundtracks and >advertisements than any sound effect ever made." > >Stout words. It's in every suspenseful scene shot in a warehouse where the protagonist is hiding behind boxes and the bad guys are just around the corner. Interchangeable with "claves" [CLAW-vays]. Those are the two fat, wooden sticks that are struck together with increasing frequency: TINK.....TINK....TINK...TINK...TINK..TINK-TINK-TNK-TNK-TK-TK-T-T-T-T-TTTTTTT T.... C. "Ratso" Russo http://russo.onza.net/home.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) Orig. rec. date for Voodoo Dreams (Lex Baxter) Date: 07 Mar 1999 22:23:25 -0700 So, I've been totally geeking out again. My fave exotica track is Denny's version of Voodoo Dreams. Both Denny and Lyman recorded this song in '58 (according to the liner notes), both using a very similar arrangement with vocals/chants. I just got the Les Baxter "Exotic Moods" comp, it says that Voodoo Dreams was recorded in Feb. '59 for the Jungle Jazz album. This version has no vocals. The strange thing is that the Denny/Lyman version actually sounds much closer to Baxter's "Simba" recorded for '55's "Tamboo" Can anyone enlighten the confusion on this one. Does "Voodoo Dreams" date from an earlier time? I'm sure someone out there knows the answer... As always, much abliged! Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) budget label audacity Date: 08 Mar 1999 01:57:58 -0500 At 1:02 PM -0800 3/7/99, B. Yost wrote: >>"Zounds ! What Sounds!! in Stereo. >What is most stunning is the direct theft of the title. Weren't these >things copywrighted? I could understand a title that cleverly referred >to another, but taking the exact words is low even for a budget label. You can't copyright a title under U.S. copyright laws br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Harpists Date: 08 Mar 1999 12:24:51 GMT > More harpists; Jazz, Pop and beyond > > Daphne Hellman Quintet with Mundell Lowe-Guitar > I think it's on Harmony, BUT it's not a reissue/2nd pressing from Columbia > It's the original label. Great rekkit, great cover > Fondle, where are ya ? > > Corky Hale on GNP > > Gene Bianco's 2 records on RCA Camden has at least 1 good track for each > LP, also featuring Mundell Lowe-Electric Guitar. > > Janet Putnam played in The Jazz Modes on the Dawn label, mid to late 50's > > Who's the lady on that Surfmen-Exotic Island LP on Somerset ? > > Mimi Allen on Mercury has some good licks > > Am I missing anyone ? Lloyd Lindroth: "Harpist Bazaar". On WRC in the UK, must be an American original out there. Liner notes say that Liberace said that if he played the harp he would want to play like Lindroth, also mentions big light show and show finale of faster and faster playing, leading to an exploding harp. No overdubs or gimmickry; pretty impressive (but not fantastic as music). Tunes like "Tequila", "A Walk in the Black Forest", "Up Up And Away". Band with cordovox, bass and drums, I think. Also, I have an RCA Bianco record which was apparently exclusive to the members of RCA's record club, but I can't remember the title. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) shalimar - the movie Date: 08 Mar 1999 15:01:40 +0000 > > From: "Brian Karasick" > > Subject: (exotica) Indian Exotica > > Speaking of great exotica Indian music, I stumbled across 3 extracts > > from an 1978 Indian film called "Shalimar" by Anand Bakshi on that > > very incredible but very expensive Karminsky project "Further In- > > Flight Entertainment". Credited to Usha Uthap, they're the best > > pieces on an already outstanding compilation! Anyone ever seen a > > recording of this soundtrack or even a copy of the film? A lot of > > Indian film music tends to be cassette only but I'm not fussy. > > Any help appreciated! My facts: 1) the Karminsky compilations were really seminal to me in the discover and appreciation of the exotica music; 2) I taped the "Inflight" comps to a friend of mine, who was going to India for a trip with his family; 3) when he came back, he told me that they loved the tape and that his 2 year old baby boy became obsessed with Usha Ulthup's "One Two Cha Cha Cha", and they all kept singing it all the trip through; 4) they loved it so much they even bought there the video of the movie, which we saw at my house at their return. It's really amazing, just as cheesy as you'd like it to be! 5) Now, every time I see the baby, I ask him (in italian, he's not that smart to already speak english!): "what do you say if I say One Two"? Answer always is an enthusiast "Cha Cha Cha"! 6) To end my ranting, I will be pleasured to provide Brian and everyone else who might be interested a copy of the video. Problem is that my friend is back in India at the moment, and he will be back in a couple of months. But please, do register now! Ciao Gionni Paludi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Fantastica Date: 08 Mar 1999 09:17:29 EST The show is great. I'd love to hear more. Even the streamed sound quality seems superior to Realaudio. Please keep them comming. -Roy Transmission ends......................................... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) shalimar - the movie Date: 08 Mar 1999 14:49:04 +0000 And you should see the fold-out mega-gatefold childrens-book-style cover to the soundtrack. Very colourful and very Asian-camp. There is another track from the soundtrack worthy of note. I do not know what its called but its psychedelic, with double speed wailing guitar over tabla drums and moogy rocky sounds. It was also featured on another bootleg compilation. All in all a cool soundtrack. Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Henry M.usic TV -- Caution! Date: 08 Mar 1999 11:16:17 -0500 >"A Shot In The Dark" (1964) AMC - Monday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am (eastern >time, late show is supposedly in letterbox format). Now it seems that the times might instead be 6:15pm and 11:45pm. Feh! m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Eddie Dean, Richard Kiley obits Date: 08 Mar 1999 11:33:31 -0600 *Eddie Dean NEWHALL, Calif. (AP) -- Actor Eddie Dean, a singing cowboy known in Western films from the 1930s and 1940s, died Thursday at age 91. Dean, whose real name was Edgar Gloslup, came to Hollywood in 1936 after performing on radio shows in the Midwest. He starred in ABC's ``The Marshal of Gunsight Pass,'' which ran for six months in 1950. He appeared in many Western movies, including ``Shadow Valley,'' ``Prairie Outlaws,'' and ``Tumbleweed Trail.'' http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B33419 http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?USR=10:56:07|AM&p=avg&sql=B87284 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Dean,+Eddie *Richard Kiley NEW YORK (AP) -- Richard Kiley, who was Broadway's original ``Man of La Mancha'' and had countless other roles on TV, in movies and on the stage, died Friday at 76. Kiley was a strong-voiced baritone who became of one of Broadway's stalwart leading men in musicals and dramas of the 1950s and '60s. Kiley had his biggest success singing ``The Impossible Dream'' in ``La Mancha.'' He won a Tony Award for his role as Don Quixote in the musical, which opened in 1965 and ran for more than five years. The actor also won a Tony for his performance in ``Redhead,'' a Victorian murder-mystery musical. On television, Kiley appeared in ``The Thorn Birds,'' one of the most successful miniseries of all time, and won an Emmy Award for playing an Australian sheep farmer. He also won Emmys for the TV series ``A Year in the Life,'' which lasted only a year on NBC, and for ``Picket Fences.'' Among the movies in which he appeared were ``The Blackboard Jungle,'' ``The Little Prince,'' ``Looking for Mr. Goodbar,'' ``Endless Love'' and ``Patch Adams.'' http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?USR=11:02:18|AM&p=avg&sql=B38112 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kiley,+Richard unconfirmed: Blues guitarist and singer Lowell Fulson, composer of "Reconsider Baby" and many other blues classics, died this morning (March 7). http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B344 Death anniversaries for the week of 8 March - 14 March: Monday, 8 March 1997 - Alexander Salkind; producer, "Superman" movie Tuesday, 9 March 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe; photographer 1988 - Andy Gibb; pop singer 1996 - George Burns; comedian Wednesday, 10 March 1998 - Lloyd Bridges; actor Friday, 12 March 1989 - Maurice Evans; actor, "Bewitched", "Planet of the Apes" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Del Close obits Date: 08 Mar 1999 11:33:32 -0600 *Del Close CHICAGO (AP) -- Del Close, an icon in the world of improvisational theatre who inspired generations of Chicago comedians, died Thursday from complications due to emphysema. He was 64. Close was a veteran of the Second City comedy troupe and, with Charna Halpern, he co-founded Chicago's Improv Olympic comedy club. ``Del was ... the single most powerful force in improv comedy in America,'' writer and director Harold Ramis said. ``He's the intellectual and moral standard that guides us all in our work. He taught everybody the process.'' CHICAGO, March 4 (UPI) -- Del Close, a Chicago comedy legend whose career spanned five decades and included such standards as the Compass Players and The Second City, has died at 64. Close had been suffering from emphysema and was surrounded by family and friends when he died Thursday night at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. Along with fellow Second City alums Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Close performed with the West Compass Players in St. Louis from 1956 until coming to Chicago to join Second City founder Bernard Sahlins in the early 1960s. Close served as resident director of Second City from 1972 to 1981, and directed his last program for the troupe in 1988 before setting out with Charna Halpern to form ImprovOlympic, a Chicago-based group specializing in improvisational comedy. Second City Chicago producer Kelly Leonard called Close ``a brilliant but dark and sinister force whose influence stretched across all brands of comedy.'' Close was also involved with the television program ``SCTV,'' which featured various alumni from Second City troupes in Chicago and Toronto. Ironically, his death came five years to the day after SCTV co-star and fellow Second City alumnus John Candy died at 43 while filming a movie in Mexico. There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements. http://chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,1051,ART-24540,00.html http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B224903 http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?USR=11:21:00|AM&p=avg&sql=B13724 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Close,+Del 'In death, he may get the last laugh. In one of his final acts, Close willed his skull to Chicago's Goodman Theatre. He will play Yorick in its next production of "Hamlet."' Another of Del's last requests was that his wake be held prior to his death, which it was. Many of his closest Second City friends were there, including Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, and the whole thing was taped by Comedy Central for future airing. from rec.arts.comics.misc: To those of us in the comics community, Del is best known as the co-writer (with John Ostrander) of WASTELAND, one of the more progressive mainstream comics ever published (alternating horror, humor and amazingly candid autobiography; WASTELAND was arguably a forerunner of Dennis Eichhorn's REAL STUFF, well-written autobiography by someone who lived a life worth reading about). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: (exotica) commercial use of music Date: 08 Mar 1999 08:38:03 -0800 To continue an earlier thread (re: DJ Dmitri from Paris's tune, itself a construction of other music, being used in a Volvo ad.), anyone hear/see the television ad for Mastercard featuring J.J. Perrey's "E.V.A.?" Pretty creepy. I'm plum sick of being a marketing target. It didn't used to be this way. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Brian Auger question Date: 08 Mar 1999 15:03:31 +0100 I have this Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger "Pop History Vol. 26" greatest hits LP, which is not great, BUT contains an absolute killer instrumental version of the Beatles' "A day in the life". in the latest record Collector, i read that several of Auger's albums are to be reissued on cd, and i wondered if any of those can be recommended, knowing that i like the kind of sound & production as in "A day in the life". Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" Subject: (exotica) Merda in Atlanta Date: 08 Mar 1999 14:31:15 -0500 This is a bit off topic, but I just had to say that ** big ** scores are still possible in large cities. I was antiquing in Atlanta this past weekend and found buried in a stack of old records a beauuuutiful copy of Black Merda's S/T album on Chess (LPS-1551, 1970). Price paid...$1.25. Keep on steppin' folks, the deals ** are ** out there! bryan c. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bryan J. Cuevas Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Merda in Atlanta Date: 08 Mar 1999 14:30:41 EST In a message dated 3/8/99 3:28:32 PM, bjc8f@server3.mail.virginia.edu wrote: >Black Merda WOW! I thought he only did one single. He is the hands down winner of the Jimi Hendrix sound-alike contest. Excellent find Bryan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Boe Subject: RE: (exotica) commercial use of music Date: 08 Mar 1999 13:54:32 -0800 I heard that, but wasn't it Soul City? -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 8:38 AM To continue an earlier thread (re: DJ Dmitri from Paris's tune, itself a construction of other music, being used in a Volvo ad.), anyone hear/see the television ad for Mastercard featuring J.J. Perrey's "E.V.A.?" Pretty creepy. I'm plum sick of being a marketing target. It didn't used to be this way. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: RE: (exotica) commercial use of music Date: 08 Mar 1999 11:57:22 -0800 Mebbe so - I didn't specifically check the song - but it was definitely JJP from "Moog Indigo" Clark At 01:54 PM 3/8/1999 -0800, Chris Boe wrote: >I heard that, but wasn't it Soul City? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Showbiz, don't ya love it Date: 08 Mar 1999 15:42:41 -0600 At 11:05 PM 3/6/99 -0500, you wrote: >Fort Lupton, Colorado (Robert Weller, Associated Press) > They don't take requests at this after-hours club, and there's >definitely no karaoke. > The DJ is a police officer, and he's ready to bounce anyone who dances >or talks. > Municipal Judge Paul Sacco requires people convicted of violating the >city's noise ordinance to listen to music they don't like. The playlist for the most recent music punishment session: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Moonlight Sonata and Fuer Elise. Wayne Newton, ``Danke Schoen'' Wayne Newton, ``Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home'' Disney's ``This Old Man'' Judge Paul Sacco, ``Sleepin in My Car'' Trevor Jones, ``Theme from `The Last of the Mohicans''' Dean Martin, ``One Cup of Happiness'' Dean Martin, ``It's Cryin' Time'' Tony Orlando and Dawn, ``Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree'' Hugo Montenegro, ``Theme from `The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''' Jerry Vail, ``Volare.'' Henry Mancini, ``Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet'' John Denver, ``Sunshine on My Shoulders'' Indian flute instrumental Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, ``Happy Trails to You'' Roger Whitaker, ``I'm Going to Leave Old Durham Town'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) no comment Date: 08 Mar 1999 16:56:22 -0600 Forbes magazine's list of the highest-earning celebrities worldwide: 1. Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, producer, $267 million 2. Larry David, writer, director, $242 million 3. Steven Spielberg, director, producer, $175 million 4. Oprah Winfrey, TV show host, actress, producer, $125 million 5. James Cameron, director, $115 million 6. Tim Allen, actor, $77 million 7. Michael Jordan, basketball player, $69 million 8. Michael Crichton, writer, director $65 million 9. Harrison Ford, actor, $58 million 10. Rolling Stones, rock group, $57 million 11. Master P., music producer, $56.5 million 12. Robin Williams, actor, $56 million 13. Celine Dion, singer, $55.5 million 14. Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer, $55 million 15. Garth Brooks, singer, $54 million 16. Sean ``Puffy'' Combs, music producer, $53.5 million 17. Greg Daniels, writer, director, $53 million 18. Mike Judge, writer, director, $53 million 19. Chris Carter, writer, director, producer, $52 million 20. David Copperfield, illusionist $49.5 million 21. Spice Girls, singers, $49 million 22. Paul Reiser, actor, writer, director, $48 million 23. Eddie Murphy, actor, $47.5 million 24. John Travolta, actor, $47 million 25. Drew Carey, actor, $45.5 million 26. Bonnie and Terry Turner, writer, director, $45 million 27. Tom Hanks, actor, director, producer, $44 million 28. Danny Jacobson, writer, director, $42 million 29. Kevin Costner, actor, director, producer, $41 million 30. Bright/Kauffman/Crane, TV producers, $40.5 million 31. Brad Pitt, actor, $40 million 32. Stephen King, writer, director, $40 million 33. Nicolas Cage, actor, $38 million 34. Bruce Helford, writer, director, $38 million 35. Michael Schumacher, race car driver, $38 million 36. Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, $37 million 37. John Wells, writer, director, $35 million 38. Will Smith, singer, actor, $34 million 39. Jim Carrey, actor, $32.5 million 40. Metallica, rock group, $32 million 41. Helen Hunt, actress, $31 million 42. Dave Matthews Band, music group, $30 million 43. Sergei Fedorov, hockey player, $29.8 million 44. Tiger Woods, golfer, $26.8 million 45. Brian Grazer, writer, director, $26 million 46. Dale Earnhardt, race car driver $24.1 million 47. Jerry Bruckheimer, director, producer, $22 million 48. Grant Hill, basketball player, $21.6 million 49. Howard Stern, TV and radio host, $20 million 50. Oscar de la Hoya, boxer, $18.5 million # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Re: Vibra-Slap Date: 08 Mar 1999 23:29:42 -0000 Jack wrote: > It is a hand held percussive instrument that is held straight > up and has a FLAT polished piece of wood, much like a > large paddle, with a handle that you hold. [snip] A great description Jack! And would you believe it's actually a technological take on one of the world's oldest instruments - the jaw bone of some sort of horse/cow/goat creature (I can't remember which!). If you imagine the metal pins which jiggle about inside the wooden box as teeth you'll get the idea. Personally, I think I prefer the sound of a vibra-slap... Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Vibra-Slap Date: 08 Mar 1999 15:42:24 -0800 Yeah, I was putting the handle in my ass, and got no sound, but I think I'm getting it now. Clark > It is a hand held percussive instrument that is held straight > up and has a FLAT polished piece of wood, much like a > large paddle, with a handle that you hold. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Vibra-Slap dat ass Date: 08 Mar 1999 19:29:43 -0500 Nice one! now how does that "scratcher" work? >Yeah, I was putting the handle in my ass, and got no sound, but I think I'm >getting it now. > >Clark > >> It is a hand held percussive instrument that is held straight >> up and has a FLAT polished piece of wood, much like a >> large paddle, with a handle that you hold. ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) no comment Date: 09 Mar 1999 02:05:28 +0100 >Forbes magazine's list of the highest-earning celebrities worldwide:=20 > 1. Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, producer, $267 million =20 > 2. Larry David, writer, director, $242 million =20 > 3. Steven Spielberg, director, producer, $175 million =20 > 4. Oprah Winfrey, TV show host, actress, producer, $125 million =20 > 5. James Cameron, director, $115 million =20 > 6. Tim Allen, actor, $77 million =20 > 7. Michael Jordan, basketball player, $69 million =20 > 8. Michael Crichton, writer, director $65 million =20 > 9. Harrison Ford, actor, $58 million =20 > 10. Rolling Stones, rock group, $57 million =20 > 11. Master P., music producer, $56.5 million =20 > 12. Robin Williams, actor, $56 million =20 > 13. Celine Dion, singer, $55.5 million =20 > 14. Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer, $55 million =20 > 15. Garth Brooks, singer, $54 million =20 > 16. Sean ``Puffy'' Combs, music producer, $53.5 million =20 > 17. Greg Daniels, writer, director, $53 million =20 > 18. Mike Judge, writer, director, $53 million =20 > 19. Chris Carter, writer, director, producer, $52 million =20 > 20. David Copperfield, illusionist $49.5 million =20 > 21. Spice Girls, singers, $49 million =20 > 22. Paul Reiser, actor, writer, director, $48 million =20 > 23. Eddie Murphy, actor, $47.5 million =20 > 24. John Travolta, actor, $47 million =20 > 25. Drew Carey, actor, $45.5 million =20 > 26. Bonnie and Terry Turner, writer, director, $45 million =20 > 27. Tom Hanks, actor, director, producer, $44 million =20 > 28. Danny Jacobson, writer, director, $42 million =20 > 29. Kevin Costner, actor, director, producer, $41 million =20 > 30. Bright/Kauffman/Crane, TV producers, $40.5 million =20 > 31. Brad Pitt, actor, $40 million =20 > 32. Stephen King, writer, director, $40 million =20 > 33. Nicolas Cage, actor, $38 million =20 > 34. Bruce Helford, writer, director, $38 million =20 > 35. Michael Schumacher, race car driver, $38 million =20 > 36. Leonardo DiCaprio, actor, $37 million =20 > 37. John Wells, writer, director, $35 million =20 > 38. Will Smith, singer, actor, $34 million =20 > 39. Jim Carrey, actor, $32.5 million =20 > 40. Metallica, rock group, $32 million =20 > 41. Helen Hunt, actress, $31 million =20 > 42. Dave Matthews Band, music group, $30 million =20 > 43. Sergei Fedorov, hockey player, $29.8 million =20 > 44. Tiger Woods, golfer, $26.8 million =20 > 45. Brian Grazer, writer, director, $26 million =20 > 46. Dale Earnhardt, race car driver $24.1 million =20 > 47. Jerry Bruckheimer, director, producer, $22 million =20 > 48. Grant Hill, basketball player, $21.6 million =20 > 49. Howard Stern, TV and radio host, $20 million =20 > 50. Oscar de la Hoya, boxer, $18.5 million =20 I would trade them all for a drink at Kahiki. Magnus, thirsty. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Zound! What Sounds!! Date: 08 Mar 1999 17:40:57 -0800 What is most stunning is the direct theft of the title. Weren't these things copywrighted? I could understand a title that cleverly referred to another, but taking the exact words is low even for a budget label. - -- Brad I think that that wacky harmonica trio/qrt, whatever, came up with the title before Capitol did. I'm not sure if that Harp LP was ever released in Stereo, might have been, but the Capitol LP was well into the 60's with its release and that harp LP, was before it. JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: (exotica) commercial use of music Date: 08 Mar 1999 21:16:48 -0500 >To continue an earlier thread (re: DJ Dmitri from Paris's tune, itself a >construction of other music, being used in a Volvo ad.), anyone hear/see >the television ad for Mastercard featuring J.J. Perrey's "E.V.A.?" Pretty >creepy. I think it's the Fatboy Slim mix. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Zound! What Sounds!! Date: 09 Mar 1999 03:44:33 +0100 I must add that the Zounds! what sounds by the Polyphonics is a great = record, its not at all "dullsville! But then again, my taste seem to be = differ with others... I just wanted to speak in favour of it so the = balance is correct again. Brad almost killed it. Magnus >> >> No such luck. It's just another one of those attempts by a budget label (Seeco records) to cash in on a trend. The cover has a cool, zany appearance, but the music is dullsville and even sounds like one of those records that had existed for many years and just got re-released as a public domain item with a new name. >> >> > >What is most stunning is the direct theft of the title. Weren't these >things copywrighted? I could understand a title that cleverly referred >to another, but taking the exact words is low even for a budget label. > >- -- Brad > >I think that that wacky harmonica trio/qrt, whatever, came up with the >title before Capitol did. >I'm not sure if that Harp LP was ever released in Stereo, might have = been, >but the Capitol LP was well into the 60's with its release and that = harp >LP, was before it. >JD > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James G Subject: (exotica) Harps & Slaps Date: 08 Mar 1999 18:55:31 -0800 1. Harpo could make time stand still when he played the harp. "Harpo In Hi-Fi" has some classy Fred Katz orchestral arrangements of standards like Autumn Leaves, My Funny Valentine and That's All, but nothing exotic except for a little bit of whistling on a few cuts, as Harpo did often in the movies. I've said it before, but watch for the "I Love Lucy" where he plays a mesmerizing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." 2. Dorothy Ashby's "The Jazz Harpist" is straight-ahead jazz, nothing fancy, but she goes well with Frank Wess's flute. 3. Alice Coltrane is indeed the exotic harpist, espec when backed by oud or tamboura drone on parts of her Impulse records. She also has a few minutes perfectly named "Celestialness" in Roland Kirk's wild "Expansions" suite on the recently reissued "Left and Right" , part of a 4 CD package on 32 Jazz records. There is an unusual harp and harmonica tune on one of the other CD's in that set, Kirk on harmonica and Gloria Agostini on standard harp. 4. First place I ever saw a vibraslap listed was on the Dead's brain-frying "Anthem of the Sun", which also had prepared piano. Jerry plays vibraslap in that wild little percussion section that also features claves, guiro, the two drummers and lots of ping-ponging before the boys launch into the blood-curdling but gorgeous Alligator/Caution/Feedback" jam, which I saw them do live a few times. And the gongs, those goddam gongs !!! JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Love that LOVE MACHINE! Date: 08 Mar 1999 10:35:17 -0500 Hello> The Love Machine soundtrack ,if I remember well, is pretty much an avarage lounge record. Nothing too thrilling. Not too hard to find either. Not worth more than 5-6$ US. I may have it in my store.... Denis Well, Denis Darling(The winner of "The Only Person Who Replied to My Stress Call" award) et. al., I am happy to report I scored that score this weekend, and baby, one man's "average lounge" record is another gal's NOW SOUND! I sink it's a SWINGING soundtrack, with some little known Bacharach/David pieces and some N-O-W S*O*U*N*D party-scene-instros.. Of course, I didn't pay more than 5-6, so I am ok there. Oh, and for those of you whom think John Phillip Law (Danger Diabolik, Barbarella) is hots-ville, his beautifully painted bust is on the album! Just my (non) cents! Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick obits Date: 08 Mar 1999 11:46:53 -0600 HERTFORDSHIRE, England, March 7 (UPI) -- Film director Stanley Kubrick, whose films have intrigued, shocked and mesmerized audiences for four decades, has died at his home in Hertfordshire, England, near London. He was 70.=20 Known for innovative and influential films such as ``A Clockwork Orange,'' ``Spartacus,'' ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' and ``Full Metal Jacket,'' Kubrick was preparing for the release of ``Eyes Wide Shut,'' starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, in July.=20 A spokeswoman said: ``The family of Stanley Kubrick regret to announce that Stanley Kubrick died in the early hours of this morning. There will be no further comment at this time.''=20 Kubrick was enigmatic and notoriously reclusive, and sometimes ordered his casts and crews to keep the details of his films secret. The official Web page for ``Eyes Wide Shut'' contains only the title and the release date. Rumors abound about Kubrick's new film, but a few details have emerged: Cruise and Kidman play married psychologists who have bizarre secret lives and affairs.=20 Kubrick's films have often been controversial -- his adaptation of author Anthony Burgess's ``A Clockwork Orange'' spares no details in its portrayal of an ultra-violent British youth gang. Likewise, his contribution to the horror genre, 1980's ``The Shining,'' based on Stephen King's novel, and his 1987 Vietnam War study ``Full Metal Jacket'' also give full attention to the grotesque side of human nature.=20 But Kubrick, a demanding and rigorous director, could also craft scenes of stunning beauty. ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' which won Oscars in 1969 for best special visual effects, set the visual standard for science fiction films. Its graceful depictions of spaceflight still look authentic even by the standards of current high-tech special effects.=20 He was born in New York on July 26, 1928 and throughout his childhood earned a reputation for being smarter than his grades in school indicated. His father Jack sent him to Pasadena, Calif., to live with an uncle in 1940, but it didn't help, and Kubrick came back to the Bronx a year later.=20 Soon after, Jack gave Stanley a camera for his birthday, and by age 17 he had taken a job as an apprentice photographer at Look Magazine. Kubrick leaped into the film industry in 1950, using his life savings to make the boxing documentary ``Day of the Fight.''=20 He was commissioned to shoot two documentaries, ``Flying Padre'' in 1951 and ``The Seafarers'' in 1952 and his major break came three years later with Fear and Desire, which he wrote, photographed and financed with $13,000 borrowed from relatives.=20 He formed a production company to make ``The Killing,'' a crime drama, which brought him to the notice of the critics, and followed it in 1957 with the controversial and powerful film, ``Paths of Glory,'' an indictment of military hypocrisy.=20 Kubrick's next film, Spartacus, was an 187-minute Roman saga and was hailed by critics upon its release in 1960. Its battle spectacles are famous, but it had more intellectual substance than many of the epics Hollywood was famous for. He followed it with an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's= ``Lolita.''=20 ``Dr. Strangelove,'' Kubrick's 1965 black-and-white Cold War black comedy, got him his first Oscar nominations for best director, best picture and best adapted screenplay. The film is a classic satire, and its key scene of actor Slim Pickens riding a bomb as it drops to earth is one of Hollywood's most famous on-screen moments.=20 Kubrick also received best director, best picture and best adapted screenplay nods for ``A Clockwork Orange'' and the 1976 period piece ``Barry Lyndon,'' about an 18th century Irish rogue-hero who takes up gambling as a career but eventually marries the widow of a wealthy knight and lets his newfound society life go to his head.=20 Kubrick's other Oscar nominations included best director for ``2001'' and one for the adapted screenplay for ``Full Metal Jacket.''=20 British director Michael Winner told the British Broadcasting Corp. today that he was shocked to learn of Kubrick's death. ``I will miss him terribly,'' he said. Winner said he had planned to phone Kubrick on Monday to offer him a lifetime award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.=20 In 1997, Kubrick received the D.W. Griffith award, the highest honor bestowed by the Directors Guild of America.=20 He joined in 1990 with directors Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack and George Lucas in forming the Film Foundation, an organization meant to promote the restoration and preservation of films.=20 Kubrick began filming ``Eyes Wide Shut'' in November 1996. In February 1998, Variety reported that he had finished shooting all the scenes, but by the end of the year the film still wasn't ready for release.=20 Another of Kubrick's announced films, ``Artificial Intelligence'' or AI, said by critics to be one of the most technically challenging and innovative special effects films yet attempted, is still being developed. There was no word today on its fate.=20 *Stanley Kubrick =09 LONDON (AP) -- Stanley Kubrick, a visionary craftsman whose films-- including ``Dr. Strangelove,'' ``A Clockwork Orange'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' -- often reflected a violent and despairing view of life, died Sunday. He was 70.=20 Police were summoned Sunday to Kubrick's rural estate in Herfordshire, 25 miles northwest of London, and certified his death. ``There are no suspicious circumstances,'' police said.=20 At the time of his death, the publicity-shy Kubrick was preparing for the midyear release of ``Eyes Wide Shut,'' his first film in 12 years. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the film had been shrouded in the secrecy that attended all of Kubrick's later movies.=20 Over a career spanning four decades, Kubrick worked infrequently but often brilliantly, and was regarded as a maverick talent -- to some, a genius.=20 ``Stanley Kubrick was the grandmaster of filmmaking. He copied no one, while all of us were scrambling to imitate him,'' director Steven Spielberg said in a statement released by his office.=20 Kubrick was a fierce perfectionist who wouldn't do one take if he could do a hundred.=20 Kubrick chronicled the effects of war in ``Fear and Desire'' (1953) and ``Paths of Glory'' (1957); the suicidal logic of the Cold War in the blackly comic ``Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964); and sexual obsession in ``Lolita'' (1962).=20 ``2001: A Space Odyssey,'' with its dazzling visual imagery and inspired use of music, was a great success, and Kubrick got the second of his four Academy Award nominations for best director. The other nominations were for ``Dr. Strangelove,'' ``Barry Lyndon,'' and ``A Clockwork Orange,'' which unlike ``2001'' were also nominated for best picture.=20 ``A Clockwork Orange,'' set in a violent future, was one of Kubrick's most provocative films and was disparaged by Anthony Burgess, whose novel was the basis of the film. Burgess accused Kubrick of turning his novelistic study of free will into an orgy of violence.=20 March 8, 1999 Stanley Kubrick, Film Director With a Bleak Vision, Dies at 70 http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-kubrick.html By STEPHEN HOLDEN, NYTimes Stanley Kubrick, the famously reclusive director of such classic films as "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A Clockwork Orange," died Sunday at his home in England, his family said. He was 70.=20 The police were summoned to Kubrick's rural home in Hertfordshire, north of London, Sunday afternoon, when he was pronounced dead.=20 "There are no suspicious circumstances," a police spokesman said. Kubrick's family announced his death and said there would be no further comment.=20 One of the few American directors who had the prestige to make big-budget movies while working outside the Hollywood mainstream, Kubrick directed coldly brilliant films that explored humanity's baser instincts with great visual flair and often savage wit. Although those films won eight Academy Awards, none were for best director.=20 That may be because his subjects were often dark. The comic satire "Dr. Strangelove," made at the height of the cold war, portrayed the military as a collection of incompetent, jingoistic yahoos itching for an chance to unleash nuclear devastation.=20 The film was a harsher and much funnier version of the same vision of military pathology and hypocrisy found in "Paths of Glory," the movie that brought him to prominence in 1957, and that was reiterated 30 years later in "Full Metal Jacket."=20 Kubrick's sarcasm and ironic humor flared memorably in "Dr. Strangelove" in the juxtaposition of Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again" against images of nuclear catastrophe. It was also evident in "The Blue Danube Waltz" accompanying a space-docking sequence in "2001" and in a scene of Malcolm McDowell jauntily crowing "Singin' in the Rain" while delivering a brutal beating in "A Clockwork Orange." That film's savagery was so pointed that some critics complained that the movie glorified violence.=20 Kubrick withdrew the film from distribution in Britain after it was said to have inspired copycat crimes. But if Kubrick's misanthropy prompted some critics to accuse him of coldness and inhumanity, others saw his pessimism as an uncompromisingly Swiftian vision of human absurdity.=20 Kubrick's chilly outlook coincided with his reputation for being an extreme perfectionist who insisted on control over every aspect of his films, from casting and screenwriting to editing, lighting and music. It often took him many months and sometimes years to complete a film. He was known to film up to 100 takes of a scene.=20 Increasingly reclusive, he announced in 1974 that he was settling permanently in England. Refusing to give interviews, he withdrew so completely that an Englishman impersonated him for several months before being discovered.=20 KUBRICK'S FILMS =20 This is a list of Stanley Kubrick's films. The first three are documentary shorts.=20 Day of the Fight (1951)=20 Flying Padre (1951)=20 The Seafarers (1953)=20 Fear and Desire (1953)=20 Killer's Kiss (1955)=20 The Killing (1956)=20 Paths of Glory (1957)=20 Spartacus (1960)=20 Lolita (1962)=20 Dr. Strangelove (1964)=20 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)=20 A Clockwork Orange (1971)=20 Barry Lyndon (1975)=20 The Shining (1980)=20 Full Metal Jacket (1987)=20 Eyes Wide Shut (To be released this summer)=20 ---------------------- Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26, 1928, in the Bronx. As a child he was encouraged by his father, a doctor, to take up still photography, and when he was 17 he was hired as a staff photographer by Look magazine, which had been impressed by a picture he had snapped the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.=20 While working at Look he attended film screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and later said that seeing so many bad films gave him the confidence to do better.=20 "I was aware that I didn't know anything about making films, but I believed I couldn't make them any worse than the majority of films I was seeing," Kubrick once said. "Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie."=20 In 1950 he quit his job at Look to make his first film, "Day of the Fight," a 16-minute documentary, which he sold to RKO-Path=E9.=20 He completed two more documentary shorts before making his feature debut in 1953 with "Fear and Desire," a low-budget film that was financed with family money, and that he wrote, directed, photographed and edited.=20 After making a second feature, "Killer's Kiss," he formed a production company in 1954 with a producer, James B. Harris, and made "The Killing," a drama about a racetrack heist starring Sterling Hayden.=20 Kubrick's fourth full-length film, "Paths of Glory," established him as one of the most promising postwar American filmmakers. The World War I drama, starring Kirk Douglas, was a devastating indictment of military duplicity that still stands as one of the most powerful antiwar movies.=20 He made "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory" for a percentage of the profits, and both received critical acclaim while faring indifferently at the box office.=20 Two years later, in 1959, Kubrick was invited to replace Anthony Mann, the director of the high-budget Roman epic "Spartacus," which starred Douglas as the leader of a slave rebellion against the Roman state. The film, released in 1960, was noticeably more intelligent than most Roman spectacles of the era and was an enormous box-office success.=20 Soon after, Kubrick moved to England, where he hoped to maintain greater creative control of his films than he could in Hollywood.=20 But he soon returned to the United States to scout locations for "Lolita," an adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov novel in which James Mason played Humbert Humbert, the middle-aged lover of the pubescent Lolita (Sue Lyon).=20 The director's taste for the controversial and bizarre sharpened with the nightmarish comic satire "Dr. Strangelove" (subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"), which imagined nuclear Armageddon as a macabre joke. More than any other film "Dr. Strangelove" established Kubrick's reputation for coldness.=20 The successes of "Spartacus," "Lolita" and "Dr. Strangelove" gave Kubrick the rare freedom to choose his subjects and to control his projects. For the next several years, he worked on the science fiction epic "2001" (1968), which he wrote with Arthur C. Clarke. Its spectacular psychedelic effects earned the film a reputation as the era's quintessential "head" movie. In its visual grandeur and dazzling special effects, "2001" paved the way for George Lucas's "Star Wars" trilogy.=20 In an interview with Playboy magazine, Kubrick said that in "2001" he had "tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content . . . just as music does. . . . You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning."=20 After the spaced-out fantasies of "2001," in which the hero is reborn as an angelic child, Kubrick's pessimism reared up savagely in his adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange."=20 The work was voted the year's best in 1971 by the New York Film Critics Circle, which also named Kubrick best director. The film paints a portrait of Alex ( McDowell), a violent, homicidal thug who is sadistically brainwashed into placidity by the state, and it has no sympathetic= characters.=20 "Dr. Strangelove," "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange" were the high-water marks in a career that stumbled with "Barry Lyndon" (1975), a visually stunning but static film based on a Thackeray novel in which the director took enormous pains to evoke a lighting and imagery that would recreate an authentic 18th-century ambiance. The costly movie took 300 shooting days to complete and fared only modestly at the box office.=20 Five years later came "The Shining," an icy Gothic fable based on a Stephen King novel in which a writer (Jack Nicholson) holes up with his family in a Colorado hotel and goes mad, turning into a homicidal maniac.=20 Kubrick's next film, "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), adapted from Gustav Hasford's novel "The Short-Timers," was a grim near-horror movie about the Vietnam War.=20 Kubrick was married four times. His marriages to Toba Metz in 1948, Ruth Sobtka in 1954 and Susanne Harlan (with whom he had three daughters) in 1958 ended in divorce. He is survived by his fourth wife, Christiane, and his daughters Katharine, Anya and Vivian.=20 Kubrick had recently finished editing his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," a psychosexual thriller based on Arthur Schnitzler's "Traumnovelle" ("Dream Story") and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as psychiatrists. Filmed in Britain in an atmosphere of military secrecy, it took 15 months to shoot. The film is to be released on July 16.=20 =20 =09 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Re: Vibra-Slap Date: 08 Mar 1999 22:24:16 EST In a message dated 3/8/99 7:54:03 PM, cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU wrote: >Yeah, I was putting the handle in my ass, and got no sound, but I think I'm >getting it now. The sound may become secondary in some cases............................ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 09 Mar 1999 02:27:06 EST Did anyone in Los Angeles besides me catch R.J. Smith on the Global Music show on KPFK this morning from 11am to 12:30pm? I taped most of it.. He played alot of "exotica 101" type stuff off alot of early generic compilations... some Yma Sumac, Baxter, Denny... nothing special but what was interesting was his statements concerning lounge culture and the future of Capitol Releases, I assume he meant Ultra Lounge, since they provided alot of complimentary music for him. Contrary to what we have all been assuming Mr. Smith assured the radio listeners that Capital had plenty of new releases planned. I will have to re-listen to the tape to see if I can cull any more info than that, but at this point I am not sure if he meant more Ultra Lounge releases or if he meant re-issues of old lounge albums. Anyone out there hear this interview and can comment? I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I was at work and it was really hard to pay attention and type a report at the same time! - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) commercial Keely Date: 09 Mar 1999 02:58:43 EST Anyone catch the ad that Keely Smith did for L.A. Eyeworks? She is looking sharp in a new set of black rimmed specs that are retro reminiscent the ads can be found in Glue, OUT, Paper, and Wallpaper mags (I got the ad as a postcard and it mentions her collaboration with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) commercial Keely Date: 09 Mar 1999 06:55:42 EST In a message dated 3/9/99 3:00:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ottotemp@aol.com writes: << Anyone catch the ad that Keely Smith did for L.A. Eyeworks? She is looking sharp in a new set of black rimmed specs that are retro reminiscent >> Really??? Well I have been in negotiations with Esquivel to do some ads for me. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 09 Mar 1999 06:58:26 EST In a message dated 3/9/99 2:28:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, Micheleflp@aol.com writes: << Did anyone in Los Angeles besides me catch R.J. Smith on the Global Music show on KPFK this morning from 11am to 12:30pm? >> Doesn't this dude still owe money to someone on the List??? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 09 Mar 1999 08:10:09 EST In a message dated 3/9/99 6:59:29 AM EST, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: << << Did anyone in Los Angeles besides me catch R.J. Smith on the Global Music show on KPFK this morning from 11am to 12:30pm? >> Doesn't this dude still owe money to someone on the List??? >> I know he owes an apology to everyone on this list for rather mediocre liner notes on the Ultra Lounge series! Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) commercial Keely Date: 09 Mar 1999 08:19:32 EST In a message dated 3/9/99 3:00:09 AM EST, Ottotemp@aol.com writes: << Anyone catch the ad that Keely Smith did for L.A. Eyeworks? (I got the ad as a postcard and it mentions her collaboration with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) >> Lord help us all, save us from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mojo Workin'" Subject: (exotica) Now DIG THIS: Shoutcasting! Date: 09 Mar 1999 00:18:32 -0800 (PST) AKA Rgrandia - Email still all cattywampus. Okay! Finally! I have been in internet HELL for a few days, and between funerals and real-life business-type emergencies, I have managed to get the shoutcast thingy into shape. If you don't have it, get the latest version of Winamp at www.winamp.com and then click on the thingy below. You SHOULD hear 4, count 'em FOUR Fantastica!'s. #6, #7, #8, and #10. This is a live stream, so you get whatever is playing at the time. ONLY Winamp will work. I am searching for an (affordable) option for all you beautiful Mac people out there. Click and DIG! http://yp.shoutcast.com/cgi-bin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?addr=216.112.66.43:8000&file=f.pls No time to get my own programming together, So you lucky bahhhstids get some more FANTASTICA! Feedback much appreciated. Sorry no playlists right now. I'm too tired. Rock on with your bad selves. Ron === If encryption is a crime, then only criminals will jtry ifhmqxouhf. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 09 Mar 1999 12:21:21 EST In a message dated 03/09/99 8:11:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, LTepedino@aol.com writes: << Doesn't this dude still owe money to someone on the List??? >> I know he owes an apology to everyone on this list for rather mediocre liner notes on the Ultra Lounge series! Ashley >> Boy do I agree on that! But somebody about 2 years ago said they roomed with him or something and he skipped out without repaying a loan or something. You know me, I like to rake up the dirt every so often. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) test - sorry... Date: 09 Mar 1999 10:45:04 -0800 Concentric.net email service sucks. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Ann Corio, Stefan Hatos obits Date: 09 Mar 1999 16:53:55 -0600 *Ann Corio ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- Ann Corio, the queen of burlesque who kept the tradition alive into the age of X-rated movies, died March 1. She was believed to be in her 80's. One of the last to practice the art of striptease as a put-on, Ms. Corio said her shows emphasized comedy and didn't contain full nudity. Her two decade run of ``This Was Burlesque,'' a musical satire based on Ms. Corio's recollections, began off Broadway in 1962. Over the years, Ms. Corio served as author, director and star. In the 1980's, the show moved to the Playhouse Mall in Paramaus, where it was eventually filmed by HBO for cable television. Ms. Corio, who retired from show business about eight years ago, was always proud of the burlesque tradition. She said her shows were entertainment the whole family could watch. As she once put it, ``We do nothing you wouldn't write home about to your aunt in East Cupcake, Ohio.'' March 9, 1999 Ann Corio, Who Helped Keep Alive the Memory of Burlesque, Is Dead By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,NYTimes NEW YORK -- Ann Corio, the auburn-haired, green-eyed queen of burlesque whose long-running show, "This Was Burlesque," kept alive the art of strippers and the comedy of baggy-pants clowns in the age of the X-rated film, died on March 1 at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. Ms. Corio, a resident of Cliffside Park, N.J., kept her age a closely guarded secret, but was believed to be in her 80s. A survivor of a shapely sisterhood that included Gypsy Rose Lee, Maggie Hart and Georgia Sothern, Ms. Corio lasted long enough to reach the iconic status that enabled her to present the striptease as a put-on. "We emphasize comedy," she said one day in 1976 as she discussed her show, which began Off Broadway in 1962 and continued for at least two decades in various productions, tours and revivals with Ms. Corio as author, director, star and interlocutor. "There is no total nudity. The girls are lovely and artistic, and they're terribly, terribly pretty. "What is called burlesque today isn't that at all. Those girls aren't artists. They just take clothes off, and they don't even do that very well. Burlesque is exactly what it says it is. It's from the Italian word burlare, to satirize, to laugh. That's what we do, and we are not offensive." Those old enough to remember when strippers in burlesque houses were regarded as hot stuff could recall Ms. Corio as a reigning beauty of the East Coast wheel of burlesque houses that extended from Boston to Washington, with many a whistle-stop in between. Her fame won her roles in jungle films like "Swamp Woman" (1941) and touring stage productions like "White Cargo," in which she sashayed onstage one night in Boston, playing a native girl under a light layer of brown powder and not much more. When she declaimed, "I am Tondelayo," a Harvard undergraduate leaped from his seat and shouted, "What an actress!" Legend had it that it was said in Boston, "You can't graduate from Harvard until you've seen Ann Corio." The play had the honor of being banned in Boston, Chicago and Hoboken, N.J. Of her movies, Ms. Corio said, "Those pictures always made money, and I made a lot of money. I asked for $10,000 a week and a percentage and got it, but I didn't know they were going to shoot the movie in six days. They didn't want the movie good. They wanted it Tuesday. I was the Queen of the Quickies. Those pictures weren't released, they escaped." As burlesque faded away, Ms. Corio toured in shows like "Rain," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Once More With Feeling" until she conceived the idea of "This Was Burlesque." "We're naughty and bawdy, but never vulgar," she said. "More than half our audience are women. They love it. Even the kids respond to it. To go to a movie these days, you need a computer to figure out the ratings. The whole family can see my show." "Nudity," she added, "is an invasion of privacy on both sides of the footlights." Ms. Corio was one of 12 children of Italian immigrants from Naples who settled in Hartford, Conn., where, she said, she was once a Sunday school teacher. Her father died when she was young, and, at 16, after working as a dancer, she discovered she could earn more on the burlesque circuit. In addition to her husband, Michael P. Iannucci, she is survived by two sisters, Helen LaRue of West Hartford, Conn., and Lillian Denote of Bristol, Conn. "This Was Burlesque," billed as a musical satire based on Ms. Corio's recollections, opened at the Casino East Theater on Second Avenue and 12th Street in Manhattan and ran for 1,509 performances before it moved to the Hudson Theater on Broadway and ran for 124 more. Over the ensuing years, numerous productions played across the country from Miami to Las Vegas to San Juan. The last performance was in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1991. In a 1981 review of a revival at the Princess Theater on West 48th Street, Richard F. Shepard of The New York Times wrote: "Miss Corio, who looks radiant, does it all by the book and, whether you like the book or not, it is to her credit that she catches the flavor of the old burlesque with little attempt to ennoble or elevate it. This is close to the real thing." Ms. Corio and her third husband, Iannucci, a former linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, made millions from the show. Eventually, they leased the Playhouse on the Mall in Paramus, N.J., where, for many years, they presented legitimate productions and where "This Was Burlesque" was eventually filmed as an HBO cable attraction. Ms. Corio, who retired about eight years ago, recalled that shortly after the show first opened on Second Avenue, the police showed up. "One night we thought we were being raided, but it was only the cops arriving to escort Mike to the bank. We never had trouble with the police. And I was invited to Gracie Mansion. Mayor Wagner insisted I sit next to him for the photographers." As a result of charges that burlesque had become lewd and unsavory, it was banned in New York in 1937. Five years later, it was permitted to return, but without the use of the label and in a restricted format. A court finally lifted the ban in 1955. Nevertheless, Ms. Corio's efforts to present her show at the 1964-65 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, Queens, were rebuffed by Robert Moses, the pillar of municipal rectitude who presided over the corporation that ran the event. "You know, we're really quite mild compared to what children are exposed to on television -- topless bathing suits and all," Ms. Corio said. But the show did not go on. "There's nothing really new," she said. "It's comedy, pretty girls, bubble gum, stepping on toes, the kind of stuff you can leave your brains home for. It's burlesque." As she once put it, "We do nothing you wouldn't write home about to your aunt in East Cupcake, Ohio." http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?USR=3:25:53|PM&p=avg&sql=B15022 *Stefan Hatos LOS ANGELES (AP) -- ``Let's Make A Deal'' gameshow co-creator Stefan Hatos, a longtime radio and television writer and producer, died of a heart ailment March 2. He was 78. Hatos began his career at age 19 behind the microphones of Detroit stations WJLB and WXYZ. While doing announcing work, he wrote episodes of ``The Lone Ranger'' and ``The Green Hornet.'' Hatos then moved to New York where he wrote episodes of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and ``Inner Sanctum.'' He worked for CBS until World War II when he was commissioned in the Navy in 1942. After the war, he returned to CBS Radio in New York and Chicago. He also directed ``Lucky Strike Hit Parade'' for NBC Radio and produced ``Ladies Be Seated'' for ABC Radio. He won a Peabody Award for the ABC-TV show, ``The Adventures of Uncle Mistletoe.'' Hatos probably was best known for the gameshow ``Let's Make A Deal,'' with host Monty Hall. It debuted in 1963 and ran for 16 years in daytime and 10 years in primetime on NBC and ABC. Hatos is survived by his wife, Shirley; a daughter; a brother and a sister. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 09 Mar 1999 14:22:01 -0800 I'm really sick of these freakin' obituaries on this list. What the fuck does it have to do with exotica ? Too much crap # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Re: Dr Death Date: 09 Mar 1999 22:32:47 -0000 Jack wrote: > I'm really sick of these freakin' obituaries on this list. > What the fuck does it have to do with exotica ? > Too much crap I had a passionate rant about this a few months back but I have to say I'm kind of getting used to them now... I guess the answer is to set your mail reader to automatically trash anything from the list with "obit" in the Subject... Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for March 10, 1999 Date: 09 Mar 1999 17:36:58 -0500 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Cozy Cole & his Orchestra- I Could Have Danced All Night "Drum Beat for Dancing Feet" The Three Suns - Delicado "Twilight Memories" Enoch Light & the Light Brigade - No Rest for the Drummer Man "Big Bold & Brassy" "Sounds in Space" excerpt narrated by Ken Nordine Esquivel & his Orchestra - Music Makers "Infinity in Sound" Henry Mancini - Charade "Charade" ost Esquivel & his Orchestra - Harlem Nocturne "Infinity in Sound" Yma Sumac - Wayra (Dance of the Winds) "Voice of the Xtabay" Edmundo Ros - This Nearly was Mine "Latin Love-In" Roy Budd - I'll Remember April "Late Night Listening in Stereo" Roy Budd - Sixteen Going on Seventeen "Stereo '69" Jack Fascinato - Chinatown Bricklayer "Music from a Surplus Store" Marty Gold - Hindustan "Skin Tight" Enoch Light & the Light Brigade - When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba "Big Bold & Brassy" Marty Gold - Hawaiian War Chant "Skin Tight" The Three Suns - Moonlight Shuffle "Swingin' on a Star" Esquivel & his Orchestra - Whatchamacallit "Exploring New Sounds in Hi-Fi" The Three Suns - Anna "Twilight Memories" Thanks for reading, Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 09 Mar 1999 18:10:55 -0500 Then don't read 'em!!! what can be more exotic than death? keep 'em coming i say. plus it should make us pause and reflect on just how lucky we are to be alive and able to listen to "exotica"! For that matter, what the fuck does "bitching" have to do with exotica? >I'm really sick of these freakin' obituaries on this list. >What the fuck does it have to do with exotica ? >Too much crap ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 09 Mar 1999 19:11:47 -0500 Dear list members, I find that i remove or ignore about 75% of all messages on this list before reading, based on their subject. I skim or scan or read almost all of the obituary listings from Lou, and find that many of the dead folks have some oddly relational exotica characteristic... I congratulate Lou for spending the time and energy to differentiate between the thousands of UNexotic dead and those he lists. It is possible to be critical of the blatantly commercial and highly opinionated aspects of Jacks postings, but i almost always read and enjoy them, too, even if they tend to seem bipolar (manic). Since my primary exotica love is the early years (1890 to the 1950s) and records more exquisitely rare than most mentioned on the lists, I feel comfortable being exposed to the widely varying opinions and comments on this list. Besides, Lou never claimed to be a doctor. Thanks for letting me share, citizen kafka # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeffery Hess Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 09 Mar 1999 17:44:06 -0600 >Then don't read 'em!!! > >what can be more exotic than death? >keep 'em coming i say. Here, here!! I love those things! That Stanley Kubrick obit was very informative. Jeff ***************************************************************************** Psych-Out! Comes In Colours KDHX FM 88.1 Sunday mornings 3-6 AM (CST) Immediately following The Wayback Machine www.kdhx.org ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 09 Mar 1999 19:53:58 EST I use Lou's obits to add some flavor to my radio show. The loss of some of these characters is reflective of the loss of some of our cultural past, of which exotica is a part. As we re-invigorate our listening experience with this great music, we also get to reflect on the cultural debris and personalities that were part and parcel of the zeitgeist of exotica and its spinoffs. Jimmy Botticelli/one for Lou's obits # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Biographical and Movieological TV Date: 09 Mar 1999 20:26:57 -0500 Unless they pull another schedule change, A&E's "Biography" (8:00pm and midnight, eastern times) features: Bugsy Seigel - Wednesday night Merv Griffin - Friday night Also... Thursday morning at 6:00am, AMC shows W.C. Fields' deconstructed comedy destruction, "Never Give A Sucker An Even Break" (1941). "Omar Khayyam" (1957), with Yma Sumac in a background role throughout the movie (includes three tiny songlets, don't blink) gets another airing on AMC, Thursday afternoon at 2:00pm. The subplot of the secret society of Assassins and their stronghold on Alamout is the most intriguing part. Liz & Dick's "Cleopatra" (1963) AMC again, Saturday morning, 8:00am. Probably not wide-screen at that hour. See a NASA space-race movie directed by the unmistakable hand of Robert Altman: "Countdown" (1968). AMC, Saturday night, 6:00pm. Can't remember the music, but the movie has a definite Altman feel, which is an unusual thing to feel in this genre of movie. Finish Saturday night up with a monster-rama double feature. "Hercules Vs. The Moloch" (1963), AMC at midnight. Then Joan Crawford and a missing link in "Trog" (1970), TNT at 2:40am. All times and programs subject to change because broadcasters are fickle creatures. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 09 Mar 1999 20:53:41 -0500 Personally, I like reading Lou's obit posts. As a guy who works up to 16 hours a day, and also travels/tours a lot, I don't always get to read newspapers or spend time on line checking out the news. And I never watch TV news, except if I'm stuck in some hotel and it's the only thing on. So I say, keep 'em coming. They're informative, and always relate, in my mind, to this list in some odd sort of way (just like postings of loungecore reissues, instrumental disco, french pop, radio playlists, Arthur Lyman, Cosy Cole and ebay listings all relate). Plus, it's not like Lou is sending out huge .exe files or attachments or anything..........it's a fucking 2 second download! Freedom of Choice is what it's all about, and 'Delete' is the command that gives it to ya, baby! br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) glad for the postings Date: 09 Mar 1999 21:43:38 -0500 Here's another vote for Lou's obituary listings. I like the idea of honoring the various creative people who lived 30-40 years in the past, whose glory and claim to fame may not be recognized by the general public. Who else is going to appreciate these people? Us exotica lovers, who already have a strong interest in that era, are perhaps the best people to pause, reflect, and sincerely feel glad that the recently deceased chose to take a risk and lead a creative life. Their fame may have since diminished, but they did do something exciting enough to warrant a pat on the back 30-40 years later. I know they inspire me to try to be more creative and expressive myself. I don't recognize half the names on the obit list, but that's also fine for me. The whole artistic community from the 50's/60's wasn't just made up of the true geniuses that we've already recognized (Martin Denny, Esquivel, Yma Sumac) but many others whose talent will never be discovered by the masses, or who played some minor, but critical role in the formation of our culture. These 'lesser' unrecognized names are also a humble reminder that even though I enjoy the exotica era, I still know very little about it. Everytime I see some unknown artist obituary from that era, my sense of the richness for that era deepens....and the possibility for further exploration increases That's all Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:40:54 +0000 I enjoy reading obituaries that inform me, but I don't like reading posts containing obscenities which insult me. Hugh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 10 Mar 1999 10:05:17 +0000 While we're on the subject of obituaries, I've always wanted to ask the poster what his/her motivation is for posting them. Does (s)he have to write them him/herself or are they copied from Reuters or some other news agency. Or maybe they're copied from a newspaper? So, Lou please make a personal and public appearance on the list to solve some mysteries for us. Why do you do it? Where do you get them from? Why do you feel that we need them? Why do you put so much time and effort into telling us about the dead? Thanks in advance for selling the idea of continuous obituaries to me (and the list) Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 13:06:27 +0100 > What the fuck does it have to do with exotica ? > > I guess the answer is to set your mail reader to > automatically trash anything from the list with "obit" in the > Subject... > > it should make us pause and reflect on just how lucky we are to be > alive and able to listen to "exotica"! > > I congratulate Lou for spending the > time and energy to differentiate between the thousands of UNexotic dead > and those he lists. > > I use Lou's obits to add some flavor to my radio show. > > They're informative, and always relate, in my mind, > to this list in some odd sort of way (just like postings of loungecore > reissues, instrumental disco, french pop, radio playlists, Arthur Lyman, > Cosy Cole and ebay listings all relate) > > Us exotica lovers, who already have a strong interest in that era, are > perhaps the best people to pause, reflect, and sincerely feel glad that > the recently deceased chose to take a risk and lead a creative life. > These answers can't satisfy... Let's face it: This list has developed to an all-music list, if not general culture discussion forum. According to the definition of the Exotica list Jack is right to ask the question. On the other hand: I guess there is nobody in this list, who strictly listens to Exotica only or wants to exclude all side-information about the subjects, that come in. Consequences? We can either close this list down, or leave it, or reglement it, to make it fit to a more narrow definition, accepting, that we run out of subjects or appreciate it despite the fact that it has outgrown its original definition. I for my part stay here and keep on looking for names that I know in Lou's death lists. -Mo #Exotica mailing list frequently asked questions at: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 07:45:06 EST In a message dated 3/10/99 7:08:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << What the fuck does it have to do with exotica ? >> Now that one where the lava rock wall at Don Ho's theater fell on that dude was about as exotic as it gets! I want to see more like that! Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:01:55 -0500 >This list has developed to >an all-music list PUH-LEEEESE!!! 4 stars for the new InSync CD! its killer, and they're so cute! >Consequences? We can either close this list down, or leave it, or >reglement it, to make it fit to a more narrow definition BURN BABY BURN!!! REVOLUTION!!!!!! Just seems like healthy Evolution to me. i mean how many times can you keep talking/reading about the same things? Seems very "Duran Duran". Lets get NARROW!!! Maybe the list should be called "Fascistica"!!! "You VILL talk about Esquivel, or you see this Vibra-Slap????" >or appreciate it despite the fact that it >has outgrown its original definition. Now we're talkin'! like the US Constitution! may i rest in peace. ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:02:59 -0500 >So, Lou please make a personal and public appearance on the list to solve >some mysteries for us. Why do you do it? Where do you get them from? Why do >you feel that we need them? Why do you put so much time and effort into >telling us about the dead? NO, don't do it Lou! if you do, make sure you say so in the Subject so i can delete it. i like it the way it is, a mystery. Just out there looming. >but I don't like >reading posts containing obscenities which insult me. I really do not know what to make of this??? Are you sure you didn't mean to send this to EXXXOTICA? Holy Moly, by golly, just what the heck is so gosh darned obscene and insulting on THIS list, for petes sake? One (wo)mans Humor is another (wo)mans Insult. "Humans are such easy prey" --DR. PRETORIUS I am even boring myself now...back to the music, please. Long Live Death!!! P.S Question Mark and the Mysterians opening for The Make Up (What an EGO!) at the Black Cat in Washington DC this Saturday. Playing soon in Baltimore at Fletchers. Bump Universal DJ http://www.defectiverecords.com "yeah baby, wooooo, alright, cheah" -- Question Mark ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 10 Mar 1999 09:31:22 -0500 >> I know he owes an apology to everyone on this list for rather mediocre >> liner notes on the Ultra Lounge series! >> Ashley >Boy do I agree on that! But somebody about 2 years ago said they roomed with >him or something and he skipped out without repaying a loan or something. > >Robert Oh no, this again! That story originated with me. . . in about 1979 he was dating one of my housemates at the U of Michigan (and writing music reviews for the Michigan Daily, if you happen to have kept all your back issues). He graduated and left town forgetting to repay a loan of, oh, $20 or so from another friend of mine. As I mentioned the last time, I would hate to be held accountable for every bonehead thing *I* did when I was 20. There was another R.J. Smith story, that I think he was arrested during an FCC raid on a pirate radio ship operating off NYC? Anyone have details on that one? Now Ashley and others, about those liner notes. . . I know the UL notes are mainly fluff, and I haven't seen the Denny ones, but I thought he got off one or two interesting points about Baxter in the Capitol _Exotic Moods_ liner notes. Were there some inaccuracies in those too? --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 07:41:50 EST In a message dated 3/9/99 9:20:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, bcleve@pop.tiac.net writes: << Plus, it's not like Lou is sending out huge .exe files or attachments or anything >> Or the Happy99.exe virus laiden download . . . . Hummmmmmmm, it seem to escape me at the moment just who sent that one and I can't remember the arguement for it being an exotica related issue. I guess if my computer woulda crashed that would have been exotic. Thoughtfully, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas..... Date: 10 Mar 1999 09:38:04 -0500 Hey, just saw "Warp Back to Earth" (Box Set) on Amazon.com and was = wondering if this is worthwhile? I have Futuremusick and LOVE it. Is there much from that disc repeated on = the box set? Comments? Comments? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 10 Mar 1999 09:55:17 -0600 On Wednesday, March 10, 1999, Bump wrote: > >So, Lou please make a personal and public appearance on the list to solve > >some mysteries for us. Why do you do it? Where do you get them > from? Why do > >you feel that we need them? Why do you put so much time and effort into > >telling us about the dead? > > NO, don't do it Lou! > if you do, make sure you say so in the Subject so i can delete it. > i like it the way it is, a mystery. Just out there looming. Good point, Bump. It's like the mysterious figure that leaves flowers and a bottle of cognac at Edgar Allan Poe's gravesite every year on Poe's birthday. It's better to not know... -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas..... Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:32:56 +0000 Talking of Peter Thomas, does anybody on the list have the knowledge to tell me 1. Which Peter Thomas song was sampled by Pulp for This Is Hardcore, 2. Which CD the song is from and 3. (the toughie) Which LP this originally appeared on. Thanks guys and gals Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas..... Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:22:16 PST 1 'Bolero on the moon rocks' 2 'Raumpatrouille' was reissued on CD by Bungalow last year. 3 'Raumpatrouille' on Philiips, Germany. The original is not particularly rare or difficult to get, but if it is (now) the kind people at Bungalow also reissued on CD > >Talking of Peter Thomas, does anybody on the list have the knowledge to >tell me 1. Which Peter Thomas song was sampled by Pulp for This Is >Hardcore, 2. Which CD the song is from and 3. (the toughie) Which LP this >originally appeared on. > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith Interview Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:42:07 -0800 Ross Orr wrote: > Now Ashley and others, about those liner notes. . . I know the UL notes are > mainly fluff, and I haven't seen the Denny ones, but I thought he got off > one or two interesting points about Baxter in the Capitol _Exotic Moods_ > liner notes. Were there some inaccuracies in those too? I also thought the Baxter notes were pretty good (except for the section which basically said Denny was "sipping drinks in Hawaii" until he started playing "Quiet Village". Even if that was true, this is the same guy who wrote glowingly about Denny in the Denny comp... Seems a little bit "two-faced"). I think the Denny Scamp liner notes are wonderful! (Note: Denny had a couple inaccuracies too, including saying Don the Beachcomber invented the Mai Tai... it really was Trader Vic). But I also think the notes to the UL stuff is good too, especially as an introduction to this stuff for the "uninitiated". Way back when, I appreciated the Mondo Exotica notes as a way to get my feet wet. Kevin Crossman The Search for the Ultimtate Mai Tai http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) R.J. Smith AND Dr. Death Date: 10 Mar 1999 11:41:26 EST In a message dated 03/10/99 9:32:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, rotohut@ic.net writes about the Smith being a dead beat issue: << Oh no, this again! That story originated with me. . . in about 1979 >> I just love this dirt. Just add water and you got mud. Sling some more. Oh, and on the line of the appropriate exotica material, just who did send that Happy99.exe file to all the list members???? robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:30:25 +0100 ><< Plus, it's not like Lou is sending > out huge .exe files or attachments or anything >> > >Or the Happy99.exe virus laiden download . . . .=20 > >Hummmmmmmm, it seem to escape me at the moment just who sent that one = and I >can't remember the arguement for it being an exotica related issue. I = guess >if my computer woulda crashed that would have been exotic. Hey what are you talking about here! That Happy99.exe was actually a = program that connected itself to emails, I may have been the one that = infected the list because I had that bug in my system. I am glad Jack = warned us and also sended a description of what to do about it, because = I know nothing of such stuff. I think this discussion about Lous postings is ridiculous, and = especially when it comes to personal vendettas. M Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) HELLS BELLE'S OST!!! Date: 10 Mar 1999 12:02:53 -0800 New LP Add, Limited Edition Release Les Baxter's "Hell's Belles" (Sidewalk Records ST-5919 ) Released 1969 from American International Pictures Starring Jeremy Slate and Adam Roarke ! $12.50 + Shipping/Insurance Totally fuckin' cool and great Biker soundtrack with fuzz and some serious 60's pseudo-psychedelic/ psychedelic Go Go Now Sounds. 1 just sold on EBay for $70 +++ See it here; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/helles_belles.JPG And here; http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/helles_belles_label.JPG Titles; "Wheels", "Hell's Belles", "Soul Groove", "Dan's Theme", "Hot Wind", "Take it From Me", "Chain Fight", "Travelin' Man", "Dan Again", "Hogin' Machine","Scoobee Doo" & "Goin' Home" Get 'em while you can, they are going to go fasssssssssssssssssst! $12.50 + Shipping/Insurance Thanks to all and long live the world wide web! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) who is Luther Price? Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:33:00 -0500 A Boston film-maker wants to work with my band, AstroSlut. He says he was mentored by Luther Price, supposedly some soft-porn magnate... Y'all know who Luther Price is? Curiously unyellow, Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Finds, Denny Etc Date: 10 Mar 1999 12:19:22 -0800 (PST) I was walking past a bookstore in New Orleans and lo and behold there were all these exotic record albums basking in the sun outside the store. Grabbed a handful for free and went inside and spent a cool $17 on 16 more. All the albums are in good condition. The ones with ?? I don't know anything about. Any info you have is helpful to me and welcome. Thanks in advance "The Versatile Martin Denny" "Plays Theme from Mondo Cane. More Sukiyaki" (Liberty) What kind of Martin Deny Album is this? Is it a real Denny record? Enoch Light "Persuasive Percussion Vol 2" Ame Caline and Raymond Lefevre & His Orchestra "Soul Coaxing ?? Brass Ring "The Disadvantages of You" ?? Enoch Light's "Its Happening So Lets Dance" Brass Ring "The Now Sound Of featuring Phil Bodner" "POP SPECIAL" on Command Records VA The Howard Roberts Quartet" "Out Of Sight" ?? Les Reed "Love Is All" on Phase 4 label ?? Harry Robinson Orchestra "Moody & Magnificent" ?? Anita Kerr Singers "Velvet Voices & Bold Brass" Manznilla Sound "Make Mine Manzanilla" ?? Provocative Percussion Vol III Enoch Light Anita Kerr Singers "All You Need is Love" "Hugo Winterhalter Goes LATIN" Juan Torres "Organo Melodico" ?? Anita Kerr Singers "Reflect" " " " "Slightly Baroque" Georgie Auld and his Sextet "Good Enough To Keep"?? Ray Charles Singers "Songs For Lonesome Lovers" Billy Vaughn "Thats Life" Woody Herman "Light My Fire" Los Hermanos Castro "Yo sin ti" ?? Longines Symphnette "Enchanted Island" Peggy Lee "Latin ala Lee!" Andy Williams "Days of Wine & Roses" VA "Taking It Easy" Midnight String Quartet "Rhapsodies for Young Lovers" ?? Living marimbas "Sugar Sugar & Other Hits" Terry Baxter, His Orchestra & Chorus "Feeling Groovy" Woody Herman "Jazz Hoot" Mexacali Brass "Downtown" The Bossa Nova Pops, Joe Harnell, "Fly Me To The Moon" Sandy Nelson "Let There Be Drums" Coniff "Say It With Music" Its time to dust off the moving coil cartridge on my Stax tonearm and give these guys and gals a listen. Won't be firing my laser up for a while There's nothing like the vinyl record cover as all of you know. And the price! It was the cost of one cd! I use to haunt vinyl stores for Cugat/ Prado etc in the late 70's & 80s but all the exotica cds of the 90s have kept me quite busy (and broke). Now it seems like the Big Easy will be good for vinyl hunting. Its hard to imagine all the wild cats listening to exotic music in the French Quarter in the 50s & 60s. All of these records came from one person's collection according to the store. From some of the other records for sale it looked like he traveled to Mexico in the mid 60s. He (or she) certainly had a taste for the exotic. Easy listenin in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Peggy Cass, Herman L. Weisman, Sidney Gottlieb Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:44:58 -0600 NEW YORK (AP) -- Peggy Cass, who won a 1957 Tony for her portrayal of Agnes Gooch in ``Auntie Mame'' on Broadway and reprised the role on film, has died. She was 74. Ms. Cass died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said David Williams, her agent. ``She was just a great comedienne,'' Williams said. ``You just have to remember her for her generous spirit and her charming personality and her quick one-liners.'' Agnes Gooch was Mame's young secretary. Ms. Cass won a Tony for the role on stage and was nominated for an Academy Award for the film musical ``Mame'' starring Rosalind Russell. Ms. Cass made her Broadway debut in ``Touch and Go'' and later acted in ``Bernadine'' and ``Oh, Men, Oh, Women.'' She also starred in ``A Thurber Carnival,'' ``The Front Page'' and ``Agnes of God'' on stage. Movie credits included ``The Marrying Kind'' (1952), ``Gidget Goes Hawaiian'' (1961) and ``If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' (1969). She is survived by her husband, Eugene Feeney. March 10, 1999 Peggy Cass, 74, an Actress; Won Tony in 'Auntie Mame' NEW YORK -- Peggy Cass, a brassy-voiced comedian best known for her portrayal of the pregnant, unwed secretary in "Auntie Mame," died on Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan. She was 74 and had homes in Manhattan and Westhampton, N.Y. The cause was heart failure, Eugene Feeney, her husband and only survivor, said. Born in Boston, Mary Margaret Cass succumbed to the lure of Broadway and moved to New York at 19 after spending three years in the Cambridge Latin School drama club without winning a single speaking role. After turns as a stenographer, telephone operator, advertising solicitor and model, she finally convinced a producer that she was an actress. She was cast in a USO tour of "The Doughgirls" and spent seven months in Australia without stepping into costume because the U.S. Army had by then moved to the Philippines. Her break came when, as an understudy, she took over for Jan Sterling in Chicago in the national tour of "Born Yesterday." Soon after, the producer George Abbott hired her for the 1949 Broadway musical "Touch and Go." But it was the role of the dimwitted secretary, Agnes Gooch, in the 1956 Broadway show "Auntie Mame" with which Ms. Cass was most associated. Her performance earned her a Tony Award for best supporting actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the 1958 film version. By the late 1950s, Ms. Cass' facility for brash repartee landed her regular appearances on the television quiz show "Keep Talking." She also appeared often on "The Jack Paar Show" in the late '50s and early '60s. The possessor of an encyclopedic mind, she could be seen during the '60s as often as seven times a week on the quiz shows "Match Game," "Password" and "To Tell the Truth." *Herman L. Weisman WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Herman L. Weisman, a former New York prosecutor who took on the likes of mobsters Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, died Sunday at 95. Weisman was a Harvard Law graduate who won appointment to special posts in the New York attorney general's office. He helped prosecute members of Murder Inc., a gang of contract killers organized by Luciano and Siegel. Later, in private practice, Weisman counted Eleanor Roosevelt among his clients. He also served as president of several Zionist organizations. WASHINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Sidney Gottlieb, who oversaw CIA experiments during the Cold War that included the use of LSD and other mind-altering drugs on unwitting test subjects, has died at age 80. Gottlieb died Sunday in this small town near the Blue Ridge Mountains where he had spent his final years tending to dying people in a hospice. His family withheld the cause of his death. The CIA experiments with psychedelics, a project called MKUltra, began at a time when the agency feared the Soviet Union might use LSD as a chemical weapon or that China would perfect brainwashing techniques. ``We were in a World War II mode,'' John Gittinger, a CIA psychologist who described Gottlieb as one of the most brilliant men he had ever known, told The New York Times. ``The war never really ended for us.'' During the 1950s and early '60s, the CIA gave psychedelic drugs to hundreds of Americans who were unaware that they were part of the agency's experiments on mind control. The subjects ranged from prisoners and mental patients to military officers and college students. At least one subject died, others went insane and others were damaged psychologically, according to firsthand testimony, government documents and court records. Shortly before his retirement in 1972, Gottlieb concluded that the experiments had been useless. Gottlieb was also involved in CIA assassination plots, the Times reported. During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, he carried out orders to develop a poison handkerchief to kill an Iraqi colonel, toxic gifts for Fidel Castro and a poison dart to kill a leftist leader in the Congo. None of the plots succeeded. After leaving the CIA, Gottlieb and his wife, Margaret, ran a leprosy hospital in India for 18 months. They bought a small farm near Boston, Va., about 10 miles northwest of Culpeper, and indulged in folk dancing and goat herding, two lifelong hobbies. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-gottlieb.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Mysterious Virus of Dr. Death Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:27:59 -0500 Oh, this stuff is getting silly. First, I highly doubt that anyone has been infected via this list (keeping in mind the "y'never know" factor). A virus in an .exe file will not infect your system unless you *run* it. Delete it without monkeying with it and you're safe. And I don't remember an .exe file attachment ever coming through from Exotica. I don't really remember *any* attachments coming through from Exotica (which is a good thing, as it's bad manners to send attachments through mailing lists). Maybe Xmission wisely chops out any attachments? The other major known source for a virus is a Word macro file (as in Microsoft Word). Again, it would be an attachment (a Word document?) -- don't open it, just delete it -- and you're safe. Now as for Lou's obits, we just hashed through this several months ago, and there was a pretty clear majority in favor of them. They're clearly marked as "obit(s)" in the subject line -- easily deleted unread or filtered out automatically. May we please move on? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Hibarger Subject: (exotica) Keely Smith & l.a. Eyeworks Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:16:16 -0500 I looked for Keely on the L.A. Eyeworks website and then I sent them email asking why she wasn't on there yet. This is what they sent back: Feel free to tell them how cool Keely it is that they have her! ----->from l.a. Eyeworks... Wow! Great to hear from you. We love Keely! Did you know she was just inducted into the Las Vegas Casino Performers Hall of Fame? Keely's image is soon to be up on our site. She wears our new Carlisle. Did you see the ad in a magazine? LIFE IS WIDE The l.a.Eyeworkers # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Re: Dr. Death Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:53:08 -0500 As for the obits, I don't mind a few, but in the last digest, there were several large obits posted for, I think Stan Kubrick (I didn't read 'em). They took up more than half the digest. I will say, if you're going to post any huge obits, or multiple obits for the same person, how about just posting the links? No need to copy an entire web page to the list. Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Jungle Jive (Go Exotic) Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:05:43 -0800 (PST) Its more of the same from the Del Fi label. Nothing real interesting other then the jungle "Chants" at the very begining and end of the cd. These cuts are wild and crazy screaming and chanting, with lots of chaos in the background, though they are not recorded well. The rest of the cd is rather just okay surf car music without any standouts Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---"Kevin C." wrote: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I081/qid=920755565/sr=1-3/002-8104371-1054018 anyone familiar with this CD, Jungle Jive, go exotic with Kari Wuher! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Dr. Death... Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:04:47 EST In a message dated 3/10/99 8:08:07 AM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de wrote: >I for my part stay here and keep on looking for names that I know in >Lou's death lists. But you may be missing something if you look only for names you know. Its the names, records, events, films, books, personalities, etc of those NOT KNOWN, but just now discovered that make this such a good time, for me at least. Its like stepping through the looking glass. The other side, so appealing, has been there all along! I just didn't know it. Exotica is more than music, lets face it. It is the Great Unknown. Keep the list growing. Let it go where it wants I say. Its more fun that way....Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) New CD Add:Jean Jacques Perrey-Good Moog !!! Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:26:20 -0800 Hello Don, New REISSUE CD of (the great) Jean Jacques Perrey's music from the 1960's and early 1970's, ONLY AVAILABLE IN FRANCE and EUROPE, UNTIL...now!!! $20 plus shipping You heard/read it here 1st! Jean Jacques Perrey: GOOD MOOG; Astral Animations & Komputer Kartoons Borborygmus, Crazy Crow and Daffyduck, La-Bas, Boys and Girls, Colonie Celeste, The Melancholy Mule, La Panthere Cosmique, Quand Le Temps Serr Venu, One Two Two, Comical Logos, The Old Bell Ringer, The Percolators, Toy Town Parade, Brazilian Chick, Russian Rump, Kiyouli Le Clown, Pizzicato Polka, Mod Ghost, Blues in 3/4 Time, L'Horloge Hantee, Bal Campagnard, Waltzing The Weasel, Musique De L'Infini, Fusee Dans Le Ciel, In Texas Tonight, Dancing Silhouette, Krazy Cat Rag, Rush Hour-Traffic Jam, Washing Machine, Moogy Boogy, Sailors Delight, El Payaso, Funny Blues, Madder Than Mad, One Zero Zero, Glockenspiel Gavotte, Kiddie Kappers, Chronophonic, Moog Sensations (and last but certainly, not least) Indicatif Spatial. 40 TRACKS. THIS CD REISSUE HAS TOTALLY ROCKED MY FUCKIN' WORLD!!! Totally brilliant, fun, funny, funky, cartooney, psychedelic and seriously wonderful, like you CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE, no shit. 10 stars onna scale of 1-10. Music for commercials that WE ALL HAVE GROWN UP WITH, music for cartoons WITH HAVE ALL GROWN UP WITH!!! and more!!!!!!!!! It's Pop, it's Psychedelic, It's Jean Jacques Perrey on the Moog and Ondioline with Tape Manipulations, with rhythm accompaniment like Vinnie Bell-Electric Guitar and Effects, Bass, Drums and Percussion. It's fuckin' awesome. Available now. $20 plus shipping Inquire within. Thanks, JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas..... Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:47:35 -0500 >Hey, just saw "Warp Back to Earth" (Box Set) on Amazon.com and was >wondering if this is worthwhile? > >I have Futuremusick and LOVE it. Is there much from that disc repeated on >the box set? Futuremusik is one of THE best discs i have ever heard! as far as repeated tunes, I doubt it... i think the first disc is all remixes by exotically influenced folks, Tipsy for one, and the second disc is supposedly all "unrealeased" material. I just called my local record store about this yesterday. I just ordered the vinyl version. ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) death, exotica, Kurt Weill Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:29:17 -0500 When I first joined this list in 1996, I sheepishly asked a question about a singer named Georgia Brown, who recorded an entire album of Kurt Weill songs. I prefaced my query by saying, "now, I know this isn't exactly exotica." I got a lot of responses saying "Oh, but lounge standards are exotic, and that fits in, etc." Jello Biara says he was influenced by Les Baxter, who in turn ran around and bragged about it. ON another list to which I belong, "Bomp!", so named after a seminal punk/new wave label, they occasionally yammer about Joe Meek or Keely Smith or hell, Lenny Dee. My point is I believe so much good music is all related: intellectually, artistically, aesthetically...So, I disagree that this hath become an "All music list". Just be careful if you ever join the Scott Walker list for tolerance. I got flamed for bringing up one of this idols, Frank Sinatra. Oh yeah, and we're all gonna die, so keep up them obits, Lou. Fondling ya'll - Jane F. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Death? Still On That Rag??? Date: 10 Mar 1999 18:01:51 EST In a message dated 03/10/99 5:58:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com writes: << So, I disagree that this hath become an "All music list". >> So does anybody have any comments on Eubie Blake? Just curious, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Death? Still On That Rag??? Date: 10 Mar 1999 18:50:21 -0500 ><< So, I disagree that this hath become an "All > music list". >> > >So does anybody have any comments on Eubie Blake? > >Just curious, Dead,from BALTIMORE and played the piano! that is the extent of my knowledge! GO B-MORE GO! a fellow Baltimoron bump (listening to Frank Zappa-another baltimoron that played the guitar) ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) fwd: David Ackles obit Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:13:51 -0600 DAVID ACKLES (American singer-songwriter) SOME VERY SAD NEWS Hello - My name is Martin Lewis. And I=92ve been proud to have been a= friend of David Ackles since 1971. It is with great regret that I write to tell you that David has just passed on - succumbing to cancer after a long, brave struggle. (I think the three Elektra albums are still available on CD in the UK. Elektra in the USA has shown no interest in releasing them. The fourth album - made for Columbia - has never been issued on CD anywhere.) I can tell you that a couple of months ago I collected together all the appreciations I could find on the web and in news groups about David and gave him a print-out on the last occasion I saw him - Christmas Day 1998. He was very touched by the appreciation of his work - and the concerns expressed about his health by those who were aware of his illness.. I know that his surviving family - including his wife Janice, son George, sisters Sally and Kim and his mother Queenie, would be very moved to read any thoughts that admirers of David=92s work might have. Since I am not very good at reading news groups - may I ask that you please e-mail a copy to me of anything you post or read from others (perhaps also giving me the link) so that I can forward all tributes to the family. ackles@martinlewis.com A memorial service for family and friends will be held in California on Saturday March 20th - so I would love to have some tributes from admirers to share with the family on that day. So far I have discovered one website dedicated to David Ackles. It is run by a fan called Brian Mathieson e-mail: mathieson@msn.com http://www.mathie.demon.co.uk/da/index.html I do hope that as time goes by that other fans will feel moved to emulate this site and create their own cyber-tributes so that there are several lasting memorials to this great - and vastly under-rated artist. As someone who was lucky enough to have been one of his many friends - I can say that he was truly a gift to the world as a person as much as an artist. On behalf of his family and his other friends - I thank you very much. Martin Lewis martin@martinlewis.com DAVID ACKLES One of America's most gifted - and most under-appreciated singer-songwriters - the great David Ackles - passed away in L.A. last Tuesday - March 2nd after a long, brave battle with cancer. He was a very young 62. He is survived by his his wife Janice, son George, sisters Sally and Kim and his mother Queenie. A memorial service at which his family and friends will celebrate his life and work will be held in California on: Saturday March 20th 1999. Messages from admirers of his work would be most valued by his family. Please send messages to the Ackles family c/o Martin Lewis ackles@martinlewis.com Those who wish to make a donation in his memory may do so to any of the following three organizations: University of Southern California School of Theater =95 University Park =95 L.A. =95 CA 90089 Attention: Dean Robert Scales (tel: 213 740 1285) The Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop =95 335 North Brand Boulevard =95 Glendale =95 CA 91203 Attention: John Sparks (tel: 818 502 3309) All Saints Episcopal Church =95 132 North Euclid Avenue =95 Pasadena =95 CA 91101 Attention: Ackles Memorial Fund (tel: 626 796 1172) DISCOGRAPHY 1968 David Ackles (Elektra) 1968 The Road to Cairo (Elektra) 1970 Subway to the Country (Elektra) 1972 American Gothic (Elektra)=20 1973 Five & Dime (Columbia)=20 http://allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=3Damg&sql=3DB15283 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinyl Finds, Denny Etc Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:39:12 -0500 At 12:19 PM 3/10/99 -0800, chuck wrote: > > >I was walking past a bookstore in New Orleans and lo and behold there >were all these exotic record albums basking in the sun outside the >store. > >Grabbed a handful for free and went inside and spent a cool $17 on 16 >more. >Brass Ring "The Disadvantages of You" ?? >Brass Ring "The Now Sound Of featuring Phil Bodner" Brass Ring for a buck is not a particularly great score, price-wise. I've spent as much as four bucks for them but you can find them for a buck. Having said that, I consider The Brass Ring to be the absolute center of "The Now Sound". Sometimes they get a bit too "Tijuana Brass-y" but at their best, they define that sound for me. I have both those records; the second one is a bit better. The tune "Amy's Theme" from the film "You're a big boy now", is a nice surprise. >The Howard Roberts Quartet" "Out Of Sight" ?? This is the real score as far as I'm concerned. As one of our fellow list-ers found out, I love these mid-60's Howard Roberts records with various cool organ players rounding out the quartets. And this particular record is probably the best of the ten or so that I love. >Les Reed "Love Is All" on Phase 4 label ?? Cool cover on that one. The girl with the psychedelic body-paint-job. The version of "Something in the air" is remarkably close to the original if you ask me, even though it is a choir singing the lyrics. >Manznilla Sound "Make Mine Manzanilla" ?? Speaking of classic Now Sound, this record has a version of "Mammy Blue" which I've probably put on more tapes than any tune in my accumulation. There's a great little organ break on it. Also check out the tune "Land for Lovers". Don't know if that's a cover song but it's a great pseudo-soundtrack cut. >Anita Kerr Singers "All You Need is Love" >Anita Kerr Singers "Reflect" The Anita Kerr Singers absolutely transcend that whole crappy choir/unison singing Living Voices/Doodletown Pipers/Ray Conniff Singers genre. If you like that stuff, this is the cream de la crap. >Georgie Auld and his Sextet "Good Enough To Keep"?? I now take off my Now Sound hat and don my Canadian flag-waver hat and point out that Georgie Auld dubbed the sax parts for Robert DeNiro in "New York New York". I assume this is a pretty straight ahead jazz record. I have an album of Georgie Auld 78's so that kind of indicates how long his career was. >Woody Herman "Light My Fire" He does a pretty good version of that tune. If you're looking for jazz rock "fusion" records that you overlooked the first time around and you don't want endless noodling guitar solos, check out Woody's end-of-career version. >Peggy Lee "Latin ala Lee!" Latin music on downers. Cool record. >Living marimbas "Sugar Sugar & Other Hits" I'd buy this. >Sandy Nelson "Let There Be Drums" Not his best record. In fact, these earlier drum-centred Sandy Nelson records almost sound like they were made by a different band than his later sixties records like "Superdrums" and "Rebirth of the Beat" which were much more organ and guitar centred. Still, I have this one and I seldom pass up a Sandy record. All in all a pretty great score. Never thought of New Orleans as a good record shopping spot but when I go visit my buddy in Mobile, we'll have to set aside a little extra time in New Orleans. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Chris Dedrick dreams Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:39:14 -0500 On the off chance that any of you Free Design fanatics have ever wondered if there's any of that "F.D aesthetic" in Chris Dedrick's soundtrack work these days, let me tell you that you didn't miss anything if you missed the pilot episode of the new Canadian melodrama "The City". There actually was a snippet or two of frothy pop songs somewhere in the mix. For no discernible reason. But most of it was that tired late 80's "fake urban" sound with wailing sax and screaming guitars that I heard more than enough of in another late unlamented Canadian TV series "Night Heat". No knock against Mr.Dedrick. The show is first class cliched crap and I'm sure they wanted a corresponding cliched soundtrack. I can imagine that if I had some musical hero who was now doing soundtrack work I would have drooling fantasies about it. So I just thought I'd tell you Dedrickophiles to stop drooling. For now. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinyl Finds Date: 10 Mar 1999 22:09:22 EST I recently picked up....still sealed for $10 ....a box set of LPs on RCA called 60 Greatest Hits featuring Ann Margaret, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Esquivel, John Gary, Marty Gold, Morton Gould, Ray Hartley, Skitch Henderson, Hugo & Luigi Chorus, Norman Luboff Choir, Peter Nero, Perez Prado, Hugo Winterhalter I picked it up as it had some promise and I didn't have any Esquivel on vinyl and probably would never find anything, albeit a complilation, still sealed on vinyl of Esquivel. I am always leery of opening the shrink wrap on such things and was wondering: 1) Does this have any value? 2) Any great tracks on this set? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: James G Subject: (exotica) Back Door to Exotica Date: 10 Mar 1999 19:13:01 -0800 IMHO the discussion of movie/tv scores and soundtracks here is what opens up the exotica list back door to many genres and helps keeps this list alive. In comes beatnik & crime jazz, blaxsploitation funk, Mancini magic and mush, monster movies, exoterotica, psych & surf, Barry & Rota & Herrmann & Takemitsu, schlock & roll et cetera (but NOT Peter Cetera). So call it exotic, incredibly strange, cool & strange, psychotronic, lounge, EZ, or pure unadulterated crap, I'm glad to be alive with ears to hear. Quite a century of music we've had, Caruso to Combustible Edison. What's next ? Who have we missed ? Stay tuned... JB "Open your ears and LISTEN Goddamn!" - Rahsaan Roland Kirk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Sounds Impossible Date: 02 Mar 1999 12:26:44 Stumbled across a Marty Gold album I'd never heard of, from 1971 on the Audio Fidelity label: Sounds Impossible Marty Gold and his orchestra Presenting the Electrifying Sounds of Donald Hulme Audio Fidelity AFSD 6428 Donald Hulme "is recognized as the international accordion champion" and plays the Cordovox, a "new electronic instrument" that "has unlimited sound combinations and can imitate more than 20 instruments." Donald is shown modelling Seinfeld's puffy shirt with Marty on the back. Tunes include a sample of then-current hits: "Classical Gas," "Close to You," Spinning Wheel," "Overture from 'Tommy'," "Soulful Strut." Don's Cordovox sounds like a wheezy Moog, often coming in unexpectedly in a grating minor key. Marty's arrangements are nothing special, the standard strings and things background. Close your eyes and you can imagine yourself in 1971, sitting in one of the "supper clubs in seventeen countries" that Don's appeared in. Your parents smile approvingly--"See, he plays your kind of music, too." You fantasize about killing them, and Don, and running off with that waitress over there. If only you had more than a learner's permit. C'mon Don, play that "Soulful Strut" one more time! Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 11 Mar 1999 14:43:40 -0000 Got my first 101 strings record - music from the 60's (?), no inner sleeve, marked cover, lots of scratches but plays OK, 50pence only. At first I thought it was like a super Mantovani LP, but halfway through the second side something clicked. I don't know what. Where does this fit with the other 101 strings LP's, the only ones mentioned on the sleeve were Music of the 30's (possibly) Music of the 40's Music of the 50's Although I've seen the 101 strings mentioned on the list more than once, I don't remember any of these titles, so I'm assuming they are not the best. Any recommendations? I also saw Ferrante and Teischers (excuse spelling) Music from Exodus and other Songs in another charity shop. It had no mention of prepared piano's and I had great fitting suit for only ten pounds (the only ten pounds I had) in the other hand, so I left the LP in the box. Was this a mistake? Cheers El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:55:58 -0500 >I also saw Ferrante and Teischers (excuse spelling) Music from Exodus >and other Songs in another charity shop. It had no mention of prepared >piano's and I had great fitting suit for only ten pounds (the only ten >pounds I had) in the other hand, so I left the LP in the box. Was this >a mistake? No, unless you wished to hear lush renditions of soundtrack music. There isn't any prepared piano work on this record, so you made the right choice, in my opinion. In the shops here (Atlanta, GA), you can buy F&T soundtrack albums by the metric ton, which is why I was surprised when I saw their guest shot on Ernie Kovacs' show, plucking and scraping the strings. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 11 Mar 1999 15:17:45 +0000 If something clicked halfway through side 2, I suggest giving it a good clean. In fact, take it back to the charity shop so that the next hapless customer may experience the same sensations. Astro Sounds is the only 101 strings record I have ever heard that comes close to being good (and even that one doesn't come very high on the scale of most desirable records). Generally, 101 strings, with or without Les Baxter should be left to rest in peace in charity shops where they belong. Don't try to move them. Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chazbam@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Exchange proposition for exotic music lovers Date: 11 Mar 1999 05:25:41 EST Hello exotic music lovers You are talking about exotic music all day long and all of this looks very attractive and fun ! What about trying to share more than infos ? My name is David Chazam, I'm a musician, maybe you heard about me because I made some cool&strange records in my life (one of the last was with Jean Jacques Perrey...) ---- ----- I try to be an exotic musician, because first of all, I'm also an exotic music lover... My collection of vinyls contains some funny very exotic treasures from everywhere -- -- I usually spend my time playing them as a dj, and sharing them with my friends... I'm also a TAPE lover, and I love to send tapes and to receive them Tape is great media for music lovers, and I got hundred of them I've got a friendly proposition : I make sometimes some compilations of the weirdest and nicest stuff I have, on tapes called "Compi for me & my friends" I can send one of those tapes if you do send me before one tape made like this by yourself... THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL BULLSHIT, BUT A FRIENDLY EXCHANGE PROPOSITION --- NO FUCKING QUESTION OF MONEY HERE !!!! If you're interested please send me an email, I'll tell you more chazbam@aol.com This idea of exchanging tapes is mine now, but I do encourage you to steal it !!!! CHAZAM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Denny Goes Easy Date: 11 Mar 1999 07:43:04 EST I picked up a copy of Exotic Love by Martin Denny. Not Exotic but Denny none the less. It has: The Look of Love Mac Arthur's Park I Say A Little Love Is All Around etc. More on the easy listening side but with the typical lucious babe on the cover. This one has a throng on that shows the cleveage and she is seductively holding grapes to her mouth. What is interesting is under that is an inscription written in pen: Happy Birthday I guess Jack knew what his mother liked but still, that cover did not look like the kind of album I would give my mother for her birthday. I wonder where "mother" is now. Lou probably has a line on that. Just an observation. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exchange proposition for exotic music lovers Date: 11 Mar 1999 15:46:44 +0000 Is this something to do with Jack D? Or is it someone having a laugh? THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL BULLSHIT, BUT A FRIENDLY EXCHANGE PROPOSITION --- NO FUCKING QUESTION OF MONEY HERE !!!! If you're interested please send me an email, I'll tell you more chazbam@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Barbarella Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:30:31 +0100 Hi ho, i just aquired the Barbarella soundtrack reissue it is perefct as the original and comes in red color vinyl, however my pickup jump at the end of each sides groove because they seam to have scracthed the space where the serie number is !!! Why do they do that ? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lou's Myth" Subject: (exotica) Denny Goes Easy Date: 11 Mar 1999 11:44:07 -0600 At 07:43 AM 3/11/99 EST, Robert wrote: >I picked up a copy of Exotic Love by Martin Denny. >What is interesting is under that is an inscription written in pen: >Happy Birthday >To: Mother >From: Jack >I guess Jack knew what his mother liked but still, that cover did not look >like the kind of album I would give my mother for her birthday. > >I wonder where "mother" is now. Lou probably has a line on that. "Mother"'s not dead. She's only sleeping. -L # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella Date: 11 Mar 1999 16:46:24 +0000 i just aquired the Barbarella soundtrack reissue it is perefct as the original and comes in red color vinyl, however my pickup jump at the end of each sides groove because they seam to have scracthed the space where the serie number is !!! Why do they do that ? Bootleg bootleg bootleg! Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Denny and Liberty Records Date: 11 Mar 1999 12:07:08 EST Does anybody know what the reason(s) were for Martin Denny's departure from Liberty records? Didn't he leave in 1969/1970? Did he continue to record after that? Was it becuase the label folded? Any info you can give would be much appreciated. Jason # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr Death and his obituaries Date: 11 Mar 1999 18:22:57 +0100 Bump wrote: > >This list has developed to > >an all-music list > > PUH-LEEEESE!!! 4 stars for the new InSync CD! its killer, and they're so cute! > > >Consequences? We can either close this list down, or leave it, or > >reglement it, to make it fit to a more narrow definition > BURN BABY BURN!!! > REVOLUTION!!!!!! > Just seems like healthy Evolution to me. > i mean how many times can you keep talking/reading about the same things? > Seems very "Duran Duran". > Lets get NARROW!!! > Maybe the list should be called "Fascistica"!!! > "You VILL talk about Esquivel, or you see this Vibra-Slap????" > > >or appreciate it despite the fact that it > >has outgrown its original definition. > > Now we're talkin'! > like the US Constitution! > > may i rest in peace. > Absolutely. Your head will soon implode. -Mo http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: (exotica) Now! versus Swingin' Scene Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:22:21 -0800 A few recent posts have suggested to me that either there is no distinction between Now! Sound and Swinging Scene, or I'm the only one who makes the distinction. Just wondering what people think? For example, I think that the artists on the Sound Gallery comp (and the British sound from that time, including Ray Manzanilla's "Make Mine Manzanilla," which though released on GNP Crescendo, is a British recording), EMI Studio 2, Deram, and PYE orchestral stuff from the late 60's and into the very early 70's ... is all "British Swinging Scene." Other artists that have dabbled in this genre at one point or another would, in my opinion, include Johnny Harris, Zack Laurence, Les Reed, Laurie Johnson, et al. The genre can be described as hard-hitting brassy arrangements, a bit funky, and usually rhythmic in a groovy way - when people listen, they bob their heads and feel cool and part of the "In" crowd. Swingin' - like the soundtrack to Austin Power's should've been... The Now! Sound, on the other hand, is a more typically American sound, like Love American Style, and includes the output of a number of famous American composer/arrangers when they were starting to dry up a bit (Billy May's "The Sound of Today," Les Baxter's "Love is Blue," and other similar). And of course, Enoch Light's "Spaced Out" (which almost defines a genre of its own), and many more. Other artists I'd include (for reasons of one album or more) are: Woody Herman, Hugo Montenegro, Norman Luboff ("More Today than Yesterday"), and other similar. The sound is more silly, more upbeat, less "cool" than Brit. Swinging Scene. It also often includes choral work. The songs are typically covers of popular hits of the time (who can resist Bacharach?). So, anyone agree? Disagree? I would never call "Sound Gallery" a Now! Sound comp, nor would I call Ray Manzanilla's "Make Mine Manzanilla" a Now! Sound record. Similarly, I'd never call Billy May's "The Sound of Today" British Swingin' Scene. Obviously, the distinction is a difficult one to draw in some cases - both genres existed in roughly the same time period, and both had a certain optimism to their sound. It's too simple to say one is American and one is British, but by listening, I think I can usually tell. The British Swingin' Scene is cooler, hipper, more often instrumental, and more "mod." The Now! Sound is sillier, funnier, more often choral, and more "post-hippy." And both, of course, were the soundtracks to sexual freedom. Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Now! versus Swingin' Scene Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:37:38 -0800 I don't really have any commentary on Now! vs Swingin', but i just thought i'd take the opportunity to point out a fantastic Now Sound record i got last week: "Narrowing The Generation Gap" by Lester Lanin & His Orchestra!! If you see it, and are into Now Sound stuff, do not hesitate to pick it up. Oh and just for the hell of it i thought i'd mention this too: awhile back there was a thread about the "best renditions of Caravan" or something like that........... at the time I voted for Lenny Dee....... while i still rate his version very high, it's just been surpassed by the version that Les Paul does on "Les Paul Now!" Simply amazing!!!!!! Another record you should be ASHAMED to pass up!! cheers! pea # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Exchange proposition for exotic music lovers Date: 11 Mar 1999 12:48:58 EST In a message dated 03/11/99 10:47:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM writes: << Is this something to do with Jack D? Or is it someone having a laugh? >> And the original post had: "My name is David Chazam" Isn't this guy related to Gomer??? robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Zound! What Sounds!! theft of the title Date: 10 Mar 1999 19:55:51 +0100 At 14:55 -0700 99/03/09, Jack wrote: >What is most stunning is the direct theft of the title. Weren't these >things copywrighted? I could understand a title that cleverly referred >to another, but taking the exact words is low even for a budget label. just out of curiosity, i checked to see what other titles have been duplicated: * Quincy Jones: "Big band bossa nova" * Enoch Light: "Big Band Bossa Nova" * Stanley Black Orchestra: "Exotic Percussion" * Martin Denny: "Exotic percussion" * Ted Auletta Orchestra: "Exotica" * Manuel and the Music of the Mountains: "Exotica" * Jos=E9 Feliciano: "Fireworks" * Ferrante & Teicher: "Fireworks" * Jim Fassett: "Symphony of the birds" * Johan Dalgas Frisch: "Symphony of The Birds" Johan DadaBase ;-) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Exchange proposition for exotic music lovers Date: 11 Mar 1999 18:09:13 +0000 That geezer's winding us up - he's avin a laugh, takin the piss an all that. Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Re: Zound! What Sounds!! theft of the title Date: 11 Mar 1999 19:45:04 +0100 > >* Stanley Black Orchestra: "Exotic Percussion" > >* Martin Denny: "Exotic percussion" And Milt Raskin -"Exotic percussion" > >* Ted Auletta Orchestra: "Exotica" > >* Manuel and the Music of the Mountains: "Exotica" > >* Jos=E9 Feliciano: "Fireworks" > >* Ferrante & Teicher: "Fireworks" And Billy Mure -"Fireworks" > >* Jim Fassett: "Symphony of the birds" > >* Johan Dalgas Frisch: "Symphony of The Birds" > > Johan DadaBase ;-) Magnus99.exe -"I am in your mailbox" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Caravan Date: 11 Mar 1999 19:49:30 +0100 >Oh and just for the hell of it i thought i'd mention this too: awhile >back there was a thread about the "best renditions of Caravan" or >something like that........... at the time I voted for Lenny Dee....... >while i still rate his version very high, it's just been surpassed by >the version that Les Paul does on "Les Paul Now!" Simply amazing!!!!!! >Another record you should be ASHAMED to pass up!! > Ah Caravan.... Maybe not the best, but the fastest Caravan I have heard is on a Preston = Epps album, is it Bongola? I cant remember and i am to lazy to go and = check. But its essential listening. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Now! versus Swingin' Scene Date: 11 Mar 1999 10:55:28 PST >Oh and just for the hell of it i thought i'd mention this too: awhile >back there was a thread about the "best renditions of Caravan" or >something like that........... at the time I voted for Lenny Dee....... >while i still rate his version very high, it's just been surpassed by >the version that Les Paul does on "Les Paul Now!" Simply amazing!!!!!! >Another record you should be ASHAMED to pass up!! > >cheers! >pea oh yes, what a version! the album i have this on also has an absolutely bonkers 'tiger rag' (familiar to my generation as 'catch the pigeon') lots of sped up guitar, multitracking, mad harmonies and killer rythm. also, on Barbarella, (i wish), my copy is very asymetrically cut. it doesn't look particularly like a bootleg, and it's sadly not on red vinyl, but is that the reason the quality is iffy. enjoy rob Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Now! versus Swingin' Scene Date: 11 Mar 1999 11:33:58 -0800 (PST) Les Paul did at least 3 different versions of Caravan (including the one with Chet Atkins). The version from "LP Now!" (re-issued in the US as "Multi-Trackin'")is fuzzed-out, rockish. If I am correct (and I may not be), I have the lp you are talking about, it's not same as the Now! version: multi-tracked, not fuzzed.... ---Robert McKenna wrote: > oh yes, what a version! the album i have this on also has an absolutely bonkers 'tiger rag' (familiar to my generation as 'catch the pigeon') lots of sped up guitar, multitracking, mad harmonies and killer rythm. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 3/11/99 Date: 11 Mar 1999 15:17:40 -0500 "Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Thursday's at 6-9 AM from WJUL 91.5 = in Lowell Massachusetts. Thank=92s Lou Smith and everyone else who contributes to the mailing list= . A lot of my material and programming ideas come from the list and the obits= =2E I read the AP article describing the =93atrocities=94 being perpetuated i= n Fort Lupton, Colorado and then played Wayne Newton and Dean Martin. Also read =93meaty chunks=94 of the Ann Corio obit with stripper music in the backg= round. http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/ The playlist: Like Someone In Love, Bjork Dream the Impossible Dream, Richard Kiley OBR Man Of La Mancha Blues and the Abstract Truth, Jimmy Smith For Strippers Only, =93Sonny Lester=94/Ann Corio Presents: How To Strip F= or Your Husband. Anything Goes, Ella Fitzegerald I Get A Kick Out Of You, Dave Brubeck Look A Here, The Ramsey Lewis Trio My Bucket got A Hole in It, The Ramsey Lewis Trio Hello, Cello, The Ramsey Lewis Trio The Peanut Vendor, Xavier Cugat Soul Sauce, Cal Tjader Mambo #8, Perez Prado Body and Soul, The Thelonious Monk Quartet The Shake, The Laurie Johnson Orchestra (The Easy Project) Mama Elephant, E.Cap, (The Sound Gallery Vol.2) Girl In A Sports Car, Alan Hawshaw, (The Sound Gallery Vol.1) Spartacus-Love Theme, Bill Evans I Wanna Be Loved By You, Marilyn Monroe, OST Some Like It Hot The Continental, Billy May This Girls In Love With You, Dusty Springfield Prologue, Stan Kenton Prince Ali, OST Aladdin 23N-82W, Stan Kenton Taboo, Stan Kenton My One And Only Love, Dean Martin Danke Schoen, Wayne Newton Cast Your Fate To The Wind, George Winston Teach Me Tonight, Laurindo Armeida, My Baby Just Cares For Me, Nina Simone Charade, Nelson Riddle Fallout!, OST Peter Gunn I Can See Clearly Now, Holly Cole Trio Selfish Love, Gus Bivona Plays The Music Of Steve Allen Fever, The Three Suns Instanbul (Not Constantinople) Joe =93Fingers=94 Carr/80 Drums Around The= World Poinciana, Esquivel! The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Jack (Bongo) Burger Dreamsville, Br. Cleve and His Lush Orchestra Waltz For Debby, Tony Bennet/Bill Evans Is You Is Or Is You Not My Baby, Joe Jackson Life Is So Peculiar, Louis Jordan/Louis Armstrong The Best Is Yet To Come, Nancy Wilson Why Don=92t You Do Right, Atomic Cocktail Make Love To Me, Louis Prima/Keely Smith Sloppy Shopping, 4 Piece Suit # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Caravan Date: 11 Mar 1999 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) When I was a really young guy the first major concert I saw was Frank Zappa. He asked the audience "What would you rather hear, Caravan with a drum solo or Louie Louie?" After a few yells from the crowd he broke into a great rendition of Caravan. I'm sure its somewhere available by him but this has always been my favorite version. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck > >Oh and just for the hell of it i thought i'd mention this too: awhile > >back there was a thread about the "best renditions of Caravan" or > >something like that........... at the time I voted for Lenny Dee....... > >while i still rate his version very high, it's just been surpassed by > >the version that Les Paul does on "Les Paul Now!" Simply amazing!!!!!! > >Another record you should be ASHAMED to pass up!! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) 'nother test. (so sorry) Date: 11 Mar 1999 12:48:31 -0800 Concentric.net can't find their ass with both hands when it comes to supporting Mac. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 11 Mar 1999 16:55:41 EST In a message dated 3/11/99 11:19:15 AM, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY- EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM wrote: >Generally, 101 strings, with or without Les Baxter should be left to rest >in peace in charity shops where they belong. Don't try to move them. Jonathan Richman has a line about this in a song on his new album, in which he says something about being in a "thrift shop with all the discarded things, like bibles and toasters and Music from 101 Strings" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) More Vinyl Finds, Baxter etc. Date: 11 Mar 1999 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) Went back to the store and the owner took me to the back to show me some more records. Topping the list Les Baxters 10 inch "Le Sacre du Sauvage" Arthur Lyman "Love For Sale" T-Bones "No Matter What Shape" Biily Vaughn "As Requested" Edmundo Ros "Rythms of the South" Brass Ring "Sunday Night At The Movies" Brass Ring Feat Phil Bodner (4 Channel Stereo on Project 3) This brings me back to the days of quad cartridge? Ray Charles Singers "Young Lovers" Ray Charles Singers "Macartha Park" Matt Monro "This Is The Life" Howard Roberts Quartet ":All-Time Great Instrumental" ?? What's this like? A coupel of Conifsf & a Norman Luboffs All for the same low price! I picked up another large batch yesterday afternoon, but they are at home waitng to be played and posted about later. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) My Vinyl Recliner Date: 11 Mar 1999 18:52:11 -0800 Hey, My pal from this list, Frank (aka "Recliner"), got some press about his radio program, "My Vinyl Recliner", heard in Maine. Check out 'da link: http://www.cascobayweekly.com/colum/cong_st_min3_11_99.html He's not been heard from on this list lately because of a change in ISPs, but he's trying to get subbed again. Over & Out, Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 11 Mar 1999 18:56:19 EST >Astro Sounds is the only 101 >strings record I have ever heard that comes close to being good >101 strings, with or without Les Baxter should be left to rest >in peace in charity shops where they belong. I don't claim to have heard every 101 Strings album (is it even possible?) But, these were worth every bit of small change to me: Songs of the Seasons in Japan East of Suez African Safari The Romance of Magic Island Fire and Romance of South America Jet Set The Sounds of Love (with Bebe Bardon) 101 Strings Plus Dynamic Percussion The Sounds of Today Astro Sounds is definitely the magnum opus, though. The string sound isn't for everyone, but it always sounds best between midnight and 3 a.m. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, March 14 Date: 11 Mar 1999 20:51:08 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and (FINALLY!)on RealAudio (www.ckut.ca) All comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #39 Loungin' Ladies CKUT is presenting a week of programming, called RadioActive Estrogen, to celebrate International Women's Day. Hence, our selection of music this week - loungin' ladies! Rosemary Clooney: Come On-A My House "Cocktail Mix 3: Swingin' Singles" Caterina Valente: Quando, Quando, Quando "Die Grossen Hits" Lilian Atterer & das Orchester Maurice Pop: Weil ich so sexy bin "Get Easy 4 - Germany" Sarah Vaughan: One Mint Julep "Cocktail Mix 3: Swingin' Singles" Doris Day: Whatever Will Be, Will Be "Greatest Hits" France Gall: Avant la bagarre "Get Easy 3 - France" Connie Francis: Bossa Nova Hand Dance "Cocktail Mix 2: Martini Madness" Brigitte Bardot: Tu veux ou tu veux pas "Best of BB" Petula Clark: Boum "Hello Paris - Anthologie Vol. 2" Julie London: Go Slow "UltraLounge Leopard Skin Sampler" Francoise Hardy: Tous les garcons et les filles "Francoise Hardy: La Collection" Miss Ann-Margret: Thirteen Men "Cocktail Mix 2: Martini Madness" April Stevens: Teach Me Tiger "UltraLounge Leopard Skin Sampler" Flabby featuring Carla Boni: Mambo Italiano "Ultradolce" Blossom Dearie: I Like London In The Rain "Inflight Entertainment" Walter Wanderley, featuring Astrud Gilberto: Call Me "Samba Swing!" The Gimmicks: Roda "Espresso, Espresso" Sophia Loren: De jour en jour "Get Easy 3 - France" France Gall: Hippie Hippie "Das beste in deutsch" Thanks for reading. cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Indian Vibes Vol.2: Ashwin Batish Date: 12 Mar 1999 02:55:26 +0100 Another burner out of the Indian Pop file, this time from the 80s: (...and another one with a relative related to the Beatles) Ashwin Batish, "SITAR POWER" (LP 12" Vinyl) (1986 Batish Records, Shanachie 64004) Groooovy Stuff! And fast. Side B, Track 1, "Bombay Boogie"(9:11) is a killer. On the back of the cover it says: His father, S.D.Batish, (...) taught George Harrison the traditional Indian instrument dilrubba and later performed on the Beatles soundtrack "Help!" This one's for dancing and driving. Anything with sitar sounds psychedelic in a way. -Mo #Exotica mailing list frequently asked questions at: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) A few things I had to comment on... Date: 11 Mar 1999 23:22:17 -0500 Nat writes: > All in all a pretty great score. Never thought of New Orleans as a good > record shopping spot but when I go visit my buddy in Mobile, we'll have to > set aside a little extra time in New Orleans. My last visit to New Orleans was a good 10 years ago and it was an intersting record hunting experience. While I found an awseome selection of Dixieland Jazz & R&B cutouts really cheap, the used store prices were astronomic. I mean we're talking about $40 price tags for Klaus Schulze records! Sounds like it's changed a bit but the good thing about this City is that there's a lot of real live music happening both in the clubs in in the streets too. A treat to visit for anyone interested in music (and food!) No, I don't work for the New Orleans tourist bureau... Nat also writes: > ...let me tell you that you didn't miss anything if you missed the > pilot episode of the new Canadian melodrama "The City". > There actually was a snippet or two of frothy pop songs somewhere in the > mix. For no discernible reason. But most of it was that tired late 80's > "fake urban" sound with wailing sax and screaming guitars that I heard more > than enough of in another late unlamented Canadian TV series "Night Heat". The fake urban sound works well with the profiled wanna be New York urban setting that is Toronto! If only we produced more in this country that tried less to mimmick what we're already fed from our neighbour to the south, I'd be a lot less embarrased about being Canadian. Sometimes I'm really glad Quebec considers itself a "distinct society", although the creator of this show, none other than actor Michael Sarrazin's brother, bodes from Montreal. sigh... Re 101 Strings: While I do agree the only good one musically is "Astro Sounds", a few of them do have great covers. Does it make up for what is (or is not) inside, you have to ask that one of yourselves. Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Caravan Date: 11 Mar 1999 23:25:23 -0500 I don't know if it's one of the versions that's been mentioned, but the Les Paul "Legend and The Legacy" cd set includes a late 40s version of "Caravan" recorded in his disc cutter to disc cutter overdub days. Wild stuff. According to the notes, he cut the lead line while still in a body cast from his big car crash. When he had the doctors set his virtually destroyed right arm in permanent playing position. The set also includes a version of "Tiger Rag" from the early 50s, recorded in Oakland, New Jersey. Sez the neighbors called the cops to complain about the noise. If anyone knows where or if Zappa's version of "Caravan" is, please give a yell. That should be interesting. Of course, *any* version of "Caravan" is interesting. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: (exotica) Retro Future - What Y2K looked like in the 50's Date: 11 Mar 1999 23:43:55 -0500 Hiya gang : ) I just found a keen new area on AOL (apologies to the AOL-impaired). Go to Keyword: Retro Future. Ciao 4 now! Kevin : ) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 11:04:58 +0000 The SOund of Music I'm in a thrift shop with discarded things, like bibles and toasters and 101 Strings - These are a few of my favourite things. Good old Julie Andrews # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lou's Myth" Subject: (exotica) Mike Anthony, Lowell Fulson, Lee Phillips,Yehudi Menuhin obits Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:08:59 -0600 *Mike Anthony NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Songwriter Mike Anthony, who co-wrote the Johnny Tillotson hit ``Poetry in Motion,'' died Tuesday from complications related to a heart attack and stroke suffered Feb. 6. He was 68. Anthony co-wrote ``Poetry in Motion'' with Paul Kaufman in 1960. He wrote the 1997 country hit ``I Miss You a Little'' with Richard Fagan and John Michael Montgomery. He also wrote ``Grass Is Greener,'' a Brenda Lee hit in 1963. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B279283 *Lowell Fulson LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Blues singer Lowell Fulson, instrumental in the early careers of Ray Charles and B.B. King and whose 1954 hit ``Reconsider Baby'' was recorded by Elvis Presley, died Sunday of kidney disease, diabetes and congestive heart failure. He was 77. Fulson was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1993, and his ``Them Update Blues'' was nominated for a 1995 Grammy. Among his other hits were ``Tramp,'' ``Blues Shadows Falling'' and ``Lonesome Christmas'' in the 1960s. His first success, ``Reconsider Baby,'' came immediately after he signed his first record contract. He helped then-newcomers Charles and King in the 1950s. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=B344 *Lee Philips LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lee Philips, a movie actor and television director, died March 3 from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 72. Philips had roles in ``Marty,'' the 1957 version of ``12 Angry Men,'' ``The Hunters'' and ``Middle of the Night,'' among other films. He directed the 1971 television series ``The Man and the City,'' starring Anthony Quinn and Mike Farrell. A year later, Philips joined the durable ``MASH.'' He remained for several years, again directing Farrell, who played one of the series' irreverent Army surgeons in the Korean War. Philips also directed episodes of ``The Waltons,'' ``The Practice,'' ``The American Girls,'' ``Salvage 1,'' ``Lottery!'' and most recently ``Diagnosis Murder,'' starring Dick Van Dyke. His credits also include dozens of television movies and miniseries, including Sidney Sheldon's ``Windmills of the Gods'' in 1988 and James A. Michener's ``Space'' in 1985. Among his made-for-TV movies were ``Silent Movie,'' ``Barnum,'' ``American Geisha,'' ``Samson and Delilah,'' ``Mae West,'' ``Wanted: The Sundance Woman'' and ``Louis Armstrong -- Chicago Style.'' http://allmovie.com/cg/x.exe?USR=10:00:51|AM&p=avg&sql=B106360 BERLIN, March 12 (UPI) -- Yehudi Menuhin, an accomplished violinist by the age of 7 who played Beethoven's violin concerto with the New York Philharmonic at the age of 11, died today in Berlin of heart failure. He was 82. Menuhin was born in New York City April 22, 1916, the son of Russian immigrants, Moshe and Marutha Menuhin. Moshe was a teacher of Hebrew. Looking for an apartment when Marutha was pregnant, they were told by a potential landlady, ``You will be glad to know I don't take Jews.'' As they resumed their search Marutha vowed her unborn child would bear a label proclaiming his race. So (Menuhin wrote in his autobiography) he was named Yehudi, ``the Jew.'' He was closely committed to Amnesty International's work for prisoners of conscience. He was a vegetarian and advocate of ``whole food,'' a practitioner of yoga who spent several minutes a day standing on his head. Give Me Exotica or Give Me Death! -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) A few things I had to comment on... Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:34:28 EST In a message dated 03/11/99 11:23:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, BRIAN@PHYRES.Lan.McGill.CA writes: << Re 101 Strings: While I do agree the only good one musically is "Astro Sounds", a few of them do have great covers. Does it make up for what is (or is not) inside, you have to ask that one of yourselves. >> If spread the opening of the cover real wide and put it up to your ear you can hear the ocean. I think I will pass. Of course you can put the album cover on your head. That is always fun. Still not as fun as putting the 45's on your ears tho (and on that thread -- are there any NEW list members that remember doing this? The old farts on the list said they never heard of this the last time I mentioned it.) With two pencils stuck under my upper lip and making walrus noises, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Sunday Night Luau Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:02:38 EST This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_921189759_boundary Content-ID: <0_921189759@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII FYI --part0_921189759_boundary Content-ID: <0_921189759@inet_out.mail.icaboston.org.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (rly-yb01.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.1]) by air-yb05.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:08:12 -0500 Received: from siren.shore.net (siren.shore.net [207.244.124.5]) by rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id OAA12746 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:08:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] (uucp) by siren.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for DJJimmyBee@aol.com id 10LAoT-0000BH-00; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:08:09 -0500 Received: from ica.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id OAA16634 for DJJimmyBee@aol.com; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:08:08 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903111908.OAA16634@shore.shore.net> Received: by shore (MG PM3-Waf 3.41); Thu, 11 Mar 99 14:14:53 EET -2 X-Distribution: Moderate Reply-to: "ALOHA" Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Aloha from the Pinapple Ranch Hands (Boston's traditional Hawaiian band and cheapest trip to the islands!) Come see us this Sunday, March 14, at the Kendall Cafe, 233 Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Cambridge, a block from the Kendall Movie theater. We'll be Swingin' the HulaWestern style at this week's HellCountry from about 8:45 PM to 10:45 PM. Admission's free and the food's great, so come on down to HellCountry (where the beer flows like fizzy brown Hawaiian stream) and hula your blues away with the Pineapple Ranch Hands. For more info about HellCounty go to http://www.hellcountry.com. For more info about the Ranch Hands, read on, friend, read on. _____________________________________________ The Pineapple Ranch Hands is a six-piece outfit playing steel-guitar-based Hawaiian style favorites from the 20=92s through the 50=92s and on. Mixing hulas, island chants and marches, with jazz, swing and western tunes, their repertoire follows the stream of steel guitar and pumping rhythm that flows through all these styles. The band features John "Keoni" Johnson on the big guitar, Steve "Kiwi" Bird on bass, Scott "Koka" Rogers on drums, Phil "Pilippo" Mahoney on the not-so-big guitar, Pacey "Palani" Foster on the uke, and leading the whole group gently down the stream is Tim "Kimo" Obetz on various and sundry steel guitars. Close harmony vocals and the occasional peanut gallery chorus round out the sound. --part0_921189759_boundary-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 08:53:48 +0000 >Astro Sounds is the only 101 strings record I have ever heard that >comes close to being good (and even that one doesn't come very >high on the scale of most desirable records). I never found a good 101 strings record in England either. All I ever found there was 'the soul of Spain', 'Gypsy Dances' etc, which weren't enjoyable. But the stuff which ends up in thrift stores in the states is often very different. Amongst great 101 strings finds in the states was '101 strings salute the trendsetters of the 60s', which contains, amongst others, fantastic versions of 'desafinado' and 'hard day's night'. I'm sure there's much more I never found too... 'Backbeat Symphony' is supposed to be great... >Generally, 101 strings, with or without Les Baxter should be left >to rest in peace in charity shops where they belong. Don't try to >move them. I strongly disagree here, since Les with 101 strings's 'que mango', also released as 'latin holiday' is one of my favourite records of all time. Great rock-orchestral instrumentation, latin rhythms, mysterious feel, original compositions - fantastic record! regards, Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Retro Future - What Y2K looked like in the 50's Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:42:45 EST I tried to figure out how to give the URL to non-AOL'ers (you lucky dogs) this is all I could get: aol://4344:2300.retrofut.24055222.602526587 any ideas how to make this work??? robert In a message dated 03/11/99 11:45:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, kbonnett@coax.net writes: << Hiya gang : ) I just found a keen new area on AOL (apologies to the AOL-impaired). Go to Keyword: Retro Future. Ciao 4 now! Kevin : ) >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Speak French to me! Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:44:20 -0500 I am absolutely infatuated with the MICHEL LEGRAND SINGS album. It just couldn't do more for me! It swings, it ye-yes(if that's a verb!) the man is just too-much! It was recorded, I do believe, in the 1060s. Dusty Groove is also selling: Michel Legrand -- Michel Legrand Chante L'Ete 42 which was done in 1970. Is anyone familiar with this, and is it nearly as good as SINGS? Oui, oui! Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Speak French to me ('Tish)! Date: 12 Mar 1999 11:58:16 -0500 >I am absolutely infatuated with the MICHEL LEGRAND SINGS album. It just >couldn't do more for me! It swings, > it ye-yes(if that's a verb!) the man is just too-much! It was recorded, I > do believe, in the 1060s. Wow, now that's a long-lived career! m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) That foxy Pam Grier Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:00:29 -0500 OK, I have a copy of BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS! I don't even know how many times I have seen it, but I just found out Pam Grier is in it!?! What the heck part is she in that classique film? Jane Fondle - loining something new every day The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 17:34:36 +0000 Brian wrote: >Re 101 Strings: >While I do agree the only good one musically is "Astro Sounds", a >few of them do have great covers. Does it make up for what is >(or is not) inside, you have to ask that one of yourselves. I must be the only person on this list who has never encountered Astro Sounds! Is it available on CD too? Agreed, some of their titles are near muzak, but the 101 Strings with Nelson Riddle album is well above average, and I second the thoughts of someone here who mentioned it fondly last year. Little Anthony & the Imperials had a few records in the mid-60's on the DCP label which were billed as ...with 101 Strings". Anyone here know of other acts which used them as backup? Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Indian Vibes Vol.2: Ashwin Batish Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:25:45 -0600 At 02:55 AM 3/12/99 +0100, you wrote: >Another burner out of the Indian Pop file, this time from the 80s: >(...and another one with a relative related to the Beatles) > >Ashwin Batish, "SITAR POWER" (LP 12" Vinyl) Batish runs a fine web site. Check out: http://www.raganet.com/RagaNet/ I like his "Cowboys and Indians" track myself. -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 14:47:23 EST In a message dated 3/12/99 1:48:10 PM, tribute@dircon.co.uk wrote: >Little Anthony & the Imperials had a few records in the mid-60's on the >DCP label The DCP label was owned by Don Costa who employed Teddy Randazzo as his staff arranger. Teddy was responsible for the lush exotic arrangements of such Little Anthony hits as "I'm On The Outside (Looking In)" and "Hurt So Bad". For exotic swirling arrangements on the soulful Mid-6T's tip, it don't get no betta than this........Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Shibuya-kei Is Alive Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:17:29 -0800 (PST) Of course, Momus titled his article in the Glasgow Herald just the opposite, but as he so well pointed out, the '90s Japanese pop movement known as Shibuya-kei is alive and thriving. Some recent purchases over the last couple of months have confirmed this. An ep "Yukari's Perfect" Escalator (Japan 1997) and full length album "New Years Fresh" (Escalator 1999) both by Yukari Fresh lead the way in keeping the Shibuya- kei sound fresh and full of surprises. Yukari Fresh sings in a Kahimi Karie style but the comparrison stops there. This is wild zany music akin to Cornelius or Fantastic Plastic Machine at their outer limits. This is as good as it gets in the Japanese club pop world. If you liked Sushi 3003 & 4004 or Luxury by FPM run out and get both of these. Available at http://www.othermusic.com "One Too Many Chocolat" by Chocolat (Sony Japan 1998) A perfect album all over the place in style from wild Japanese club pop to indie twee pop sensibilities and soft dreamy ballads to modern grunge pop themes all done with a very artful style of haunting melodies. This is one of most played cds I've purchased. The songs melodies are so wonderful that you want to hum along with each song. Takako Minekawa "Roomic Cube" (March Records 1997) & "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" (Emperor Norton1998) Buffalo Daughter produced the first and what an offbeat shbuya-kei adventure it is. Casios, moog, synths, fuzz guitar and a soft young voice with off the wall beats and melodies. If you've heard Fantasy Cat on the Sushi comp or college radio you have an idea of what she's like. The music and melodies are not as well crafted as Yukari Fresh, Chocolat, FPM or P5 but both records are a fun ride through another dimension of shibuya-kei. Cloudy Cloud Calculator is the better of the 2. Buffalo Daughter's "New Rock" Grand Royal 1998) takes japanese club pop to another place with a more off the wall sensibilities mixing '60s '70s with shibuya-kei "Socks, Drugs and Rock'n'roll" is one of the best lines in the last few years. The way Buffalo Daughter say those words its sooo....... Buffalo Daughter reminds me a little like the underproduced Flying Lizards doing "Money" from the late '70s early '80s Spring does "Tokyo Drifter" (Elefant Records, Spain 199?) Soft indie pop with Kahimi Karie whispered vocals and style. Perfect soft melodies, soft guitars make this one amazing 8 song ep Available at a great low price from roundaboutpop@hotmail.com roundaboutpop@hotmail.com also carries the Siesta & Marina record labels very cheaply. Spring also does "Matinees" Elefant Records Spain 1995) More soft soft melodies, guitars and whispering ala Marilyn Monroe on a 5 song ep. If any lister know more about this band please email me. This a great soft melodic music. The best of the soft indie pop shibuya-kei influenced artists is April March. Her newest album"chrominance decoder" is a classic, her best effort yet! (1999 Ideal Records) Produced and arranged by Bertrand Burgalt (who is he?) The first song evokes both Momus and Cornelius, worldless bouncing vocals over exotic sounding instruments, its worth the album price along! Sung in French and English her voice is remarkably young at heart and juxtaposed against soft mysterious melodies with a romantic feel, the sound is quite thrilling. As another list member once said and I have to agree, I like her voice best when she sings in French. I liked her first bouncing album and her last soft indie pop album "April March & Los Cincos" alot, but this has the sophisticated feel of the great Louis Phillipe's "Jackie Girl" If you enjoy the above I also recomend "Astrud" by Astrud on (Sealed Fate Records199?) Most of the songs are sung in spanish. More great melodies and sounds comparable to Chocolat. Just got "S/T" by Qypthone (Happi Japan released 03/07/99) This is tremendous on just one listen at work. Full blown shibuya-kei indie pop melodies with another great japanese female vocalist. In a Brazilian vain I am surprised how great "a divina comedia ou" by Mutantes is. I didn't expect to like it as much as their first 2 albums but its just as wild and great. Sometimes its so wild its sick, stupid and poorly played. After liking this stuff I know the Shaggs are right up my alley. Finally if you like Bossa Nova get the soundtrack to "Next Stop Wonderland" mixing standards with new songs and new versions, its solid all the way through. (1998 Polygram) Don't get 40 Anos De Bossa Nova (Gold 1998) Its available at dusty and its 80's feeling bossa and its terrible, boring etc. Also a big thanks to whoever posted over a year ago about the "Cafe" series of cds (1997 Time Records) They are so cheap, less then $5 and the help with those $10 off coupons at cdnow. Got to love the real coffee beans that come in the jewel cases spine! With the number of cds availbale and the different genres reprisented they may pass Capital records up yet. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:44:21 -0800 Anyone ever see or hear the "101 Strings Play Jimi Hendrix" It'sa good 1:) JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:51:18 -0500 'Backbeat=20 Symphony' is supposed to be great... This SUCKS. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) PERVIRELLA! Date: 12 Mar 1999 16:00:42 -0500 Hiya, kids...time for Jane Fondle's record corner. Today we find the smashing new soundtrack to the B-movie(or in her case, it should be Double D) PERVIRELLA! (yes I know, DJ Bumpy was oooo-ing and ahhh-ing over this, too, great minds think alike, and two great tastes go great toge-tha!) Like a good, varied soundtrack, it has just about everything(except, the keen minds at Dionysus and Exotic Entertainment left off the obligatory country tune and koo-koo circus numbers found on so many Mancinis and Rotas!) You will find Italian-sound spy instrumental, organ grroooovvve, and 70s futuristic orchestra madness a la SPACE 1999! OK, I'm gonna take a leap here, but yes, this soundtrack is better than it's for-runner BARBARELLA. Even the main title, by Francois Evans and The London Gay Symphony Orchestra, is swankier than the BARB theme. It has that same vibe, but also sounds sorta like Mike Flowers! And of course, since garage-groovies the Diaboliks are featured in the flim, you get some of them too. They also contribute a spicey, Middle Eastern flavoured-num-bah! Seriously, sugar, this will stir your LOINS! I ordered mine from Dionysus on "pink" vinyl, if that ain't saucy! Smack, smack - Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 16:07:00 -0500 Among my favorite versions are those by Nat King Cole and by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. OK, anyone for their favorite "Miserlou"? (Just kidding!) Jane"p-s, I took a lot of flak for that Michel LeGrand 1060 type-OH!" Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 16:21:09 -0500 >Among my favorite versions are those by Nat King Cole and by Lambert, >Hendricks and Ross. This is the ONLY time you may ever hear me say this on this list, but, Johnny Mathis' version is one of the few vocal versions of it and it's rather good. It is on his first album (Author Harlan Ellison is a great fan of this album) Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 15:33:43 -0600 (CST) On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Brian Phillips wrote: > > > >Among my favorite versions are those by Nat King Cole and by Lambert, > >Hendricks and Ross. > > This is the ONLY time you may ever hear me say this on this list, but, Johnny > Mathis' version is one of the few vocal versions of it and it's rather good. > It is on his first album (Author Harlan Ellison is a great fan of this album) I recently picked up a Duke Ellington CD (on Verve) just to have a version of "Caravan" by the man. I was (pleasantly) surprised to find that it was a version with vocals by Ella Fitzgerald. -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Fw: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 17:00:08 -0500 >This is the ONLY time you may ever hear me say this on this list, but, Johnny >Mathis' version is one of the few vocal versions of it and it's rather good. >It is on his first album (Author Harlan Ellison is a great fan of this album) I read Harlan and remember that comment. What is the name of the album? And is it available? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "SANDBERG MAGNUS" Subject: SV: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 23:04:17 +0100 one of the few vocal versions of it and it's rather >good. The Mills brothers did at least one vocal version of Caravan, a wordless = vocal one thats quite nice. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan faves Date: 12 Mar 1999 17:14:38 -0500 >I recently picked up a Duke Ellington CD (on Verve) just to have a version >of "Caravan" by