From: Subject: (exotica) calling musicians Date: 01 Apr 1999 09:27:58 -0500 I am trying to get bumper stickers made for my band. Anybody out there know where I can get a good deal? Please reply off-list. Thanks ever so, Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Vagabond Cinema Pops Arkestra: new address & URL Date: 31 Mar 1999 19:40:52 +0200 zubai@tkd.att.ne.jp http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/zubai/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Paradise Found comment Date: 01 Apr 1999 15:02:39 +0200 The worst sounding "mastered-from-original-vinyl" CD I ever heard... but the music is beautiful, classic exotica. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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. 4/1/99 Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:48:18 -0500 "Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Thursday's from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91.5 in Lowell Massachusetts. MwM moving to Friday=92s to help kick off the weekend early! And I=92ll d= o the program tomorrow if I can get these tired bones out of bed! After the first hour playing jazz moved into an April 1st kind of program= =2E The web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/ Your comments always welcomed. (Especially about the mysterious track 19=92= s) The Playlist: I Could Happen To You, Bjork Like Someone in Love, Miles Davis Solar, Pamela Hines Quintet It Might As Well Be Spring, Johnny Mathis Valsa De Porto Das Caixas, Antonio Carlos Jobim Makin=92 Whoopee, Branford Marsalis (Visiting Manchester NH April 11) 3 Little Words, Branford Marsalis Have You Met Miss Jones, Count Basie Orchestra Para Jose, Two Bones and A Pick My Foolish Heart, Karrin Allyson Can This Be Love, Bobby Short Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Louis Jordan The Presidents, Animaniacs Cruella De Ville, OST 101 Dalmatians One Mint Julep, Ray Charles Traffic Jam, Artie Shaw Not Me, Robert Mitchum Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway Kiss the Girl, OST The Little Mermaid I Just Can=92t Wait To Be King, OST The Lion King Search For Vulcan, Leroy Holmes Mona Lisa Cha-Cha, The Bobby Havana Boys Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Xavier Cugat La Cucaracha, Perez Prado Orchestra Mucha Muchacha, Juan Esquivel Don=92t Be That Way, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra and Chorus Jungle Madness, Martin Denny Oink Oink Mambo, Chuv Reves and His Orchestra All the Words in the English Language, Part One, Animaniacs Slappin=92 the Cakes on Me, John Pizzarelli All the Words in the English Language, Part Two, Animaniacs Slow Boat to China, Holly Cole Trio All the Words in the English Language, Part Three, Animaniacs Bananas, M.V.L. Ciccone The Misfits, Don Costa Bewitched, Peggy Lee Enchanted Farm, The Forbidden 5 Track 19 (?) Ultra-Lounge Organs In Orbit War Dance of the Wooden Indians, Russ Case and His Orchestra Hello Little Girl, OBCR Into The Woods I Know Things Now, OBCR Into The Woods Yellow, Ken Nordine Do It Again, April Stevens Baby, Won=92t You Please Come Home, Louis Prima and Keely Smith Track 19 (?) Ultra-Lounge Cha Cha De Amor High Hopes, Frank Sinatra (W/Kids Chorus) Accidental Slip on an Oriental Rug, Robert Maxwell Harp And Orchestra Rock Gently, Alvino Rey Cadillac, Combustible Edison =46rom A Logical Point Of View, Robert Mitchum Jack, You Dead, Joe Jackson Destination Moon, Dinah Washington Romeoville, 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: Subject: (exotica) Asking that musical question... Date: 01 Apr 1999 14:50:41 -0500 I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike the Bettie Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody have any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out money for one? What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I like very much)? "Jayne" Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Asking that musical question... Date: 31 Mar 1999 11:58:50 -0800 > I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike=20 > the Bettie > Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody = have > any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out = money > for one? What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I=20 > like very > much)? I am no big fan of that particular record - I am working from memory = here, but I recall it being very boring and fulla strings that come off = like a mouth full o mush. Nice cover though. I would not be suprised if = there are some who like the music contained therein. It's just not my = bag. I THINK I have mansfield cover record... I see orange and yellow = and a VERY heavy miss mansfield.... My brain is not cooperating this = morning - I will have to go home and look for that one, but whatever it = is, I suppose I was not impressed enough to remember much about it. Ron Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio=20 http:www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20 Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness All day every day. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Angela Subject: (exotica) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty Date: 01 Apr 1999 15:16:05 -0500 I was under the impression that the Sid & Marty Krofft cd hadn't been released yet, and my link to http://www.livingisland.com works okay. Also, for those of you on this list who live in the Boston, MA area. I'm told that a large collection of exotica and related ephemera has just arrived at Cheapo records (645 Mass. Ave/354-4455). They were pricing it yesterday, so it should have hit the floor by now. Happy Hunting. I'm also compelled to spew onto just a bit of bandwidth on the forthcoming Beck remix of Haack- although I wish Beck no undue bodily harm (and indeed, always thought the Nelson/Haack records were full of 'beats'), there's something slightly repugnant to my (admittedly rather puritanical) sense of propriety here. Why not spend the same energy getting the Dimension 5 catalog reissued? -- -Angela http://www.musicfile.com/sunshine "The Biggest Little Record Store In The World" -----Original Message----- >Can anyone tell me if the rumour is true that Beck has bought all rights >to Bruce Haacks recordings? If he has will he reissue them or will he = >not? >>There is a remix project involving Beck and others in the works, = >however. >Does anyone know where I can find this cd? > >>* Sid & Marty Krofft: Greatest Hits (Interscope) -- finally! >> They produced a roster of bizarre kid's TV shows in # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Asking that musical question... Date: 01 Apr 1999 16:11:10 -0500 OK, so if Music for Bachelors is not the one, how is 'Romesville"? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty Date: 01 Apr 1999 16:51:13 -0500 Hi, exots, I have what i believe is accurate information about the beck/haack thing, can someone say where the info that beck is 'remixing' haack came from?? i don't think this is true, and i will check further... citizen kafka ...I'm also compelled to spew onto just a bit of bandwidth on the > forthcoming Beck remix of Haack- > -Angela # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Asking that musical question... Date: 01 Apr 1999 19:38:57 -0500 At 02:50 PM 4/1/99 -0500, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike the Bettie >Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody have >any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out money >for one? What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I like very >much)? Are you implying that records with Bettie on the cover do NOT contain schlock? I could quickly disavow you of that notion if I played you that "Best Musical Comedy Songs" record which for some reason has Bettie and her "cats" on the cover. Speaking of famous cover-babes, I have a lovely photo of a very young Carole Lynley on the cover of a record called "Indian Love Call" by Rudolf Friml. Looking at the picture of Mr.Friml on the back, I hope he never got near his cover model. Finally, until someone tells me I'm crazy, I've convinced myself that it's Bridgitte Bardot who's pouting on the cover of this Fred Hartley record I have. But all these records that I'm mentioning with the hot babes on the outside have lukewarm porridge on the inside and I'd hasten a guess that the same would go for "Music for Bachelors". Especially if it's anything like Mr.Rene's "Music for the Weaker Sex". (And I usually like Henri too.) 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) Asking that musical question... Date: 31 Mar 1999 16:29:59 -0800 While we are on the subject of cheesey-cake album covers, Ya GOTTA love = the extra heapin' helpin' of FIRMented curves in the most recent Exotica = Etcetera from our good friend Preston at http://vinyllives.com. = plug,plug,plug... LOVE that zine! Dig the regular contributions from = our own King Kini and Br. Cleve. Ron Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio=20 http:www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20 Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Groovy Soundtracks Date: 01 Apr 1999 19:53:27 EST Found today at Mars Records, Cambridge: "Groovy Soundtracks" LP Its all good and appears all booted from BeatHead Records (BeatHead #101) -Dave Grusin-Gasoline Alley-from "Winning" -Tedd Smith-Time To Run-from "Time To Run" -Artie Butler-A Bird In The Hand-from "Harrad Experiment" -Emil Stern-Bein' The Jerk-from "Marry Me, Marry Me" -Gianni Machetti-Un' Ultra Benna-from "Disposta A Tutte" -Franco Micalizzi-Vodka Per Due-from "L'Ultima Neve Di Primavera" -Michel LeGrand-Un Homme De Mort-from "The Outside Man" -Kenyon Hopkins-Westside Radio-from "Mr. Buddwing" -Galapagos Duck-The Removalists Theme-from "The Removalists" (shudder) -House Of Representatives-Caged-from "Brewster McCloud" -Bruce Smeaton-Bad Lunch-from "Bad Macarthy (sic)" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty Date: 02 Apr 1999 04:10:31 -0500 At 4:51 PM -0500 4/1/99, Citizen Kafka wrote: >I have what i believe is accurate information about the beck/haack >thing, >can someone say where the info that beck is 'remixing' haack came from?? > >i don't think this is true, and i will check further... It's true..........Combustible Edison is involved in this project as well. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) obits: Angelo LaPietra, Gary Morton, Gil Perkins Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:26:23 -0600 *Angelo LaPietra CHICAGO (AP) -- Angelo LaPietra, a former high-ranking Chicago mobster who ran the so-called ``26th Street Crew,'' died Sunday. He was 80. He was one of five mob leaders convicted in 1986 of skimming $2 million in unreported gambling profits from Las Vegas casinos and was sentenced to 16 years in Leavenworth federal penitentiary for the crime. At the time, organized crime experts called the conviction the biggest blow to the Chicago mob since the 1940s. After his release from prison, LaPietra returned to Chicago and founded the Old Neighborhood Italian-American Club. The club grew to more than 800 members and later also included members of Irish, Chinese, Mexican and Croatian ancestry. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Gary Morton, the Borscht Belt comic who married Lucille Ball and became her executive producer, has died. He was 74. Morton died Tuesday at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, said John Caranci of Wiefels & Son Funeral Directors in Palm Springs. The cause of death wasn't disclosed, but Daily Variety reported he died of lung cancer. Morton, a stand-up comic, married Miss Ball after she divorced Desi Arnaz, her ``I Love Lucy'' sidekick. Morton and the actress were married for 29 years; Miss Ball died in 1989. He was executive producer of Miss Ball's ``The Lucy Show,'' which aired 1962-68, ``Here's Lucy'' from 1968-74 and ``Life With Lucy,'' which was canceled after two months in 1986. Morton also had supporting roles in films, including ``Lenny'' in 1974 and ``Postcards From the Edge'' in 1990. Born Morton Goldaper in New York City, Morton became a popular nightclub comedian in New York, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas and the Borscht Belt before Miss Ball brought him to Hollywood and television. After their marriage, Morton became involved with Miss Ball's TV career as warmup comedian for her second CBS sitcom, ``The Lucy Show,'' for which ex-husband Arnaz was executive producer for a time. Upon Miss Ball's sale of Desilu to Paramount in 1967, she formed a new company, Lucille Ball Productions, naming Morton vice president. That company produced ``Here's Lucy.'' Over the years, Morton continued to do the warmups for the series. Morton also produced several Lucille Ball television specials through the 1970s, and other specials and films for television, including ``Bungle Abbey'' in 1981 and ``Sentimental Journey'' in 1984. In motion pictures, he was executive producer of the 1983 ``All the Right Moves,'' which starred Tom Cruise as a high school football star. He is survived by his wife of three years, Susie McAllister. *Gil Perkins LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor-stuntman Gil Perkins, a familiar face on such TV shows as ``Perry Mason,'' ``Here's Lucy'' and ``Wagon Train'' and co-founder of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, died Sunday. He was 91. Perkins was a stunt double for Spencer Tracy, Yul Brenner and Gene Hackman. Perkins arrived in Hollywood in 1928 and got parts in movies like ``King Kong,'' ``Moby Dick,'' ``Robin Hood'' and ``Mutiny on the Bounty.'' In the 1950s and 1960s, Perkins was a familiar TV face with appearances ranging from ``Batman'' to ``The Virginian.'' In 1960, he co-founded the Stuntmen's Association, which got stunt workers recognized as entertainers deserving the title of industry professionals. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:20:51 -0500 Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck would have anything to do with Bruce Haack? This is coming from somebody who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the better sounding and more interesting artistes out there (I admit I only have one of his albums, but I like all I've heard by him.) I am far-less offended by Beck having something to do with this than I am, say, the Spice Girls or somebody. Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the unholy image of Heino on its cover? Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 18:08:29 +0200 laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck > would have anything to do with Bruce Haack? This is coming from somebody > who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the > better sounding and more interesting artistes out there I can only agree: to me Beck is the only interesting 'new' artist of the 90s. The idea that he is going to do something with the music of Bruce Haack sounds very interesting to me. > Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the > unholy image of Heino on its cover? It's called 'Steve threw up' and I'm still looking for a copy... Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 08:46:49 -0800 Let's not get started on the Spice Girls (or better yet, let's do!). The= Spice Girls are the best thing to happen to popular music since I don't know when. I'm serious here - in pop music with all the Marylin Hansons, Madonnahues,= and Beastie Street Boys taking themselves so seriously and trying to establish "cred" or "honesty" or "serious" lyrics about depression and heartfelt crap, doing drugs, being poor, being "spiritual," being "in love" (gack!) as a commercial selling point while the dollars roll in, isn't it refreshing to= see a group being unabashed about having one hell of a time and being just as commercially crass as possible? Isn't it refreshing to see a group with= songs about having fun? Isn't it refreshing to see sex(uality) and kitsch as an= open and primary selling point? The many millions of girls age 6 to 12 worldwide can't be wrong. David Beckham can't be wrong either. The Spice Girls, ironically, are the most honest and straightforward= pop/rock outfit I can think of. I'd personally love to hear them remix Bruce Haack - talk about hybrid music!!! Talk about Exotic! What could be more outre than Sporty, Scary, Baby and= Posh gettin' all spicy with Bruce Haack posthumously backing? Hello! Girl Powah! Y'all better watch out or Sporty's gonna march right over there and get ya in a scrum. Oh yeah - and I think Beck'll do nicely. I'm 100 percent in agreement with Laura on that one... Clark At 10:20 AM 4/2/1999 -0500, Jane Fondle wrote: > I am far-less >offended by Beck having something to do with this than I am, say, the Spice >Girls or somebody.=A0 Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the >unholy image of Heino on its cover? >Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 11:52:12 -0500 cc: >>>Let's not get started on the Spice Girls (or better yet, let's do!). The Spice Girls are the best thing to happen to popular music since I don't know when. ... isn't it refreshing to see a group being unabashed about having one hell of a time and being just as commercially crass as possible? Isn't it refreshing to see a group with songs about having fun? I Hmmph! You are missing one very essential point here. Musically, they are 100%, absolutely useless and dreadful, and are about as hip as Celine Dion or Mariah Carey. So, no, there is never anything refreshing to me about people putting out lame music, especially under this false marketing guise of "girl power." Jane Fondle, who could single-handedly take on all those Spice Twits with both hands tied behind her back...jealous? only of the money! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:21:13 +0000 Beck isn't Beck without the Dust Brothers and Beck shouldn't be allowed to remix Bruce Haack without the Dust Brothers. And talking of the Spice Girls, after my evening of musical torture* last night, they're superb! Charlie * I spent last night with a friend listening to club compilations on CD from around the world. Highlights (or were they low lights) included a Russian club CD of house and techno (!), another equally shocking CD from Belgrade, a few from Italy (one with a banging Spice Girls cover version of 2 become 1, with all the lyrics wrong) and one from Tokyo (which was truly bizarre) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 12:22:30 -0500 At 10:20 AM 4/2/99 -0500, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck >would have anything to do with Bruce Haack? This is coming from somebody >who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the >better sounding and more interesting artistes out there I'm sure you're not the only one. I'm especially NOT incensed because I don't know who Bruce Haack is, except that he gets mentioned here all the time and he has something to do with moog....???. In fact I've been meaning to ask someone to make me a tape or tell me how to get some of his stuff. But no matter who he is, I don't understand why anyone would be incensed unless for some reason they believe that artists of the past are inherently superior to artists of the present. Whether you like Beck's output or not, it's clear that he has a deep knowledge and love for all kinds of "music of the past" and does a much better than average job of demonstrating and incorporating those influences in his music. I don't have any of his records but I always like hearing them There's so much questionable dredging up of the past, sampling, slavish copying and missing the whole point going on in contemporary music right now, I'd think that anything Beck might do would be a breath of fresh air. And he seems like a respectful young man to boot. 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: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack tapes (was beck/dreck) Date: 02 Apr 1999 13:20:57 -0500 Here is Miss Nelsons site address, where several of their collaborations are available on cassette: http://www.kidscornucopialtd.com/Dimension5.htm it's a brand new site and not listed in the search engines yet... Also, my information was incomplete. Yes, the tribute project is a remix project by various artists (should i say 'artists?'). - citizen kafka Nat Kone wrote: > ...In fact I've been meaning to ask someone to make me a tape or tell me > how to get some of his stuff. Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beck's not all dreck Date: 02 Apr 1999 14:25:46 -0600 At 08:46 AM 4/2/99 -0800, Clark wrote: > >Oh yeah - and I think Beck'll do nicely. I'm 100 percent in agreement with >Laura on that one... Speaking of Beck and re-mixing, here's a Press Release from those guys who did that plunderphonic Deconstructing Beck CD: ILLEGAL ART PROPAGANDA March 30, 1999 NEW RELEASE Extracted Celluloid Illegal Art 002/Seeland 509 official release date - April 9, 1999, but available now via mailorder!! 19 artists, 20 tracks. A sequel, of sorts, to Deconstructing Beck, this compilation is another co-release between Illegal Art and Seeland and is the second in a planned series of releases. This time every track is constructed entirely of music and sounds from the big screen. Among the victims are Titanic, Dr. Strangelove, Saturday Night Fever, Wizard Of Oz, Ennio Morricone, Cheech and Chong, and many more. A brief preview of the release is available at www.detritus.net/illegalart/preview.html sponsored by RTMARK - www.rtmark.com __________________________________________________ STILL AVAILABLE Deconstructing Beck Illegal Art 001/Seeland 507 After threatening letters from BMG, Geffen, and Beck's own lawyer, this RTMARK-sponsored disc escaped untouched from any real legal action. It has since sold thousands of copies and received substantial media attention. Tracklisting and audio clips may be found at www.detritus.net/illegalart/beck/ __________________________________________________ TO ORDER prices per disc for Extracted Celluloid and Deconstructing Beck are as follows: US $6, Canada or Mexico $7, rest of the world $8 all orders must be in US dollars. there are no additional charges for postage or handling and you may order as many copies as you like. well hidden cash is encouraged and checks or money orders may be made out to "Rayback." send orders to: illegal art P.O. Box 103 Hanover, NH 03755-0103 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?B?RWzka2Vs5GlzZXQgIA==?= Date: 02 Apr 1999 22:08:41 +0200 Not for the faint of heart but you can download a couple of MP3's from th= e brand new CD of Finnish humppastars El=E4kel=E4iset's at http://www.lpg.fi/kela/. Listen to their version of Hotel California! The Humppa karaoke section is quite fun too... Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 02 Apr 1999 15:33:20 -0500 Enough with this Spice Girls thing I inadvertedly began(woe to me)...I = gots some other burning questions...One is about the luxurient Brasil '66. I found the= se on their web page, and the following are albums I know nothing about, and hope you, dear reade= r, can educate me! Capitol ST2294 Brasil '65 (1965) Brasil '65 Atlantic SD1434 The Swinger From Rio (1966) Sergio Mendes Atlantic SD8112 In Person At El Matador! (1966) Sergio Mendes & Brasil = '65 Atlantic SD1466 The Great Arrival Sergio Mendes Atlantic SD1480 The Beat Of Brazil (1967) Sergio Mendes Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes A&M SP4284 Stillness (1970) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 A&M AML66 Live At The Expo '70 (1970 Jpn) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 A&M SP4353 Primal Roots (1972) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 A&M AMLS64378 In Concert (1973 Uk) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 Bell 1119 Love Music (1973) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 SomLivre 404.7053 I Believe Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 Bell 1305 Vintage '74 (1974) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 Elektra K52014 Sergio Mendes (1975) Sergio Mendes Elektra 7E1055 Homecooking (1976) Sergio Mendes A&M SP8110 Night And Day (Promo) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 Elektra 7E1102 Sergio Mendes & The New Brasil '77 (1977) Sergio Mendes = & The New Brasil '77 Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions: TH= E GIRL FROM UNCLE, and SPACE 1999? Jane Fondle...always wanting more.....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: Subject: (exotica) Bas Sheva? Date: 02 Apr 1999 15:50:12 -0500 I am posting chronically today, but I ain't got nothin' else to do until 5:30. I have scoured my copy of JUNGLE JAZZ( a desert island record if there ever was one) to see who the wailing babe is...it sounds a heck of a lot to me like it could be Bas Sheva...If not, is it the woman on the LOST EPISODEs...Just WHO is singing? Btw, where did they get the cover for that record, straight out of National Geographic? Jane "Blast from the Plas" Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "The Box of Mystery" with Brian Phillips (Long, Shelley!) Date: 02 Apr 1999 16:53:47 -0500 Hey, gang! Did you ever do something so wild, so nutty and just plain darned WIGGY that everyone around you said, "Will you get to the point of this post, Phillips?" Well I did. As the readers of this list remember, I purchased a large collection (his father worked in radio in the 50's and 60's) and posted reviews of the records that were of interest to the group. The same fellow that I bought these from is moving and while packing discovered another box of records. He told me some of the artists who were in this box, but I have essentially bought this box, sight unseen. What I am about to do may not have been done on this list before. I am about to open this box of discs right now for the first time, listen to excerpts of the ones I feel are of interest to this list and let you know what I think. Going into the other room... (hold music) Past Frampton's Camel, John Denver (Yikes!) and we stop at Visions of Eight (soundtrack) - Henry Mancini (RCA) This is from 1973 (the film is about the 1972 Olympics, one which I recall for both tragic and exciting reasons) and I am currently listening to "Ludmilla's Theme" which not only features the piano of Mancini , but it also brings back memories of my piano teacher, Ludmilla Berkwic. The theme is piano and strings, mid-tempo and pleasant enough, but not enough to send me. Next track is called "Pretty Girls", which is, once again, pleasant enough, with prominent horns. None of this prepares me for..."Spaced Out", the third song. This is an atmospheric synthesizer and theremin number. Most impressive, as I had never heard any switched-on Mancini. The next track is a winner. "Warm Up" features organ and full orchestra . Uptempo and catchy. The next track is "Soft Flight" which is properly ethereal, with strings and harpsichord (which I like almost as much as Ms. Fondle digs Theremin, Hello, Jane!) The side finishes with "The Race" which is uptempo and very enjoyable. The record is a "dynafex", which is RCAspeak for "less vinyl than we used to use". I shake it a couple of times with both hands on the edges and the couple next door break into a quick rendition of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport". Rating: This is at worst, average Mancini and at best, woo woo! I give it Eight Directors, which is what this film had. (Hold Music) The Wonderful World of Make Believe - Johnny Mathis (Mercury) (Year not stated) Liner Notes excerpt "...just pull up your dreamin' chair...and...away we go!" Mercury!? How did Columbia let Mathis get away? I would love to know the executive that made him take a break from the label. Talking about this record is not done with an unbiased ear, as some of you know, due to an obscure statute of the sixties, all homes had to have a Johnny Mathis in them. Those that did not have him had Ray Conniff. I grew very tired of him because of my mother's nine albums of his from the 70's. Since I am now older, I can say that his voice is no less than unbelievable, but outside of his first album, I probably would not buy any of his records in a thrift store. I have heard him too many times. So given that, I will approach this record with the air ofd someone who bought a record with a handsome fellow on the cover. Allyn Ferguson is the arranger on this album and his arrangements are lush and not intrusive, but not necessarily as grabbing as, say, esky's. The songs are pleasant affairs, not "exotic", per se. (I told you that I was bringing these out and hearing these for the first time!). The closest feeling to that we get is the title track, which begins with effective reverb on Mathis' vocals, however the song is not weird enough for the title for me to make it a classic, although I like the song. Shangri-La is appropriately dramatic as it's declarations ("Everywhere you are is Shangri-la!"). "When Wish Upon a Star". Oh, no, not again. Anyone that has grown up watching TV in the 1970's has heard this song enough times to say that there is very little to sway me to enjoy it, but there is a nice Bas Sheva-style woman's vocal singing along with him at the end of the song. The side closes with "Beyond the Blue Horizon", a song I have heard in cartoons as an instrumental. It finishes off with a wonderfully discordant orchestral wash of strings, but once again familiarity breeds a small nodule of contempt against the song. Rating: Like his voice, still not wild about the material. My dreamin' chair stayed fairly rooted. Two barcaloungers. (hold music) Exotica 1970 - Kokee Band (Solid State 18004) (1966) Firstly, this album clears up who was behind the Solid State moniker (United Artists). For those who don't know, which would include ME, Solid State seems to have been UA's attempt to reach the audiophile audience. It even features a Telefunken U-47 mike, a Frank Zappa favorite. The producer is Sonny Lester, so a good time is darn near guaranteed, if Jack Diamond has anything to say about it (Hello, Jack!). From the very first crack of Latin percussion on "Love for Sale", I was a goner. This track alone warrants reissue. This arrangement pulls out all of the stops (wild percussion, tempo shifts and a sinister piano) and takes it's rightful place alongside Stan Kenton as one of the all-time amazing renditions of this song. "Baia" I know from listening to harmonica player Max Geldray's version from the Goon Show(Hello Phil Clark!), again great arrangement, with a cuica (I am guessing) that sounds like a Bronx cheer. "The Lady in Red" once again sets off my cultural trigger (Bugs Bunny skipping down a road singing,, "The Rabbit in Red"!), but again, the percussion and full orchestra are using their wiles on me. It is useless to resist! What would one of my mile-long posts be without a small rumination on yet another version of "Moon of Manakoora"? Once again, the Kokeeheads (one of you thought it, admit it!) come through again with another latin-tinged arrangement (best touch a sliding horn figure near the beginning) that is just...OK, that's IT! Which Latino did the arrangements on this record This guy know his stuff! ...Arthur Baum? The liners have nothing too entertaining about them, save that the technical data outweighs the notes about the music four-to-one! Bonus ponts for actually featuring a picture of Sonny Lester on the inside of the gatefold. Minor carp: 10 songs, all under three minutes make for a short album. Rating: This rekkid is the @#$! It's gooood! 10 Jack Diamonds (Hello, Stars!) (hold music) His Way! - Frank Sinatra, Jr. (Daybreak) (1972) One cannot help feel badly for this fellow. Look who his Daddy was. YOU try and have a career with that looming over your head From the liners: "No matter how you shaket, Sinatra might well have had an easier path to trod as a professionl singer had his name been Frank Presley, Frank Kristofferson or Frank Lennon." However, it is only fair that we judge him on what he recorded. Besides, Frank Lennon is one goofy name. This album (his second for this label) benefits from the talents of arranger Nelson Riddle, who's now sound arrangements come into full awareness on "Now Is The Time" (not the Charlie Parker standard). This album has one difficulty and I must confess... ...it is Frank Sinatra, Jr. He voice does indeed sound like his father's, but it is thinner (which is still not bad, timbre-wise) and his vibrato sounds as if at the end of a line, producer Sonny Burke puts a block of ice on Sinatra's back. I might have forgiven this, save the fact that when he left to hit that note, that note that is the high note of that particular verse, he misses it. He misses it admirably, but he is flat. He fares best on the song "Have a Nice Day", a mid-tempo song. Rating: One half Nelson. (hold music) For Animals Only - Baja Marimba Band My first BMB record. Arranged by the late Julius Wechter (Hello Lou Smith) and Herb Alpert The liner notes by broadcaster Gary Owens are postively lousy with animal puns ("Hoggy" Carmichael...the works of Charles Lamb...Simian Legree") and ends with the phrase, "The result is nothing short of sycophantic." (?) A "Tijuana Brass with Marimba" feel permeates the album, the song "Elephant Soul" is rather enjoyable and Gnu Bossa Nova is also rather nice. There isn't much to inveigle to buy more BMB. Rating: MOOt, if you are a BMB completist. My feelings are neutral about this record. (hold music, a couple of hopeful clicks and back to hold music) Manny Albam - Brass on Fire (Solid State 18000) (1966) Liner notes: "Brass on Fire" by Manny Albam showcases naked brass." These notes beat the Kokee Band's as they have notes about each song and personnel! Favorite musician's name: "Howard Howard"(!) This album also has more bang for the 1966 buck, since it has 12 songs, as opposed to the 10 of Kokee's. I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?). I suppose that UA got jealous about Enoch Light and Command, so they decided to start this series, which is indeed quite well recorded, with the Telefunkens and the Altec Lipsticks, etc. Given that, this is a rather nicely arranged albeit, unspectacular record. There is brass and lots of it and it is played well. but it is essentially Big Band Jazz with almost no improvisation. If you are looking for Exotica, it would be best to look elsewhere, but that is not to say that this is a bad album, just that it aimed for a middleground and hit it, dead on. Rating: Solid. Thus endeth that fab epic of...the Mystery Box! Starring (in alphabetical order) Brian Phillips.....Brian Phillips Produced by Brian Phillips in collaboration with Qualcomm Software ("If you love our e-mail software, you'll love our stadium) Directed by Brian Phillips Key Grip...Brian Phillips This soundtrack is not availble on anyone's label MPAA Approved Recorded in Dolby Digital All rights reserved because my left hook is a MONSTER. 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: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 3.30.99 Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:42:40 EST Jimmy's Easy" airs on 88.1 WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m. ----------Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme---------- Ted Auletta Orchestra-Makaha-LP Exotica (Cameo label) Warren Barker-Flute Route-LP Warren Barker Is (jazzy/moody/Shearing like) Arthur Lyman-Ring Oi Wake-CD Taboo (Ryko) Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds-Across 110th St-CH Plays The Movies Billy Mure-What Is This Thing Called Love-LP Supersonics (Living Stereo, '58) Creed Taylor Orchestra-It's A Lonesome Old Town-LP Lonelyville (crime rock) Jane Morgan-Good Lovin'-LP Sounds Of Silence (was she a cross dresser?) -Full Moon-Malibu-LP Full Moon (Nice e-z jazz from Buzzy Feiten/Neil Larsen) -Chim Kothari-Looking Thru The Eyes Of Love-LP Sound Of Sitar (Pitney classic) -Dick Hyman-Aquarius-LP Age Of Electronicus (Adjunct to Electric Eclectics?) -Ferrante & Teicher-Va Va Voom!-CD Blast Off -Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra-Landing On The Moon-CD Rampartouille -Tom Jones-Things Go Better With Coke-CD Coke Commercials 1965-69 -Mandingo-Black Rite-CD Sound Gallery (orange one from Scamp) -David Shire-Manhattan Skyline-LP OST Saturday Night Fever (forgotten goodie) -Burt Bacharach-Promise Her Anything (Reprise)-LP OST Promise Her Anything -Henry Mancini-It Had Better Be Tonight (vocal)-LP OST Pink Panther Bernie Green Orchestra-I Love Paris-LP Futura (RCA Stereo AaCcTtIiOoNn) Mongo Santamaria-Workin' On A Groovy Thing-LP Workin' On A Groovy Thing ('68) Ulf Sandberg Trio-Watch What Happens-CD Scored! (James Taylor produced) Chittra Neogy-Woman Is Like A Fruit-CD Basic Hip Unswitched! (Thanks Basic) El Coco-Got That Feelin'-LP Cocomotion (ooooh, aaaah, got that feelin') MFSB-Human Machine-LP Universal Love (second LP from Philly's finest playaz) -Katha Ebstein-Ein Haus Suf Einer Insel-CD Get Easy-German Pops Collection -Sammy Davis Jr.-Ballad Of Johnny Cool-LP OST Johnny Cool -Dick Hyman-The Cat-LP Man From O.R.G.A.N. (Lalo's tune from "Joy House") -Ventures-Moon Journey-LP Runnin' Strong (Venturaholism developing here) -Davie Allan &The Arrows-Experiment In Terror-CD Shots In The Dark (grinder) -Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble-Caravan-LP Percussion (Living Stereo) -Unidentified Orchestra-Perdido-LP Perspectives In Percussion (Hollywood stuff) -Eydie Gorme-The Gift-LP Blame It On The Bossa Nova (excellent LP throughout) ----------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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:52:30 -0500 >Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes I like this one quite a lot! It was part of my big score of a year ago and despite the fact that Dave Grusin's name is on it (Not that he isn't talented, but during the seventies, almost every other danged soundtrack seemed to be Tom Scott or Dave Grusin). If you see it, buy it! 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: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's/Peter Date: 02 Apr 1999 19:43:42 -0500 >Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck >would have anything to do with Bruce Haack? i am not incensed. although i have to agree with Charlie on 1/2 of this one... >Beck isn't Beck without the Dust Brothers and Beck shouldn't be allowed to >remix Bruce Haack without the Dust Brothers. i like beck both with and without the dust bros. but it seems to me he is pretty much a avant folk singer with a guitar without a production crew. but it will be interesting to see what happens, so i do believe he is "allowed" to try it. Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the >unholy image of Heino on its cover? >Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute." yeah, i got that one even before i knew who that weirdo with the hair and glasses was! it is Steve threw up bw/ mutherfucker it is on Bongload Records BL 11 might try them direct like... (nope, just looked over their website. no go. but vinyl available of his lp's) plus, this will give Bruce Haack some 90's, next millenium exposure to those like me who really have not heard much or none at all. lets hear it for the boy. AND as far as not being allowed to remix. that should have been the case with the new Peter Thomas remixes. what a bunch of boring stuff. Disc 2 of the original unreleased stuff is wonderful Bungalow also offers (in very small print) everyone to try their own remix of the unreleased tracks and send them to the label for a chance to win a free trip to Germany to hang with Mr. Thomas!!! ******************************** 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) tiki sightings Date: 02 Apr 1999 20:35:06 -0500 For you tiki boys... As some of you may know, there's a new talk show after Letterman, replacing Tom Snyder. The host is some slicko named (Craig??) Kilborn. The other night Jeff Goldblum was a guest and he played a song for Kilborn which he and a friend had written especially for the occasion. The lyrics basically consisted of words that rhymed with "freaky". And at one point he sang (something like): "He's carrying a torch not a tiki" I think that was it. Maybe it was "BUT not a tiki". I took it to mean that he's carrying a torch but it's not a tiki torch as opposed to he's carrying a torch but he isn't carrying a tiki. But that could only be true if there's such thing as a tiki torch and I don't have the tiki expertise to figure that out. Anyway, thought you might like to know, whoever you are, that tikis are still running through the "culture". 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) "The Box of Mystery" with Brian Phillips (Long, Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:03:14 -0500 At 04:53 PM 4/2/99 -0500, Brian Phillips wrote: >Exotica 1970 - Kokee Band (Solid State 18004) (1966) > >Firstly, this album clears up who was behind the Solid State moniker >(United Artists). For those who don't know, which would include ME, Solid >State seems to have been UA's attempt to reach the audiophile audience. It >even features a Telefunken U-47 mike, a Frank Zappa favorite. I have to admit that one of the reasons I'm responding to this megapost is because from painful personal experience I know that often these megaposts go by without list reaction and I don't want any other listmembers to experience the empty "Is that all there is?" feeling that I have suffered through - in silence - on so many occasions. I know you need closure Brian and I'm doing my best. I'm also responding because I love the Kokee band. And because I love the Solid State label - and Sonny Lester too - even though it put out some dreck. But I do wish that their liner notes would occasionally mention the musicians in the band or something about the tunes. The Kokee band is one of my favourite quasi-modern exotica bands but for all I know they were as faceless an aggregation as this record suggest. If you like this record, look for their other one. (Or maybe there's more than one). It's called "Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" and has a very cool version of Bacharach's "After the Fox". > >Manny Albam - Brass on Fire (Solid State 18000) (1966) > >I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?). >Given that, this is a rather nicely arranged albeit, unspectacular record. >There is brass and lots of it and it is played well. but it is essentially >Big Band Jazz with almost no improvisation. I agree that it's unspectacular but I don't think it's the first record on the label. I have another FAR superior Manny Albam record, also on the label. I posted about it not that long ago. It's called "Soul of the City" and I don't think it's much of a stretch to call it a pretty cool "quasi-crime jazz" record. I'm not sure what the number means but the number on "Soul" is lower than the number on "Brass on Fire". Anyway, thank you for that not-really-too-long post. Happy Easter to my Christian friends. And in case you were wondering, my family were all at home the day that thing happened to your Lord. We had nothing to do with 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:11:59 -0500 At 03:33 PM 4/2/99 -0500, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: I found these >on their web page, and >the following are albums I know nothing about, and hope you, dear read= er, >can educate me! >A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 I have yet to find a Sergio record post-66 that compares with their bes= t stuff so now I just ignore anything where the number is in the seventie= s. But maybe there's a good one in there somewhere. It was post Lani-Hall= , wasn't it? So that could be part of the explanation for the quality dro= p. Also I seem to remember that one of the Brasil 77 records had Fender Rh= odes or something and as much as I have come to tolerate that keyboard sound= , the thing I love most about Brasil 66 is the sound of the piano. >Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions: T= HE >GIRL FROM UNCLE, and > SPACE 1999? I'm not the reissue guy on this list but I just saw an ad for Girl from Uncle so that is apparently reissued, in some form. As far as Space 1999 goes, you just reminded me how sexy Barbara Bain w= as but I don't know about the music. 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: Fish Wich Subject: (exotica) Brief intro and tiki offering Date: 02 Apr 1999 18:41:29 -0800 (PST) Hello, I'm Mark and I've been following the discussions on the list for about 8 months. Rather than go on about my musical tastes or records, I thought I would make a small offering to the high priests and priestesses of the list. I recently received the EMI Music Distribution May 4, 1999 release catalogue and was pleasantly surprised to see three full pages dedicated to the Ultra Lounge Tiki Sampler. At the risk of starting another thread about the new disc, I have scanned the pages and placed them on the web at: http://www.angelfire.com/me2/fishwich/ While the track listing and cover art may or may not be news to you, I found Capitol's marketing plans intriguing. The martini glass dump bins kind of pretty cool, though the name "dump bin" sort of ruins the magic. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all buy the disc at dealer price ($12.75)? Although a few scanned pictures can't compare to an online radio show or tiki shaped dildo, I hope they are acceptable... "A knife of obsidian flashes in the sun, and the victim's heart is held high before the prostrated multitude. Their god appeased, they slowly disperse." (Les Baxter - Sacred Idol) Fishwich _________________________________________________________ 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: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Bas Sheva? Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:24:07 EST << I have scoured my copy of JUNGLE JAZZ( a desert island record if there ever was one) to see who the wailing babe is...it sounds a heck of a lot to me like it could be Bas Sheva...If not, is it the woman on the LOST EPISODEs...Just WHO is singing? >> the woman on the Lost Epsiode is Beverly Ford. Listen for her on LA DOLCE HENKE, too. She demonstrates her four octave range on "Woman In Space". I have a video of that Baxter "Music Of The Sixties" TV show and she does a couple of fantastic solos and her bird calls. No wonder they use those luscious models for LP covers, poor Bev is pretty homely. I have no idea who "Tiki" is on THE PRIMITIVE AND THE PASSIONATE, either. I just hold on to my fantasy that whenever I hear these voices, the babes singing them look just like the model on the cover of THE PASSIONS. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Futurama Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:53:32 +0000 I agree with what has been said so far. The curse of an opening program for what is going to be a continuing story line is that most of its work is establishing the premise, which is often not very hilarious. Fox basically promoed all the good stuff and the rest was set-up. The voices are little blase for me. As new characters emerge, this may change. The Nixon voice was awful. I am very bothered by the prospect of a continuing story line. I think this will make it difficult to really exploit the possibilities. I am going to give it a chance and see what happens. 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: Matt Hinrichs Subject: (exotica) Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD Date: 02 Apr 1999 22:49:03 -0700 Hi! Not totally exotica-related, but the new disc by Ben Lee, "Breathing Tornados", contains samples of not one but two 3 Suns songs - cool!! Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came from: C'est Si Bon There Goes My Heart Mucho thanks in advance! - Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Bas Sheva? Date: 03 Apr 1999 11:19:10 +0200 BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > > > I have no idea who "Tiki" is on THE PRIMITIVE AND THE PASSIONATE, either. I > just hold on to my fantasy that whenever I hear these voices, the babes > singing them look just like the model on the cover of THE PASSIONS. > Are you saying this woman is NOT Bas Sheva? How disappointing! -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) tiki sightings Date: 03 Apr 1999 11:20:29 +0200 Nat Kone wrote: > For you tiki boys... ...and girls > But that could only be true > if there's such thing as a tiki torch and I don't have the tiki expertise > to figure that out. Yes there is. In my opinion it's this stick with a cone (Nat!)-formed straw roof with a flame on top. > Anyway, thought you might like to know, whoever you are, that tikis are > still running through the "culture". And it's getting bigger and bigger.... -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: Paul Dean Subject: (exotica) Fantastic Planet Date: 03 Apr 1999 04:49:48 -0600 I just watched a video of the French animation Fantastic Planet, made in 1973. A great movie and a fantastic soundtrack. Does anyone know any details about the music, like who made it and has it been reissued lately. If not, I say it should be! epaul # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 02 Apr 1999 16:54:25 PST > > Capitol ST2294 Brasil '65 (1965) Brasil '65 > Atlantic SD1434 The Swinger From Rio (1966) Sergio Mendes > Atlantic SD8112 In Person At El Matador! (1966) Sergio Mendes & Brasil = '65 > Atlantic SD1466 The Great Arrival Sergio Mendes > Atlantic SD1480 The Beat Of Brazil (1967) Sergio Mendes > Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes All the Brasil 65 stuff is pretty good, but fairly straight jazzy-Brasili= an bossa renditions. Not that fat A&M lush production. As for these Atlan= tic relases by Sergio, such as Favorite Things, I thought these were in = a similar vein, and that Favorite was a compilation. But maybe not, someo= ne, help us out. > A&M SP4284 Stillness (1970) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 After many years of searching, I finally found this LP a couple years ago= . Now I see it fairly regularly, but not in the $1 bins as expected with = the other Sergio stuff. Usually in collector shops for upwards of $10. = There are a few amazing moments on it. It's maybe getting into the realm = of less of a groovy lounge sound to more prog-sounding stuff. > A&M AML66 Live At The Expo '70 (1970 Jpn) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 I heard a tape of 66 live once, and they sounded fairly god awful. Girls = sounded flat and the arrangements were just not there. I was disappointed= . The tape was probably this LP. > A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77 I'm told the 77 stuff has brighter moments from time to time. I might sta= rt picking it up when I see it cheap, but I've always been told (and from= what I've heard too) that is just doesn't compare with 66. My opinion, for what it's worth. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Sid & Marty Krofft Date: 03 Apr 1999 15:55:05 +0200 that CD is not released yet (according to EveryCD). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: bruce haack on CD?? Date: 03 Apr 1999 15:58:07 +0200 At 13:47 -0700 99/04/01, Citizen Kafka wrote: >If the original label Dimension 5 would re-issue any of their original >titles, would folks be interested?? i think so, especially if they focus on these 3 titles: The Way-Out Cassette For Children Dance to the Music The Electronic Cassette For Children especially the first one lives up to its title! 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 03 Apr 1999 10:49:04 +0000 There's Music To Be Murdered By on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast - introduced by the Merchant of Menace himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Also, bossa nova that's downright dangerous by Tony Mottola (his famous "Danger" theme, done as a bossa); Kenyon Hopkins' classic "Shock"; and crime jazz by Leith Stevens. You'll also find rare exotica by Axel Stordahl ("Jasmine and Jade"), Ted Auletta, Tito Puente and and Warren Barker; a couple of Charles Albertine's wonderfully witty arrangements for the Three Suns and for the Al Nevins Orchestra (from "Dancing with the Blues"); "Blues for the Guru" by 101 Strings and much more. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html You'll need a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer, which you can download for free at: http://www.real.com/products/player/50player/index.html?src=download As always, if you dial up our weekly Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, please drop us a line and let us know you're out there. Next week, our special guest is Dana Countryman, editor of "Cool and Strange Music Magazine"! 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: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Solid State Discog. Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:30:11 -0800 Brian queried: > > I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?). > I suppose that UA got jealous about Enoch Light and Command, so they > decided to start this series, which is indeed quite well recorded, with the > Telefunkens and the Altec Lipsticks, etc. I can supply a partial discography for Solid State. Additions most welcome! 18000 "Brass on Fire" - Manny Albam 18002 "A Bag Full of Soul" - Jimmy McGriff 18004 "Exotica 1970" - Kokee Band 18011 "Best of Broadway" - Will Bronson Singers 18013 "Music for Wives and Lovers" - Nelson Riddle In addition, I have a label sampler record that has photos of these records, but I can't read the catalog numbers because the print is too small: "Percussive Mariachi" - Ted Sommer (looks like 18002) "Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" - Kokee Band "The Soul of the City" - Manny Albam "Introducing..." - The Passion Guitars (looks like 18007) "Cherry" - Jimmy McGriff (18006?) "Presenting Joe Williams et al and the Jazz Orchestra" "Presenting Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra" The label has a reasonably nice look, with gatefold LPs and consistent cover art. Sonny Lester and Phil Ramone seem to be the creative force behind the label. I pick them up when I see them because they do tend to sound great. -- 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Hell's Belles Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:52:02 EST I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks....... 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: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" Subject: Re: (exotica) Solid State Discog. Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:10:47 +0000 > I can supply a partial discography for Solid State. Additions most > welcome! > > 18000 "Brass on Fire" - Manny Albam > 18002 "A Bag Full of Soul" - Jimmy McGriff > 18004 "Exotica 1970" - Kokee Band > 18011 "Best of Broadway" - Will Bronson Singers > 18013 "Music for Wives and Lovers" - Nelson Riddle > List of 60 here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=ISOLID|STATE Tim Barron World Wide Wax - Your source for classic vinyl Over 8,000 lps for sale & 700 scanned covers at: http://www.worldwidewax.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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Next Stop wrong album cover Date: 03 Apr 1999 16:17:17 -0500 Something maybe only an exoticat might notice and/or appreciate.. There's this newish movie out on tape, "Next Stop Wonderland". It's actually a pretty "nice" romantic film but you can judge for yourself. The female protagonist likes Brasilian music and the music is virtually all Jobim, Astrud Gilberto and other similar stuff. Even a little Walter Wanderley. "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" and other songs are performed not only on the soundtrack but is sung by characters in the film. When the musical "motif" is first introduced in the film, the heroine is seen in her apartment listening to an LP and the camera pans over to the turntable and the record cover leaning near it. You can't see the whole record but you can see the title. "After Hours. South America". Now wait a minute. "After Hours". Isn't that a series of records that Sonny Lester made? I have "After Hours. Middle East" and it's one of my favourite records. And I know there are other records in that series like "After Hours. Italy". So you'd think there might be a "South America" one. But when you see that record cover, the music playing is Astrud Gilberto. Why would they choose that record cover, assuming I'm right? I guess they needed the words South America or Brazil and they couldn't find that on an Astrud Gilberto or Jobim record. I guess they figured that the name Jobim wouldn't say "South America" to the audience or at least not clearly enough. It's kind of disappointing. Then again, who else would notice something like that? 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: "Amanda Cavataio" Subject: (exotica) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation" Date: 03 Apr 1999 13:32:24 PST First of all, I'm happy that this is my first post! I've been on the list for a couple of weeks now and I absolutely dig it, baby!! I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren. Does anyone here know something about this movie, or even if I have this right? It sounds like something I must get my paws on. Please advise! Keep it swingin' Amanda _______________________________________________________ Get your free, private email at http://mail.excite.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: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC Date: 03 Apr 1999 17:35:42 -0500 Hi, All, The Wretched Refuse String Band (Citizen Kafka, Jon Sholle, Bob Jones, Jeff Berman, Roger Mason) will appear THIS WEDNESDAY at The Cooler, 416 W.14th St. (9th Ave) at 9:30 PM (1 big set). The Dutels, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, will be closing for us. $7 admission. Original Citizen Kafka material, string band madness, and more. See you there! Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation" Date: 03 Apr 1999 21:32:10 EST In a message dated 4/3/99 5:33:36 PM, acavataio@excite.com wrote: >I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm >pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren. Does anyone here >know something about this movie, or even if I have this right? It sounds >like something I must get my paws on. Please advise! Hi. I have a copy of the poster ad for the movie, also starring Steve Cochran, reportedly a member of the "B" movie royalty brigade and I think it contains the song "Beat Generation" (and I can take it or leave it each time) later made into "Blank Generation" by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Have yet to see the movie though # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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, April 4 Date: 03 Apr 1999 23:53:08 -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 #42 Cover This!! This week, we're featuring cover versions of songs, ranging from super-cool to super-cheesy! Alan Tew: These Boots Are Made For Walking "Dig It!" (Thanks, Johan!) Rene Touzel: Baby Elephant Walk "Cocktail Mix 2: Martini Madness" Chris Waxman: Mas Que Nada "Dig It!" Peter Thomas: Jumping Jack Flash "Organic" Sounds Orchestral: Black Is Black "Sounds Rare" Montefiori Cocktail: So What's New "Raccolta No. 1" Lalo Schifrin: Quiet Village "Black Widow" Trax 4: Coming Home Baby "Dig It!" Synthesonic Sounds: House Of The Rising Sun "The Easy Project: 20 Loungecore Favourites" Frank Chacksfield: Route 66 "Dig It!" The Bob Crewe Generation: Music To Watch Girls By "Music To Watch Girls By" Arthur Lyman: The Shadow Of Your Smile "Sonic Sixties" Mrs. Miller: Downtown "Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits" Edmundo Ros: This Nearly Was Mine "Latin Love-In" Enoch Light: Get Back "Spaced Out" Johnny Keating: Jesus Christ Superstar "The Sound Gallery" (It is Easter Sunday, after all!) Gotz Alsmann: Va Ba Ba Boom "Gestatten" 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: Re: (exotica) Solid State Discog. Date: 04 Apr 1999 12:25:03 -0400 At 02:30 PM 4/3/99 -0800, B. Yost wrote: > >I can supply a partial discography for Solid State. Additions most >welcome! >In addition, I have a label sampler record that has photos of these >records, but I can't read the catalog numbers because the print is too >small: I don't know which sampler record you have but on mine - "You've got to hear it to believe it" - the catalog numbers are eminently legible even for a guy fighting the fact that he needs glasses. >"Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" - Kokee Band I have this record so I don't have to look on the sampler. Catalog number: 18010 >"The Soul of the City" - Manny Albam Cat.no 18009 Or if it's mono, like my copy, it's 17009. I just noticed that all the mono copies have 17000 catalog numbers so I guess I was wrong yesterday when I said that "Soul" came out before "Brass on Fire". >"Introducing..." - The Passion Guitars (looks like 18007) Correct! >"Cherry" - Jimmy McGriff (18006?) Correct again. There's also Jimmy McGriff "I've got a new woman" catalog number 18030 and Jimmy McGriff "The Big Band", catalog number 18001. >Presenting Joe Williams et al Cat no: 18008 >Presenting Thad Jones, Mel Lewis... Cat no: 18003 There's also another Will Bronson Presents the In Crowd Singers. I pick these up too but not all that enthusiastically. I think it's kind of a strange, more-bland-than-it-had-to-be label and kind of reminds me of Bob Shad's "Mainstream" label in that way. It seems to me that Sonny Lester (and Bob Shad) were involved in much more interesting records when they didn't have their own labels. I like the Jimmy McGriff records though they're not the best organ jazz records I have. The only semi-unique thing on the label is the Kokee Band. 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation" Date: 04 Apr 1999 15:56:07 -0400 >I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm >pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren. Does anyone here >know something about this movie, or even if I have this right? It sounds >like something I must get my paws on. Please advise! I have not seen any part of this movie for getting on 20 years, however, I do recall that Louis Armstrong sang the main title ("You beat generation/I think you're headed for the Blues"). Maltin disliked this move, (although "he" gave a long post of mine five stars and thank you :^), although, in' it's favor, Richard Matheson co-wrote the script, Vampira's in it and once again, Louis Armstrong! Another movie from the same year, which is on video is "A Bucket of Blood", which takes place mostly in a coffeehouse and has quite a lot of great beatnik atmosphere. Brian Phillips P.S. Thanks for the replies to my loooong post and thanks to the All Music pointer. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" Date: 04 Apr 1999 16:05:06 -0400 >I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" I haven't seen it... woe-is-uh-me-bop, it never turns up on TV. But referring to the trusty "Psychotronic Encyclopedia" we learn (in our own words, as the teacher used to specify): "Beat Generation" (1959, MGM) Produced by Albert Zugsmith, which is pretty much a seal of approval, depending on your tastes. Buddy cops (Steve Cochran and Jackie Coogan (yes -- Uncle Fester -- he gets a drag decoy scene too!)) track a serial rapist known as The Aspirin Kid (Ray Danton), who frequents the beatnik coffehouse scene. Probably less along the lines of glorifying the beat scene and more along the lines of the cops saying, "whatta bunch of freaks." Such a cast: Mamie Van Doren, Irish McCalla, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi as a poet with a mouse on her shoulder, Fay Spain, Jim Mitchum, Maxie Rosenbloom, Grabowski the Beat Beatnik, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Guy Stockwell, Regina Carrol, William Schallert (Patty Duke's dad) and Louis Armstrong & his band! The title song is indeed "The Beat Generation" by Bob McFadden & Dor (or as he's more commonly known, Rod McKuen). Later converted into "Blank Generation" by Richard Hell (or as he's less commonly known, Richard Meyers). Surely a cool movie. Must see it someday. That and the uncut version of "Sex Kittens Go To College" (another Zugsmith classic). 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: HEDCANDY@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro "Best Of" CD-R Date: 04 Apr 1999 18:22:16 EDT Hello all... In keeping with the only coherent New Years Eve Resoution I can remember, I have finally gotten around to summoning the God OF HELLFIRE and forged a mucho deluxo, el Grandioso 2 Disc collection of the music of the great Hugo Montenegro. Entitled, "this is HUGO MONTENENGRO", this is volume one of what will inevitably become a series much like Verve's "Jazz Masters" series... titled instead "Space-Age Pop Composers." For the uninitiated, Hugo was a cornucopial "jack-of-all-trades" when it came to music. Composer, arranger, player... and what a weirdo to boot! (Weirdo meaning "taste" to those in the know). He did standard orchestration pieces, boring covers, took Spaghetti Western themes and made them even MORE strange, worked in the new realm of "Quadrophonics," and develloped a serious hard-on for the moog somewhere after "tuning in, turning on, and dropping out" around 1968. Trust me, you'll hear the difference a good trip of some narcotic sort may have done for him as he went from Our Fair Lady covers to Aquarius / Hair and Quadrophonia on the moog! He even had another of the Montenegro clan (his son?) get involved with the Arp Synthesizer on his kick-ass long-players, Hugo In Wonderland: Hugo Montenegro Interprits The Genius Of Stevie Wonder (1973) and Hugo's Diamonds: Hugo Montenegro Plays Hits Made Famous By Neil Diamond. (1973-4). And who can forget Hugo's classic "Moog Power" and "Dawn Of Dylan" albums? Trust me... it's ALL good. The track listing is as follows: Good The Bad and The Ugly, Tico Tico, Jalousie, La Panse, Secret Agent Man, Them to "I Spy", Thunderball, Theme to "Get Smart!", Come Spy With Me, Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Our Man Flint, 007 Theme, Hang Em' High, A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, Theme for "The Valley Of The Dolls", Theme For Three, In The Heat Of The Night, Tony's Theme, Lady In Cement, Happy Together, Good Morning Starshine, Hair-Aquarius Medley, Touch Me, Traces, Moog Power, Dizzy, MacArthur Park, You Showed Me, My Way, Undun, Lay Lady Lay, Joy To The World, El Condor Pasa, The Godfather Love Theme, Baby Lephant Walk / Moon River Medley, Quadimodo, I Feel The Earth Move, The Godfather Waltz, Stutterology, The Look Of Love, Living In The City, Too High, Shoo-Bee Do-Be-D Da-Day, porcupine Pine, Cracklin' Rose, Higher Ground Interested parties, gimme' a holla'. OTHER TITLES IN THE WORKS: "Something For Cats" - The Coolest Work Of Henry Mancini (3 Discs) "Robo-Electric Cheese" - Stomping disco electronics from the 1970's... featuring Giorgio Moroder, Tangerine Dream, Space, YMO, Kraftwerk, Donna Summer, Hot Butter and 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: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap Date: 04 Apr 1999 19:07:52 EDT Anyone know when the next swap is? Thanks. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Sandy Warner Date: 31 Mar 1999 16:44:42 -0500 > I got an update for Netscape at the work cell, and now I can't get that > fancy Sandy Warner pic to work ........ > I dont know what that thing Jane Fondle sent was supposed to look like, but I'm the guy that made those Sandy Warner throbbers. I regret to say that I haven't had Sandy wink at me in a while either. When I upgraded to NYETscape 4 I kinda gave up. And I think I blasted those original files anyways. So if you got them, hang on to them, Nate. Maybe somebody more learned, like the guys at http://www.throbbers.com can help you. They are the ones that gave me the idea in the first place, and thay even said that they would use mine on their web page. Athough I never checked... surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) obits: Jesse Stone,Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young,Lionel Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:04:51 -0500 ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Jesse Stone, a major influence on 20th century music who wrote ``Shake, Rattle and Roll'' and helped develop many of Atlantic Records' biggest hits, has died. He was 97. Stone died Thursday after a long illness. As a writer, producer and arranger at Atlantic, Stone worked with artists such as Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, the Drifters and the Clovers. Among his other famous songs were ``Idaho'' and ``Money Honey.'' In 1974, Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegun said: ``Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock 'n roll sound than anybody else.'' Stone's widow, singer Evelyn McGee Stone, said that on April 25, the day her husband went into the hospital for the last time, he began writing a new song while she was playing with their dog. ``I had been saying to the dog, `That's it, that's it,' and he wrote a song and that's the title,'' she said. The grandson of Tennessee slaves, Stone had a career that spanned the spectrum: minstrels, folk songs, dance orchestras, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll and jazz. Stone always was on the cutting edge, never quite achieving fame but highly respected within the core of the profession. He helped build Atlantic Records into a top rhythm-and-blues label in the late '40s and early '50s, signing such stars as Ruth Brown. ``Her first record came out. Bang! It was a hit. We got a group called the Clovers. Their record came out. Bang! It was a hit,'' Stone said in a 1991 Associated Press interview. ``Everything we touched after that went over big. Sometimes we had four or five records on the chart at the same time.'' It was Stone and Bill Haley, who had a Top 10 hit in 1954 with Stone's ``Shake, Rattle and Roll,'' that paved the way for the acceptance among whites of what had been considered ``Negro music.'' ``A white man recording black music. That's when white people began to buy this stuff -- they could hear it on the air,'' Stone said. Elvis Presley's nationwide success the following year cemented the R&B-rock foundation laid by black singers and Haley -- many with Stone's tunes and arrangements. Earlier, Stone's jazz tune ``Idaho'' helped make Guy Lombardo rich and famous, selling 3 million copies in the mid-1940s. Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey also had a hit with it. Born in Atchison, Kan. on Nov. 16, 1901, Stone -- who also wrote under the name Charles Calhoun -- started performing at age 5, touring with his family's minstrel show. In the 1920s, he led a jazz group that included future saxophone legend Coleman Hawkins. In 1936, Duke Ellington helped him get a booking at the Cotton Club in New York. He also worked at the Apollo Theater, composing and arranging songs as well as writing jokes and sketches. He was inducted into the Rhythm 'n' Blues Hall of Fame in 1992. At Stone's 95th birthday party, Ertegun read a letter from famed producer Jerry Wexler, noted: ``From your vast experience with jazz, blues, country -- in fact, every facet of American root music, you became one of the architects of the new urban music of black folk, the music that came to be known as rhythm and blues. You wrote the tunes and the arrangements; you assembled the players; you ran the rehearsals; you conducted in the studio. And it was your own continuing evolution that helped pave the way for the next great cultural tidal wave -- rock 'n' roll.'' *Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young CHICAGO (AP) -- Blues guitarist Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young, who brought a special passion to the blues and helped introduce the musical form to mainstream America, died March 24 of complications following spinal surgery. He was 71. He began playing in the early 1950s, working clubs in Milwaukee and then back in his native Louisiana before moving to Chicago. In Chicago, he learned from such artists as Jimmy Rogers and Otis Rush, and appeared on records with Albert King and Koko Taylor. Young was one of the first artists to bring blues to young, primarily white audiences on Chicago's North Side. He was also a popular draw on the festival and university circuits. He released his final album in 1997, ``Mighty Man.'' LONDON, April 3 (AFP) - British musical composer Lionel Bart, best known for writing "Oliver!" based on the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist", died Saturday from cancer aged 68, his family said. The composer, who had been suffering from the disease for six months, died at the Hammersmith Hospital in west London. His most famous legacy is the 1960's hit "Oliver!", which combined simple melodies and catchy lyrics to produce one of the most popular musicals ever. But in his heyday he was also among the most successful pop songwriters, writing hits for the likes of Cliff Richard ("Living Doll"), and Shirley Bassey ("As Long As He Needs Me"). He also wrote the James Bond theme "From Russia With Love", a hit for singer Matt Monro in 1963. Born Lionel Begleiter to a family of Jewish refugees in 1930, Bart grew up in London's East End and started his musical career in the 1950s Soho rock'n'roll and skiffle scene. His knack for producing sharp music-hall lyrics soon led him into composing more ambitious pieces. But it was "Oliver!" which cemented his reputation, including songs such as "Food Glorious Food" and "As Long As He Needs Me". Bart became a pivotal figure in the 1960s London scene and befriended the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. After the film adaptation of Oliver! won six Oscars, he became romantically linked with the likes of Judy Garland and Alma Cogan. But after lesser successes of follow-up musicals -- and the total failure of 1965's "Twang!!" -- Bart began a long-decline into drink and drugs, which lasted for much of the 1970s and 80s. Bart signed away his rights to "Oliver!" and other properties, in part to finance "Twang!!". He later admitted his mistake and estimated that the move cost him as much as 160 million dollars. "If I hadn't pretended to be such a genius child, King Baby, I would have paid more attention," he said in interview in 1986. In 1972 he filed a petition for bankruptcy with estimated debts of 158,000 pounds (256,000 dollars). In 1975 and 1983 he was banned for drink-driving. The drinking also saw him develop diabetes. He began composing again about a decade ago, and saw his profile rise again through revivals of his work. A family member said Bart had been working up until his death on a revival of his 1969 musical "La Strada". One of the first to pay tribute was fellow British musical composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber. He said: "Lionel was the father of the modern British musical. He was responsible for one of the greatest musicals of all time and if this wasn't enough, he wrote arguably the all-time perfect pop song, Living Doll." See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-lionel-bart.html *David Brooks NEW YORK (AP) -- David Brooks, an actor, director and producer who starred in the leading role of Tommy Albright in the Broadway musical ``Brigadoon,'' died Wednesday. He was 83. Brooks debuted on Broadway in 1945 in the musical comedy ``Bloomer Girl.'' In 1947, Brooks landed the role in Brigadoon, a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe that went on to play 581 performances. He directed and produced in Italy in the 1950s, and in the U.S. helped set up Rooftop Productions, which was behind the American premieres of James Joyce's ``Ulysses in Nighttown'' and Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame.'' Brooks was born in Portland, Ore., and graduated from the University of Washington. He studied opera at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: christopher marks Subject: (exotica) secret agent Date: 05 Apr 1999 07:55:59 -0700 (PDT) i am new to this list (subscribed today), and while that, in and of itself, is no good reason to post, i do have a question for ya all. a friend of mine had been looking for an album by chick corea that was released on polydor in 1978(?) by the name of secret agent. from my understanding, and research, it was never re-released on vinyl or released on CD. if anyone out there has any information on where i could find it, it would be greatly appreciated. chris p.s. i am also looking for a discography for the mystic moods orchestra. i have approximately 15 of their albums and am looking to complete my collection. i just don't know what i am missing. __ http://www.go.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your Free GO Network Email address at http://mail.go.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: Michael Hibarger Subject: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again... Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:06:46 -0400 Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again... Yep, those hipsters at Gap have gone and come up with a new "retro" commercial, this time using go-go music and having their khaki models go-go dancing...nice spot. They're go-go dancing to "Wild Elephants", the question is...who did that tune? Any other recommends for music in this genre from the members of this list? And where can I learn some of those dance steps besides renting Beach Blanket Bingo and hitting rewind a million times....ha! Cheers, Mike. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Hell's Belles Date: 05 Apr 1999 09:49:47 -0400 Please respond to DJJimmyBee@aol.com cc: (bcc: Laura Taylor/ADM/Boston MA/C&L/US) I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks....... Jimmy Botticelli >>>YES! Les Baxter doin' biker rawk as only a fake rocker like he can do! Plus, the fact that _somebody_ is pressing these again is GREAT NEWS, because the originalOST is goin' for huge bucks on places like Ebay and Dusty Groove..You could always preview my copy, too, before you take the plunge, but I suspect this groovy, wax attack is something you&your listners would dig hard! Jane Fondle # 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:31:42 -0400 >Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came >from: >C'est Si Bon >There Goes My Heart Ah yes. . . both are on the 1962 album _Warm and Tender_. That LP has the Suns plus a full string section, so it can get a little sappy even by the standards of a Three Suns fan, which I am. However it certainly has its warped moments, like the *extremely* peculiar "Poor Butterfly." My note to myself on the inner sleeve says, "music to have a mental breakdown to?" And you gotta love that cover: A woman in a negligee lying on pink artificial fur, petting her pussycat. Eeep! So personally I can't wait for Brian's live webcast, where he unseals the lost tomb of Enoch Light! What riches will we find there?!?!? --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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail Date: 05 Apr 1999 09:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter songs. All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop. I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music. Can anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale? I would be happy to trade if someone has a great cassette/cdr of such music, 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: "The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records" Subject: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 05 Apr 1999 08:29:01 -0700 Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's. I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and would like to know how many there are. Thanks, Sean The Continental Magazine Double Crown Records & Mail-Order http://www.dblcrown.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: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:51:26 -0500 (CDT) On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, chuck wrote: > > Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter > songs. All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In > Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop. > > I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music. Can > anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale? How about "Jesus Christ, Superstar"? -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: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again... Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:02:02 -0700 >Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again... Which is it this time? Opening new sweatshops, clear-cutting more forests, buying more public schools, buying another national park, or receiving millions more in corporate welfare? Go go go! CRR www.ratso.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: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:33:22 -0700 >Anyone know when the next swap is? Thanks. >Gloria Sunday, August 18, McLaren Hall, University of San Francisco, 10 AM - 4 PM. $2. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC Date: 05 Apr 1999 16:01:38 -0400 >>Hi, All, The Wretched Refuse String Band (Citizen Kafka, Jon Sholle, Bob Jones, Jeff Berman, Roger Mason) will appear THIS WEDNESDAY at The Cooler, 416 W.14th St. (9th Ave) at 9:30 PM (1 big set). The Dutels, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, will be closing for us. Hey, not so fast! Tell us about your band! Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this 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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) hitting the books Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:16:11 -0400 Got a couple of relevant old music books over the weekend. I know, I know, it's not vinyl, but we're so slow right now. "David Rose Piano Compositions Made Easy A Collection of Simplified Piano Solos" 48 pages. Published by Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc. Issued in 1965, I think, as several tunes say "This arrangement Copyright 1965 by Bregman..." [etc, etc]. Most of the tunes date from the 40s. Includes "Holiday For Strings", "Holiday For Flutes" and "Holiday For Trombones", but not "The Stripper". Nor "Holiday For The Stripper". There's a dignified composer photo of Mr. Rose on the cover. See image here (for a limited time only): http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/davidrosebook.gif "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass And Friends Julius Wechter and The Baja Marimba Band Chris Montez" 36 pages. Published 1968 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. A collection of songs performed by Herb and his A&M cohorts, interspersed with fan-clubby photos and biography pages chock full of rich and hearty PR prose. From Herb's page: "His modesty is hard to swallow, painful to convey, impossible to fault, for Herb Alpert himself has no explanation of the special audience reaction he arouses. Women love him with their eyes, ears, hearts; men appreciate him because they cannot deny his charisma and charm and he appears not to threaten their status." From the JW & TBMB page: "The Baja Marimba Band, formed in Hollywood only three years ago has become one of the great treasures of the performing arts -- musicianly, funny, strong, robust, handsome, full of color and rippling with mustaches and cigars they embrace the stage in a wide and warm and smoky hug and no audience -- no audience ever -- has been less than exhilarated by their presence." From Chris Montez' page: "As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant force in the music world. These new entertainers are professionally experienced. They are educated in the technical aspects of their craft and in all the fundamentals of musicology. These musicians, generally youthful yet mature, are the first popular entertainers in over a generation to possess that magical quality which appeals to an audience unrestricted by age." The song selections are unfortunately a bit disappointing. No "Lonely Bull" or "Whipped Cream". Instead there's such grandparently fare as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Mame" (and just generic arrangements at that). But it does include "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi", both with complete lyrics. Image here: http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/herbalpertbook.gif And while we're on the subject of sheet music (also going back to our thread the other month), the Hal Leonard Corporation has a useful website here: http://www.halleonard.com/ Full contents listings of their books are online. And the search engine has the handy option of searching for a specific song title, and returning which books it appears in. 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: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka DJs TONIGHT!! (and what is wretched refuse...) Date: 05 Apr 1999 19:32:33 -0400 DuDuh, didn't send this out to the list?? Mondays 10pm - 2am Barmacy 538 East 14th Street (between Avenues A & B) New York City No Cover April 5th Citizen Kafka MWM, 51 seeks single or multiple groups, 21+, please, D & D OK for direct audio stimulation.I am a top. all races, sexes, styles, newbies OK. spinning everything... 78s, cylinders, 10", 12", 7", 8", all of everything, not all at once. Exotica in the broadest sense featured prominently. the wretched refuse string band is a bluegrass/old-time/avant band, together for 29 years. full band: 2 fiddles, elec.guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums, bass, banjo, sometimes trombone, alto sax, clarinet, sometimes theremin, sometimes crappy 60's keyboard synth. This band mutates to the Citizen Kafka band, more electric. tv commercial covers, charles ives, traditional american, klezmer, 50's rock, soft folk covers of fight the power, atonal minutiae, etc. again, more kinds of music than i'd care to admit. some members include andy statman, tony trischka, roger mason, ken kosek, matt glaser, others. i am the front... running out to dj, more if needed. laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) hitting the books Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:24:19 -0400 I am stuck at work after 12 hours and this made my day! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DaveHiFi@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Three Suns Samples Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:10:11 EDT Matt Hinrichs sez: <> Both of theses tracks are from Warm and Tender. A late effort (1962) and not one of their best, being cursed with strings, which always kicked the Three Suns down a rung, but not without some redeeming moments either. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 05 Apr 1999 21:20:10 EDT << Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's. I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and would like to know how many there are. >> you may be pretty close to having em all. the following was clipped from the SABPM music site: RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve) Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287 It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290 Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306 The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353 Sounds Terrific! - Ted Textor (orchestra and chorus) LSA-2365 Crazy Rhythm - Guitars Unlimited + 7,July 1961 LSA-2371 Futura - Bernie Green, July 1961 LSA-2376 Stereo Action Goes Hollywood - Marty Gold, September 1961 LSA-2381 Stereo Action Goes Broadway - Dick Schory, September 1961 LSA-2382 Paradise Regained - Leo Addeo, November 1961 LSA-2414 Excitement, Incorporated - Ray Martin LSA-2422 Sounds Sensational! - Keith Texor LSA-2425 More Double Exposure - Manny Albam - LSA 2432 Dynamic Dimensions - Henri Rene, November 1961 LSA-2396 Stereo Action Unlimited - various artists, December 1961 LSA-2489 Latin-Esque - Esquivel, March 1962 LSA-2418 Holiday for Percussion - Dick Schory, March 1962 LSA-2485 I Had the Craziest Dream - Manny Albam - LSA-2508 Movin' & Groovin' - Three Suns, June 1962 LSA-2532 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) UL Deletions? Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:26:50 -0700 Saw a bunch of (mostly) sealed UL Leopard Skin Sampler CDs for $8.99 at a used record store. (Tower charges $20.99, so $8.99 is not a bad price for this 24-track comp.) Question is, why? Are the ULs being cut-out/discontinued, or are these probably just promotional copies that got discarded by radio stations? Same question for the great 3-CD RCA series, "History of Space Age Pop." I recently bought all 3 brand new for $6.99 each, as cut-out items. Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these (especially the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening. 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: James G Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:54:04 -0700 > "Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom even did one of those goofy "Co-Star" records, which I passed over to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead and Pearl Bailey instead. New list members are referred to the internet movie data base www.imdb.com You can spend hours there. There's not enough soundtrack stuff on it, like for the obscure films they show on TCM (turner classic movies), so I should finally register and contribute my 2 cents. Examples like the generic but appropriately melodramatic Leith Stevens score for the early 50's Ida Lupino-directed film "The Hitch-Hiker", with William Tallman (Perry Mason's whipping boy *wink* DA Hamilton Burger)as a nasty-ass mass killer (before the term serial killer was coined.) And last week Mickey Rooney bashed the skins with Lous Armstrong in "The Strip", which put me to sleep. All i could think of was how the hell did that squirt Mickey marry the gorgeous young Ava Gardner ??? Check the TCM website to see what you are missing if you have that channel available and don't get it. They even replayed "Mr. Buddwing" last month with Nichelle Nichols shooting craps, but its been almost 3 years since "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" with the Mary Kaye Trio made it into the rotation. 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: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Grammy info Date: 06 Apr 1999 02:50:05 EDT Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single* *category*. Does anything like this even exist?? 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Grammy info Date: 06 Apr 1999 00:06:19 +0000 At 02:50 AM 06-04-99 EDT, Jason wrote: >Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won >since 1958? I ran across it once on the web when I was looking up Ross Bagdasarian (which, in fact, may have received a grammy in 1958 or 1959 (around then) for Witch Doctor I believe. Anyway, use a search engine on Grammy or even Ross Bagdasarian and it will probably turn up. 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:20:35 +0100 'Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions: THE GIRL FROM UNCLE, and SPACE 1999?' That is a wierd coincidence, I just ordered both these records and they're winging their merry way to me from Greece and Maryland respectively. 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Fantastic Planet Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:20:08 +0100 "I just watched a video of the French animation Fantastic Planet, made in 1973. A great movie and a fantastic soundtrack. Does anyone know any details about the music, like who made it and has it been reissued lately. If not, I say it should be!" I think that's La Planete Sauvage, by Alain Gorauger (Brigitte Bardot's occassional band leader). Very expensive and rare, with a very cool cover. 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: FW: Return to (exotica) Hell's Belles Date: 06 Apr 1999 12:34:53 +0100 > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:52:02 EST > From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com > Subject: (exotica) Hell's Belles > > I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les > > Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks....... Jimmy > Botticelli > > Yes. Heres a copy of my original posting on this, obviously the > Saturday is now some time in February. It still sounds great. But > its not very long, mind. > > > I picked this up on Saturday (all references here to vinyl), I don't > know if it is a boot or not. Its a lot better than the Dick Hyman > ones.... The Eclectic Electric is truly appalling sounding if it was > mastered off a record that had regularly been played with a rusty > nail, and my copy still had the extruded plastic round the edges from > where it hadn't been cleaned up after pressing, giving the whole > thing the aspect of a circular saw if you try to pick it up without > stopping the deck. > > Anyway back to the point. I like the Hells Bells soundtrack a lot, > It says conducted and written by Les Baxter on the cover, but with a > standard rock group line up it must have been a sight in the studio > watching some one conduct bass, guitar, drums and harmonica. The > quality of sound is pretty good, nice clear production, all those > nice breaks someone was talking about a couple of weeks ago coming > through nice and clearly. Also the nice touch of a CD style 'bonus > track' where there is a locked groove before the last track so you > have to flick it on to get it. the bonus track sounds like out takes > anyway so its no great loss to not play it. > > The only thing that keeps crossing my mind is that could this be a > different Les Baxter? No lush strings, no exotic percussion drowned > in reverb (and you talk about British strings?). It sounds more like > Davey Allen than Quiet Village. > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Chris Montez Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:18:28 -0400 >From Chris Montez' page: "As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant force in the music world. " OH YES DADDY! Is this the first(or in long) time we've brought up that lil' angelic voiced thang? He's great, and I love that A&M production. How many records did he do for A&M, and did he do others in that vein for other lables(besides "Let's Dance"?) Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:31:38 -0400 << Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's. I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and would like to know how many there are. >> you may be pretty close to having em all. the following was clipped from the SABPM music site: RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve) Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287 It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290 Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306 The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353 etc... >>>I don't know if this counts, but I also have a STEREO ACTION compilation on vinyl, that has the same kind of cover, and songs from each or most of the actual albums... Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) obits:Deil Gustafson,Lucille Lortel Date: 06 Apr 1999 10:40:30 -0500 *Deil Gustafson CANNON FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- Deil Gustafson, a former owner of Summit Banks in the Twin Cities and the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas complex with a history of ties to organized crime, died Friday. He was 67. The cause of death was not available. The former businessman and real estate magnate spent 40 months in federal prison in the mid-1980s after being convicted of participating in a financial scam involving the Tropicana and his banks. Gustafson sold the Tropicana in 1979, but was under investigation as recently as the mid-1990s for allegedly trying to hide millions of dollars in proceeds from the sale of the casino. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud in 1995. He was deputy director of Hubert Humphrey's 1960 presidential campaign. NEW YORK (AP) -- Lucille Lortel, who earned the title ``Queen of off-Broadway'' for bringing innovative new actors, playwrights and productions to the American stage, died Sunday. She was 98. Ms. Lortel, whose career in theater spanned more than 70 years, produced or co-produced about 500 plays, five of which were nominated for Tony Awards. Ms. Lortel, born Louise Wadler, began her own acting career in the 1920s and made her Broadway debut in 1925 with a small role in George Bernard Shaw's ``Caesar and Cleopatra,'' starring Helen Hayes and Lionel Atwill. In 1947, she was asked by the actor Canada Lee and playwright Philip Huston to help find a place and audience for a staged reading of a new play, ``The Painted Wagon,'' and the still-thriving White Barn Theater was born in Westport, Conn. In 1955, her husband gave her the Theatre de Lys -- now called the Lucille Lortel Theater -- in Greenwich Village as a 24th anniversary gift. Its first production was a hugely popular adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's and Kurt Weill's ``Threepenny Opera'' that made off-Broadway famous. Ms. Lortel's eye for and confidence in young talent boosted the careers of countless actors, composers, designers, directors and playwrights. She established numerous funds and fellowships to further the arts. ``If you love the theater, you must be innovative,'' she once said. ``You must try new ideas and new faces. The costs are lower off-Broadway, so you can afford to take a chance, and you must take a chance.'' At the White Barn, Ms. Lortel nurtured performers such as Eva Marie Saint and Zero Mostel and staged plays by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett and Sean O'Casey. Peter Falk and George Peppard also performed there. When Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of ``Threepenny Opera'' became a success at the Theatre de Lys, ultimately running for seven years, Ms. Lortel became frustrated: She wanted to stage more plays at the theater. She persuaded the American National Theater and Academy to back an experimental matinee series, which began in 1956 with a verse adaptation of Alan Paton's novel ``Cry the Beloved Country'' and ran for 20 years. The series featured a dramatization of Langston Hughes poems called ``Shakespeare in Harlem''; adaptations of poetic works by Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish; and performances of rarely seen plays by William Inge and Tennessee Williams. It presented actors such as Richard Burton and Helen Hayes. In 1964, Ms. Lortel oversaw the first U.S. production of a play by South African playwright Athol Fugard. ``Blood Knot'' starred James Earl Jones and J.D. Cannon. Ms. Lortel's productions of ``A Walk in the Woods,'' by Lee Blessing; ``Angels Fall,'' by Lanford Wilson; ``As Is,'' by William Hoffman; ``Blood Knot;'' and ``Sarafina!'' another South African import, were nominated for Tonys but didn't win. They all were produced on Broadway or moved there. Ms. Lortel was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1990. A tribute to her career is on permanent display at the archives of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. See also: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-l-lortel.html which includes such paragraphs as: The Theater de Lys was only one of many unusual gifts that Schweitzer lavished on Miss Lortel before his death in 1971. A chemical engineer who made his fortune manufacturing cigarette papers, he also owned the FM radio station WBAI. In 1957, when his wife told him it was sometimes difficult to find a cab after the theater, he bought a gray Mercedes-Benz. He had been told there was a cab driver named Louis Schweitzer in town and he arranged to get a taxi medallion for the car and for his namesake to act as its part-time driver. When the driver wasn't transporting Miss Lortel, he was free to use the car as a taxi and split the earnings with the boss. In 1956, Schweitzer was the first foreigner in more than 400 years allowed to buy a gondola in Venice. Although traditionally gondolas were identified only by numbers, he was given permission to name his purchase "Lucille." The gondola continued to carry passengers and the gondolier was told that if American visitors used Schweitzer's name to book a ride, they were to be charged double. "My friends can afford it," he explained. For some years, the Schweitzers spent part of each winter on a houseboat in Florida. The two-story villa on a raft, anchored off Miami Beach, had two bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, servants' quarters and a bar sheltered by a thatched roof. Death anniversaries for the week of 5 April - 12 April: Tuesday, 6 April 1992 - Isaac Asimov; science fiction author 1998 - Wendy O. Williams; rock performer 1998 - Tammy Wynette; country & western performer Friday, 9 April 1988 - Brook Benton; singer Saturday, 10 April 1991 - Natalie Schaffer; actress, "Gilligan's Island" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Demographics Date: 06 Apr 1999 07:57:03 -0700 (PDT) I received this post from a friend on the Captain Beefheart list. I don't think it a good idea for the exoticats but i thought it was interesting. When the music gets weird the weird listen to music Chuck Hello all, > You may remember when you first joined the list that you were asked a few> personal details such as age, sex, location etc. Below are all the totals> (less the few of you that didn't fill them in) from the list population which currently stands at 120. > One thing that I have been toying with which might be quite fun is to set up a page at the Radar Station featuring photographs of all of us, and any other information that anyone would like to include. I got the idea from the Tom Waits list, Raindogs, that I used to belong to and it really seemed to enhance a lot of the friendships that were formed on the list. What do you think? Anyone interested? If you are, you could either post me a photograph and I'll scan it and include it, or just e-mail along your own scan. If you need my address, drop me a line. > > Mr/Ms > Value Number of Responses > Mr. 101 > Ms. 3 > > State or Province > Value Number of Responses > Outside US and Canada 37 > Alaska 1 > Arizona 1 > California 5 > Colorado 1 > Florida 1 > Georgia 4 > Guam 1 > Illinois 2 > Indiana 1 > Kentucky 2 > Louisiana 2 > Massachusetts 2 > Michigan 5 > Missouri 2 > New Jersey 1 > New York 7 > North Carolina 1 > North Dakota 1 > Ontario 2 > Oregon 1 > Pennsylvania 6 > Puerto Rico 1 > South Carolina 1 > Tennessee 2 > Texas 1 > Virginia 1 > Washington 1 > West Virginia 1 > Yukon Territory 1 > > Country > Value Number of Responses > United States of America 50 > Canada 3 > Argentina 1 > Australia 5 > Bahrain 2 > Belgium 1 > Czech Republic 1 > Finland 1 > France 2 > Germany 3 > Ireland 1 > Japan 1 > Lithuania 1 > Netherlands 3 > New Zealand 2 > Norway 2 > Sweden 4 > United Kingdom 27 > United States Minor Outlying Islands 2 > > > Age > Value Number of Responses > under 18 2 > 18-25 14 > 26-29 9 > 30-39 26 > 40-49 56 > 50-59 3 > 60 or over 1 > > Occupation > Value Number of Responses > accounting/finance 3 > executive/senior management 6 > professional/managerial 21 > technical/engineering 20 > administrative/secretarial 2 > sales/marketing/advertising 3 > customer service/support 2 > college/university faculty 7 > K-12 faculty 1 > college/university student 7 > K-12 student 1 > writer/journalist 8 > homemaker 1 > retired 2 > currently not employed 1 > other 25 _________________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 06 Apr 1999 08:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin' part of this series? > << Does anyone out there have a discography of all > of the Stereo ActionLP's. > you may be pretty close to having em all. the > following was clipped from the SABPM music site: _________________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 06 Apr 1999 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin' part of this series? Sorry if this is a 2nd posting - had a message failure notice. > << Does anyone out there have a discography of all > of the Stereo ActionLP's. > you may be pretty close to having em all. the > following was clipped from the SABPM music site: _________________________________________________________ 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography? Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:55:06 -0500 The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records wrote: > Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's. > I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and > would like to know how many there are. Thanks to BasicHip you now have a near complete listing. I'll add one more: Brass laced with strings - Vic Schoen LSA 2344 And you probably already noticed the obvious mistake in calling Keith, Ted on Sounds Terrific. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Grammy info Date: 06 Apr 1999 12:14:17 -0500 JayMan282@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won > since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single* > *category*. Does anything like this even exist?? > > Jason There's a book at my library with some ubiquitous title like "The Grammy". It's very useful in breaking down all the different categories. I found it especially useful in researching Mancini recently who won so many multiple categories it's hard to keep track. I found out that there was a category of Instrumental Orchestral other than Classical or some such grammy type category title. Many of our revered recording artists made it into these categories. And I believe this book also lists the nominees making it all the more useful in researching easy listening items. Frank, Exotica Scholar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Thought I'd mention these as I don't recall having seen either referenced here: Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act (live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry, boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets. Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google. Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here like a force of nature. More: http://www.jtsears.com/fayepage.htm Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias CD: El Torchura. Has anyone heard (of) this? They are Australian, with the Black Dahlia murder as the context of their 40's torch/noir styled material (wonder if they may not be a bit like Dutch Boulevard of Broken Dreams?). http://www.ozemail.com.au/~macpet1/vargas/vargas.html Thanks, BW _________________________________________________________ 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: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Demographics Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:37:55 -0400 My goodness, I bet a Jack Kirby list would have a more balanced gender ratio. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Hell's Belles Date: 06 Apr 1999 13:47:53 +0200 At 08:06 -0600 99/04/05, DJJimmyBee wrote: >I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les >Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? yes, i think so. Soulful "now" sound biker flick score. Lots of fuzzy guitar. 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas Date: 06 Apr 1999 13:23:57 -0400 Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act (live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry, boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets. Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google. Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here like a force of nature. >>>Ben, and *I* don't think I've ever seen the Frances Faye/Russ Garcia collaboration FRENZY on here, either! That's a cool record as well, lots of wild Garcia arrangements, she's a riot, and there's the coolsville songs like "Miserlu" on there! She looks crazed on the cover, truly in a FRENZY...Sorta like a drag queen, but she's a gal! Also, whilst we are on Garcia...SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT is a very cool thing too, lots of wordless vocals and a spacey, avant-feel... Jane Fondle, in and on space! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zach_Douglas@Dell.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:01:03 -0500 My first post, forgive me if it goes astray.......! I'm Zach, an Exotica fan for 3 or 4 years now since I bought a turntable at a garage sale and went completely berserk for Vinyl. I just wanted to enter in on the Sergi/Brasil 66 discussion. I have to agree.. '66 is one of my favorite albums in all of my 'exotic' collection.. it's really unlike any other albums I have. Some of Walt Wonderly's are _kinda_ similar but not really. No one has that _clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album. And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very good and doesn't come close to the '66 sound. If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that sound' let me know! Also any other artists that approach that sound would be welcome (other than old Herb himself, got all those of course!) Is anyone else postering their walls with Whip Cream and other Delights? My friend in Deleware is.. he has about 35 on his wall right now and brings in 2 or 3 each week usually. p.s. If this post doesn't turn up in the right place, forgive me. I'm subscribing to the digest to I'm just going to enter the original subject line and hope everyone gets it and it fits in with the thread. Later Zach D. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Sheet Music books Date: 06 Apr 1999 19:28:24 EDT Speaking of sheet music books, I found this folio called Xavier Cugat's Tangos and Rhumbas. Between songs are some of Cugat's original drawings and they are quite good. They all depict scenes of Havana circa 1930-1950. 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? Date: 06 Apr 1999 15:01:14 EDT From an ebay auction: "There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy Village!" Anybody heard this????? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=87522387 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: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday! Date: 06 Apr 1999 14:09:59 -1000 My fellow exoticans- It's that time of year again... on April 10, the kahuna of the 88s, Martin Denny turns 88! So send your Birthday wishes to the list and I'll print 'em out and deliver them to him this weekend. He recently played a concert at 1 Kalakaua Center, a senior living center. Just him and a baby grand... very strong, energetic romp through his hits with great raconteuring between the tunes. A highlight was his interpretation of "Tiny Bubbles" as done in the style of Bach, Chopin, Rochmaninoff... Denny! Quite humorous, standing ovation at the end of his 1 hour concert. I'm pitching Bravo channel on a Denny Profile ala Booker T and Little Jimmy Scott, so stay tuned and get those cybercards in. alohaderci, 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: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ? Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:11:35 -0700 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > >From an ebay auction: > > "There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy > Village!" > > Anybody heard this????? um, why, yes!! :) that's my auction... "Noisy Village" was written by Rod McKuen (?!) and is basically a predictable Denny spoof. The music is denny sound-alike stuff which starts with bird calls and progresses to a noisy classroom atmosphere, etc... it's not *mindblowing* but it's funny nonetheless! lots of other weird stuff on that album... 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Answer this pt.3 Date: 06 Apr 1999 20:31:11 -0400 (EDT) I've noticed a bunch of new sub-scribers and x-lurkers posting in the past few weeks. I'd just like to say "Howdy" and invite y'all to play a game called "answer this!" that some of us played back in '96 and again in July '98. This questionnaire was originally submitted by Jane Fondle (back when she was known as Lounge Laura). You can check the archives for the responses submitted by list-members back then. If you play the game this time, feel free to add/subtract or modify the questions to taste. -Lou From: "Laura Taylor" Subject: (exotica) answer this! Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:52:53 -0400 1. Are you a musician? Explain... 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? 3. This list could help you more by... 4. Other exotica/things you collect 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like 6. What are you just dying to tell us? 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud? I think we added this last time around: 8. Shaken/stirred? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Casino Royale Date: 06 Apr 1999 21:09:56 -0400 Attention spies, swingers and Bacharach fans... "Casino Royale" (1967) airs on Bravo - Sunday night, 9:30pm & 3:30am. Why, oh why couldn't they have shown this *before* their new commercial interruptions policy? Just a reminder -- I have many more TV picks on my "TV Scavenger" page. Including picks from TCM, which as JB so correctly pointed out, has quite a library on hand (not that I get to see it). 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: Re: (exotica) UL Deletions? Date: 06 Apr 1999 16:43:58 -0400 >>>Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these (especially the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening. Jerry What, am I the only one posting today? And I've actually been busy at work! OK, also of cheap interest to ze newcomers is a bunch-o cut outs at Newbury Comics in MA. I've scored for well under $5 a half dozen SEQUEL comps, everything from now-sound stuff to British Rock Instrumentals to one put out by the curators of the Sound Gallery. For $7 I got a (shoot, what's that label that puts out ELECTRONIC TOYS, the BETTIE PAGE cds, etc)...sampler of that label, MUSIC FOR GRACIOUS LIVING...with a va-va-voom Russ Meyer star on the cover...and cuts from the aforementioned, plus a few others from that series! I also got RAMPATROUILLE(sp?) for $10..Kids, these new record stores can be like thrift shopping, and no, uh, knee-pads required! Jane "no-need-for-knee-pads" Fondle OK-now-ya'll post sometin'! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 April 7, 1999 Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:23:31 -0400 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Piero Umiliani - Le Ragazze Dell' Archipelago "Svezia - Inferno & Paradiso" Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart - A Taste of Honey "The World's Greatest Jazz Band of..." Henry Mancini - Big Noise from Winnetka "The Blues & the Beat" Mirageman - Raptus "Thrilling" Billy May - Mission Impossible "The Crime Scene" The James Taylor Quartet - In the Park "The Money Spyder" Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Unstoppable Oldsmobile "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji" Corduroy - Lovely, Lonely & Loaded "High Havoc" The Crown Royals - All Night Burner "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler" Jimmy Smith - 1-2-3 "Got My Mojo Workin' " Nino Nardini & the Pop Riviera Group - Pop Riviera "Rotonde Musique" Bill 'Ravi' Harris - Look a Py Py "Funky Sitar Man" Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Disco Party "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji" Jerry Allen & His Trio - Blue Streak "House of Loungecore" Henry Mancini - Theme from Charlie's Angels "The Best of Henry Mancini Vol 3" Madame X - Love for Free "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler" 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) new Tiki siting Date: 06 Apr 1999 23:48:41 EDT This just in from The Islands (Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5, 1999) Tikis of Hawaii is proud to announce the opening of its new site on the web - WWW.TIKIS.NET. Tikis of Hawaii offers a full selction of authentic hand-carved Hawaiian Tikis and other Polynesian wooden sculptures. Check out all your favoites from Hawaii, Tonga, Maori (New Zealand), Palau, Raratonga (Cook Islands), Easter Island (Rapanui), Marquesas Islands and other exotic locale. All Tikis of Hawaii's offerings are certified Tiki News "Tiki Manefesto" compliant. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 07 Apr 1999 09:52:13 +0100 My mint and as new copy of Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP arrived on = my mat this morning at last. It has a cool cover but thats all I can say a= bout it at the moment because I haven't played it yet. I have to say though = that it is the most expensive record I have bought for a long time at =A330 = (is that $50?). Fuck! 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: "Brian Tozer" Subject: (exotica) Re:answer this! Date: 07 Apr 1999 08:47:36 -0400 Ok, I'll bite. I joined the list almost a year ago, & posted an intro, but I lurk more than post so I thought, well here's an opportunity! >>1. Are you a musician? Explain... Isn't almost everyone on the list? Yes, I toured with Canadian band Gaslight in the 70's, got a real job in the '80's and played in the lounges, and today I play in an (argh!) swing band. (Hey, it's better than endless ZZtop & Arrowsmith covers...if there are any K/W- Cambridge Ontario musicians on the list who want to do a space- age pop thing let me know!!) >>2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? "Bang, Baaroom & Harp" by Dick Schory >>3. This list could help you more by... It's great the way it is... >> 4. Other exotica/things you collect Old radios and stereos...goes with the music! >> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like Although I'm not currently listening to this stuff, I've always liked The Tubes, Thomas Dolby, Clannad, City Boy... >> 6. What are you just dying to tell us? The great thing about this list is the way, on a particular day, you can see posts about Zappa, Percy Faith, Johnny Mathis, Beck and who knows what else? I have always wished that my friends could be so open-minded about music. >> 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Gulp, no fez. But I have a lava lamp. >> 8. Shaken/stirred? Stirred...but more often brewed. (There's the Canadian in me!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) obit: Red Norvo Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:07:09 -0500 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats as Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. Norvo died at the Fireside Convalescent Home, grandson Aaron Corlin said. ``He was a fabulous man,'' Corlin said. ``He was always thinking about music, it was his life. ... His position in jazz history says a lot for itself.'' Born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., he taught himself how to play piano and xylophone. By age 17, he was touring with a vaudeville show and later joined the Paul Ash Orchestra. His last name changed to Norvo after Ash mispronounced it to a reporter and Norvo's manager decided the shorter name was more fitting. During Norvo's tenure with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, which he joined in 1932, he met singer Mildred Bailey, whom he later married. By 1935, he formed his own sextet that was playing at New York City's Famous Door club. In subsequent years, Norvo and his wife formed several groups in New York and Chicago. Among their hits in the 1930s were ``Rockin' Chair,'' ``Please Be Kind,'' ``Says My Heart'' and ``Have You Forgotten So Soon?'' After World War II, Norvo joined the Benny Goodman orchestra. He played in several bands through the early 1990s, when he suffered a stroke that ended his public performances. Ms. Bailey, whose likeness was featured on a 1996 U.S. postage stamp, died in 1951. Norvo later married Eve Rogers, who died in 1992. Besides his grandson, Norvo is survived by his daughter, Portia. Funeral arrangements were pending. http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B7242 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:11:40 -0400 SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats as Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. >>Yuck! How sad! My fave rekkid of his is Music to Listen to Red Norvo By.... I hate to loose somebody with such good vibes...Gotta compose that Martin Denny birthday wish, now. The artiste formerly known as "Lounge Laura." p-s....gotta answer that Shaken or Stirred question: SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Fez Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:18:37 +0100 I now have a Fez. A gift from a friend returning from a visit to Morocco. It seems a little large. How should they be worn? Perched on top like Ren? Resting comfortably above the ears? ___ | | | ( >) (Best viewed in Ariel, what a mess in courier) All advice gratefully received. 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: christopher marks Subject: (exotica) are you a musician, etc. Date: 07 Apr 1999 08:32:34 -0700 (PDT) 1. Are you a musician? Explain... 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? 3. This list could help you more by... 4. Other exotica/things you collect 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like 6. What are you just dying to tell us? 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud? I think we added this last time around: 8. Shaken/stirred? 1. No. Although I love music, i have little talent and less patience. 2. The Mystic Moods Orchestra 3. People issuing a list of their favourite space age/exotic albums. 4. Books are the only other things that i collect...i have a difficult time with having too many things as i am a bit of a minimalist. 5. Frank Sinatra, the Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Big Star, Grateful Dead. 6. Be careful of what you want, you just might get it (I think that it was more elegant when Oscar Wilde said it) 7. Only baseball caps. 8. Shaken. Chris spiritualized1@go.com __ http://www.go.com ____________________________________________________________ Get your Free GO Network Email address at http://mail.go.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) obit: Red Norvo Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:37:12 -0700 (PDT) A ripe old age, if there is such a thing - but what a loss. I have a Command Jazz Pickers lp, featuring Norvo on the vibes (and others, but this is my fav.). I have worn it down to a wafer and it will be doing hard time tonight. --- Lou Smith wrote: SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who > performed with such greats as > Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited > with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91. _________________________________________________________ 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: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Exotikitsch Tattoos Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Way back in the dream time, someone had posted to the list an enquiry regarding exotic tattoos. This fine Spring morning, I received the a taunting/titilating/unsolicited amorous itinerary from one of my remaining bachelor cronies. Thought I'd share as far as pertinence & discretion allow (w/o "value added" commentary): "seeing gal tonight w/ two-foot long suburban 1950s lawn-barbecue-scene tattooed on her thigh. redhead. (...) Tattoo: It has a guy in a chef's hat flipping burgers in an apron, some other guy mowing a lawn." _________________________________________________________ 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 07 Apr 1999 19:47:29 +0200 A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available. These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced here. (If you would like to receive the unabridged updates by e-mail, just let me know) - April 4: new (1999) releases, announcements & corrections - * Sergio Mendes And Brasil '66: "Equinox" LP, AML 902, UK, 1999 * Soundtrack: "Hell's Belles" [by Les Baxter] LP, Sidewalk ST-5919 (Bootleg), USA, 1999 * Soundtrack: "Rosemary's Baby" [by Christopher Komeda] LP, ? DLP25875, UK, 1999 * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity" LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999 - April 4: other interesting finds I stumbled on - * Wilson Das Neves E Conjunto: "Juventude 2000" LP, ?, Brazil, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "Cheganca" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "Moondreams" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "When It Was Done" CD, Verve, Japan?, 199? >>> Additions & corrections are more than welcome! >>> The XRO is a discography, NOT a sale catalog! For the online version of the eXotica Releases Overview, visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Another nice '60's easy pop album, recently released on cd by Sundazed (1998), is "The Yellow Balloon" s/t. It is very similar to 65/66 Beach Boys and the Free Design, Harpers Bizarre. I have always enjoyed my 45 hit single of the same name and its flip side (same song played backwards). The album is a pleasant surprise, nothing as wonderful as their single but its full of bright up pre Pet Sounds beach boy pop. Other contemporary bands such as Sagittarius explored the later '66/67 Beach Boy sound. Great liner notes capture the connectivity of the California music scene of that time. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [news] music giants make their move to the net Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:04:19 -0500 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1999 APR 7 (NB) -- By Martin Stone, Newsbytes. Seagram Co. Ltd.'s [NYSE:VO] Universal Music Group and Bertelsmann AG's BMG Entertainment joined forces today to create an Internet content and commerce alliance aimed at cornering the lucrative online music market. The joint venture will be known as GetMusic, and will create communities of music fans, promote artists and sell CDs online. The offering will consist of online music channels and an e-commerce site, http://www.getmusic.com . The union is seen as an attempt to regain control over the digital distribution of music on the Web. Copying and distribution of digitally recorded music has posed a threat to recording copyrights and revenues. The specialized channels hope to establish closer links between artists and fans, create awareness of new music, and help to drive sales through all channels of distribution. Dennis Petroskey, BMG Entertainment's corporate communications spokesman, told Newsbytes, "The strategy is to gather music fans based on genre of music." Visitors to Universal and BMG individual artists' sites on the music channels will have a "one-click-away" ability to purchase those artists' recordings for mail order delivery through getmusic.com, which will also offer titles from other music companies. The network of genre-based music channels is seamlessly linked to getmusic.com. For example, visitors to peeps.com who want to purchase R&B and Hip-Hop music can click on the "buy" button go directly to the peeps.com section of the getmusic.com online store. Petroskey explained that each of the genre-oriented sites will stand alone, but will be linked to getmusic.com as well. Likewise, each individual site will be shown as hot links from the getmusic.com site. The getmusic.com site will also offer about 250,000 albums from other companies, both new titles and a substantial repertoire of catalog. Hard-to-find recordings will be accessed through the store's search function that classifies titles by genre, artist, and album. Those who prefer to buy through traditional retail outlets can use a search function of their nearest retail outlets. A number of initiatives to drive traffic to the sites are planned and include both online and traditional marketing such as print and broadcast advertising; printing URLs for the appropriate sites on CDs, and "connected CDs" that, once loaded into computers, will launch users directly to the artist's site. BMG, Universal, and their record labels collectively represent nearly 200 artists whose latest album releases have each sold more than 1 million copies worldwide. The channels will build on the foundation of BMG's existing genre-based music Web sites. Each of the sites has built significant traffic, recording as much as 60 percent monthly audience growth. Universal and BMG hope to capitalize on the momentum by adding access to a deep roster of Universal artists, developing new channels, and equipping the sites with a range of community-building tools including chat, interactive Webcasting, and message boards. Petroskey said new channels will be added as demand and interest commands. Strauss Zelnick, President and CEO of BMG Entertainment, says the timing is right for BMG and Universal to unite to build bridges between artists and music lovers and generate record sales with the click of a mouse. Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who heads up Seagram Company Ltd., Universal's parent, calls the venture a major step in building the interactive music channels of the future. The Internet, he says, offers tremendous opportunities to build the entire market for music by reaching new consumers and by offering deeper catalog that is hard to find in traditional outlets. "The Internet's interactivity and immediacy will change the way fans find, share and relate to music and artists." Music sales on the Internet will grow to $3.93 billion by 2005 from $28.7 million in 1997, according to London-based researchers Market Tracking International. The industry enjoys annual total sales of about $38 billion, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. BMG Entertainment grossed $4.1 billion worldwide, and owns more than 200 record labels in 53 countries, including Arista Records, RCA Records and Ariola Music. BMG also owns a music club, one of the world's largest music publishing companies, and has interests in home video, television, and compact disc and cassette manufacturing. Universal Music Group has wholly-owned record operations or licensees in 59 countries around the world. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group and Universal Concerts. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Fez Date: 07 Apr 1999 14:06:42 -0700 El Maestro Con Queso wrote: > I now have a Fez. A gift from a friend returning from a visit to > Morocco. It seems a little large. How should they be worn? Perched o= n > top like Ren? Resting comfortably above the ears? Your fez should be worn early and often. By all means, perch it proudly atop your pate, definitely above the ears but not so high as it gets mistaken for a yarmulke. It should fit snugly enough to withstand several martinis. 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:32:25 -0400 >>> No one has that _clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album. And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very good and doesn't come close to the '66 sound. If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that sound' let me know!Also any other artists that approach that sound would be welcome (other than old Herb himself, got all those of course!) Welcome to the list, Zach! IM-never-really-H-O, I'd say you could start with a cat I just brought up, Chris Montez, also on A&M. It's what you seek, pal. Also, just about any Astrud Gilberto work from that time period, and zillions of Brasilian and bossa records! They're easy to find and in-print many of them! Speaking of which, the astounding album by Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim rarely gets enough props, so it gets a biggun from me, ol' Jane Fondle.... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand Date: 07 Apr 1999 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT) I picked up a copy of his Ortolani's score to a film I had never heard of, but will now seek out: Ecco ("An Incredible Orgy of Sights and Sounds. Side 1 is drippy waltzes, but 2, for the most part is bluesy, swinging stuff (some of which reminds me of Rugolo's Richard Diamond ST): memorable tracks include Twist 84, The Hungry Beat, The Steam Bath, He Or She (?), The Rites Of Sex. I saw a J-L Goddard film a few weeks back. I stuck around to catch the composer and was surprised to see Michel Le grand's name. The music to this film was wild menacing beat jazz: I had never heard anything by Legrand that went at this pace and was free of sugary strings. I have forgotten the name of the film and the rental shop swears they not only do not stock it now, but have never had a Goddard film in stock. The basic story involved two youngish petty thug types who meet a girl in an English clash and lure/strongarm her into a shabby scheme to burglarize the rooms of her guardian (who is accidentally killed in the botched job). I go into all this in hopes someone out there knows this film and can help me land the ST. Thanks _________________________________________________________ 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: Subject: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:09:26 -0400 With apologies to several folks fo my subject line, I pose the probing question of you... Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for the warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)? In the AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to pull out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle primal aspect of it all. That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff all year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day in Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs. And hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETHING to delude yourself! Hotly(well, not yet, it's still 40s in Boston)- Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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:answer this! Date: 07 Apr 1999 18:07:45 -0400 At 08:47 AM 4/7/99 -0400, Brian Tozer wrote: > >>>1. Are you a musician? Explain... >Isn't almost everyone on the list? Yes, I toured with Canadian band >Gaslight in the 70's, I have to ask. Gaslight. Was that an Ugly Ducklings tribute band? If so, are you going to the see the Ugly Ducklings reunion concert? I wouldn't mind seeing Luke and the Apostles again but I'm not sure I want to see Lighthouse again, if they're playing too. (I'm trying to come up with some kind of "exotica content" vis a vis legendary Ontario rock bands of the sixties. Well, there was the Laurie Bower Singers.) And by the way, I'm not a musician. But I'm sure that you can find someone in one of the thousand polka bands in Kitchener to moonlight in a space-age pop band. (Sorry, had to say that. It's a responsibility that goes with living in Toronto.) 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: Re: (exotica) Sheet Music books Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:16:05 EDT >I don't assume it's still in print!??!?! No, this was a used thrift store item 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: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:58:03 -0700 Jane Fondle wrote: > Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for= the > warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed > _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)? In the > AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to p= ull > out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely > have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle pri= mal > aspect of it all. That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff= all > year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day = in > Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when > mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs. A= nd > hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETH= ING > to delude yourself! Yes indeedy, Jane...I used to live very close (on Verona between Carolina and Child in JP) to where I believe your current pad is, and I can attest that even the second floor was Aitsh Oh Tee HOT! On Wednesday evenings we'd fire up the balcony grill and attempt to chill to the suave sounds of Peter Lebedur's Music For Better Living, and reserve the Polynesians for the weekend. Remember, the best deals in Boston to be had on limes and mangos for your rum cocktails are at Hi-Lo Foods on nearby Centre Street! It's fun to try to block out the noise of the T (or simply pretend it's Hawaiian Airlines overhead) and make believe you're on the veranda in Kahului. 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: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday! Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:27:18 -0700 Lloyd Kandell wrote: > > My fellow exoticans- > > It's that time of year again... on April 10, the kahuna of the 88s, > Martin Denny turns 88! So send your Birthday wishes to the list Man! I was going to post a message on Friday on this... Mr. Denny, Wishes to you for a very, very happy birthday. Your music continues to gain new fans! Will definitely sip a Mai Tai in your honor, while playing all your wonderful records on Saturday. 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: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer this pt.3 Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:33:16 -0700 Lou Smith wrote: > 1. Are you a musician? Explain... Not unless turning on the CD player counts... > 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? Robert Drasnin Voodoo! (mentioned in Wired Magazine) > 3. This list could help you more by... Gosh, it is already so highly useful... how much more useful could it be? > 4. Other exotica/things you collect Fake plastic tikis from the Islands. Mai Tai recipes. Exotica CDs... and now records. > 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman soundtrack stuff Pet Shop Boys and other Eurodisco... Heavy metal, grunge, 80's new wave, a bit of reggae. Almost anything except rap, country, and most jazz. > 6. What are you just dying to tell us? I have really enjoyed the discussions here and geeking out into exotica this year. I keep a file with bits of facts that people submit, and integrate it with stuff from the Web, articles from magazine, old issues of Tiki News, etc. > 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or > other lounge-wear of which you are proud? I like Hawaiian shirts... > 8. Shaken/stirred? Shaken! 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:33:23 EDT In a message dated 4/7/99 5:24:09 PM, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: >sound like on the '66 album the ALMIGHTY year for pop, garage, soul, and the swingin' generation....Jimmy/Class of '66 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Tozer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:answer this! Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:48:17 -0400 Nat Kone wrote: >I have to ask. Gaslight. Was that an Ugly Ducklings tribute band? No. We were called "The Cult" (yes, 10 years before that other band!) and one day our agent called and said, "I can't sell the band under that name. You're Gaslight as of today." Of course he got the name from the Ugly Ducklings song. We were playing that "Research at Beach Resorts" circuit and he wanted a less offensive name to sell. >(I'm trying to come up with some kind of "exotica content" vis a vis legendary Ontario rock bands of the sixties. Ontario wasn't exactly a hotbed of exotica, but Mckenna Mendelson Mainline did "Misty" on their "Live at the Victory Burlesque" album. And, of course, Mendelson Joe has always had a streak of kitsch running through his music! By the way, if any non-Canadian listers ever spot "Stink" by Mckenna Mendelson Mainline, it's certainly worth a spin. Not the normal fare for this list, but bawdy, dirty, swing/rock/jazzy blues with a healthy dose of humor thrown in. Brian 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:46:09 EDT In a message dated 4/7/99 8:33:37 PM, kevin@kevdo.com wrote: >I like Hawaiian shirts... I really hate to say this, particularly in light of all that has been said about the Gap, particularly from our resident optometrist, Robert Brooks, but The Gap has managed in their own way to come up with some spectacular replicas of 50's Hawaiian shirts. There are several models to choose from. Two struck my fancy. One has that "little grass shack" theme, palm trees, beach, sand, skies. and the proverbial shack, all in a 50's styled repetitive pattern. Another has the "Newer Hawaii" theme--same beach, same trees, same skies, but a corporate hotel in place of the l'il grass shack. The hotel is tastefully placed behind all the trees, and off the beach which lies in front of it (all still in that inimitable 50's pattern). I'll admit it; I bought the two I liked and I just know the fellas are all gonna ax me can I get 'em 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: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Date: 07 Apr 1999 21:27:07 -0400 > Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for the > warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed > _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)? I think it might be more fun to listen to them in the winter. That's to re-create the whole 'fakeness' of the exotica sounds, which was originally for the ex-WW2 soldiers trying to add an element of the South Seas to their surburban lives. If you had money back then, you travelled to Hawaii in the dead of winter to get away from the cold and the snow.....else you were limited to putting those Martin Denny records on the turntable. For me, the exotica scene isn't about recreating the Polynesian experience..... it's about recreating the atmosphere of someone in the early 60's recreating the Polynesian experience. And playing exotica music in the dead of winter does a good job of doing this. 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Afro cuban question Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:38:30 -0400 What's the name of that guy who sort of introduced Dizzy Gillespie to that latin sound? Is that Chano Pozo? Whoever he was, did he make his own records? And what are other examples of mambo or afro-cuban music of that type? I'm not looking for music like Tito Puente or Perez Prado where the tunes are usually shorter and tighter but more for the more sort of "jazz-oriented" stuff with much longer cuts and a bit of soloing? If that makes it clear... 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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:38:33 -0400 I saw that go-go Gap commercial that someone posted about the other day here. In the last few months when people asked me to describe the kind of sixties, "Now Sound", instrumental rock I had become obsessed by, I was in the habit of saying "You know how on some sixties variety show, like Laugh-In, they'd have some go-go dancer sequence? And they'd have their version of groovy go-go rock. And of course, back then I'd get all upset because their version of rock music was like nothing I recognized as rock music. Well now, that fake rock is basically the centre of my taste". So it's doubly shocking to see that commercial. Not only have they got the music right but except for the clothes, they've got the dancing right too. Once upon a time, I might have thought "they read my mind" but by now I have gotten used to the fact that everything - no matter how obscure - gets "co-opted". Of course I don't think they got it from me. It's part of the zeitgeist. But it is strange when something you considered an example of your "bad" taste is identified as somehow cool and young and commercial. I always knew I was ultra-cool but it's a real stretch to use the other two words with me. Oh and as far as where you can get music like that, it's all over the place. On old LP's anyway. Can't speak for CD's. (Ask Cheryl or Brian) On LP you can get that go-go-Gap sound with the T-Bones, late Sandy Nelson (but not those "beat" or "drum" records), "Batman" records (like the Batboys or the Marketts) and even some Brass Ring. If you want the same feel but you don't need the organ sound, there's the Ventures. And then there are countless, nameless, faceless records with words like go-go on them. 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: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) More Kriminalfilmusik Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:51:24 -0500 Just listening to Peter Thomas' Kriminalfilmusik with much relief after that last Warp Back to Earth 2CD set that I still don't know what to think about... Anyway, seems the same label, SCC/Prudence is responsible for two volumes of similar material with the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin Bottcher. Anyone heard these yet as they're must haves on my list? I hear they promise more Edgar Wallace film material. 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) More Kriminalfilmusik Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:11:17 +0200 Brian Karasick wrote: > Just listening to Peter Thomas' Kriminalfilmusik with much > relief after that last Warp Back to Earth 2CD set that I still don't > know what to think about... Anyway, seems the same label, > SCC/Prudence is responsible for two volumes of similar material with > the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin > Bottcher. Anyone heard these yet as they're must haves on my list? > I hear they promise more Edgar Wallace film material. > > I only wish I knew so much about German music as Brian does. I always considered Martin Bottcher as a real lightweight, although he wrote the film music of "Winnetou" and provided me with one essential childhood melody. But anything else I heard since sounded really lame and sleepy-easy. Would surprise me, if there was something hidden of real interest. -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: Jean Leneutre Subject: (exotica) Re: Ortolani/Legrand Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:16:41 +0200 (MET DST) It could be "BANDE A PART" (US title: BAND OF OUTSIDERS), 1964 featuring Anna karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey. This film seems to have influenced some contemporary american film directors such as Hal Hartley (the scene of the dance to a jukebox in a cafe from "simple men" comes from this film), or Quentin Tarantino (his production company is called "A band apart"). To be sure whether it's the film you are refering to, you can check at http://allmovie.com/ there must be an entry for this film. Jean. > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT) > From: Ben Waugh > Re: Subject: (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand > (...)I saw a J-L Goddard film a few weeks back. I stuck > around to catch the composer and was surprised to see > Michel Le grand's name. The music to this film was > wild menacing beat jazz: I had never heard anything by > Legrand that went at this pace and was free of sugary > strings. I have forgotten the name of the film and the > rental shop swears they not only do not stock it now, > but have never had a Goddard film in stock. The basic > story involved two youngish petty thug types who meet > a girl in an English clash and lure/strongarm her into > a shabby scheme to burglarize the rooms of her > guardian (who is accidentally killed in the botched > job). I go into all this in hopes someone out there > knows this film and can help me land the ST. > Thanks # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:26:11 +0100 Johan Dada Vis wrote: > * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity" > LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999 Has anyone heard this? I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was curious. Robbie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:44:04 +0100 Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP is excellent. Sunshine Superman is on the Further Inflight Entertainment LP. Most other tracks are very laid back sitar over gentle pop tunes. Very heavy with the sitar and quite serious unlike the Lord Sitar LP which is far more trivial. Big Jim obviously takes his work very seriously. Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style Anandar SHankar - And his Music Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? Thanks all 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: "Jill Mingo" Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:37:08 PDT ---------- > > Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > > * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity" > > LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999 > > Has anyone heard this? I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was > curious. It's a bootleg. There are a few classic hard to find tracks on there like= "Bodybuilding" by Orchester Werner Mueller, which was sampled by some = beatz type band recently. Someone will know who. I don't care. But it's = pretty much a compilation of hard to find sought after stuff - some sough= t after by markets different from the exoticatz. Mainly a DJ tool more = than a listening extravaganza,if you know what I mean. x Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:17:55 +0100 Charles Moseley wrote: > Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? Ananda Shankar - Melodies from India (EMI India) I know Vinnie Bell released at least 2 sitar LPs. And how could you forget: Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny - "Flower Power Sitar"?! Robbie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) RE: Sitar/Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 08:05:46 -0400 >Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat >Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar >Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar >Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style >Anandar SHankar - And his Music >Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar >Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East >Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? >Charlie Sure, also check out Alan Lorber Orchestra - The Lotus Palace (1967) The Golden Leaves - A Love Affair (1968?) Martin Denny - Taste of India (1967) *this one is underappreciated, I really dig it. Jackie Gleason - The `Now' Sound...For Today's Lovers (1967) 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: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: (exotica) I'm feelin' a little vocal today Date: 08 Apr 1999 08:35:58 EDT Good morning or good(insert daytime here)________ everyone, Would anyone like to yammer for a bit about any of these vocal groups or any other similar wailin' groovies that come to mind, Novi Quartet Paris Studio Group Singers Unlimited The Association My exposure to the above groups is limited to a few songs by The Paris Studio Group that I've heard on various compilations, and of course the standard popular songs by The Association. As for Singers Unlimited, my interest in them was peaked by the fact that Dusty Groove sells a 7 CD/14 album set, which is impressive in and of itself. So if anyone might like to compare and contrast for me, I would be (as usual) greatly in your debt. Thanks, -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: Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z Date: 08 Apr 1999 09:23:45 -0400 For me, the exotica scene isn't about recreating the Polynesian experience..... it's about recreating the atmosphere of someone in the early 60's recreating the Polynesian experience. And playing exotica music in the dead of winter does a good job of doing this. Vern And Vern, on that point, I totally agree with you! That's why my pad explores that ideology: I have a tiki/jungle exotica room, and a "space/age" room in my apartment. And, I also find the "Crime Jazz" genre very warming on those cooolllldddd days! Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric_Marvin@cc.chiron.com (Eric Marvin) Subject: (exotica) Re: Answer this pt.3 Date: 08 Apr 1999 07:12:17 -0700 1. Are you a musician? Explain... - Former piano teacher. Not really a performer, just like to experiment. 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? - UL Bachelor Party. From there straight to Denny and Baxter and now soundtracks. 3. This list could help you more by... - Good as it is. 4. Other exotica/things you collect - Dust 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like - Monk and other Jazz. Mostly Piano oriented. 6. What are you just dying to tell us? - How wonderful the soundtracks to early 70's cop/action TV shows are and how frustrated I am that they were never released. 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud? - Sorry, no lounge wear. Never even ben in a "lounge." I think we added this last time around: 8. Shaken/stirred? - Neither. I prefer punch. Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) more obits: Red Norvo Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:07:47 -0500 SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 7 (UPI) -- Jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo, who pioneered the use of mallet instruments in the field of jazz, is dead at 91.= =20 Norvo, who began his career in the 1930's, died Tuesday at the Fireside Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.=20 In addition to stints with Paul Whiteman's big band, Benny Goodman's orchestra and Woody Herman's band, Norvo also led several small groups of his own. One of his trios in the early '50s featured legendary bassist Charles Mingus.=20 Norvo also toured with Frank Sinatra and appeared on television with Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson.=20 While playing with Whiteman, Norvo met singer Mildred Bailey. They eventually married, and formed a series of small jazz groups, billing themselves as ``Mr. and Mrs. Swing.''=20 Born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., Norvo was a self-taught musician. He switched from the xylophone to the vibraphone in the early '40s and developed a light, gently swinging sound that made him a favorite in Las Vegas throughout the 1950s.=20 He also became a regular performer at international jazz festivals in Newport, Montreal, Berlin and Monterey throughout the '60s and early '70s.= =20 His recordings included ``Vibes a la Red'' and ``Back to the Roots.'' =20 Norvo retired briefly in the early '70s, but resumed playing limited dates until a stroke forced him to stop playing altogether in the early '90s.=20 After his first wife died in 1951, Norvo married Eve Rogers. She died in= 1992.=20 =09 April 8, 1999 Red Norvo, 91, Effervescent Jazzman, Dies By PETER WATROUS,NYTimes Red Norvo, one of jazz's early vibraphonists and a gifted band leader whose groups greatly influenced American music and backed singers like Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, died on Tuesday at a convalescent home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 91.=20 Norvo helped introduce the xylophone and later the vibraphone as legitimate jazz instruments. But playing an unusual instrument was not what earned him, early in his career, spots in some of jazz's most important orchestras, including the groups of Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and Woody Herman. Norvo was a genuine improviser, effervescent, intelligent and searching, and even his early solos reflect a literate sensibility, embracing both the classical and jazz worlds.=20 A typical Norvo solo dives and turns, nudging the harmony with astringent dissonances. He had a way of keeping his lines happy; they bounce with a firm sense of swing. But underneath was an element of darkness, an exploratory urge that led his improvisations into corners where most improvisers would not venture. On "Blues =E0 la Red," from 1944, Norvo's= solo uses odd figures and a streamlined swing that mix perfectly: riffs and lines and melodies all combining for a powerful statement.=20 Norvo, who was born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., sold his pet pony to help pay for his first instrument, a marimba. He started his career in Chicago with a band called the Collegians in 1925. In the late 1920's he joined an all-marimba band, playing the vaudeville circuit. (He also tap-danced and played xylophone.)=20 He changed his name after a vaudeville announcer pronounced it incorrectly, and it appeared that way in Variety. "It stuck," he told an interviewer, "so I kept it."=20 When he graduated to the Whiteman orchestra, he met Bailey, a singer in the band, whom he married in 1930; they were nicknamed "Mr. and Mrs. Swing" and remained together for 12 years. They were still friends when Bailey died in 1951.=20 The couple formed their own band in 1936, using the innovative arranger Eddie Sauter to write much of their material. They had several hits, including "Rockin' Chair," "Please Be Kind" and "Says My Heart," and their work was well respected by musicians, who found the arrangements= sophisticated.=20 But Norvo was not simply producing pop music with his wife. He was one of the earliest musicians to take refuge in the jazz clubs that once lined West 52d Street in Manhattan, and he worked there at the Famous Door with a group that had neither a drummer nor a piano. The group and the music it played helped set Norvo's reputation as a leader with experimental ideas, a jazz musician who liked to play quietly. The music quickly came to be called chamber jazz.=20 In 1933, the year he first recorded under his own name, he produced some of the most unusual recorded jazz of the time, including Bix Beiderbecke's "In a Mist" and his own "Dance of the Octopus," using a group that included Benny Goodman on bass clarinet and himself on marimba, accompanied by guitar and bass. And he was cultivating his own bands, with a fine ear for talent. In 1934 he led a group with Artie Shaw and Charlie Barnet as sidemen, and recorded with Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson, Bunny Berigan and Gene Krupa.=20 Norvo offered a singing spot to Frank Sinatra in 1939, but he turned them down as he had just signed a contract with Harry James. Sinatra and Norvo remained friends, however, and the Norvo band influenced Sinatra's music.=20 In 1944 Norvo joined Benny Goodman's sextet, and a year later played with the First Herd of Woody Herman, an orchestra that was proud of its harmonic innovations. It was in the middle 1940's that Norvo moved from the xylophone, an acoustic instrument, to the vibraphone, an electrified version. At that point he undertook an innovative recording project, merging some of the best of the swing-era improvisers with the leaders of the be-bop movement, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.=20 The session, recorded for Comet records, included Norvo, Gillespie on trumpet, Charlie Parker and Flip Phillips on saxophones, Teddy Wilson on piano, Slam Stewart on bass and Specs Powell and J. C. Heard on drums. They recorded "Hallelujah," "Get Happy," "Slam Slam Blues" and "Congo Blues," and the result was some of the most highly regarded music of the era.=20 Two years later, having moved to California from New York with his second wife, Eve Rogers, Norvo decided to form a small group.=20 (It was hard for him to find good musicians in California at that time.) He brought together Tal Farlow on guitar and Red Kelly on bass. The bassist Charles Mingus, who had worked with Norvo when his group backed Billie Holiday, replaced Kelly in 1950, and the three produced extremely light but swinging and complicated music that was almost shocking in its virtuosity, full of rapid tempo changes and sophisticated harmonies.=20 The band, regarded as one of the finest small groups in jazz history, recorded for two years; later trios included the guitarist Jimmy Raney and the bassist Red Mitchell.=20 Norvo kept busy even during jazz's slack periods. He worked with Goodman in 1959 and 1961, and recorded regularly in the late 1950's, for Contemporary, Victory and Fantasy Records. And in 1957 he resumed his relationship with Sinatra, who would come to Norvo's shows at the Desert Inn in Palm Springs, Calif.=20 A year later Sinatra hired Norvo for the Sands in Las Vegas. It was there that Sinatra came up with the idea of touring with Norvo, which they did in 1959. The association lasted nearly 20 years. Sinatra liked to have Norvo and his band at the Sands, so that he could perform with a jazz group whenever he wanted. Norvo often toured under the auspices of the jazz entrepreneur George Wein as well.=20 In the 1960's Norvo suffered partial hearing loss after an infection and compounded the problem at a shooting range when a gun discharged next to his ear. Surgery and a hearing aid helped him regain some hearing. Then in the 1970's, after his wife and one of their two sons died within a short time, he stopped playing for two years.=20 He is survived by a daughter, Portia Corlin of Santa Monica; a son, Mark, and one grandchild.=20 He began to work again at a club in Las Vegas and for the rest of his career kept recording and touring regularly. A stroke in the mid-1980's, forced him into retirement, but even in his last years his performances were often marvels of intelligent swinging.=20 See also: http://elvispelvis.com/rednorvo.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: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:39:54 +0100 > From: Robbie Baldock > Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > > * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity" > > LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999 > > Has anyone heard this? I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was > curious. > The first track, Werner Muller's "Bodybuilder" was plagiarized in a vastly more boring version as "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" by Bentley Rhythm Ace. Basically, they constructed that song by sampling a part of Bodybuilder, leaving a bunch of interesting scary voice snippets out. IMHO, that track is a stone-cold jaw-dropping classic. (It's on Muller's "The Strip Goes On" album, which may be a German-only release, dunno). If the rest of the tracks are up to that standard, it'll be a must-buy. Any more info, anyone? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 11:42:50 -0400 > Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? Bill "Ravi" Harris and the Prophets: Funky Sitar Man 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:48:47 +0100 > From: "Charles Moseley" > > Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP is excellent. Sunshine Superman is on the > Further Inflight Entertainment LP. Most other tracks are very laid back > sitar over gentle pop tunes. Very heavy with the sitar and quite serious > unlike the Lord Sitar LP which is far more trivial. Big Jim obviously takes > his work very seriously. > > Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat > Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar > Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar > Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style > Anandar SHankar - And his Music > Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar > Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East > > Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? > > Not really pop, but "Curried Jazz" by the Indo-British Ensemble is laid-back East/West jazz (e.g. sitar and fluegelhorn grooving together) circa 1968, and I think it's really fucking cool. A combination of Indian and British musicians, as you might (not) expect. And it's on that bastion of musical values, the Music For Pleasure label! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:54:25 +0100 Werner Muller's And the Strip Goes on is a good one. Body Building gets about 9/10, Sex Machine 8/10 (very German), The Beat Goes on 8/10. The rest of the tracks are not stone classics but the whole LP has that easy/instrumental pop sound that I love. IMO, The Strip Goes On has all the necessary criteria to be a killer LP and it comes with a nude on the cover. My copy's on the Ace of Clubs label that also houses Mark Wirtz who I think has a very similar sound. And that Spaced Oddity 2069 looks crap. A poor mixture of funk/easy tracks and a missing Serge Gainsbourg track they obviously had to remove from the LP after the compilers got scared of reprisals from his record label. 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 11:41:01 -0400 >>>Once upon a time, I might have thought "they read my mind" but by now I have gotten used to the fact that everything - no matter how obscure - gets "co-opted". Of course I don't think they got it from me. It's part of the zeitgeist. Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore, because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of Combusitble Edison? Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be watching us! Seriously, we could both pat ourselves on our backs and blame ourselves for certain surges in popularity... That Jane Fondle...always thinkin'!(or being paranoid, not sure which!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:03:57 +0100 'Bill "Ravi" Harris and the Prophets: Funky Sitar Man' This LP is a fake. Its all new and frankly, I thought the quality of the musicians was very very poor. The drumming is lame and the music far too loose. Production wise, its just too 1990s and not near enough 1970s (especially if you read the liner notes and appreciate the amateur status of the performers and the limitations they would have had to face in their choice of recording set-ups). Rant rant rant 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: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 09:08:03 -0700 Or further, have any of you considered that the Gap people may lurk on this list??? We have no idea who listens in... The Internet, especially listservs and newsgroups, is a *big* part of marketing these days - it's a direct way= to measure the tastes of a very narrow demographic of consumers with mostly= above average incomes and mostly younger than the mid-30s. But I'm one of you - check my email address - totally not for profit and as paranoid as Ms. Fondle, man.=20 This trend (of corporate culture and advertising co-opting non-mainstream culture for its effect) is not a new one, it's just one that has now hit our region of musical interest. That in no way negates the function of this= list, which continues to introduce me to new material for my listening pleasure= that I won't find in a Gap commercial or anywhere else. Clark At 11:41 AM 4/8/1999 -0400, Jane Fondle wrote: >Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly >lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore, >because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of >Combusitble Edison?=A0 Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be >watching us!=A0 Seriously, we could both pat ourselves on our backs and= blame >ourselves for certain surges in popularity... >That Jane Fondle...always thinkin'!(or being paranoid, not sure which!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:20:07 -0400 > Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? Great International Hits - V. Balsara and his Singing Sitar. Made in the fabulous city of Dum Dum, this features "Lemon Tree", "Edelweiss" and "These Boots Are Made For Walkin' ", amongst others. Full orchestra with Sitar leads. I can safely say this is the best sitar pop album I have. It is also the only one I have been able to find, too! 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: "telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Sitar/Big Jim Sullivan Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:38:03 -0400 > >Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs? > >Charlie A favourite of mine is the "Sitar and Electronics" lp by Okko for the BASF label. In addition to the Sitar, the album also has plenty of moog and even a cover version of "A Day in the Life". A near perfect lp. 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Part one. Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:04:27 -0400 Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Part two. Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:05:00 -0400 Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Part Three. Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:06:46 -0400 As you may have gathered from parts one and two, I am on my way to San Jose' next week. Any cool and teenbeat stores I should keep my eyes peeled for? Deon Warwick # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:40:09 -0400 I hear there's also a new one with the "khaki kids" country line-dancing (to appropriate music), so I wouldn't take any of it too seriously. They're just systematically darting and tagging all possible demographics. Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version. 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Charles Moseley: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update] Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:45:06 +0100 > From: "Charles Moseley" > > Werner Muller's And the Strip Goes on is a good one. Body Building gets > about 9/10, Sex Machine 8/10 (very German), The Beat Goes on 8/10. The rest > of the tracks are not stone classics but the whole LP has that > easy/instrumental pop sound that I love. IMO, The Strip Goes On has all the > necessary criteria to be a killer LP and it comes with a nude on the cover. > My copy's on the Ace of Clubs label that also houses Mark Wirtz who I think > has a very similar sound. > My copy's on German Decca. "Sex Machine" I find pretty horrible, and horribly funny; but all-round this LP has to get very high marks. The laughter on the version of "The Stripper" freezes my blood... Mark Wirtz is all over the place. "Latin A Go Go" is on the Ember label (top album, BTW); "Ten Again" is on World Record Club; "Mood Mosaic" is on EMI Studio Two, "Teenage Dancing Made In England" is on German Decca, and that's all I'm aware of. What's the album on Ace of Clubs, "Teenage Dancing" or not? I'm going to have to hunt down that Wirtz CD. > And that Spaced Oddity 2069 looks crap. A poor mixture of funk/easy tracks > and a missing Serge Gainsbourg track they obviously had to remove from the > LP after the compilers got scared of reprisals from his record label. Oh well. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 14:05:40 -0400 >Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version. Ha! That is a great suggestion. They could have six women and six men in different colored pants, faces painted white, moving about while Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" plays in the background and at the end a graphic could pop up and say, "The Twelve Tones of Gap". This is too easy, Brian PrettyCity # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 14:36:02 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 12:13:02 PM, cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU wrote: >This trend (of corporate culture and advertising co-opting non-mainstream > >culture for its effect) is not a new one I'm in total agreement.......Jimmy Chemicalbank 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: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:11:24 -0400 Has the group 4 Piece Suit ever come up on the list? I just went ga-ga when I first heard these guys play last summer at the outdoor Boston Globe Jazz Festival. Their first album "Ready To Where?" a mixture of Surf, Spy Jazz, Mancini and originals. Their latest CD "Matinee Idylls" of mostly original compositions hitting all the lounge bases with only a few standards thrown in. DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this Friday and Br. Cleve is the host! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Kriminalfilmusik Date: 08 Apr 1999 15:13:53 -0500 Moritz wrote: > I only wish I knew so much about German music as Brian does. I always > considered Martin Bottcher as a real lightweight, although he wrote the film > music of "Winnetou" and provided me with one essential childhood melody. But > anything else I heard since sounded really lame and sleepy-easy. Would > surprise me, if there was something hidden of real interest. Hmm...I don't know how to take that first comment... but in any case I used the term heavyweight to mean he's well known not to describe the musical style. It is true the Motor compilation of his music is lighter-easy sounding material as are the two LPs of his tv scores I recently found. These two new ones look promising at least if the cover art is any indication! Of course the Peter Thomas - Kriminalfilmusik isn't quite as "Kriminal" as say the Erwin Halletz album also of the same name, but I liked it nonetheless. I'm still not sure about that P. Thomas - Warp back to Earth set and am curious to see Johan's impressions once he gets it reviewed. There are sound clips at the BSC site but I can't seem to get them to work. Check out the site: http://www.bscmusic.com/artists.html 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: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:23:33 -0400 I was in Newbury Comics in Burlington MA looking for more SEQUEL cut-outs and what do I see? Tiki's and dashboard ready hula girl dolls! Getting ready for 8 questions 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) new sixties comps Date: 08 Apr 1999 22:39:40 +0200 >*****v/a-Land Of 1000 Dances (Ace cd). Do you >know how to Pony ?. Whenever I'm asked to man the "wheels of .steel" at a party or club this is exactly the kind o' stuff I bring along >to entertain the crowds, late 50s/early 60s dance tunes to get >those feets a-tappin' and those wings a-flappin'. It's all here, just >pick your fave; the Duck, the Shag, the Walk, the Stroll and 26 >other dancefloor fillers that are a sure cure from whatever it's called >that goes around for dance music these days. Are you ready >?.*****v/a-Twistin' Time vol.2 (Knight lp). And while we're out on the >floor why not twist the night away with Tyrone A'Saurus And His >Cro- Magnons ?, one of the 18 bands on here that took a stab at >bein' the next Chubby Checker. Most of this stuff is cheesy as >heck, but as King Curtis states here; "the Arthur Murray Twist >made me a hero, before I learned to twist I was a social >zero".***** Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP Questions Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:40:34 -0400 Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP Jack D raves on and on about? Just wondering. Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... >From 1965... Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get? Just wondering. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) {news} wapin Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:07:19 -0500 CINCINNATI, April 8 (UPI) -- Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, played by University of Cincinnati piano professor Richard Morris, has been downloaded 350,000 times since January from an Internet web site -- making it the most popular composition on mp3.com. Morris told United Press International the 5-6 minute sonata was placed on the website that offers free downloads by about 7,000 musicians to demonstrate the Wapin -- a new invention by his colleague, former UC College Conservatory of Music piano tuner Mike Wathen. Wapin, which Morris calls ``the most important invention for the piano in the last century, combines Wathen's name and the word ''pin.`` It uses special vertical pins attached to piano strings to allow an improvement of tone clarity and a richer harmonic spectrum. Has anyone heard (of) this wapin thingy? Can someone describe it? The description above makes it seem to be like a reverse prepared piano - a gimmicked piano that sounds more like a piano rather than less like one. -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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) LP Questions Date: 07 Apr 1999 15:04:37 -0700 >=20 > Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is=20 > the same LP > Jack D raves on and on about? I forwarded the message to Jack, as I do not think he's been around the = list much. Dunno if this is the one that flips his lid or not.=20 As you probably know, There are two records with this title, One by J. = Dalgas Frisch, and one by Jim Fassett of "Strange to your ears" fame. In my estimation, both are worth having. They are both exceedingly odd - = as only a record comprised of songs that were constructed from the = calls of birds can be. It's an acquired taste. Both great for mixes, but = a bit hard to take in larger doses. 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:12:34 EDT In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes: << In a message dated 4/7/99 8:33:37 PM, kevin@kevdo.com wrote: >I like Hawaiian shirts... I really hate to say this, particularly in light of all that has been said about the Gap, particularly from our resident optometrist, Robert Brooks, >> I know, I know. My disgust for the Gap is well known. And that makes it soooooooo hard to admit that I like their freaking commercials. Yes, the new Country Khaki one prompted me to write. Why can't they do something we/I really hate? Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy. OK, I'm back to hating them. 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) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:14:35 EDT In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes: << I'll admit it; I bought the two (shirts from the GAP) I liked and I just know the fellas are all gonna ax me can I get 'em one >> Yeah and get me a few pairs of those drawstring pants while you are at it. Send them to: Jack Diamond . . . . . . # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:34:53 -0400 At 11:41 AM 4/8/99 -0400, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly >lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore, >because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of >Combusitble Edison? Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be >watching us! Nothing is secret. Or maybe something is. Actually it would be interesting to ask people if they think they have a secret little area of musical taste which they really believe is theirs and theirs alone. But once something is written about or re-issued on CD, it certainly isn't secret. One of the thing that's interesting to me, with something like the Gap ad in question, is the process by which the ad agency picked up on the "secret". And do they think that they're actually ahead of the curve or are they trying to ride a wave that they know is already headed for shore? The thing that's most interesting to me about all this is how "narrow" the trends they exploit can be. In other words, they can't think that a lot of people will "relate" to the go-go music ad. Not like it was hip-hop or even swing. Most of the people seeing that go-go ad wouldn't know that that kind of music is part of a narrow little trend right now. What's frightening is that the ad people don't seem to care. That's frightening because not caring is actually kind of cool and if they've become genuinely cool, then we are really in trouble. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's actually not that narrow a trend. It's "retro". Anything retro and sixties-feeling is part of the broad definition of "cool" right now. And if they're following that version of things, that would make them uncool. And if they're uncool then I can relax. Nat (wondering who "they" are, wondering if I am they) the way it's changed in my lifetime. When I was a teenager, it seems that they never got it and any attempt to be "hip" failed miserably. (The fact that those miserable failures now occupy the center of my taste is another issue.) Not only did they not get it but they were always picking up on things way too late and the things they picked up on were very..... broad (?). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP Questions Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:48:03 -0400 At 05:40 PM 4/8/99 -0400, Risser Family wrote: > >Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get? Her "We Dig Mancini" record. Another one called "Sounds" including a cool version of "The Beat Goes On". And on a whole other vein, apart from the Anita Kerr Singers, I quite like those Sea, Earth etc. spoken word collaborations with Rod McKuen in which Ms.Kerr did the orchestration and arrangement. But I might be alone on that. 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) (no subject) Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:36:12 EDT >I'm not looking for music like Tito Puente or Perez Prado where the >tunes are usually shorter and tighter but more for the more sort of >"jazz-oriented" stuff with much longer cuts and a bit of soloing? If that >makes it clear... Nat, Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be what you're looking for. You might want to check out Skins. Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material from the same period (early 60's) There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin Jazz'' with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and others. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:50:52 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 3:09:49 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this > >Friday and Br. Cleve is the host! Its true--along with The Strangemen and some others I don't know yet. Well worth checking out. (At The Middle East Downstairs on Friday) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:52:53 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 3:22:17 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >Getting ready for 8 questions How about "13 Questions" (by Seatrain) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Ledebur Subject: (exotica) The Bombay Beach Boys Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:58:32 -0400 Does anyone know anything about a group called The Bombay Beach Boys? They have a sitar version of the surf chestnut "Pipeline" featured in the movie 200 Cigarettes, and apparently it was also released on a Rhino comp CD called "Tales from the Rhino" (1994). Did they ever put out anything else or was it just a one-off? Thanks in advance, Peter ------ Music for Better Living Wed. 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:59:31 EDT What these guys do is replicate in a more comfortable way all the threads we didn't have to dread when we boomers were coming up through the Army/Navy Surplus Stores dressing in acceptable hippie garb. So love 'em, heat 'em, but you can't ignore 'em toatlly. And you can get clothing there that doesn't have Sloganspeak and Corporatespeak smeared all over them..Jimmy ChemicalBank 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: James G Subject: (exotica) Film Score,Mannix, Lalo et al Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:13:17 -0700 The March 1999 issue of Film Score magazine (which i just discovered) says that Lalo's label will be reissuing Mannix soon, but it isnt out yet. Lots of his stuff is available relatively cheap at his web site: http://www.schifrin.com the guy that does Lalo's site does another one that covers Gabor Szabo, Boogaloo Joe Jones and Gary McFarland among others: http://siteworks.com/szabo/schifrin.htm BTW, the March Film Score print mag @$4.95 has a long guide to Jerry Goldsmith's scores of te 80's, a profile of Wendy Carlos, Hammer film scores, reviews and lots of cool stuff in 48 pages. Neat features are a list of record labels showing upcoming releases,and a list of composers and what films they are currently working on. (What? Angelo Badalamenti isn't working on Lynch's proposed "Mulholland Drive" TV series ? Well, I don't think they've shot the pilot yet supposedly with, gulp, Billy Ray Cyrus, I kid you not !!!) Film Score also puts out limited edition CD's (like "Fantastic Voyage" and have a website at of course http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/ JB , groovin to Jennifer Love Hewitt's "Let's go Bang" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Thing About The Gap Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:47:04 -0700 Just remember, my good meng Jimmy, that even if your Gap shirt sez MADE IN USA, it could very well come from the sweatshops of Saipan, technically a US territory, but with no oversight and appalling conditions, child labor, etc. I urge people not to support a company that profits off of human misery and robs kids of their childhoods. That's just a little TOO exotic if you ask me. And if Gap people ARE reading this--quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs. Now--back to da music! C. "Ratso" Russo www.ratso.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) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 21:55:45 -0400 in the words of Bill Hicks... "If anbody here is working in the field of Marketing or Advertising... I only have two words for you....KILL YOURSELF!" Don't, Mind the Gap. bump # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP Questions Date: 08 Apr 1999 21:45:04 EDT << Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP Jack D raves on and on about? >> No, this is not the one - the one he raves about is THE ARTEL ORCHESTRA "The Canaries". I have tracks from both of these LP's on my "Whistling For You" comp. Jack sold me the Johan Frisch LP and I continue to badger him for the other, which I only have a tape of. Until then, my daily routine includes typing keywords "Artel" and "canaries" into Ebay's search engine. I'd go out and get that Frisch LP right now, if I were you, Peter. Sukiyaki, Tico Tico, Emperors Waltz, Santa Lucia...it's all there in an incredibly strange (and beautiful) way. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" Date: 09 Apr 1999 00:25:50 EDT I saw _The Beat Generation_ at the Roxie here in SF, on a double-bill of "Beatnik Noir" (with _The Rebel Set_ or _The Bloody Brood_). The cool cast is a smidge disappointing, as Ms. Nurmi is *not* in anything like Vampira gear (and is otherwise unrecognizable as a beat girl with rat), and Irish McCalla plays a cop's wife - very gal next door and not va va voom. Still, there were some cool coffee house bongo scenes and it looked lovely and ripe (even if their notion of beat jazz was Louis Armstrong and Ray Anthony.) --David (collecting Beatnik exploitation at every opportunity) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: ROBERT DRASNIN in MINNEAPOLIS Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:29:37 -0600 >"VOODOO!" >MCE LIVE WITH 3 LEGENDS OF L.A. MUSIC AND A MPLS ICON: >ROBERT DRASNIN, SKIP HELLER AND D.J. BONEBRAKE, WITH KING KINI > >Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis Minnesota >Friday, April 23rd 1999 - Doors open at 8PM >Tickets $13 advance / $15 day of show (available at 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. > > > >************* >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: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon Date: 09 Apr 1999 00:29:38 EDT Yeah, I've got this collection. I actually like "Stained Glass Windows" even better than the single. Gary Zekley was the main move in this group (and several others like the Clique - he wrote "Superman" which REM covered). It also featured the actor who played Robbie on _My Three Sons_. Excellent feature on Gary Zekley in Dominic Priore's _Dumb Angel Gazette_ #3. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Graham Newton Subject: (exotica) Looking for old vinyl album... Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:50:24 -0400 Does anyone have a copy of an old vinyl album called FULL MOON by a group of the same name? It was issued around 1972 by Douglas Records, # KZ31904 I'll beg borrow steal or buy it if you have one. Please respond off list to: gn@audio-restoration.com ... Graham Newton -- Audio Restoration by Graham Newton, http://www.audio-restoration.com World class professional services applied to phonograph and tape recordings for consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR processes. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "paul moshay" Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:55:34 +0100 > Or further, have any of you considered that the Gap people may lurk on this Trust me, if not on this list in actuality, "they" (their mrtkng ppl, ad adgency dir's) are "on" it figuratively. They are the un-easy latecomers toting up a mountain of import comp cds to the counter at your loca indie store, whisking away in a new 525i...they are the unbelievable 'insiders' whispering in the bouncers ear at the head of the line...and they are taking notes in hopes of shaping perceptions of their products to "meet your needs". Paul Moshay # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola Date: 09 Apr 1999 09:01:31 -0400 Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... >From 1965... YES!(x3)....It's groovy-ass NOW SOUND and it's fer you! Plus, look at the all-star cast of Cark, Dick and Tony, how can you go wrong! Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First of all, in the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens, I bought the COVER of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser of his inside. Is ITALY TODAY as fab as I imagine? Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy Mottola, the late Mr. Mariah Carey? Quizically, Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing Date: 09 Apr 1999 09:09:46 -0400 > Nat, Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be what you're looking for. You might want to check out Skins. Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material from the same period (early 60's) There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin Jazz'' with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and others. Sean Those same folks appear on two GREAT mambo CDs I have...One is called THE MAMBO KINGS(not the movie soundtrack..although I'd like to know mo' about the film and it's OST)...and the other is one of those TALKIN' VERVE-Mambo. Just stellar, killer stuff! OK, does anybody agree(perhaps disagree) with me that Billy May's mambo arrangements on Yma's MAMBO record just about knock a lot of the Latin arrangements out widda BANG? That's one of the best mambo records I've ever heard, faux-Latin or no! Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:46:52 -0400 >Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy. OK, I'm >back to hating them. > I *love* that commercial. The idea that Morgan Fairchild can actually type fascinates me. :>) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robbie Baldock Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:59:28 +0100 Madame Fondle wrote: > Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good? > It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola... Ooh yes - it's good. The Discotheque series are among my favourite Command LPs. > Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First > of all, in the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens, > I bought the COVER of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser > of his inside. Is ITALY TODAY as fab as I imagine? Much as I love Tony's contribution to Command all-star albums I've always found his solo LPs quite soporific but I don't know anything about this particular LP... > Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy Mottola, the late > Mr. Mariah Carey? My memory's hazy on this but I *think* I asked him about this and he said he wasn't related but I'm sure there must be a family connection somewhere in there... 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) obit: Bob Peck,Sam Shaw Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:17:12 -0500 *Bob Peck LONDON (AP) -- British actor Bob Peck, who played a game warden in Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur adventure ``Jurassic Park,'' died Sunday of cancer. He was 53. During his career, Beck acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater and starred in more than 20 television dramas. He was best known in Britain for his role in the 1985 television series, ``Edge of Darkness,'' about the threat of nuclear pollution. He made his international debut as game warden Robert Muldoon in the hugely popular dinosaur movie ``Jurassic Park.'' Known as a highly adaptable actor, Peck had always been widely respected by his colleagues. http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:47:04|AM&p=avg&sql=B55739 April 9, 1999 Sam Shaw, 87, Film Producer and Photographer (NYTimes) Sam Shaw, a film producer and photojournalist famous for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with her skirt billowing, died on Monday at a hospital in Westwood, N.J. He was 87 and lived in Tappan, N.Y. Born and reared on New York's Lower East Side, Shaw's artistic talents were evident even as a young boy when, without money to buy supplies, he would gather up tar from the streets and make sculptures of animals. By the time he finished high school, he had turned to painting and was offered either a scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute or a studio in which to work. He chose the latter, which he sometimes shared with the artist Romare Bearden. After a brief stint as the art director for the Brooklyn Eagle, Shaw began his career as a photojournalist with Colliers magazine in the 1940's. Alongside the journalist Harry Henderson, he traveled through the United States to create memorable photographs of West Virginian miners, Southern sharecroppers and New Orleans jazz musicians at work in their environs. His name became synonomous with the covers of Life and Look in the 1950's and 60's. Gradually, he moved into film. In 1951, he created the photograph of Marlon Brando in a ripped T-shirt that came to symbolize "A Streetcar Named Desire." It was while shooting Brando on the set of "Viva Zapata!" in 1952 that he met Monroe. A struggling contract player, she had been assigned to drive Shaw to film locations, and their friendship quickly ignited. Her star had risen by 1955, when Shaw was hired to shoot a poster for Billy Wilder's "Seven Year Itch." Before a crowd of thousands, Monroe re-enacted the scene from Wilder's script in which she left the Trans Lux theater on Lexington Avenue and crossed a subway grate, as a rush of air from an oncoming train caused the skirt of her white dress to fly up. "You've got to give Marilyn credit, too," Shaw said in an interview years later of that moment. "She was very inventive. She loved the camera." In recent years, Shaw had filed a $100 million suit againist his son, Larry Shaw of Piermont, in which he claimed that his son, then acting as his agent, made deals to illegally reproduce images of Monroe and pocketed the proceeds. His son denied the accusations, saying he had permission. In 1961 Shaw tried his hand at producing with "Paris Blues," starring Paul Newman, Joan Woodward, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstrong. He went on to produce films for John Cassavetes, including "Husbands," "A Woman Under the Influence," "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night," "Gloria" and "Love Streams." His survivors include his daughters, Meta Shaw Stevens of Manhattan and Edith Shaw Marcus of Tappan, N.Y.; seven grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:52:31|AM&p=avg&sql=B111056 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: d th Subject: (exotica) Tommy Mattola Date: 09 Apr 1999 07:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Some interesting trivia: Tommy Mattola plays the guitar lick on COnnie Francis' "Who's Sorry Now".....so I guess he goes back a long way. DH! _________________________________________________________ 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: d th Subject: (exotica) Kay Starr/Lee Wiley Date: 09 Apr 1999 07:30:53 -0700 (PDT) Someone, I don't remember who, asked me about some really old Kay Starr and Lee Wiley stuff. I found a great web-site that has it, http://baldwin-streetmusic.hypermart.net DH! _________________________________________________________ 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: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The DEFINITIVE Answers to all your Gap related questions!!! Date: 09 Apr 1999 11:06:05 EDT There is only one true comprehensive source for information on coolness and=20 how to posses this elusive trait. =20 That would be me and my upcoming book tentatively titles, =93The Gap Is A=20 Clothing Store, And Coolness Is A Whole Lot More=94. =20 I liked this phrase so much in fact that last month I had it tattooed up and=20 down both of my legs in three inch letters. I=92m hopping it will be a real=20 conversation piece at the beach this coming summer.=20 Anyway, my new book will help clarify the difference between something that=20 is cool and something that is just plain dangerous, like wearing a chain=20 between your pierced nostril and your pierced vas deferens. As a side note,=20 I do believe that The Gap is now offering free vas definers piercing with th= e=20 purchase of and pair of chinos. =20 I=92ll notify you all when the book is available. Pick up a copy, it may he= lp=20 you avoid some painful fashion choices. Regards, Roy G. B. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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. 4/9/99 Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:26:25 -0400 "Martinis With Mancini" now broadcasting Friday's at from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91= .5 in Lowell Massachusetts. Besides honoring Martin Denny who will be 88 on April 10th. Today=92s pro= gram was our =93Lets Make A Millennium Baby Special Edition=94. Biologists say= that couples who want a baby born on January 1, 2000 should seek to conceive o= n April 9. If conception occurs there is a six percent chance (the highest) that the baby will be born on January 1st. The exotic music of Martin Denny interspersed with lush romantic vocals. Mood music for happy couples planning on a happy delivery to usher in the next millenium! The web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/ Your comments always welcomed. The Playlist: I Could Happen To You, Bjork The Folks Who Live On The Hill, George Shearing Temptation, Martin Denny (LP) Sway, Julie London A Taste Of Honey, Martin Denny (LP) Love Is Here To Stay, Nat King Cole Beyond The Reef, Martin Denny (LP) How Deep Is The Ocean, Diana Krall Makin=92 Whoopie, Frank Sinatra Return To Paradise, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Hong Kong Blues, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Busy Port, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Lotus Land, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Satin Doll, Martin Denny (LP) Save Your Love For Me, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley Blue Paradise, Martin Denny (LP) Love, Your Magic Is Everywhere, Johnny Mathis Soshu Night Serenade, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Island Dreams, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Japanese Farewell Song, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) Singing Bamboos, Martin Denny (Scamp) Misty, Dakota Staton Cast Your Fate To The Wind, Martin Denny (LP) Baby, Baby, All The Time, Nat King Cole Take 5, Martin Denny (LP) Easy Living, Dinah Washington Stranger In Paradise, Martin Denny (LP) Real Live Girl, Matt Monroe I Love Your Loving Ways, Nina Simone Clair De Lune, Martin Denny (LP) How Sweet It Is To Be In Love, Johnny Hartman My Reverie, Martin Denny (LP) I Don=92t Want To Set The World On Fire, The Ink Spots Like Young, Martin Denny (LP) Our Love Is Here To Stay, Natalie Cole More, Martin Denny (LP) Love Me, Love Me, Dean Martin Route 66, Martin Denny (LP) I=92m In The Mood For Love, Julie London Violetta, Martin Denny (LP) Cool, Martin Denny (LP) Charade, Sarah Vaughan America, Martin Denny (LP) Since I Fell For You, Jimmy Witherspoon The Wild One, Martin Denny (LP) The Nearness Of You, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong Wedding Song, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) They Say It=92s Wonderful, Johnny Hartman/ John Coltrane Exodus, Martin Denny (LP) This Is My Beloved, Etta Jones Ebb Tide, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) S=92Wonderful, Sarah Vaughan (Request!) Harlem Nocturn, Martin Denny (LP) Makin=92 Whoopie, Dr John Candy, Dr John Quiet Village, Martin Denny (Scamp CD) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 09 Apr 1999 08:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Another source is the lovely Walmartish Target chain (refered to by some Denver locals as "Target [pronounced, Tar-jee] Boutique) is selling them. Picked one up that was festooned with little martini glasses and spitted cocktail olives. Dirt cheap; no compunction. Odd place, though - they have a little postal thing, a food court and an ATM. Lacking only a bar to effect a tacky, insular world. _________________________________________________________ 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: Jeff Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:31:58 -0700 Nat Kone wrote: > Most of the people seeing that go-go ad wouldn't know that that kind of > music is part of a narrow little trend right now. > What's frightening is that the ad people don't seem to care. > That's frightening because not caring is actually kind of cool and if > they've become genuinely cool, then we are really in trouble. Don't worry, Nat--they're uncool. It's a year-and-a-half-old response to Austin Powers, that's all. Methinks you thinks too deeply sometimes (but keep it up!). 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation" Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:18:08 -0400 At 12:25 AM 4/9/99 EDT, Dlsmay@aol.com wrote: >--David (collecting Beatnik exploitation at every opportunity) I don't know anything about beatnik exploitation material so this might be "old hat" (should that be "beret"?) for you beatnik collectors but the only piece of beatnik cheese is by Spike Jones and I have it on this quasi-stereo demonstration LP. I can't find the record at this moment. (Or I just don't want to do the necessary excavation.) But I've seen it around. It's got a picture of an unusually happy woman wearing headphones. Anyway the piece starts off with an interview with a mad scientist and then he introduces his creation which is a two-headed beatnik. And then the very dumb-sounding beatniks sing a tune, one word at a time, bouncing back and forth between the two speakers. If somebody doesn't immediately respond with the name of that tune and where you can find it, I'll "dig" out that record. And while I'm on the subject of Spike Jones, don't you just love "Pimples and Braces"? It's kind of amazing that Spike Jones could do a tune that would remind me so much of the Hombres' "Let it all hang out". 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Tony Schwartz Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:00:02 -0500 At 10:07 AM 10/6/98 -0400, Randall Rothenberg wrote: > Yes, I know about the Tony Schwartz records -- and I'm proud to >say I know Tony Schwartz himself. Tony, who is now in his 70s, is one of >the great bridgers of the gap between media theory and media practice. The LostAndFoundSound Project folks put together a nice portrait of and interview with Tony Schwartz. Here's the URL for the RealAudio link: http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/onair/990226.schwartz.html February 26, 1999 Tony Schwartz A profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative and inspired sound gatherer, recording the sounds of America since 1945. A man who will venture no further than his postal zone, Mr. Schwartz has made more than 30,000 home recordings in the streets, delis, cabs, playgrounds and stoops of his New York neighborhood. "30,000 Recordings Later" Listen with RealAudio in 14.4 or 28.8 flavors. Produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva This week on Lost & Found Sound, a profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative and inspired sound gatherer, recording the sounds of America since 1945. TONY SCHWARTZ: "New York 19" was the non-commercial musical life of my postal zone. And the postal zone was New York 19 at that time. It's 10019 now. That was the area I could travel in. I'm not able to travel far. I have agoraphobia and in walking I could just go around my postal zone in the midst of Manhattan. I made the first portable recorder. I brought the VU meter from inside the case to the top so I could look down at it and see how loud things were and I put a strap on it so I could hang it over my shoulder, that was in 1945. I could go record children in the park doing jump rope rhymes. And I recorded the street festivals. I made fourteen records for Folkways records you can see them up there. The children's games of the streets -- I called it "1-2-3 and a Zing-Zing-Zing." "I won't go to Macys any more more more. There's a big fat policeman at the door door door..." I was interested in the sound around us. To order Tony Schwartz's Folkway recordings, or to contact Mr. Schwartz: tony@schwartz.net Or visit his website at: http://www.tony.schwartz.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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Napoleon Complex? Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:20:57 +0200 The CD (on Vampire Records) , not for the faint of heart, is available from Midnight Records (www.midnightrecords.com) tracklist: napoleon XIV - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa! Josephine VX - I'm happy they took you away, ha-haa! Henry the IX - Don't take me back, oh-nooo! The Emperor - I'm Normal Napoleon XIV - The place where the nuts hunt the squirrels Malepertus II - Ich glaab', die hole mich ab Josephine XIII - Down on the funny farm (oy vey) Napoleon Puppy - Ellos me quieren lievar Floris VI - Ze nemen me eindelijk mee, ha-haa! Kim Fowley - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa! Rose Brooks - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa! Teddy and Darryl - They took you away, i'm glad i'm glad I Balordi - venqono a portarci via ah, aah! Los Ovnis - Napoleon XIV Hugo de Groot - Ze nemen me eindelijk mee, ha-haa! Napoleon XIV - They're coming to get me again, ha-haa! Mad Dog Society - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa! Inhuman Orchestra - They're coming to take me... Snopek & the Unexploded Bomb - They're coming to take me away Lard - They're coming to take me away Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: I'm feelin' a little vocal today: Novi Quartet Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:49:11 +0200 Thinkmatic@aol.com wrote: >Would anyone like to yammer for a bit about any of these vocal groups or any >other similar wailin' groovies that come to mind, Novi Quartet: "Novi In Wonderland" CD: A wordless, modern jazz version of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Kriminalfilmusik: Martin Bottcher Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:42:25 +0200 At 10:48 -0600 99/04/08, Brian Karasick wrote: >..........two volumes of similar material with >the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin >Bottcher. Anyone heard these..... Very disappointing. Sounds like intermission music: gentle, friendly, cautious, sleepy and restrained (not really sophisticated though)... instead of dangerous and action-packed. It's rather boring and uninteresting, (even for cocktail music standards), not just over-relaxed. Sounds like Bert Kaempfert conducting while sleepwalking. From track 10 onwards, it gets a bit better, at one point it even swings. There's almost no jazz influence here, in big contrast with Peter Thomas' music. Speaking of Mr. Thomas: "Besonders in der Nacht" could have been written by him: a lunatic laughs and screams, and several zounds turn it into a mad, demented piece of music. Several tracks feel outdated, with an antique Glenn Miller "swing" sound. Not really recommended. my rating: 2/5 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [PR] "Tiki Sampler" the best from ULTRA-LOUNGE! Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:40:17 -0500 Hollywood And Vine WHAT'S ONLINE AT HOLLYWOOD AND VINE Thursday, April 8, 1999 ---------------------------------------------------- "TIKI SAMPLER" COLLECTION FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST ULTRA-LOUNGE ALBUMS For fans of nostalgia, of vocal pop, of the weird and the exotica of the lounge scene and the underground swing culture, of artists such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Grammy Award-winning Ultra-Lounge Series is back with another round of intoxicating sounds. From the million-selling album series that propelled lounge higher than a chimp-driven space pod comes the the Tiki Sampler (Capitol Records), released May 4, 1999, distributed by EMI Music Distribution. Specially packaged in an exotic Polynesian bamboo motif, Tiki Sampler is the new counterpart to Ultra-Lounge's wildly popular Leopard Skin Sampler, released three years ago and winner of a Grammy Award. It's also the 23rd title added to this ever-widening CD collection since its launch in 1996. In the blender for over two years, the Tiki Sampler features 23 full-length selections--17 from Volumes 13-18 of the Ultra-Lounge Series (TV Town, Bossa Novaville, Wild, Cool & Swingin' Too, Mondo Hollywood, Bongoland and Bottoms Up!) and the "Ultra-Lounge Presents" releases On The Rocks Part I & II, The Romantic Moods Of Jackie Gleason, The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny,The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter and Baxter's Best, plus six bonus tracks previously unreleased under the Ultra-Lounge banner. (There are also two hidden tracks. Shhhhh!) From musical greats such as singers Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, Nancy Wilson and Mel Torme, to legendary bandleaders/arrangers Nelson Riddle and Billy May; from the well-known Louis Prima to the obscure Wanda de Sah; from exotica icons Les Baxter and Martin Denny to comedian Jackie Gleason; from TV theme songs to lounge versions of '60s rock songs, the Tiki Sampler is the ultimate musical lava lamp. Song Title/Artist 1. The Munsters Theme - Jack Marshall 2. My Three Sons - Nelson Riddle 3. So Danco Samba - Wanda de Sah 4. The Look Of Love - Billy May 5. The Boy From Ipanema - Peggy Lee 6. Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - Louis Prima 7. Theme From "The Apartment" - Tito Rodriguez 8 . Moon River - Henry Jerome 9. The Inch Worm - Jack Costanzo 10. Brazil - Tino Contreras 11. Oh, Honey - Gloria Wood 12. Guys And Dolls - Terry Snyder 13. Light My Fire - Zacharias 14. Happy Together - Mel Torme 15. Go Chango - Les Baxter 16. Cubano Chant - Martin Denny 17. A Taste Of Honey - Jackie Gleason 18. Come On-a My House* - Julie London 19. Wives & Lovers* - Lena Horne 20. Get Smart/Casino Royale* - The Agents/Frank Pourcel 21. Wave* - Nancy Wilson 22. My Baby Just Cares For Me* - June Hutton 23. I Dig Chicks* - Jonah Jones *Previously unreleased on any Ultra-Lounge Series album # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More Twistin' Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:51:43 -0500 Arjan wrote: > (exotica) new sixties comps > >?.*****v/a-Twistin' Time vol.2 (Knight lp). And while we're out on the > >floor why not twist the night away with Tyrone A'Saurus And His > >Cro- Magnons ?, one of the 18 bands on here that took a stab at > >bein' the next Chubby Checker. Most of this stuff is cheesy as > >heck, but as King Curtis states here; "the Arthur Murray Twist > >made me a hero, before I learned to twist I was a social zero".***** While we're on the subject, there's a new Bear Family release called "Twist in Germany" for all you Germanophiles out there. Cover art looks to be top notch and Bear family is among the best reissue labels in existance when it comes to thorough notes. I've heard some of the cuts on an old Schlagerparade record I have and they're among my favourites. Granted it's an acquired taste... but try it... you may be pleasantly surprised! V/A - TWIST IN GERMANY - BEAR FAMILY - BCD 16186 AH CHUBBY CHECKER : Der Twist beginnt BILLY SANDERS : Hallo Mister Twist CATERINA VALENTE & SILVIO FRANCESCO : The Peppermint Twist JOEY DEE : Bitte bitte Baby FREDDIE DAVIS und die COLIBRIS : Peppermint Twist Time GRANT TRACY : Ya Ya Twist YVONNE CARR=C9 : Geisha Twist OLIVER TWIST & THE HAPPY TWISTLER : Der Twist CHARLY COTTON und seine TWIST-MAKERS : Der Liebestraum als Twist JIMMY BANK und die MARKS : Little Twisting Star JACK HAMMER : Kissin=92 Twist PAUL W=DCRGES : Twist ist gut f=FCr die Linie VIVI BACH= : Tivoli Twist JOEY DEE mit FATS AND HIS CATS : No, No FREDY BROCK und seine TWIST-MAKERS : Schaut, schaut das ist meine Braut JOHN LAMERS : Bitte bleib bei mir! CATERINA VALENTE & SILVIO FRANCESCO : Popocatepetl Twist RONNY BAER : Twist, Twist Senora NORA NOVA : M=E4nner gibt=92s wie Sand am Meer TEDDY PARKER : Nachtexpress nach St. Tropez PEPPINO DI CAPRI : St. Tropez Twist CHUBBY CHECKER : Autobahn Baby MAX GREGER : Twist Around The Clock JIMMY BANK und die MARKS : Der Twist der nie zu Ende geht NINA WESTEN : Karussell Twist OLIVER TWIST & THE HAPPY TWISTLER : Twist f=FCr Gina RALF BENDIX : Babysitter-Twist BENNY QUICK : Twist um Mitternacht mit Susi PETER VAN ECK und sein QUINTETT : Spiegel Twist LES CHAKACHAS : Der Twist ist pass=E9 Here is the BF site but be warned, this is not an easy label to find in stores! I've managed to find the Canadian distributor who happens to be in Quebec and he told me these things are rarely stocked as they are so specalized. Any decent store should be able to special order though. http://www.bear-family.de 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- part I Date: 09 Apr 1999 20:35:27 +0200 The following review below was posted on the Cowabunga-list (surf and oth= er instrumental music) last week, thought it might be of interest to this li= st too. I'm sending it in two parts, hope it doesn't bounce again... Arjan <><><><><><><> ---Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: L White Datum: zaterdag 3 april 1999 22:44 Onderwerp: Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- warning: long post Review them All and Come Back Alone: The Moon Dawg Guide to Spaghetti Western Soundtrack CDs key: ***** =3D brilliant, essential even for non-collectors of the genre **** =3D highly recommended *** =3D good, well worth having ** =3D fair, worth having for collectors * =3D yawn, only if you have money to burn (#) =3D # of instrumental tracks from the film included, typically 2-4 mins. long each s =3D suite, i.e. medley of themes from the film, typically 5-8 mins. long v =3D vocal with lyrics Note: Full spaghetti soundtrack albums typically contain some number of non-melodic =93suspense=94 tracks interspersed with multiple repetitio= ns of the main theme. Some have a few =93saloon music=94 tracks. If you ha= ve no patience for such music, stay away from the full soundtrack albums and stick with the compilations. Coming from a grounding in surf music, I have a strong preference for hummable melodies, and I=92ve rated the soundtracks accordingly. ENNIO MORRICONE The originator and master of the spaghetti western. In contrast to the grand, herioc scores that composers like Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Dmitri Tiomkin provided for grand, heroic Hollywood westerns, Morricone provided scores to match the bleak, grotesque, and often over-the-top westerns of Italian directors like Leone, Corbucci, Tessari, and Sollima. His innovative arrangements characteristically featured electric guitar (an instrument Morricone reportedly could play himself, and whose specific tones in each arrangement he carefully chose), acoustic guitar, harmonica, solo trumpet (sometimes recalling Nino Rota=92s scores for Fellini, sometimes mariachi music), oboe or ocarina, and of course the incredible whistling of Alessandro Alessandroni. The Legendary Italian Westerns (RCA 9974-2-R) ***** [31 tracks, 73:31] Gunfight at Red Sands (v); Guns Don=92t Argue (2+v); A Fistful of Dollars (7); A Gun for Ringo [aka A Pistol for Ringo] (4); For a Few Dollars More (8); Ringo Rides Again [aka The Return of Ringo, aka Pistolero] (1); 7 Guns for the MacGregors (2); Death Rides a Horse (1); Once Upon a Time in the West (4) -- Essential. Best place to get the genre-defining scores to =93Fistful=94 (includes everything on the original soundtrack LP except the reprise-it-all suite on side B) and =93Few Dollars More,=94 both of which are strong from start to finish. Plus you get the gorgeous title track to the pre-Leone western =93Guns Don=92t Argue=94 (later covered by late, great spaghetti-surf band Death Valley), and a sample of =93Once Upon a Time in the West.=94 Widely available at $10 or less, a real bargain. Informative liner notes are included. Western Quintet (DRG 32907) *** [2 CDs, 54 tracks, 156:41 --hey, how does DRG fit more than 74 minutes on each disc?] Il Mio Nome e=92 Nessuno [My Name is Nobody] (10); Occhio all Penna [A Fist Goes West] (15); Giu=92 la Testa [A Fistful of Dynamite/ Duck you Sucker] (11); Tepepa [Blood and Guns] (10); Vamos a Matar, Companeros [Companeros!] (8) -- The first three films are comedic, the last two set in Mexico, and the scores reflect this. They=92re not as bleak/grotesque/compelling as the famous scores to the Eastwood-Leone trilogy, and to me not nearly as memorable, with the exception of a couple of tracks from My Name is Nobody. As with all DRG releases, and unlike the Beat releases listed below, there are informative liner notes. Death Rides a Horse / A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo (RCA Italy OST 107)*** [26 tracks, 56:01] Death Rides a Horse (7+v); A Pistol for Ringo [aka A Gun for Ringo] (9+v); The Return of Ringo [aka Ringo Rides Again, aka Pistolero] (7+v) -- Death Rides a Horse is a memorable and dramatic flute-dominated score (the movie is great, too). Pistol for Ringo is okay; I can=92t say much for the third one. Once Upon a Time in the West *** [13 tracks, 38:23] --I have the LP; I know there=92s a CD version available, but I don=92t have release data. I personally don=92t care much for the saccharine-strings title track, but there=92s some great gnarly fuzz guitar and harmonica on the incidental tracks. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo [The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly ]/ La Resa dei Conti [The Big Gundown] (Vivimusica VCDS 70060) **** [24 tracks, 58:27] Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (10+v); La Resa dei Conti (12+v) --The title theme of the first score is, of course, definitive and indispensible. Yes, even if you got tired of the 30 seconds of it behind that Microsoft commercial about the schoolkids measuring saguaro cactuses (ironically, the movie was filmed in Spain, where unless I'm wrong there are no saguaros). The rest of the score is okay, but not up to Fistful or Few Dollars More. La Resa dei Conti has gnarly guitar work on a few tracks. Il Mercenario [A Professional Gun]/ Faccia a Faccia [Face to Face] (Vivimusica VCDS 7018) *** [31 tracks, 60:54] Il Mercenario (15); Faccia a Faccia (16) --The first score has the most incredibly virtuosic whistling of chromatic scales; the second has a lot of nonmelodic filler =93suspense=94 tracks. Navajo Joe (Legend CD 21) ** [16 tracks] --Title track is memorable; much of the rest is restatements or =93suspense=94 filler. DOMINIC FRONTIERE: Hang =91em High / ENNIO MORRICONE: Guns for San Sebastian (Sony AK 47705) ** [24 tracks, 66:12] Hang =91em High (10); Kelly=92s Heroes (Schifrin)(1); Guns (13) --Quick, which other Morricone theme does the overture to Guns sound so much like? I do believe it=92s the secondary theme (=93Mucchio Selvaggio= =94) to My Name is Nobody. Hang =91em High sounds better here, as done by electric guitar and harmonica than in the Booker T & the MGs organ-led cover version. The pairing isn=92t really so odd, even though the movie wasn=92t produced in Europe, so isn=92t *technicall= y* a spaghetti western, because Frontiere=92s work was clearly Morricone-inspired. BRUNO NICOLAI After Morricone, Nicolai was the most Morricone-like and my favorite of the maestri degli spaghetti. He started out as Morricone=92s conductor, so the resemblance isn=92t surprising. Buon Funerale Amigos ... paga Sartana / Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo Chimavano Camposanto (Beat CDCR 39) ***** [21 tracks, 50:25] Buon Funerale Amigos ... paga Sartana (aka Have a Good Funeral, My Friend) (11); Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo Chimavano Camposanto (10) -- All killer, no filler! These are two of the few scores that bear repeated listening from start to finish. =93Buon Funerale Amigos=94 (fro= m 1970) is my single favorite spaghetti western soundtrack, Morricone notwithstanding. Great melodic theme (which has been rearranged inventively for guitars and covered by Rick Mills=92 great spaghetti-western band The Hellbenders), great moody variations. =93Gli Fumavano le Colt=94 is also very cool. Two tracks from each score appear on the compilation =93My Delicious Spaghetti Western=94 (see below), but there=92s much more to hear. Land Raiders (Prometheus 128) *** (Prometheus PCD 128) [14 tracks, 42:38] -- Made a year earlier, this score strongly anticipates the melody and arrangements of =93Buon Funerale Amigos=94. (Or, you could say that BFA almost recapitulates Land Raiders.) Rightly considered one of the great spaghetti soundtracks, and essential for the completist, but if you have BFA, you can pass on it. (Of course, you=92re unlikely to run across it unless you *are* a completist looking for it.) Il Mio Nome e' Shangai Joe / I Giorni della Violenza ** (EMI/ Point CDCR 123) [15 tracks, 72:59] Shagai Joe (14), I Giorni (37:45 suite) -- Made in 1973, =93Shangai Joe=94 shamelessly recycles the main theme fr= om BFA, but the far-eastern-sounding incidental music adds new melodies and interesting variations. =93Giorni=94 is a forgettable Hollywoodish score. Un Uomo Chiamato Apocalisse Joe / Lo Chiamavano Tresette **** (Beat CDCR 45) [31 tracks, 76:57] Apocalisse Joe (17); Tresette (14) -- The stars are almost entirely for the first score, which is melodic, compelling, listenable all the way through, and -- best of all -- heavy on the fuzz guitar. The 17 tracks move back and forth nicely between varied statements of a moody theme (featuring fuzz guitar, harpsichord, some kind of flute or ocarina, and oboe) and a galloping theme (guitar, brass, and strings). The second is a lighthearted orchestral score with bluegrass (banjo and fiddle) and honky-tonk passages. 100,000 Dollari per Ringo (Pan CDS 2501) ** [16 tracks, 41:20] --A couple of guitar-led pieces are good, but the rest is more orchestral and Hollywoodish than Nicolai=92s better scores. FRANCESCO DE MASI The most prolific spaghetti maestro after Morricone, De Masi had one foot in the camp of pre-spaghetti (Hollywood) westerns and one foot in the Morricone camp. Western Soundtracks (Beat CDCR 22) *** [28 tracks, 69:42] Vado ... L'ammazzo e Torno (8+v); Sartana non Perdona (5+2v); Ammazzali Tutti e Torna Solo (7+2v); Ben & Charlie (3) -- The best all-around De Masi collection. The most melodic tracks are also on the compilation =93My Delicious Spaghetti Western,=94 but the remainder is also listenable. L'Uomo Della Valle Maledetta / La Sfida dei MacKenna / ...E Venne il Tempo di Uccidere (Beat CDCR 47) *** [33 tracks, 70:42] L'Uomo Della Valle Maledetta (15); La Sfida dei MacKenna (10); ...E Venne il Tempo di Uccidere (8) -- The first score is ho-hum in a pre-spaghetti style; the second is one of De Masi=92s best, very much in the Morricone vein; the third is pretty good. Il Segno del Coyote / C'e Sartana ... Vendi la Pistola e Comprati la Bara (Beat CDCR 40) ** [21 tracks, 49:21] Il Segno (13); C=92e Sartana [aka Fistful of Lead] (7); bonus jingle track -- Il Segno was a Zorro-clone movie, and the score is forgettable. C'e Sartana is a great movie, but after the cool main theme (comped on MDSW), there's not much added by the rest. Il Ranch degli Spietati / Una Bara per lo Sceriffo (Beat CDCR 44) ** [25 tracks, 47:10] Una Bara per lo Sceriffo (7+v); Il Ranch degli Spietati [aka Oklahoma John] (16+v) --Un Bara varies between (a) melancholy harmonica over acoustic strumming, and (b) grand brass and strings over reverbed guitar and snare drum providing hoofbeat rhythms. Il Ranch continues the same formula. Lone Wolf McQuade (Beat CDCR 26) ** (24 tracks, 58:00) --Okay, the movie (set in the present, made for US television) isn=92t technically a spaghetti western, but the soundtrack is in that style (with Alessandroni=92s whistling and de Gemini=92s harmonica), =93updated= =94 with synthesized keyboards. Good main title, but inconsistently interesting after that. 7 Dollari sul Rosso / Quella Sporca Storia nel West (CAM CSE 800-124) *** [33 tracks, 71:15] 7 Dollari (13+v); Storia (18+v) --Not only lotsa minutes on the CD, but two very hummable scores. DE MASI: Ringo il Caviliere Solitario / GIAN PIERO REVERBERI: Una Colt in Pugno al Diavolo / BRUNO NICOLAI: L=92Ultimo Mercenario (Beat CDCR 32) ** [19 tracks, 57:49] Ringo il Caviliere Solitario (7); Una Colt in Pugno al Diavolo (4); L=92Ultimo Mercenario (8) -- Odd combination. De Masi=92s score is very good. The few tracks from Reverberi=92s (what a great name!) are even better. But Nicolai=92s doesn=92t belong here, as it goes to a WWII movie, so you don=92t get all that much spaghetti per dollar spent. I don=92t know why Beat didn=92t instead include De Masi=92s =9315 Forche=94 (see next). ANGELO FRANCESCO LAVAGINO: Gli Specialisti / FRANCESCO DE MASI: 15 Forche per un Assassino (Beat CDCR 28) ** [22 tracks, 58:08] Gli Specialisti (11); 15 Forche per un Assassino (11) -- A bit of fuzz guitar on one incidental track of =93Gli Specialisti,=94 otherwise pleasant but nothing special. =9315 Forche=94 has a catchy tit= le track and some lively Mexicana incidental tracks. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- part 2 Date: 09 Apr 1999 20:35:45 +0200 LUIS BACALOV Bacalov=92s incidental tracks tend toward less melody, more dissonance than Morricone=92s. The Italian Western of Luis Bacalov (Vivimusica 7014) *** [28 tracks, 73:10] Django (5+v); Quien Sabe [aka A Bullet for the General] (5); La Piu Grande Rapina del West (5); L=92Oro dei Bravados (4); Si Puo Fare ... Amigo (s+v); Sugar Colt (6) --A good-value-for-money sampler of Bacalov=92s work. Il Grande Duello / Si Puo' Fare ... Amigo (EMI/ Point PRCD 120) *** [24 tracks, 57:11] Il Grande Duello (10); Si Puo=92 Fare ... Amigo (13+v) --The main theme to the first movie is one of the great spaghetti melodies, arranged for lonesome harmonica, woodwinds, and moody whistling. It is inventively restated and varied throughout the score. The second movie is a comedy, but the score is less lightweight than you might expect. The rrangements are an interesting mix of harmonica, woodwinds, and strings, with occasional glockenspiel and fuzz guitar. La Piu Grande Rapina del West / L'Oro dei Bravados (EMI GDM 2008) ** [22 tracks, 62:00] La Piu Grande Rapina (13); L'Oro (9) --The first score is lightweight. The second offers three versions of a simple title theme, masterfully arranged for acoustic and fuzz guitars, harmonica, harspichord, jew=92s harp, whistling, and clarinet. The incidental tracks are unusually varied and listenable. Django (Alhambra A 8930) *** [15+3v tracks, 41:12] --A fine main theme (interestingly placed as track 9) and Mexicana incidental music. A Man Called Noon (Alhambra A 8935) * [13 tracks, 31:02] --The main theme is kinda saccharine; the rest is fairly bland (perhaps appropriately, given that Richard Crenna was the star of the movie -- although the movie is pretty good). PIERO PICCIONI ...Si Incontri Sartana Prega per la tua Morte ** (EMI/ Point PRCD 124) [27 tracks, 58:16] --The organ-led main theme (=93Sycamore Trails=94) and reprises sound almost like Booker T. doing a spaghetti western (except for the additional harpsichord), which is cool enough. The rest is mostly piano-dominated background music. PICCIONI: Quel Caldo Maledetto Giorno di Fuoco / Attento Gringo ... E=92 Tornato Sabata / MANUEL DE SICA: Lo Chiamavano Verita (Beat CDCR 31) * [19 tracks, 45:21] Quel Caldo (12); Attento Gringo (3); Verita (4) --The jazzy, organ-led main theme for Quel Caldo (you also get 5 reprises, plus a bunch of virtually tuneless =93suspense=94 tracks) foreshadows Piccioni=92s later work on Italian soft-core films (check out the comps Beat at Cinecitta, vols. 1&2), though there is spaghetti-ish harmonica on some tracks. Nothing special in the other two scores. STELVIO CIPRIANI The Bounty Killer / Un Uomo, Un Cavallo, Una Pistola / Nevada (CAM CSE 800-147) *** [27 tracks, 62:22] Bounty Killer (9); Uomo (11); Nevada (6+v) -- The first two scores are very Morricone-like and catchy. LALLO GORI Buckaroo [Il Winchester che non Perdona] *** (Beat CDCR 42) [19+v tracks, 46:05] --Good galloping main theme with trumpet; the best incidental tracks feature acoustic guitars, electric bass, and the great harmonica of Franco de Gemini. BENEDETTO GHIGLIA Adios Gringo / Un Dollaro tra i Denti [A Stranger in Town] (CAM 1CSE 800-119) ** [25 tracks, 56:13] Adios (16); Dollaro (9) --The title theme to the first movie is good, but do you really need 10 (!!) versions, arranged for different instruments? And 4 versions of the secondary theme? The second score is almost as repetitive, but features cool guitar tones. DANIELE PATUCCHI Los Amigos (CAM CSE 075) * [9 tracks, 26:54] --The mellow trumpets and flutes make this sound more like music for a =9170s British TV show than for a spaghetti western. Maybe it=92s mercif= ul that it=92s so short. VARIOUS ARTISTS KOJUCHAROV & MANCUSO: Una Lunga Fila di Croci / RUSTICHELLI: Tutti per uno Botte per Tutti / MIGLIARDI: Prega il Morto e Ammazza il Vivo (Beat CDCR 35) *** [31 tracks, 74:50] Una Lunga Fila (6+2v); Tutti per Uno (13); Prega il Morto (8+2v) --This disc starts slowly but gets better. Two tracks made it on to the MDSW comp, but it=92s all pretty good. The first score is fairly standard; the second is a curious mix of Mexicana and Orientalia, with a little bit of Circus thrown in. The third -- for a Chuck Connors vehicle -- is dark, dissonant, and percussive, in interesting ways. My Delicious Spaghetti Western (Dago Red 102-2) ***** [16 tracks, 41:25] DE MASI: C=92e Sartana ... Vendi la Pistola e Comprati la Bara [aka Fistful of Lead] (1); Vado ... L=92Ammazzo e Torno (3+v); Ammazzali Tutti e Torna Solo (v); Sartana non Perdona (1); Il Segno del Coyote (1); NICOLAI: Buon Funerale Amigos ... Paga Sartana [aka Have a Good Funeral, My Friend] (2); Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo Chiamavano Camposanto (2); GORI: Buckaroo (2); MIGLIARDI: Prega il Morto ed Ammazza il Vivo (1); KOJUCHAROV - MANCUSO: Una Lunga Fila di Croci (1) -- If you=92re looking for an introduction to the greatest spaghetti composers after Morricone, this is the perfect place to start. If you=92re already prepared to take a big plunge, you could skip this disc and just buy the Nicolai, De Masi, Gori, and Kojucharov-Mancuso soundtracks on the Beat label that are excerpted here. The Fantastic World of Spaghetti Western (Vivimusica 7016) *** [30 tracks, 64:14] MORRICONE: Vamos a Matar Companeros (v), Tepepa (v), I Crudeli [aka The Hellbenders] (4), Che C=92entriamo noi con la Rivoluzione? (1); ORTOLANI: Una Ragione per Vivere e Una per Morire (4); PICCIONI: Se Incontri Sartana Prega per la tua Morte (4); Trovaioli: I Lunchi Giorni della Vendetta (5); DE MASI: [Sette] Winchester per un Massacro (3+v); ABRIL: Texas, Addio (5+v) --Only place I know to get four tracks from Morricone=92s percussive cool-jazz-spaghetti score to =93The Hellbenders=94, plus some other good stuff. Wanted Dead or Alive (CAM 900-020) *** [20 tracks, 68:25] MORRICONE: Duello nel Texas (s), La Banda J&S - Cronaca Criminale del Far West (2); LAVAGNINO: 5,000 Dollari sull=92Asso (1); PICCIONI: Minnesota Clay (2); FERRIO: Un Dollaro Bucato (1); Vivi or Preferibilimente Morti (v); GHIGLIA: Adios Gringo (1); CIPRIANI: The Bounty Killer (s); Un Uomo, Un Cavallo, Una Pistola (1); DE MASI: Arizona Colt (v); Quella Sporca Storia nel West (v); RUSTICHELLI: Dio Perdona ... Io No (s); NICOLAI: Corri, Uomo Corri (2); COLAROSSI: All=92Ultimo Sangue (1); BACALOV: Il Prezzo del Potere (1); PATUCCHI: Los Amigos (2) --Good compilation of highlights from soundtracks available on the CAM label. Spaghetti Westerns vol. 1 (DRG 32905) ***** [2 discs, 77 tracks, 152:06] DI STEFANO: Shango [aka The Invincible Gun] (3); DE MASI: Quanto Costa Morire (2+v); DONAGGIO: Amore Piombe e Furore (2); BIXIO: Ed Ora Raccomana L=92anima a Dio [aka And Now Recommend Your Soul to God] (1+v); IGANTE, NADIN, & BASCERANO: Wanted Johnny Texas (3), Prega Dio e Scavati la Fossa [aka Pray to God and Dig your Grave] (3); FERRIO: Quei Disperati che Puzzano di Sudore e di Morte [aka Los Desperados] (4), Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo [aka Ben and Charlie](6); SIMONETTI: Kid il Monello del West (1); PREGADIO: Deserto di Fuoco (2+v); BIXIO, FRIZZI, & TEMPERA: Carambola (3), Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca (2); MORRICONE: Giu=92 la Testa [aka Duck you Sucker, aka A Fistful of Dynamite](1); LAVAGNINO: Uno Straniero a Paso Bravo (2+v), Requium per un Gringo (4); Johnny West il Mancino (3+v); ORTOLANI: La Notte dei Serpenti (5+v); RUSTICHELLI: Vado Vedo e Sparo (2); UMILIANI: Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (s); MARTELLI: Sartana nella Valle degli Avvoltoi (3), Ancora Dollari per i McGregors (1) --Essential. Where else are you going to hear themes to so many obscure spaghetti westerns? Some of the composers are equally obscure, but here you get just the high points of their Morricone-style film work. Spaghetti Westerns vol. 2 (DRG 32909) **** [2 discs, 63 tracks, 150:49] NICOLAI: 100,000 Dollari per Ringo (1); SAVINA: I Due Gringos del Texas (3); PREGADIO & RIZZATI: Django, L=92Ultimo Killer (4); BACALOV: Si Puo=92 Fare ... Amigo (2+v), La Piu=92 Grande Rapina del West (1), L=92Oro dei Bravados (1), Il Grande Duello (2), Quien Sabe? [aka A Bullet for the General] (1), Sugar Colt (1), I Quattro del Pater Noster (3), Monta in Sella, Figlio di ... (4), Lo Chiamavano King [aka His Name was King] (1+s), La Morte Sull=92Alta Collina (2), Partirono Preti e Tornarono Curati (2+v), Django (v); Lo Chiamavano Mezzogiorno [aka A Man Called Noon] (1); MORRICONE: Tepepa (1), Vamos a Matar, Companeros (1), I Crudeli [aka The Hellbenders] (1), Che C=92Entriamo noi con la Rivoluzione? (1), Il Mio Nome e=92 Nessuno [aka My Name is Nobody]; ORTOLANI: Una Ragione per Vivere e Una per Morire [aka A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die](1); PICCIONI: Io non Perdona ... Uccido (3), Nel Nome del Padre, del Figlio e della Colt (2), Una Colt in Mano al Diavolo (2), Se Incontri Sartana, Prega per la tua Morte (2); TALLINO: Killer, Adios! (4); TROVAIOLI: I Lunghi Giorni della Vendetta (1); ABRIL: Texas Addio (v); DE MASI: Sette Winchester per un Massacro (1); PES: Professionisti per un Massacro (s); PREGADIO: Un Buco in Fronte (7) --One fewer star than vol. 1 because more of these tracks are available elsewhere. A note on web CD sellers: I found the following sources reliable -- they filled my entire order promptly, or consulted me before shipping when they couldn=92t: Rodeo Records, http://www.eburg.com/~rrecords/strack-a.html CheapThrills Records http://www.cheapthrills.ca CAM Soundtracks Italy, http://www.cam-ost.it ($15 per disc, s&h included) Qualitron, http://www.qualitron (only source for many of the Beat (Italy) discs, $17 each, 10% off for 10 or more) Mass Music, http://www.massmusic.com Intrada, http://www.intrada.com. Less reliable source (i.e. sent a very partial fill without consultation): http://www.everycd.com (although they are cheap, if you use the free trial month and don=92t pay the annual membership fee). --Moon Dawg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:52:21 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 8:50:43 PM, Dlsmay@aol.com writes: <> I have the original album by the Yellow Balloon and a solo album by "Robbie", Don Grady, aka: Don Agrati, called "Homegrown". Very nice California pop. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Gap marketing ploy... Date: 09 Apr 1999 15:16:10 -0400 The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine. How else could they sell clothes that are that unflatteringly bland...Anyhow, here's the basic gap marketing ploy. They were such a hit with the swing ad, they decided to spawn off three more ads working various dance themes. They want to appeal to as many people from different segments as possible, so for the hipsters (like us) they enlisted, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, hanger-onner, Mike Mills. Mike Mills directed the go-go ad, which by the way is a 1973 James Clark track called "Wild Elephants", Anyhow here's what the gap website said about him... And if you want to view the commercials they are also at www.gap.com About the director. Mike Mills' graphic designs have appeared on CD covers for bands like Beck, Sonic Youth, Cibo Matto, Deee-Lite, and the Beastie Boys; and on advertisements for X-Girl. In 1996, Mills released A Visual Sampler: Posters by Mike Mills, a CD compilation of graphic designs to promote his art tour of Tokyo, London, and Sydney. He has also directed documentaries, television commercials and music videos. The second area they are trying to appeal to is the hip hop/soul.Latino/African American audience. So for that, they could've enlisted someone to do a George Clinton P-Funk workout...but they got someone who is a Keith Harring, Basquiat hanger onner...here's his street crud, er cred...(his name is Hype Williams)... as P.E. says, "Don't believe the hype!" Inspired by Basquiat and Keith Haring, Hype Williams started his visual career as a graffiti artist. His sensual, vivid imagery appears in over 200 music videos, including Missy Elliott's "The Rain," and Busta Rhymes',"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See," as well as clips for Will Smith, Mariah Carey, and Puff Daddy. Williams made his film directorial debut with the release of last year's Belly. The third in this triumvirate of marketing coup de tat is, the country swing ad, for which they're trying to appeal to rural and small town America and the macho Urban cowboy throwbacks out there...and for that you need someone with real MTV experience...voila! Here's the middle American resume of a guy alled McG...where'd they find this guy at Mickey D's???? McG began his music career shooting still photographs of his friends in local bands, and established himself through G Recordings, his production company. His signature style can be seen in music videos like Smash Mouth's "Walking on the Sun" (awarded Best New Artist Clip of the Year at the 1997 Billboard Music Video Awards) and Sugar Ray's "Fly" (winner of the 1997 Music Video Production Association's Best Pop Video). These honors led to a series of number-one hits, including Fastball's "The Way," Korn's "Got the Life," The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)," Barenaked Ladies' "One Week," and Sugar Ray's "Every Morning." That being said, I like the Mike Mills ad. I like the music and the dancing. The clothes suck and are the antithesis of hip and cool. BTW, there's a sequel to the Austin Powers movie due out this summer called "The Spy who Shoved Me" (or something like that) that should continue to resurrect Bond St. hipness....now will one of you people tell me where I can learn how to do the frug???? Cheers, Mike. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) From the surf dudes.... Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:00:02 -0400 Hey, can any of you geniuses confirm that "Theme From The Wild Angels" -- the opening track of this soundtrack LP -- credited to a mysterious "Visitors Featuring Barbara" is indeed sung by Nancy Sinatra (whose mug features prominently on the back of the jacket)? And might that be the Arrows backing her? Listeners to tonight's "Two Wheel Show Stoppers: RRR's Spring Scooter Scramble" need to know! Thanks, 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: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday... last call Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:26:54 -1000 =A1muchos mahalos to DJ JimmyBee, Tiki Bob, Ms. Fondle, et al who've sent along warm birthday greetings to Mr. Denny! I'll print 'em out and deliver them to the kahuna himself ma=F1ana. any last well wishers, send them in now. last call... ha'ale'ale i ka pu'uwai a heart full to the brim, 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [news] key to Glenn Miller's disappearance to be auctioned Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:18:55 -0500 LONDON (AP) -- A military logbook that sheds light on the mysterious disappearance of American bandleader Glenn Miller during World War II will be up for auction next week, offering a chance to own a clue to one of aviation's most captivating puzzles. Miller, who created the 1940s big band sound, was en route to France to organize concerts for Allied troops when his plane disappeared over the English Channel on a foggy December day in 1944. No trace has ever been found of the single-engine aircraft or its passengers. Bad weather was the chief suspect until the flight log was produced, which suggests a more haunting -- and now largely accepted -- theory: Miller's plane may have been blasted out of the sky by bombs jettisoned by a Royal Air Force squadron returning from an aborted raid on Germany. ``There are many theories ... and we'll never know for sure what happened. But this is certainly an intriguing possibility,'' said Stephen Maycock, an aeronautical specialist with Sotheby's, which is auctioning the logbook Tuesday. The book, which belonged to the late Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw, will be sold along with a letter from Britain's Ministry of Defense bolstering the theory and a bundle of newspaper clippings and other materials. The items are expected to fetch $960 to $1,300. ``Glenn Miller is an extremely important character and this is a fascinating story that has captured people's imaginations,'' said Rachel Aked, a Sotheby's spokeswoman. The trombonist's fans have spent decades trying to determine what happened to him on Dec. 15, 1944. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Shaw dug out his logbook after going to see the film ``The Glenn Miller Story,'' which chronicles the life of the man who wrote such songs as ``In the Mood'' and ``Moonlight Serenade.'' In a single entry -- ``Ops. Siegen Canceled. Jettison Southern Area'' -- the logbook confirmed what Shaw suspected: Miller's plane disappeared on the same day Shaw's squadron aborted a bombing raid on Siegen, Germany, and let loose their 4,000-pound bombs over the English Channel. The bombs, which had to be discarded before the bombers could safely land, exploded just above the water. Shaw remembered seeing a small plane spiraling out of control after the bombs were dropped. ``Around it, I could see the sea bubbling and blistering with the exploding bombs. As each bomb burst, I could see the blast wave from it radiating outwards. ... It was obvious to me that airplane below was in trouble,'' he once said. ``Eventually, I saw it disappear into the English Channel.'' The downed plane was not reported, but Shaw's story was corroborated by other squadron members. And in 1985, Britain's Ministry of Defense wrote a letter to Shaw conceding his theory ``is certainly possible.'' ``In retrospect, we now lean towards this being the most likely solution to the 'mystery,'' the department concluded. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:53:34 EDT In a message dated 4/9/99 9:12:08 AM, you wrote: <> I love that Yma Sumac record. I just wish I could play it when other people are around . As for Tony Mottola, I have his "Rome Today" LP which is pretty swinging (and has a great cover). Haven't heard "Italy Today", but I have to agree with whoever said that his records are frequently disappointing. Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish) Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:59:17 -0700 (PDT) The only year that came close to '66 for pop, garage, soul and the swingin generation was the also "almighty" year of 1965. I couldn't agree with you more about 66. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > > > In a message dated 4/7/99 5:24:09 PM, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > > >sound like on the '66 album > > the ALMIGHTY year for pop, garage, soul, and the swingin' > generation....Jimmy/Class of '66 _________________________________________________________ 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Project Comstock Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:11:12 -0700 (PDT) Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would be the best choice for the second album? Some of the recommendations previously were outstanding! Thanks for any recomendations. I own a copy of Fantastica/Twilight Zone and the sound quality on both is really Fantastic!!! I really think Fanastica on cd sounds better then lots of ddd cds I own. 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) More Big Jim Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:55:47 +0100 Just seen this at CDNow: Big Jim Sullivan Band - Test Of Time Anyone know it? Is this Sitar Jim or some other Jim? 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: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer this pt.3 Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:24:13 -0400 > 1. Are you a musician? Explain... The accordian when I was 9-16. Picked up the piano 5 years ago in my mid 30's, was having fun playing Bach Inventions when I stopped taking lessons to concentrate on night school again. The piano and the future is always there. > 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this? It's going to have to be those wacky UL disks..... but it started with a radio program called Joe's Place on WICN in Worcester Ma. Joe Slezik started his DJ career in 1958 and his program has not changed much since. Mostly middle of the road. Sinatra, Les Elgart, Les Brown, Jack Jones, Polly Bergman. But he gave me a taste of some unusual stuff like the Pete King Singers doing "You are Woman: I am Man". So I am facinated by this "lost music of the 50's-60's" which led me to the UL, RCA and Rhino comps. > 3. This list could help you more by... It's great! I like the more middle of the road lounge discussions better but that might change. > 4. Other exotica/things you collect Nothing exotic. > 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like Bach, classical (mostly chamber) and post war, Jazz of course, Nina Simone, John Adams, Bela Bartok, jazz vocals, Joe Jackson, Thelonious Monk (big time), Sergie Prokofiev. > 6. What are you just dying to tell us? See #8. More into the music than the culture. > 7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or >other lounge-wear of which you are proud? None. Boring dresser. > I think we added this last time around: > 8. Shaken/stirred? I'm ....I'm.... I'm a martini virgin! Can you believe it? Let's just say I'm saving myself for that special martini... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Martinis With Mancini Date: 09 Apr 1999 17:22:33 -0700 > "Martinis With Mancini" now broadcasting Friday's at from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91 > .5 > in > Lowell Massachusetts. Um, with the new early a.m. broadcast time, maybe the show should be re-titled "Martinis with Gleason." He's the first quasi-exotic/ez guy who comes to mind as a person who might be found sipping a martini at 6 a.m. :) > Besides honoring Martin Denny who will be 88 on April 10th. Today=92s pro= > gram > was our =93Lets Make A Millennium Baby Special Edition=94. Biologists say= > that > couples who want a baby born on January 1, 2000 should seek to conceive o= > n > April 9. If conception occurs there is a six percent chance (the highest) > that the baby will be born on January 1st. Lord help us all. Another baby boom in the making. (But on the bright side, a new target audience for the marketing execs and merchandisers, as we ourselves slide into irrelevance and oblivion). Seriously, the playlist looked like a good show. Wish I could set my clock radio to wake me up with it. -- 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) Afro Cuban jazz Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:16:24 -0700 Re Nat's question: So much of this is pouring out on many labels, lots straight from Cuba,its impossible to keep track of, but my old faves are: Art Blakey - Orgy in Rhythm Vols 1 & 2 on Blue Note: With Sabu Martinez leading a five piece latin percussion section, 3 drummers, bass, piano and Herbie Mann on flute. A little chanting and lots of drumming. Liner notes say there was no rehearsal, no score, Blakey told em what he wanted and BOOM, off to the races. Shorty Rogers - Manteca & the Afro-Cuban Influence: Big band arrangements with all the west coast guys, but shorty lets the percussionists stretch out on two long cuts. And what about Shorty and Prado's Voodoo Suite album, cant' forget that, or their Exotic Suite of the Americas ? Herbie Mann - Flautista-Herbie Mann Plays Afro Cuban Jazz (makes it easy doesnt it?): I wrote about this recently, and later saw some of the good longer tunes like Amazon River appear on one of the longer Verve comps of Herbie. FORGET - Chano Pozo - Legendary Sessions with Machito: Pre-Diz recordings, Chano's barely noticeable on only half the songs, which are standard latin vocals, stay away ! I haven't heard the cd of his live Carnegie Hall(?) concert with Dizzy. I think Sabu Martinez replaced Chano in Diz's band after Chano took a few bullets. Something about a woman being involved..... 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:17:34 EDT In a message dated 4/9/99 9:43:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dciccone@inspex.com writes: << I *love* that commercial. The idea that Morgan Fairchild can actually type fascinates me. :>) >> Give me a break!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Gap marketing ploy... Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:46:42 EDT In a message dated 4/9/99 3:11:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hibarger@cportcorp.com writes: << The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine. How else could they sell clothes that are that unflatteringly bland.. >> I got news for ya . . . . . . I ain't wearing no freakin' cargo or drawstring pants ! ! ! Loving my thongs, 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) The Thing About The Gap Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:52:37 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 9:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, c_russo@email.msn.com writes: << quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs. >> Ooooooooo. Da man said the "F" word. I like it. 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) The Thing About The Gap Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:51:40 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 9:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, c_russo@email.msn.com writes: << I urge people not to support a company that profits off of human misery and robs kids of their childhoods. That's just a little TOO exotic if you ask me. And if Gap people ARE reading this--quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs. Now--back to da music! >> Ooooooooooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I agree with dis one. Them bastar's at the Gap is working them chilrens fingers to da done. All kidding aside, they really do exploit the labor "force" where ever they are. And you can take that to the Drawstring Pants Bank. 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) The Thing About The Gap Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:56:37 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 8:29:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, DJJimmyBee@aol.com writes: << And you can get clothing there that doesn't have Sloganspeak and Corporatespeak smeared all over them >> Huhhhhhhhhhhhhh???? At least half the stuff say GAP 1999 or Old Navy 1949 or something. Geeeze it's like a walking billboard. 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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions Date: 10 Apr 1999 00:07:34 EDT In a message dated 4/8/99 5:42:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, risser@goodnews.net writes: > Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get? > Just wondering. > Thanks! > Peter "Anita Kerr Reflects on the Hits of Bacharach & David" is the one!!!! It is one of my all time favorites. Also "Anita Kerr Today" has a really good song called "Wine IN THe WInd" which makes it worth getting. The Anita Kerr Quartet record of Mancini covers is also great! Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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)Nina Simone Date: 10 Apr 1999 01:54:53 -0400 At 07:24 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Dom Ciccone wrote: >> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like > Nina Simone, Speaking of Nina Simone.... The only other mailing lists that I'm on are all on the subject of sex. They're discussion lists, not personal ads or pictures, in case you were wondering. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Anyway, on those mailing lists, the subject of "what's the best music to do this or that to?" comes up and usually the answers range all the way from Enigma to Loreen McKinnet (or however you spell it). I've tried on occasion to expand their view of background music but it's no use. I only mention that because this friend of mine once said something to me about Nina Simone and I've never been able to forget it. I think of it everytime I hear her music or see her name mentioned. But maybe you want to stop reading before I tell you what he said. Or maybe I could be more coy about it. He said that Nina Simone was the perfect music to put on in the background when he and his girlfriend engaged in a certain act. And now whenever I hear Miss Simone, I feel a drop on my face and look up to see if it's raining. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap Date: 10 Apr 1999 01:57:48 EDT In a message dated 4/9/99 10:55:26 PM, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >All kidding aside, they really do exploit the labor "force" where ever they >are 'EY! Who the frig don't?..Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute" Date: 10 Apr 1999 09:56:49 EDT Well, it is a beautiful morning here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Still, I am sure it is no match for the sight that Mr. Denny sees every morning as he rises in his Honolulu condo. I wonder what he will be thinking about as he rises on this morning of his 88th birthday. One has to marvel at the many things Mr. Denny has contributed to the world of Exotica. What a thrill it must be for those out there who have seen him perform in person. Particularly in the early years when the percussion was so "primitive" and new. Can you really imagine what it would be like to sit aside some tiki hut cabana, the sun setting over the beach and watch Mr. Denny and his group come on stage and start to play? Think of honeymooners that in the 1950s visited Hawaii and saw him play. Those folks are now, hopefully, married 40+ years. If we could ask, I am sure they would remember it like it was yesterday. Unfortunately, we can't ask and so this day will pass with them not even thinking of those long past days -- much less the remote idea that this could be Mr. Denny's birthday. Still, in the little rooms where we keep our computers we celebrate for them. As I said, it is a beautiful morning here. A comfortable 74 degrees at 9:30 AM and the high will be in the low 80's on one of those crystal clear southern spring days. I awoke this morning and got my soon to be 2 year old out of bed and asked him what his favorite music was. "Martin Denny" he said. I have taught him well. "And today is his birthday so wish him happy birthday." He garbled a "happy birthday" and then said "music". "You bet -- music," I said. So as I type this note I have playing "Martin Denny In Person". A rather later recording done live at Duke Kahanamoku's in Honolulu. The people clap like on other live albums. I wonder were those folks are now? I wonder if they even know what day it is. Do they still have the albums? Do they still listen to the music? Well I do. We all do. So on this day I hope that all on this list, and of course Mr. Denny also, has a wonderful day. Pick your favorite Martin Denny tune and enjoy it. I am truly grateful for the contributions this man has made to our beloved music genera. Happy Birthday Mr. Denny from all of those, both present and past, that have enjoyed your music -- where ever they are. Warmest regards, Robert Brooks (AKA Tiki Bob) Charleston SC # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Spike Jones' two-headed beatnik Date: 10 Apr 1999 14:47:49 +0200 originally from Spike Jones & The band That Plays For Fun: "In Stereo (A spooktacular in screaming sound!)" - Warner Bros. 1332 stereo, USA, 1959 One of my favorite Spike LP's! Produced by Alvino Ray, arranged by Carl Brandt; voices by Luli Jean Norman, Paul Frees, Thurl Ravenscroft, George Rock, Ken Stevens. Must be the best novelty horror concept album ever. the two-headed beatnik song is called: "Two heads are better than one (Beatnick duet)" 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: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Tiki Sampler Trade Date: 10 Apr 1999 10:01:28 -0400 If any of you get the Tiki Sampler, would you be interested in trading MP3s of the last few songs? I have the whole rest of the series and am not interested in picking up another 20 dollar CD for six songs. 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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Still sealed 1960's LPs for you Date: 10 Apr 1999 16:08:47 EDT Exoticats and kittens, I recently scored several great 1960 original pressing still sealed LPs while on a cross country road trip. However, I bought several more of them than I could afford. So, I am offering them to all of you at auction, openining bid $20 (which is what I paid for them). Most will probably sell for $20 so please contact me even if that is the highest you can go. Tuesday night at midnight I will alert the winners. The remaining LPs will then be put on E-Bay (my first ever E-Bay auction!). I decided to offer them to you on the list first as I love being on this list. I have references avaliable from other list members. Good luck. All LPs are still sealed original releases: "Across 110th Street" OST Blacksplotation soundtrack written by Bobby Womack and J.J. Johnson. Stereo. United Artists LP. "Salt And Pepper" Original Soundtrack of film with Sammy Davis and Peter Lawford. Music composed by John Dankworth. 2 vocals by Sammy which are not avaliable on CD. Stereo. United Artists LP. Beautiful cover! "Three The Hard Way" Original Soundtrack by The Impessions. Blacksplotation film. Stereo. Curton Records. Still Sealed.. "Lord Love A Duck" Original Soundtrack LP. Music by Neal Hefti, theme sung by The Wild Ones. The film was a dark comedy starring Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld. United Artists. Stereo. Still sealed. "The Cowboy And The Lady" Lee Hazelwood and Ann Margaret. Still sealed, stereo LP. "Joe" the original sountrack recording of the great film which was Peter Boyle and Susan Sarandon's first film. Anyone who has not seen it should. There were two soundtracks released to this film. One was all dialogue, and one was music. This is the music one with songs by the band Exuma and Jerry Butler. I love this film, and love the photos on the back cover. It is a stereo Mercury LP. Still sealed. I can provided references from other list members. Please reply off-list. Thanks, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Gloria Wood Date: 10 Apr 1999 13:54:56 +0000 If you have heard the Ultra Lounge series of CDs, you may have heard Gloria Wood's rendition of "Hey, Bellboy!" Well, I did... and I always wanted to hear more of her. I just got two 78 singles featuring Gloria Wood. Hey Bellboy! is paired with Anybody Hurt? Capitol 2471. Ms. Wood is backed by Pete Candoli and his Orchestra. Both sides are extremely fun: Ms. Wood really goes wild on Anybody Hurt? Another Wood/Candoli single is Capitol 2625. Unfortunately, my 78 came with a nice bite out of it, so I could only hear 75 percent of each song. Both "By the Waters of Minnetonka" and "Oh, Honey" are great, but "Oh, Honey" is definitely the A side. Does anyone know anything about Gloria Wood? Has any more of her stuff been released on either LP, 10 inch LP, 45 or CD? I'd even look for 78s if I could be sure they were whole (the problem with buying in a mail/internet auction sight unseen). 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: "Brian Tozer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Gloria Wood Date: 10 Apr 1999 17:40:50 -0400 Ditto re info on Gloria Wood. I really like the snippets of her in the UL series, and, if Capitol had at one time hoped to "cash in" on the UL series with future re-issues of vault albums there must be at least an album or two somewhere. If you try some web searching, you get absolutely nothing but references to the UL series. Even the Space Age Pop site has no hint on her. (Guy Lombardo, but not Gloria Wood. Hmmmm....) Surely someone knows something about her. And a pic or cover scan would be interesting. Brian 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Gloria Wood Date: 10 Apr 1999 15:30:32 +0000 Brian T. wrote about Gloria Wood after my initial inquiry. I went websearching and learned some more: Ultra Lounge #8 Cocktail Capers has "Hey Bellboy!" Ultra Lounge #18 Bottom's Up has "Oh Honey" (the other 78 single I mentioned). She was the vocalist for one of Kay Kyser's big hits, recorded 31 December 1947 and the big hit of 1948: "The Woody Woodpecker Song." The song was also featured on a Warner Brothers cartoon "Wet Blanket Policy" in 1948. Gloria Wood sang with Harry Babbitt in Kayser's 1948 song "On a Slow Boat to China." She apparently did put out an album, for Columbia (1286) called "Wood by the Fire." With a number of other singers, including Paul Desmond's favorite Loulie Jean Norman, she appeared on Desmond's Quintet album, October 1954, Fantasy 3-21. That same year was one of the vocalists on the GNP 10 inch release by Buddy de Franco "Buddy De Franco Takes You To the Stars, Volume 2" You can hear her sing "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" from Spike Jones Liberty album "60 Years of Music America Hates Best." She was listed with 6 other women for a song called "Love Can Change The Stars" in a 1997 CD called "Hollywood's Best: The 50's." Gloria Wood was one of the many vocalists which sang with the Horace Heidt Big Band. She sang with Ricky Nelson (!) in a #14 hit "You're My One and Only Love." Her voice was featured with Mel Blanc's in a 1961 cartoon "Nelly's Folly" And, her voice is one those on Mel Henke's La Dolce Henke, although I know not which selection is her (although I could guess). Any other info? I still have yet to see a picture of Ms. Wood. 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: More Kriminalfilmusik: Martin Bottcher Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:32:23 -0500 Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > Sounds like Bert Kaempfert conducting while sleepwalking. > What a brilliantly descriptive and frightening descriptive sentence. Now for the opportunity to use it in everyday conversation. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Citizen Kafka in Sunday New York Times Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:47:39 -0400 Hi, all, An article starting on page 74 of this Sunday's New York Times Magazine has a group picture including moi and a nice write-up, including mention of the Secret Museum radio show (78s). Thought you'd like to know... ck -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) The Gap marketing ploy... Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:48:02 -0500 Michael Hibarger wrote: > The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine. How else could they sell clothes > that are that unflatteringly bland... But, bland is what THEY want. My response to all this Gap-trap is, where can I buy some pants that AREN'T baggy?! I need some tight peg-leg wear to show off my sexy butt. Frank ( aware that this "loose" thread is becoming un-exotica.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute" Date: 10 Apr 1999 09:28:14 -1000 Tis a beautiful thang Tiki Bob wrote on Mr. Denny's eternal musical contributions to all of our primordial tropical/jungle fantasies from statehood honeymooners to his 2 year old son. It's a beautiful morning here in paradise (again), a perfect day to spread the warmth of Martin's music by playing it with your windows open... drink some grog, bang a gong, emulate bird sounds, shake the left arm of Buddha. Again, many mahalos to all who sent heartfelt messages to "the man." Fluid Floyd/Martin Luther Denny Day Committee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Gloria Wood Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:54:09 -0500 > She apparently did put out an album, for Columbia (1286) called "Wood by > the Fire." "Wood By the Fire" is a collection of ballads in which she exhibits none of the vocal pyrotechnics of "Hey, Bellboy", though the liner notes suggest the album was spawned at least in part by the popularity of "Bellboy". Despite the less incendiary material, however, the album's really nice. Jerry Fielding's the arranger and conductor. BTW, the liners also say Gloria Wood once sang with Les Baxter's orchestra (!) and dubbed the singing voices for Marilyn Monroe, Vera- Ellen and Betty Grable, in addition to appearing in "countless commercials for radio and television". Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU Radio 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/retrolisten.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: Matt Hinrichs Subject: (exotica) Re: Gloria Wood Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:20:52 -0700 Byron wrote: > Her voice was featured with Mel Blanc's in a 1961 cartoon "Nelly's Folly" This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon. I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case obviously. This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones. - Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Gap marketing ploy... Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:28:01 EDT In a message dated 4/10/99 6:49:42 PM, recliner@maine.rr.com wrote: >I need some tight peg-leg wear to show off my sexy butt. Just send us a jpeg of your tight ass Mr. Man! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Citizen Kafka NYT article link... Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:57:21 -0400 Hi, all, Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left, holding a "White sisters" LP... enjoy! ck -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Newsletter Date: 11 Apr 1999 09:57:37 +0200 (I'm only forwarding this...) Hallo, hier sind einige Radio- und Clubtips f=FCr alle, die sich f=FCr New Asian= Dance=20 Music interessieren: INDIAN VIBES!-Clubnacht Mi, 14. April 22 h @NACHTLEBEN, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 45, Frankfurt DJ: Eastenders - Petra Klaus Visuals & Scents VORSCHAU 12. Mai JOI Soundsystem + Tablapercussion aus London live zu Gast.bei Ind= ian=20 Vibes! Hier noch einige Radiotips So. 11. April, 19.15 - 21 h HR 1 schwarzwei=DF: =20 New Asian Dance Music Interviews mit State of Bengal, JOI, Osmani Soundz, New Breed, Friedel=20 Lelonek u.a. =FCber ihre Neuver=F6ffentlichungen, ihre Arbeit in den Comm= unites,=20 Rassismus in GB und die gegenw=E4rtige Situation in der New Asian Dance M= usic=20 und nat=FCrlich jede Menge Neuvorstellungen. Mit Klaus Walter und Petra Klaus INDIAN VIBES on air bei Radio X 97.1 Mi, 14. Apr. 13 - 14 h Interview mit STATE OF BENGAL: =FCber sein neues Album "Visual Audio", seine Zusammenarbeit mit Ananda=20 Shankar, den Massive Attack-Remix, Rassismus in Gro=DFbritannien, Communi= tywork=20 im Londoner Eastend und vieles mehr Und jede Menge Musik von SOB MIXED Masala Mi. 14. Apr. 14 - 15 h India on air mit Choosy uneJan-Malte. Informationen aus Indien, Sketch mi= t=20 Upma und Sanjay; Special: Hinduismus 2. Teil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Techno Humppa Date: 11 Apr 1999 14:05:19 +0200 Don't think I mentioned this before but the German compilation "Humppa goes tek oh-no!" has to be one of the most idiotic things I've heard in years. Released last year on the German Humppa records label it features remixes of Elakelaiset material by a number of European techno luminaries. Finnish humppa get remixed in ambient or full frontal techno assault mode with sometimes jawdropping results. There's even a "gabber" (surely the most irritating music the Netherlands ever produced) remix. Anyway, a complete hoot all the way. Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Aavikko Date: 11 Apr 1999 14:51:23 +0200 This amazing Finnish band have a homepage at http://tuli.cc.lut.fi/~tinkala/aavikko.html Check out the sound samples! Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: d th Subject: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha Date: 11 Apr 1999 07:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Once again, I lost the address for whoever asked me about Kay Starr/Lee Wiley stuff from the 40's/50's.....A fairly decent web-site at http://baldwin-streetmusic.hypermart.net has a bunch of stuff like that. Does anyone here have (or has heard) the Lee Wiley+Bongoes LP? I've been looking for years. Also: Can anyone give me a rating on the Della Della Cha Cha Cha LP? DH! _________________________________________________________ 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour This Week Date: 11 Apr 1999 11:57:18 +0000 On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, our special guest is Dana Countryman, editor of "Cool and Strange Music". Dana talks about how the mag got its start, the upcoming CD project and about the new Cool and Strange Music website! Also on the show, two sides of Dean Elliott - from the inspired zaniness of "Zounds! What Sounds" to the edgy crime jazz of "College Confidential"; Jack Webb (aka Sgt. Joe Friday) goes all mushy on us with "You're My Girl"; Sascha Burland swings the "Chiquita Banana" jingle; Billy Ward (of the great '50s R&B group The Dominoes) tries out his Exotica chops on the album "Pagan Love Song"; plus Les Baxter, Eden Ahbez, George Duning (from "1001 Arabian Nights"), Shorty Rogers and Buddy Cole! To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Requires at least a 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2, which you can download for free at: http://www.real.com/products/player/50player/index.html?src=download As you listen to the show, please drop us a line and let us know you're out there. It helps us keep these webcasts going! 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Beauty Bar this Tuesday Date: 11 Apr 1999 19:02:04 EDT tues apr 13 9 - close our guest dj this week is Steve Mak spinning new sounds from around the globe FREE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Pardon my (temporary) silence Date: 11 Apr 1999 19:34:52 -0400 I will be out of town for a week and this will be a WORKING vacation, so if I don't respond to anything, that is the reason. I will not have too much time to post. To the listmasters, no I will not be turning on a vacation message. See you when I get back into town and all will know if I find any cool discs (I am making time for that :^) If silence is golden, my wife has a ring due her, 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Two and a half Collector's records Date: 11 Apr 1999 23:50:40 -0400 I don't know what came over me on Saturday but I bought two "collector's records" each for 15 bucks (Canadian though). I try not to do that and usually succeed but in each case, there I was with a few f five dollar records that I didn't really have to buy and in each case decided to put those away and go for so-called "quality" over quantity. At the first store I bought... The Soundtrack for John Cassavettes' "FACES", arranged and conducted by Teo Macero. I've always been jealous when I saw this record in other people's collections, not because I knew the music but because Cassavettes was the filmmaker that made me want to make films myself. I knew about Cassavettes well before I saw any of his films. One of the first records I ever bought was "The Best of the Animals" and in the liner notes, Eric Burdon mentions Cassavettes and "Shadows" as the kind of film he wanted to make with the Animals. At 13, if Eric Burdon had said "jump!" I would have. The music alternates between jazz, quasi crime jazz and atmospheric soundtrack jazz. I don't associate all the music with my memory of the film but some of the music is (only) inspired by the film. I would have bought this even if the music had been composed by Little Marcy but it's a nice bonus that it's pretty good. At the other store, I bought "GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION HITS" by Neil Norman with Les Baxter I guess I bought this because of all the space stuff on the list lately and the fact that one of the cuts is "Space 1999". And because Mr.Norman is credited with playing moog and theremin. This record has a lot of nice moments but it's actually a bit too "contemporary" sounding for my taste. It came out in 1979 and I guess that's too late for me. For this kind of stuff anyway. But I think I'm going to sample some of the theremin before I decide what to do with it. (You guys made me buy that one!) I also bought this curious-looking BOB CREWE GENERATION record but it was five bucks so I don't call it a "collector's record" though maybe it is. It's called "Let me touch you" and one of the curious things about it is the "Crewe 4, 2, 1" label that's all over it. It's a reference to the fact that the record can be played in "quad", stereo or mono. Except they don't call it quad. They call it "decoded 4 channel for true 4-Track" This is another one of those records with what I consider somewhat strange track selection. The last two tracks on side one are "Barbarella" followed by "Moon River". I think it came out after but this record is not as "modern" or exotic as his "Music to Watch Birds By". Two collector's records but I'm still not going near ebay. Of course the fact that no one would give me a credit card influences my decision there. 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: Pea Hicks Subject: (exotica) (off-topic) Celebrating Y2K at Chuck E. Cheese! Date: 11 Apr 1999 21:25:36 -0700 Howdy all! this is a little off-topic, but thought some of you might enjoy this: i went to my nephew's 2nd birthday party today at Chuck E. Cheese. (for those of you who don't know what Chuck E. Cheese is, it's a pizza place with lots of arcade games and stuff for kids and they have these big animatronics shows hosted by Chuck E. Cheese- a big pizza-eating rat.) anyway during one of the animatronics shows one of the characters (the big purple keyboard-playing monster guy- can't remember his name) came on and started talking about the Y2K problem and was wondering whether or not they would be affected by it. so Chuck E decides to turn the clocks ahead to test out the system, and what follows is a test-run countdown to new years, 2000... after that, everything seems fine for a few seconds and then the monitors go fuzzy and all the animatronics go haywire and then shut down EXCEPT for the purple guy, who's left wondering what the hell happened. then a few seconds later everything comes back on and of course it turns out they were playing a joke on the purple guy and everything's fine in pizza-land! maybe i didn't do a great job of conveying this story, but it was EXTREMELY surreal, given the fact that Chuck E Cheese is totally kid-oriented and the joke was sure to be way over most of their heads....... i'm gonna go back and videotape it so when my grandkids have to do a termpaper in their history class on Y2K, I'll have some interesting cultural documentation of the craze... my guess is that the Chuck E. Cheese techies were genuinely working on Y2K problems, and decided it might be funny to build a little skit out of it... anyway! if you have a Chuck E. Cheese near you, you might want to go check it out........ 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute" Date: 12 Apr 1999 02:04:32 EDT Robert, I don't read everything on the list but I took the time to read your message and gotta say thanks a lot hope you and you're son enjoyed the day Otto # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) sadie: Citizen Kafka NYT article link... Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:57:21 -0400 Hi, all, Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left, holding a "White sisters" LP... enjoy! ck -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' To unsubscribe send the command "unsubscribe sadie" to majordomo@lists.uoregon.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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) FMR in Salon Magazine Date: 11 Apr 1999 02:45:41 -0700 Well, It looks like a banner week for publicity for listees. If you have = not seen the excellent article on WFMU and Citizen Kafka, take the time = to read it. Amazing! Few radio stations ever reach the level of = excellence of WFMU. Fewer manage to maintain that level. M.ace was kind enough to point out an article in Salon Magazine in which = FeelthyMonkey gets mentioned briefly. (Thanks, M!) Though not about FMR, it tells of what's going on with the new wave of = internet broadcasting.=20 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/09/shoutcast/index.html Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20 Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Andre Williams concert Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:13:51 +0200 The concert with Andre Williams turned out to be rather strange... I have known about Andre Williams since the late 80s when I bought The = "Wawy Grawy" (or "Four hairy policemen") compilation and i fell in love = in the song "greasy chicken", it took me several years to find his stuff = on LP, but when i did i found that most tracks wasnt that satisfying to = me. The same trouble for me as with Screaming Jay Hawkins, In the 80s I = bought his LP called Frenzy which is really great, but trying to find = more gems has been hard. (Not to find LPs and CDs, but to like the stuff = i have bought -They are not that good. After 6 albums I decided not to = explore his world any further, the classic stuff on Frenzy is still the = best I have heard by him) Anyway, Andre Williams is one of a the chosen few that i have thought = would be very thrilling to see perform live, even though i didnt think = he was alive until i heard that he was going to play on Becks gig in = Stockholm last year. I missed that gig, and it was probably lack of money, because like many = of you i like what Beck has done, even though i probably wouldnt listen = to it at home if i got his records. So here is Andre Williams going to perform in Stockholm again. Not = before Beck or some other guy. He is THE main event for the evening, and = there is even a swedish band called "the Blacks" warming up the audience = as we arrive to enter "Studion". We are about 100 people there, 6-7 is = friends of mine. I feel great at the club, the effect of the joint i shared with a friend = earlier makes it even better. I buy a beer and wait... Then... heawy drums... electric guitars... Whats this? I go down the = stairs to see better. Four young white guys is on stage. They is called = "the Countdowns" and they are the band that Andre Williams is going to = perform with. I get a bad feeling at first. The band sounds very very = white, if you agree that is possible. I dont really like it, but i might = have earlier in my life so I wait for Andre Williams to arrive on stage, = I start imagine how they will play with him singing... But what? The Countdowns keep playing, and to give them credit for = something there must be for their ENERGY. And the drummer is doing a = good job, but it IS NOT the music to accompany Andre Williams. This is = hard rock. Where is the groove...? The sleazy Rhythm n Blues...?? After 5-6 songs, the audience seem a little confused... -Where is Andre = Williams? -Is this Andre Williams? -Who is Andre Williams? -Is'nt Andre Williams going to enter the = stage???=20 Finally the man shows up, in a fancy white suit and a hat that looks = really neat. He looks like "that guy in the movies". The audience is = giving him a warm velcome as they clap their hands. So, are the Countdowns going to slow down a little, I kind of think that = would be a nice idea, because they play with a man in his 70s, who is = the main event for this evening, and who has devotees in this far-away = town... No, the band keep pounding out their own stuff, and Andre = Williams is supposed to sing along with them. I begin to dislike the = Countdowns. They seem arrogant. It seems they do not really like to = accompany Andre Williams.=20 Sometimes it works, and Andre Williams actually seem to enjoy it, but i = must say his voice isnt making it with this kind of music. But it is = quite sleazy sometimes. But not sleazy funny. Finally there is a 1 minute medley of the classics... Bacon Fat, Greasy = chicken, Jail Bait and some more favorites of mine... And thats that. = Then some more Countdowns. The conert is ended. And I feel robbed. Max, a friend comes and ask if i = need some Andre Williams Fortune singles... He is not sure if he wants = them any more... I says no... But... at least i got to be confused, and maybe that is good, think of = it, to actually hear Andre Williams perform the stuff he made in his = youth today, wouldnt satisfy me either with a band like the countdowns.=20 He should have played with my swedish musician friends. That would have = been an amazing experience. AND they would have treated Andre Williams = with RESPECT. And Andre Williams would have loved it, That I am sure of. The night ended with a jamsession, I tried the sitar... Which must have = been the worst performance on this instrument in years. So who am I to = complain? I am just a mad artist. And a silly recordcollector. ------------ Magnus=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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:27:28 -0500 d th wrote: > > Also: Can anyone give me a rating on the Della Della Cha Cha Cha LP? > > DH! > This is a pretty fun record. I have to admit I'm not the biggest Della fan, her showy schmaltz can be a little too Broadway-ish, which in my book is a detraction. The band cooks, the arrangements a good standard cha chas and it's a great party record, meaning that you can feel at ease in putting this on with guests, knowing that there won't be any embarrassing clunkers. The only thing I have against it is that there is nothing tin the arrangements to bring it up over the top, unless you think Della's style is weird enough to make it stand out. An aside: This is probably coincidental but as I was listening to this album I couldn't help thinking that Della Resse's vocal stylings were very similar to a male vocalist that I was listening to just the other day. Tony Newly! Ok, it's probably my hallucinating imagination but, listen to the way both of the vocal stylists enunciate their words. It seems they both have this way of adding three or four extra syllables on a key word in a song for added emphasis. It's difficult to explain this one so I hope that if you've hear both of these singes that you can hear what I'm talking about. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Re: Citizen Kafka in Sunday New York Times Date: 12 Apr 1999 07:34:20 -0700 (PDT) I hope everyone was able to get their hands on Sunday's NYT(tangibly, or otherwise): both for the article on WFMU and the article on the resurgence of "Home-Grown Radio" (RIP WGTB, WHFS) in the US. While I enjoyed the articles and was happy to read that Exotica@xmission's own Citizen Kafka and others are working to give listners not only a choice of musical diet, but providing exposure to entire expressions of human experience that might otherwise have utterly vanished - as though they, or the desire that produced them never existed, I am a bit envious. I'd love to be able to turn on the radio in DC and hear The White Sisters (what ever it is they do) or Inuit song swapping, etc.... Thanks, Citizen K.! BW _________________________________________________________ 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: Kirsten Noel Whitley Subject: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:49:06 -0500 (CDT) Howdy everyone, After several months on a business trip of intensive work (yuk!), I am getting to go home (yeah!). I'm really excited about getting back to my home. Before leaving for home, though, I have a few days left to make 2 LP purchasing decisions. I need your help in deciding whether to buy: Both of these are at a the kind of record store that thinks that every LP (trashed or not) is worth at least 10$. They have a lot of LPs marked 50$ or up... which leaves me feeling unsure about: * Ray Martin, Dynamica (or whatever the LP is that has the "Shadrack" track on it), 15$ -- I like "Shadrack" (thanks, Nat!) but I know nothing about the rest of the album. Is that an album that I would be able to find elsewhere, or should I be willing to pay 15$ on the basis of that one zesty little song? * Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss") off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it... but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned them, which makes me wary. Thanks, --Kirsten # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Project Comstock Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:25:22 -0400 Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would be the best choice for the second album? Some of the recommendations previously were outstanding! Groggy Morning to all:...Hmm...does it have to be a Space rekkid per se, or can we lick the "boots" of those whom have the BEDAZZLED OST, which I would like to see "released" in some form, legit or no. Or, were there any BeBe and CeCe Baron pre-synth electronic albums besides FORBIDDEN PLANET, that will ever see the light of day? Krell music for all! Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:30:50 -0500 > > * Ray Martin, Dynamica (or whatever the LP is that has the > "Shadrack" track on it), 15$ -- I like "Shadrack" (thanks, > Nat!) but I know nothing about the rest of the album. > Is that an album that I would be able to find elsewhere, or > should I be willing to pay 15$ on the basis of that one zesty > little song? While Shadrack IS the standout song on this record the rest of the album is truly wonderful. So I would say it was a tough call as to whether or not the rest of the LP will click with you. As for the price.... I myself am used to paying $1-$5 for albums at thrift stores or at record shows but if I see something for $10 that I've been looking for for years and know for a fact that it's a great album I'll grab it. So, if you are used to spending $8-$10 for records $ 15 might not seem too steep, or think of it as a CD purchase. I've tried to make the price relative to your situation. I know in the past on this list there has been much debate on how much you should pay for a record....so, I'm busy working out a formula that relates a record price to yearly income... > * Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much > about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss") > off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come > across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it... > but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned > them, which makes me wary. > After my exposition on relative price let me say point blank that this is a ridiculous price for this record. This group is quite fun though they straddle that line that demarks real/fake jazz, the preference, in our case, being toward fake. So the fact that they are borderline takes them down a peg. I routinely see QTB records for a dollar, even in record shops they are never priced over $7. Hope this helps, Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) MeL Blanc Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:37:43 -0400 >This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon. I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case obviously. Not so fast! What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is also oft credited? >This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones. Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!) Janey Jones Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) obits: Helen Mayer,Brother John Sellers Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:43:24 -0500 *Helen Mayer NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon ``Dumbo'' died Saturday. She was 91. Mrs. Mayer, known as Helen Aberson when she wrote ``Dumbo, the Flying Elephant,'' moved from Syracuse, N.Y., to California in 1939 at the request of the Walt Disney Company. Disney, following the 1940 release of the animated film ``Pinnochio,'' used Miss Aberson's tale of a flying elephant to create one of the most easily recognizable cartoon characters and stories. In the story, Dumbo the baby elephant is teased for his oversized ears, but eventually becomes a circus star when he realizes his ears allow him to fly. *Brother John Sellers NEW YORK (AP) -- Brother John Sellers, a blues and gospel singer who started his climb to fame at age 5, died March 27. He was 74. Sellers performed regularly in the early 1960s at Folk City, a Greenwich Village nightclub where musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Joan Baez sang early in their careers. He was born in Clarksville, Miss., where he was inspired by street performers like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By age five, he had begun singing, dancing and playing the tambourine in church-organized tent shows. Four years later gospel singer Mahalia Jackson saw Sellers perform, and brought the boy, whose parents had abandoned him, to Chicago with her. As Jackson's fame grew, they sometimes sang together, and Sellers occasionally filled in for her at concerts. Sellers made two recordings for Vanguard Records' new jazz line in the mid-1950s, teaming up with musicians like Sonny Terry, Johnny Johns and Jo Jones. It was during a Folk City performance in 1961 that choreographer Alvin Ailey noticed him. The two later collaborated on Ailey's ``Blues Suite'' and ``Revelations.'' Sellers' final performance with the well-known Ailey company was in 1997. At his death, he was involved in litigation with the troupe over royalties and the copyright to ``Revelations,'' one of Ailey's most famous compositions. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:48:45 +0100 laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > > >This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another > voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon. > I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat > prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case > obviously. > > Not so fast! What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is > also oft credited? AFAIK June Foray has never appeared in the credits for a CLASSIC Warner Bros. cartoon. If you know better, then enlighten me. > >This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones. > > Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is > better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!) Nah- Bob Clampett is the best. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:52:55 +0100 VANESSA COX wrote: > > laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > > > > >This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another > > voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon. > > I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat > > prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case > > obviously. > > > > Not so fast! What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is > > also oft credited? > AFAIK June Foray has never appeared in the credits for a CLASSIC Warner > Bros. cartoon. If you know better, then enlighten me. Actually, I can think of several examples now. Sorry. > > >This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones. > > > > Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is > > better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!) > Nah- Bob Clampett is the best. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Project Comstock Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Jane Fondle I also would like to see Bedazzeled OST finally released. For me this would make a perfect twofer. Also, I don't know anything about Bebe and Cece Baron's albums besides Forbidden Planet but I sure would like to hear them. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck > > ---laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > > Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would be the best choice for the second album? Some of the recommendations previously were outstanding! > > > > > > Groggy Morning to all:...Hmm...does it have to be a Space rekkid per> se, or can we lick the "boots" of those whom have the BEDAZZLED OST, which I would like to see "released" in some form, legit or no. Or, were there any BeBe and CeCe Baron pre-synth electronic albums besides FORBIDDEN PLANET, that will ever see the light of day? Krell music for all! Jane Fondle _________________________________________________________ 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: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:01:31 +0200 > > >Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would >be the best choice for the second album? Some of the recommendations >previously were outstanding! Richard Marino -Out of this world.=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) Citizen Kafka NYT article link... Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:09:40 -0500 At 03:57 AM 4/11/99 -0400, Citizen Kafka wrote: >Hi, all, >Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be >necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy. > >http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html > >I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left, >holding a "White sisters" LP... Which points to an unusual oversight by the Times - they didn't identify anyone in the group photo! I recognize a few but not all of y'all, so how about IDing everyone?? BTW, I thought it was a fine article and an interesting pairing with the one on Ira Glass/TAL. How do you feel about it, CK? Did they get it right? Were you misquoted or anything? -Lou PS I can't wait to get my hands on your Vox Populi Americana CD as part of my 'FMU HOT pledge!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:01:14 -0400 >An aside: This is probably coincidental but as I was listening to this album I couldn't help thinking that Della Resse's vocal stylings were very similar to a male vocalist that I was listening to just the other day. Tony Newly! I agree Della ain't for everbody...but I love her! I have this great live record where she sounds like a drag-queen hosting a night! You may think I am crazy, but there's another man I think she sounds like: Johnny Mathis! Play her album with Neal Hefti back-to-back with Mathis/Nelson Riddle, I'LL BUY YOU A STAR(which is a swingin' mutha-%(#!)(@&% of an album if I've ever heard one!)...and only an expert can tell them apart (especially on "The Best is Yet to Come")! Other celeb matches: Nancy Wilson=Lil' Jimmy Scott! Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jody, Ruth and Michael Rosen" Subject: (exotica) "Bella Neurox" Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:57:30 -0400 For those interested, I did an interview with Miss Murgatroid and Petra Haden with regard to their new album, "Bella Neurox." The article can be found in this week's LeisureSuit.net, or by clicking on the URL below: http://www.leisuresuit.net/Webzine/cgi-bin/kdlinks.cgi?articles/murgatroid_p etra.shtml --Jody # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Warp back to Earth Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:57:26 +0200 The double CD contains both 17 "remixes", and 29 unreleased Peter Thomas tracks, which I haven't heard yet, as I went for the LP version - alas! That double LP contains ONLY the 17 "remixes": new tracks on the basis of never released bits and pieces by peter Thomas that are/were electronic sound-experiments from the beginning seventies. With: Stockhausen & Walkman, Tipsy, Stereolab, Saint Etienne, High Llamas, Coldcut, Momus, Yoshinori Sunahara, Mr. Scruff, Dauerfisch, Ronnie & Clyde, Stereo Total, Sons Of Silence, Schneider TM, Mina, Tortoise. Doesn't sound at all like any other Peter Thomas material that is available on cd. This is contemporary, industrial?/electronic/sample/loop techno-minded music, with accent on rhythm, and little melody. I didn't like it at all, but I'm not "in to" today's modern music... 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: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:02:03 +0200 I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my = own copy of it from amazon.com. The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One = of my best records. "Terminal" is my fave track.=20 Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! ----------- 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Wild Angels...frwarded Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:05:56 -0400 The Visitors are Davie Allan & the Arrows, but I don't know who "Barabra" is. Phil Dirt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Helen Mayer, Dumbo & Denny Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:08:05 -0700 (PDT) I have really enjoyed the OST to Dumbo with all the bonus tracks added on. Very wonderful and strange children"s music. My 3 year old daughter has it on cassette and she doesn't seem to like it as much as I do. I think genes are the number one influence on your taste in music. As much as I have exposed her to Martin Denny, she's shown no inclination to really like it as Tiki Bob's son does. If I put on an upbeat "Now Sound" recording she'll ask me to dance. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---Lou Smith wrote: > > > *Helen Mayer > NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that > inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon ``Dumbo'' died Saturday. She was 91. _________________________________________________________ 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Wild Angels..... Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:12:54 -0400 Phil Dirt is indeed right that the the backup band is Davie Allan and the Arrows. As far as the singer, I asked Davie who it was. He said it was Barbara Pittman who had some minor hits with Sun Records back in the = '50's. She is currently living in Memphis. >-Janine--> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ashphodelic Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Saw this remix cd with 3 songs remixed by the great and wonderful Tipsy for sale at cdnow for $5.95 or some ridiculously low price. The Cdnow computer actually recommended it to me as a cd I should like!? Its a remix of songs I presume on the Ashphodel label. Does anyone own this and have any recommendations. From what I heard at cdnow real audio the 2 Tipsy songs were pretty Tipsyish. When is Tipsy ever going to release their sophomore effort? It seems like years since their first release! And the same goes for the Gentle People, I mean here is shibuya-kei exploding all over the world and their fans are just waiting for more gentle sounds. I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People.............. I saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" and also Lorraine Bowens 2nd cd. I got my Comets cd from othermusic which I also understand will be carrying both of the Lorraine Bowen cds. When the music gets weird, the weird listen to music 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:55:04 EDT In a message dated 04/12/99 9:10:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >> Have you been hanging around the Oscars? And are you standing on some chair backs?? Life is Beautiful !!!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Andre Williams concert Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:25:43 -0400 >>The concert with Andre Williams turned out to be rather strange... EXACTLY, your experience sounds the same as mine. that was the same lame white bread R+R band from Cali that backed him when i saw him. it is unfortunate. but what has saved me from andre dissappointment is andre's newest release RED DIRT on Bloodshot. CD only :( it is awesome! the backing band is a really great R+B roots country twang group called the SADIES, now on tour with Flat Duo Jets. the album "sounds" great and is what i would dub an instant classic. he is doing renditions only andre could do (with his rawness, humor and experience) of some of his favorite country tunes. Busted Pardon Me (I've Got Someone to Kill) Psycho I'm an Old Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can) Easy on the Eyes Queen of the World including originals that are simply a must hear/have. Tramp Trail Hey Truckers My Sister Stole My Woman Weapon of Mass Destruction (my favorite) and more...only 40 minutes long (perfect for vinyl if only they would press it) but it does not matter to me in this case. i must have listened to it 5 times in one night. pretty rare considering all the records i have that i have not even heard all the way through once! do give up on him...he keeps getting better. he just needs the right band behind him. ******************************** 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ashphodelic Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:37:22 -0400 At 10:26 AM -0700 4/12/99, chuck wrote: >And the same goes for the Gentle People, I mean here is shibuya-kei >exploding all over the world and their fans are just waiting for more >gentle sounds. I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People, I >love the Gentle People.............. Their new album is completed and should be out on Rephlex (UK) sometime this summer, I believe. It's very groovy, continuing in the mellow electronic sound of the first album but with some more discofied songs as well. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [news] MP3 players Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:37:27 -0500 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 1999 APR 11 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes. LG Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced a new range of MP3 digital audio players that incorporate FM radio and magnetic tape players into the same package. The company will begin selling the machines in Korea in late May and plans international sales in the second half of this year. The three machines go under the name "MP Free" and include the AHA-FD770, an MP3 player with combined portable mini cassette player and FM radio tuner; the MF-FD350, an MP3 player with FM tuner; and the MF-PD350, an MP3 player. Each model in the range comes with 32 megabytes of base memory - - enough for around eight songs -- and can be expanded through the inclusion of two MMC (multimedia card) slots. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 APR 12 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes. On the same day that IBM and RealNetworks announced they are working on a secure music distribution system for the Internet, Creative Labs has taken the wraps off its killer portable system for MP3 digital audio files, called the Nomad. The Nomad breaks new ground for MP3 playback devices, Newsbytes notes, since it not only plays back MP3 files downloaded across the Internet, but also includes an FM stereo tuner and the ability to record the spoken word at half-MP3 sampling rates. Coming in a magnesium solid state casing that tips the scales at just 2.5 ounces, the Nomad is available in two versions: 32 megabytes (MB) of memory and 64MB of memory. At standard MP3 playback rates, this means the machines can support, respectively, 60-minute and 120-minute playback times. When used in voice recording mode, these recording times are doubled, Newsbytes notes. Like a portable minidisk player, the Nomad also features a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen with scrolling text to view artist name and song title. Power to the unit comes from two AAA-sized rechargeable batteries that drive the system for up to 10 hours, Newsbytes notes. According to Creative Labs, it is shipping software (the Creative Digital Audio Center) that allows the output of CDs from a PC's CD-ROM drive to be converted into MP3 files for download to the Nomad personal music player. Hock Leow, Creative's vice president of multimedia, said that the company goal is to continue leveraging its expertise to offer solutions for portable digital audio and to make the experience accessible to consumers worldwide. "As we move forward with future products, we intend to support all popular formats for playing back Internet music and digital audio. Today that format is MP3 and there is an abundance of support from Internet audio and music enthusiasts," he said. The 64MB Nomad will sell through retail outlets in the US at $249.95 and comes complete with a hi-fi set of earphones, docking cradle (for parallel port connection to a host PC), MP3 compilation CD, the Creative Digital Audio Center software, and batteries. The 32MB version of the Nomad will sell through the company's Web site at http://www.soundblaster.com for $169.95. Newsbytes notes that the 32MB standard unit can be upgraded to 64MB using a plug-in memory card. Backing up the Nomad is a dedicated Web site called NomadWorld at http://www.nomadworld.com . Creative says it plans to ship car adapters for the Nomad, which is roughly the same size as a deck of cards -- about the same size as a minidisk player, Newsbytes notes. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Bobby Conn/Wayne Cochran? Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:17:10 -0400 hey y'all. i just gazed upon the countenance of a man named Bobby Conn and i was mezmerized! (in the Multiball zine) he is doing supposedly doing some strange music. can anyone tell me something about this thing. speaking of being transfixed. i watched a really cheesy biker flick last nite called CC and Company (1970) starring Joe Namath and Ann-Margaret. basically an Elvis movie. to its credit it also starred William Smith, Sid Haig and Bruce Glover (Crispin's Dad) but one swinging funky scene is a concert scene of Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders LIVE at the Flamingo Lounge in Vegas...i was blown away by this red sequined jumpsuit wearin' bleach blonde mullet haired from the hills freakazoid with wannabe james brown foot moves, singing a high energy R+B tune...wow! repleat with go go dancers, Ann-Margrock jamming out and rhythmless Broadway Joe's boyish grin trying to keep up. seemed abit like an american Heino. if this i all i ever see of him i am truely satisfied. ******************************** 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: Lloyd Kandell Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:00:43 -1000 Magnus- shoots, bra' as we say in hawaii nei... mahalo for the rave! any listers who ever thought of buying our cd (s.o.s... please help Don's kids) can now get it from amazon for $11.67 ($16.99 here in the islands!) and you can hear 5 tracks first. and Mr Denny was thrilled to receive your WONDERFUL birthday messages, 'bout 12 in all. we're currently working on "Don Tiki Goes Latin" and a reissue of "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record over here orignally released in 1963. as the exotic Michael Jackson would say... WE LOVE YOU TOO! Fluid Floyd Sandberg Magnus wrote: > > I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my own copy of it from amazon.com. > > The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One of my best records. > "Terminal" is my fave track. > > Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:07:02 +0000 >we're currently working on "Don Tiki Goes Latin" and a reissue > of "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record > over here orignally released in 1963. Hey, Floyd... I'm so PLEASED to hear of these upcoming releases. I play "Forbidden Sounds" regularly on The Retro Cocktail Hour. When "Goes Latin" comes out, would you be interested in doing a phone interview and perhaps coordinating an on-air giveaway w/us here at The Retro Cocktail Hour? Always get a huge response to giveaways here--we feature your CD, put it up on our website and the calls just pour in. Did one with Cool and Strange Music last weekend and got about 100 calls in 45 minutes. Anyway, I'm interested if you guys are. Thanks for the great sounds! 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Girls in the Garage Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Girls in the Garage, Oriental Special, A Collection of Asian Girl Sound from the '60s, Volume 9 (Romulan 199?) Boot? The now sounds of Singapore and Indonesia! Two versions of the great 1966 hit , Hanky Panky one punked up in english and the other in Chinese. Sugar Town, Love Potion #9, Yummy Yummy, As Tears Go By, Fever and a few other great songs I'm not familiar with. This is a rocking now sound collection! Reasonably priced from medium rare records. This is much better then I thought it would be, the songs have an originality and feeling that make this a great collection! Does anyone know about the first 8 volumes? When the music gets weird, the weird listen to music 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Hitchcock Centennial: Remembering the Master of Suspense Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:17:21 -0700 (PDT) A very good article on Hitchcock in the nytimes, you may need to get a password but its free. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/hitchcock-film.html Easy listening in te 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:16:38 +0000 Oops. Sorry, folks--posted a private message to the list. Apologies for the interruption. Too fast on the reply key. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) McCoy Tyner: from Bacharach to Latin Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:34:30 -0500 McCoy Tyner's latest release is: Mccoy Tyner & Latin All Stars (Telarc) As part of the promo, there's an interview with him at CDnow.com . Here's just one of the Q/A's: Q: The Latin All-Stars seems like an abrupt turn from your last recording, the Bacharach album on Impulse! A: I veer off and do stuff. I never do things just because somebody wants me to do it. If I think it's a good idea, I do it -- and I wanted to do Burt's music. I try to pick stuff that I really think would fit, so I could rearrange it so that it would maintain its integrity, yet would be my song too. Some people get offended if you step across the line and do something different, not for the sake of money, but for the sake of doing something different. I had never done anything with an orchestra quite that big. A lot of people say, "Why'd you pick his music?" Well, I had my reasons. "A House Is Not a Home" is one of my favorite songs, and "The Look of Love." Burt is a real nice man, and what he's done in his genre will be here forever. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Andre Williams concert Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:25:13 -0400 At 02:25 PM 4/12/99 -0400, Bump wrote: >it is unfortunate. but what has saved me from andre dissappointment is > andre's newest release RED DIRT on Bloodshot. CD only :( >it is awesome! >the backing band is a really great R+B roots country twang group called the >SADIES, Toronto's own. I haven't heard the record. Maybe with Mr.Williams, they turn up the R&B but otherwise they're basically known as a "country rock", mostly instrumental band. They're actually part of a "country music dynasty" in these parts. 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) Bobby Conn/Wayne Cochran? Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:31:26 -0400 At 03:17 PM 4/12/99 -0400, Bump wrote: >but one swinging funky scene is a concert scene of Wayne Cochran and the CC >Riders LIVE at the Flamingo Lounge in Vegas...i was blown away by this red >sequined jumpsuit wearin' bleach blonde >mullet haired from the hills freakazoid with wannabe james brown foot >moves, singing a high energy R+B tune.. This must be my day for hometown references. I saw Wayne Cochrane at least four times back in the seventies at the semi-legendary El Mocambo here. It's a pretty small place and I wasn't much further from him than I am from the keyboard right now. We used to think of him as basically a James Brown wannabe but since there was little or no chance we were going to get to see James - and certainly not in a small club - we thanked our lucky stars. He not only did the dance moves; he basically did the whole James Brown act including that whole thing where he falls down and his bandmates try and take him offstage but he comes back. But he was great and it was probably the best "big band" I ever saw. Nice memories. Thanks. 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: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:43:20 -0700 Sandberg Magnus wrote: > > I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my own copy of it from amazon.com. > > The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One of my best records. > "Terminal" is my fave track. Yes!!! Terminal is very, very cool. Looking forward to more Don Tiki!! -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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Random Thoughts Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:54:05 EDT Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask: Does anyone else find him kind of creepy? Does anyone know what became of him? I was very happy to rediscover the fabulous song "The Straight Life" which I haven't heard in a very long time and had completely forgotten about. Thank you to whoever praised Jack Jones, as I wouldn't have bought one of his albums but now I can groove along to "The Letter" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix". Anyone heard Pat Boone sing "Honey Hush"? It's unbelievably bad. At least on his metal album he swings a bit. Love those low budget "discotheque" albums. I have yet to find one that didn't have at least a few really swinging and/or totally wacky cuts. Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Frank Comstock Date: 12 Apr 1999 20:13:20 +0000 My 2 coins for a 2fer mate for Comstock's LP would be The Richard Marino Orchestra's OUT OF THIS WORLD. Right along the same lines! 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: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) music minus one Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:23:13 -0700 (PDT) hey, any of you folks know if the "Music Minus One" series is still in print? and/or where one can order them? i recently found a great record from them called "Ultra-Drums" which features nothing but 80's style drum patterns for you and your friends to jam along with or record your high quality demo with. it's... cool/stupid. kevin leeeeee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Gentle People Comp Date: 12 Apr 1999 22:21:47 EDT In a message dated 4/12/99 1:26:28 PM, you wrote: << saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" and also Lorraine Bowens 2nd cd. >> Would you mind describing these two? I have the Gentle People and think its wonderful. I have never heard of Lorraine Bowen. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 01:28:37 -0400 Can anyone tell me about this record? It's by Mundell Lowe, and has just been reissued on (probably bootleg) CD. Recommendations? 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: Citizen Kafka Subject: (exotica) anyone read japanese?? Date: 13 Apr 1999 06:19:44 -0400 Hi, all, a friend just purchased an old geisha wig which comes with a label in Japanese. i have a .jpg of the label. He'd love to have a translation, even a rough one. i can e-mail privately, just let me know if you'd like to help. thanks!! citizen kafka -- Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air" every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Re: Warp back to Earth Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:18:30 PDT ---------- > > The double CD contains both 17 "remixes", and 29 unreleased Peter Thoma= s > tracks, which I haven't heard yet, as I went for the LP version - alas! I didn't know this either and bought the LP which is going straight back. > Doesn't sound at all like any other Peter Thomas material that is avail= able > on cd. This is contemporary, industrial?/electronic/sample/loop > techno-minded music, with accent on rhythm, and little melody. > > I didn't like it at all, but I'm not "in to" today's modern music... > I AM into today's modern music and know electronica well, and I still thi= nk this one is pretty boring. I wound up recording the Stereolab mix and = the High Llamas - and it isn't even a very good High Llamas mix. I really= have no time for electronic noodling. And that is what this LP is to me.= But saying that, I think the "Space Patrol" LP is very noodly too so I = really wonder what the original tracks sound like that are remixed... Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) anyone read japanese?? Date: 13 Apr 1999 08:23:15 EDT In a message dated 4/13/99 5:20:17 AM EST, ckafka@dti.net writes: << Hi, all, a friend just purchased an old geisha wig which comes with a label in Japanese. i have a .jpg of the label. He'd love to have a translation, even a rough one. i can e-mail privately, just let me know if you'd like to help. >> The translation is: "Made in Japan" just kidding! 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: Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock,Marino Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:07:35 -0400 >Richard Marino -Out of this world. OK! Y'all got me, mack! TELL ME ABOUT THIS RECORD! When was it recorded? Theremin? Ondioline? Tape effects? WHAT!? Stylograph(is that what it's called?))) WHAT!?!??!!? Jane Fondle!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:32:59 -0400 Please respond to cheryls@dsuper.net cc: >Can anyone tell me about this record? It's by Mundell Lowe, and has just been reissued on (probably bootleg) CD. Recommendations? cheryl DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THIS RECORD AND MUNDELL LOWE! OK, better yet, do, because it's one of my ALL-TIME Favorite crime-jazz(well, B-film noir is more fitting) OSTs! Mundell Lowe, the briliant guitar player and arranger behind TV ACTION JAZZ 1&2(where he does his takes on TV themes of the 50s) wrote and arranged this album, and, as one of the players on it says in the liner notes "This album is gonna turn some heads" (something like that!) It's not a boot, either, it was released by the Collectibles label, which tends to put out a lot of 50s music. I cannot emphasize to you, Cheryl AND EVERYBODY ON THIS LIST, what a NECCESITY this record is! It swings, it swaggers, it sins and it sings of all the trials and tribulations of being a night-club stripper. If you like records such as MIKE HAMMER and THE M SQUAD, this East Coast record is as Hollywood as any other grind-house jazz! TAKE IT INTROVENIOUSLY! The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and sleazy! YOW-Jane Fondle # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] BoxCar Willie Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:02:16 -0500 BRANSON, Mo. (AP) -- BoxCar Willie, whose gentle country voice and songs of life on the road evoked memories of a time when hobos watched America pass by from the door of a freight car, died Monday of leukemia. He was 67. He died at home, a family spokeswoman said. He had recently announced he was canceling his 1999 season of shows when the disease, first diagnosed in 1996, returned. Until his health began to fail, he was not only a Branson performer but one of the music town's elder statesmen. Roy Clark became the first nationally known entertainer to put his name on a Branson theater in 1983. But BoxCar Willie liked to boast that unlike Clark, who often booked other people into his venue, he became the first name entertainer to work the town year-round when he arrived in 1987. He did six or more shows a week nine months of the year until his health failed. He took it upon himself to mentor performers as they arrived in Branson, telling them what worked and what didn't in a conservative, heartland town of 3,700 residents and millions of tourists. And he fumed about performers who left Branson. ``There's been about 30, 35 artists that came into this town and then left since I've been here,'' he said in 1996. ``They don't pay their taxes here, they don't vote here. Doggone it, it just kind of bothers me. So when somebody says they're leaving, I don't get all teary-eyed and panicky.'' Born Lecil Martin in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931, BoxCar Willie was the son of a railroad man who used to play his fiddle on the porch while his son sat in on guitar. By his teens he had graduated to playing in jamborees all over the state, but then he gave up show business to enlist in the Air Force. He spent 22 years there, logging some 10,000 hours as a flier. After retiring from the service he returned to performing, and by the 1970s he had developed the singing hobo persona, complete with overalls, a battered old hat, worn suit jacket and two days' growth of beard. Although he never had a hit single, his albums sold well over the years and he built a loyal following that would later make him one of the most popular performers in Branson, where he operated a motel and train museum as well as his theater. He said he took the BoxCar Willie look, as well as the name, after seeing a freight train pass him by one day in Lincoln, Neb., as he was stuck in traffic. ``And there was an old boy sitting on a boxcar, dressed the way I dress today, and he looked just like a buddy of mine named Willie Wilson,'' he told The Associated Press in 1997. ``I said, `There's Willie in a boxcar, and that's where it came from.''' Although he had traveled by freight train as a young man himself, BoxCar Willie said in that interview, he had long since given it up as America changed and it became too dangerous. BRANSON, Mo. (AP) -- He adopted a hobo persona and won a national following as he sang of life on the road. But BoxCar Willie found a home in Branson, where he died after a long battle with leukemia. The 67-year-old singer died Monday evening, surrounded by his wife, two daughters, two sisters and close friends, said Chisai Childs, a family spokeswoman and friend of 31 years. BoxCar Willie was diagnosed with leukemia three years ago. After a brief remission, the disease returned last year. Family friend Dick Ringler, who was with the entertainer when he died, said BoxCar Willie knew he was losing the battle since being hospitalized for two weeks in February, but never mentioned it. ``He told me how tired he was, and I had to help him get out of his chair, which embarrassed him,'' Ringler said. Until his health began to fail, he had performed as many as six shows a week at the BoxCar Willie Theatre in this Ozark mountain town that is home to dozens of music theaters and scores of performers. But he was more than one of Branson's most famous performers. He was also one of its most beloved. As a member of the Taney County Child Welfare Board he raised thousands of dollars for needy children, Ms. Childs said, as well as $40,000 a year for police programs to fight crime and drugs. ``BoxCar Willie is a friend to many of us and a good citizen of Branson,'' Mayor Lou Schaefer said, breaking down as he announced the entertainer's death during a Board of Alderman meeting. He was devoted to singing and promoting old-fashioned country music, including the sorrowful train songs for which he was best known. The mayor has ordered flags throughout this tourist town of 3,700 flown at half-staff until the funeral, which Ms. Childs said would be Saturday or Sunday. Death anniversaries for the week of 12 April - 18 April: Monday, 12 April 1989 - Abbie Hoffman; activist Wednesday, 14 April 1995 - Burl Ives; singer & actor Thursday, 15 April 1980 - Raymond Bailey; actor, "Beverly Hillbillies" 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre; writer/philosopher 1990 - Greta Garbo; actress Friday, 16 April 1995 - Arthur English - actor, "Are You Being Served?" Saturday, 17 April 1991 - Jack Yellen; songwriter 1998 - Linda McCartney; photographer # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:59:27 -0400 >The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta >rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and >sleazy! But you've gotta admit... her *baggy* leather pants look sort of odd! 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: "hagar@mindspring.com" Subject: Re: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:56:40 -0400 * Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss") off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it... but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned them, which makes me wary. Actually, I mentioned them about a year ago. I enjoyed the record of theirs that I have, but I am not too certain about paying 20 bucks for it. It isn't "exotic", but it is very good. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) disc wars Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:21:49 -0400 It seems that the new DVD-audio standard isn't such a done deal. Watch for a Beta vs. VHS style battle: http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3615579&p_section_na me=Sci-Tech&p_art_type=1312347 (hope that 'extended dance-mix' URL works alright) Betcha the masses just stick with regular CDs. 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: "hagar@mindspring.com" Subject: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:24:11 -0400 I must agree that Mel Blanc is usually the one credited, even though June Foray, Billy Bletcher (better known for his work as Bluto), Stan Freberg, Jim Backus and Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) did work for Warner Bros. as well. Incidentally, Fudd was a voice that Blanc could not duplicate accurately. I don't believe that Blanc was credited for "Norman Normal", although that was done after 1963. 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: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Some unlikely country/western Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:54:57 -0500 Nat wrote: > Toronto's own. > I haven't heard the record. Maybe with Mr.Williams, they turn up the R&B > but otherwise they're basically known as a "country rock", mostly > instrumental band. > They're actually part of a "country music dynasty" in these parts. I've discovered that Quebec has its own country/western dynasty, however unlikely this would seem, with its best known star being one Willy Lamothe (who looks a bit like Wayne Newton). I saw this weird Quebecois modern spaghetti western last week on TV called "Mustang" which starred him and then found the soundtrack LP in a store yesterday. It's a good partner for Madame St. Onge for music you would never otherwise hear elsewhere! Gotta do more listening as Quebec has a long an illustrious history of producing its own homegrown (Francophone) knock-offs in both music, film and TV in addition to (Celine Dion aside) having perhaps Canada's strongest identifiable film, music, theatre and dance culture. 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: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock,Marino Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:07:59 +0200 >>Richard Marino -Out of this world. > >OK! Y'all got me, mack! TELL ME ABOUT THIS RECORD! When was it = recorded? >Theremin? Ondioline? Tape effects? WHAT!? Stylograph(is that what = it's >called?))) >WHAT!?!??!!? Jane Fondle!!! You wanna hear about Marino? Marinos LP is "Music Pover from Denny's = Music City" At least the sticker says so on my LP copy :) I have written down the liner notes from the backcover, they very well = explain what we are talking about here, this is a fantastic album. My copy has four round holes in the cover that lets the innersleeve = shine through. A very futuristic design with psychedelic images. One = side of the innersleeve is a picture of blue smoke. I love it, I think I play this most of my outer space albums, it seems = that i can never get tired of it. A unique and Startling musical adventure Out Of This World With The Richard Marino Orchestra Liberty Visual Sound Stereo LSS 14007 Producer: Si Waronker Engineer: Ted Keep Just as the ancient stargazers dreamed he would, man has finnally burst = free of the bonds of earth and gone soaring into space. He has looked = down in awe from the heavens to behold the fantastic beauty of our = spinning planet, like an emerald glowing on black velvet in the fierce = rays of the sun. What is it like out there in the deeps of space? Inspired by the = astronauts, arranger-conductor Richard Marino has created this highly = impressionistic album to take you voyaging Out Of This World on the = rockets of your imagination. Nothing quite like this felicitous blending of musical impressionism and = electronic ingenuity has ever been heard before. The songs within have = retained the familiarity of favorites, yet they seem curiously = unfamiliar at the same time, clothed as they are in the sounds of outer = space. There are "star" songs... Stella By Starlight ... Stars In My Eyes... = When You Wish Upon A Star... Staiway To The Stars... And that universal = of the universe, Stardust. There are "moon" songs too... The Moon Was Yellow... Full Moon... Full = Moon And Empty Arms... and Moonlight Becomes You. Musically, conductor Marino calls upon a full span of woodwinds from the = piccolo to the contrabasson. Violas and cellos, two harps, percussion = instruments and a rhytm section complete the orchestra. And the voices = of three sopranos were blended in for ethereal effects. The incredibly = complex task of electronic interpretation was achived by Liberty=B4s = chief enginer. Ted Keep, working closely with Mr Marino. What the poets have called "the music of the spheres" the sounds = celestial, await you now in this journey of the imagination. this voyage = Out Of This World. Into space, 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) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:20:28 +0200 >Magnus- shoots, bra' as we say in hawaii nei... mahalo for the rave!=20 You are well worth it! And you got more stuff planned. I wanna live! "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record over = here >orignally released in 1963 Can you tell us about it please?=20 And if you meet Adam say hello from me! I hope he congratulated Martin = Denny on behalf of all of us fans in Stockholm. ---------- Magnus=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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:27:06 EDT In a message dated 04/12/99 5:20:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, loidlink@pixi.com writes: Magnus (in regards to his discovering Don Tiki): "I love you!" Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am): "I want to make love to ALL of 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: RE: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:41:12 -0700 > Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am): "I want to make=20 Can I watch? Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20 Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Helen Mayer, Dumbo & Denny Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:43:20 EDT In a message dated 04/12/99 1:07:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, chuckmk@yahoo.com writes: << As much as I have exposed [my daughter] to Martin Denny, she's shown no inclination to really like it as Tiki Bob's son does. >> You have to remember though, I have one of those full size Magnovox Phono/Stereo consoles in his room (shouldn't every child have one???) which I have played a near daily dose of Denny on for him over the past two years. (I like the sound of that: "Daily dose of Denny" -- words to live by my friends.) Back to the console, my wife loved it when I brought it home and told her where it was going. Like I needed another one. I have 2 other consoles in the house and a table top Magnavox (which takes up a whole table top) also. My wife is understanding but I am under threat not to bring home any more (at least that will go IN the house). There is still a corner in my garage/workshop that I could squeeze one in. Like the Magnavox folks say, "You've got to admit it's getting better -- getting better all the time." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Spider-Man 1968 Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT) A friend has me interested in finding music that was in the original Spider-Man cartoon from '68., not just the theme but the funky jazzy BACKGROUND music. My friend seems to remember reading in an old marvel comic about a spider man jazz album? Does anyone have any information on this? It may be needle drop music that is unavailable. 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: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? Date: 13 Apr 1999 19:08:08 +0200 ><< Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >> > >Have you been hanging around the Oscars? And are you standing on some = chair=20 >backs?? Life is Beautiful !!!!!! > HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair = Backs?=20 Life is beautiful, I agree. But it is hard to always think so in = everyday life, when it is so cold outside! It feels like I have been = indoors for almost 2 years. And I am a Nature Boy!=20 I think I will move to a more healthier place. My country sold its = little paradise island in the carribeans to France a long time ago. Now = why did they do that? I could have been the town mayor and made it a = real paradise for us.=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: Lou Smith Subject: Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:20:33 -0500 At 07:08 PM 4/13/99 +0200, Magnus wrote: >><< Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >> >>Have you been hanging around the Oscars? And are you standing on some= chair=20 >>backs?? Life is Beautiful !!!!!! >HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair Backs?= =20 The reference was to Roberto Benigni walking from seat back to seat back as he headed to the stage to accept his Academy Award Oscar when his movie "Life Is Beautiful" won for Best Foreign Film. W I N N E R=97F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E=A0=A0=A0F I L M COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL DIRECTED BY Roberto Benigni ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Roberto Benigni: Thank you! Sophia (Loren, who announced the winner), I leave(?) it here the Oscar but I want you. I want to be rocked by the waves of your beauty. Come here. Thank you! Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody because you are the maker(?) of the joy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity sunrise, said [the] poet. And this is wonderful to be here. Wonderful! I feel like, now really, to dive in this ocean of generosity, this is too much. Your generosity, this is, uh, how do you say when the rain, the hailstorm, it's a hailstorm of kindness, of gratitude for you. And really I would like to thank everybody that did the movie because, without them, I couldn't fly with this movie. Everybody who did -- the producer, the screenwriter Cerami, Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi, Nicola Piovani, Vittorio Cecchi Gori. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Film[s], thank you very much for what you did. And also I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, in a little village in Italy. They gave me their biggest gift, their poverty, and I want to thank for the lesson(?) of my life. Really, but thank you mamma and babbo. Thank you! And thank you for your love. Because if I am here it's because people love the movies. So it's always a question of love. I would like to dedicate this prize to those, because the subject the movie, those who are not here, they gave their life in order [that] we can say 'life is beautiful.' And I would like to also say, a kiss to Giorgio Cantarini, Giorgio the little boy. And because we are talking love, Dante said "l=92amore che muove il sole e le altre stelle,"= love will move the sun and the other stars. Love is a divinity, and sometimes if you have faith, like all the divinities it can appear. That's why I want to dedicate this prize to Nicoletta Braschi. Thank you. MAKING HISTORY This is Italy's tenth Oscar and twenty-sixth nomination. No other country has won more Oscars for Foreign Language Films.=20 Then he won again for Best Actor: W I N N E R=97A C T O R=A0=A0=A0I N=A0=A0=A0A L E A D I N G=A0=A0=A0R O L E ACTOR: Roberto Benigni FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL NOMINATED ROLE: Roberto Benigni portrays Guido in LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Roberto Benigni: Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English. I don't know! I am not able to express all my gratitude, because now, my body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so everything is really in a way that I cannot express. I would like to be Jupiter! And kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to everybody, because I don't know how to express. It's a question of love. You are really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my heart. And thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the movie. Thank you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very much. And I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I hope to win some other Oscars! Thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you! MAKING HISTORY Benigni is only the second person in Academy history to win an acting award for a foreign language film. Sophia Loren did it in 1961 with her performance in TWO WOMEN.=20 I hope this helps! -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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obit] Jean Vander Pyl Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:34:36 -0500 DANA POINT, Calif., April 13 (UPI) -- The woman who gave voice to Wilma Flintstone on the 1960s cartoon show ``The Flintstones'' has died. Jean Vander Pyl was 79 years old. Vander Pyl was the last of the original cast of the Flintstones, a self-proclaimed ``modern stone-age family.'' The animated show ran in prime time from 1960 to 1966. The original episodes have run in syndication ever since. Vander Pyl, who also was the voice of Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spaceley on ``The Jetsons,'' died of lung cancer. The Orange County Register newspaper quotes her son, Michael O'Mera, as saying she wanted to do a television commercial as Wilma warning children not to start smoking. ``Everybody on the Flintstones smoked and all of them ended up dying of smoking related diseases,'' O'Mera said. http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=2:31:10|PM&p=avg&sql=B58122 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vander+Pyl,+Jean ------------------------------- In alt.obituaries, lawrence@bga.com (Lawrence Person) wrote: Hear that train a'comin Comin' from K-Tel. Hobo Boxcar Willie dead Lecil Marvin croaks. He did a lot of that, like Slim "Bullfrog" Whitstein # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:34:23 EDT Satan is Crime Jazz Jazz if you catch my drift. More jazzier that swingin' crime jazz, but still "accessible". Its on Collectibles I think, and legit, decent remastering and a decent jazz-leaning crimey/smoky supperclub kind of sound.......Hope that helps..Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David J. Strauss" Subject: (exotica) Wayne Cochrane/Joe Namath Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:41:39 -0400 (EDT) Jaco Pastorious was in Wayne Cochran's band around the time of CC and Company. I wonder if he's int he film doing the Thorazine shuffle? DS djs2852@is.nyu.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: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) A Beachboy Party Date: 13 Apr 1999 08:57:14 -1000 Sandberg Magnus wrote: > "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... > Can you tell us about it please? thanks for asking! the extensive liner notes will appear on the re-release and are too long to post here... but this info comes from the book "Waikiki Beachboy" by Grady Timmons: "...in 1959... popular nightclubs such as the Barefoot Bar at Queen's Surf were successfully using the beachboy-party format (an intimate gathering where guests take part in the show) as an entertainment concept. In 1964, the concept became the theme for an album, "A Beachboy Party," produced by Hawaiian-fashion entrepreneur "Waltah" Clarke. Like many men of his generation, Clarke was a mainland haole who fell in love with Hawaii and yearned to be a beachboy. After arriving at Waikiki in 1937, he worked an assortment of odd jobs, including writing a gossip column called "Hawaiian Holidays," which ran in the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune and which he wrote from Waikiki Beach- "third umbrella from the left." In 1952, he opened up a shop that specialized in Hawaiian imports and became successful in the filed of Hawaiian resort wear. Eventually, he opened up twenty-six stores nationwide and built a house in Palm Springs next to houses owned by Frank Sinatra and Spiro Agnew. It was with money from his clothing empire that Clarke financed "A Beachboy Party," a tribute to the music of the beach. Featured on the album are... Chick Daniels, Squeeze Kamana, Splash Lyons, Panama Dave, Kalakaua Aylett, Fat Abraham Kala, and others. In a wonderful cover photograph they are seated with Duke around a torchlit canoe, attired in aloha shirts and holding their guitars and ukes. Bottles of beer serve as props in the foreground (Diamond Head in the background)... it begins with Owens' Hawaiian drinking song, "Okole Maluna" (Bottoms Up) and ends with the beachboy anthem, "We Love You, Hui Nalu." In between, everybody gets in on the act. Kalakaua delivers a soulful rendition of Andy Cumming's "Waikiki"... Squeeze's ukelele soars on "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"... Chick croons "Lei Aloha"... Panama, in his best scratchy tenor voice sings "Cafe Life".... and on and on. > And if you meet Adam say hello from me! I hope he congratulated Martin Denny on behalf of all of us fans in Stockholm. I met Adam Axelson a few weeks ago (drummer for his dad's Swedish exotica band, Bo Axelson & His Exotic Sounds). Bought him a mai tai at Arthur Lyman's show. Great, enthusiastic guy! I just spoke with him on the telephone to pass your greetings along and to have him call Martin Denny to express birthday wishes on behalf of all his fans in Sweden. alohaderci, 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: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories Date: 13 Apr 1999 15:50:45 -0400 DJJimmyBee has been playing a few cuts from this on his program. Music by Billy May. This week he mentioned that it was a mob movie and Elizabeth Montgomery was in it. I remember seeing it on TV as a boy. Scenes where Johnny Cool(?) getting rid of someone by throwing a suitcase filled with explosives from a hill into his swimming pool. And the dramatic (for an 8 or 9 year old) ending. It seems possible that lounge/exotica music could be rolling around in the back of our heads from watching so many old movies and TV shows? To resurface as an interest later in adulthood? Another example would be Esquivel who wrote music for a lot of 70's TV shows I used to watch. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Oscars? Chair Backs? Date: 13 Apr 1999 20:50:55 +0200 Yeah I saw that. I understand :) I scream for Ice cream, 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: "Dom Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:00:11 -0400 -----Original Message From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com >Its on Collectibles I think, and legit, For a fuzzy picture of the cover and track listings check out the Collectables web page. http://www.oldies.com/jazz.htm Lots of other good stuff too. 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: Lloyd Kandell Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:10:28 -1000 Ron Grandia wrote: > > > Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am): "I want to make > > Can I watch? we've been known to inspire pagan mating rituals at our better shows, plus the singapore slings and kava root help loosen one's inhibitions... watch, writhe, join in, whatever... but feel the jungle sounds! nothing is forbidden, Fluid Floyd/Don Tiki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:21:35 -0700 (PDT) Its goes for $9.21 at http://www.everycd.com Get your free one month membership. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > > > Satan is Crime Jazz Jazz if you catch my drift. More jazzier that swingin' > crime jazz, but still "accessible". Its on Collectibles I think, and legit, > decent remastering and a decent jazz-leaning crimey/smoky supperclub kind of > sound.......Hope that helps..Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, > Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m. > > _________________________________________________________ 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Re: (exotica All those crooners Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:02:13 -0400 At 07:54 PM 4/12/99 EDT, HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > >Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask: >Does anyone else find him kind of creepy? > >Thank you to whoever praised Jack Jones, as I wouldn't have bought one of his >albums but now I can groove along to "The Letter" and "By The Time I Get To >Phoenix". A year ago, I could have scoffed at Jack Jones. Now I must have eight of his records including this seventies one -"Harbor" - with an immaculate piece of cheese called "Do Me Wrong, But Do Me" Of all the changes in my vinyl accumulating habits which have occurred in the last few years, the most surprising is the "arrival" of all these crooners and lounge singers. As strange as it might have been - at first - to fill my house up with instrumental lounge records, I didn't really have an antipathy towards them. I didn't grow up with Martin Denny showing up everyday on Merv, Mike and Ed Sullivan. The scourge of my youth was the singers not the orchestras. I blame the arrival of all these singers in my collection on Jane Fondle and Burt Bacharach. Burt, because I made all these "all-Bacharach" last Fall and I just had to admit that a good song well-sung was enjoyable, no matter what associations I had with the singer. And Jane Fondle because she made a comparison between Scott Walker and Andy Williams... and suddenly I had six Andy Williams records. He nails "God Only Knows". But actually the more proper Scott Walker comparison, I believe, is Jack Jones. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Random Thoughts of Bobby G. Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:49:42 -0500 At 07:54 PM 4/12/99 EDT, Bob, House O' wrote: >Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask: = =20 >Does anyone else find him kind of creepy? Does anyone know what became of= =20 >him? I was very happy to rediscover the fabulous song "The Straight Life"= =20 >which I haven't heard in a very long time and had completely forgotten= about. I don't know what's creepier - the Mr. Spock Jr. look he had back then, or that he makes his money these days by creating programming for kids.=20 Check out his induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame (1999 Inductee Lifework Award for Performing Achievement) at: http://www.alamhof.org/goldsbor.htm There's a Japanese fan page (with vintage photo) at: http://www.chichibu.ne.jp/~keiki/ Then there's this exchange between Bobby G. and Jerry Osborne: http://www.jerryosborne.com/mr.music.htm FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 29, 1998 DEAR JERRY: I just want to thank you for the nice words (about me) in your column recently. I am glad you like my CD, =93The Best of Bobby Goldsboro: Honey.=94=20 Nowadays my big project is =93Bobby Goldsboro's The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon,=94 a children's television show which we film at WEDU-TV, in Tampa.= It airs from 11 a.m. to noon on the Learning Channel, Monday through Friday. We just finished our 52nd episode.=20 If you're in our area next time we're filming, you are welcome to drop by. Thanks again!=20 =97Bobby Goldsboro, Ocala, Fla.=20 DEAR BOBBY: I appreciate you taking the time to write, and thank you for the offer to meet. Next time I'm in Florida I promise you a visit. I'll tell you the (1965) story of how I once overruled my fellow dee jays and made =93If You've Got a Heart=94 our station's Pick to Click.=20 One impressive detail regarding =93The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon,=94= which you modestly omitted, that I'd like to share with readers, is the magnitude of your involvement. In this live action series, Bobby writes the scripts, composes and arranges all the music, plays all of the instruments, and even does all the animal character's voices.=20 Readers always enjoy learning what their favorite music stars of the past are now doing. Especially when the update comes right from the horse's =97= er, make that swamp critter's =97 mouth.=20 Well, you asked... -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: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 14, 1999 Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:56:03 -0400 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Enoch Light - In a Persian Market "Persuasive Percussion" Martin Denny - Fire Cracker "The Exotic Sounds" Robert Drasnin - Mirage "Voodoo!" Laurie Johnson - Happy Go Lively "Music for TV Dinners" Grantby - Time Booth "Coffee Table Music" Massive Attack - Heat Miser "Protection" Amon Tobin - Toys "Permutations" Julee Cruise - Kool Kat Walk "The Voice of Love" Oranj Symphonette - Beat Girl "The Oranj Album" John Barry - Beat Girl "The EMI Years Vol 1" Anandji & Kalyani Shah - Uptown Bollywood Nights "Bombay the Hard Way" Anandji & Kalyani Shah - Kundans Hideout "Bombay the Hard Way" Goblin - Phenomena(M15) "The Goblin Collection" Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Angry Mob "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji" Don Julian - Theme from Savage! "Badmutha's" 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories Date: 13 Apr 1999 17:57:30 EDT In a message dated 4/13/99 2:53:00 PM, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >This week he mentioned that it was a mob movie and Elizabeth Montgomery was > >in it. Produced by Peter Lawford(!) it was supposedly "about" the mob. I understand that Rykodisc either has or is shortly about to re-release this excellent soundtrack which has all good tunes on it as well as excellent titles..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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: All those crooners/Jack Jones Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:13:17 EDT Nat & everyone else, I recently attended a Jack Jones concert and he sounded fantastic! As good as ever. And he was quite amusing, and sang the hell out of some great songs! If you get the chance check him out. My personal favorite Jones LP is "Live For Life". And you are right about the Scott Walker comparison. There is a song on that LP called something like quiet whispers (?) that sounds as if it came off of Scott 1, 2, or 3. Best wishes, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: (exotica All those crooners Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:02:55 EDT In a message dated 4/13/99 4:03:24 PM, bruno@yhammer.com wrote: >I blame the arrival of all these singers in my collection on Jane Fondle >and Burt Bacharach The very scourges of your existence? ;-) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Girls in the Garage Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:01:46 -0500 I have the first 7 volumes of Girls in the Garage, and I highly recommend them if you enjoy, well, girls playing garage rock. It's raw, it's a rockin', it's a lot of fun. Most are in English, though it's often quite accented. I can't particularly direct you to a particular one, they're all equally good. I've seen a CD compiling the first 2 albums (I think) but I don't know about the CD availability of this series. Also, I've never seen volume 8. Does anybody know where I could find it? Elisabeth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Satan In High Heels Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:21:40 EDT << DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THIS RECORD AND MUNDELL LOWE! >> if you don't already have it, you should head over to the jazz section of your local CD mart and pick up the Original Jazz Classic "The Mundell Lowe Quartet" (Riverside). From '55 and with Dick Hyman on piano, organ and celeste. Great photo of Lowe with his guitar, stool and a cuppa coffee. Mundell Lowe also appears as one of the "secret agents" on the studiotrack "Thunderball And Other Secret Agent Themes", by the Jazz All Stars. My copy is a release from England on Allegro. Keep an eye out for it. In the bragging department, i finally scored Miriam Burtons "African Lament", a wordless female vocal affair that is truly wonderful. A couple of interesting new finds include a bunch of funny oddities on "Songs Of The Pogo" (Walt Kelly) and collection of radio commericals with a great Chun King spot done up like a racy new car commercial (thanks for tip-off Jack). Spotted Augie Colon's "Sophisticated Savage" for the first time ever and let it go. Maybe I was feeling guility for too much record buying lately. But if somebody thinks a fifteen dollar, VG++, mono copy is worth going back for, lemme know. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Simply Faboo Gentle People, Wild Barbara & Bobby G Date: 13 Apr 1999 19:29:56 -0700 1. I Loooooove the Gentle People, whose infrequently updated web page says their next release's working title is "Simply Faboo." I even e-mailed them just yesterday asking to be notified of the release date. "Comets" doesn't flow like their own CD, but I haven't had it long enough to really give it a chance. I've probably played Soundtracks at least 200 times, and never get tired of it - puts me to sleep every night. Is that good or bad? Try it on headphones at the dentist with the nitrous on. Root Canal? What root canal ? 2. Listened to the Wild Angels OST and that could indeed be a watered-down Barbara Pittman, nowhere near the intensity of some of the records she made for Sun like "I Need a Man." "I'm Gettin Better All the Time" is one of my top ten all-time favorite songs, as it gave some hope to this hormone-crazed 11 year-old in the late 50's. And it was the first song i ripped to MP3. "Well practice will make perfect so they say, A few more days and I'll be doin' fine, Tho i'm just an amateur, it won't be long for sure, I'm gettin' better all the time." Exactly what an adolescent boy wants to hear. Think a rockin growling very horny Wanda Jackson with a sexy country hiccup in her voice. Barbara has a few songs on Sun's "Those Rockin Girls" compilation and a low-priced Cd of just her. Fine, fine, fine. 3. Bobby Goldsboro - "Me Japanese Boy, I Love You" turned up in the MP3 newsgroup along with many of his other hits like "See the Funny Little Clown. Definitely grated cheese, but quite enjoyable now. 4. Re: Obits - Hmmmmm, weren't Boxcar Willie, Slim Whitman, Roger Whitaker and of course Zamfir pioneers of home music shopping via their ubiquitous late-night TV commercials ? JB (watching Scotty grow) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Girls in the Garage Date: 13 Apr 1999 21:36:08 -0500 (CDT) On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote: > > I have the first 7 volumes of Girls in the Garage, and I highly recommend > them if you enjoy, well, girls playing garage rock. It's raw, it's a > rockin', it's a lot of fun. Most are in English, though it's often quite > accented. I can't particularly direct you to a particular one, they're > all equally good. > > I've seen a CD compiling the first 2 albums (I think) but I don't know > about the CD availability of this series. Also, I've never seen volume 8. > Does anybody know where I could find it? Have you tried BOMP? The thing about BOMP is that you usually have to order from their shorter list, and then, when you're on their "a-list", they will send you the longer list. I have seen *most* of the GITG LP's on that list, as well as the CD's. The CDs are on Romulan. I have volume one. It's worth it for "Chico's Girl alone!" -- 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: David Brock Subject: (exotica) Girls In The Garage Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Hey All! This is my intro post to the list. I just jumped on board tonite, thanks to a few forwards from Laura AKA Jane Fondle. Anyway, I just wanted to comment on the "Girls In The Garage Series". All are absolutely fab if you dig garage rock, especially if you dig 60's punk, as almost all of it leans this direction. I guess I should clarify this. All of the records have a few GREAT cuts and the rest is so-so. They all have enough to justify purchasing them though, which is why I have continued to snatch them up (oops..no pun intended). Vol. 8 is the newest and IMHO, the kitchiest. Most of the tracks are not en Anglais, but have their appeal. The best track (once again, IMHO) is the fuzzed-out version of "Hanky Panky" (English language version- there is also one in Chinese). This is my least fave of the series, though it has it's attraction. Very kitschy and I don't really regret picking it up, though I don't really spin it that often either. Easy to get through Dionysus. David _________________________________________________________ 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: kbonnett@coax.net (Kevin Bonnett) Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels Date: 14 Apr 1999 04:09:41 -0400 >The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta >rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and >sleazy! >YOW-Jane Fondle The movie is available from Something Weird Video. I have no site address or other contact info for them at this time but I will have it handy tomorrow in case anyone's interested in picking up the flick. My Grandfather wrote the original story on which the film is VERY LOOSELY based. I'm not even sure he received any credit for it at all. Not only that ... my Dad is IN the movie. Only about five minutes, this is the only footage of him I know of from when he was an aspiring actor in NYC long before I was born. We've had this OST lying around on vinyl for years. We bring it out now and then to play in our shop, Bonnett's Bookstore (http://members.aol.com/kbonnett/bonnetts.htm [click the logo to visit our site]). It's nice to know this bit of family nostalgia means something to a few other folks as well. : ) My Grandpa was a writer of detective novellas for the pulp magazines of yesteryear. One pulp, Black Mask, was considered the cream of the detective pulp crop and there has been a book published entitled "The Black Mask Boys" wherein he is mentioned. He was published in quite a few other titles as well, but he tends to brush it off saying "I was only trying to put bread on the table". He also wrote some "spicy" tales under pseudonyms he claims he can't recall. One however was T. Tennob (Bonnett in reverse) and we are looking for original mags or paperbacks containing his work. Any help or actual items would be greatly appreciated! My Father was married to his first wife back then. His wife worked as a secretary in a photography studio, possibly Irving Klaw's. She knew Betty Page, but not well. Dad once missed meeting Betty by a matter of minutes. Grandpa was a busy man back then, writing, starting up our bookstore, and as a photographer. He has mentioned in passing that he is in possession of negatives from a Betty shoot. He has no clue where they have ended up over the years but they are presumed to still be in the family's possession, somewhere. Dad and Grandpa are technologically challenged but I've printed your posts to share with them. I know they'll get a kick and a half outta this! If anyone has anything they'd like to ask them about this let me know. I'll happily get them your questions and return the replies. : ) 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: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace Date: 14 Apr 1999 09:52:10 +0100 Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) music to watch comets by Date: 14 Apr 1999 14:26:59 +0000 Chuck from NOLA wrote: > I saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation > cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People? Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it? Thank you. The londoner listee Phil Clark once told (wrote, I mean) me that he works with ex Clash bassplayer Paul Simonon's sister, and that she is in the Gentle People. Where's the exotic link? Paul, after the Clash, had a group called Havana 3 a.m. (Perez Prado's album title, for the very little few of all you ex-ex [exotic experts] who don't know). Ciao Gionni (ex Clash fan) And "London Calling" is just the best album of the eighties (although it was released on december 1979). Second is "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" by The Redskins. IMO, of course. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:26:14 EDT In a message dated 4/14/99 3:50:48 AM EST, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM writes: << Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good? >> Yes it has a rather tastefully laid back sitar version although it is somewhat hard to keep a straight face. A pretty decent record that is also available on CD. 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs? Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:27:54 EDT In a message dated 4/13/99 1:13:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair Backs? >> In summary to Lou's post, he also told one group of reporter "I want to make love to all of you!" A curious thing to say. Only a slightly kooky foreigner could get away with that statement in America. Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay inside too much. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) music to watch comets by Date: 14 Apr 1999 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Greetings Giovanni: Comets is contemporary released in '97 (I think) and starts off with the great Lorraine Bowen doing "Space is the Place" Its full of contemprary artists Linberg Hemmer comes in with a great soft gentle people like instrumental. I don't have the cd with me but it has stood the test of time for me and gets the laser put on it about as much as any cd I own. Its very soft music, much in the same vain as the Gentle People. Somebody from the list once told me that after I bought the cd I would start looking for the albums by the individual artists. He was right. This cd was definitely marketed for the shibuya-kei crowd in Japan but there's nothing club about it. Its Gentle. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Giovanni Berti wrote: > > Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music > played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People? > Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it? > Thank you. _________________________________________________________ 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) [obits] Jean Vander Pyl, Jim V. Blevins , BoxCar Willie Date: 14 Apr 1999 10:39:26 -0500 DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) -- Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma in ``The Flintstones'' and the last surviving original cast member of the pioneering animated series, has died. She was 79. Ms. Vander Pyl died Saturday of lung cancer, said Michael O'Meara, one of her three sons. ``The Flintstones,'' a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that humorously chronicled family life in the Stone Age, ran from 1960 to 1966 and has been in worldwide syndication ever since. Ms. Vander Pyl played the sometimes stern but always loving wife of Fred Flintstone. ``She was an anonymous celebrity,'' O'Meara said. ``You could go out with her and nobody would recognize her. ``All she'd have to do was go `Fr-ed!' and people would say: `Wilma Flintstone! I grew up with you!' She'd light up the room,'' her son said. Ms. Vander Pyl also voiced Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spacely on ``The Jetsons'' -- until she became too ill about six months ago. She also made an appearance in Steven Spielberg's 1994 live-action movie based on the series. In alt.obituaries, lawrence@bga.com (Lawrence Person) wrote: Jean Vander Pyl Memorial Haiku >The Flintstones (cough), meet >The Flinstones (hack), a modern >Death age family. > >Hey, for a badly >Animated cartoon femme, >Wilma was a babe. > NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jim V. Blevins, the self-proclaimed ``Popcorn King'' who marketed a corn that produced a fluffier, tastier popcorn to movie theaters and grocery stores, died Monday. He was 87. Blevins was operating a Nashville food brokerage business in the 1940s when he noticed the movie industry boom was boosting sales of popcorn, but suppliers hadn't caught up. Blevins signed a contract to supply all the popcorn for a Middle Tennessee movie chain, marketing a hybrid corn that produced better-tasting, fluffier popcorn that allowed operators to get more volume per ounce of corn. Blevins Popcorn Co. then helped introduce the Pops-Rite brand to the rest of the world, marketing the snack in jars of oil ready to pop, in sacks and with a low-fat buttery seasoning developed in his own kitchen. Blevins sold the company in 1961. In 1952, he took popcorn to Japanese baseball stands, creating an entity he later sold to Frito Lay. April 14, 1999 Boxcar Willie, Country Music's 'Hobo,' Dies at 67 By JON PARELES, NYTimes Boxcar Willie, a country singer and songwriter who fashioned himself as a hobo, died on Monday at his home in Branson, Mo. He was 67. The cause was leukemia, his family said. With an image built through performances and television commercials, Boxcar Willie turned a lifelong fascination with trains, train songs and hobos into a career. He was a country traditionalist whose trademark was an imitation of a train whistle and whose most popular song was "Train Medley." In 1986 he settled in Branson, the emerging country music center, and became a mainstay there, performing year-round at the Boxcar Willie Theater and often playing six shows a day. One of his hobo outfits now hangs in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Boxcar Willie was the name adopted by Lecil Travis Martin, who was born in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931. His father was a railroad man who played the fiddle, and the family home was said to be six feet from the tracks. He began performing in jamborees across Texas, and at 16 he was appearing regularly in the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. Then he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he spent two decades. When he retired from the Air Force, he went into radio with the "Cowtown Hoedown," which was broadcast from Fort Worth. He began performing in the 1950s as Marty Martin. In the mid-60s in Lincoln, Neb., he saw a hobo on a freight train who looked like Willie Nelson. He wrote a song about it, "Boxcar Willie," and went on to adopt the name and image for himself. Onstage he wore overalls, an old jacket, a crumpled hat and two days' worth of stubble. He kept working as a disk jockey until the mid-70s, when he went into performing full time. Nelson made a guest appearance on an album he made in 1976. After a 1977 deal with a Scottish booking agent, Boxcar Willie began touring Britain regularly. He became the most successful country music performer there. He also began appearing on the country circuit in the United States and in 1981 joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was named World Ambassador for the Hobos at a hobo convention in Britt, Iowa, in 1981. Bypassing mainstream record labels, Boxcar Willie marketed his 1982 album "King of the Road" (Suffolk Marketing) through television commercials. He was a regular on the television show "Hee Haw" in the early '80s, and appeared in "Sweet Dreams," the 1985 movie based on Patsy Cline's life. In Branson he became one of the town's most dependable tourist attractions, operating a motel and a train museum along with the theater. The Associated Press reported that flags are to be flown at half staff in Branson until his funeral this weekend. He is survived by his wife, Lloene, and three children, Tammy, Lorri and Larry. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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] 2 for U Date: 14 Apr 1999 10:48:39 -0500 Neat-o Suburbia Greg Knight's Patio Culture site takes us back to those simpler times of backyard barbecues and the Cold War complete with a recipes for Jello Vegetable Salad and Meat Loaf. Sample a clip of the Tiki Lounge's tropical musical offerings, reminisce about Banana Bikes or find out more about those fighter planes that helped to keep the Cold War hot. http://home.texoma.net/~kgreg |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Spinal Tap Whatever happened to Spinal Tap? You know, the band that conquered Hollywood with the cult film "This Is Spinal Tap." Well, they may not be touring, but they do have an Internet presence, which provides Tap Heads with "reports from the road," behind the scenes scuttlebutt and some absolutely essential merchandise; and, they are threatening a comeback. http://www.spinaltap.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: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:13:37 -0700 I finally got my record player working again (jeez! it's no wonder the lp is dying when it takes months to get these things repaired!). Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...) The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy and thus not to my liking? Thanks for any recommendations! -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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:24:13 -0400 >Whatever happened to Spinal Tap? You know, the band that conquered >http://www.spinaltap.com Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of Ghost Sites: http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here: "5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum" 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:32:13 -0500 "Kevin C." wrote: > Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic > exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the > more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? Are you kidding? I would have no hesitation in saying that as far as finding exotica related material in thrift venues, Hawaiian albums dominate. Unfortunately what 50's & 60's Hawaiian record have in quantity the lack in quality. There are some good pickin's, for instance I enjoy the Webley Edwards series of instrumentals. I have to admit though I find the sung Hawaiian language somewhat irritating, so perhaps there are other enthusiasts who can field this one better than I. > Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to > a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...) > > The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are > some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are > consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy > and thus not to my liking? Yes, Leis of Jazz is more jazzy and therefore, in my book, not as exciting as other Lyman albums. Some of my favorites are "Bwana A", "Isle of Enchantment", and "Polynesia". There are some adamant Lyman supporters on this list and I'm sure they will be more than happy to speak up on Lyman recommendations Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Oscars? Chair Backs? Date: 14 Apr 1999 18:59:34 +0200 > >Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay = inside too=20 >much. Let me put it like this: Sweden never got spring and summer last year, = and we have tough winterseasons. But now! Spring is nearly here! The sun shines!=20 I just washed up my aloha shirts. I am getting ready for mysterious = felines, robot sea monsters and everything else that may be on my trail. = :) Its TIKI TIME AGAIN! M # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site) Date: 14 Apr 1999 13:04:02 -0500 At 12:23 PM 4/14/99 -0400, m.ace wrote: >Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of >Ghost Sites: >http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ >Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here: > >"5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum" Well, that's one obit that I missed!! Thanks for the pointer to Ghostsites -- I haven't been there before. -ls # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "hagar@mindspring.com" Subject: Re: (exotica) Spider-Man 1968 Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:33:36 -0700 >Does anyone have any information on this? It may be needle drop music that is >unavailable. I don't remember much about the credits, but the music was credited to a service, not an individual. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Spiderman jazz album? Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:06:48 -0800 Chuck wrote: A friend has me interested in finding music that was in the original Spider-Man cartoon from '68., not just the theme but the funky jazzy BACKGROUND music. My friend seems to remember reading in an old marvel comic about a spider man jazz album? Does anyone have any information on this? It may be needle drop music that is unavailable. ************************************ I don't know if this is the music used in the cartoon series, but check this info on a Freddie McCoy album (available from www.dustygroove.com): Freddie McCoy -- Spider Man! . . . CD . . . $19.99 Prestige (Japan), 1966 One of the rarest of the Prestige sides by the great funky vibist Freddy McCoy! This one never turns up on vinyl -- perhaps because the cover has a big image of Spider Man on the front, which might have led Marvel Comics to stop pressing on this one. The record is one of McCoy's best, and it's filled with nice groovy soul jazz tracks, all with his heavy vibes sound in the front of the mix. The album includes a nice groovy take on "Girl From Ipanema", plus the soul jazz classics "Speak Out, Deagan!" and "Hav' Mercy". Very nice stuff, and another reason to buy Japanese reissues! **************************************** And, from www.allmusic.com, here's the track listing: 1. Love for Sale (Porter) 2. Hav' Mercy 3. Yesterdays (Harbach/Kern) 4. Girl from Ipanema (DeMoraes/Gimbel/Jobim) 5. Spider Man 6. That's All 7. Speak out Deagan! ******************************* I can't verify the accuracy of any of the above -- just passing it along. I'm not an employee of either Dusty Groove or All-Music either, although I've ordered from DG many times and can recommend their services. Informatively, Wayno # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Motorbooty #9 Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:15:31 -0500 Hey, it's on the stands!!! http://www.motorbooty.com/ -ls # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:23:01 EDT In a message dated 04/13/99 3:03:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, loidlink@pixi.com writes regarding Ron writing about "watching" some pagen mating ritual: << but feel the jungle sounds! >> I don't know about "feel[ing] the jungle sounds" -- Ron would want to feelthemonkey!!!!! as long as it HIS OWN monkey I have no problem with this. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Brock Subject: (exotica) RE: Girls In The Garage Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:38:55 -0700 (PDT) OOPS! I made a booboo. The "Girls In The Garage" series is on Romulan Records, and is available through Get Hip! and maybe Bomp! But I know for a fact that Get Hip! does distro for Romulan. Sorry to anyone I sent on a wild goose chase to Dionysus! Dave _________________________________________________________ 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) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:37:54 EDT In a message dated 04/14/99 11:12:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? >> i discovered this about 9 months ago and took a very strong liking to it. i especially like his "moon over manakoora" (sp???) arrangement. his other lp's are not as exotic. there were a few comments on the list that were negative on this lp. i will be curious to see if they come up again. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Satan in High Heels Date: 14 Apr 1999 21:17:08 -0600 i just stubled on a pretty good review of this LP: http://www.visionx.com/jazz/REVIEWS/R0298_29.HTM enjoy! - kk 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: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) lust in space Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:55:17 -0700 (PDT) hey, for those in the LA area... i'm dj'ing this shindig saturday as well as providing video projection. think sexy psychedelic sci-fi funky retro-future spaced out audio/visual experience. plus there's a bunch of bands including Astro Panties which is sort of like missing persons/blondie new wave punk. they are quite cool. i can't vouch for the other dj but i can guarantee from me a very space-sex-themed set that will be both sensual and danceable. by the way, in my quest for the ultimate sex in space movie clips i came (?) across some really interesting films you may want to check out sometime: Future Woman (Jess Franco,1968?) The Love Factor (?-British, 1969) Love Drones (???, 1970's hardcore space porn) Galaxina (1980 spoof of star wars/trek) i really dug Future Woman. extremely hot eurobabes in future-tights with huge guns rule an all-female island called "Femina". look for this. i think it's available from sinister cinema. hope to see you there l.a. people, kevin leeeeee >LUST IN SPACE! > > > >April 17, 1999 >Doors Open 9:00 p.m. >Gallery B-12, 1645 N. Ivar, Hollywood >$5.00 suggested donation > >************************************************************************ > >DRESS CODE: Barbarella goes Y2K meets the Jetsons using a space-age >polymer >************************************************************************* > >DJ's Perry Bathous and Kevin Leeeeee >Theremin performance by Charlie Lester >Match Game 2076 >Artworks from the cryogenically frozen head of master cartoonist and >pedophile Bil Keane >Accolades for sartorial brilliance/Future Shock fashion show >The space-age musical stylings of BRAIN GARDEN >-and- >Matty SparTAYcus Mutator and his dancing Space-Kittens! >Vide-O-Ho HO >Other Surprises...? > > >Mayor "Jupiter" Jim King, Wayne "Mercury" Manous and "Rocket" Robson >will be waiting to greet you upon impact > >Drink Tatooine Tang with Eric "Mork" Howard and "Martian Princess" >Milena > >Your prime directives: (1) decide what to wear (futurefuck attire IS >mandatory) (2) RSVP to la@burningman.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@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) lust in space (update) Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:58:21 -0700 (PDT) sorry, here's the updated, better written info: Saturday, April 17, 9 p.m. The Los Angeles Cacophony Society Presents L U S T I N S P A C E It's spring and time for all jetboys and astrogirls to awake from their frozen hypersleep to obey the gene-spreading imperative. Across the galaxy, bug-eyed daredevils just like you risk burnout on reentry to fill dangerous cantinas crawling with potential spawn-mates. Join them Saturday, April 17 at Gallery B-12, 1645 North Ivar, Hollywood. Don't forget your spacey duds for admission discount ($4.00, $6.00 without.) SCHEDULED FOR REENTRY: * Hyperwave Glamour Pop of ASTROPANTIES, vibrating with the magnetic astrophysicality of Space Siren Vylette. * Electrified monkey marching band APE HAS KILLED APE performing "Conquest of Ape has Killed Ape" on trombone, sax, Moog, surge, and Theremin along with guest appearances by Bill Blake * of the '70s Planet of the Apes television show) and Natalie Trundy, * veteran of Conquest of... Beneath the.. Escape from...and Battle for.... The Planet of the Apes). * Electronic hypno-stim by BRAIN GARDEN. * Outerworldly oscillations by Thereminist CHARLIE LESTER. * Percussionist MATTY THE MUTATOR hammering out cosmic cadences on assorted space junk along with squirming astral bodies Electra and Fiery Felines. * Punk electronique ROBOT MONSTER unleashes terrifying anal-ogue assault. * Bad girl KARI KAOS, aka. the "Pussy Print-cess," performing a Spacetease. * DJs PERRY BATHOUS and KEVIN LEEEEE spinning out-of-orbit tunes. * Light & multimedia effects by MUTECH. More info: e-mail la@cacophony.org, (213) 694-2478 More info on Show: http://www.cacophony.org/la/thismonth.html#event2 Map to Show http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=1645+North+Ivar&csz=Los+Angel es%2C+CA&Get+Map=Get+Map # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Independent article on the Theremin Date: 15 Apr 1999 05:46:35 I thought the list might find the following interesting. Brad -------- Arts: Woooo-eeeee The theremin was the first electronic instrument. Invented by a Russian spy, it defined the sinister score of Hitchcock's Spellbound and gave a groundbreaking sound to the Beach Boys' `Good Vibrations'. By Robert Webb (Independent - London; 04/13/99) In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock was searching for a new sound. His Freudian chiller, Spellbound, required a score that would really raise goosebumps. Hitchcock's composer, Miklos Rozsa, suggested using the theremin. Hitch agreed to give it a go although, Rozsa recalled later, he wasn't exactly sure if you "ate it or took it for headaches". In fact, the theremin had been around for 25 years and could lay claim as the earliest viable electronic musical instrument. Its ethereal wail was perfect for the psychotic terror that seeped through the film. The theremin was named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, born in Russia in 1896. The leading authority on both man and machine is Albert Glinsky. "He was an extraordinary inventor," says Glinsky. "He supported the Bolsheviks in 1917 and after the Revolution was in Leningrad working on surveillance equipment and pioneering an early form of television. The instrument that bears his name was developed in 1920 while he was experimenting with radio apparatus to measure the dielectric constant of gasses." This seems as improbable as Adolphe Sax stumbling across the saxophone whilst plumbing in a U-bend, but no less sensational is the invention itself. It resembles no more than a plain box of coils and wires with a couple of aerials protruding. Operation is quite simple, but fiendishly difficult to master. Glinsky explains: "Two high- frequency oscillators generate an identical note beyond the reach of human hearing. The theremin allows the natural body capacitance of the hands to control electrical fields in the air between the antennae." Astonishingly, the theremin is unique as the only musical instrument played with no actual physical contact. With one hand controlling the pitch, and the other the volume, the chaotic whines and groans can be modulated to produce discrete musical pitches. Played proficiently, the sound is not unlike the human voice, a kind of ghost in the machine. Imagine listening to the Star Trek theme on shortwave radio. Leon Theremin unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the KGB and his invention was classified as top secret. To escape the restrictions on his work, he fled Russia for the United States in 1927. "In America it was announced as a magical device which heralded a new era in electronic music," says Glinsky. RCA were quick to see the novelty value and manufactured 500, backed by a fierce publicity campaign. Many people were unsure what to make of the new gadget. Even more baffling was how to play it. "I almost don't like to say this, but it's really the most difficult musical instrument in the world to play," admits Glinsky. At home, the untutored player simply had to imagine the notes and grope around in the air, hoping for the best. "Most people found it impossible, managing little more than a police-siren squeal. So they gave up and left it to gather dust in the garage." Only a few budding players became skilled. One virtuoso was Samuel Hoffman, a New York chiropodist. The theremin became a trademark in the NBC band, for whom Hoffman, when he wasn't shaving corns, played the violin. It attracted his attention and before long Hoffman was transforming himself into Hal Hope, celebrated bandleader and theremin player. For a while, Hoffman was famous in Manhattan dancehalls, where his orchestra was billed as the "casino in the air". Eventually though, the theremin was just another gimmick: it failed to bring about the expected revolution in electronic music. "The anticipated technical developments just never happened," says Glinsky, "so people lost interest." Hoffman went back to his day job and, despondent, Leon Theremin returned to the Soviet Union in 1938, where he was imprisoned for "un-Soviet activities". When Hitchcock's composer phoned the Hollywood musicians' union in 1945 for someone to play his score, there was only one thereminist listed who could read music: Dr Samuel J Hoffman. Hoffman's performance on Spellbound revived his thrilled cinema-goers. In 1947, he teamed up with British songwriter Harry Revel and full orchestra to record Music Out Of The Moon, the first in a series of 78s for Capital records, now the subject of a repackaged CD set. With selections entitled "Lunar Rhapsody", "Celestial Nocturne" and "Radar Blues", it presented music which, according to the sleeve notes, "can affect the sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening... always fascinating". It was followed by two more recordings in 1948 and 1950: Music For Peace Of Mind and Perfume Set To Music, with arrangements by Billy May and the carpet- slipper king of lounge music, Les Baxter. The theremin was back. Dr Hoffman's career took off: he remained in Hollywood and through the Fifties tingled spines on many classic sci- fi soundtracks, notably Bernard Herrmann's The Day The Earth Stood Still. Twenty-one years after Hitchcock first took the theremin to the movies, Brian Wilson was also in Hollywood, recording one of pop's greatest three- and- a-half minutes. "Good Vibrations" was the Beach Boy's second song to feature the theremin: the first being "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times". A vital contribution to an astonishing record, it quickly became a pet sound. The following year Captain Beefheart reputedly drafted in none other than Sam Hoffman to electrify his first album, Safe as Milk. The theremin, in various customised forms, has since provided a background hum for artists as diverse as Kraftwerk, Paul Weller and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Jimmy Page has a special fondness for it, using it on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" and on the recent Page and Plant tour. Hawkwind's thereminist, it is rumoured, even fashioned an axe-shaped version to fit in with his local music scene. The ultimate air guitar, you might say. A few models have even found their way into museums. This month, the Science Museum in London is staging The Aetherphon, a dramatised history of the instrument. The organiser, Geraint Thomas, is excited. "We were one of the first to show a practical interest in the theremin. Our player, Andrew Mackay, studied under Lydia Kavina, a niece of Leon Theremin and a skilled player in her own right." And Leon Theremin himself? In the early Nineties, Albert Glinsky met him in New York, filming a documentary about his long and improbable life. "Most people assumed he was dead," recalls Glinsky. "In fact, he'd been working at Moscow University but was shunned because of his work for the KGB. Although he had played in Europe in the mid-Eighties, this was the first time he had been in the US since he left in 1938. It was a very moving occasion." In 1991, two years before his death at 97, Leon Theremin was publicly honoured as the godfather of electronic music. Without him, we would have had no good vibrations. Other Early Electronic Instruments: Ondes Martenot Invented in 1928, it was the first successful electronic instrument that is still regularly used by orchestras today. Its primitive tones were first harnessed by Edgar Varese, the pioneer of artificial sound, on his Ecuatorial (1933-4), paving the way for experimental works by John Cage, Stockhausen and Messiaen (notably his exuberant Turangalila Symphony). Rhythmicon American avant-garde composer Henry Crowell built the first electronic rhythm machine in 1930. In the Fifties it pulsed on producer Joe Meek's early recordings. Later, it was sampled by Tangerine Dream and reputedly used by Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother (1969). Clavoline The clavoline arrived in 1947 and was used by composer John Barry before becoming the sound of the future thanks to the Tornados' hit "Telstar" (1962), produced by Joe Meek. It was used, incidentally, by Stanley Kubrick in Dr Strangelove (1963). Electronium and Clavivox A couple of the many gizmos developed in the Fifties and Sixties by the composer, engineer, and electro genius Raymond Scott. The Clavivox was one of the first polyphonic sequencers and the Electronium was used on his album of ambient lullabies, Soothing Sounds For Baby (1963), which was recently reissued on Basta records. Scott also wrote merry melodies for Warner Bros cartoons and in the Seventies he was hired as an electronics whiz-kid at Motown Records. Moog Synthesiser Robert Moog developed his ideas for an electronic instrument from building and selling theremin kits in 1961. After the success of Walter Carlos's Switched On Bach (1968) everyone seemed to be using a moog. Except Queen, who declared in their credits "no synthesisers!". Mellotron Built by West Midlands firm Streetly Electronics, the first mellotron arrived in 1963. Its most famous appearance was on the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) and it was beloved of Seventies prog rockers. A set of keys triggered taped recordings of musical instruments. Most models had to be junked when the tapes stretched and the distortion became too much. Stylophone This monophonic xylophone had all the musical sophistication of a klaxon. Manufactured by Dubreq in the late- Sixties, it was heavily promoted by Rolf Harris. David Bowie radioed Ground Control with it on "Space Oddity" (1969). `Dr Hoffman and the Theremin' is available from Basta Records/Direct Distribution. Albert Glinsky's biography of Theremin, `Out of the Air' will be published next year. The Aetherphon is on at the Science Museum, London, 17 and 18 April (Copyright 1999 Newspaper Publishing PLC) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "The Sound of Speed" Date: 15 Apr 1999 05:49:35 If anyone on the list has a copy of "The Sound of Speed" by Bob Thompson, can you do me a favor? Send me a note telling me who's listed as the producer. I just interviewed Bob for "Cool & Strange Music" magazine. He's living up near Grass Valley, California. I asked him if he considered himself retired. "I consider myself out of work!" he replied. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Anthony Newley, Jean Vander Pyl, Bill Wendell Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:09:54 -0500 *Anthony Newley STUART, Fla. (AP) -- British entertainer Anthony Newley, known for the stage hit ``Stop the World -- I Want To Get Off'' and the 1967 film version of the children's classic ``Doctor Doolittle,'' died Wednesday of cancer. He was 67. The actor, playwright, author, composer, lyricist and singer was first diagnosed in 1985 with renal cell cancer and had one kidney removed. After years of good health, the cancer returned in 1997. Newley had lived in Surrey, England, about 35 miles outside of London, for years and moved to Florida permanently in December. The former husband of actress Joan Collins, Newley shot to fame as the Artful Dodger in the 1948 film version of ``Oliver Twist.'' He became an international star and during his heyday had a series of hit records, appeared in a string of films and was a major live performer in Las Vegas. Newley co-wrote the score for the hit musicals ``Stop The World -- I Want To Get Off,'' ``Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory'' and ``The Roar of The Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd.'' He also wrote a number of best-selling hit singles, including ``What Kind Of Fool Am I?'', ``The Candy Man'' and ``Goldfinger.'' http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B109501 http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=BP104367 http://elvispelvis.com/anthonynewley.htm Jean Vander Pyl, 79, the Voice of Wilma on `The Flintstones' By REUTERS DANA POINT, Calif. -- Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma Flintstone, whose trademark yell, "Fre-e-e-ed," was heard in homes around the world as she shouted at her husband in the popular Hanna-Barbera television cartoon series, died on Saturday at her home here. She was 79. The cause was lung cancer, said her son Michael O'Meara. Ms. Vander Pyl, who played a host of characters in various radio shows and animated television series, was also the voice of Pebbles, the Flintstone's daughter, and did extra duty as Mrs. Slate, the wife of Fred Flintstone's boss. After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, Ms. Vander Pyl got her start as a radio actress in the radio series "Calling All Cops," the precursor to television's "Dragnet," mostly playing damsels in distress. She went on to play the mother on radio's "Father Knows Best" and Andy's many girlfriends on "Amos 'n'Andy." In addition to "The Flintstones" she was featured on that show's space-age counterpart, "The Jetsons," in which she performed the voices of seven characters, including George Jetson's mother-in-law, George's secretary, Rosie the robot maid and Mrs. Spacely, the boss's wife. But she was known around the world as the voice of Wilma Flintstone. The show ran for six years, from 1960 to 1966, and was seen in more than 80 countries in syndication. Even today it is estimated that not a minute goes by in which "The Flintstones" is not being watched somewhere in the world. "She was an anonymous celebrity," O'Meara said. "You could go out with her and nobody would recognize her. But while people everywhere were listening to Ms. Vander Pyl's voice, she was not hearing the ring of the cash register. She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 an episode for making the show and that when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in lieu of residual payments from syndication. At that time she lived in nearby San Clemente and ruefully observed: "If I got residuals I wouldn't live in San Clemente. I'd own San Clemente." In addition to her son Michael, of Dana Point, she is survived by two other sons, Timothy O'Meara of Northridge, Calif., and Roger DeWitt of New York; two stepsons, Anthony DeWitt of New York and Peter DeWitt of June Lake, Calif., and three grandchildren. April 15, 1999 Bill Wendell, 75, Announcer on David Letterman Show By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, NYTimes Bill Wendell, a radio and television announcer whose crisp authoritative voice provided an ironic foil to entertainers from Ernie Kovacs to David Letterman, died Wednesday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 75. The cause of death was complications from cancer, said one of his daughters, Francette Nunziata. Until his retirement in 1995, Wenzel was most recently known for the off-stage introduction of guests at the beginning of Letterman's show at NBC and later CBS. The introductions typically began with a municipal characterization like, "From New York, mountain fortress of the ancient Incas, it's 'Late Night With David Letterman . . .' " But Wendell also worked with Bob Hope, Dave Garroway, Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Gary Moore, Alan King, Tom Snyder, Billy Crystal and Jerry Seinfeld. But what brought him the earliest and widest attention was his work in the 1950's as the on-air sidekick for Ernie Kovacs, Mrs. Nunziata said. "They were always playing practical jokes on each other," his daughter recalled. "One time Ernie was supposed to gulp a big martini, but it was supposed to be filled with water, only it was really filled with vodka. He spit it out and started coughing like crazy on live national television. Dad and his cronies were laughing their heads off." Wendell was born William Joseph Wenzel, Jr. on March 22, 1924, in New York City to William J. Wenzel , a beverage distributor and an owner of several Manhattan fruit stands, and Mildred S. Wenzel, a housewife. After serving in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, he worked in radio and early television. He had taken the professional name of Wendell "because he wanted to give his family some privacy and maybe a German name at that time wasn't that popular," Mrs. Nunziata said. Wendell then went on to work as a staff radio and television announcer for NBC, on call for network promotions, special news bulletins and network identifications. In addition to his daughter Mrs. Nunziata of Pelham Manor, N.Y., Wendell is survived by his wife, Anne Wenzel; two other daughters, Anne Wenzel Markgraf of Burbank, California, and Elizabeth Hansbury of White Plains; two sons, William J. Wenzel 3d of Southport, Conn., and Richard Eustace Wenzel of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and 14 grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Speaking of the Theremin... Date: 15 Apr 1999 09:26:31 -0500 I'm wondering if there is any discography of *available* recordings on which theremin is featured prominently. I'd like to add more theremin to my collection, but I'm having trouble finding stuff -- it's not as if a keyword search for "theremin" produces results. Also, are there any web sites that are dedicated to the *music* of the theremin (as opposed to, say, the construction of one)? Thanks for any info! -- 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: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations? Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:32:04 -0400 >> Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic >> exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely >>liking the >> more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? > >Are you kidding? I would have no hesitation in saying that as far as finding >exotica related material in thrift venues, Hawaiian albums dominate. >Unfortunately >what 50's & 60's Hawaiian record have in quantity the lack in quality. About every six months, another listee discovers _Polynesian Percussion_, and is totally blown away by it--asking, "why have I never heard of this before?" I know, because I was one of them! Now, Frank is right, there is a ton of budget-label "Hawaiian" dreck out there--in fact the real problem is that the same tracks (by some anonymous Nashville session men, IMO) get endlessly recycled under different album and track names. But it would be a big mistake to put Cates' album in the same category. To my mind, there are a few things that make _PP_ an Exotica classic: It mixes the Hawaiian guitar sound with crisp Latin percussion and wordless vocals, all beautifully recorded. And the totally unique element is the use of the Novachord organ--which especially in the bass registers simply has the most odd, wonderful tone of any keyboard. So I don't know if Kevin will ever find another album exactly "in this genre." Maybe somebody else knows more about the Novachord, but apparently it was Hammond's 1939 attempt to make an organ using all tube oscillators, rather than the usual rotary tone wheels. So in that sense it qualifies as one of the earliest multiple-timbre synthesizers. Unfortunately an organ that used about 100 vacuum tubes was not exactly reliable, so Hammond abandoned it a few years later. I don't know if anyone really was too negative about _Polynesian Percussion_, but it's true that on first listen it doesn't come across as particularly energetic (e.g. compared to Martin Denny). But after a couple of listens, I find that the spaciousness and uncanny "rightness" of the sounds is really wonderful. The big mystery is why