From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) SF party tonight, Friday 10/1 Date: 01 Oct 1999 04:12:12 EDT I will be djing from 6 - 9:30 at 8 Cylinder Studio 150 King Street betw 2 and 3 across from the new Baseball stadium 2nd floor 8 Cyl is a web design firm doing work for AOL, et al drop in and check it out * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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: the_curator@eat78rpm.freeserve.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Michel Legrand's 'Jazzy' piano noodlings at the Jazz Cafe, London Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:15:30 +0000 Just came back from holiday to find ML playing a couple of nights at the Jazz Cafe. Even though I had reservations about going, I thought it might be worth it. It was! He played alot of material from 'Cherbourg', 'Rochefort', 'Thomas Crown Affair', a track from 'Yentl', which didn't sound so hot, but a couple of others from a soundtrack composed with Miles Davis, I think called 'Dingo Rock', which did. He played well known tracks in a variety of styles and finished with 'Windmills of Your Mind', singing it in French, which was nice. It was a trio of piano, double bass and drums ... sorry I can't remember the names of the other guys ... the bass player was quite young and completely adequate, the drummer was much older, though not as old-looking as Legrand, and was very very good ... i knew that because he had a pair of tiny silver drumsticks on a necklace over his shirt ;-) Another thing which made it enjoyable was that it wasn't at all crowded, so that when, as we walked in he was starting to play we were able to make our way very easily through the sparse audience to the front and stand directly behind Legrand about 5 feet away. Maybe someone else from the list who was also there can add more detail I thought you'd like to know friendly Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Satan Superstar Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:51:13 +0100 One record I have never seen discussed here is "Satan Superstar" by Stanley Black. I've never heard it, or seen it, and I'm curious. I'm told the track "Satan Speaks" is top-notch cheese of high water (if such a thing exists). Is anyone on the list familiar with the album? PS -- A few of the things I've picked up lately: "Soundproof" -- Ferrante and Teicher. Somewhat of a curate's egg, it's interesting in parts, but the grooviest thing about it is the cover art of the UFO. Don't expect really radical sounds, generally the prepared piano parts just involve heavy damping that gives a percussive effect. But I'm glad to have a copy, I like it. "Spaceship Boogie" -- Winifred Atwell Well, actually on an EP the title of which I can't remember. Three tracks of standard joanna-bashing tinkle plus this one, which kicks off with a few electronic noises and proceeds with a spooky spacey echo on the piano plus the occasional mildly-weird harmonic progression for extra space feel. (Sort of like a piano version of Johnny Guitar Watson's "Space Guitar"). Like Soundproof, not earthshattering, but interesting, and miles away from the bulk of the catalogue. "The Ski Full-of-Fitness Theme" -- Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg It's an advertising jingle for Ski yoghurt, which a thoughtful Ski released to the world in single format. Really, REALLY cheesy. "The Fiddling Viking" -- Sven Asmussen I've had a beat-up copy of this for years, but I found a pristine one, and listened to it again. This one is brilliant, all kinds of violinery tricks and effects going on, great arrangments. The highlights for me are the version of "Tabu", and "Can You Whistle Joanna", violin matching the whistling and sliding around way up in the stratosphere. Great! "Dance To My Fair Lady" -- Helmut Zacharias More violinery, and this one is also good... I can even listen to the version of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" without cringing, that's the degree of power Mr. Z. has over 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question Date: 01 Oct 1999 12:26:08 +0100 Don't look back Spartacus Death in Venice The pleasure seekers (Anne Margaret) Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:33:56 I picked up the 9-LP Readers Digest boxed set, "Happiness Is," a few weeks ago at a local junk store (big "Going Out of Business" sign has been draped over their door for the two years I've lived here). Mostly dull easy listening covers of mid-late 60s hits, and I stuck it in the "donate" box after playing a couple of sides. Then I decided to give it a thorough listening and found a few choice cuts. Hands-down favorite has to be Joe Reisman's cover of "Grazing in the Grass," a hit instrumental originally by Hugh Masakela. This one is a vocal with wonderful lyrics: Grazing in the grass is a gas, can you dig it, baby? Grazing in the grass is a gas, can you dig it, baby? [rapidly] I can dig it She can dig it He can dig it We can dig it You can dig it They can dig it Can you dig it, baby? A few other noteworthy numbers: several good Billy May covers in his great now sound "Billy May Today!" style; Jack Jones doing a nice version of "Live for Life" and a classic lounge-y "Light My Fire"; Harry James doing an admirable job on "This Guy's in Love." On the other hand, you also get Benny Goodman doing "Spinning Wheel," which is almost as uncomfortable to listen to as it must have been to Benny to play. What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets? Besides Dick Hyman's "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is. 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: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 07:47:20 -0400 Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too! Jane got that excellent stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick up free records. Last night we had a pre-volunteer meeting for the WICN record drive and there was a stack of boxes of what the GM called "Mantovani" stuff that wasn't going to be takin' over to the record drive. Picked up about 100 of 'em. Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory here) A few Command things. Mel Heink, A Leo Diamond. Some Leo Addeo Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to listen too but don't want to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed it. The GM showed me a box of about 100 exotica related thingstheay are outting out that I would have to pay money for, but I think I found better stuff in the "Mantovani" section. I can get everything 1/2 price 'cause I'm a volunteer. Cugie/ Prado/Gleason stuff. Saw that Ken Nordine voice-over record with a small Saturn on the cover mentioned on the list lately. EMAIL me before 3PM EST if anybody wants it in trade? Check out the WICN web page http://www.wicn.org/current%20events/community.html Like I said TONS of rock and classical from the radio stacks, Thankfully, they spared the Jazz section. Lots of 78's but they may not be put out. Saw a Wanda L. J.S Bach Golberg Variations on 78. A "boxed set" of 7. Beautifully packaged. I *love* the Goldberg Variations, but what am I going to do with it? My favorite used furniture guy is having an auction tomorrow night and he has 4 lots of records he's putting on the block. I'll have to go and see if the Tiki's continue to pour out their blessings! And Jimmy, the record dealers will be their, but we won't let them near the rekkids until 10AM when we open. That 'el teach them! 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: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 08:22:12 EDT In a message dated 10/1/99 7:31:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, spaceagepop@earthlink.net writes: > What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets? Besides Dick Hyman's > "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is. I've had "Alfred..."(Organ Magic) here on a shelf for many months and I'd yet to listen to him. You inspired me to take him down and give him a spin. It's a truely happenin' little tune. For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or real audio version of him for your inspection. Just say the word. -Roy G. Biv # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 05:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too! > Jane got that excellent > stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick > up free records. > Domenic Fontiere Pagan > Festival (?) ( going by memory > here) A few Command things. Mel Heink, A Leo > Diamond. Some Leo Addeo > Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to > listen too but don't want > to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed > it. Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record! And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for free. And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE HEINKE-that guy!?? GOOD SCORE, KID! Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:18:07 EDT In a message dated 10/01/99 8:20:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dciccone@inspex.com writes: << Martin Denny's A Go Go >> i found a copy of this a couple of years ago. it is most likely one of the ghosted ablums, but i love it. i pull it our about 3 times a year and play it every day for about a week. any other comments on this ablum? i know some people gotta hate it. tiki 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: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan. Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:16:33 -0400 >Well, I will take this opportunity to say YES! If you >are very much into late 6ts early 7ts >now-sound-television-music-porn-soundtracks-moogs-wah-wah >and bossa nova...then, yes indeed, you will feel at >home. Thanks for a description Jane, I would have to say that AstroSlut is similar to Combustible Edison/Seks Bomba in that they hit a lot of "lounge" bases. One song "The Quinn Martian Chronicles" reminiscent of the jazzish Quinn Martin TV themes but a total reinvention. They did one Bossa-nova tune. AstroSlut sounds a lot more "rockish" but I attribute this to it being a live gig. Very Go-Go 60's at times. At first I was surprised at how modern the group sounded. Talking to Jane on the list and in person about Pete Rugolo, Jack Jones and Julie London I was prepared for something else. But I can see, esp listening a 2nd time, how Jane and Drew are taking their moog/keyboard/vocal influences and building on them to create their own voice music and songs. I recognized none of the songs even thought I was told 1/3 of them were covers. So Bravo to AstroSlut! They embrace the past, but don't totally imitate it. I think the name say it all. A tip of the hat to "Astrosounds in the year 2000" but with an updated attitude that keeps up with the modern rock scene. You Go Girl! 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: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:36:57 -0700 (PDT) > << Martin Denny's A Go Go >> > > i found a copy of this a couple of years ago. it is > most likely one of the > ghosted ablums, but i love it. i pull it our about > 3 times a year and play > it every day for about a week. > > any other comments on this ablum? i know some > people gotta hate it. > > tiki bob Not me, pal! I diggit, though I suspect it's a ghost rekkid, too. Let me ask this though just be certain, while we're on MOOGS(I have been meaning to contribute to this discussion, but wanted to see my collection...still haven't done that...so, how about GENUINE ELECTRIC LATIN LOVE MACHINE, SPACED OUT, PLASTIC COW GOES MMOOOOGGGGG, and the two SWITCHED ON BACHARACHS...I also can't wait to hear the MOOG GERSHWIN I just got..anyway..) Did Martin Denny actually *play* and/or *arrange* the Moogs on his EXOTIC MOOG? What about Les Baxter with Paul "Daily Nightly" Beaver? Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:29:02 -0400 Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too! Jane got that excellent stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick up free records. Last night we had a pre-volunteer meeting for the WICN record drive and there was a stack of boxes of what the GM called "Mantovani" stuff that wasn't going to be takin' over to the record drive. Picked up about 100 of 'em. Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory here) A few Command things. Mel Heink, A Leo Diamond. Some Leo Addeo Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to listen too but don't want to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed it. The GM showed me a box of about 100 exotica related thingstheay are outting out that I would have to pay money for, but I think I found better stuff in the "Mantovani" section. I can get everything 1/2 price 'cause I'm a volunteer. Cugie/ Prado/Gleason stuff. Saw that Ken Nordine voice-over record with a small Saturn on the cover mentioned on the list lately. EMAIL me before 3PM EST if anybody wants it in trade? Check out the WICN web page http://www.wicn.org/current%20events/community.html Like I said TONS of rock and classical from the radio stacks, Thankfully, they spared the Jazz section. Lots of 78's but they may not be put out. Saw a Wanda L. J.S Bach Golberg Variations on 78. A "boxed set" of 7. Beautifully packaged. I *love* the Goldberg Variations, but what am I going to do with it? My favorite used furniture guy is having an auction tomorrow night and he has 4 lots of records he's putting on the block. I'll have to go and see if the Tiki's continue to pour out their blessings! And Jimmy, the record dealers will be their, but we won't let them near the rekkids until 10AM when we open. That 'el teach them! 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: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:40:27 +0200 >Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere >PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be >invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record! >And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for >free. And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE >HEINKE-that guy!?? GOOD SCORE, KID! >Jane Fondle Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...? Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"? "Walkin' my baby back home", o yes, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:40:43 +0200 >> What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets? Besides Dick Hyman's >> "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is. > >I've had "Alfred..."(Organ Magic) here on a shelf for many months and I'd yet >to listen to him. You inspired me to take him down and give him a spin. >It's a truely happenin' little tune. > >For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or >real audio version of him for your inspection. Just say the word. If you're sure the happenin' little tune will make me happy, than I'd be delighted making you happy by making me happy. Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 08:48:01 -0500 > Let me ask this though just be certain, while we're on > MOOGS...so, how about GENUINE ELECTRIC > LATIN LOVE MACHINE I ain't no moog fan, but I do love this record!!! > Did Martin Denny actually *play* and/or *arrange* the > Moogs on his EXOTIC MOOG? Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the "Incredibly Strange Music" books. Said he "supervised" the recording of EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform. 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: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:52:17 -0700 (PDT) --- Darrell Brogdon wrote: > > > Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the > "Incredibly > Strange Music" books. Said he "supervised" the > recording of > EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform. > Well...what does "supervise" mean? Did he arrange things and kick back, or just "supervise" with a cigar a la' Jackie Gleason? HMM? Ooooo...Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: OT Italian film question Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:50:33 -0500 > > Can anybody on the list recommend an American or English film > > that is set in Italy? Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" starring Donald Sutherland was shot in Venice. A classic! 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: Subject: (exotica) [obit]Eva Israelsen Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:01:00 -0400 Thursday, Sept. 30, 1999; 10:38 p.m. EDT Eva Israelsen LOGAN, Utah (AP) Eva Israelsen, who lived long enough to have 271 great-grandchildren, died Thursday, five days before her 105th birthday. Mrs. Israelsen appeared in Life magazine in October 1993 in an article noting the birth of her 200th and 201st great-grandchildren. Since then, her progeny has grown to 271 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great-grandchildren. She had 11 original children, and they had 67 kids. She was born Eva May Butler on Oct. 5, 1894, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County. She met Victor E. Israelsen while attending Utah Agricultural College, now Utah State University, in the 1920s and later married him. They spent their lives on a dairy farm. Mrs. Israelsen remained active well past her 100th birthday, walking at least a mile a 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: George Hall Subject: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:45:09 -0700 (PDT) mimim@texas.net wrote: > =46unny, I've been trying to track down some info about a poor naked > Smash record I rescued from a thrift bin in July. It's called James Brown > Presents the New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) James Brown. What is the title of > your record? I have 2; Handful of Soul and Yesterday & Today (I think the # of the last disc ends in -82). According to Handful lp jacket, the first was called Grits and Soul. > So is this really the > Hardest Working Man in Show Biznezz playing organ or is it his backup > band, as one knowledgeable local DJ told me it probably is? The DJ said > James produced several records for Smash, basically lending his name to > give the projects greater exposure but not performing himself. I'd heard somewhere that JB jumped ship from King to sign with Smash, before fulfilling his contractual obligations w/the former; a compromise was reached by releasing only instrumentals on Smash for a time; vocals came later (which explains why the song title "Papa's got a Brand New Bag" appear in huge letters on Y&T). As for the playing, the stuff I have is pretty rudimentary, esp the 1st; I like it, certainly, but I doubt he would've hired anyone at that level to play under his name. > Anyone > know the real poop on JBPTNB(BAL)? Any recommend for similar records? > All info welcome! Thanks. The 2 I have are both pretty good, but not great. Sounds like I'll have to track down JBPTNB tho... ------------------------------ rcb@easynet.co.uk wrote: > the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not > that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!). I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame! > moment and this guy Teisco Del Rey has a CD with him playing it (there's > one of his CDs at CDNow but I'm not sure if it's a real organ or his > Guitorgan I can hear on the samples)... That's a Guitorgan! See also the version of "Fear" on Ventures in Outer 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: dymaxia@ripco.com Subject: Re: (exotica) let's talk moog Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:42:15 -0500 Nat Kone wrote: > > At 08:58 PM 9/29/99 -0500, dymaxia wrote: > I've also got a Limelight or two > >in my collection, the Jean[oops, I mean Claude]Denjean > > with the sexy > >big lips cover, both Switched-On Bacharachs, and > >something on Pickwick called "The Happy Moog". Oh, > >and _The Copper-Plated Circuit_. Great lp, really > >great cover! I think I've got more, but my collection needs > >straightening. I'd like to hear about other people's > >Moog lp's.... > > In my opinion the Switched On Bacharachs are among the best of the genre. Yeah, I like those, too. > They use the whole range of cheesy-to-tasteful moog sounds but somehow > always use them in ways that are appropriate to the tunes. That thing you > have called "Happy Moog" is actually a fairly rare - and sometimes > expensive - J.J Perry record even though it's also a Harry Breuer record. Yeah, I noticed his name on several of the tracks, but I didn't know if this was a Breuer record or a Perrey one. It has no cover -- I found it in a thrift store in a plain white cover. What a find! I played it last night, and it's pretty excellent -- I especially love Moog Foo Yong. > The Denjean record is also a "classic". He had one before that one that's > also good. (He has other ones also but they're not that good.) And the > Copper Plated one by Walter Sear is also a good one. He did others - also > on Command - with Richard Hayman that are considered "essential" moog > records, if you don't mind that word. Another one I forgot to mention is Richard Hayman presents "The Electric People". This is a totally mysterious low budget l.p. with a hysterically banal cover photo of someone's stereo. I have no idea who these people are, but the names are Italian, and the album totally kicks! It has some moog blues on it! > > I have about 30 moog and moog-related records. If you're interested in > hearing about others, I'll name a few. > I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and > move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on > Nashville" by Gil Trythall. You haven't heard moog till you've heard his > version of "Folsom Prison". Ohmigod. > On the other end of the spectrum is John Keating's "Space Experience" which > is a great record but almost too tasteful and well-arranged to qualify as a > "real" moog record. For me this record resurrects "I feel the earth move". > Then there are the rockin-moog records. I have two by "The Electronic > Concept Orchestra" and I can recommend "Moog Groove". Great versions of "Oh > Happy Day" and especially "Grazin in the Grass". Yeah, I've been looking for "Moog Groove". I have the Electronic Concept Orchestra's make-out record -- I forgot the name of it, "Electric Love" or something. > Then again, it's silly to recommend any of these since you're almost > guaranteed to pick up anything called "moog groove". > In the same category of no-brainers is "Switched-On Rock" by the Moog Machine. > "Time of the Season", "Yummy Yummy". Oh, shit. I've got to have that one. Thanks, Nat! -- Kerry http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:37:58 -0400 >Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...? >Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"? Yup! I'll take a closer look and post the title on Monday when I'm back here at work. It's not La Dolce Henke. There is a picture in the back of the LP that I also saw in Cool and Strange Music Magazine when they gave away some Dolce Henke's a while back. I always thought it was a picture of Ashley Warren (!) because he generously provided for the CD's for the giveaway. Under the picture was the caption "Our Hero". And I apologize for the double posts... Maybe it's this new (for me) Lotus Notes. I hate it. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:55:48 -0400 >Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere >PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be >invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record! >And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for >free. And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE >HEINKE-that guy!?? GOOD SCORE, KID! >Jane Fondle Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...? Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"? "Walkin' my baby back home", o yes, Ton >>>>Sorry, it's Friday, and I am probably just thinking about HEINEKEN! #%&#^$(#$@# Heineken, PABST BLUE RIBBON! Frank Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: George Hall Subject: (exotica) Polka Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT) > > >the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER Seems like every 10 yrs or so, there's a Polka &/or accordion revival among the hipsters & hipstresses, kind of like those periodic surf/instro revivals; seems to last a year or so before heading back underground. Anyone remember Das Furlines? > >Can anybody on the list recommend an American or English film that is set > >in Italy? Strait to Hell? (about 1/3 of) the Godfather # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 12:15:50 EDT In a message dated 10/01/99 9:51:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com writes: << > Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the > "Incredibly > Strange Music" books. Said he "supervised" the > recording of > EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform. > Well...what does "supervise" mean? Did he arrange things and kick back, or just "supervise" with a cigar a la' Jackie Gleason? >> mr. denny hates to admit it, but he does, that some of "his" later albums were ghosted. in interviews he indicates that he actually did give direction to the composure of the Exotic Moog album. his contract was requiring at least three LP releases per year and when he could not do it himself he acquiesce to Capitol and let others record and compose the contents of some LP's. notice that the phrase used from the start "The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" does not say that he played them. it lended nicely to this ghosting. mr. denny has expressed some disappointment in how his name was "franchised" and albums were made without his involvement. but he also admits that it was part of his contract and he gained from it financially at the time. in other works he makes no excuses and does not blame Capitol. in final note: mr. denny says he could have performed on Exotic Moog but really was uncomfortable on how to work all the electronic controls. he does feel that the overall sound of Exotic Moog represents the Martin Denny sound in Moog form. respectfully, tiki 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:51:45 -0400 > the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not > that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!). I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame! >>>HE! You know me well-enough George...OK, I won't start...but I will just point out to those who don't realize on the list that this is the self-same George of the too-fab Seks Bomba. He just doesn't go runnin' his mouth off about his band like some of us do on the list..ahem. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: (exotica) re: Astroslut Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:34:31 -0700 Jane Fondle wrote: > Well, I will take this opportunity to say YES! If you > are very much into late 6ts early 7ts > now-sound-television-music-porn-soundtracks-moogs-wah-wah > and bossa nova...then, yes indeed, you will feel at > home. I would not have been foisting my group on this > list if I didn't feel it was very much in line with > the music we discuss here. > I firmly > believe our album will be of interest to many on this > list. Diggit, baby! > Jane Fondle Oh, I wasn't trying to say anything otherwise. :-) Just trying to see where your band was on the "vast" exotica musical continum. (maybe I'm a purist, but I only call Baxter/Denny/Lyman ish stuff "exotica", but I know most people have a broader definition (which is fine...)) What you really need is a website with sound samples/photos etc.... :-) Any chance you'll be touring in California???? Kevin Crossman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) All hail Thee Honourable Tiki King! Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:40:33 -0700 Jane Fondle wrote: > you just GOTTA check out the Tiki > King. > Check out his website: > http://members.aol.com./tikistuff/TikiKing.com.html That URL definitely doesn't work. I did find this one, still looks to be in test mode. http://www.tikiking.com/test/ While we're here... I'd also like to say Tiki King's stuff is real nice and affordable too. T.K. seems real friendly at Tiki events I've been too (gosh, probably should have introduced myself... oh well). 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re: (exotica) Punk Polka Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:36:18 +0200 >the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER Gives me a chance to say the new El=E4kel=E4iset 10", "Humppaorgiat", is = a blast. Side A has five songs remaining from the "Werbung, baby!" -session= s (great versions of Mrs Robinson and Sunday Bloody Sunday which work particularly well polkastyle and Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz is a fine campfire ballad). Side B has a couple of livetracks with an attempt at speedhumppa. Official website: www.humppa.com 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: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:38:05 +0200 >For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or >real audio version of him for your inspection. Just say the word. yup! please, put it online :) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:38:12 +0200 >Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice? dunno, but Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade does. ;) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan. Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:48:16 -0700 (PDT) > > Thanks for a description Jane, > > I would have to say that AstroSlut is similar to > Combustible Edison/Seks > Bomba in that they hit a lot of "lounge" bases. One > song "The Quinn Martian > Chronicles" reminiscent of the jazzish Quinn Martin > TV themes but a total > reinvention. > > That would be "The Quinn Martian Memorandum." While I am pleased to be in such good company, I don't know that we are similar to either group...but thanks! > songs. I recognized > none of the songs even thought I was told 1/3 of > them were covers. > No,no! Not quite a third! Our covers are of Gainsbourg's "69", "Contact" and "Harley Davidson." We also do "Come With the Gentle People"-from BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...and a bang-up "Bedazzled"! > So Bravo to AstroSlut! They embrace the past, but > don't totally imitate it. > I think the name say it all. A tip of the hat to > "Astrosounds in the year > 2000" but with an updated attitude that keeps up > with the modern rock > scene. > > You Go Girl! > > Domenic You go, too! I wish you were my press agent!:) And Kevin, I PROMISE that our $#((@)% website will be up soon! It's not in my hands...it's TAKING so long though...because this is gonna be a souped up and lots o' fun... OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane... ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) green tambourine mystery Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:20:34 EDT In a message dated 9/30/99 10:22:10 PM, bruno@yhammer.com writes: >"Will you be staying after Sunday" and I recognize the >tune, though I have no idea whether this is the original "hit" version. I looked it up in my trusty Whitburn and the song is credited only to them, The Peppermint Rainbow, on Decca, so maybe an English "aggregate". Their other minor hit off the LP was "Don't Wake Me Up In The Morning Michael". And as for genre-pinning, I'd throw this onto the harder-edged Soft Pop tip.......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: Subject: (exotica) fwd: food safety music Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:21:14 -0400 Food Safety Music [RealPlayer] http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html Carl Winter, a golden-throated Extension Food Toxicologist at the University of California, Davis, has written and recorded two albums of parodies of popular songs "with a food safety/ science twist." Lucky for us, Winter has made a number of these tunes and their lyrics available at this site. The songs are organized by food science topic (Food Safety, Pesticides, Biotech, Toxicology, etc.), and listed with file size, the song that inspired it, and a link to the lyrics. Highlights include "I Sprayed It on the Grapevine," "We are the Microbes/ They Might Kill You," "Food Busters," and "Food Irradiation." Graduate students especially will enjoy Winter's take on academic life and the advisor-student relationship: "Money for Nothing." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:54:13 -0400 At 06:33 AM 10/1/99, Brad Bigelow wrote: > >What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets? Besides Dick Hyman's >"Alfred, the King of Disco," that is. They're from "Columbia Musical Treasures" - not from Reader's Digest - but I highly recommend all of Terry Baxter's box sets. "Sounds of the 60's", "Sounds of 71" etc. I have two of his box sets and one individual LP and I've never seen his stuff presented any other way except in these "special product" settings. I can't think of anyone who captures the full range of Now Sound arrangements like he does, going from quiet, simple arrangements all the way to the full-on attack of something like his version of "Psychedelic Shack". Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:54:15 -0400 At 07:47 AM 10/1/99 -0400, dciccone@inspex.com wrote: >Picked up about 100 of 'em. Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of >comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory >here) A few Command things. I'm a little jealous. Not as jealous as I was when I read Jane's recent list. And I know that even though those Pete Rugolos have lovely covers, they're rather tepid. But still, the very idea of records like that sitting there for the taking makes me jealous. Or is it envious? Probably both. In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem like there's something "happening" out there. Some kind of zeitgeist. I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into the world to be appreciated once again. Maybe the forces have better things to do than to put these records into our hands. But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now. Or maybe I'm just in a mood to want every record everyone else is getting. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan. Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:23:40 -0400 At 11:48 AM 10/1/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote: > >OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane... I had jello today... 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:36:33 EDT In a message dated 10/1/99 5:55:18 PM, bruno@yhammer.com writes: >Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now. I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little weak...Thanks in advance, 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: King Kini Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan. Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:35:50 -0500 >I had jello today... BIAFRA?! 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Fun@78rpm Date: 01 Oct 1999 16:41:26 -0700 A nifty site chock fulla shellac bisquits. Lots of stuff to hear. A nifty juke-box for RA files. WEEE! I noticed the address at the bottom of Ton's messages. Be sure to check out the Laughing/Crying records. (Apologies if this has been mentioned recently - I have not been keeping up.) Enjoy! http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Fun@mp3 Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:07:43 -0700 Aside from my well-publicized struggles with live streaming MP3 files, I have succeeded in uploading a MP3 file to a new server I have been goofing around with. (see link below) It's my own standalone server running Linux. (I made a friend do all the coding) It should be fun to see what we can do with the beast as time permits. One of the things I want to do is create a public area for people to upload their own mixes and soundfiles. I gotta figger it all out first. I get lots of email from folks who don't have fast-enough connections to get the MP3 streams without serious gapping, so here is a low-bandwidth link to Fantastica program #52. http://216.112.66.38/ron/fan52.m3u # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: George Hall Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #508 Date: 01 Oct 1999 13:17:25 -0700 (PDT) bruno@yhammer.com wrote: > I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and > move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on > Nashville" by Gil Trythall. You haven't heard moog till you've heard his > version of "Folsom Prison". see also Tiger By the Tail on Jeff Haskell's "Switched On Buck" (yes, Buck Owens on the Moog!). LP's maybe not as good as it's title, but how could it? > Hands-down favorite has to be Joe Reisman's cover of "Grazing in the > Grass," a hit instrumental originally by Hugh Masakela. This one is a > vocal with wonderful lyrics: this was also a soul hit for the Friends of Distinction in the late 60's > What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets? Besides Dick Hyman's > "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is. wait a minute...I must find this! gh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) OT Italian film question Date: 01 Oct 1999 23:39:11 +0000 At 12:26 PM 01-10-99 +0100, G. R. Reader wrote: >Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice? Yes, Moonraker! 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: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale Date: 02 Oct 1999 14:13:57 +0200 >In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem >like there's something "happening" out there. Some kind of zeitgeist. >I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that >occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into >the world to be appreciated once again. must have been that force helping me everytime I go at some flea market... hehe >But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now. sure. Like the one that sent me the Emperor Norton promo I am listening to now... :))) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Phil Dilemma" Subject: (exotica) jAMES bROWN organ elpees on Smash Date: 01 Oct 1999 19:18:59 +0100 hey exoticats someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on Smash. I think he defected to that label for a while in the mid 60s? It's a Mercury subsidiary. Anyway there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond. I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul. I can dig it out and lay the details on ya if y'interested, haven't played it in years. can i count it off? phil dilemma # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Alfred The King Of Disco Date: 02 Oct 1999 10:20:27 EDT Here's Mr. D. Hyman's silly little ditty from the Reader's Digest box set titled Organ Magic (RDA-207 1977) for anyone who cares to listen, it's disc 5/side 2/track 6 . http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.mp3 or http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.rm They're both in lowest quality for easiest download/streaming. The mp3 streamed flawlessly for me, the realmedia worked so-so. If you'd like a high quality mp3 e-mailed to you just drop me a line. -Roy G. Biv # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) jAMES bROWN/scores Date: 02 Oct 1999 09:53:44 -0500 Phil wrote: >someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on >Smash.... >there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I >remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond. >I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul= . Yeah, the one I brought up is James Brown Plays the New Breed/The Boo-Ga-Loo. If you don't have New Breed/Boo-Ga-Loo, I'd recommend it. James plays some rippin' organ, & there are some great bari sax solos and a real mix of music styles -- mostly straight ahead soul with lots of jazz tinges (bebop), blues, an instructive ballad (Lost in the Mood of Changes), a jump jive cut, a crime jazz track -- very 1966, so it's not funk but it definitely presages it. GREAT party music. There's a huge record convention in town today -- plan to head out. But beat the rush by picking up some great LPs at a thrift yesterday -- 50 cents a shot: * Mancini 67 Thanks, Jane. * I Dig Chicks Jonah Jones Quartet Capitol instro and vocal w/ a trumpet. Man, it sends me! Terrific cover with four beauties posed on or around the bucket of a stream shovel. Really. * Tune In, Turn On Benny Golson Verve -- very Now Sound arrangements of songs used in 60s tv commercials. Now Sound fans, look for this one: on the front, a dayglo painted console tv in the middle of the desert. * Sell Like an Ace, Live Like a King John Wolfe Success Motivational Institute Get that salesforce geeked! * Monster Christmas Mash The Christmas Party Players Peter Pan. With a game board on the back. * Wayne Newton Now Capitol With Danke Schoen. Damn, Wayne could be a doppelganger for Billy Tipton. * Claudine A&M * Carpenters Ticket to Ride A&M On advice of an eXoticat. Thanks. * Julie London Julie Is Her Name Liberty * Dionne Warwick Here I Am Scepter * Burt Bacharach Sunday Sunshine Kapp My first of those Placidyl promo records. * Ethel Smith Latin Fire Good Music of MCA Double record set released in 88. Looks like a compilation of earlier stuff. * Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Harmonicha Cha-Cha Mercury Scratches two itches for cha-cha and harmonica. Loving it. Ross, you need this record. OK, stretch exercises completed. I'm ready for the workout, Mr. LaLane. Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is" Date: 02 Oct 1999 12:12:19 -0400 At 06:36 PM 10/1/99 EDT, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > >I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's >Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my >headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early >Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone >know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little >weak... Terry Baxter is no Claus Ogerman and neither is Frank Chacksfield. If you insist that your Now Sound LP's reach the "level" of Claus, then you're going to be disapppointed most of the time. Myself I've developed a taste for a lot of the "easier listening" Now Sound stuff. It doesn't have to rock like Claus does. And Claus surely does. I only have his "Watusi Trumpets" but it's a killer record. But I also like Frank Chacksfield's all-Beatles record on Phase Four and to a lesser degree his all-Simon and Garfunkel record. Terry Baxter covers all the bases. Most of the time he's very easy listening but occasionally he reaches almost-Claus levels. I like it all. Even Ronnie Aldrich. Kostelanetz. And Paul Mauriat. If you can find "The Soul of Paul Mauriat" with his great sitary version of "You keep me hangin on", grab it. But only if you also like the muzaky Now Sound. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) FWD: earth chord Date: 02 Oct 1999 19:06:09 +0200 From the Sun Ra mailinglist: > Hey, > My NPR affiliate ran a story yesterday concerning the fact that the earth > emits a steady sound that is many octaves below the range that would allow us > to perceive it. They went on to say that it was a "good thing" that we > couldn't hear it as it would sound like fourteen organ keys depressed at > once; this piece of information was followed by a simulation. They > elucidated that this earthly sound is really more like those fourteen notes > plus fourteen more a semi-tone off and this was demonstrated. I shouted with > joy immediately-it was a very beautiful space chord. The earth rocks. > -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN Date: 02 Oct 1999 19:03:01 EDT I saw the album 101 STRINGS: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN in a store today wand was tempted to buy it but I wasn't sure what was on it. The tunes contained familiar big band hits like SATIN DOLL and others and the cover had a picture of a hammond organ with two girls dancing to it dressed in 1960s clothes. I am assuming this is a "now sound" record. Does anybody have this and can they offer there thoughts on this album? 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: (exotica) harmonica delights Date: 02 Oct 1999 17:57:42 +0000 Just my luck (which is good today), the Salvation Army store in Saint Johns Oregon is now charging only 25 cents for their LPs! (Used to charge $1.50 each). I would have carted away more...but here were the picks I could take with my two bills: The Harmonica Magic of Leo Diamond RCA LPM 1042 (1955). Mix some sound effects, occasional percussion and usually not overwhelming strings directed by Harry Geller with the masterful sound of Leo Diamond and you really do have magic. Yes, there were a few shmaltzy numbers, but Mr. Diamonds glissandos and other neat tricks with the occasional bongos makes this a winner. The Harmonicats Design DLP 202 I probably have the tunes on this album on some other album, but not this cover (two kittens and four harmonicas). Well recorded and the usual Harmonicats fare. As if inspired by the latest issue of Cool and Strange Music! Magazine, I found yet another Bond album. This one: Basie Meets Bond, United Artists UAS 6480. The music is absolutely cool, but I certainly couldn't refuse the cover either. There is something about a scantilly clad woman with a gold machine gun.... Fiesta Time Percy Faith Decca DLP 5025 (1949) The record is pretty beat up, as all 10 inch discs usually are but it has some cool tunes including Bim Bam Boom (Bim Bam Bum) and Tico Tico among them and a colorful cover. Calypso in Hi-Fi Dave Burgess and his Caribbeans Tops L 1565. I am not a big fan of this music and I think I have another Tops Calypso LP I was not impressed with, but don't ya just love the covers? Italy Songs by the Di Mara Sisters Roulette R-25005. Tony Dannon conducted the orchestra. Probably nothing remarkable about this album, but I'm a sucker for Italian anything and you never know if a quarter will get you something cool. Cole Porter in Pleasant Percussion Ted Somner and Bill Lavorgna Grand Prix K151. I have these same tunes on another album but with a different cover and probably released on another affliated budget label (part of the K.M. Corp. empire of Freeport, L.I. (Long Island???). Penncrest Presents your Stereo Command Performance Terry Snyder and the All Stars Command PC 1 SD (which is actually RS 800 SD: Persuasive Percussion). Yeah, just what I need...another copy of Persuasive Percussion. However, I like the different cover graphics and I like collecting the different commercial versions of Command LPs. 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: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:44:52 -0400 At 6:51 PM -0600 10/2/99, mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) wrote: >* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Harmonicha Cha-Cha Mercury Scratches two >itches for cha-cha and harmonica. Loving it. Ross, you need this record. Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or two. Once I find that, I can curl up and die a happy person--unless I go off instead on a binge for this "Now Sound" music you young people keep mentioning. . . --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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN Date: 02 Oct 1999 22:02:20 -0400 At 07:03 PM 10/2/99 EDT, JayMan282@aol.com wrote: > >I saw the album 101 STRINGS: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN in a store today >and was tempted to buy it but I wasn't sure what was on it.Does anybody have this >and can they offer there thoughts on this album? I have it and the fact that I kept it, having "sent back" so many other organ LP's, means something to me. But I put it on just in case. There are actually tunes here that swing and the strings and organ are an interesting combination in places. Of course it would be a much better record if they were doing "Up Up and Away" and "I know a place" instead of "Satin Doll" but maybe that's my prejudice. It would also be better if all the tunes swung but there are ballads and they get a bit turgid. I recognize the name of the organ player : Paul Griffin. Wasn't there a guy played keyboards with Electric Flag or something with that name? I can't find that record right now. But there's some Paul Butterfield or Bloomfield connection with that name. Anyway, I'm grooving to the first cut on Side two - Love for Sale - as I write this. But "Body and Soul" just came on and it's done slow and a bit sucky. Buyer beware but I kept 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:08:39 -0500 "The Twist Goes Latin" on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast. We'll hear not only from Perez Prado's famous twist album but also Roger King Mozian's frantic "El Twist". Also, groovy Now Sounds by Horst Jankowski, Claus Ogerman (from "Watusi Trumpets"), Ray Martin and Peter Thomas; Sam Butera and the Witnesses from "The Rat Race"; passionate percussion by Dick Schory, Frankie Capp and Les Baxter; outer space exotica by Danny Elfman and Paul Tanner (from "Music for Heavenly Bodies"); plus tunes by Ursula 100, Mirageman, Dead Ringer and more. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer. As always, comments, suggestions and requests are most welcome. Thanks for the space! 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Alfred The King Of Disco Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:53:46 +0000 At 10:20 AM 02-10-99 EDT, Roy wrote: >Here's Mr. D. Hyman's silly little ditty from the Reader's Digest box set >titled Organ Magic That was great! Thanks for doing that for us listers. I probably wouldn't have heard it otherwise. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score Date: 03 Oct 1999 00:54:02 EDT In a message dated 10/2/99 9:49:17 PM, rotohut@ic.net writes: >At 6:51 PM -0600 10/2/99, mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) wrote: How can you be SO certain that 6:51 was 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Obit: Lena Zavaroni Date: 03 Oct 1999 14:07:28 +0100 Discussed in this forum not many months ago, Lena Zavaroni has died at the age of 35, in hospital. She had been suffering from anorexia for 22 years, and weighed 62 lbs. She was in hospital for an operation to make her be able to eat, but was very weak and unable to survive a minor infection. Very sad. Whether you liked her act or not, there was no doubt that she was a natural entertainer with considerable vocal talents. She came to fame via the talent show "Opportunity knocks", winning several weeks running. HP. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Cugie LA chateau 4 sale Date: 03 Oct 1999 09:59:04 -0700 If you've got $3.2 million that is. >From the pages of Los Angeles Magazine: "Soon after Edward and Cristina Kahn paid nearly $2 million for the French Regency house at 623 N. Beverly Drive in 1997, Cristina was inspired to buy a piano, even though she didn't know how to play. Yet music was in the air -- literally -- at the gated, five bedroom, 4631 square foot chateau. Late at night, says realtor Adrian Grant, spooky tunes echo through the house. Creepy pipe organ tones? No, more like a thumping Latin dance beat. Seems that the home's previous occupant was bandleader and 1930s film star Xavier Cugat, the Rumba King at LA's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub. Born in Gerona, Spain, and raised in Havana, Cugat danced to the altar five times -- the fifth time was with entertainer Charo, who shared this house with him. The Kahns, who may have gotten a little tired of Cugat's midnight bandstanding, have listed the place at $3,195,000." -- 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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score Date: 03 Oct 1999 11:47:46 -0500 At 9:44 PM 10/2/99, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote: >>* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Harmonicha Cha-Cha ... Ross, you need this >>record. > >Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or t= wo. Well, Bosco, it will be a pleasure to tape a stop-gap copy for you, except our deck is getting hinky again. Will ask a pal with a high-end sound system if I can use his equipment -- surely he'll say Yeah! >Once I find that, I can curl up and die a happy person--unless I go >off instead on a binge for this "Now Sound" music you young people >keep mentioning. . . Oh Ross, you'd like that stuff too. Perhaps I'll stage a taping marathon at Steve's house, tape Discussion In Percussion (got a clean copy yesterday!) the Harmonicats Cha-Cha LP and one or two other surprises I've gathered in my recent record-buying frenzy. A tape I made for you using my beat copy of Discussion has been on my desk, ready for mailing for the past two months. I hesitated to put it into the mail because the Discussion sound is so sucky. Now I can get you a much better copy. Damn, it HAS been a record-buying frenzy, though. I've gotten some great LPs, ones you'd really appreciate. With no exaggeration, I'd guess I've spent 300 to 400 on records alone during the past few months. Most have been thrift buys, altho as I dive deeper Into the dark waters of collecting, I've realized I must declare myself a collector as acquisitive as any other; now I'm driven to seeking vinyl in real used record stores. =46or me, the scent of mildewed wax has become the headiest of perfumes. I only hope that you and Margaret can come visit soon so you can hear some of the glorious music I've gotten -- the experience of finding a must-have disk is, for me, matched or surpassed by the pleasure of playing it for an appreciative listener. Or perhaps we'll get to Michigan over x-mas so I can hear YOUR finds and admire your Wall O' Chrome toaster exhibit. Catch you soon -- very busy with two back-to-back writing jobs, so the money is rolling in. Loving it and not flipped by the pressure, either. Life be good, even while missing Tiger Lil. Take care, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) So sorry! Date: 03 Oct 1999 11:52:08 -0500 Eeks, too fast on the send button. Posted a private mail to Ross on the list. So sorry to eat the bandwidth and subject y'all to a rave. Red-faced Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) OT Italian film question Date: 03 Oct 1999 12:44:02 EDT In a message dated 10/1/99 11:33:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bag@hubris.net writes: << >Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice? Yes, Moonraker! >> and it one of the (very) low points that occured during those horrible Roger Moore Bond films of the late 70's/early 80's. a motorized/hydrofoil gondola . . . give me a break. the sound track is pretty good tho. a very nice version of the 007 theme(not to be confused with the James Bond Theme) tiki 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) FWD: earth chord Date: 03 Oct 1999 12:48:29 EDT In a message dated 10/2/99 10:06:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Kalnenekweirdomusic@wxs.nl writes: << My NPR affiliate ran a story yesterday concerning the fact that the earth > emits a steady sound that is many octaves below the range that would allow us > to perceive it. >> and i remember seeing on tv once that moon rocks beep. maybe together the earth and moon form some sort of stellar combo. wink, tiki 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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) cathode ray stuff Date: 03 Oct 1999 15:13:49 -0400 A heavy platter of exotica-ish tv items this week in the US... Dark British satire/musical, "The Ruling Class" (1971) Bravo - Sunday afternoon, 5:00pm (eastern). "A Shot In The Dark" (1964). Mancini, Sellers, 'nuff said. AMC - Sunday afternoon, 5:30pm. Bacharach-themed "Alfie" (1966). TCM - Sunday night, 10:00pm Speaking of Bowie (Ms. Fondel), "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976). Sci-Fi - Late Sunday, 3:00am. No logical exotica connection, but PUT THE MASK ON NOW anyway. "The Mask" (1961). AMC - Monday morning, 7:30am. "Tarzan, The Ape Man" (1932). Antique exotica? TCM - Monday afternoon, 3:30pm. Nancy Sinatra (theme song, featured role) and tormented comedy in "The Last Of The Secret Agents?" (1966). AMC - Tuesday afternoon, 4:45pm. Stretching it again... "Invaders From Mars" (1953). Some of the Martians look fairly exotic? AMC - Tuesday night, 6:30pm. Okay, theremin. Solid, man. "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951). AMC - Tuesday night, 9:00pm, 1:30am. Exotic in mood, at least. "Picnic At Hanging Rock" (1975). TCM - Tuesday night, 10:30pm. "Amarcord" (1974). Fellini, Rota, 'nuff said. Bravo - Wednesday afternoon, 12:30pm. "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" (1977). Unrepentant 70s redneck binge. Way more fun than the (*recently discussed*) Ducks Of Hazard. I seem to recall the score being kinda nifty. TBS - Wednesday night, 1:40am. Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche in "Greenwich Village" (1944). Not to mention the rare sight of William Bendix doing a musical number. In a toga. Now that's exotic. AMC - Thursday morning, 11:30am. "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956). Jayne, Jayne, Jayne. And, briefly, Julie London. AMC - Friday afternoon, 4:00pm. "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" (1960). Baxter score, I think. Probably. AMC - Friday night, 10:00pm, 3:45am. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com even more picks on TV Scavenger at: 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: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:21:29 -0400 I recently purchased the latest Amok book catalog (the fifth dispatch), and they have a special section labeled as 'Exotica' I thought you all might enjoy reading the titles of the books listed under this category... and give you something else to consider if you ever tire of listening to all of the exotica records. - Adventures in Arabia - Arabian Fairy Tales - At the end of the Rainbow? Gold, People, and Land in the Brazilian Amazon - Bury me Standing: the Gypsies and their Journey - Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond - Conversations with Cannibals: the end of the Old South Pacific - Covarrubias [last name of some artists/explorers] - The Dances of Africa - Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System - Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates among the Baule, West Africa - Easter Island, Earth Island - Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants - A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat - Gaugin's Letters from the South Seas - Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa - The Good Parsi: the Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society - The Gypsies - Harem: the World Behind the Veil - Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost Gods - Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia - The Invisibles: a Tale of the Eunuchs in India - Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War - Island of Bali - The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies - Kon-Tiki - The Lemon [takes place in Tangiers] - Love with a Few Hairs [ tales set in Morroco] - M'Hashish - Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium - Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body - Masks of Bali: Spirits of an Ancient Drama - Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs - Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India - Noa Noa: the Tahitian Journal - Nomads of Western Tibet: the Survival of a Way of Life - Oceanic Art - Paradise Remade: the Politics of Culture and History in Hawaii - Paul Bowles by his Friends - Paul Bowles Photographs: How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert - Rapanui: Tradition of Survival on Easter Island - Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (4 Volumes) - Vol 1) Spice Island Saga - Vol 2) Dance of the Warriors - Vol 3) East of Krakatoa - Vol 4) Dream Wanderers of Borneo - Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanasia - Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies - The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle - Tales of the Yeti -Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue (tales by Paul Bowles) - They Married Adventure: the Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson - The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle - "A Trade Like any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt - The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia - Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today - Travels in the Unknown East - Voyages of Discovery (by Captain James Cook) - The Way of the Masks - Wood Carvings of Bali - Yanomamo: the Last Days of Eden (about Amazon Indians) Theres also entire sections on Richard Burton (the traveller), Isabelle Eberhardt, and on Mayan culture. 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch Date: 03 Oct 1999 19:46:02 -0700 (PDT) not on amazon - but for exotic adventure, seek out ferdinand ossendowski... most famous for 1922's beasts, men and gods... flight from bolsheviks through central asia and tibet... homicidal llamas, etc. only refs. on net to this guy are from "hollow earth" theory knurls (agarthi/shambala - king of the world type of stuff).cited at least once in umberto eco's foucault's pudendum. odd no one has brought any of this back to print. really. other titles include: man and mystery in asia; the fires of desert folk; the lioness... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:21:29 -0400 I recently purchased the latest Amok book catalog (the fifth dispatch), and they have a special section labeled as 'Exotica' I thought you all might enjoy reading the titles of the books listed under this category... and give you something else to consider if you ever tire of listening to all of the exotica records. - Adventures in Arabia - Arabian Fairy Tales - At the end of the Rainbow? Gold, People, and Land in the Brazilian Amazon - Bury me Standing: the Gypsies and their Journey - Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond - Conversations with Cannibals: the end of the Old South Pacific - Covarrubias [last name of some artists/explorers] - The Dances of Africa - Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System - Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates among the Baule, West Africa - Easter Island, Earth Island - Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants - A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat - Gaugin's Letters from the South Seas - Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa - The Good Parsi: the Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society - The Gypsies - Harem: the World Behind the Veil - Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost Gods - Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia - The Invisibles: a Tale of the Eunuchs in India - Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War - Island of Bali - The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies - Kon-Tiki - The Lemon [takes place in Tangiers] - Love with a Few Hairs [ tales set in Morroco] - M'Hashish - Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium - Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body - Masks of Bali: Spirits of an Ancient Drama - Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs - Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India - Noa Noa: the Tahitian Journal - Nomads of Western Tibet: the Survival of a Way of Life - Oceanic Art - Paradise Remade: the Politics of Culture and History in Hawaii - Paul Bowles by his Friends - Paul Bowles Photographs: How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert - Rapanui: Tradition of Survival on Easter Island - Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (4 Volumes) - Vol 1) Spice Island Saga - Vol 2) Dance of the Warriors - Vol 3) East of Krakatoa - Vol 4) Dream Wanderers of Borneo - Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanasia - Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies - The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle - Tales of the Yeti -Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue (tales by Paul Bowles) - They Married Adventure: the Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson - The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle - "A Trade Like any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt - The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia - Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today - Travels in the Unknown East - Voyages of Discovery (by Captain James Cook) - The Way of the Masks - Wood Carvings of Bali - Yanomamo: the Last Days of Eden (about Amazon Indians) Theres also entire sections on Richard Burton (the traveller), Isabelle Eberhardt, and on Mayan culture. 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: "L.R.S." Subject: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD Date: 03 Oct 1999 22:23:22 -0500 I have rigged up my Tiki bathroom light switch so that a hidden CD player plays automatically. Are there any Tiki fans out there who could make me a custom Tiki CD? I want the first song to be Disneyland's, "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room", and after that, just general Tiki flavored goodies. The CD player always starts with the first song of the CD, and that's why I'd like to have that song first. If anyone can whip somethig up for me and all my future guests in my hip crapper, please contact me personally, at: jupiter2@dialaccess.com. I'm not on the list. 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: Subject: (exotica) [obits]Charles A. Federer Jr.,Sal Salvador,Akio Morita Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:25:31 -0400 Charles A. Federer Jr. MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) Charles A. Federer Jr., the editor in chief of Sky and Telescope magazine, died Tuesday. He was 90. Federer started the magazine for amateur astronomers in 1941 and retired in 1974. The magazine now has a circulation of about 125,000. Federer taught himself astronomy as a child growing up in Redding. He earned a physics degree from the City College of New York in the 1930s and founded his own magazine by combining two money-losing journals, The Sky and The Telescope. Sal Salvador http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:21:03|AM&p=amg&sql=B7476 STAMFORD, Conn. (AP)Sal Salvador, a guitarist who performed with some top jazz musicians, died of cancer on Sept. 22. He was 73. Born as Silvio Smiraglia, Salvador taught himself how to play guitar and became known as a be-bop improviser. He performed with Stan Kenton, Bill Evans, Phil Woods and other jazz greats. From 1970 until recently, Salvador taught jazz at the University of Bridgeport and Western Connecticut State University. He also gave private lessons in New York City. Akio Morita http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/100399obit-morita.html TOKYO (AP) Akio Morita, the entrepreneur, engineer and savvy salesman who helped give new meaning to the words "Made in Japan," died Sunday of pneumonia, Sony Corp. said. He was 78. Morita co-founded Sony in a bombed-out department store after World War II. He was the last of a generation of Japanese industrialists that included carmaker Soichiro Honda and electronics rival Konosuke Matsushita. Under Morita's guidance, Sony was instrumental in changing Japan's image from a maker of slipshod products to a world leader in high-quality automobiles and electronics. In the process, his company became a multibillion dollar conglomerate. Born in the central Japanese city of Nagoya on Jan. 26, 1921, Morita retired as Sony's chairman in 1994. A year earlier he had suffered a stroke that left him weakened and in a wheelchair. The tanned, snowy-haired Morita, who took up water-skiing in his 60s, also pioneered new behavior for corporate Japan. He pushed his engineers to take risks with new products and criticized lavishly paid American executives. He caused a stir in 1989 by co-authoring "The Japan That Can Say 'No'" with current Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, then refusing to authorize an English translation. In it, Morita criticized U.S. corporate culture as overindulgent. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) New fiction about music Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:09:26 -0500 Louis Shiner, rock critic, cyberpunk innovator, small-time musician, and fine spinner of tales about regenerate losers, just released a new book: _Say Goodbye_. About a musician and the struggle to make a living when what you love to do will not pay your bills. More info at amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312241100/qid%3D936064845/sr%3D1-3/0 02-8141783-8198616 I've not read _Say Goodbye_ yet but I've boosted Shiner's _Glimpses_ here. Shiner's web site is at http://members.aol.com/maryklew/lsdotcom.html Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!] Date: 04 Oct 1999 15:01:47 +0100 > I have been trying to phone you at the office earlier. Have you been in > the library? I would really like to talk to you because we haven't had > a chat for ages. I hope you are O.K. > Hi DOO, I'm fine, I was working at home this morning, and I've only just come in to check the times when I need to run experiments tomorrow and Wednesday. And pretty soon I'm going back home again, because I hate it here, and my computer is down so I am in a shared computer room, which is crap. I spent most of yesterday playing "Resident Evil" which is very cheesy indeed, involves shooting lots of zombies, mad dogs, and the last thing that killed me was some big GIANT SPIDERS. And there are evil plants and killer wasps too, it's good fun but all the puzzle solving is annoying. And then I read some of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography; he's really annoyingly pretentious in his vocabulary. I am not going to drink any booze until next cheese night, it's just pointless and a waste of time and money. I'm sick of it. I am going to relax with computer games. > I am going to view a flat tonight at 6.00. It is near the big > Sainsburys which is very convenient. I hope it's O.K. and I can move in > soon. > OK, hope it's a good one, and there aren't 10million people after it! > I have got to go now so I hope to be in touch with you soon. > Will keep my ear out for the phone after I get home, take good care of yourself too, and always remember how much I love you. XXXXXXXXX # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obits] Dick Patterson,Chili Bouchier Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:24:20 -0400 10/1/99 L.A. Times -- * Dick Patterson; Actor, Stand-Up Comedian Dick Patterson, 70, comedian and song and dance man of Broadway musicals, film and television. After making his Broadway debut in David Merrick's "Vintage '60," Patterson appeared in "The Billy Barnes People," the national touring company of "Bye Bye Birdie" and opposite Carol Burnett in "Fade Out, Fade In." His most recent musical was "Smile," a spoof of beauty pageants, in which one reviewer said Patterson was "hilarious as the coy emcee" and another praised his portrayal of "the fiendishly smarmy third-rate television personalty who serves as pageant emcee." On the silver screen, Patterson appeared in "Grease" and "Grease II," and Disney's "Strongest Man in the World." On television, the actor was a frequent guest on "The Carol Burnett Show" and had occasional roles on such popular series as "Here's Lucy," "Happy Days" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Patterson, who was a nightclub stand-up comedian, wrote material for the Las Vegas acts of Debbie Reynolds and Rich Little and a song, "Santa's Marching Song." Born in Clear Lake, Iowa, Patterson moved to California in his teens and worked his way through UCLA. On Sept. 20 in Los Angeles. 10/1/99 Variety -- Chili Bouchier http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:22:37|AM&p=avg&sql=B121219 http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bouchier,+Chili Longtime British actress Chili Bouchier, who became known as Britain’s answer to Clara Bow in the 1920s and was billed as “Britain’s It Girl,” died Sept. 9 of natural causes in England just three days short of her 90th birthday. Born Dorothy Irene Boucher in London, she made her screen debut at age 17 as a bathing beauty in the 1927 silent film “Shooting Stars.” Bouchier was so popular two years later that her marriage to revue star Harry Milton turned into a mob scene. She made a smooth transition to talkies, with pics including “Call of the Sea” (1930), “The Kissing Cup Race” (1931), “Carnival” (1931), “Ebb Tide” (1932), “The Blue Danube” (1932), “The Mad Hatters” (1935) and “Everything Happens to Me” (1938). She eventually signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. but disliked Hollywood and returned home before having made a single U.S. picture. Back in London, she enjoyed a West End hit in the revival “A Little Bit of Fluff.” She toured Egypt entertaining Allied forces during WWII and, following the war, returned to films with “The Case of Charles Peace” (1949) and “The Counterfeit Plan” (1956). In 1952 shared the stage with Diana Dors in the West End revue “Rendezvous.” She later moved on to character roles, such as a 1975 legit revival of “Harvey” starring James Stewart, and sang “Broadway Baby” in the West End production of “Follies.” In 1991, she appeared in the BBC TV series “Flip” and five years later published her memoirs, “Shooting Star.” She was working on a dramatization of her life with writer David Collier at the time of her death. She left no survivors. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!] Date: 04 Oct 1999 17:34:04 +0200 >> I have been trying to phone you at the office earlier. Have you been in >> the library? I would really like to talk to you because we haven't had >> a chat for ages. I hope you are O.K. >> > >Hi DOO, > >I'm fine, I was working at home this morning, and I've only just come >in to check the times when I need to run experiments tomorrow and >Wednesday. And pretty soon I'm going back home again, because I hate >it here, and my computer is down so I am in a shared computer room, >which is crap. > >I spent most of yesterday playing "Resident Evil" which is very cheesy >indeed, involves shooting lots of zombies, mad dogs, and the last >thing that killed me was some big GIANT SPIDERS. And there are evil >plants and killer wasps too, it's good fun but all the puzzle solving >is annoying. And then I read some of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography; >he's really annoyingly pretentious in his vocabulary. > >I am not going to drink any booze until next cheese night, it's just >pointless and a waste of time and money. I'm sick of it. I am going to >relax with computer games. > >> I am going to view a flat tonight at 6.00. It is near the big >> Sainsburys which is very convenient. I hope it's O.K. and I can move in >> soon. >> > >OK, hope it's a good one, and there aren't 10million people after it! > >> I have got to go now so I hope to be in touch with you soon. >> > >Will keep my ear out for the phone after I get home, take good care of >yourself too, and always remember how much I love you. > >XXXXXXXXX How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a copy of each and every love letter you send over the internet standard to the exoticalist, so we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all these strange tastes we've come to witness here. Cheers, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT) I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not confirmed this.) Recently discovered on the Island were these black and white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes! Apparently straw hats were discovered for them, too! If that's true, it's JUST TOO CUTE! Can anybody else confirm this? If true, the Moai is the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head! Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Michael Zadoorian Subject: Re: (exotica) New fiction about music Date: 05 Oct 1999 01:04:07 +0000 Mimi- This looks like a really good book. I think I'm gonna check it out. Have you by any chance read "The Exes" by ex-zinester Pagan Kennedy? It's about the creation and ultimate disintegration of a band. (All of whom were once lovers, hence the name.) Amazon info: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854422/qid=939056014/sr=1-2/002-5201901-6532642 Michael Z Mimi Mayer wrote: > Louis Shiner, rock critic, cyberpunk innovator, small-time musician, and > fine spinner of tales about regenerate losers, just released a new book: > _Say Goodbye_. About a musician and the struggle to make a living when what > you love to do will not pay your bills. More info at amazon.com > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312241100/qid%3D936064845/sr%3D1-3/0 > 02-8141783-8198616 > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 McKay Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:03:11 -0400 > Can anybody else confirm this? If true, the Moai is > the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head! > Jane Fondle Eyes - yes but they were painted on, maybe a few were inset but I have never heard of this. Straw hats - no but they had "hats" of red stone believed (by Thor Heyerdahl) to represent red hair tied into a top knot in the style of ancient Peru, some of these "hats" have been discovered. They had to be quarried at a good distance from the quarry where the Moai were worked and brought overland so some importance must have been placed on them. -- Paul McKay Assistant Engineer Institute of Paper Science and Technology 500 10TH ST NW ATLANTA, GA 30318 PHONE: (404) 894-8389 FAX: (404) 894-4778 paul.mckay@ipst.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: "Robert Quarterman" Subject: Re: (exotica) let's talk moog Date: 04 Oct 1999 18:32:57 +0100 heres a few that were missed (possibly with good reason) off the huge list of moog titles posted the other day: great hits of the 70's moog style(includes the wombling song) moog party time romantic moog the moog strikes bach... magic moog nursery rhymes clockwork orange walter carlos walter carlos by request (includes whats new, pussycat?) moog superstar (excerpts from jesus christ superstar) sound 2000 moog klaus wunderlich if anyone would like to contact me off list, for a list of moog records im getting rid of please feel free cheers!!! Rob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 13:41:54 EDT In a message dated 10/04/99 12:55:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com writes: << I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not confirmed this.) Recently discovered on the Island were these black and white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes! >> dr. tiki bob better get on to this. an "island call" may be in order. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!] Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:55:15 -0700 (PDT) > > How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a > copy of each and every > love letter you send over the internet standard to > the exoticalist, so > we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all > these strange tastes > we've come to witness here. > > Cheers, Ton Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next! Funny, when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH LOVE! heheh-JaneFondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Jane Fondle Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!] Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:55:18 -0700 (PDT) > > How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a > copy of each and every > love letter you send over the internet standard to > the exoticalist, so > we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all > these strange tastes > we've come to witness here. > > Cheers, Ton Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next! Funny, when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH LOVE! heheh-JaneFondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:52:09 -0700 "L.R.S." wrote: > > I have rigged up my Tiki bathroom light switch so that a hidden CD > player plays automatically. > If anyone can whip > somethig up for me and all my future guests in my hip crapper, please > contact me What a great, useless, use of technology! I wish I could help, but I will say it is a great concept! Kevin Crossman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Files Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:02:06 -0700 (PDT) If anyone would like to hear Sun Ra doing Pink Elephants, Tom Waits doing the Dwarf Song (Hi-Ho) or Yma Sumac doing I Wonder from Hal Willner's Stay Awake compilation, you can retrieve said files from a place called www.click2send.com. The box you want to open is: Knuck's Box The password is: pickup The files themselves are MP3s, but I changed the extension to .zip. All you need to do to play them is to download the file and rename the extension back to .mp3. Let me know if you have any questions, and happy listening! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) Renaissance question Date: 04 Oct 1999 19:24:02 +0200 the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions 1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it? Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's "See it in sound" to be rereleased Date: 04 Oct 1999 19:22:39 +0200 according to ICE, Esquivel's "See it in sound" is to be rereleased on november 9 by 7N Music. hip hip... 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:19:18 -0700 > << I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island > statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the > source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not > confirmed this.) > Recently discovered on the Island were these black and > white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes! >> Another little-known fact about the Moai: They had bodies, but only the heads remain above ground after centuries of sinking into the soft island earth. One day, only their eyes will peer over the sands of the desolate Pacific Island, and eventually they will dissapear. (true!) I never heard of the straw hats, but it begs the question of whether they had other accessories. Overalls? Wooden shoes? The hat issue also reminds me of the "Tiki Cam:" One of the early web-cams originating from somewhere in Northern California - Some guys trained web-cam on a 10-foot fiberglass Moai. They dressed it up for major holidays. Somewhere I have a grabbed frame of this thing in a Santa hat. 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: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See it in sound" to be rereleased Date: 04 Oct 1999 13:36:18 -0500 >according to ICE, Esquivel's "See it in sound" is to be rereleased on >november 9 by 7N Music. hip hip... you mean *RELEASED* 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) LP frames.... Date: 04 Oct 1999 14:53:48 -0400 Anybody know of a source to buy those plastic LP frames so you hang 'em on = the wall??? I think this was discussed before? They shouldn't be expensive as they're just two pieces of plastic that = snap over the record - my bro had one that somebody gave him. - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Wayno" Subject: (exotica) Lena Zavaroni Obit Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:58:58 -0700 >From the Observer (UK): Anorexia snuffs out the childpop star who never grew up=20 Vanessa Thorpe, Arts Correspondent=20 Sunday October 3, 1999=20 Lena Zavaroni, the child singing star once billed as the next Barbra Streisand, has died at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff, it was announced yesterday.=20 Her family broke the news with little explanation. Her father was too distressed to speak, although hospital staff made it clear that the 35-year-old singer had been recovering from an operation after being hospitalised several weeks ago.=20 Friends revealed that Zavaroni had been undergoing pioneering surgery which she hoped would finally cure her anorexia. The singer had suffered from a serious eating disorder since the age of 13.=20 Chris Perry, the owner of a caf=E9 in Hoddesdon, Herts, which she visited every day, said: 'Lena was a lovely person. She was very warm, caring and in desperate need of getting better. She was hopeful she would be okay after the operation and she was strong and positive about it.=20 'Everybody that knew her feels very sad that she has passed away.' Zavaroni's friends from the world of show business spoke of their sense of shock that a life which started so brightly ended in such tragedy.=20 Fellow child star Bonnie Langford, who was at stage school with Zavaroni in the Seventies, said she was deeply saddened. 'She was an incredibly gifted and very sweet person. It is a tragedy that she has died so young.'=20 Former Fleet Street editor and broadcaster Derek Jameson said: 'Only 35. What a tragic waste of a life. She showed incredible potential in her early years and then she was struck down by this terrible disease, anorexia nervosa.=20 'She was bright and bubbly, but she was also very nervous. Her great handicap was that she lacked that vital spark of confidence that takes you to the top.'=20 Back in 1974, viewers of the television talent show Opportunity Knocks loved her so much they voted her back for an unprecedented five weeks in a row. By the age of 12, she had met Frank Sinatra, sung for the Queen and winked and smiled her way through Top of the Pops. But the public fascination was short-lived and her name quickly became shorthand for an outdated, stage-school approach to popular entertainment.=20 Earlier this year, living alone in a council flat and suffering from depression, she talked vaguely of hopes for a normal future after 'part of her brain was cut out'.=20 Avoiding contact with strangers and living on social security, Zavaroni's great fear was that people would believe that she had stolen a packet of jelly from her local supermarket. The accusation was dropped by the store.=20 The singer grew up in Rothesay, on the Scottish isle of Bute. Her father, Victor, was part of a big Genovese family and a club singer. Seizing on the obvious power of his nine-year-old daughter's singing voice, he and his wife, Hilda, encouraged her to audition in Glasgow. A few months later she was in Los Angeles sharing a bill with Lucille Ball and a dressing room with Liza Minnelli. In 1977, her London agent, Dorothy Solomon, said that Zavaroni's talent would go on and on. 'If I had to compare her with anyone it would be Judy Garland.'=20 It is a comparison more poignant than she knew. Attending the Italia Conti stage school, Zavaroni brought out a couple of records, Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me and Personality, but even at this early point in her career she felt unhappy with her 4ft 10in tall body.=20 'When they tried to fit me into these costumes, they would talk about my weight. I kept wondering how they expected me to fit into these dresses. I was a plump little girl and I was also developing into a woman.=20 'I wanted to be just right for them, but I had to go to all these breakfasts, dinners and lunches. I only became fanatical about not eating when the pressure got too much. I just wanted to have a nice shape,' she said.=20 Her weight fell to four stone and in 1979 she was admitted to hospital in both Glasgow and South London. Performing became impossible and Zavaroni retired from show business announcing in 1987 that she was to marry businessman Peter Wiltshire, a former fan. The marriage lasted only 18 months.=20 There was talk of comebacks but anorexia nervosa took hold again when her 47-year-old mother, Hilda, took a fatal overdose of tranquillisers in 1989. In recent years Zavaroni lived alone, seeing no one but her family.=20 'Our only comfort is that other girls with anorexia will take something from Lena's death. She is an example of what can happen when young women develop an obsession with their weight,' her cousin Margaret said. Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 1999 ----- MailStart Plus - http://www.mailstartplus.com Consolidate Your Mailboxes Into an Organized, Filtered, Spell-Checked, Anywhere, Anytime WebBox # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:47:40 +0200 I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so I dunno what else could I put on that cd! bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:50:01 +0200 I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so I dunno what else could I put on that cd! bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:51:13 +0200 I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so I dunno what else could I put on that cd! bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:51:19 +0200 >> << I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island >> statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the >> source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not >> confirmed this.) >> Recently discovered on the Island were these black and >> white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes! >> I didn't know about the eyes, yet I have seen various pics of some Moai with "hats", in the past... some of them still have hats. Hehe. bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Renaissance question Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:14:27 -0400 At 07:24 PM 10/4/99 +0200, Johan Dada Vis wrote: > >the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions >1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach >Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it? I'm sure it's not the same, no. There was a "real" group called Renaissance in the seventies, one of those British bands that I basically ignored because I assumed they were like the Strawbs. The musicians on the Bacharach baroque record were assembled for that record only, I assume. But this gives me an opportunity to comment on that Bacharach record which I hadn't heard when it was first mentioned here. That's a great great record! Nothing like other fake-baroque records I've heard or owned. What sets this one way apart is the arrangement of the voices. I didn't look to see who did the arranging but it was brilliant. I loved it. Now there's another record on the mental want-list I was trying to keep as short as possible. If it turned out that I was wrong and the Bacharach record WAS made by the British band Renaissance then I was missing a lot more than I thought I was in the Seventies. 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: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" Oct 6, 1999 Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:14:25 -0400 "Mondo Bongos" can be heard every Wednesday mornings at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Joe Meek & the Blue Men - Dribcots Space Boat "I Hear a New World" Brian Benett - Ergon "Electronic Toys" Silver Apples - Whirly-Bird "Silver Apples" Silver Apples - The Owl "The Garden" Claude Denjean - Suzie "Moods" Electroid 2000 - Moogsters Revenge "Beyond the Valley of the Superbeats" Okko - East Indian Traffic "Sitar & Electronics" David Shire - Main Title "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three [ost]" Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry's Creed "The Reel Lalo Schifrin" Charles Wilp - Busy bee "Bunny" Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Space-Patrol "Raumpatrouille" Percy Faith - First Light "Beyond the Valley of the Ultrabeats" Mandingo - Savage Rite "Savage Rite" Dean Martin & Julie London - Sway [remix by the Rip-Off Artist] "Electro Lounge" Neotropic - Vacetious Blooms "Mr Brubakers Strawberry Alarm Clock" Until next time... 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: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!] Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:51:55 +0200 >Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next! Funny, >when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a >soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH >LOVE! Oh god, am I easy prey, how am I going to wriggle my way out of here? Throw in a cooling off period of volontary celibacy, maybe? Anyway, should you soon notice a dramatic change of character in my posts, you'll know what's happening. Or better, what's not. Cheers, Ton PS Got this record here, "The Golden Hour of The Searchers" ("Sixty minutes of entertainment") with the fabulous "He's got no love". Love that song. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 04 Oct 1999 17:21:37 -0500 At 11:03 AM 10/4/99, Paul McKay wrote: >Eyes - yes but they were painted on, maybe a few were inset but I have >never heard of this. > >Straw hats - no but they had "hats" of red stone believed (by Thor >Heyerdahl) to represent red hair tied into a top knot in the style of >ancient Peru. Before Jim-Bob headed out for three weeks on Easter Island, he said the eyes for moais were kinda like Mr. PotatoHead's--they could be removed. Nothing is for certain, since the missionaries did such a good job of wiping out island traditions but...people who study this stuff are pretty sure priests would stick the eyes in the moai heads during rituals. Once the eyes were locked in place, the moais came alive, their power awakened. So naturally, for Jim's bon voyage party, I made a chocolate rolled cake carved like a moai. During a climactic moment, Jim dropped in eyes of white chocolate coins painted with dark chocolate pupils. Did I feel a surge of power? Not really, but we all had a helluva good time. Thank you, moai. Ross, you were there -- did you feel a zap of power when the eyes dropped in? Yeah, some moai wore stone hats, too. A little knob atop a larger knob. Most have been knocked off and vandalized. Jim camped for several days at the quarry where the moai were mined and carved before they were hauled to the ritual platforms. He reports it was the eeriest place he's ever been--he could stand it for three nights only. And that the tomatoes grown on Rapa Nui are simply delicious. Mimi the Tiki Baker # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Harmonicats Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:40:34 EDT >>* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Harmonicha Cha-Cha ... Ross, you need this >>record. > >Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or t= wo. I must say I don't understand the fuss over The Harmonicats. I have several harmonica records I'm fond of (by Leo Diamond, Johnny Puleo, George Fields, etc.). I bought The Harmonicats in the Land of Hi-Fi and expected it to be great, but I didn't care for it at all. The recording quality was bad and I found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned. Did I just buy the wrong Harmonicats record? 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Renaissance question Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:55:34 -0400 >>the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions >>1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach >>Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it? > >I'm sure it's not the same, no. There was a "real" group called >Renaissance in the seventies, one of those British bands that I basically >ignored Yeah, with that title ("the BBC sessions 1975-78") I'm sure it would be the British prog-rock Renaissance. On the quasi-classical side of the prog tree. Sort of in the Moody Blues vein, with pompy strummery and orchestral backing on much of the material. Multi-octave female lead singer, but not an Yma Sumac for the 70s. And I'd bet my finest pair of crushed velour bellbottoms that there's no connection to the Bacharach album. (And no, I don't actually have a finest pair of crushed velour bellbottoms -- I was just trying to be proggy in tone). 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: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) Re, List of record finds. Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:52:29 -0400 Well this is some things I picked up at the WICN record sale, I was a real dummy for now jumping on some other things earlier in the sale. Wasn't thinking straight. Only listened to a few so far. Some of what I got: Mel Hehke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound, A spectacular musical extravaganza. Architecturally constructed to induce the maximum in audio sensation. (WB Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns of Sound) Buddy Cole, Ingenuity in Sound a new technuque for dual hammond organ (WB Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns of Sound) Domenic Frontiere, Pagan Festival Johnny Williams, Rhythm in Motion (listened to sound one, Great Rugolo-esk busy listening, LP looks mint but hit a few skips, may need a washing) Art Van Damme Quintet Manhattan Time (GREAT cover) Passionate Percussion, (dynamic directional stereo label, whoever they are, looks too good) Mike Simpson and Orchestra, Discussion in Percussion (Mercury High Fidelity perfect presence sound series) Si Zentner and his Orchestra [Big band plays the big hits:vol 2] Up a Lazy River Jack Burger, The end on Bongos Al Hurt Latin in the Horn (Arranged and Conducted by Lalo Schifrin) Herbie Mann, Push Push (Jazz make-out album) Pam Garner Sings Ballads for broken hearts (Orchestra under Johnny Williams) Heath vs Ross Round 2, Phase 4 Stereo Martin Denny Hawiaa A Go-Go (I like it TIKI BOB! Girl from Ipanema is cool) Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble , Percussion From Melody to Madness Leo Diamond, Musical Magic with, Subliminal Sounds (Sounds like a thememin in their somewhere, but it's a harmonica) Leo Diamond, Exciting sounds from romantic places Leo Diamond, Harmonica sounds in country and western music (This on Reprise. He used to be with ABC/Paramount, A Ray Charles insprired C&W set?) Three Suns, Fever and Smoke (Aduplicate with some scratches, available for trade) Three Suns, Warm and Tender, (Aduplicate, available for trade) Three Suns, Fun in the Sun Henry Jerome, Brazen Brass Goes Hollywood, (decca) More Jungle Drums, Morton Gould Pete Rugolo, Ten Trumpets and Two Guitars Pete Rugolo, Ten Trombones Like 2 Pianos Leona Anderson, Music to suffer by (linear notes describes her as "the worlds most horrible singer) (unique records subsidiary of RKO Teleradio pictures) George Cates, Hawaii Sammy Davis Jr. Something For Everyone. (Not listened to it yet, Motown label, funky 60's NOW photos) David Carroll, Percussion Parisienne (Mercury High Fidelity perfect presence sound series) Perez Prado, Mambo Mania (cover in bad shape) Xavier Cugat, The Beautiful New Sounds of Strings, (2lp's) (Strings?) Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Continental (is this his only good one?) Trini Lopez at PJ's Recorded live (Finally a decent copy, will that help me like this guy??) The Best of Martin Denny (yah, greatest hits but it's mint!) Solid State Exotica 1970 Kokee Band The Swingle Singers, Anyone for Mozart? Mexican Leather and Spanish Lace, 50 guitars of Tommy Garrett (Liberty label) Living Guitars play Rhythm and Brass, The Young Brass (Dor records) Living Brass Plays a Heny Mancini Tribute Living Brass What Now My Love Living Brass, A Taste of Honey and Other favorites, Has 3rd Man theme!!) And from the Enoch light people, Stuff I think is rarer. (At the sale one older fellow scoffed up every Command LP he could find) Boxed Set. The Many Moods of Enoch Light Super Solo Enoch Light Presents Outstanding Selections Containing Solo Preformances by THE GREAT ONES Tony Mottola Guitar A Latin Love-inConcerto Electro The Dick Hyman Piano Concerto Bongos Bongos Bongos Leonid Hambro and Jascha Zayde Magnificent Two-Piano Performances. (classical on Command) It's Happening...So Let's Dance Enoch Light's Action Perspectives in Precussion Volume 1 (gray light blue cover) OFF BEAT Percussion Starring Don Lamond and his Orchestra Sentimental Enoch Light orchestra and the Fontanna Orchestra Hey Good Looking Enoch Light and the Light Brigade Jimmy Wellington and his orchestra. The Big Band's Back in Town Starring Doc Severinson 4 Channel Stereo Enoch 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 05 Oct 1999 08:52:19 +0100 I saw a documentary a while ago where they did computer mockups of the eyes in place and is was scary I tell you. These statues in long lines staring out to sea with these mad eyes. You'd never land there. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not confirmed this.) Recently discovered on the Island were these black and white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes! Apparently straw hats were discovered for them, too! If that's true, it's JUST TOO CUTE! Can anybody else confirm this? If true, the Moai is the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head! 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: [Ton Rueckert: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]] Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:11:41 +0100 > > How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a copy of each and every > love letter you send over the internet standard to the exoticalist, so > we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all these strange tastes > we've come to witness here. > > Cheers, Ton > Ouch! Boy am I red. Does it suit 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Emperor Norton CD Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:57:05 +0100 Thanks to whoever it was that posted about the free Emperor Norton CD a couple of weeks ago, mine just turned up and from a first listen, very enjoyable too. I also notice that they have a Bruce Haack release scheduled for this month, and on vinyl and very reasonably priced. For anyone who didn't get the posting, I don't have the URL anymore, but it should be in the archive. Its well worth getting the CD if like me you're not really familiar with the modern easy sounds. (and if you're tight like me as well). I suspect you may end up on a mailing list forever, but at least it'll be more relevant than the usual 'make money' crap. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 07:52:33 -0400 OK, folks on the list were curious about this. I have not played it because the record looks mint, (except for static lint and some spots of what looks like glue that could be washed off). I want to lend it to an Exoticat who will burn it on CD and get the best sound out of it. The Title: Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures In Sound , A Spectacular Musical Extravaganza. Architecturally Constructed To Induce The Maximum In Audio Sensation. (WB Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns Of Sound) Copyright 1962. Side one: Adventures with a TV Western- "William Tell on the Hoof" Adventures on the Vaudeville Stage- "Me and My Shadow" Adventure at the Circus- "Flying Trapeze" Adventure in the Alps- "Little Sir Echo" Adventure on the Carnival Midway-"Every Little Moment" and "Streets of Cairo" Adventure on the Lake- "Row, Go, Go Your Boat" Side Two Adventure in the Back Forty-"Old MacDonald Had A Girl" Adventure in the Steaming Tropics-"Exotic Adventure" Adventure on the Mason-Dixon Line-"South Meets North" Adventure on the Rails-"Sentimental Journey" Adventures of Two Swinging Kids-"Jack and Jill Went Over the Hill" Adventure on the Highway-"See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet" "WB workshop series exploring uncharted patterns of sound" seems to be a series a 4 LP's Besides the Mel Heink includes, Buddy Cole, Ingenuity in Sound a new technique for dual Hammond organ (found this one too) "New Perspectives in Piano Sound" by David Swift "The Fourth Dimension in Sound" by Shorty Rogers Nifty covers with a 3D cube pattern on the top 1/4 of the albums. I'll furnish brief descriptions of these albums, that are on the Mel Henke one, if you want them. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re, List of record finds. Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:06:05 -0400 <> Hey, finally somebody mentions this guy - I brought him up once before = with nada response..... Firstly, his covers almost always (always?) feature a babe on the cover, = surrounded by a cheesy studio set. Case in point, Hugo's "Wish You Were Here" LP which has a *few* choice = cuts on it - even one VOCAL track which I think is fun. The cover has a = babe on a tropical island with paper waves in the background. I think her = panties are flying from a pole also..... Didn't he also do "Goes South of the Border?" That's a great album all = the way around, and again, features a nude babe on the beach in a giant = sombrero (that covers the "dirty bits"). - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) [OBITS]Bernard Buffet,Tony Miller,Emil Schumacher,Doreen Valiente Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:46:26 -0400 AP,Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999; 6:13 a.m. EDT PARIS –– Bernard Buffet, one of France's major contemporary painters,killed himself Monday at his home in southern France, police said. He was 71. Buffet was found dead by his wife with a plastic bag over his head, police sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Gallery owner Maurice Garnier, who had worked with Buffet for 51 years, said the artist was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had been unable to work for some time. Buffet, a millionaire who basked in fame since he was 20, was an outspoken advocate of figurative painting at a time when abstraction was the rage. He remained faithful to the distinctive, black vertical brushstroke he used to recreate emaciated faces, imperial Russian palaces and sad-faced clowns. Buffet was roundly ignored by the French art establishment. The Georges Pompidou Center, France's most prestigious collection of modern and contemporary art, never purchased any of his work. Still, Buffet was a superstar abroad, His work was the subject of two separate museums in Japan, one featuring more than 600 of his works. Tony Miller LOS ANGELES (AP) – Tony Miller, an actor and writer who began his career on Broadway and appeared in films including "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Return to Peyton Place," died Sept 12 from complications of cancer and Parkinson's disease. He was 72. Miller's stage debut came at age 14 in "Life with Father." After serving in World War II he returned to the theater, replacing Marlon Brando in "I Remember Mama," and appeared on live television programs including "Playhouse 90." Later TV work included guest appearances on series including "Three's Company," "Dallas" and "General Hospital." Miller's writing career stretched from radio ("Superman," "Henry Aldrich") to television ("Silent Majority" for CBS) to novels ("Starting Now" and "Night Calls"). In 1962, Miller and his then-wife, Patricia George, founded the Film Industry Workshops as a training center for actors and directors. The pair, who divorced, co-wrote "The Craft," a book on acting and directing. Emil Schumacher BERLIN (AP) – Emil Schumacher, one of postwar Germany's leading abstract expressionist artists, died Monday. He was 87. Schumacher began drawing and sketching his surroundings and family members in his youth. In 1939 he became a technical draftsman at a nearby battery-works. He resumed painting after World War II and in 1947, along with Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Ernst Hermanns, Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen, he founded the group "The Young West." In the early 1950s he broke with tradition and adopted a completely abstract style that became known as "informal art," where the workmanship and application of paint and other materials becomes the image. His paintings hang in museums around the world, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate Gallery in London. Doreen Valiente LONDON (AP) – Doreen Valiente, self-styled witch and a central figure in the revival of paganism in Britain, died Sept. 1. She was 77. Mrs. Valiente was the author of several books, including "The Rebirth of Witchcraft." Her verse and prose, such as "The Charge of the Goddess," is recited by pagans all over the world. Born in London and brought up as a Christian, Mrs. Valiente claimed to have experienced psychic episodes in her youth and was a practicing clairvoyant in her teens. In 1952, a year after Britain repealed its Witchcraft Act, Mrs. Valiente was introduced to Gerald Gardner, who ran a coven practicing what he called traditional witchcraft – a religion whose devotees worshipped the god and goddess of fertility. She was initiated as a witch in 1953 and became the coven's high priestess. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:16:42 EDT << OK, folks on the list were curious about this. I have not played it because the record looks mint, (except for static lint and some spots of what looks like glue that could be washed off). I want to lend it to an Exoticat who will burn it on CD and get the best sound out of it. >> I have this one and as many of you know do the CDr thing. I had no idea somebody was asking about this, must have deleted if by mistake. :) I was about to post an announcement that I'm putting Miriam Burton's haunting, brilliant and beautiful (and quite rare) wordless vocal MASTERPIECE "African Lament" on CD-R. Perhaps the Mel Henke above is the other LP to pair it up with. You tell me. I'll use the number of private email replies I receive as a gauge of interest. References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re, List of record finds. Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:14:05 -0400 From Nathan Miner: <> >Hey, finally somebody mentions this guy - I brought him up once before with >nada response..... >Firstly, his covers almost always (always?) feature a babe on the cover, >surrounded by a cheesy studio set. Ah, now I remember. I also have Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Hawaiian. Another cheezy cover that must have been airbrushed. Looks like it was shot on a beach. maybe L.A. I played Hawaiian War Chant from the LP on my show once so it *must* be OK. ;') 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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:10:34 -0500 Here ya go -- a few good web sites about Rapa Nui/Easter Island. =46rom NOVA, the PBS science program. "Secrets of Easter Island" Home page shows a behatted moai. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html Own yer own jr. moai -- 6 inches tall, 3 inches wide, plastic, US$18.50. =46rom T Scott Design, crafter of gargoyles, who lives here in Austin. http://www.compugarg.com/html/moai_man.htm Several photos of Easter Island and the moai. http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Chile/Pascua.html More on moai and Rapa Nui by someone who seems to know his or her stuff. http://www.bu.edu/jgfox/moai.html Easter Island Home Page. Lots o' links and a fine pix of a moai in a hat with the eyes in place. Oh an RA sample of Rapa Nui music -- I didn't listen, but suspect it's haunting harmonic chorals music. Very Polynesian, more medieval chant-like than exotica. http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html GORGEOUS wooden moai and rangorango boards dispalying the Rapa Nui script. (Rapa Nui developed the only written language in Polynesia). Carved by native islanders, sold by the Easter Island Foundation. $20-65 US? Web ordering. Some of you have probably seen the rangorango board in the British Museum -- one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/crafts.html Easter Island/Isla de Pascua en espanole. Pagina en construccion. Photos. http://www.isla-de-pascua.com/ Easter Island/South America for Visitors. Links list from About.Com, formerly the Mining Company. http://gosouthamerica.about.com/travel/latinamcaribbean/gosouthamerica/msubE aster.htm OK back to work. Happy cruising! Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:54:31 +0200 Basic Hip wrote: > >References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :) Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! Nice man too. 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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) keep watching the bins Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:01:44 -0400 I believe there really is a synchronistic wave of good stuff bubbling up for all of us. I just snagged one I never thought I'd see: Edie Adams' "Music To Listen To Records By" (with Mancini running the band and hubby Ernie Kovacs getting a hand in too -- includes another "Autumn Leaves, BTW). Yowee. Get out there while the universe is spinning in our favor. Must be an endsign. Also in the bag: Herb Alpert & The TJB - "What Now My Love" "Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington" Jo Basile - "Accordion de Paris" (dynamite cover) "Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band" (no cover :( "A GI's Germany" Jackie Gleason "Oooo!" (recently discussed here) Bert Kaempfert - "Afrikaan Beat" Pigmeat Markham - "Tune Me In" and another hot dawg find: "Nancy & Lee" 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:07:50 EDT In a message dated 10/5/99 12:01:53 PM, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: >Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! Seconding the Emotion here # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: SV: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:27:26 EDT In a message dated 10/5/99 12:01:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << Basic Hip wrote: > >References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :) I just wanted to add my praise for BasicHip's CDRs. Of all the trades I have made his CDRs are by far the best!!!!!!!! Excellent sound. Beautiful graphics. I know that he puts lots of time and energy into making his CDRs the best they can be. I's sure there are others on the list who have his fantastic comp of great Moog recordings which are unreleased on CD. I am very much looking forward to this newest CDR. 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: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 15:54:15 EDT In a message dated 10/5/99 10:22:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, BasicHip@aol.com writes: > References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :) Basichip, Basichip, he's our man. If he can't do it no one can. Fabulous album cover scans, and nice music, too. -Roy G. Biv # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Fantastica #37 Mp3 Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:32:15 -0700 Things here at FeethyMonkey studios are going quite well in the past few days. Our experimental server is performing wonderfully. To Celebarate, here is another randomly-chosen Fantastica program for y'all to enjoy. http://216.112.66.38/ron/fan37.m3u (requires, Winamp, Macamp, Sonique or one of the endless varieties of Mp3 player.) It's a Ferrante and Teicher special featuring Sparky and the Magic Piano sprinkled throughout... The first cut is a BLAZING version of Tico Tico Dig the playlist here. http://myplace.to.be/fantastica/PL_FF/37.htm This link takes you directly to the playlist #37. The site is designed to be used with a framed index of other shows. To get the other lists, scroll to the bottom and click "playlists." This site seems awful sluggish for North America, so be patient. (NOTE: I just noticed MY version of #37 is different than the playlist version. I guess he updated it, so the playlist will be helpful, but not wholly accurate.) Reception reports, questions, comments are always welcome. 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) Moai Eye Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:55:43 EDT OK Mr. Tiki, so your wife says you have a "stoned" look to your eyes? Well, just sit back and relax . . . . . good now tell me, which looks better, one or two? Oh, I see the problem, you have a freaking straw hat covering your eyes. There, that is better now, isn't it? What do you say we ditch this clinic and hit the beach bar for some Mai Tais? Just remember . . . it is better to go into a bar optimistically that to come out of a bar misty optically. Tiki Bob, OD -- optometrist to the stoned and stone eyed. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 05 Oct 1999 13:03:20 -0400 OH HAPPY DAY! Magy is back! And yes, Basic Hip's CDrs are too beautiful! Amazing! I'd hire him again! ;) Jane Fondle!!! Basic Hip wrote: > >References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :) Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! Nice man too. 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. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wayno Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 05 Oct 1999 19:53:29 -0400 Promotional copies are floating about! I walked into my regular music shop this afternoon (to pick up the newly-issued CD of Roy Ayers' "Stoned Soul Picnic") and the owner held up a copy of "See It In Sound" asking "Any interest in this?" I nodded dumbly. Haven't listened to it yet, but here's a track listing: The Peanut Vendor Amazon Paddle Boat Honky Tonky Cha-Cha (the only tune written by Esquivel on this album) Cumana Brazil Chubasco Walk to the Bull Ring Aurora Similau Inca's Dream Latingo The booklet has a four-page essay written by Sam Wick of Lounge Magazine, and includes complete personnel listings. The liner notes describe SIIS as "a big band FX laden record... [i]n the tradition of Zounds! What Sounds!, Shock, and La Dolce Henke." Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering this album." Seems to me Cleve deserves a LITTLE more credit than a mere hat-tip! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 05 Oct 1999 21:20:53 EDT In a message dated 10/5/99 4:48:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, studio@wayno.com writes: << Zounds! What Sounds!, >> you think it is this off the wall? can't wait for a more in depth review. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: George Hall Subject: (exotica) Seks Bomba/Sweetest Punch Date: 05 Oct 1999 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT) laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > >>>I will > just point out to those who don't realize on the list that this is the > self-same George of the too-fab Seks Bomba. He just doesn't go runnin' his > mouth off about his band like some of us do on the list..ahem. > Jane Fondle > It's true...F'rinstance you would never catch me mentioning that Seks Bomba was playing...oh say, Johnny D's in Somerville MA (tel 776-2004) with the Electric Logs this thursday...or even that the Logs perform the greatest disco version of the Exorcist Theme I can recall...or that their bassist is also one of the most (& one of the only) accomplished Theremin players in the city, playing actual melodies & stuff... (Or even that Seks Bomba's next gig will be at the Astroslut CD release -I'll let Jane handle the details at the appropriate time) No, but I will say that I picked up Bill Frisell's The Sweetest Punch (covering Burt & Elvis' Painted From Memory), & love it. EC apparently gave Frisell a copy of the voice & piano demos along w/some sheet music, & instructed him to arrange it himself without any further input. May be a little mellow for some tastes, but I actually enjoy it a little more than PFM -only because EC's vocals struck me as a bit overreaching (imhfo) on that one. EC does sing one song on this as does Cassandra Wilson, & they duet on one more. Nice to hear the jazz-guys-cover-pop-record thing (ala Eddie Harris' Breakfast at Tiffany's, Shelley Manne's Peter Gunn, etc...) is alive & well. gh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Risser Files Date: 06 Oct 1999 23:02:06 -0700 Peter Risser was kind enough to upload some files to the Floyd server at FeelthyMonkey studio's. Some fun stuff! Ames brothers doing a rippin' version of Hawaiian War Chant, A vocal version of Hernando's Hideaway, Some Yma, and Several OS Mutantes tracks. Maybe Peter will be so kind as to check the track order that I posted them in and type the list as I am all typed out after wrassling with the server to get these tracks to work. (Peter, I had to rename the files so the damned computer would server 'em up. Sorry to butcher your careful labeling.) The stuff is all HIGH bandwidth and sounds GREAT if you can get it. http://216.112.66.38/ron/risserfiles.m3u 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 04:35:19 -0400 At 7:53 PM -0400 10/5/99, Wayno wrote: >The liner notes >describe SIIS as "a big band FX laden record... [i]n the tradition of >Zounds! What Sounds!, Shock, and La Dolce Henke." uh.......kind of. I wrote a review of this album 2 years ago in Exotica/Et Cetera magazine. The first time I heard the album I was in Esquivel's bedroom, along with The Millionaire; it was the first time Esquivel had heard the album in 37 years. Needless to say, it was a transcendental 45 minutes. I have had many experiences with Esquivel where I've played tracks for him that he hadn't heard in years ( and he has played many for me as well from his tape collection of live shows and radio broadcasts), but there was something very different about this album. He had almost completely forgotten recording it. >Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering >this album." Irwin Chusid was actually the first to learn of the album's existence, from Neely Plumb, who produced it and who, according to Esquivel, had come up with the concept for it. I spoke with Neely about it many times, as he and Esquivel tried to remember what it sounded like, what songs were on it, etc. I kept calling Neely about it until one day when he called me to say he had found an acetate of it in his closet (the only known copy). We got it transferred to DAT (it had never been played); it had a matrix number in the run off groove which was trackable in the RCA vault, which is located somewhere in West Virginia. That's how they tracked down the unmarked master tapes. The cassette copy of the DAT arrived at Esquivel's home the very day we arrived there. It's great that Paul Williams has decided to finally release this, after BarNone dropped out of the Esquivel reissue business a couple of years ago. The album does not sould like any other Esquivel album you've ever heard; in fact, for the most part you'd be hard pressed to know it's him, although the piano playing gives it away on some tracks. There are the only known instinces of Esquivel playing exotica on this album. Every track is sound effects driven, but it in now way resembles "Zounds" or "La Dolce Henke". It's a bit closer to the Creed Taylor records. The standout track is the 7 minute version of 'Brazil', which follows a pub crawler through a number of barroms, all of which have a different band playing a different version of 'Brazil'. It is unique, to say the least. Esquivel himself will tell you the album is as much Neely Plumb as it is him. I'm glad they're both still alive to see it being issued. It'll be interesting to hear everyones reaction come November. The record was pretty much the beginning of the end of Esquivel's recording career at RCA (this was the second album of his they wouldn't release, although the other, "You & The Night & the Music' , was eventually released as a Living Strings record). He began recording "Infinity In Sound Vol. 2" about 2 months after SIIS was completed. 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: Robbie Baldock Subject: (exotica) Free Design lyrics Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:20:46 +0100 Just to let y'all know that Chris Dedrick was kind enough to send me copies of the actual lyrics to all Free Design songs over the weekend and I transferred these to the Free Design site last night, replacing the previous, varyingly accurate, versions. And for the first time there are now lyrics on the site to songs from their last album "There Is A Song". Robbie PS Great news about the "new" Esquivel issue! I can't wait to hear it. Free Design - NOW is the time! http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/freedesign # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:16:18 -0400 Can someone explain this?? I saw this ad in a magazine. "The best selling international album finally available in America". It's called (I think) "This is Cult Fiction" and they say it has "17 Cult TV and Movie Classics". Unfortunately there's no way to demonstrate my confusion except by listing the tracks. Dick Dale "Miserlou" Steppenwolf "Born to be Wild" Chuck Berry "You never can tell" The Marketts "Batman theme" Bobby Vinton "Blue Velvet" Stealer's Wheel "Stuck in the middle with you" Henry Mancini "Theme from Charlie's Angels" Mike Post "Theme from Hill Street Blues" Bob James "Angela (theme from "Taxi")" Angelo Badalamenti "Theme from Twin Peaks.. Fire Walks with me" Trance Atlantic Air Waves "Crockett's Theme" (Davy or Sonny????) Lalo Schifin "Mission Impossible" The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O" John Barry "The James Bond theme from Dr. No" Isaac Hayes "Theme from Shaft" Harry Nilsson "Everybody's Talking" Iggy Pop "Lust for Life" Where do I begin? Who came up with this doggy's breakfast? Was this really a bestseller? And does a song instantly become a "movie classic" when it's used in a movie? I guess most people know "Stuck in the Middle" only from Reservoir Dogs but it depresses me to think of "Lust for Life" as that song from Trainspotting (was that it?) And "Born to be Wild" was a huge hit before Easy Rider, wasn't it? I guess the thing that made me shake my head the most was trying to figure out which ones were the "cult TV classics". Were Charlie's Angels and Hill Street Blues "cult" favorites? And what movie was the Chuck Berry song in? If someone gave me this as a mixed tape, I wouldn't be too thrilled the next time they made me one but this is supposed to be an international bestseller. This bothers me for some reason. I can't quite explain 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:37:20 EDT In a message dated 10/6/99 1:35:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bcleve@pop.tiac.net writes: << We got it transferred to DAT (it had never been played); it had a matrix number in the run off groove which was trackable in the RCA vault, which is located somewhere in West Virginia. >> Cleve, Can you detail what a "matrix number in the run off groove is"? tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 07:31:06 -0400 Dear Nat: The "This is Cult Fiction" album has been out for a couple of years or so in the UK, and pretty available here. Yes, it tried to capitalize on the best-selling Pulp Fiction soundtrack, presumably grabbing anything for which rights could be had and a link, however vague, to hip movies claimed. It's one of those covers that's imprinted on my brain from repeated exposure. Will ------------------------------------------------- Will Straw, PhD 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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Cassette Players Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Hey, I know this is WAY off topic, but I thought I'd appeal to some of the audiophiles on this list. What's a good dual-deck component cassette player in the mid-range price of, say, 200 bucks? Mine is finally shot and I need another, as I can't listen to albums or CDs in the car. Natch, I'm not looking for something high-end, just something that will do a good job and last a long time. Any suggestions? Please email me off list at: knucklehead000@yahoo.com And if anyone else wants to know what I find out, let me know and I'll forward it to them. Thanks! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) [obits] Cheese Blotto, Art Farmer Date: 06 Oct 1999 09:48:39 -0400 From the Saratoga Daily Gazette    http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:46|AM&p=amg&sql=B12398 Keith Stephenson, 43, played bass guitar with band `Blotto'  SARATOGA SPRINGS - Authorities ruled Monday that a well-known   area musician whose body was found in his truck early Sunday in the  Saratoga Spa State Park died of natural causes.  The body of Keith Stephenson, 43, bass player for the group "Blotto"   in the 1980s, was found lying on the floor of a truck in the Hathorn  Spring parking area in the park at 3:20 a.m. Sunday.  While with the band, he performed under the name of "Cheese  Blotto." The band played in Saratoga and Albany clubs and toured  in this country and in England.  Lt. Edward Moore of the city police department said a park night   watchman noticed the truck and tried to awaken the man without success.  "We have ruled out foul play, he died of natural causes," Moore said on  Monday.  An autopsy on Stephenson's body was performed at Saratoga Hospital  and his death was caused by cardio myopathy [a disease of the heart  muscles] brought on by a diseased liver, said Saratoga County Coroner  Thomas A. Salvadore.  Salvadore said Stephenson's body had slid down onto the floor of  the pickup truck and he couldn't be seen through the vehicle's window  unless a person got very close to the truck. He was dressed casually  in a T-shirt and shorts, the coroner said.  Stephenson, of Middleline Road, was born in Ballston Spa, and was a  1974 graduate of Ballston Spa High School. He attended Berklee School  of Music in Boston.  He was the former owner and operator of the former Edible Express in  Saratoga Springs.  Stephenson earned his pilot's license through Flight International School  in Vero Beach, Fla., and owned his own airplane.  He was a member of Simpson United Methodist Church, Rock City Falls.  Stephenson was a member of the National Rifle Association.  ---------------  Art Farmer, 71, Be-Bop Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn           By BEN RATLIFF  ,NYTimes http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:46|AM&p=amg&sql=B6486                Art Farmer, one of the more important second-generation be-bop  musicians, an improviser who could say a great deal in a few notes on the trumpet and fluegelhorn and later on his own hybrid instrument, the  "flumpet," died on Monday in Manhattan.             He was 71 and lived in Manhattan and Vienna.             The cause was cardiac arrest, said his manager and companion, Lynne  Mueller.             Farmer was considered a master of ballad playing.             His tone was soft and even and sure, with no vibrato and with canny  silences built into his improvisations.             He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and when he was 4 his family  moved to Phoenix. He studied piano and violin in grade school there. As  a teen-ager he joined a dance band playing big-band arrangements, and  he often invited members of whatever swing band happened to pass through town to come to his house and jam with him and his twin brother,  Addison, the bassist, who died in 1963.             In 1945, when they were 16, the Farmer brothers moved to Los Angeles, having promised their mother that they would finish school. It  was a time when great musicians were coming out of the city's integrated  high schools; at Jefferson High Farmer studied with the well known music  teacher Samuel Browne, who also taught Frank Morgan, Hampton  Hawes and Don Cherry, among many others.             Farmer worked in Los Angeles with Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis and others, leaving school to join Otis's group on tour.             He recorded a be-bop classic, "Farmer's Market," with Wardell Gray's band.             In 1952 Farmer went on tour with Lionel Hampton, and in 1953 he settled in New York, joining bands led by Gigi Gryce and Horace Silver.  In 1958 he was hired by the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan for one of his  bracing new pianoless groups.             At the end of the 50's Farmer formed the Jazztet, a sextet, with the saxophonist Benny Golson. Together they wrote a deep repertory of harmonically sophisticated, tightly arranged music, and the group defined  the state of the art for mainstream jazz until the music's prevailing winds began to grow wilder.             The group broke up in 1962, and Farmer started another jointly ed  group, with the guitarist Jim Hall. The Jazztet reunited in 1982 and played  through most of the 80's.             In the early 60's he often used the fluegelhorn, which has a warmer, creamier sound, suiting his lyricism and terseness.             Then in the early 90's he designed a mixture of the two instruments, the  flumpet, which combined projection with warmth.             When work grew sparse in New York, he moved to Vienna in 1968 to  join a radio jazz orchestra.             He ended up staying and starting a family but traveled constantly, playing with local pickup rhythm sections around the world. For the last few years, he had a residence in Manhattan and was dividing his time equally  between Vienna and New York.             Farmer's discography as a leader is large and as a sideman larger, encompassing work on the Blue Note, Contemporary, Soul Note, Enja  and Arabesque labels, among others. His most recent album, from 1997,  was "Silk Road" (Arabesque).             Besides Ms. Mueller, Farmer is survived by his sister, Mauvolene Thomas, of Tucson, and his son, Georg, of Vienna.   # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:32:40 -0400 It's great that Paul Williams has decided to finally release this, after >BarNone dropped out of the Esquivel reissue business a couple of >years ago. BarNone says they were more or less forced out by RCA who didn't realize there was money to be made with these things. Of course there wasn't as much as they'd hoped.... LT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 07:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Nat This is the tip of the iceberg. I believe there are 3 other volumes though I can only recall "This is Son of Cult Fiction" and "Cult Fiction Royal" right now. I saw "This is Cult Ficton" for sale at Tower or Virgin the other day and it said "as seen on TV" Calling this music cult movie themes bothers me also, because it is depresssing to see the number of soundtracks released that are merely rereleases of songs which were never intened for the movie. Sometimes when the products are sold in the US they are commerciallized, marketed and advertised in ways best determined by someone to make money. Calling these songs "cult fiction" seems ridiculous to me but I'm not surprised, The other volumes have more exotica cuts on them then This is Cult Fiction which for me is the weakest of the lot. Also it seem there is a whole series of "This Is" compilations released for all kinds of music. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Nat Kone wrote: > > Can someone explain this?? > I saw this ad in a magazine. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:55:19 -0400 At 7:31 AM -0400 10/6/99, Will Straw wrote: >The "This is Cult Fiction" album has been out for a couple of years or so >in the UK, and pretty available here. ...presumably grabbing anything for >which rights >could be had and a link, however vague, to hip movies claimed. all true. But search for the superb "This Is Cult Fiction, Volume 2", which feaures many hard to find Cult TV (British and American) themes, most of which are incredible. 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:05:35 -0400 At 6:37 AM -0400 10/6/99, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >Can you detail what a "matrix number in the run off groove is"? Easy. Pick up any record. Look in the area between the recording and the label. That's the run off groove. You'll see a bunch of numbers etched in there. The matrix number, which is different from a records catalog number is in there. There's an A and a B for each side; that's the number for the master recording; it is different from the catalog # because those can change over the years (with reissues, budget pressings, etc). Also in this area is the pressing number, well known to audiophile knuckleheads (as we call em in the used rekkid business), especially classical collectors. Reviews in mags like Absolute Sound will refer to things like "search out the 1S/12S as these laquers had a superior sound quality" blah blah blah. (I think it's the 3S of Casino Royale that is the one that sounds like Dusty Springfield is whispering The Look Of Love in your ear.) Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans etched into this area. Right Jimmy? "A Porky Prime Cut"!! 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:21:41 -0400 <> It wasn't just the 45's - a LOT of the LP's had these little "quips" on = 'em, everything from "Fuck You" to "Mmmmm the Jelly Smells Good." - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: thom@dibdin.demon.co.uk (Thom Dibdin) Subject: (exotica) Re Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:52:15 +0100 Wotcha E-mail originator! I got passed an E about Esquivel's "See It In Sound". I write about music (and lots of other stuff) in Scotland and would be fascinated to find out more about this album. Particularly release date in UK and contact for company releasing it - to write a tie-in feature or at least to review. Thanks very much, if you can be of help. Sorry to have bothered if you can't - but all-hail at any rate. Best wishes, Thom Dibdin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 09:07:24 +0000 At 11:05 AM 06-10-99 -0400, br cleve wrote: >Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans >etched into this area. I have a Bobby Darin LP where he signed his name in this area! Cool. Later reissues of this best of compilation did not have this. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) matrix messages Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:14:14 -0400 >>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little >>slogans etched into this area. > >It wasn't just the 45's - a LOT of the LP's had these little "quips" on 'em, And then there was Joy Division's "Still" double album which had: "The chicken won't stop" on Side 1. chicken footprints circling on Sides 2 & 3. and "The chicken stops here" on Side 4. And in direct opposition to their somber image, their bummer classic, "Closer", has cartoon chicken heads in the runout. What's your favorite runout graffiti? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:17:29 -0400 Happy to hear that this is coming out. But I'm unclear on who's releasing it. Details? US release? Will this be commonly available? Or is it another sassinfrassin bootleg? 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: Kirsten Noel Whitley Subject: (exotica) Tiki Shirt / Emperor Norton Sampler Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:36:19 -0500 (CDT) Hi All, I second the recent thank-you post about the listee who alerted us all about the free Emperor Norton CD. The music is neato!... and I would not have found it myself. In my own attempt to be helpful, I have a lead for those of you who search out tiki- wear. There is a tiki shirt, which not only displays tikis big and bold, but also is on sale (was $49, is now $40). Go to http://www.hotshirts.com/index.html Click on "View Shirts" and then do a search for "tiki". The one that I am referring to is called Tiki Warriors. BTW, if you order anything, you can save $3 by saying that I gave you a Lucky Lei card. If you give them my name, I get $3 off too. --Kirsten ------------- Kirsten Whitley whitley@compter.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:35:19 -0400 >all true. But search for the superb "This Is Cult Fiction, Volume 2", which >feaures many hard to find Cult TV (British and American) themes, most of >which are incredible. I can vouch for this (and I can also add information to a Br. Cleve post, which darned near NEVER needs to happen!). I have a two cassette (28 pounds for two CDs was too much) set of "This is Cult Fiction Royale" and among the many gems of this collection are "Stingray", "The Baron", "'Tiswas", "Fireball XL5", "Joe90", "E.V.A." (Jean-Jacques Perrey!), "Get Carter", "Danger Man" and there are others. All of them sound great, particularly the "Fireball XL5" which is greatly improved over the take on "TVT's "Television's Greatest Hits". Buy, Buy, Buy! Bri-Bri-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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Art Farmer, Blotto and LVG-RIP Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:39:36 -0700 (PDT) As a person who owns and admires records by both Art Farmer *and* Blotto, this week marks another sad round of losses in music for me. Also, in the RIP category is the death of another good band, The Bomboras. But, man, what is the death-count now for Las Vegas Grind, with Cheese Blotto and Screaming Lord Sutch both checkin' out early? Checking my life insurance, Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats Date: 06 Oct 1999 13:47:31 -0400 >found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned. Did I >just buy the wrong Harmonicats record? I can't speak to all of it, but I have a "right" Harmonicats record, which is their original version of the song "Peg O' My Heart", which my wife doesn't dig, but I do. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dciccone@inspex.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 13:49:11 -0400 >I kept calling Neely about it until one day when he called me to say >he had found an acetate of it in his closet (the only known copy). Great story Cleve and glad to have it in print. "The Dead Sea Scrolls of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music!!" (The Dead Sea Scrolls are another fascinating story: 2000 year old copies of the Old Testament found in caves. Fortunately we didn't have to wait this long for "See It In Sound") Thank you! To everyone involved in releasing this. Look forward to hearing it. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:22:47 -0400 At 04:35 AM 10/6/99 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote: > >Irwin Chusid was actually the first to learn of the album's existence, from >Neely Plumb, who produced it and who, according to Esquivel, had come up >with the concept for it. I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once again noticed this name Neely Plumb. So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is. (If it weren't for Cleve's story, I might have asked who "she" is.) I know I have other records with his name. Esquivel for instance. So I assume this is another one of those unsung producer/auteurs. I did a search by the way. Lots of hits but I couldn't find the info that I'm sure Br.Cleve can provide. And if this leads to a discussion of the role of producers - like Ethel Gabriel for instance - on these records we discuss, I won't mind. 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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Jo Basile cover Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:37:02 -0400 Here's the vivid cover of Jo Basile's "Accordion de Paris": http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/basile_cover.jpg From the gang at Audio Fidelity. 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:04:43 -0700 (PDT) --- Brian Phillips wrote: particularly the "Fireball XL5" which is greatly improved over the take on > "TVT's "Television's Greatest Hits" Brian I remember the TVT version of this song. Was the Cult Fiction version a British TV song while the TVT was the US? Thanks Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) If the past is another country Date: 06 Oct 1999 15:05:08 -0400 then this is as exotic as you get! Check out: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/092899sci-archeology-china.html September 28, 1999 After 9,000 Years, Oldest Playable Flute Is Heard Again Audio: The Little Cabbage By HENRY FOUNTAIN Chinese archeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest known playable musical instrument, a seven-holed flute fashioned 9,000 years ago from the hollow wing bone of a large bird. [full article, photos and audio clip at above URL] -Lou lousmith@pipeline.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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 06 Oct 1999 21:11:44 +0200 I'm back. Exotica, Part 1: While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and taken over the kitchen. Exotica, Part 2: All 215 LPs we had bought and carried on the plane arrived safely, no overweight charges, no customs, no taxes, no scratches, no losses. This number of course does not include the 40 disco records I had sent in advance, nor the about 20 albums I left with Brian and Cheryl in Montreal. Altogether I have paid about 120 mostly Canadian $$$, which comes to an average less than 50 cents a piece. I am extremly happy. Exotica, Part 3: The most Indian part of Indian summer was having dinner with Nat Kone in Little India, Toronto. The leaves of the maple trees were not yet red, but my face while eating this hothothot meal must have been tremendously. Exotica, Part 4: The "Jardin du Tiki" in Montreal is a fine big Tiki restaurant with very interesting single art pieces, lots of different lamps, real turtles and average chinese food. The colorful light chain made of real dried catfish bodies is just unbelievable. The members of the Montreal Tiki Appreciation Society, who we meet there are very nice people. The ritual exchange of Tiki mugs is delayed to a later opportunity. Exotica, Part 5: Which takes place 3 weeks later after visiting the "Aloha" in St.Jerome, 45 minutes north of Montreal. Smaller than the "Jardin", but very nice primitivistic decor (**** stars of 5), average Chinese food (*) and unbelievable service (---). Exotica, Part 6: Boston doesn't like us, too big, too many cars, too expensive and NO hotel. Only the man on the phone from the YMCA says, he has a room, for "only" 66$, so we drive all the way through heavy traffic, to learn in the end, they don't accept girls at THIS time of the year. Thanks for not telling us on the phone! So we decide to leave this city (sorry, Bostoners, we've tried!) heading to Concord, ...and accidently discover the "Aku Aku", not really spectacular looking from the freeway, but once you get to the back side of the building, oopsiedaisy! Two 30 feet high Easter island guys flank the A-frame entrance. Even the wide angle of the Olympus has its dificulties to get them on one photo. Of course we go in, although we have eaten already at the S&S. It's half past nine and NOBODY's there except for the staff! The manager does not at all understand why in hell we want to take photos of this location. We explain it to him in detail, but he doesn't get it. No wonder he can't get people to visit his restaurant. It's a great place, different in style from anything Tiki I have seen so far. Mint greenish leatherette seats, a huge painting of volcano and tikis and palm trees and huts on one side. Some unique mask artefacts and a exotic aquarium. Auwe no ho'i e! (Colorful Hawaiian expression) If you don't do something about it, guys, this place will soon close, was my impression. Awiwi! Exotica, Part 7: The records are all in my living room at home now and for the first time I can really get an overview of what I have. Some are double, some even many, by far the most frequent one is the "Bimbo Jet" LP, which I bought 15 times, followed by 8 "Whipped Cream and Other Delights". What would YOU do, if you only had to stuff the vinyl into bags as many as you possibly can (64), because the entire bag is 5 bucks no matter what? (Thanks to Nat who brought me there and thanks to Will Straw who was born in Hamilton and had told Nat about this in the first place) By the way, I found 6 *different* editions of "Whipped Cream"... Some of the records are just famous, such as "Music for bang baroom and harp" or "Provocative Percussion". Some are simply great like "Burt Bacharach plays his hits" or "Fever and Smoke", by the 3 Suns. My first records of them and Bacharach anyway. Some are better than I thought, like "E=mc2" by Moroder, "One stormy night" by Mystic Moods Orchestra and the Carpenter's "Ticket to Ride", some are worse, like anything by Edmundo Ros, most of them I haven't heard yet. Some records I always wanted to have: Les Baxter's "Soul of the drums", "Hawaiianette", "The versatile Henry Mancini" (his Exotica album), everything from Munich Machine, which you can't find in Munich as it happens, just like this "Best of..." Marianne Rosenberg album, which apparently was only published in Canada. My favorite cover so far is the "Grover sings the Blues" album, showing my Sesame Street hero saying "I'm so proud". Some records I bought only because I knew I could sell them and then there were of course all kinds of Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Perez Prado, Arthur Lyman, Herp Alpert, Burt Bacharach, The Three Suns, Hugo Montenegro, Dick Hyman, Enoch Light, Mancini, Si Zentner, Peter Thomas etc. you gotta have if you didn't have them already. Plus strange obscure stuff for the fun of having them. But my last find in the last thrift shop we wnt in New England, actually in Rutland right at highway 7, that one made me really happy for 50 cents: Marais and Miranda, "South African Folk Songs". When we returned to Montreal, I showed it to Brian, and the great man gave me his copy of "Marais and Miranda visit the African Veld (with the bushveld band)" on top. Did anybody say, thrift shops are not a good source for finding Exotica LPs? North Americans are really lucky. Exotica, Part 8: The damn video transfer-from-NTSC-to-PAL-recorder in McGill University failed to make a playable copy of Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone) great great film about record collectors. Glad I watched it already in Montreal, but I want my $11,50 rental charge back from McGill!! So far... so long... Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Harmonicats Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:21:30 -0700 > >found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned. Did I > >just buy the wrong Harmonicats record? Hmmm...Musta been the wrong rekkit. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness. Look for their version of "Guns of Navarone(sp?)" I put it on a mix-tape that was widely distributed, and I got more complaints about that tune getting permenantly lodged in people's heads. ..But that's GOOD, right? I also am partial to their version of "Apple Pink.." I also hear that Sinatra HATED the Harmonicats because Peg O' My Heart dislodged one of his tunes from the #1 spot on the charts. According to the legend Jerry & Co. was hired to entertain at a party thrown for ol' blue eye's birthday one year. Sinatra had a FIT. Apocryphal, yes, but FUNNY! Now ya got me wondering if the harmonicats ever covered a Sinatra signature song. 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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Rumours have been floating for several days that the Bomboras were splitzville...guess not! Sorry for the confusion, Jane Fondle --- Cavestomp@aol.com wrote: > From: Cavestomp@aol.com > Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:12:39 EDT > Subject: Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet > To: jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com > > Hi Jane, > News of The Bomboras demise is greatly exaggerated! > They are alive > and...wellthey are playing CAVESTOMP!'99 and other > dates! Though you'd like > to know. > > Warmest- > Trixxxie Trinket > ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Harmonicats-v-Sinatra, Beatles-v-Ray Charles Singers. Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:11:20 -0700 (PDT) So say Ron: I also hear that Sinatra HATED the Harmonicats because Peg O' My Heart dislodged one of his tunes from the #1 spot on the charts. According to the legend Jerry & Co. was hired to entertain at a party thrown for ol' blue eye's birthday one year. Sinatra had a FIT. Apocryphal, yes, but FUNNY! >>>Also, don't know if ol' Paul Mc got in a snit, but for ONE WEEK, the Ray Charles Singers' "Love Me With All Your Heart" was number one ahead of the Beatles. Can't remember which Beatles song, though...and I've never heard the Harmonicats! Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 06 Oct 1999 23:14:59 +0200 >While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures >had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and >taken over the kitchen. Are they good cooks? Can they make decent Mai Tais? I bet they all have = a copy of whipped cream by now :) 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: Subject: (exotica) [obits] Amalia Rodrigues,Leonard S. Shoen,Gorilla Monsoon Date: 06 Oct 1999 17:38:17 -0400 http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=5:34:35|PM&p=amg&sql=B28870 LISBON, Oct 6 (AFP) - Portuguese singer Amalia Rodrigues, the "diva of fado", died on Wednesday in Lisbon at the age of 79, her recording company Valentim de Carvalho announced. Rodrigues' personal secretary said she died at her home after a long illness. In a career that spanned more than half a century, Rodrigues became to Portugal what Edith Piaf was to France, or Oum Kalsoum to the Arab world: an international icon and a roving ambassador for the popular culture of her country. Portugal was cast into mourning at the announcement of her death, and national radio broadcast innumerable tributes and testimonies by friends and colleagues. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres ordered three days of national mourning. Rodrigues' supreme gift was for fado, the traditional Portuguese bar-room singing style centred on Lisbon and Coimbra and based on "saudade", or sadness for an irrecoverable past, a plangent blend of nostalgia, sadness, love and death. Several years ago Rodrigues, who underwent heart surgery in the United States, virtually stopped performing because of her poor health. She made an exceptional appearance last year, singing for the last time in public before thousands at the opening of Expo 1998 in Lisbon. Rodrigues was born in 1920, though her exact date of birth was not known. The grandmother who raised her to the age of 14 knew only that she was born "during the cherry season." After selling fruit in the streets and working as a seamstress to help support her nine brothers and sisters -- she remained proud all her life of her modest origins -- Rodrigues began her professional career as a tango dancer. She then gained notice for singing the tangos of Carlos Gardel at parties and festivities in the working class districts of Lisbon, and signed her first singing contract in 1940. Her early career brought friction with her family, dismayed to see her singing songs of disrepute, as tango and fado were then considered. Rodrigues' international career blossomed after World War II, and she performed regularly in Brazil, Spain, France and Britain as well as in her home country. Her reputation spread as far afield as Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States during her heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. She recorded more than 170 albums that were released in 30 countries, and appeared in numerous films, notably "Les amants du Tage" (Lovers of the Tagus), by the French director Henri Verneuil. After the overthrow of Portugal's fascist regime in 1974 she was widely reproached for her closeness to dictator Antonio Salazar, a criticism that she shrugged off as something imposed by circumstances. Fatalistic by nature, she attributed her success to chance. "I never dreamed of having a career, I was never ambitious," she wrote in her memoirs. Despite being voted one of the world's 10 most outstanding voices during the 1950s, she constantly professed astonishment at her celebrity. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Leonard S. Shoen, who revolutionized the do-it-yourself moving industry by founding U-Haul International Inc., apparently committed suicide by driving his car into a power pole. He was 83. The Clark County coroner's office ruled Tuesday that Schoen died from blunt force trauma and that his death was a suicide. ``There is no reason for the accident,'' Metro Police Detective Rick Hart said. ``Nobody else was around. ``They determined that it looked like suicide.'' On Monday's Shoen's car left the road for no apparent reason and struck a wooden power pole, police said. Hart said the accident is still under investigation. Shoen founded U-Haul in 1945 and built it into the most recognized self-moving company in the nation with its signature orange and white trucks. In 1986, Shoen's sons -- Joe and Mark -- forced their father into retirement and pushed for control of the parent company, Reno-based Amerco Inc. The move triggered a bitter family feud that ended in a $1.5 billion jury award the company had to pay Leonard Shoen and other ``outsiders.'' A judge later reduced the award to $461 million, and the company then sought bankruptcy protection from the debt. Since the shakeup at U-Haul, Shoen lived in Las Vegas, where he owned the World Trade Center hotel since 1996. He withdrew his application with the Nevada Gaming Commission for a gaming license in May. At the age of 29, after serving in the Navy during World War II, Shoen came up with the idea to provide do-it-yourself one-way moving trailers on a nationwide basis. With an initial investment of $5,000, he and his then-wife Anna Mary Carty started the company at the Carty Ranch in Ridgefield, Wash., where they built the first U-Haul trailers in a milk house in 1945. The company is now based in Phoenix. His concept for U-Haul was developed out of a need to provide inexpensive means of moving a post-World War II American population that had become migratory, especially to the Western United States, according to the company's Web site. The original U-Haul trailers were painted bright orange and rented for $2 a day. By 1949 it was possible to rent U-Haul trailers one way from city to city throughout most of the United States. Today the company has 14,000 independent dealers and 1,100 company-owned moving centers. It is the leading company in the truck and trailer rental industry and the second-largest self-storage facility operator. U-Haul also is the world's largest installer of permanent hitches. ----------------------- It is being reported on the Pro Wrestling news sites that Robert Marella, better known as Gorilla Monsoon, has passed away at age 62. Marella died of complications from a Heart Attack suffered in September, according to the news reports. Last week, he had requested that he be removed from kidney dyalisis. He was a long time Wrestling legend in the WWF both as a wrestler, and later as an announcer during the promotions meteoric rise in the 1980s. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction??? Date: 06 Oct 1999 18:18:21 EDT It should be noted that the track listing to the U.S. version varies a bit from the original UK release. I agree, the others in this series are infinitely better, but the one to avoid is the one with the van on the cover, which leans heavily toward ... ugh ... classic rock. --Rod www.hitchmagazine.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: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats Date: 06 Oct 1999 19:32:29 -0400 At 12:21 PM 10/6/99 -0700, Ron Grandia wrote: > >. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be >terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness I have come to the conclusion that all harmonica records - with the possible exception of Toots Thieleman (and even then I way prefer his guitar playing and whistling) - are too drab. I must admit that it helps me to come to such conclusions because the more records I can ignore the better. Once upon a time I expanded my taste so that I'd always be able to find things that "interested" me. Now I'm trying to reduce the scope. And harmonica fits right in. It doesn't have enough "bite". The sound is too "floaty". You'd think that the floaty sound would be perfect for exotica but not in my experience. Not so far. You'd think that the Three Suns could have made good use of the harmonica. Accordion, organ AND harmonica. But I haven't found that Three Suns record yet. So I ignore harmonica. And polka. 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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats Date: 06 Oct 1999 19:55:52 -0500 At 10:40 PM 10/4/99, Pearmania@aol.com wrote: >I must say I don't understand the fuss over The Harmonicats.... The >recording quality was bad and I >found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned. Did= I >just buy the wrong Harmonicats record? Good question. You know, I always assume that my lust for harmonica records is eccentric. It's similar to my taste for bombastic pipe organ or ice skating records. But I know both tastes are shared by Mr. ExotiFAQ, Our Man in Treetown, Ross. Plus, he means it when he signs his name "Mambo Frenzy." That recommend was meant for him and for others who dig the improbable pairing of tepid Jerry Murad with Latin fire. That said, why look for HarmoniCha Cha-Cha? Reason 1: A cha-cha version of the Harmonicat's golden hit, Peg O' My Heart. Which is not as solid as... Reason 2: Cocktails for Two Cha-Cha, Blues Cha-Cha, Petite Fleur (I LOVE Sidney Bechet tunes), Frenesi, Poinciana. Which are not as solid as... Reason 3: The House of Bamboo Reason 4: First time I played it, I kept laughing, alarming the cats. Reason 5: John Sippel's liner notes, which assert, "The cha cha's no bastard child of some dance instructor's imagination." Ooh! Pretty racy! Reason 6: I'm a sucker for the wan sound of the mouth harp. Reason 7: The kids seem to having a great time playing these tunes. There's also good reason why the 'Cats are so popular with the Placidyl set -- I agree with you there, Pearmania. They have put me to sleep or at least made me drowsy. Yet there is more vitality in HarmoniCha Cha-Cha than the other Harmonicats records I've gotten and disposed of. If you want a really potent sedative, look for the Mulcays, especially their awful record, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls. The mere thought of it makes me shudder,then yawn. Now back to my nap, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) African Lament / Mel Henke Date: 07 Oct 1999 00:01:17 EDT Thanks to all of you who have received CD-R's from me in the past for your generous praise. This all started with a CD-R exchange with a couple of other fellow listees. It is still all about fun and sharing the music for me - these CD-R's are available for not a whole lot more than the cost of materials and shipping. $10 when a master already exists. Also open to CD-R, commercial CD and vinyl trading. Miriam Burton's background ranges from jazz singing to serious Carnegie Hall Concerts. She has appeared on Broadway, the BBC with the London Symphony Orchestra and has performed in several television specials with Harry Belefonte. Her astounding (two-and-a-half octave) voice range has a tremendous flexibility of style. AFRICAN LAMENT (Epic LN 24011 Mono) is composed by Sascha (Nutty Squirrels) Burland and Pat Williams. I cannot locate a date, my guess mid sixties. It is an album of musical expressions of a continent in dramatic transition. Burland writes that he and Williams have made no attempt at ethnic authenticity, but have simply tried to set down musical pictures which relate to certain African facts and folklore. The music definitely has a western feel, it's not "world music". The instrumentation of the orchestra - African percussive instruments, flutes, tuipples, marimba, tuned drums, organ and rhythm creates a fascinating hybrid sound that expresses the coexistence of the old and the new in Africa. Miriam Burton's soaring wordless vocals complete the picture. I first learned of this recording in one of the ISM books. Mickey McGowan's section on abstract female vocals, Yma Sumac, Leda Annest, etc. After a few years of looking, I came across this near mint copy. Titles are Rites Of Passage Kenscoff Kalhari Bushmen Congo Lament Yoruba Lady Apartheid Palm Wine Party Cover what not what I expected, a very-documentary-like photo of a pair of lone rhinos grazing in a golden foreground, set against a dark, moody sky and hills of gray and blue. Mel Henke speaks for himself. His Dynamic Adventures is not as zany as La Dolce Henke, but by all means is just as wonderful. Wild stereo experiments and sound effects. A couple (four maybe) of tracks were bonus material on Scamp's release of La Dolce Henke. I've added a couple of bonus tracks of my own. These three short Henke spots come from an ad agency promo, The "In" Sound for the Commercial Agency Chevy Jet Smooth Ride Jazz Track For Dodge Ajax Stronger Than Dirt Drop me a line if interested. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) African Lament / Mel Henke Date: 07 Oct 1999 00:10:13 EDT << The "In" Sound for the Commercial Agency >> wrong, i'm tired and usually only write less than four lines...correct title is The "In" Sound For The Commercial INDUSTRY (Charles H. Stern) any jingle and radio spot collectors out there?? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 01:15:04 -0400 At 09:11 PM 10/6/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote: > >I'm back. Herb Alpert fans all over the Eastern U.S and Canada, heave a sigh of relief. >The most Indian part of Indian summer was having dinner with Nat Kone in >Little India, Toronto. The leaves of the maple trees were not yet red, >but my face while eating this hothothot meal must have been >tremendously. Yeah, I never believe them when they say something is going to be hot. That goes for music or food. I always think they mean "For you, this will seem hot". It's like the other night at this record store going-out-of-business sale. There was this Latin guy there checking out a pile of Latin records. Maybe it was none of my business but I didn't like this guy's attitude. The clerk had gone into the basement to unearth this pile of records for him, as a special favor. The records were fifty cents each. There were some good titles there. And yet the guy had to monopolize the turntable, listening to each one. And then he had the balls to ask if that was all there was. What's that got to do with hot Indian food? Well I guess the guy got the message that I found him a bit nervy. And I think I expressed interest in one or two of the cha cha records and expressed an opinion on a Cugat record. So I'm standing outside with the clerk having a smoke and this guy comes out, makes a beeline for me and announces: "I'm the Latin king!" He then proceeds to tell me that he's THE Latin music collector and that I don't know anything about Latin music and that maybe I might have a few Latin LP's but certainly I don't understand or appreciate the music. I guess when the waiter at the Indian restaurant said the food was going to be hot, I assumed he meant "Hot for a gringo like you who doesn't really know what hot food is". And given that I was at the restaurant with this very very white man from Germany, I could see how he might have made that assumption. But actually he was telling the truth and the food was hot. Perhaps when he looked at my companion, he didn't see a white white man. Perhaps he noticed the tiki-adorned T-shirt and realized this was a spicy, exotic man. >The damn video transfer-from-NTSC-to-PAL-recorder in McGill University >failed to make a playable copy of Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone) >great great film about record collectors. I have to admit that it made me uncomfortable reading that you went to that Indian restaurant with Nat Kone. Nat Kone only exists here on this mailing list. At the same time, I don't like reading my real name here but when you say my film is great, it lessens the sting somehow. (And for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only one - I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake one. And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Harmonicats Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:22:10 +0100 > At 12:21 PM 10/6/99 -0700, Ron Grandia wrote: > > > >. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be > >terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness > > I have come to the conclusion that all harmonica records - with the > possible exception of Toots Thieleman (and even then I way prefer his > guitar playing and whistling) - are too drab. > I must admit that it helps me to come to such conclusions because the more > records I can ignore the better. [...] > It doesn't have enough "bite". The sound is too "floaty". You'd think > that the floaty sound would be perfect for exotica but not in my > experience. Not so far. I understand this "ignore" problem. So, here are a few more harmonica records no one else mentioned, so that you can ignore the genre a bit more comprehensively. There's a record of Larry Adler playing with Django Reinhart + the Quintette, which is bloody marvellous. I reckon that has a bit of bite to it. Harry Pitch's "Harmonica Jewel Box" has a rather fruity version of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend", which I love; Tommy Reilly with Kai Warner doing "Quando Quando Quando" on "Latin Harmonica" is great (but the rest of the album is a bit duff), and Mr. Reilly also did an album on Argo, two contemporary concertoes for harmonica, which hopefully takes it a bit beyond its normal limited role (must dig that one out and have a proper listen). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Slogans on the run off groovwe (was Re: (exotica) Esquivel's Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:57:24 +0200 >Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans >etched into this area. Right Jimmy? > >"A Porky Prime Cut"!! LOL! I was thinking to those slogans too! There is some 80's pop record (maybe a Kylie mInogue single from UK?) who had "Waltz Matilda" etched on the run off groove... but I have several vinyls with weird slogans like that... looks like the tradition of writing them on the vinyl passed from punk to dance and electronic 12" too... Anyone remembers other funny lines? Is there some crazy guy out there who compilaed a webpage for those? (I suspect there is) ;) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Re Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:57:29 +0200 >I got passed an E about Esquivel's "See It In Sound". > >I write about music (and lots of other stuff) in Scotland and would be >fascinated to find out more about this album. Particularly release date in >UK and contact for company releasing it - to write a tie-in feature or at >least to review. oh - if anyone has that bit of info, I'd love to review it for www.all-reviews.com and other places I write for. :) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Yeeeeeah, Pepsi! (was Re: (exotica) African Lament / Mel Henke) Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:26:35 +0200 >The "In" Sound For The Commercial INDUSTRY (Charles H. Stern) > >any jingle and radio spot collectors out there?? I collect all sorts of weird vinyls and other sound sources... ;) and about one year ago I have found this 1960's italian 7" from RCA with a Pepsi logo on it... no cover, though (and lotsa scratches too). It turned out to be a crazy promo disc including (not sure about the title now, I am quoting by memory) "Come alive (you're in the Pepsi generation)" (i.e. a sort of "funk-big band-not sure if I can define it exotica" piece by Sid Ramin, with brass, some good bits ready for sampling ;))) and "Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :)) The other side is an Italian song by Gianni Morandi (who is a crappy crooner/songwriter that has been around for more than 30 years now and we're tired of him ;))))))) called "Questa vita cambiera'" ("this life will change"). The funny stuff is that both tracks after a few bars are overdubbed by a silly voice screaming: "Allegri, ragazzi! La Pepsi!!" ("Be happy, boys! Pepsi!" ;))))))))))))))) which not only ruins the beauty of the Sid Ramin track but also is totally out of contest on the moody, almost sad Morandi song. Hehe! And there is a nice story on this disc: I was in contact with Mark of Negativland, who had released a collage recording called "Dispepsi" stealing sounds from dozens of old Pepsi commercials. I told him that I would have like to make a cd-r of it and send them the cd and/or maybe make a Dispepsi remix using bits of it too... Mark told me "we would be actually interested in BUYING the original record"... ;)))))) I'm not sellign the original but I had no time to make a cd-r yet. And recently I had the idea of expanding the project putting more stuff on cd... maybe I will be able to do a compilation of scratched exotic vinyl? Hope so... (after all I have Brigitte's "Ti amo e io di piu'"... rare italian version of "Je t'aime..." by Serge Gainsbourg, and more crazy stuff like a promotional disc with french and german voices introducing Taravana chants from Polynesia... ;DDDDDD) bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obits] A.L. "Doodle" Owens,Amalia Rodrigues,Gorilla Monsoon Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:13:52 -0400 The Associated Press Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999; 10:49 p.m. EDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. –– A.L. "Doodle" Owens, who wrote dozens of country music hits for stars like Charley Pride, George Jones and Moe Bandy, died Monday from a heart attack. He was 68. Owens' hits include "Wine Colored Roses" for Jones, "Johnny One Time" for Brenda Lee and "Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul" for Stoney Edwards. Owens got the nickname "Doodle" as a child because he crawled backwards. Owens, a native of Waco, Texas, moved to Nashville in 1965, after being encouraged by singer Ray Price. With Frazier, he co-wrote two No. 1 hits for Pride in 1969, "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" and "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)." Amalia Rodrigues LISBON, Portugal (AP) – Amalia Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer whose passionate performances of the country's brooding 'fado' music took her from Lisbon taverns to worldwide fame, died Wednesday at her home. She was 79. Rodrigues' personal secretary, Leonel Henriques, told the news agency Lusa that she was found dead in her bed, adding she had felt unwell in previous days. The singer had suffered two heart attacks, in 1979 and 1980, and increasing health problems caused her to retreat from public life in recent years. Prime Minister Antonio Guterres announced three days of national mourning. Amalia da Piedade Rebordao Rodrigues, known popularly as Amalia, became known at home as the "Ambassador of Fado" for taking Portugal's sad and haunting traditional music out of Lisbon taverns and placing it on a world stage. Her interpretations of 'fado' – which means "fate" or "destiny" – gave the world a glimpse into the depths of the Portuguese character. "Fado" lyrics are sentimental and melancholic, centering on longing, sadness and fatalism, while the guitar accompaniment combines the influences of Arab, African and Portuguese cultures. Robert Monsoon WILLINGBORO, N.J. (AP) -- Robert ``Gorilla Monsoon'' Marella, a true giant of professional wrestling who body-slammed Muhammad Ali and debated Jesse Ventura, has died of a heart ailment. The 62-year-old former teacher, died Wednesday. The 6-foot-6, 400-pound Marella turned to the pro wrestling game in 1960 when a promoter offered him $500 per week to don the tights. As Gorilla Monsoon, Marella soon shared world tag-team titles with Walter ``Killer'' Kowalski and ``Cowboy'' Bill Watts. Playing a villain's role at the time, Marella gained notoriety for his feud with longtime champ Bruno Sammartino. Marella's career in the ring lasted until the early 1980s, when he became one of the World Wrestling Federation's top ringside television announcers. He co-hosted WWF telecasts at a time when the high-flying entertainment genre was booming in popularity. Marella frequently shared the microphone with former wrestler Jesse ``The Body'' Ventura, with whom he often argued over the importance of fair play in the ring. Ventura now is governor of Minnesota. The younger generation of wrestlers was honored to have the rotund Marella analyze their moves and holds, said fellow pro wrestler King Kong Bundy. ``He was somebody who knew the business,'' Bundy said. ``A great guy, a real class act all the way.'' Marella also wrote a weekly pro wrestling column for the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin. A son, Joey Marella, became a WWF referee in the 1980s. He died in an auto accident in Burlington in 1994. Thereafter, Robert Marella appeared on television less frequently. ``When his son got killed in a car accident, I think that took a lot out of him,'' King Kong Bundy said. Marella did serve as interim president of the WWF in 1997 -- at a time when the industry admitted openly that the outcomes of its matches are scripted. Heart problems forced Marella to scale back his work with the WWF. He also suffered from diabetes in recent years. http://www.cataclysmal.com/big3/news/2261.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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:08:26 -0400 Didn't the Harmonicats do that album with the "James Bond" girl dressed in = a black leather outfit, standing with one bare foot triumphantly over top = of three men dressed in suits???? (She's also holding a harmonica). That's a pretty cool record; and no, I don't like harmonica!! They do = some spy stuff - been ages since I've listened to it so can't give = particulates....... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:17:27 EDT In a message dated 10/06/99 5:23:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << >While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures >had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and >taken over the kitchen. Are they good cooks? Can they make decent Mai Tais? I bet they all have a copy of whipped cream by now :) M >> now THAT is funny. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:29:37 EDT In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << At the same time, I don't like reading my real name here but when you say my film is great, it lessens the sting somehow. (And for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only one - I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake one. And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.) >> i find this line of discussion interesting. everybody knows (at least i think they do) that my real name is not Tiki Bob. actually very few people even call me Bob, but Tiki Robert sounds kinda stupid. actually to people not on the list Tiki Bob sounds kind of stupid. i felt kind of funny using a "signature name" at first but it is kind of fun. of course people like Laura who have neat lives that revolve around music are supposed to have name like Jane Fondle (or Lounge Laura or 69!). is some goofy optometrist from South Carolina supposed to have a signature name too? well i do. one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho: the initials for Tiki Bob (TB) scares me because in my profession, TB stand for tuberculosis. hope you enjoyed these misc ramblings, TB (which I guess is better than VD) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:30:08 EDT In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << Nat Kone only exists here on this mailing list. >> So how did you arrive at this name? TB (cough!) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:45:00 +0200 TB wrote: >one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho: the initials for Tiki = Bob=20 >(TB) scares me because in my profession, TB stand for tuberculosis. Magnus is for real but my signature M scares the hell out of me, when = thinking of a certain Peter Lorre movie. but dont worry Elsie Beckmann, = I wont hurt you. Actually I took the M signature when drawing my first comics in the mid = 80s. French comicartist Moebius was my inspiration then and I even = wanted the signature to look like it came from his hands. (How silly) = There is also a beautiful Blake and Mortimer album (by belgo EP Jabobs = who also drew backgrounds in Tintin) where the hypnotized villain draws = an M after he has made the crimes.=20 So thats Y 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:25:32 -0400 At 2:22 PM -0400 10/6/99, Nat Kone wrote: >I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once >again noticed this name Neely Plumb. >So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is. Neely Plumb was the West Coast A&R man for RCA Victor Records. Born in Georgia, he began his carreer as a clarinet player during the big band era. I'm drawing a blank right now on the name of the well known bandleader he worked with, but he made records (as a sideman) in the 40's and 50's. He began working at RCA around 1959. In those days, the A&R person was listed as the producer, although the term had a different meaning then. Unlike the rock era, where the producer became a sort of auteur in his/her own right, in the pop music field, the producer supervised the recording process - keeping costs within the budget (an impossible thing to do with Esquivel), acting as liason between the artist, engineer, contractor (who hired the musicians and watched out for the union interests), and label heads. The A&R person would always be a musician (for example, the A&R guys for Mercury in the early 60's were Pete Rugolo and Quincy Jones). They would often pick the songs to be arranged and work on the album concepts with the artists and the label chiefs. Since Neely worked in Los Angeles, you'll see his name on just about every RCA album recorded there, right up to the Jefferson Airplane. He left RCA in the late 60's and went to Capitol, where he worked until the mid 70's. His name appears most often on movie soundtracks on both RCA and Capitol. He put out an album under the name of Neely Plumb and The 50 Funky Fiddles (he told me there were really only about 6, overdubbed a dozen times) on the AVI label in 1975. It's one of those records that is sought after by break'n'beat collectors, and a couple of the tracks have been bootlegged on obscure funk collections. Neely retired in the late 70's; he's now about 85 years old. His daughter Eve Plumb is an actress, best known for her role on TV's "The Brady Bunch". 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 07 Oct 1999 11:59:26 -0400 At 12:17 PM -0400 10/6/99, m.ace wrote: >Happy to hear that this is coming out. But I'm unclear on who's releasing >it. Details? US release? Will this be commonly available? Or is it another >sassinfrassin bootleg? no, it's legit. (The only person in the world who could've bootlegged it would have been me....well, or Esquivel or Neely Plumb......and I would have been a little too easy to trace) The disc will be released by N7/BMG in November. They are a new company, run by Paul Williams, who oversaw the 3 collections produced by Irwin Chusid; their previous issues are an Eartha Kitt anthology and a Hugo Montenegro spy music collection. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:44:50 +0200 m.sandberg@telia.com writes: >>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! DJJimmyBee@aol.com replied: >Seconding the Emotion here yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course! Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) LP frames / Shoppinquarium Date: 07 Oct 1999 13:47:39 +0200 for LP frames, try BAGS UNLIMITED: http://bagsunlimited.com/ visit the "Shoppinquarium", the Mailorder Links page on my web site, for other places where to buy accessories like LP frames. http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:04:52 EDT In a message dated 10/5/99 7:48:53 PM, studio@wayno.com writes: >Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering >this album." Seems to me Cleve deserves a LITTLE more credit than a mere >hat-tip! Yeah, but can Wick give 'im what he REALLY wants? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Esquivel's "See It In Sound" Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:17:27 EDT In a message dated 10/6/99 11:06:06 AM, bcleve@pop.tiac.net writes: >Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans >etched into this area. Right Jimmy? Right, and hopefully influenced by the glory days of Mad magazine when they put little cartoons above the page's content as if they just happened to be there...Jimmy "Kaputnick" Botticelli/again wrapping his arms around a memory # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound Date: 07 Oct 1999 20:28:23 +0200 >m.sandberg@telia.com writes: > >>>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! > > >DJJimmyBee@aol.com replied: > >>Seconding the Emotion here > > > yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course! > > Johan wait a minute.... 101 %? He makes them 10 times better than any of you can say. Hah! 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999 Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:34:45 EDT In a message dated 10/6/99 3:13:05 PM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: >accidently discover >the "Aku Aku", not really spectacular looking from the freeway, but once >you get to the back side of the building, oopsiedaisy! Two 30 feet high >Easter island guys flank the A-frame entrance. Sorry we missed you Mo. What a time we would have had! But the good news is that I was able to meet with Bobby Seto, owner of Aku Aku yesterday. He gave me ALL his promo shots from 1972 - 1982 (gorgeous faux-pastel colors ) and the original menu (minus cocktails) from The Polynesian Village from which Aku Aku sprang and was located in a hotel in Kenmore Square, Boston from 1948 thru 1972. Aku Aku itself was formerly about a mile from where it now sits, on Rte 2 (leading to Concord) and Bobby told me about Wayne Newton's appearance there as well as Cher and (he thinks!) The Trammps. But when the rent got too high and they bought the place they are in now in 1976. Babby sold me the original Tiki (which stands nearly 4' tall) that graced the entry to Polynesian Village. The tiki has served as an inspiration for me to convert my cellar to a Tiki Room.....I'll post when its done....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: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:50:53 -0400 >Now I'm trying to reduce the scope. >And harmonica fits right in. >It doesn't have enough "bite". The sound is too "floaty". The Harmonicats track that originally blew my mind was their version of "Sabre Dance," off the white _Peg 'O My Heart_ LP. There was nothing floaty or toothless about that one--it's a full-bore hyperventilating freakout. (Have you guys heard the story that their producer used an elevator shaft as an echo chamber?) But I have to admit, it's basically been downhill from there, with none of the other Harmonicats LPs I've found so far really living up to that first one. Hence my high hopes for the Latinized _Harmoni-Cha-Cha-Cha_ (or whatever the canonical spelling of that is). I do agree with Ron about "Navarone" (also "El Cid") and "Cherry Pink" though. . . Later of course, I learned that goofy cover versions of "Sabre Dance" were not that uncommon. But I stumbled onto the 'Cats version on one of the first dozen old records I ever bought. And I had never heard anything remotely like it before! So I guess they earned a fond spot in my heart for that reason too. . . >> Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone) >for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only one Oh sure, like we are going to fall for this bit of disinformation. You are really named Bruno and we all know it. I remain, allegedly, --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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Pepsi? Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Batman sez: I collect all sorts of weird vinyls and other sound sources... ;) and about one year ago I have found this 1960's italian 7" from RCA with a Pepsi logo on it... no cover, though (and lotsa scratches too). It turned out to be a crazy promo disc including (not sure about the title now, I am quoting by memory) "Come alive (you're in the Pepsi generation)" (i.e. a sort of "funk-big band-not sure if I can define it exotica" piece by Sid Ramin, with brass, some good bits ready for sampling ;))) and "Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :)) >>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being used in an ad? Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit more? Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Whazzin a name? Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:21:41 -0700 (PDT) In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << .. I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake one. And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.) >> I have always thought Will Straw is a cool name, too! Speaking of coolnames, whatever happened to Pea Hicks? I think Alan Zweig is neat, actually, because it's one of those "last-name-in-the-phone-book" kinda things! >>i felt kind of funny using a "signature name" at first but it is kind of fun. of course people like Laura who have neat lives that revolve around music are supposed to have name like Jane Fondle (or Lounge Laura or 69!). Well, I'm not sure when I got a "neat life"...but I do guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing space babe than ol' Laura Taylor... Signed, oh, somebody! ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer Offering Date: 07 Oct 1999 15:51:00 -0400 >I'm back. On the same day that I read the account of the raft's grounding in Thor Heyerdahl's "Kon Tiki". Good exotica timing. Welcome back. >Some are better than I thought, like >... >the Carpenter's "Ticket to Ride", This one seems to be in the air right now. Has anyone ever seen the original release version, titled "Offering"? Thanks. 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 Risser Subject: (exotica) 180 and the Letter G Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Not exactly exotica, but similar: I have it on good word that the Weatherman's house is for sale. For those of you familiar with Negativland's output, this is the famous house where Weatherman grew up, the directions to which form the last track on the album, Big 10-8 Place. A classic piece of underground lore and a mecca for the many (well, maybe you wouldn't call us "many") Negativland fans. In any case, thought some of you would like to know. Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi? Date: 07 Oct 1999 16:13:44 EDT In a message dated 10/7/99 3:08:56 PM, jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com writes: >"Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :)) > >>>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND >GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being >used in an ad? I think it has reappeared on the TV commercials LP and CD released nearly a decade ago if its the one I'm thinking of, "Come Alive, You're In the Pepsi Generation..Think smart, stay bright, have fun, drink right..Come Alive, etc etc. The Sound Gallery one is "Talkin' 'Bout Pepsi" as I recall # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Italian Now! Date: 07 Oct 1999 16:20:02 EDT I found an interesting LP yesterday called "Ciao Ragazzi" (Goodbye Boys) by Dom Cortese &Co circa 1970. All Italian hits from the 6T's with that Now Sound treatment furnished by the presence of Phil Bodner on winds and Al Caiola on guitar. Also Dom Cortese on accordian, giving it that Continental A-Go Go sound. Thought you'd like to know....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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name? Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:12:00 +0200 Jane Fondle wrote: > I do guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing > space babe than ol' Laura Taylor... Dis... robing??? Gee... I *did* miss something in Boston! Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Whazzin a name? Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:34:28 EDT In a message dated 10/07/99 3:17:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com writes: << but I do guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing space babe than ol' Laura Taylor... >> i got news for you. if a space babe is disrobing for me i really don't give a damn what the gals name is. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi? Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:48:14 +0200 >I think it has reappeared on the TV commercials LP and CD released nearly a >decade ago if its the one I'm thinking of, "Come Alive, You're In the Pepsi >Generation..Think smart, stay bright, have fun, drink right..Come Alive, etc >etc. The Sound Gallery one is "Talkin' 'Bout Pepsi" as I recall ahem! allow me to correct u! the song I have is basically an instrumental with those "Yeeeeah, Pepsi!" chorus and at some point the stops and you have Sid Ramin (or whoever):)))) screaming "Pepsi!"... no other lyrics included! It could be a sort of "dub version" ;) of another jingle, though... bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Eve's Plumb Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From Nat: I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once again noticed this name Neely Plumb. So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is. Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame! Jane Fondle ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:01:20 EDT I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular. Also.. I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Maybe some of you "old timers" (kidding) or Esquivel fans from way back when could help me on this. If its true does anybody remember what took place? And is there perhaps an 8 mm tape of this appearance available? And Finally... Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s (like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:27:48 -0400 At 02:50 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote: > >Later of course, I learned that goofy cover versions of "Sabre Dance" >were not that uncommon. But I stumbled onto the 'Cats version on one >of the first dozen old records I ever bought. And I had never heard >anything remotely like it before! So I guess they earned a fond spot >in my heart for that reason too. . . Not that anyone has to make excuses for their taste, not on this list of all places, but I understand that completely. It's kind of interesting to trace your journey in this genre especially since there really was no "official" way to get into this stuff. For instance I'm always struck when people talk about "Zounds what sounds" because that was one of the first three or four "lounge" LP's I bought and of course I had no idea at the time, that it was a rarity or a classic either. I just liked the cover. And sometimes I wonder how much my tastes have been influenced by the de facto "canons" that have been developed by this very list. Anyway, when I started buying this stuff, virtually anything that "fit" into the general genre was interesting to me. But that's also a factor of not knowing how much of this stuff you're eventually going to come across. When you're not looking for something, you can get the impression that there's not much of it to find. It's silly to say "harmonica sucks". (But that didn't stop me from once upon a time declaring that "Edmondo Ros sucks!") It's just that at this point - when I get rid of four out of every five LP's I pick up - it's nice to be rifling through a pile of records, come to an immediate, automatic halt at the words "el cumbanchero and dismiss the record anyway. BTW, it seems to me that EVERY version of Sabre Dance is over-the-top. My Sabre Dance experience began with a version by... uh... some English guitar god rock band. Help me out here. Some Rory Gallagher type. Maybe he wasn't English. Somehow the name Mike Pinera rings a bell here. Before he joined the Iron Butterfly. Somebody must know this. It was a ten or fifteen-minute version of Sabre Dance, probably filled a whole album side and I loved it. And then I heard Dick Contino's version. Any of you repeated-versions-of-the-same-tune guys have a list for Sabre Dance? That would be a crazy hour or two. (Alan wouldn't go on like this but Nat has absolutely no boundaries when it comes to rambling and free association.) 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) Whazzin a name? Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:41:07 -0400 At 12:21 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote: > > >I have always thought Will Straw is a cool name, too! >Speaking of coolnames, whatever happened to Pea Hicks? >I think Alan Zweig is neat, actually, because it's one >of those "last-name-in-the-phone-book" kinda things! And then there's the "A to Z" factor. Actually some guy who I interviewed for my film was overly-fascinated by that factor and kept saying stuff like "The alphabet must be very important to you". Of course, this was someone who went by the name "Zack McBuick" and he had even less reason to "hide" than me. The other pseudononymous (or however you say it) guy I interviewed, went by the name "Hank Sinatra". I'm betting there's a musician calling himself that in practically every city in North America but maybe not. It's a cool name anyway. I think it was somehow more appropriate when he was in a rockabilly band but by the time I met him, he was born again and only performed in churches. And I think the name "Laura Taylor" is cool. Kind of reminds me of "Laura Petrie" and I can definitely imagine Laura Petrie in tight clothes dancing onstage. Pedal pushers come to mind for some reason. It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you were a contract player in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you keep your name or would they make you change it?" Laura Taylor and Will Straw would probably get to keep their names. (One of those names already sounds made up.) When my brother put out a solo record, he had to go by "Michael Zee". (It's obviously different for novelists.) On the other hand, when my old buddy Eddie Schwartz made his record, they told him that it was a perfectly good rock n roll name. I hope I've discussed this to death by now. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Mad Magazine Date: 07 Oct 1999 20:24:14 -0400 > Right, and hopefully influenced by the glory days of Mad magazine when they > put little cartoons above the page's content as if they just happened to be > there... I recently stopped at a computer store. I was very happy to see this following item which is now available to add to my Christmas wish-list. http://www.dccomics.com/mad/totallymad/index.htm Vern (my real name, if you know what I mean) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Kevin C." Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt / Emperor Norton Sampler Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:30:03 -0700 Kirsten Noel Whitley wrote: > In my own attempt to be helpful, I have a > lead for those of you who search out tiki- > wear. There is a tiki shirt, which not > only displays tikis big and bold, but also > is on sale (was $49, is now $40). Go to > http://www.hotshirts.com/index.html > Click on "View Shirts" and then do a search > for "tiki". The one that I am referring to > is called Tiki Warriors. All of those Tiki shirts are really cool... but for $40-75 they ought to be! Thanks for the tip Kevin Crossman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Whazzin a name? Date: 07 Oct 1999 21:49:57 EDT In a message dated 10/7/99 3:38:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << "Zack McBuick" >> i love this for the obvious reasons. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) where records hide in DC Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:18:37 EDT Greetings all, I just found out today that I will probably be in Washington DC on Sunday and Monday and I plan on spending atleast half of my time there searching for vinyl. If anyone knows of good places to get records in the DC area please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated. Contact me either on or off the list. I'll be glad to update everyone on any outstanding or previously undiscussed records I might find. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name? Date: 08 Oct 1999 00:36:31 EDT In a message dated 10/7/99 6:38:59 PM, bruno@yhammer.com writes: >When my brother put out a solo record, he had to go by "Michael Zee". >(It's obviously different for novelists.) On the other hand, when my old >buddy Eddie Schwartz made his record, they told him that it was a perfectly >good rock n roll name. >I hope I've discussed this to death by now. Can't get enuf...do-dap, do-dap, unhhh, of that funky stuff! "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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Fwd: the TRUTH about the Bomboras! Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:10:13 -0400 Path: newsie.cais.net!infeed1.news.cais.net!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news-lond.gip.net!news-raspail.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!oleane!portc04.blue.aol.com!audrey03.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.music.banana-truffle NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder06.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19991006125633.11241.00000058@ng-cl1.aol.com> Xref: newsie.cais.net alt.music.banana-truffle:667687 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline alright, so maybe some of you know me, but most of you don't. my name is paul buck, i have been playing guitar for the bomboras since = greg left. i find some of the information running around this little discussion= to be 100% wrong. as of this moment, the bomboras have not broken up. in = san fransisco, jake, (organ) quit the band in a fit of childish rage. he TOOK = $300 dollars from us and fled to the airport where he then flew home. san = francisco was our LAST show with jake ever! our tour is cancelled. there is no new record. the last recording that was ever made by the bomboras, and will = ever be made by the bomboras is the Monsters of Surf comp. the facts are kids = that we are discussing our situation and attempting to come up with a solution. = it is probable that we will play our last six shows that we are booked for at universal studios without jake and after that call it quits. keep in mind = here that none of this is 100%. so don't go starting any blasphemous rumors. i will inform you guys that when this is all over with, you can expect the remaining four members of the bomboras to do something NEW and EXCITING.=20= before i was a member of this band i was a fan, and i would be bummed when = i founf out the band was no more... but have no fear, those of us that = remain loyal and true to making music our life will prevail and rock once more, bomboras or not. look for new releases on Zombie a Go Go, MAYBE sometime = from the remaining four of us doing something completely different. those of us that remain bomboras at this time appreciate your support throughout all of this bullshit. i hope that if our new band ever comes through your town you'll say hi. finally, i don't have a computer, so if you wish to respond or say hi, = email me, paul buck, at bomboras@hotmail.com, or go look at the bomboras website = if that address is wrong. sincerely, Paul Buck # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Irwin Chusid/Raymond Scott Archives" Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott News Update 10/99 Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:16:41 -0400 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RAYMOND SCOTT NEWS UPDATE -- 1999 OCTOBER -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This month: # RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS remastered US edition released by Sony Legacy # RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE to perform Animated Music Festival, Belgium, Dec. 1999 # MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC. 2-CD set of Raymond Scott unreleased electronica # RAYMOND SCOTT CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS performed by the Metropole Orch. w/ Beau Hunks Saxtette released on Basta # RAYMOND SCOTT SHEET MUSIC for Symphony Orchestra now available * * * * * RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS -- remastered US edition released by Sony Legacy -- ''RECKLESS NIGHTS is a collection of the music Raymond Scott wrote and recorded between 1936 and 1939. It is totally inspiring; high energy music with tempos that rival any speed garage techno-schmecno dance music.'' --Avant Magazine Sony Legacy has released the remastered edition of the landmark 1992 Raymond Scott CD, RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS. This 22-track package features the original 78 rpm recordings of the Raymond Scott Quintette, including the best-known RSQ titles (esp. those used in WB cartoons) such as "Powerhouse," "The Toy Trumpet," "The Penguin," "In an 18th Century Drawing Room," "Twilight in Turkey," etc. The compilation was produced by Irwin Chusid, with Hal Willner as Executive Producer. On the new version, all tracks were 24-bit remastered at Sony Studios, NYC (i.e., the latest technology was used to extract better sound from the original 1937-40 metal master discs). Two tracks ("Oil Gusher" and "At An Arabian House Party") have been replaced by different, newly discovered -- and more exciting -- performances. The remastered RNTT was released outside the US on Basta in late 1998. Liner notes for the Legacy edition have been further revised since the Basta release. Legacy's RNTT can be ordered for only $11.49 from Amazon.com. The easiest way to find it is to click on the Scott website NEWS link below and then click on the RNTT album cover, which will take you right to Amazon's new RNTT page: http://RaymondScott.com/News.html * * * * * * * RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE in Belgium - December 1999 The seven-man RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE (RSO) has been invited to perform at the ANIMATED MUSIC FESTIVAL (of cartoon music) in Brussels, Belgium, on December 3. The RSO, which performs modernistic arrangements of Scott tunes, debuted at the Jewish Museum in February 1999, and performed at Central Park SummerStage last June. The Brussels program includes, on December 2, a special video presentation by RS Archives director Irwin Chusid of Raymond Scott and his music in cartoons and film. The RSO consists of Wayne Barker (piano, arrangements); Brian Dewan (electric zither, piano, accordion, electronics); Michael Hashim (saxes); Will Holshouser (accordion, arrangements); George Rush (bass); Rob Thomas (violin); and Clem Waldmann (drums). These musicians (and dozens of others) first performed Raymond's music at the Bottom Line tribute shows in 1996 and '97. The RSO recently recorded a 7-tune album demo and is seeking a record deal. Performance dates in NYC and a possible tour are being explored. For booking info, contact Irwin Chusid * * * * * * * RAYMOND SCOTT CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS performed by the Metropole Orchestra featuring the Beau Hunks Saxtette released on Basta Records, October 1999 On a 1997 US research expedition, Beau Hunks leader Gert-Jan Blom discovered a collection of large-scale orchestral arrangements for 17 Scott Quintet titles. These had been commissioned by noted bandleader Paul Whiteman for his late 1930s Chesterfield radio program. The catalog included two very different treatments of "Powerhouse," along with familiar RS tunes like "War Dance for Wooden Indians" and "The Toy Trumpet." Blom also found scores for an unknown and never-recorded tune called "Suicide Cliff," and charts for the rarely heard "Tia Juana" and "Mexican Jumping Bean." These works were performed on the Chesterfield series from late 1937 to late 1938, but Whiteman recorded only a few. Blom has now recorded these works with the Metropole Orchestra, one of the finest large European jazz ensembles. (The MO has worked with Brian Eno, among others). The orchestra is accompanied by the virtuoso Beau Hunks "Saxtette." The Chesterfield arrangements are very unlike the original RSQ versions -- they are radically re-arranged, almost CARL STALLING-like in their majesty. Will Friedwald writes in the liner notes: "The Whiteman Orchestra was, in some instances, better equipped to carry out Scott's artistic vision than his Quintette. Where the six-piece group can simulate only a handful of "wooden Indians," the full band gives you the entire tribe. The Whitemanites expand "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," "Twilight In Turkey," and "Egyptian Barn Dance" to Cecil B. DeMille-like proportions." * * * * * * * RAYMOND SCOTT SHEET MUSIC FOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In an ongoing series of Raymond Scott titles arranged for full symphony orchestra, Robert Wendel Music, in association with Music Sales Corp., now has three releases: * "Powerhouse" * "Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals" * "The Toy Trumpet" These arrangements are available from Robert Wendel Music on a per-performance, rental-only basis. Full details, including instrumentation and pricing, can be obtained by calling 212-362-9094, or visiting: www.pipeline.com/~bobwen (audio samples are on the site). Wendel is a supplier of high quality Pops charts, whose client list includes the Cincinnati Pops, Boston Pops, and nearly 300 professional orchestras in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe. * * * * * * * MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC. 2-CD set of Raymond Scott unreleased electronica In early 2000, Basta Records will unveil MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC., a 2-CD edition of Raymond Scott's unreleased electronic recordings. This collection will feature first-time releases of archival Scott recordings from the 1950s-60s. These works feature such RS inventions as the Electronium, Clavivox, Circle Machine (early sequencer), Rhythm Modulator, Bass-Line Generator and more. The album includes collaborative works with Jim Henson, and a 135-page booklet featuring interviews with people who knew and worked with Scott (e.g., Mitzi Scott, Robert Moog, Tom Rhea), along with countless previously unseen photos, lab notes, and RS scrapbook items. A sequel, THE ELECTRONIUM YEARS (late 1960s-70s), is already in the planning stages. * * * * * * * SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY Scott's groundbreaking 1964 three-volume set of electronic lullabies for infants (now considered a forerunner of modern electronica) is still in stock. The price is $30 total for 3 individually packaged CDs (plus $3.00 for US shipping). For ordering by mail (check & MO only), contact: . To purchase via credit card, we suggest CDNow.com or Amazon.com. If you would like obtain the limited vinyl edition of SSFB, contact Forced Exposure: http://www.ForcedExposure.com * * * * * * * This mailing list has been compiled from those who have inquired about RAYMOND SCOTT over the past few years. Occasional news about RS will be issued, but this list will not be given to *anyone* for *any* reason. Let us know if you do not want to be included in our infrequent mailings. Best regards, Irwin Chusid Director, Raymond Scott Archives _____________________________________ Visit the Raymond Scott website http://RaymondScott.com created and maintained by Jeff Winner # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Eve's Plumb Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:24:44 -0400 At 02:20 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote: >Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve >Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame! I was never a Brady fan but nonetheless had the hots for Eve. (But not like I did for "Erin" on the Waltons.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:30:36 -0400 At 06:01 PM 10/7/99 EDT, JayMan282@aol.com wrote: >Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made >appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s >(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, >Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. If I was obsessed with this, I probably would have a decent collection of such stuff by now. And then maybe I could put it out for rent, like that amazing collection of "garage bands on TV" which I saw, the highlight of which was Question Mark performing "solo" on the Dick Clark show. Jack Jones - my and Laura's hero - did a few numbers on the recent Jerry Lewis telethon. And about a year ago I saw an amazing performance by Ferrante and Teicher - not just performing with prepared pianos but also explaining them - on a Canadian variety show from the fifties. Wish I'd kept that tape, in retrospect. There was also a pretty good two hour documentary on A&E recently about the history of talk shows which gave me the impression there's lots and lots of "archival material" somewhere. It's hard to believe somebody somewhere hasn't started to collect this stuff. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 00:20:18 -0700 > It's hard to believe somebody somewhere hasn't started to collect this stuff. To generalize....lots of it is "out there" to be had. Pick up a copy of Big Reel Collector Mag at your local newstand, probably perched on a lower shelf somewhere near Goldmine (same format, publisher), and scan the classifieds and small ads for catalogs. Loads of stuff circulates amongst collectors if you're wont to spend the time pursuing it. I'm slowly amassing a collection of every Morey Amsterdam TeeVee appearance, starting with his hosting the first late night talk show "Broadway Open House" in 1948. Someone had to, I guess ! Here's one guy with lots of amazing stuff to write to for a catalog; Kinescope Video 1563 Solano Ave., #446 Berkeley, CA 94707 Paul 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 05:24:03 EDT In a message dated 10/7/99 3:04:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, JayMan282@aol.com writes: << Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s (like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. >> There is a fairly famous clip of Martin Denny on the Diana Shore show. The clip is in black and white and has Diana practicing monkey calls. I think she later used this technique with Burt and their bedroom antics. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 05:28:22 EDT In a message dated 10/7/99 3:25:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << For instance I'm always struck when people talk about "Zounds what sounds" because that was one of the first three or four "lounge" LP's I bought and of course I had no idea at the time, that it was a rarity or a classic either. I just liked the cover. >> and you just happened to run across Zounds in a thrift store and bought it? now i am curious, how many people on the list have ths LP? wow. 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Italian Now! Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:31:34 EDT <> With this lineup and this theme, it can't go wrong! 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: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Plumbs Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:33:31 EDT <> And the inspiration for the obscure band Eve's Plumb 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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) That Rory Gallagher-like English guy who did "Sabre Dance" Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:47:52 Was Dave Edmunds, when he was leading a band called Love Sculpture. "Sabre Dance" is one of the favorite "classical kitsch" numbers space age pop artists loved to cover. For examples of others, check out: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/classkit.htm Brad P.S.--The reason I started the Space Age Pop website in the first place was to have a place to put useless trivia like the above that otherwise just clutters up my mind. Hasn't worked so far. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Pepsi Ad Music Date: 08 Oct 1999 13:45:29 +0100 Jane said, about a Pepsi promo song: ">>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being used in an ad? Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit more? Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle" WOW I need a tape of that Italian pepsi song!! Pretty please ?!?!?!? Meantime I can fill in a bit about the cut on the Sound Gallery album for ya: it's "Shout about Pepsi" and it was taken from "Non-Stop Pepsi Party" by (I think) veteran EMI session muso Alan Hawkshaw, released on UK budget label MFP c.1976. I found this LP in a junk (thrift) store for 25 pence, which is about right. The cover features the usual dolly bird in garish pose and the vinyl is AFAICR less than essential listening. Mighta bin some promotional tie-in or soemthing but then I'd have expected it to have been on a custom label rather than MFP. Prefers root beer, phil dilemma # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:58:21 -0500 >and you just happened to run across Zounds in a thrift store and bought it? > >now i am curious, how many people on the list have ths LP? i lucked upon it recently... mint... stereo... $5. felt like i was robbing a bank. - 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: Subject: (exotica) intergalactic flea market Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:01:24 -0400 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933 Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now. (This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.) Here's the description: From galaxies beyond our own, strange beings come to mingle under the archway for a rare look at items taken (more likely stolen) from the planet Earth. The tall, gray character with a friendless stare holds in his hand an authentic aboriginal star map. At his feet is a model of the Earth, along with the first microscope of that world. The stuffed bird is entitled "Dodo Mounted on Wood." Nearby, a green-skinned alien mischievously eyes a parrot boy, causing the youngster to hug his mother's leg. The parrot woman studies an oddity called a "bird cage." The cage-thing sits atop Marconi's first radio...No, she hasn't yet noticed the bird bath (a bargain for only 50 Gruens). The parrot man gazes toward a touring car in the distance; closer to him is a fifteenth century cannon and an early telescope, one purportedly first owned by a human named Galileo. Twin sisters from Sirius glide along in unison to orbit the unusual artifacts, while a blond alien watches from behind sunglasses.! ! Sitting on a velvet Louis XIVth chair is a piggish-looking, "poorly dressed" creature who appears to be openly annoyed at our presence. The foreground is littered with more earthly treasures...We see the elongated skull of an earthling and, tooled in clay, an ancient accountant's record of someone's financial history; an Assyrian stone carving; an eighteenth century porcelain doll; Thomas Edison's first phonograph; a painting by Renoir (supposedly genuine); a golden Egyptian cartouche fragment; a Grecian ornament stone (slightly chipped); and an eary radio from the Art Deco period. Contrasting the Polynesian clay figure and the wooden Byzantine statue, there stands a tiny toy mouse. With arms raised, he welcomes the arrivial of incoming cargo ships. -Lou lousmith@pipeline.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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:17:31 -0400 >i lucked upon it recently... mint... stereo... $5. > >felt like i was robbing a bank. I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13. Felt like robbing my own bank. Brian "Bing Bini" 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: dymaxia@ripco.com Subject: Re: (exotica) intergalactic flea market Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:37:06 -0500 nytab@pipeline.com wrote: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933 > > Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now. > (This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.) > > Here's the description: > > ! ohmigod. This is one of the five billion reasons why this is my favorite lists. Only my fellow exoticarians are capable of seeing the beauty in such a work. If I were just the slightest bit wealthier, I'd snap it up in a minute! -- Kerry http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "ÿ" Subject: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:36:10 -0700 (PDT) A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is "Bend It! u.s.a. '94" Harp Records 199? This is one wild ride of music, all kinds of styles. It reminds me of Johan Dada Vis's compilations. The songs all share the love of football/soccer. The cd starts with the field recordings of a World Cup goal in 1966 followed by Cornelius, who contributes one of his best songs "Pele". A nice bouncy shibuya-kei song, this is great Cornelius song. Kahimi Karie soon follows with a wordless vocal modern now sound classic called "World Cup Football Jazz" This is Kahimi with a very upbeat now sound and this is a great great song by her. Louis Philippe does "Eusebio" another good song by a leader of modern soft pop. Other groups I never heard of do wonderful soft pop exotica songs. Theres a definite exotica feel to this collection. This cd explores world of fottball/soccer fasicnation/fantacism and sounds with even high schoolish football chants and there is hardly a looser in this group of songs. On the inside jacket it says "World Cup Bend It! USA 94 is licenced from exotica" On the back of the cd it says 25 soccer-boppers. It also advertises a London address for ordering "Bend It,91, 92 or 93. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:06:39 -0400 At 6:01 PM -0400 10/7/99, JayMan282@aol.com wrote: >I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he >ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give >a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular. 'Miniskirt' in particular has that sound, but not much else from the last 2 RCA albums has it. Two of his Mexican '45's from '69 have it - 'Mah Na Mah Na' and 'Pais Tropical' - - but good luck finding them. His unreleased Lex DeAccevia sessions from '72, including an arrangement of Donovan's 'Atlantis', have more of a Sunshine Pop kind of sound. >I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made >an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape >was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this? confirm > If its true does anybody remember what took place? They performed 'Malaguena' to a rousing ovation >Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made >appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s >(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, >Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. Esquivel appeared on the Danny Kaye show and a Pat Boone special. No known copies exist. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Fantastica #37 Mp3: correct playlist Date: 08 Oct 1999 15:17:09 +0200 Ron Grandia wrote: >(NOTE: I just noticed MY version of #37 is different than the playlist >version. I guess he updated it, so the playlist will be helpful, but not >wholly accurate.) Yep, i changed a couple of tracks lately... here is the playlist of the version of this episode that Ron has: Fantastica # 37 title: SPECIAL: Ferrante & Teicher - identification: Sparky 1. Ferrante & Teicher: "Tico tico" o album "Dos Amigos" o CD, Bainbridge 6280, USA & France, 1988, deleted | +++ 2. Ferrante & Teicher: "Oye negra" o album "Fireworks" o LP, Columbia Harmony HS 11227, USA, | +++++ o info: Electronically re-channeled for stereo reissue of "H-Fireworks" with 2 tracks less. 3. LEITMOTIV: Sparky: "Sparky's magic piano" o album "Sparky's Magic Piano" o LP, Golden Guinea GGL 0297 mono, UK | +++ o info: Written and produced by Alan Livingston, music by Billy May, talking piano by Sonovox, narrated by Verne Smith. "Sparky and the talking train" is on the B side, by Henry Blair and Cast. 4. Ferrante & Teicher: "In the rain" o album "Blast Off!" o LP, ABCS 285 stereo, USA, 1959 | +++++ o info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 5. Ferrante & Teicher: "Chopstick cha cha" o album "Blast Off!" o see above mention of this record for more details. 6. Ferrante & Teicher: "Over the rainbow" o album "Easy listening favorites" o CD, MCA 20733, USA, 1993 | +++++ 7. Ferrante & Teicher: "Cumana" o album "Soundproof" o LP, Westminster WST 15011 STEREO, USA | +++++ o info: SoundPROOF in STEREO has the same titles as SoundBLAST in MONO. 8. Ferrante & Teicher: "The lady is a tramp" o album "Dynamic twin pianos" o LP, United Artists WWS 8504 stereo, USA | +++++ 9. Ferrante & Teicher: "African echoes" o album "Around the world with Ferrante and Teicher" o LP, United Artists UA-LA681-G, USA, 1976 | +++ 10. Ferrante & Teicher: "A bee and his honey" o album "Dynamic twin pianos" o see above mention of this record for more details. 11. Ferrante & Teicher: "Caravan" o album "Fireworks" o see above mention of this record for more details. 12. Ferrante & Teicher: "The nearness of you" o album "With Percussion" o LP, ABC-Paramount 248 mono, USA, 1958 | +++++ 13. Ferrante & Teicher: "Stardust" o album "Heavenly Sounds In Hi-Fi" o LP, ABC-Paramount 221, USA, 1958 | +++++ o info: Exists on CD (as "Easy listening favorites", minus 2 tracks), see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 14. Ferrante & Teicher: "Jungle drums" o album "Pianos in Paradise" o LP, United Artists UAS 6230 stereo, USA | +++ 15. Ferrante & Teicher: "Brazil" o album "Soundproof" o see above mention of this record for more details. 16. Ferrante & Teicher: "Gonna fly now (theme from "Rocky")" o album "Rocky and Other Knockouts" o LP, United Artists | + o info: "Rocky" is good, but the rest is crap. 17. Ferrante & Teicher: "Lay lady lay" o compilation "Instrumental favourites: Pop Pleasures" o CD, Time-Life Music TCD-452 R986-09, USA,1996 | +++ 18. Ferrante & Teicher: "Cielito lindo" o album "With Percussion" o see above mention of this record for more details. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 19:40:14 +0200 >>i lucked upon it recently... mint... stereo... $5. >> >>felt like i was robbing a bank. > >I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13. > >Felt like robbing my own bank. > >Brian "Bing Bini" Phillips I almost feel ashamed! I paid $60, only Fantastica has been more expensive for me. =20 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: Trebonious@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Plumbs Date: 08 Oct 1999 14:30:22 EDT << <> And the inspiration for the obscure band Eve's Plumb >> anyone remember those 2 late 70s classics..."Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"('76) and the sequal "Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn" (77) great flicks starring our new friend of the list Eve Plumb, She runs away to hollywood to 'make it big' but instead becomes a prostitute. hehe. -the Sensation # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Electric Logs Date: 08 Oct 1999 15:50:50 EDT I had the opportunity to catch The Electric Logs last night in the Boston area as they opened for Seks Bomba. George was right. Listers will be interested in their sound which consists of Keyboards, Percussion, Theremin, Drums and Bass. Some vocals. Their cassette contains "Mad Pad" (cover of "Kookie's Mad Pad"), "Logs' Luv Theme", an original jet set-styled piece, a wild, cool and swingin' version of "Sugar Sugar", a burnin' version of "Our Man Flint" and "The Hump Dance" by some little known bizarre S.F.-based songwriter back in the day...Keep your ears out for 'em...Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 16:01:25 EDT In a message dated 10/08/99 10:21:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, hagar@mindspring.com writes: << I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13. Felt like robbing my own bank. Brian "Bing Bini" Phillips >> i hate to ask this, but what is the purpose of this record in mono? i listened to it with head phones the other day for the first time (don't know why i haven't earlier@!@#!!?) that stereo effect is a BLAST ! ! ! Boing . . . . .boing . . . .boing . . . . . boing . . . . . boing tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Classics Date: 08 Oct 1999 13:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Hey all, The millenium is coming up and I had a little pet project I'd like to embark on. What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums; those albums that every Exoticat who's halfway serious should have in their collection; The milestones and yardsticks that all other Exotica is measured by. Now for this list, I'm not looking for your personal faves. For example, while Vampyros Lesbos is not my favorite, I would definitely put it in the "classics" category and list it on my list. Similarly, I'm not a big Yma Sumac fan, but I think some of her work is canonical. The SECOND list I want to create is the top 100 (or so) *underrated* exotica albums. Basically, the albums that, had the you ability, you'd bless every person on the list with at least a copy of so they could be exposed to this amazing find. Basically, things that really should find their way into the canon. For example, I'd include Hawaiian Swing by Hugo Winterhalter. (I hope that's the right name.) I wouldn't say that it's a canonical work, but it's bizarre and cool and I would certainly hope that someday everyone would hear it. Anyway, I'm sure that these lists will cross over, and maybe it's folly to try to even divide it, so if you are having trouble deciding where something falls, don't worry about it. In the end, what I plan to do is coallate all the lists, see what common albums bubble to the top, and produce a final list, just in time for the turning of the millenium. (Yeah, I know the millenium REALLY changes a year from now, but the rest of us non-astrophysicists are very excited.) Oh, and this is for ALBUMS, not compilations. Although if you really think some compilations should be part of the canon, let me know, and maybe I'll toss in a third category. Oh yeah, also, this is the BROAD category of exotica including Hawaiian, exotica, now sound, blaxploitation, go-go, ya ya, humpa, soft pop and whatever else the hell we all listen to, right? Also, there's NO age limit, as I'd include Combustible Edison and Air in the canonical repetoire. Or at least the "Should Be" pile. Anyway, the only way this is going to work is to play early and OFTEN. If everyone only submits one or two albums, it's never gonna cut it. We need lots of data to do this right. So think about this over the next few days and if you think of any, forward them to me, even a few at a time: knucklehead000@yahoo.com Thanks! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: SV: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 16:13:15 EDT In a message dated 10/08/99 2:35:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m.sandberg@telia.com writes: << I almost feel ashamed! I paid $60, only Fantastica has been more expensive for me. >> most i ever paid was 40 bucks + shipping for a denny exotic moog. tiki bob is a cheap ass # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:57:53 +0200 =FF wrote: > A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is "Bend It! u.s.a.= '94" Harp > Records 199? It's great stuff! The publisher behind "bend it" is the same who's behind= the "Exotic Beatles" compilations, the legendary "=E9l"-label and numerous other prod= uctions, that I mentioned on this list a dozen times (mainly because of my admiration for= Simon Fisher-Turner...) : Mike Alway. Anything Mike Alway has touched is someho= w interesting. The man himself is a mystery... I keep hearing stories about him, like, h= e's hiding from the police, disappearing, reappearing on the scene with a new label etc. = I guess these compilations haven't really cleared all copyrights, which isn't possible = anyway, as anybody knows, who ever put together a compilation album like this. How m= any "Bend it" volumes are there anyway? 5? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:58:54 +0200 In a message dated 10/7/99 3:04:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,JayMan282@aol.com writes: > << Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made > appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s > (like Ed Sullivan and such) Arthur Lyman appeared in an episode of Hawaiian Eye... Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:06:39 -0400 At 6:01 PM -0400 10/7/99, JayMan282@aol.com wrote: >I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he >ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give >a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular. 'Miniskirt' in particular has that sound, but not much else from the last 2 RCA albums has it. Two of his Mexican '45's from '69 have it - 'Mah Na Mah Na' and 'Pais Tropical' - - but good luck finding them. His unreleased Lex DeAccevia sessions from '72, including an arrangement of Donovan's 'Atlantis', have more of a Sunshine Pop kind of sound. >I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made >an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape >was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this? confirm > If its true does anybody remember what took place? They performed 'Malaguena' to a rousing ovation >Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made >appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s >(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, >Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. Esquivel appeared on the Danny Kaye show and a Pat Boone special. No known copies exist. 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 08 Oct 1999 09:34:23 -0700 (PDT) A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is "Bend It! U.S.A. '94" Harp Records 199? This is one wild ride of music, all kinds of styles. It reminds me of Johan Dada Vis's compilations. The songs all share the love of football/soccer. The cd starts with the field recordings of a World Cup goal in 1966 followed by Cornelius, who contributes one of his best songs "Pele". A nice bouncy shibuya-kei song, this is great Cornelius song. Kahimi Karie soon follows with a wordless vocal modern now sound classic called "World Cup Football Jazz" This is Kahimi with a very upbeat now sound and this is a great great song by her. Louis Philippe does "Eusebio" another good song by a leader of modern soft pop. Other groups I never heard of do wonderful soft pop exotica songs. Theres a definite exotica feel to this collection. This cd explores world of fottball/soccer fasicnation/fantacism and sounds with even high schoolish football chants and there is hardly a looser in this group of songs. On the inside jacket it says "World Cup Bend It! USA 94 is licenced from exotica" On the back of the cd it says 25 soccer-boppers. It also advertises a London address for ordering "Bend It, 91, 92 or 93. I got this wonderful cd on recomendation from Tom at 212 477-8150 http://www.othermusic.com Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) Zounds was Harmonicats Date: 08 Oct 1999 20:38:53 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 2:00:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jonny_yuma@hotmail.com writes: << then found a mint copy (still in shrink) of Jack Contandino's "Music From a Surplus Store" for a buck about a week later. >> i hope i am not ungrateful, but that Surplus Store stuff kinda bores me. tiki 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) intergalactic flea market Date: 08 Oct 1999 22:00:30 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 8:32:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dymaxia@ripco.com writes: << > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933 > > Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now. > (This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.) > > Here's the description: > > ! ohmigod. This is one of the five billion reasons why this is my favorite lists. Only my fellow exoticarians are capable of seeing the beauty in such a work. If I were just the slightest bit wealthier, I'd snap it up in a minute! -- >> reminds me slightly of the Garden of Earthly Delights --- so that is where you get flowers. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Carlson Subject: (exotica) Sabre Dance Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:36:05 -0700 (PDT) >Sabre Dance experience began with a version by... >uh... some English guitar >god rock band. Help me out here. It was Love Sculpture. The guitarist (extrodinaire) was Dave Edmunds, later a power-pop god with Nick Lowe and Rockpile. Craig ===== Craig Carlson Computer and Network Services Boston __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "Karl Engel" Subject: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:54:11 -0400 Apologies if the list has already covered this, but.... I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. The movie is quite good and I think we'll see interesting things from Devor in the future, but the soundtrack will be a real joy to readers of this list; original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny, Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great. After the screening, the director was asked if there would be a soundtrack CD....he "certainly hopes so." So do I. -KE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Craig L. Carlson" Subject: (exotica) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 01:12:18 -0400 Peter Risser wrote: >What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums So glad you asked! My top 1,000 lp's (in no particular order) are: Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of a live audience! Craig ccarlson@psn.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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Date: 09 Oct 1999 01:21:52 -0400 At 11:54 PM 10/8/99 -0400, Karl Engel wrote: >I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New >York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles >Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. >original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny, >Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great. Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business, it's still with us in the film business. And I suspect it will continue to be for a long time to come. There's probably a lot of reasons for it. Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge reissues and people who work in film and film music. The fact that soundtrack music has always been closely associated with lounge and/or exotica. The fact that this music lends itself to soundtracks so easily. The fact that things become "hip" about five years after they're finished. The fact that a lot of the DJ-types who sample this kind of stuff are producing CD's that sound like soundtracks for films that were never made. But any way you cut it, this music is coming up a lot lately. (Or maybe I just recognize it more than I used to.) Just the other day I rented "Office Space" - the first half of which I can recommend - and it begins with a classic Perez Prado cut, used to very humorous effect. Then there's Breakfast of Champions with all the Martin Denny stuff. And a couple of years ago there was "First the World then the Fireworks" (I think that was the name) with Pete Rugolo aping his own film noir scoring style. And of course, once upon a time there was Four Rooms where the music was by far the best part of the film. A film which could only have gotten worse if Roberto Benigni AND Robin Williams had been in it. I'm a Willeford fan and I'd like to see this film but this exotica soundtrack thing is getting a bit old, fast. And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade. (I shouldn't be so glib. The soundtrack to my own film is also heavily slanted in the same direction. My excuse is that these records are actually part of the story of the film itself.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 11:32:44 +0200 Peter Risser wrote: > I had a little pet project ... > > What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums... "Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30 people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got, does that really make sense? I mean, compared to the effort it takes to type 100 titles... Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:35:49 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 8:58:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cassiel@ix.netcom.com writes: << I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. >> could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too major) be provided? what is the distribution of this thing going to be? and when? tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:36:43 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 10:16:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ccarlson@psn.net writes: << Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of a live audience! >> but before that ladies and gentlemen: TOPO GEGEIO ! ! ! ! ! ! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Uh Oh -- Death of Lounge Thing Again Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:43:06 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business, it's still with us in the film business. And I suspect it will continue to be for a long time to come. There's probably a lot of reasons for it. Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge reissues and people who work in film and film music. >> and the same thing with commercials. Lounge music (loosely applied term here) and even strange music lends themselves so nicely to "background" music for commercials while not taking the attention away from the product. For instance, Esquivel's Sentimental Journey (you know -- the one with the guy whistling) plays for a Publix Grocery Store commercial here in the South. Baby elephant walk plays on a bathroom tissue commercial and there was a Combustible Edison cut on a Tide commercial that was mysteriously replaced by some other loungy like standard (reason Cleve???) We are going to continuer to hear the lounge, exotic, sapb, etc. but we are not going to get the reissues. i have always preferred smaller, more intimate parties if you will, anyway, tiki bob the swing stuff, and more particularly vocals, do not lend to good commercial background music. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:47:06 EDT In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade. >> I like that Lensed phrase. I am going to use it in my trade (profession) too. As in "Have you lensed that patient yet?" Meaning have you put contact lenses on her. An old saying some optometrists would use is "hanging glass". As in when one optometrist asks another, "So what have you been up to lately." "Nothing, just hanging glass." Sorry for the non-related observations. Tiki 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:49:39 EDT In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << "Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30 people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got, does that really make sense? >> Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Christmas album is number 93 on my list. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:52:38 EDT Opps! What a fool I am, I meant to say 94. I know that everybody is interested in this information so I wanted to post a timely correction. Of course in the area of fairness, I will accept and carefully consider reasons it should stay at 93. Damn, now I am confused. I will be spending my weekend rearranging my albums in order of favorites. I have them lined down the hall, thru the den, into the kitchen and out the door. Tiki 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:56:00 EDT In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change? >> Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot down each other. BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am taking about. Hawaiian something. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 15:10:39 +0200 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman > album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am > taking about. Hawaiian something. Hawaiian pepper's lonely hearts club band. Marco (who is going to watch Monthy Python on BBC 2 tonight) -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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: "Karl Engel" Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999) Date: 09 Oct 1999 09:32:15 -0400 In a message dated 10/9/99 6:35 AM, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: > could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too major) > be provided? what is the distribution of this thing going to be? and when? They are still seeking distribution. They've been talking to a lot of people, but no deals are set yet. Apparently it will be showing at the Sundance Film Festival and the director wasn't yet sure if he would sell it before or after that. As for a summary....I always dislike revealing too much about a film, but with a a bit of a SPOLIER WARNING, here is what the NY Film Festival says about the film in their listings: "Debut writer/director Robinson Devor has crafted a film noir spoof as good as they get. our hero, Richard Hudson, on a quest for true meaning in his life, is played to deadpan, macho perfection by Patrick Warburton (Elaine's boyfriend, Putty on Seinfeld). Richard runs a crooked used car lot and lives with a family of misfits until the urge to make the great American movie thrusts him into new worlds. Like a ringleader engineering a crime, he eventually completes his grand opus but events soon take a monsterous twist. Devor has assembled a hilarious assortment of oddball characters struggling to make their mark in a low-down LA with glimpses of an unattainable glamour that cruelly beckons. " And I just stumbled upon this website about the movie: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/twc/ For any New Yorkers, it is playing at the Festival one more time at Alice Tully Hall today (Saturday the 9th) at 3pm. -KE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 15:34:20 +0200 philosphically: I would like to think that the best albums is still undiscovered, In = fact thats part of my ideology. Imagination creates. If you long for = something really much, sooner or later it will show up. However, I would like to be a part in choosing the 20 or 50 (not 100) = exotica classics rediscovered by most of us __until now__. It sounds = really interesting actually and would keep us occupied for a long time = to come. 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: d th Subject: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots Date: 09 Oct 1999 07:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it? Trying to find it, can't. Darren! ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: (exotica) Re: Rhino Handmade Early Warning #6 Date: 09 Oct 1999 12:47:46 EDT In a message dated 10/9/99 8:50:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mr.hand@rhino.com writes: << Greetings Earthling! This Monday, 11 October 1999, at Noon Pacific Daylight Time [1900 UTC], Rhino Handmade will begin taking orders for our sixth release. The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology is very pleased to announce the release of MARK MOTHERSBAUGH's new Christmas album (yes, you can stop rubbing your eyes, a Christmas album) entitled 'Joyeux Mutato'. >> Has anybody on the List been buying these hand jobs? Any ideas/comments on the one above? tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 09 Oct 1999 18:57:10 -0400 At 06:56 AM 10/9/99 EDT, Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: >Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot >down each other. I thought that was the point of the list. Oh well. Maybe the list has changed in the relatively short time I've been here but when I joined, you'd hear about certain records so frequently that eventually you'd have a de facto list of classic "must-have's" floating around in your head, even if such a list was never actually collated and presented. So if someone wants to actually write the thing down and present it, that's not too surprising... or threatening for that matter. He'd probably have had an easier time, for some reason, if he'd asked us for our favorite versions of "El Cumbanchero". (To which I would respond Eddie Osborn on "Organs and Bongos") Sorry if I can't remember who wanted the lists in the first place. I was planning to leave the first list to others. But I liked his question about the second list, the "lost classics" or "What are your favorite records that you'd like to give to every member of the list if you could?" I like the idea that people here have favorite records that they never hear about on the list. Somebody mentions Arthur Lyman and they think to themselves "If you like that, you should hear this.... Peter Appelyard record I have" I like the idea of finding some record in your local thrift and thinking you must be the only person in the world who has it or who values it. That's one of the cool things about this list; finding out that you aren't the only one. Sometimes. So I am going to respond to the lists request. But not in this post. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Terry Baxter/Boots Date: 09 Oct 1999 19:05:13 -0400 At 07:34 AM 10/9/99 -0700, d th wrote: > > >Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that >has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it? >Trying to find it, can't. Geez, a Terry Baxter question. I've never seen a Terry Baxter LP per se. I have three of his "boxed sets", comprising eight LP's but surprisingly "Boots" is not on any of them. I'd be interested to know about his individual LP's if they exist. Too bad you weren't asking about "Psychedelic Shack". That I could have helped you with. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mystic Moog Orchestra Date: 10 Oct 1999 10:22:41 -0700 Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard their CD? I like the clever name but am curious what they actually sound like. Thanks. 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) New Releases (Partch, The Monks) Date: 10 Oct 1999 13:08:19 +0200 More New Releases in this week at Forced Exposure: http://www.forcedexposure.com. INNOVA: PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure Six: Delusion of the Fury CD (INNO 406). Finally, the major missing piece of the Partch discography has been reissued! "To mark the 25th anniversary of the composer=B9s death (on September 4, 1974), and just in time for his centenary (June 24, 2001), Delusion of the Fury, the monumental work of ritual-theater that propelled Harry Partch into the limelight, is being released on CD. Originally recorded for Columbia Masterworks and long-since out of print, Innova, in conjunction with Sony Music Special Products, has reissued this central item of American musical history. With the appearance of this recording, the complete works of Harry Partch (1901-1974), one of the most important of American artists, are available for the first time (the remaining works are published largely by innova=B9s Enclosure series and the CRI Partch Collection). Like composer Conlon Nancarrow, Partch had to wait until late in life for his radical contributions to the arts to receive wide attention. With the 1969 production of Delusion he was 'discovered', idolized, and gurufied, as a 43-tone-to-the-octave, ex-hobo, eccentric, maverick, iconoclastic instrument-builder, and a 'philosophic music-man seduced into carpentry.' Hippy hyperbole notwithstanding, Partch was a genuine far-out radical whose time has come. Again. Delusion of the Fury is a 72=B9 totally-integrated, corporeal, microtonal, elemental work of ritual theater, incorporating almost all of Partch=B9s hand-built orchestra of sculptural instruments. Using mime, dance, music, vocalizations, lighting, and costume, Partch presents two tales concerning reconciliation of life and death, one after a Japanese Noh drama, the other after an Ethiopian folk tale. The vidoe release Enclosure Four: Harry Partch (Innova 404) features the film version of Delusion, but this is the first time that the high-quality stereo sound version is available on CD. Perhaps the most astonishing, seductive and compelling of Partch=B9s works, Delusion stands as the 'Choral Symphony' or 'Ring Cycle' do to other composers: a culminating testament to a lifetime of 'doing your own thing.' The 16-page illustrated booklet features Partch=B9s introduction and a new text by conductor Danlee Mitchell." $13.00 _____________________________________________ OMPLATTEN: MONKS: Five Upstart Americans CD (FJORD 005). "Five American GI's are stationed in West Germany in 1964. They form a rock group to entertain their fellow soldiers at their army base. They name the band the Five Torquays and play a selection of cover songs. In 1965 the band members are discharged from the army. Something very odd happens to their artistic pursuit. The band declares themselves the anti-Beatles, they start dressing in black, wearing heavy work boots, shaving tonsures on their heads, wearing nooses around their necks, reducing their music to a throbbing, rhythmic noise. The lyrics are chanted: "I hate you with a passion baby", "Shut up don't cry", "We don't like the army, what army, any army, Pussy Galore is coming down and we like it". The band name is the Monks. They tour Germany for two years, fueled by amphetamines and a monk-like discipline. In 1966 they play 364 dates, in 1967, 362. This lead to the implosion of the band. "We'd go from town to town to town, jumping up and playing two sets and off to the next one. We got attacked: People would jump up onstage and try to hit us -- try and kill you. These were young working class men, thinking that their religion had been smeared, or maybe they thought we were Americans taking advantage of their disadvantage." The sessions restrained within this shiny compact disc were recorded at Hilversum in Germany in 1965, almost a year before the Black Monk Time album. They are more primitive, more Back From the Grave sounding, but no less handsome than the versions on Black Monk Time. As pointed out by Mr. Burger and Mr. Shaw in the sleeve notes, they were demos the band cut with the hope of getting a deal, which as we know fell into place with Polydor Records. What is beat? What is beat today? And what is over-beat? And who the hell is going to melt the hot and cold worlds of tomorrow? Listen as Roger beats, Gary plucks, Dave pummels. And Eddie dreams hell's bass part. And Larry fingers the keys of the day after tomorrow. The Monks believe in nothing. The Monks believe that everything is possible. The Monks give everything. The Monks demand everything. Words are the outline of lies. Lying is the art of pleasing others. -- The Monks, 1966/Sleeve notes for Black Monk Time. $13.00 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Liner notes revisited Date: 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700 While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes: "At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow his strongest desire, to play the accordion. The family later moved to San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better accordion. This request would not be granted by the parents, however, until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes". The family discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd find out if Dick had the "stuff". This was a crisis in Dick's young life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting trade. The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may study full time, a move that literally assured him of success." That is just...so...beautiful . And they say show biz can be so cruel. ;) -- 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye Date: 10 Oct 1999 21:55:27 +0200 Anyone familiar with a CD called Rapa Nui - Osterinsel (TP9012)? Music from the most mysterious place on earth apparently, it's on a German label. I know Tug Records (www.tug-rec.de) sells it. 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) Tabu, the movie Date: 10 Oct 1999 22:03:41 +0200 Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I don't know the movie at all I'm afraid. 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: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Liner notes revisited Date: 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700 While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes: "At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow his strongest desire, to play the accordion. The family later moved to San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better accordion. This request would not be granted by the parents, however, until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes". The family discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd find out if Dick had the "stuff". This was a crisis in Dick's young life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting trade. The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may study full time, a move that literally assured him of success." That is just...so...beautiful . And they say show biz can be so cruel. ;) -- 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: Indulis R Rutks Subject: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi Date: 10 Oct 1999 19:38:00 -0500 (CDT) I just flew in from Rome, and boy are my arms tired... While I was there, I picked up volumes 1-5 of "Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi". These CD's appear to be compilations of various Italian orchestras from the 1940's (with a few from the late 30's and early 50's). I've listened to some of the tunes already, and the music is terrific! Italian big-band/vocals, with a few covers thrown in (like "Pennsylvania Polca"!). Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info would be appreciated, per favore. -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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Straight from Breakfast to Video Date: 10 Oct 1999 22:59:24 EDT A review from Reel.com about the Breakfast movie. This gives away a few=20 plots so be aware. BTW, it is really bad if Reel.com, obviously in the bidness of selling=20 videos, could not find a better review of this movie. And you know they had= =20 to of tried. Tiki Bob Breakfast of Champions (1999)=20 =20 Starring: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney Director: Alan Rudolph Rating: R Runtime: 110 Genre: Comedy =20 =20 From an artistic viewpoint, bringing the Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast o= f=20 Champions to the screen probably seemed like a good idea =97 when they start= ed=20 filming, anyway. It's got a stellar cast (Nick Nolte, Bruce Willis, Albert=20 Finney, Barbara Hershey) and an acclaimed director (Robert Altman prot=E9g= =E9=20 Alan Rudolph), but something went terribly wrong. Only a special type of=20 eccentric will enjoy this eclectic muddle, which is full of interesting idea= s=20 but missing anything resembling dramatic focus.=20 Bruce Willis is Dwayne Hoover, car salesman extraordinare. He's the financia= l=20 nucleus of his small town, Midland City. Local people constantly ask for his= =20 autograph. He's a star. He's also on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His=20 wife, Celia (Hershey), is suicidal. His son, Bunny (Lukas Haas), is a freak.= =20 His boss (Nolte) likes to dress in women's clothing =85 particularly red sil= k.=20 His oddball mistress (Glenne Headly) won't leave him alone. Let's face it:=20 Beneath the surface, Dwayne's a mess.=20 Enter Kilgore Trout (Finney), an impoverished writer with some critical=20 cachet. Though he's unpaid for his work (which appears only in girlie mags),= =20 he is the object of critical acclaim. In fact, he's travelling cross-country= =20 to be honored at Midland City's first Arts Festival. At the event, Dwayne's=20 and Kilgore's lives collide, creating a rippling effect for all those around= =20 and disrupting Midland City's placid atmosphere.=20 Breakfast of Champions probably would have worked had it been made in the=20 '70s, but its themes =97 pollution overtaking Earth's eco-structure,=20 commercials polluting one's thought processes, people becoming robotic =97 s= eem=20 terribly dated now. Furthermore, Rudolph tries to tell too much. So many=20 characters' storylines are introduced that only snippets of them are=20 explored. Throw in some metaphysical bunk about mirrors containing a paralle= l=20 universe (or is it heaven?) and it's as though two movies were spliced=20 together.=20 While Finney gives a worthy performance as Trout, he sadly looks old and=20 bloated (foreshadowed in Under the Volcano). Hershey is little more than a=20 china doll with a fixed, drug-induced gaze. Haas erases any memory of the=20 cute kid from Witness with a bizarre turn as the effeminate lounge lizard=20 Bunny. Only Nolte's turn is hysterical: Sure that everyone knows what's=20 beneath his staid suit, he weaves a fine patchwork of comic paranoia. Willis= =20 is functional as the pouty Dwayne, but the repetitive theme of him putting a= n=20 unloaded (or is it?) gun in his mouth grows tiresome at best. By the film's=20 end, you'll be wishing someone would just give him a bullet. =20 - Barbara Teasdall =20 =20 =20 =20 =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: (exotica) Uh Oh Date: 10 Oct 1999 23:02:53 EDT Ole Tiki Bob made a mistake. The review of Breakfast of Champions accompanies Reel.com's selling of the CD Soundtrack, not the video as of yet. The picture on their page is long and vertical -- like that of a VHS box. Sorry for any confusion. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra Date: 10 Oct 1999 18:52:37 +0200 B. Yost wrote: > Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard > their CD? I like the clever name but am curious what they actually > sound like. > > I only know the Mystic Moods Orchestra... they're OK, if you like strings. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:48:48 +0200 >Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this >series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info >would be appreciated, per favore. uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit of info on this... can you tell me on which label are they? bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:19:32 +0200 Arjan Plug wrote: > Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later > this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is > this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I > don't know the movie at all I'm afraid. I'd say yes, especially if you know the story behind it. I wrote about it here on the list some time ago, as quoted below. It's an old film, so if you can't stand old silent movies at all, you better not go. There was in fact a documentary about the filming of Tabu and Murnau, which might be interesting to you. Mo (exotica mailing list, 19.7.1999:) ..."OK, I hope I remember all of this correctly: When you transform the native languages of Tonga, Hawaii and other South sea cultures into Western Latin letters, you have to do this based on how the sounds are spelled in a specific Western language. If you take English for example as the reference language you have to spell the word "taboo". However Hawaii, Tonga etc. chose German as their reference way back; the word pronounced as the English "taboo" would be spelled "Tabu" in German, which is how Hawaiians etc. actually write this word in their own languages today. In the special case of the actual word "Tabu" another fact might be interesting: The word came into Western culture by mistake: When Murnau made his film "Tabu" in Bora Bora in 1931, a little island next to Bora Bora played a significant role: It was the island of the gods and no man was allowed to enter it. It was called Tapu. Despite native threats Murnau did enter the island and built a house for himself on it. Because he did not die immediately he was seen by the natives as a kind of god after that. Later though, the hut burnt down mysteriously (none of the natives admitted having done it, they claimed "it was the gods"), and after his return to America Murnau died in a car crash soon after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Pepsi Ad Music Date: 11 Oct 1999 11:31:06 +0100 Phil Clark: > > Jane said, about a Pepsi promo song: > > ">>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND > GALLERY, eh? Does anybody remember that song being > used in an ad? Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit > more? > Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle" > > WOW I need a tape of that Italian pepsi song!! Pretty please ?!?!?!? > > Meantime I can fill in a bit about the cut on the Sound Gallery album for > ya: it's "Shout about Pepsi" and it was taken from "Non-Stop Pepsi Party" by > (I think) veteran EMI session muso Alan Hawkshaw, released on UK budget My brain has been straining to recall... wasn't it by "Denny Wright and the Hustlers"? That doesn't sound right. But that's what I'm thinking. > label MFP c.1976. I found this LP in a junk (thrift) store for 25 pence, > which is about right. The cover features the usual dolly bird in garish pose > and the vinyl is AFAICR less than essential listening. Mighta bin some > promotional tie-in or soemthing but then I'd have expected it to have been > on a custom label rather than MFP. > It's not really distinguishable from any other run of the mill non-stop partying party dance party-non-stop kind of album. Last week I found a 7" of Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg performing their own "Ski Full-of-Fitness Theme". From about 1971, this is a jingle for Ski yoghurt, informing you over and over again about the virtues of Ski in a nasty little jingle. Pretty scary thing, on the Ski label (naturally!). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) book recommendation Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:26:38 +0200 Last month I read a book of Arthur Grimble called "a pattern of Islands" = about his adventures as a colonial worker on the salomon islands = 1915-55. Firstly, I recommend it for Mr Grimbles descriptions of the = natives on the islands, which is full of love and sympathy, probably = quite uncommon in those days among the sent out europeans. secondly for = the religious content. The englishman calls himself an agnostic, but has = a hard time explaining what he himself faces among the natives. The word = Tiki gets mentioned several times, mostly when black magic is involved. = But Tiki doesnt mean a sungod, The sungod has another name among these = people. Unfortunately the preparations of the dead isnt described, which is = scary, because the preparations is crucial when it comes to pass the guy = with the big net while the soul is on its way to paradise.=20 Oh, this was written in the 50s and I dont know if its still available, = but since I read it in a swedish translation it most certainly was a = bestseller, so a little effort in some used books store would probably = get result. (Read while listening to any record with the name "Withcraft", "Voodoo", = "Exotic" in the title. ;) 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: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi) Date: 11 Oct 1999 08:28:00 -0500 (CDT) On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Nicola Battista wrote: > > >Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this > >series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info > >would be appreciated, per favore. > > uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit of info on this... can you tell me > on which label are they? The box states: "Warner Fonit, A Division of Nuova Fonit Cetra S.p.A., A Warner Music Group Company" The volumes I have (and the label numbers) are: Vol. 1 - Ma l'amore no (CDM 2083) Vol. 2 - Venezia la luna e tu (CDM 2084) Vol. 3 - Pippo non lo sa (CDM 2085) Vol. 4 - Abbassa la tua radio (CDM 2086) Vol. 5 - C'e un' orchestra sincopata (CDM 2087) Hope this helps... -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: Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:41:14 -0400 >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >became a >synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... The film wasn't the cause of this. "Taboo/tabu" was first used in English in the late 18th century (1777) and had become fairly common--at least among naturalists and historians, which at that time of course included a good bit of the literate public--during the 19th century. And check Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" for a lurid story about Murnau's death which may or may not be true. LT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) weekend Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:40:33 +0100 I got the Blow up OST at the weekend, mainly for 'Bring down the Birds', which had the bassline sampled for 'Groove is in the heart'. Its still a great track, theres only one other track with anything like that sort of groove. So it was a bit of a disappointment. Enjoyed the Yardbirds track though. and only ten pounds so it could have been worse. Then the gods continued to smile as I found a mint copy of 'Uniquely Mancini' worth having for the way he gets 'Green Onions' to sound just like the Pink Panther theme, If nothing else. But the rest of it is enjoyable indeed. Also got a copy of 'Beyond the Reef' by Wout Steenhuis. Its from '74, and I found a lot more enjoyable than other LPs by him. Bit more lush. Nice cover (that is if anyone out there appreciates covers without unclad women on them). I'm out to get the Frank Comstock boot tomorrow, and a copy of Harry Stonehams 'Solid Gold Hammond' if the gods will only keep them in stock for me. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) underrated exotica Date: 11 Oct 1999 16:37:17 +0100 For this (the underrated exotica) chart surely it should be the bottom 100. As more of the list will know the top. And I suspect that however hard the rest of us try, the most bizarre will come from Citizen Kafkas collection. putting a vote in for 'people laugh at me cos I like weird music' by the Instant Automatons (should allow 45's as well, surely) El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 18:00:47 +0200 wlt4@mindspring.com wrote: > >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... > > The film wasn't the cause of this. "Taboo/tabu" was first used in English in the late 18th century (1777) Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong. Where did you read this 1777 thing? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:07:01 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 12:01:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: << Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong. Where did you read this 1777 thing? >> webster dictionary (at least the one on AOL) has this date too. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Classics Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:07:07 -0400 Peter Risser wrote: >What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums; those >albums that every Exoticat who's halfway serious >should have in their collection Well there are a few things everyone would probably agree about, like Denny's _Exotica_ (mono). . . . But my experience is that some of the records that have somehow acquired this legendary "must-have" reputation were disappointments when I finally heard them. Like, I found Hugo Montenegro's _Moog Power_ at a thrift store, and I thought a couple of tracks were pretty entertaining--but I think I would have felt ripped off if I had paid real money for it. I'd hate to see a list like this contribute to a few records becoming even scarcer and more overpriced. I would basically tell people, "listen to a bunch of random stuff you come across, trade compilations with other people, and make up your own mind." But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones that people might not know to look out for. Like, everyone knows about _Persuasive Percussion_--and that's one of the few Enoch LPs that's been reissued on CD. But I think his _Far Away Places_ and Cha Cha records are a lot more consistently fun. And even speaking of percussion records, people forget that Harry Breuer's amazing _Mallet Magic_ hit the shelves two years before _Persuasive_ did. I always think it's great to come across some really warped minor-label gem, like the Lonely Harpsichord _Rainy Night in Shangri-La_ . That one has pop harpsichord versions of "Quiet Village," "Bali Hai," etc. complete with Mystic-Moods style thunderstorm sounds. Amazing. (I just noticed this is another Snuff Garrett project, like that _Bacharach Baroque_ album people were just talking about here. He also produced the truly frightening Telly Savalas celebrity album. . . So who was this guy?) Yours in obscurity, --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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Louis Jordan news Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:21:47 -0700 (PDT) CLEVELAND (AP) _ The music of rhythm and blues pioneer Louis Jordan was revived, studied and celebrated over the weekend here. On Saturday, scholars and music industry insiders gathered at Case Western Reserve University to discuss the life and legacy of the singer and sax-playing bandleader. That night, musicians tipped their hats to Jordan in Cleveland's Flats nightclub area. The events were part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's fourth annual American Music Masters series. Jordan, who died in 1975, was inducted in 1987 into the hall. "Mr. Jordan taught me about women, wine and definitely song," said John Bunkley, lead singer of the Atomic Fireballs, an eight-piece Detroit ensemble. ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:16:42 -0500 >wlt4@mindspring.com wrote: >> >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >>>became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."... >> >> The film wasn't the cause of this. "Taboo/tabu" was first used in >>English in the late 18th century (1777) Mo queried: >Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong. >Where did you read this 1777 thing? Not to speak for wtl, but the Oxford Dictionary of English says "taboo" passed into English in 1777 with Captain Cook's _Voyage to the Pacific_. It appears spelled (anglicized) as "tabu" in several Micronesian and Melanesian languages. Cook reports first hearing it on Tonga, where it's spelled "ta'bou". Other Pacific 'explorers' used it in their accounts as did naval writers. Within 50 years, "taboo" had become a synonym for "forbidden", appearing in _Blackwell's Magazine_, etc. etc. In French, spelled "tabou". OED says also spelled "tambu", "tapu" and "tabou". Yours in pedantry, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you.... Date: 11 Oct 1999 11:34:21 -0700 (PDT) While we are on this word-root trip...what about TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'? Does those mean either the same thing, or anything period? Jane Fondle...ranking JUNGLE JAZZ in her top-10 Exotica classiques... ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:56:16 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 1:06:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mimim@texas.net writes: << Yours in pedantry, Mimi >> also pronounced "pedamtry" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Classics Date: 11 Oct 1999 15:03:52 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 12:13:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rotohut@ic.net writes: << Well there are a few things everyone would probably agree about, like Denny's _Exotica_ (mono). . . >> Oh, oh! I was wrong about that Alfred Lyman "Hawaiian Something" album being my favorite. The first Exotica album by Martin Denny is the tops on my list. It is laying right on the floor by my chair and thus is at the top of the list. This time I am sure about it. No, really! tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you.... Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:27:12 PDT >From: Jane Fondle > >While we are on this word-root trip...what about >TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'? Does >those mean either the same thing, or anything period? >Jane Fondle...ranking JUNGLE JAZZ in her top-10 >Exotica classiques... > I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish and I think a few other latin based languages. I could be wrong I have been known to be on occasion -jonathan ranking Frank Hunter's White Goddess LP as an exotica forgotten classic. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:52:51 -0700 Freud published "Totem and Taboo" in 1913 or so; James G. Frazer wrote extensively about "the taboo doctrine" in "The Golden Bough," which was written in the 1890s. Why the Polynesian word "taboo" became the standard anthropological term for "activities / people / objects which should be shunned out of holy dread" is unclear, since taboos are pretty universal. Later, Ben np: ghost, "tune in, turn on, free tibet" http://www.bigfoot.com/~bvergara/ ICQ# 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jonathan richardson" Subject: (exotica) M Frog Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:53:27 PDT Heres a call out to all you Moogified Moogsters Can anybody out there tell me about the 70s Moog/Synth record called M Frog. i think it has something to do with a french guy named Jean Yves Labat (who also called himself Mssr. Frog). If anyone can recommend this record or if anyone has it, gimme a shout. -jonathan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you.... Date: 11 Oct 1999 16:09:36 -0400 > While we are on this word-root trip...what about TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'? Does >those mean either the same thing, or anything period? "Tambu" can be a variant for "taboo" (depending upon which islands you're from) but generally not in English. It more commonly is a West Indian word for a type of small drum in which case it would have a completely different derivation. LT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 11 Oct 1999 13:33:51 -0700 (PDT) Oh, man! Rather than responding to a skidillion posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was destroyed? SO CLOSE! I wonder what song he did on it. Also, to Paul Moshay..does the Kinescope Kat have an email address? Is the catalog free? ME WANNA! Exotica-on-TV hath turned up before on this list, but it has been awhile. We have new people here now, so maybe they can add their knowledge. I have never seen the Ernie Kovacs show with Yma and Esquivel on it...but I have heard they exist.... I would love to see those Korla Pandit shows. I would also WISH that Dionysus had put out viddies of the LOST EPISODE and POPULAR REQUEST Les Bax-tahs to accompany the EPs! :( What about Julie London, other than EMERGENCY, of course? Surely, she and Barney Kessell did some shadowy-minimalist-stage acoustic performances?! Please? Jane Fondle! ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Classic List Date: 11 Oct 1999 13:41:33 -0700 (PDT) No, you tiddly-winks!!! I wasn't asking people to submit their ranked top 100 exotica LPs... I was looking for major brain dumps as to classic LPs, which I would then turn into a list, ranked or not, which basically spoke to the "Exotica Canon". A good turn of the millenium project I thought, but so far, only two people have participated. Not a very good statistical sampling. :( Anyway, please forward whatever thoughts you may have along these veins. Thanks, Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 11 Oct 1999 18:09:38 -0400 >Oh, man! Rather than responding to a skidillion >posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular >Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was >destroyed? SO CLOSE! I wonder what song he did on >it. I am not Brother Cleve. I cannot be Brother Cleve. I am not a role model. I am not a Berliner. I can tell you what I remember from one of Johnny Carson's specials, though. He was reminiscing about his early days with the Tonight Show and he said, "The first show we had Groucho Marx and...[faulty memory - Ed.] they've been wiped off the tape". Videotape back in the day was cheap AND reusable. So quite a lot is gone for good, unless it shows up in private collections. Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs' widow heard that the various networks that Kovacs had worked for were erasing his shows, so she worked long and hard to buy back the existing material. This practice is also one that goes overseas as well. The Goon Show (a fantastic radio show from the fifties starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan), from the Fifth Series on is archived by the BBC, in some form. Everything earlier than that is catch as catch can. In fairness to the networks, a great deal of material was being videotaped and they had to save space. Can you imagine all the video that Arthur Godfrey ALONE would have used up? Yes, we have lost a lot of great stuff, but there was also a great deal of junk, too. Of course, the networks tended to lean on the side of ALL of it being junk, which is wrong, of course. Who knows, maybe Esquivel or one of his wives has it. The pilot of "I Love Lucy" resurfaced when the widow of one of the stars revealed that she had a copy, which she used to entertain dinner guests and didn't think of it as any more important than just a record of her husband's work. Now, on the record finding trail, remember some time ago, that I said, "Was I wrong in bypassing Panic, the Son of Shock by Kenyon Hopkins, to which one Ms. Fondle replied, 'Why, yes, you may have indeed made an error in judgment", but not in those words. Well, at the record show (a bi-monthly event here in Atlanta), I found the same vendor and he still had the record, plus "Wired for Sound" by Marty Gold. Needless to say, I got it this time and it is indeed a gem, although it is a rather short album at 25:08 seconds. So for those who have not taken advantage of the Sprites of the Find, do so, before they are wiped off the videotape! Richard Milhous Nixon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:03:40 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 1:26:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com writes: << What about Julie London, other than EMERGENCY, of course? Surely, she and Barney Kessell did some shadowy-minimalist-stage acoustic performances?! Please? >> I think Julie London has been on a lot of the variety shows of the 50s and 60s. I seem to recall someone saying that she was on Ed Sullivan, and I think she was also on Dinah Shore as well as Perry Como. I personally have never seen any of her TV appearances except on "EMERGENCY!." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:08:08 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 3:16:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, hagar@mindspring.com writes: << Who knows, maybe Esquivel or one of his wives has it. >> Was he married to anyone famous?? 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:06:18 -0500 Organist Buddy Cole's blistering cover of "Powerhouse" kicks off this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, along with the stratospheric vocals of Gloria Wood, Mel Henke's "Dynamic Adventures in Sound" and "Music from a Surplus Store". Also -- Domenic Frontiere's exotica classic "Pagan Festival"; Yma Sumac from "Voice of the Xtabay" (plus Slim Galliard's 1951 send-up, "Soony Roony"); Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Si Zentner join forces for the famous "Exotica Suite"; plus bongos and brass, very Mancini- esque music from "Mad Monster Party", guitarist Vinnie Bell's spaced- out take on "Fever", passionate percussion from Marty Gold and Bobby Christian...and Sgt. Joe Friday shows us his romantic side. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web, just go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer. As always, your comments, suggestions and requests are welcome. Coming soon -- stereo! Thanks for the space. Darrell Brogdon Program Director KANU Radio 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) M Frog Date: 11 Oct 1999 21:00:31 -0400 At 3:53 PM -0400 10/11/99, jonathan richardson wrote: >Can anybody out there tell me about the 70s Moog/Synth record called M Frog. >i think it has something to do with a french guy named Jean Yves Labat (who >also called himself Mssr. Frog). If anyone can recommend this record or if >anyone has it, gimme a shout. yes, recommended. Jean-Yves Labat was the synth player in Todd Rundgren's original Utopia. He's all over the "A Wizard, A True Star" and "Todd" albums. Basically, he was the French Eno, using EMS equipment (Synthi A, Synthi AKS, Putney) to treat sounds and produce voltage controlled sequences. He made 1 solo album for Bearsville around 1974. I last spoke with him about 2 years ago; he now records (and samples) pipe organs in churches in France, where he returned in the late 80's after 20 years or so of living in New York. For those of you who've seen Spinal Tap (and I hope that's everyone) - the 'pods that won't open' scene is based on an actual event : the first Utopia show, which took place around '74 or so. Jean Yves was in the pod that wouldn't open. 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:50:38 -0400 >Oh, man! Rather than responding to a skidillion >posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular >Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was >destroyed? SO CLOSE! I wonder what song he did on >it. NBC bulk erased the vast majority of their shows during the '70's. I guess they figured no one would ever care. Only a few 'historic' Tonight shows were saved. AS I stated in an earlier post, the band performed "Malaguena". Juan's recollection of this show is very vivid. He told me that the band performed exceptionally well, and that the reaction from both the audience and Carson was wildly enthusiastic. While watching the show on TV later that night, though, he saw that vocalist Maria Caruso was caught frowning on camera..........so he had to fine her the next day. br cleve (I am not 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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) More Files Date: 11 Oct 1999 21:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Okay, so I just downloaded Don Ho doing vocal versions of the Hawaii 5-0 theme and Quiet Village. How could I not share that with you all? I posted the files to www.click2send.com. The box is Knuck's Box and the password for pickup is: pickup Too clever, I know. Anyway, while you're there, you'll also find the vocal version of Hawaiian War Chant, Hernando's Hideaway, and a tune by Lancelot Link and the something something's. I forget. Anyway, it's the chimp band some folks was talking about. Now you can hear it. Please feel free to download these all day long, although I'd hurry, because apparently there's a history of them scrubbing mp3s. Please let me know if they do. Thanks! Peter ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: Re: (exotica) Re: Classics Date: 12 Oct 1999 02:43:18 -0400 At 12:07 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote: > >But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones >that people might not know to look out for. Okay here's a few. I don't know if they're underappreciated but you don't see them on lists that often: David Carroll - I pick up everything I see by him and even his lamest-looking records have surprises. But his "percussion" records like "Latin Percussion" and "re-percussion" are special. Sonny Lester "After Hours Middle East" - a unique combination of fake Middle Eastern tunes played by a surf band with great percussion. and in a similar vein... The Fortune Tellers "Song of the Nairobi Trio" - actually a Robert Maxwell record but no harp, just lots of great electric guitar. I've never been (too) disappointed by Robert Maxwell to be continued someday... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tabu, the movie Date: 12 Oct 1999 02:43:22 -0400 At 12:52 PM 10/11/99 -0700, Benito Vergara wrote: > > Why the Polynesian word "taboo" became the standard >anthropological term for "activities / people / objects which should be >shunned out of holy dread" is unclear, since taboos are pretty universal. When you hear the word "taboo" nowadays, it's essentially become a synonym for "forbidden". I am way out of my depth here but I'm speculating that the word became popular because its "double meaning" - sacred yet forbidden - made it more ambiguous and therefore somehow more powerful. It's also a fun word to say. Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say. In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - "Boo!" - comes from the same root word. Bu to yu, Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 12 Oct 1999 03:56:07 EDT It is pretty good and apparently racey for the time but it is not Taboo in the sense of Arthur Lyman/Exotica it is more like a national geographic documentary # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tabu, the movie Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:53:10 +0200 Nat wrote: >Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say. >In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - = "Boo!" - >comes from the same root word. Wouldnt it be terribly fun to hear ghosts scream "Taboo!". 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: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you.... Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:48:08 +0200 >I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish >and I think a few other latin based languages. not sure. Btw, yup, drum in Italian is "tamburo". bye, Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:47:57 +0200 > But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones > that people might not know to look out for. Yeah, that sounds like fun... 1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native" This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know. Josef Marais and Miranda (Marais) are special: Apparently they were a couple that travelled a lot and researched the music of the primitive people, mainly in Africa and South America. At home in the US they recorded these songs (most of them are vocal), using their tape material in one or another way. Sometimes they would translate the lyrics into English, sometimes they tried to sing in the original language, sometimes they would just make up their own idea of primitive music; they are hilarious. It's not the glamorous, loungy type of Exotica, but its simplistic beauty is striking. On my recent trip to New England I found another album, "South African Folk Music" and Brian gave me "Revisit the South African Veld" as a present, which he got from Nat. These records are very hard to find. 2. "Hawaiianette", Anette sings songs of Hawaii. Speaking of "groovy"... Of all Exotica records this one is the No.1 for "having fun", you just have to dance! Anette's version of "Hukilau" is my favorite Exotica vocal piece, but there's more on the album. "Luau Cha Cha Cha" f.i., or "Pineapple Princess"... Paaarty! 3. This Moondog record from 1956, where he sounds almost like Martin Denny. 4. "Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet, "Slag Solution" by Buffalo's Band and "La Balanga" by Bimbo Jet. Hard to put in words... there's something about these pieces, that you want to play them over and over again. They are purest mainstream pop on one hand, but have strange and melancholic elements too; like all good art they keep a secret. A DJs quiet tip. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Tabu, the movie Date: 12 Oct 1999 09:48:26 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 11:40:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << When you hear the word "taboo" nowadays, it's essentially become a synonym for "forbidden". I am way out of my depth here but I'm speculating that the word became popular because its "double meaning" - sacred yet forbidden - made it more ambiguous and therefore somehow more powerful. It's also a fun word to say. Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say. In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - "Boo!" - comes from the same root word. Bu to yu, Nat >> This is off subject a little but on the "Boo" line that Nat started. There was as show called Not Necessarily the News on HBO in the 80's. They had a shot of the Pope walking down the isle in a church swinging one of those incense things and when he would swing the thing towards the people they had dubbed in "BOO!" Like the Pope was trying to scare people. I know this sounds so dumb but it was hilarious. I remember it fifteen years later. Can anyone back me up here? tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you.... Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:52:53 +0200 > I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish > and I think a few other latin based languages. > How about tambourine? The drummer in a military band is called Tambour Major (German) Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Death LP...... Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:05:16 -0400 Saturday at a flea market I flipped to a really weird LP that I didn't = really want to own but wanted to ask about here. It's in the category of "Scary Religious Records" and has a crude "High = Schooler" drawing of a passenger jet careening out of control on the = cover. It says something like "A musical interpretation of the last hours = of life" or something equally bizarre. Evidently, it's a choral "movement" documenting the "rise and fall" of an = airline flight and great fodder for the "are you saved or going to hell?" = preaching tactic. I *think* this album was made after someone's son was = killed in a plane wreck but my warped brain can't pull out the details. = =20 Does anybody own this? What's it like? Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet record = that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment. Now to = find a 78 player...... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: SV: (exotica) Tabu, the movie Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:02:11 +0200 ><< Wouldnt it be terribly fun to hear ghosts scream "Taboo!". >=20 > Magnus >> > >the german one's would say Yah-BOO ! ! !=20 > >tb Notice the similarity to Yahoo. (arabian? for "I have touched God") 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) Death LP...... Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:09:08 +0200 >Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet = record that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment. = Now to find a 78 player...... > >- Nate ....And a parakeet? look for ads in the paper that reads "78 player and = parrot for sale" 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Death LP...... Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:39:53 -0400 How 'bout I give you the bird?!? :-0 ;-) - Nate >>> "Sandberg Magnus" 10/12 10:09 AM >>> >Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet record = that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment. Now to = find a 78 player...... > >- Nate ....And a parakeet? look for ads in the paper that reads "78 player and = parrot for sale" 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. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Jack Webb croons for you........ Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:59:47 -0400 Someone mentioned that they were looking for a lounge LP that Jack Webb = did! The cover features him in a cardigan with some babe. I think this was his = first and last attempt to give Sinatra a run for his money. They said the results are badly hilarious. Has this been released on CD or anything?? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Faith LP Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:14:40 +0100 Prompted by the Death LP, I thought I'd mention an LP i've recently hear don the Universal Sounds label - responsible for the superb 100 and 200% Dynamite reggae comps. The double LP is called Faith and it is a compilation of religious recordings by various indigenous peoples from around the world. Included are a variety of voodoo style chants, funeral songs, exorcism rituals and other bizarre musical outpourings. Very very wierd but well compiled and ready for sampling. 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 Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Webb croons for you........ Date: 12 Oct 1999 12:20:58 -0400 "Try a Little Tenderness" from that album is on "Golden Throats". He recites over music, so the effect is more "Well!" than "Tee hee" for me. >Someone mentioned that they were looking for a lounge LP that Jack Webb did! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Mystic Moog Orchestra Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:43:30 +0200 Brad wrote: >Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard >their CD? I like the clever name but am curious what they actually >sound like. horrible noise, that's what they sound like 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:58:02 +0100 Hello all, Your expertise is requested.... A colleague has just given me a copy of Jackie Gleason's album "Music for lovers only/music to make you misty". Capitol W475, this looks like a reissue on 12" of two 10" releases. Can anyone give me an estimated year of issue please? 1957ish? My colleague also asked given Gleason was well known as a comedy actor, how much of the musical arrangement etc. was really down to him? W475 is a wonderful album, by the way. Next, Capitol albums have a variety of number prefixes, but they are broadly T/ST or W/SW. Any idea what differentiates these please? Finally, can anyone shed any light on a lady called Ruth Wallis? She had a string of albums listed in the 1961 Schwann catalog, one on King, and the rest on her own Wallis label. Titles are intriguing: eg . For underwater listening . French post cards set to music . For sophisticates only . That saucy redhead I don't think this lady has been discussed but in my dotage forgetfulness is becoming a finely honed skill.. Yours, er, oh yes, Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) "Ski Lodge Serenade" Barry Gemso Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Has anyone heard of this, "Ski Lodge Serenade" by the Barry Gemso Experience. An imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary ski movie?? I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck Also Nat's post reminds of the Karla Pundit's imaginary "Journey to an Ancient City". What a spoof of a spoofy guy. --- Nat Kone wrote: > > The fact that a lot of the DJ-types who sample this kind of stuff are > producing CD's that sound like soundtracks for films that were never made. > But any way you cut it, this music is coming up a lot lately. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and... Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:13:39 EDT In a message dated 10/11/99 8:06:09 PM, JayMan282@aol.com writes: >I think Julie London has been on a lot of the variety shows of the 50s >and >60s. I seem to recall someone saying that she was on Ed Sullivan, and I >think >she was also on Dinah Shore as well as Perry Como. I personally have never > >seen any of her TV appearances except on "EMERGENCY!." Not to date the old self, but I can remember her TV appearance on a commercial for Marlboro cigarettes. Cast in a smoky haze, she crooned in her inimitable manner:"You get a lot to like with a Marlboro; filter (pause), flavor (pauser), flip-top box...Jimmy Botticelli/never forgot the milieu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:23:19 EDT In a message dated 10/12/99 9:49:03 AM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: >"Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco >summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet Cool and Strange Disceau is what it is..and Herb Alpert also covered this tune for a 45 7" (and maybe on an album) Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Mo I understand othermusic has carried five versions but one is a "Best Of" which sounds like a let down to me since all the football announcements on the album help create the atmosphere. 4 of the versions they carried were on Tratatorria out of Japan. On the "Bend It USA 94" which cuts are the Mike Alway ones? Is the Rainbow Choir another one of his creations? Polystar? The Magnificent Andersons? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- "n.e.u. / Moritz R" wrote: > It's great stuff! The publisher behind "bend it" is the same who's behind the "Exotic > Beatles" compilations, the legendary "él"-label and numerous other productions, that > I > mentioned on this list a dozen times (mainly because of my admiration for Simon > Fisher-Turner...) : Mike Alway . How many "Bend it" volumes are there anyway? 5? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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) [obits]Zeze Macedo,Manfredo Fest,Lee Richardson,Morris West,Milt Jackson Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:05:45 -0400 Zeze Macedo RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – Zeze Macedo, whose rail-thin frame and squeaky voice made her one of Brazil's most beloved comic actresses, died Friday of a stroke. She was 83. Macedo was discovered in the 1950s reading poetry for a radio station. It was the golden era of Brazilian cinema, and Macedo made 108 films with top-line comedians such as Oscarito, the Brazilian Groucho Marx. She later moved to television, where she had success playing aging ingenues and credulous wives. Manfredo Fest PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) – Manfredo Fest, a jazz pianist and a pioneer of the Brazilian bossa nova movement that swept the world in the 1960s, died Friday while awaiting a liver transplant. He was 63. Fest, a native of Brazil, had lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1987. Critics credit Fest and other musicians such as Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa with helping revolutionize Brazilian and international pop music by refining bossa nova from samba in the early 1960s. He arrived in this country in 1967 and set about developing a blend of Brazilian and American jazz. "It's important to have a trademark," Fest said in 1997. "If I came to the United States to play American jazz, I'd be only one more in the crowd." Legally blind since birth, he worked for two years as arranger and keyboard player for Sergio Mendes' Brazil 66. He also played with Lee Ritenour and Floria Purim. Lee Richardson NEW YORK (AP) – Lee Richardson, an American actor in stage, film and television work noted for his English accent, died Oct. 2 of cardiac arrest after complications from a perforated ulcer. He was 73. Richardson was a fixture on the New York stage and in regional repertory roles for more than 40 years. He was born in Chicago but performed in so many roles with an English accent that he was widely assumed to be British. Richardson read the works of Shakespeare and Noel Coward as a soldier in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He moved to the Goodman Theater School in Chicago after the war. By 1954, he was appearing regularly on the television drama anthologies "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One." He performed with George C. Scott in Central Park in the 1962 production of "The Merchant of Venice." He later became a founding member of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, working with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Rita Gam, among others. Richardson was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for his performance in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" and appeared in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor." Morris West SYDNEY, Australia (AP) – Morris West, a best-selling Australian thriller writer, died Saturday of heart failure while working on his latest novel, his son said. He was 83. The creator of novels including "The Devil's Advocate," "Children of the Sun" and "Shoes of a Fisherman" died while working "The Last Confession." Born in Melbourne, West wrote 27 novels, as well as screenplays, radio dramas and plays. His works, which have been translated into 27 languages, have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Robert Waite GLASTONBURY, Conn. (AP) – Robert Waite, a Williams College historian who brought the psychoanalytic approach to books about Hitler, died Oct. 4. He was 80. Waite was one of the first proponents of analyzing events in Hitler's early life in Freudian terms to explain his behavior later in life. His most influential book was "The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler" (1977). Waite was criticized for undervaluing external influences such as European history, Christian anti-Semitism and ideology in explaining Hitler. Some of the evidence presented and analyzed by Waite, including claims about Hitler's sexual preferences and an autopsy report that Hitler had only one testicle, were suspect, critics have said. Milt Jackson NEW YORK (AP) – Milt Jackson, a jazz vibraphonist who made the instrument sing like the human voice as a longtime member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, died Saturday of liver cancer. He was 76. Jackson was considered one of the best improvisers in jazz and an outstanding blues player. Jackson originally was a singer in a Detroit gospel quartet. In the 1940s, he created a new sound by slowing the motor on his Deagan Vibraharp's oscillator to a third of the speed of Lionel Hampton's. The result was a warm, smoky sound with a vibrato approximating his own singing. Jackson's style came from Charlie Parker, whose rhythmic traits he adopted. He was one of the first bona fide be-bop vibraphone musicians, and he became a jewel in Dizzy Gillespie's band. He recorded be-bop classics with the band, such as "A Night in Tunisia," "Anthropology" and "Two Bass Hit." In 1951, Jackson teamed with Thelonius Monk, recording "Criss Cross" and "Straight, No Chaser," among others. When a pianist in Gillespie's band, John Lewis, decided to form a new group, one going beyond soloists with a rhythm section, Jackson signed on. In 1952, the Modern Jazz Quartet was born. Bruce Ritter NEW YORK (AP) – The Rev. Bruce Ritter, who founded the Covenant House shelters for homeless teen-agers but was forced to resign after several young men accused him of seducing them, died Thursday. He was 72. The Roman Catholic priest had suffered from Hodgkin's disease, cancer of the lymph nodes. Ritter had denied the accusations of sexual misconduct and was never formally charged. He resigned from Covenant House in 1990; in August 1991, Ritter left the Franciscan order. At its peak, Covenant House was the largest private child care agency in the country. It sheltered 2,000 homeless teen-agers a night and took in $92 million a year. It operated shelters in six U.S. cities and in Toronto, Canada, four orphanages in Central America. Ritter was visited by Mother Teresa; President Reagan hailed him as a hero in his 1984 State of the Union address. Covenant House started in 1969, when Ritter was living in a shabby apartment in the East Village of Manhattan, an area teeming with flower children and drug addicts. Six homeless teen-agers asked if they could stay in his living room during a snowstorm. "I didn't have the guts to throw them out so I kept them," he once said. By 1972, hundreds of youngsters were seeking shelter in Ritter's informal group homes. He obtained a license to run a child care agency and opened a crisis shelter in Times Square. The scandal that led to his downfall broke in December 1989, when a former prostitute said he had had an affair with Ritter. Ritter denied it, but several other young men came forward with similar stories, saying he seduced them after they sought his help. Questionable financial transactions surfaced. In February 1990, the Franciscans ordered Ritter to take a leave of absence. Later that month, he resigned from Covenant House. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] George Forrest Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:38:46 -0400 October 12, 1999 George Forrest, Songwriter for Broadway, Films and Clubs, Dies at 84 By ROBERT HANLEY,NYTimes George Forrest, the songwriter who collaborated with Robert Wright on the words and music for the songs "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," died on Sunday in Miami, where he lived. He was 84. Wright, who was Forrest's writing partner for the last 72 years, survives him. The music for "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," were part of the score of the 1953 hit Broadway musical "Kismet," which was based on music by Borodin. The two men's other musicals included the 1944 musical "The Song of Norway." They wrote the words and music for the song hit "It's a Blue World" (1940) and the lyrics for "Donkey Serenade" (1937). Among the other Broadway musicals that the team collaborated on were "Gypsy Lady" (1946), "Magdalena" (1948), "Kean" (1961), "Anya" (1965) and "Grand Hotel" (1989). At the time of Forrest's death, he and Wright were working on another musical, "Betting on Bertie," a project they had begun years ago with P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, who wrote the book for the show. Robert Lantz, Forrest's agent, said yesterday that the body of work that Forrest and Wright created "ranges from cabaret work and nightclub work to movies in the early days of Hollywood and to musicals for which they adapted musical works by Borodin, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Villa-Lobos and others, and for which they also wrote lyrics." Forrest, whose name was originally George Forrest Chichester Jr., was born in Brooklyn. In the early 1920's he and his family moved to the Miami area. Although his formal musical training was minimal, he mastered the piano before he entered kindergarten. Wright, an accomplished pianist who met him in the late 1920's, said in a 1974 interview: "He always was marvelous. He was a natural. He could play by ear." By the time Forrest was 13 he was already playing piano and accompanying singers in Miami night spots and singing second tenor in the glee club at Miami High School. Wright, a year older and the conductor of his own radio show and Sunday concerts, was the glee club's pianist. In 1934, before either of the two was 20, they left on an eighth-month tour, playing cabarets from New York westward until they reached Hollywood for a tryout with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Their audition with the best dozen of their 80 songs from the tour won them a seven-year contract. Their first major task at MGM was to create, in 1937, a new score for the MacDonald-Eddy movie "Maytime" after the studio had discarded almost all the songs that had been prepared. Forrest and Wright produced some new lyrics and a new score that was a blend of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Verdi and French folk songs. Their work won them immediate esteem. By the time they wrote the songs for "Grand Hotel," the pair had written "lyrics and music of more than 2,000 compositions for 16 produced stage musicals, 18 stage reviews, 58 motion pictures and numerous cabaret acts," the show's Playbill said. By then they had won Tony Awards for "Kismet" and had been nominated for three Academy Awards for the songs "Always and Always," "It's a Blue World" and "Pennies for Peppino." In 1995 they received the Ascap/Richard Rodgers Award for their contribution to the American Musical Theater. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" Oct 12, 1999 Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:28:09 -0400 "Mondo Bongos" can be heard every Wednesday mornings at 9 on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Fantastic Plastic Machine - Bachelor Pad "Space Baby Blast Off" Neu! - Hero "Neu! 75" Ananda Shankar - Light My Fire "Ananda Shankar" The Inner Thumb - Citroens 'n' Sitars "Soul Ecstacy" DJ Me DJ You - Glassbong "Space Baby Blast Off" Carrie Nations - Come with the Gentle People "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" The Vampires Sound Incorporation - The Six Wisdoms of Aspasia "Vampyros Lesbos..." Improved Sound Ltd - Leave this Lesbian World "Electrick Loosers" Xhol Caravan - All Green "Electrip" The Inner Thumb - Jungle Lust "Soul Ecstacy" Placebo - Balek "Nitrogen - trip hop sources from the past" Slapp Happy - Scarred for Life "Ca Va" Until next time... 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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Basic Hip in computer crash Date: 12 Oct 1999 17:41:05 EDT Greetings, Our pal BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has crashed and that he will be off line for a few more days. He wanted me to let everyone know that he will reply to their emails as soon as he is cyber connected again. Informatively yours, 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) Basic Hip in computer crash Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:18:40 EDT In a message dated 10/12/99 5:42:56 PM, SLarry3595@aol.com writes: >Our pal BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has >crashed and that he will be off line for a few more days I wish him a speedy recovery. He should drink lots of good fluids, and use stereo headphones as a withdrawal medication. ... Jimmy/ has a Mac expert coming in Thursday night to determine why I can't post my punk singles on E-Bay without a System 11 error occuring every single time I try, and why everything is sooooo slow. Wish me luck gang................ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Death LP Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:56:37 -0700 It sounds suspiciously like "Flight F-I-N-A-L: A Dramatic Comparison to Death." I don't know why, but I too have seen this popping up in the bins lately. I can actually recommend it pretty strongly for entertainment value. It's pretty funny and loaded with things that would make great samples if you do DJ mixes or even home compilation projects with creative touches. Don't think I would spend a great deal of money on it though. They take the whole "flight as metaphor for journey from earth to heaven" thing about as far as it can go, to comic effect. -- Brad > Saturday at a flea market I flipped to a really weird LP that I didn't = > really want to own but wanted to ask about here. > > It's in the category of "Scary Religious Records" and has a crude "High = > Schooler" drawing of a passenger jet careening out of control on the = > cover. It says something like "A musical interpretation of the last hours > = > of life" or something equally bizarre. > > Evidently, it's a choral "movement" documenting the "rise and fall" of an = > airline flight and great fodder for the "are you saved or going to hell?" = > preaching tactic. I *think* this album was made after someone's son was = > killed in a plane wreck but my warped brain can't pull out the details. = > =20 > > Does anybody own this? What's it like? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 12 Oct 1999 19:30:02 -0400 A top albums list *is* a good idea... it's just that history shows that this group is much better at open-ended exploration than hard-nosed quantification. Also, the core canon is pretty well established isn't it? Baxter's "Ritual", Denny's "Exotica", Sumac's "Voice Of The Xtabay", etc, etc. I dunno, if I had the time to get a serious list together, maybe I'd feel differently. Like all of the other troublemakers, I'm more drawn to the "unsung classics" list. On the other hand, praising unsung finds is part of our normal routine, no? So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one (to my ears), "That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that. With arrangements by RCA vet, Ray Martin, and production by label guiding light, Ethel Gabriel, you also get a nice dollop of classic space age pop ornaments sprinkled here and there like chrome-plated jimmies. Great "now sound" drive, too. Altogether more aggressive than the TJB tend to be. Zingy electric guitar and combo organ also make it stand out from the pack. The organ occasionally makes me think, "garage!" Some tracks even work up a ska-like groove. "Sunshine Superman" is here, but is actually a bit conservative compared to the wild "Que Sera, Sera" and "Besame Mucho". Of course, this is all just subjective opinion. You mileage may vary. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sandberg Magnus" Subject: SV: (exotica) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 01:39:00 +0200 I just played Milt Raskin's Exotic percussion, now Robert Maxwell's = Shangri La is on. In fact I just came back from a near Shangri La = experience while drawing and I just want to scream: Love conquers all! 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 12 Oct 1999 19:59:40 EDT In a message dated 10/12/99 7:29:36 PM, ecam@voicenet.com writes: >So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one And that is about as accurate an assessment as we're liable to get here. After all, how many times can one listen to Esquivel's "Sentimental Journey" and emit a healthy "Whoa Baby Doll" in reaction? Not that there's anything wrong with the track. Quite the opposite. But I suspect that here at exotica, inc. we're all about discovery here as opposed to discography. Were you to ask me today what my favorite is I'd have to answer "Up With People" mainly because I found an LP inside another "Up With People" LP cover (mismatched) in a barn in the boonies that has a real fine mix of "Now Sound" arrangements coupled with semi-righteous "its a new day" sentimentality that I only wish I had the "real" (read fake authentic) cover for! But tomorrow I may wake up with the lustre gone ...Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, 88.1 in Cambridge, MA, USA on Tuesdays from 6-8am EST. We can be heard in Real Time through Real Audio by visiting us at wmbr.mit.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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics) Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:49:25 -0400 >I always think it's great to come across some really warped >minor-label gem, like the Lonely Harpsichord _Rainy Night in >Shangri-La_ . That one has pop harpsichord versions of "Quiet >Village," "Bali Hai," etc. complete with Mystic-Moods style >thunderstorm sounds. Amazing. (I just noticed this is another Snuff >Garrett project, like that _Bacharach Baroque_ album Speaking of the quasi-baroque stuff, there's... The 18th Century Concepts - "In The 20th Century Bag" (Sidewalk). This is the Mike Curb thing. The liner notes go into a yarn about him recording them in a haunted Austrian castle... and they disappeared after he took their photo (whooo, scary stuff kids). Then they say, nah, only kidding, they're really California schoolteachers who do this in their spare time. But I think that's also a fib. To me it sounds like session players on a quick paycheck. The music really isn't very baroque to my ears. It's more pop instrumental covers played with a faintly classical busyness. Some wordless female vocals that are said to be a "semi-madrigal choral effect," er, sure, whatever you say. Some cheap electronic keyboards, even rhythm box for drums on some tracks. That said, it is good, goofy fun... a strange little hybrid that is neither fish nor fowl. "Have You Seen You Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows" is especially fun, with booming drums suddenly bursting out now and then. Mariano Moreno - "Mariano & The Unbelievables" (Capitol). Rather more rigorous than the 18thCC, with instrumentation focused on harpsichord, with a small string section. Some light drums and percussion, maybe occasional flute and organ. Still not especially baroque, but a lot closer. Sometimes gets a little Muzaky on the more downtempo numbers. Includes soft pop hits like, "Up, Up And Away", "Windy", "Sunday Will Never Be The Same". Another "Sunshine Superman" too. Has a curious "As Tears Go By" with a male voice speaking occasionally in Spanish or Italian (me stoopid American). The most rigorously serious entry in this genre must be that Beatles one (can't remember title or artists). They really sliced and diced those Beatles tunes into Baroque correctness. Barely recognizable at times. 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: Thinkmatic@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:59:39 EDT How about Leo Addeo conducting and arranging The Living Marimbas Plus Voices in "Songs Made Famous By Johnny Cash". What in Christ's name inspired this? I got it just to hear "Ring of Fire", which is a thing of beauty. How about "Folsom Prison Blues" with marimba and the whitest white men singing, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.", it ain't going to get much more EXOTIC then this. While the vocal songs about prison are great shower listening, the others vocal tunes are pretty bad, but I think there should be a classic category based on insane, misguided concept alone. Misguidedly, Roy G. Biv # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ish-ta-bay Smish-ta-bay Date: 12 Oct 1999 23:13:17 EDT Back to this one guys: In a message dated 10/12/99 5:12:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dbrogdon@falcon.cc.ukans.edu writes: << I used to say IX-ta-bay 'til I read the discussion on the exotica list. Don't remember details exactly, but I was pretty well persuaded it ought to be ISH-ta-bay. Dunno for sure. Somebody oughta ask Yma. >> Darrell and I have been discussing the pronunciation of Xtabay (again!). Can anyone confirm how either Les Baxter or Yma Sumac pronounced this? It is driving me Xcrazy. Tiki Xbob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Grant" Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Webb croons for you........ Date: 12 Oct 1999 23:28:10 -0400 I am fortunate (?) enough to own this record. I found it in a second-hand shop in Kansas about 2 years ago. It's absolutely brilliant -- Webb doing ballads in a pure Joe Friday style narration. Imagine a cold montonous reading of the Otis Reading hit 'Try a Little Tenderness'. Even better are the liner notes written by Jim Bishop, author of 'The Day Christ Died'. If I have some time, I'll transcribe them -- they are hillarious. I doubt it's been released on CD, though I think one track might be on one of the Golden Throats compilations. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Ish-ta-bay Smish-ta-bay Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:45:39 -0700 > << I used to say IX-ta-bay 'til I read the discussion on the exotica > list. Don't remember details exactly, but I was pretty well > persuaded it ought to be ISH-ta-bay. Dunno for sure. Somebody > oughta ask Yma. > >> That's the strangest thing - I came away from that thread thinking EXtabay or it's red-headed cousin IXtabay were the more probable of all the proffered pronunciations. I can't remember why either... PS - Anyobody want to buy a domain name that nobody know how to pronounce? Ron Grandia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:26:55 +0200 DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/12/99 9:49:03 AM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de writes: > > >"Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco > >summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet > > Cool and Strange Disceau is what it is..and Herb Alpert also covered this > tune for a 45 7" (and maybe on an album) Jimmy Botticelli > I also heard two vocal versions, one was in German... Nobody knows who Bimbo Jet really are, the copyright credit names Cl.Morgan (Bimbo Jet), Babel Son, T.Ranzzano (Buffalo's Band) don't even hint into a clear national direction. Other names on the album sound more French... The net doesn't produce much enlightment either... Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:36:23 +0200 Sandberg Magnus wrote: > I just played Milt Raskin's Exotic percussion, now Robert Maxwell's Shangri La is on. In fact I just came back from a near Shangri La experience while drawing and I just want to scream: Love conquers all! What's a "Shangri-La-experience"? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Basic Hip in computer crash Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:37:27 +0200 SLarry3595@aol.com wrote: > Our pal BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has > crashed PC or Mac? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Baroque-pop (was Classics) Date: 13 Oct 1999 11:43:23 +0100 > From: "m.ace" > > The most rigorously serious entry in this genre must be that Beatles one > (can't remember title or artists). They really sliced and diced those > Beatles tunes into Baroque correctness. Barely recognizable at times. > "The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists either... Joshua Rifkin? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:12:34 -0400 At 03:47 PM 10/12/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote: > >1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native" >This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know. How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:41:10 -0400 At 07:30 PM 10/12/99 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one (to my ears), >"That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a >TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that I don't get this "TJB" clone thing. I heard it about The Brass Ring - which being a Phil Bodner thing, is essentially the same as "Living Jazz" - and now about Living Brass. I guess you can compare any small instrumental group with some brass to the TJB but that's about as far as it goes for me. I'm a big fan of the whole collection of "Living" bands. Brass, Jazz, Guitars, Marimbas, The Living Trio, even the the Living Voices. Some of my favorite records are "Living". And I might as well name a few while we're here. The Living Brass's "Tribute to Henry Mancini" often gets mentioned. I'd also recommend their "Music of the Graduate" which is essentially all Simon and Garfunkel. A couple of amazing cuts there. "Living Jazz" isn't jazz at all but they're still somewhat "jazzier" and often groovier than the L.Brass records. The best Living Jazz by far - of the four I have - is "Memphis Underground" (And like I said, if you like them, try the Brass Ring - another TJB clone... NOT. I like all their records but give special marks to "The Now Sound of.." and to their record on Project 3 with it's stunning version of "Ain't no Sunshine".) "Living Guitars" are all over the place but they made at least one classic must-have psychedelic Now Sound record, "San Franciscan Nights". Almost as good, but not nearly so electric sitar-drenched is "Let it be and other hits". And then, speaking of electric sitar, there's "Living Percussion" with amazing versions of "Green Tambourine" and of all things, "Quiet Village". Some of this stuff cries out to be reissued. Or maybe it has been. I'm sure I'd be the last to 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:50:27 -0400 At 07:59 PM 10/12/99 EDT, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >. Were you to >ask me today what my favorite is I'd have to answer "Up With People" mainly >because I found an LP inside another "Up With People" LP cover (mismatched) >in a barn in the boonies that has a real fine mix of "Now Sound" arrangements >coupled with semi-righteous "its a new day" sentimentality that I only wish I >had the "real" (read fake authentic) cover for! I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in the "soft pop" category. But you're calling them "Now Sound", not "soft pop". Either one of them is a bit of a stretch for me. On the other hand, I do have three of their LP's, all with proper covers, and I have them in the same section with The Living Voices, The Enoch Light Singers and other similar things like that Les Reed LP on Phase Four where they do "Something in the Air". On the other hand, I don't keep them near the Kirby Stone Four, the Hi-Los, the Clef-Tones or the Four Freshmen. I like to keep the well-arranged singers away from the choirs. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Baroque-pop (was Classics) Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:56:37 -0400 At 08:49 PM 10/12/99 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >The 18th Century Concepts - "In The 20th Century Bag" (Sidewalk). This is >the Mike Curb thing. I've been know to curse the odd Mike Curb thing but I have to give him credit for a great record "The Rolling Stone Songbook". And because I ran across it as I looked for the name of that record, let me recommend a classic NON-baroque record "The Soul of Paul Mauriat" with a great version of "You keep me hanging on". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Baroque-pop (was Classics) Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:04:27 -0400 At 11:43 AM 10/13/99 +0100, Peter Hipwell wrote: >"The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists >either... Joshua Rifkin? > That may be a good record if you like earnest attempts at a "baroque" sound but otherwise it's a boring record. But there's a category if you want to list your "classics" "ALL BEATLES COVERS". (I like them much more than the originals myself) I'll start you off. On Phase Four there's Frank Chacksfield plays the Beatles Song book and.. Bob Leaper (who?) Big Band Beatles then there's at least five Hollyridge Strings records. then there's an organ one by "The Mustang" and a Percy Faith one and the 101 Strings one which features the classic "Blues for the Guru". then Buddy Morrow then....? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:04:00 EDT If you are looking at a "Living" record and want to know if it is any good before plunking down some cash on it look at the back. That's where you'll find the name of the arranger. If it's Ray Martin you've got a winner in your hands. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Tiny Tim Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:14:42 +0100 I happened across http://www.tinytim.org which is a very nice site, and certainly exotica.... Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) sort of classics and on again Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:29:19 +0100 Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:34:27 -0400 Well, back in impoverished pre-exotica-revival times, Ruth Wallis' "The Cutest Little Dinghy in the Navy" turned up on just about every tape compilation I made for friends. Saucy, it is. Will # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Smiling Gods Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:39:21 +0100 The gods of vinyl, have been keeping their benevolent gaze on me, I did manage to get the Project: Comstock boot and the 'Solid Gold Hammond' LP. The Comstock cover is bizarrely printed on rather interesting textured paper, I don't know if that reflects the original sleeve at all. Its very nice too. Almost exactly pin-pointing what I imagined 'space age exotica' to sound like. The Harry Stoneham LP is the one with him on a motorbike with some dodgy bint sat in from of him on the petrol tank. I'm afraid dodgy bint is the only phrase that does this picture justice. Its all very 1971. Great LP though. They also had another Stoneham LP 'Latin on the Lowrey', or something along those lines. I just didn't have the money, does anyone know if I should go back for this (at 7 pounds)? It does sound tempting. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour... Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:42:00 +0200 This is from the Mencken list. It's one of my favourites, along with Exotica, of course. For a European guy like me who wants to learn a bit about America this man Mencken is a hell of a source... Ton "The radio, I take it, is quite satisfactory to the wowsers who now propose to make the movies safe for morons. That is to say, it is as devoid of ideas as a Kiwanis orator, and as bare of beauty as a city dump. For hour after hour its customers sit listening to bad music, worse speeches, and other entertainment so dreadful that it cannot be described... Music, if it be instrumental, is supplied mainly by gangs of union men sawing away dismally in the dining rooms of second-rate hotels; if it be vocal, it is performed by decayed fugitives from third-rate church choirs and fourth-rate opera companies. As for the speeches, they seem to issue, with few exceptions, from gentlemen trained as ballyhoo men at county fairs." H.L. Mencken Baltimore Evening Sun June 29, 1931 PS Gerard Jansen of "The Easy Alohas" was on the tele yesterday. Apparantly he studied with one of the Dutchmen who've just won the Nobel Prize for Physics. The real prize, not the Ig Nobel Prize... PHYSICS: Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit. ..and... Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the University of East Anglia, England, and Belgium, for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Smiling Gods Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:57:00 +0100 > The Harry Stoneham LP is the one with him on a motorbike with some dodgy > bint sat in from of him on the petrol tank. I'm afraid dodgy bint is the > only phrase that does this picture justice. Its all very 1971. Great LP > though. They also had another Stoneham LP 'Latin on the Lowrey', or > something along those lines. I just didn't have the money, does anyone > know if I should go back for this (at 7 pounds)? It does sound tempting. > It's only a polite enquiry, but are you off yer bleeding rocker, mate, or wot, eh, eh? I mean, really, *7* POUNDS for a HARRY STONEHAM ALBUM? And it sounds tempting? I'm really curious, what is the going rate for dodgy hammond platters down there in the swingin' wing-dingin' house-price-inflatin' Wild Wooly Sarf? "Lowrey" does have a couple of good tracks on it, but let's face the sorry truth, it *doesn't* have a motorcycling bint and/or Michael Parkinson on the cover! Good grief! Ach, maybe I'm just not enough of a HS fan. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour... Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:00:57 -0400 The Mencken quote sounds like a manifesto for the music I like, and I'd like a compilation devoted to each of his categories. Will # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) INSTANT AUTOMATONS Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:32:54 +0200 (MET DST) Hello, Although the INSTANT AUTOMATONS music is not really related to this list, I take profit from the message below to ask whether someone could give me some info about them. In particular, here's the related EPs/LPs I know about - "peter paints his fence" EP (Deleted records) - V/A "Weird Noise" EP (Fuck Off Records) - V/A "Angst in my pants" Is there something else ? Were the members involved in other bands? Thanks, Jean ================================================================= For this (the underrated exotica) chart surely it should be the bottom 100. As more of the list will know the top. And I suspect that however har d the rest of us try, the most bizarre will come from Citizen Kafkas collec tion. putting a vote in for 'people laugh at me cos I like weird music' by t he Instant Automatons (should allow 45's as well, surely) El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) Hot.... Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:18:19 -0700 (PDT) ...mail question! I might need an addiontal email address to this and the one I have at work(should the latter ever expire), and I have a question about Hotmail. Is that an account only through PCs/IBM/Windows, etc? Or can anybody use a Hotmail account, say, on a Mac(you can tell I am not Miss Computer!) If not, then are there other free accounts besides Hotmail and Yahoo? A yahoo herself, Jane Fondle ps-not that I am being self important, but if anybody has written me individually in the last week, I have been extremely busy...so, I ain't being a joik or nuttin. ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:09:27 +0200 Nat Kone wrote: > >1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native" > >This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know. > > How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik? Hmmm... if Frederik was Josef Marais, he'd record Dutch cows, translate it into German and make it to Number 1 in the Volksmusikantenhitparade. If Miranda was Nina, she'd kill Frederik and start a solo career as Belgian Exotica domina with the name of "Mademoiselle Lumumba"... Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:32:51 +0200 Hugh Petfield wrote: > Next, Capitol albums have a variety of number prefixes, > but they are broadly T/ST or W/SW. Any idea what > differentiates these please? ST is for Stereo, T are the mono albums. It appears to me that the SW/W prefix was for reissues, but I'm not sure. SW again is the stereo edition, while W is the mono edition. Marco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:38:43 +0200 "n.e.u. / Moritz R" wrote: > Hmmm... if Frederik was Josef Marais, he'd record Dutch cows, Huh? What? Marco > -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.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 McKenna" Subject: (exotica) pioneer women Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:40:48 PDT can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. daphne oram at the bbc radiophonic workshop-[she developed a light controlled synthesis system] and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as far as i can think at the moment. i would hope to include pop / hip hop as well as more accepted experimental forms. thanks rob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Virtual Fantastica terminated Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:05:31 +0200 "Virtual Fantastica" - my site with "radio fantastica" playlists - has been terminated by the "MyPlace.To.Be" web site owners, due to the audio content (realaudio verfsions of 2 half shows...) 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) pioneer women Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:39:06 -0400 Robert McKenna wrote: > can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. daphne oram at the bbc radiophonic workshop-[she developed a light controlled synthesis system] and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as far as i can think at the moment. Top of head: Laurie Anderson Bebe Barron Pauline Oliveros Priscilla McLean Ruth White Suzanne Ciani Mother Mallard Enya -Lou lousmith@pipeline.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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women/Beat Girl Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:04:57 -0500 >can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. >daphne oram... and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as >far as i can think at the moment. Brain fog won't stop me here. Wasn't one of the creators of the "electronic stylings" music used on the Forbidden Planet soundtrack a female?... OK, IMDB says Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Was there ever an OST made of this music? It's the only film music credit the IMBD lists for Bebe Barron. Which leads me to another movie recommend: Beat Girl, aka Wild for Kicks -- John Barry's first soundtrack, with songs by the John Barry Seven. The combo might even perform in the movie but the credits are too terse to say for sure. A wild teenage girl, mad for music and adrift in London's 1960 caves and coffee houses...and flirting with a career as a stripper. Fab, fab for the music, the melodramatic plot, the Bardot-like aura of the star Gillian Hill. Plus there's one eyepopping exotica-modern sex bomb dance number that will leave you panting. Racy for its time. Distributed by Kino International, so should be available in shops with good cult movie stashes. Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:36:45 -0500 Nat Kone wrote: > > At 03:47 PM 10/12/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote: > > > >1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native" > >This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know. > > How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik? I don't know Nina and Frederick, I just wanted to add that I'm a big fan of Marais & Miranda's _Songs of Science and Nature_ LP's. "We are all solid members of the rock family / metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary" "I'm not a fossil / and neither are you" (from "What is a Fossil") Also, I'm thinking of putting a lot of my LP covers online, but I don't have a scanner big enough. Do I have to photograph all of them first? Rats. -- Kerry http://www.ripco.com/~dymaxia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) pioneer women/Beat Girl Date: 13 Oct 1999 15:10:23 -0400 >music? It's the only film music credit the IMBD lists for Bebe Barron. > The Barrons did music for a few obscure avant-garde films, all shorts I think. About 3-4 were done before "Forbidden Planet" (and yes there's a soundtrack CD available) and some afterwards. One of the later ones was a documentary about Kirlian photography or some such unfortunately topic. LT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:16:40 -0700 I think I asked this a while back, but it more of an interest now. So I found a record store on the Web which had Exotic Trilogy vols 1-2 in stock and ordered them. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!! Really loving these. Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out? Any other bootle.., er... "limited edition imports" with this kind of Exotica material? I'm mostly drawn to classic Baxter style orchestral stuff or Denny-style, less drawn to the stuff using organs and whatnot. If you haven't decided to take the plunge I can heartily recommned the Exotic Triology CDs! 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: Michael Zadoorian Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:36:02 +0000 Kevin- Where did you get this? I'd be very interested. Someone gave me a bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in exotica. The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one. Thanks, Michael Z Kevin C. wrote: > I think I asked this a while back, but it more of an interest now. > > So I found a record store on the Web which had Exotic Trilogy vols 1-2 > in stock and ordered them. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!! Really > loving these. > > If you haven't decided to take the plunge I can heartily recommned the > Exotic Triology CDs! > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:33:13 -0500 HOME BOOTLEGGING IS KILLING BOOTLEGGING. > Where did you get this? I'd be very interested. Someone gave me a >bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in >exotica. The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one. 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: "jonathan richardson" Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:53:52 PDT >From: "Robert McKenna" >can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. Someone that comes to my mind is Argentinian (I think) 60's musique concrete/tape music artist, Pauline Oliveros. There is little on her, but as of late there has been renewed interest in her work. I think some of her works are being re-issued. There was a big article on her in Wire magazine about 2-3 mos. ago. I believe that she is still in the loop, so to say, and is still creating her music. Hope this helps a bit. bleep bloop bleep bzzzzzzzz -jonathan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:10:00 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 3:30:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mzadoori@cecom.com writes: << Kevin- Where did you get this? I'd be very interested. Someone gave me a bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in exotica. The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one. Thanks, Michael Z >> I love the Trilogy CD's but the quality is pretty bad. Some of the cuts they used are/were available on remastered CD's but the chose to use the vinyl (some of which was scratched badly. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jane Fondle Subject: (exotica) name-maim Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Nat said: And I think the name "Laura Taylor" is cool. Kind of reminds me of "Laura Petrie" and I can definitely imagine Laura Petrie in tight clothes dancing onstage. Pedal pushers come to mind for some reason. Have 'em! But not for stage...too long! ;^<> >It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you were a contract player in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you keep your name or would they make you change it?" Laura Taylor and Will Straw would probably get to keep their names. (One of those names already sounds made up.) And Jane Fondle doesn't? Laura Taylor is one of those "Charlie Brown" names...everybody who knows me by that calls me "Laura Taylor"...not just the first name...or I even have friends now who call me "Jane Fondle." DOn't ask ME who I am! :) Love, Nico ===== "It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter Astroslut website: cuming soon! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: kingkini@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) name-maim Date: 13 Oct 1999 15:25:40 -0500 >It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you >were a contract player >in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you >keep your name or >would they make you change it?" Laura Taylor and Will >Straw would probably >get to keep their names. (One of those names already >sounds made up.) (when i'm not King Kini) i work clubs as DJ Dean Vaccaro and get asked all the time what my "real name" is. Considering that IS my real name, i guess it sounds made up enough to keep, huh? (don't tell anybody) 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Latin and Hip Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:45:48 -0400 Here's a buried classic for you. A record I would want everyone on the list to hear. "The Brothers Castro" (The record actually has an asterisk next to the word "Castro" and in small letters it says "no relation".) They're "four swinging youngsters from Mexico City" and their first record for Capitol is called "Latin and Hip"... which is almost redundant, no? It's a vocal quartet with great harmonies and they add a Latin flavor to standards like "Tenderly" and "Summertime". The orchestra is conducted by the sometimes great Jack Marshall. They also have great matching suits. Especially recommended for anyone into Kirby Stone or even Lambert, Hendricks and 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: "Jane Fondle" Subject: (exotica) It's ME! Date: 13 Oct 1999 17:21:23 EDT Hey, thanks to Ron Grandia, I now have this account. I am not using laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com for exotica no' mo'! You can still reach me there, here or at jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com xo ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Forbiden Planet Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:22:53 -0700 (PDT) --- Mimi Mayer wrote: stylings" music used on the Forbidden Planet soundtrack a female?... OK, IMDB says Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Was there ever an OST made of this music? Sure was and its on GNP/Cresendo and its redily availabale. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) name-maim Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:40:33 -0500 Believe or not, there's another Mimi Mayer in Austin. Thank god no one gets us confused since my real name is Minnie Mayhem. Spacey Snapp # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) It's ME! Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:29:27 -0700 > > Hey, thanks to Ron Grandia, I now have this account. I am not using > laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com for exotica no' mo'! You can still reach me > there, here or at jane_fondle_69@yahoo.com Can you believe that astroslut@hotmail has been taken already? I say we deluge the phony astroslut and shame her (if she has any) into returning the moniker to the ONLY astroslut, the lovely Lounge Laura! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jane Fondle" Subject: Re: (exotica) It's ME! Date: 13 Oct 1999 17:35:49 EDT > >Can you believe that astroslut@hotmail has been taken already? I say we >deluge the phony astroslut and shame her (if she has any) into returning >the moniker to the ONLY astroslut, the lovely Lounge Laura! > > Yes, I can...but that's OK. We got the suckah Trademarked! HARHAR-screamed in a loud Yosemite Sam voice! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Spooks In Space Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Now that Halloween is approaching it seems natural to play creepy scarry spooky scifi monster space music. Recently been listening to cheapo Halloween Monster/Ghost cd compilations, one is even shaped like a Haunted House (it plays fine) Also have been playing: The Thing OST The Day The Earth Stood Still OST The Outer Limits (original tv show) Not Of This Earth the music of Ronald Stein Journey To the Center of The Earth OST Blood Simple OST Black Angels by Kronus Quartet Forbiden Planet OST Destination Moon OST Sci Fi's Greatest Hits vols 1-3 on Tee Vee Toons They Came From Outer Space V/A Passion Ost Passion Sources v/a Carnival of Souls (and watched the video, thanks Paul) Theres a lot more to listen to in this vain. Any suggestions are very welcome. There are more creepy horror soundtracks form Morricone and others I haven't gotten to yet and the space music albums like Fantastica and Project Comstock.. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:34:50 +0200 JayMan282@aol.com wrote: > Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made > appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s > (like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel, > Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did. Martin Denny appears in a 1959 edition of the Dinah Shore Show. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:35:24 +0200 "Everlasting Gobstopper" is Momus and his Wife. Mike Alway may have invented the band name and the artistic concept, but he's not involved in the music, doesn't sing and doesn't play an instrument; in fact he hates musicians, as label bosses usually do. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Spooks In Space Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:48:48 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 5:46:31 PM, you wrote: <> Try Harry Partch's "The Bewitched". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated) Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:51:19 +0200 dymaxia@ripco.com wrote: > I just wanted to > add that I'm a big fan of Marais & Miranda's > _Songs of Science and Nature_ LP's. Is that a series? Never heard of 'em. But hey! Friends! Another one who's into Marais and Miranda! What's "Songs for Science and Nature" about? BTW: There's a film, where M&M appear; don't know which it was. Maybe someone knows!!?? > "We are all solid members of the rock family / > metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary" > > "I'm not a fossil / and neither are you" > (from "What is a Fossil") Sounds like music for children or something. Educational stuff... how's the music? Can you still find these records? What's on the covers? > Also, I'm thinking of putting a lot of my > LP covers online, but I don't have a scanner > big enough. Do I have to photograph all of > them first? Rats. Well, you can scan the cover in two halves and put them together in Photoshop. After some practice it's pretty easy.Where does "rats!" come from? Snoopy? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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)TJB clones (was Classics) Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:00:38 -0400 >>"That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a >>TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that > >I don't get this "TJB" clone thing. The term is maybe thrown around a little too freely. For myself, I don't see it so much as a concrete musical designation as a lasso for stuff that the record companies (at the time) saw as a way to get a little slice of Alpert's action. Whether it was a tight copy or just something vaguely related, the TJB had opened up a window of opportunity that was there to exploit while the exploitin' was good. But on the whole, I would prefer to defer to Brad Bigelow on this subject. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) idiot boxed Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:00:56 -0400 A few more teevee things... "The Big T.N.T. Show" (1966) AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am (eastern) Sequel to "The T.A.M.I. Show" with Bo Diddley, The Ronettes, Ike & Tina Turner, David McCallum, and many more. "Carnival Of Souls" (1962) A&E - Sunday morning, 7:00am Some pleasant organ music for your Sunday morning. "Mysteries Of Easter Island" History - Sunday afternoon, 2:00pm Eyes? Straw hats? I'd like to see them sporting brown derbies, meself. Biography: Pablo Picasso A&E - Sunday night, 8:00pm, 10:00pm, Midnight, 2:00am Are we saturation programming yet? "Chang" (1927) TCM - Sunday night, Midnight Antique documentary in the Thai jungle. Shot by the gang that later did "King Kong". Profiles: David Bowie Bravo - Monday night, 11:00pm, 3:00am Not exotica at all, but I know he has some fans on here. "In Like Flint" (1967) AMC - Tuesday night, 6:00pm The second Flint movie. No "Exotica" beauty cream, but he does talk to dolphins. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour... Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:28:19 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 8:42:58 AM, mojoto@plex.nl writes: >H.L. Mencken >Baltimore Evening Sun Where he was fond of saying "Journalists are like birds on a wire. When one takes off, the rest follow." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Latin and Hip Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:33:12 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 4:43:48 PM, bruno@yhammer.com writes: >A record I would want everyone on the >list to hear. >"The Brothers Castro" >(The record actually has an asterisk next to the word "Castro" and in small >letters it says "no relation".) >They're "four swinging youngsters from Mexico City" and their first record >for Capitol is called "Latin and Hip"... which is almost redundant, no? I'm lucky enough to own this record as well (in mono :--() and additionally recommend "I'll Remember April" from it # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Louis Therouxs Weird Weekend Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:50:45 -0700 > "Brilliant...Wildly funny." > Entertainment Weekly > > "Disarming." > Details > > "[Theroux] has a knack for connecting with the weirdest of the weird." > New York Magazine > > "Not your average wacky-happy TV newsmag." > Philadelphia City Paper > > From the back-breaking world of pro wrestling to the heart-breaking cattle calls of New York theater; from the landing site of a UFO to a televangelist's religious revival; Bravo's redefining the "weekend getaway." LOUIS THEROUX'S WEIRD WEEKENDS is Bravo's new original series in which journalist and host Louis Theroux dives into a singular American subculture every weekend and emerges on Monday with an entirely new point of view. > > Last week, the series premiere took our gangly reporter to Atlanta's Power Plant to infiltrate the back-breaking world of professional wrestling. Upcoming WEIRD WEEKENDS premieres in October include: OFF-BROADWAY (Friday, October 8 at 8:00PM/ET); PORN (Friday, October 15 at 8:00PM/ET); INFOMERCIALS (Friday, October 22 at 8:00PM/ET); and UFOs (Friday, October 29 at 8:00PM/ET). > > For more programming information, check out the official WEIRD WEEKENDS website http://weirdweekends.bravotv.com or contact bravopr@rainbow-media.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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Spooks In Space Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:05:32 -0400 >Try Harry Partch's "The Bewitched". I think that the beginning to the "Delusion of the Fury" by Partch is pretty scary. Also Imaginary Landscape (#3?) by John Cage is out there (theremin alert, J.F.!). Exuma has no less than a Zombie Revival Ritual on "Paul Simon Nontooth", Black Mass by Lucifer (Mort Garson) and then, there is always "Shock, the son of Panic" :^) 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Switched-On Basic Hip! Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:53:49 -0700 In response to the recent posts about 1) The Moog, and 2) BasicHip's compilation CD's, I just posted BasicHip's epic moog-mix Switched-On BasicHip here: http://216.112.66.38/ron/som/basichipmoog.pls It's 24kbps for all you modem-surfers, and SHOULD be mac-compatible. (crossing finglers) 28 tracks of synthesized wonderfulness. I've been typing all day, and am too pooped to post the playlist. I PROMISE one before Friday if YOU promise to post a reception report, so's I can see how the server is getting along. 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: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd Date: 13 Oct 1999 22:14:25 -0500 Actually, I believe Momus and his wife Shazna are (or were) Milky. Everlasting Gobstopper is rumored to be a teenage girl--not Momus' wife! Elisabeth ---------- >From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" >To: exotica mailing list >Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd >Date: Wed, Oct 13, 1999, 5:35 PM > > > "Everlasting Gobstopper" is Momus and his Wife. Mike Alway may have > invented the band name and the artistic concept, but he's not involved > in the music, doesn't sing and doesn't play an instrument; in fact he > hates musicians, as label bosses usually do. > > Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Classics Date: 13 Oct 1999 22:18:45 -0500 > I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in the > "soft pop" category. And Glenn Close sings and plays guitar on at least one of them! Notice she never discusses that part of her career in interviews. 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Help me find...... Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:51:45 -0400 A dance/trance comp. put out by Bad Taste Records called "Egg '94." I've searched on the company name but turn up nothing. Thanks! - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #519 Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:49:17 -0400 Okay, kids, this is my last posting of this nature...in my frenzy to get packed up for the move to Australia at month's end, I've posted oodles of good vinyl from my collection on eBay, including a honkin' passel of my MOOG LP's, the SATAN IN HIGH HEELS sdtk, and tons more. Maybe I'll soon specialize in posting wacky obscurities from Down Unda, but I ain't there yet, so....here's my last hurrah! You can see da stuff here: http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&us erid=seasob&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25 Have fun looking, and I'll be in touch with lots of you when I'm upside down! Keith **************************** http://www.lobue-art.com A virtual gallery and info site for the artwork and workshops of KEITH E. LO BUE **************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) They's MO! Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:51:59 -0700 Some nameless "knucklehead" sent me some Mp3 files to sample and then delete, but in flagrant disregrard for the law, I posted them in mix form here: http://216.112.66.38/ron/rissermix.m3u He then sent me two more files, Spike Jones's Hawaiian War Chant, ( a fave of mine) and Piero Umiliani's Mah Na Mah Na. They have been added. May the Lord have mercy on my wicked soul. Ron You too can FTP sound files to ftp://216.112.66.38/incoming if you so desire. Email me to let me know they are there. You can also peek at what's there, and download it to your own hard-drive, but that MIGHT be illegal depending on the content. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Gerwitz Subject: (exotica) Conniff's 'Dance The Bop/En Espanol" & Simply Faboo Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:19:43 -0700 The Collectables label continues to spew out the unusual two-fers, including the supposedly rare "Dance the Bop" (which I've only seen once but at a $20 "collectable" price for rabid dog favorite frisbee condition), now combined with "En Espanol" that I've never heard or seen anywhere. Anyone think this two-fer might be worth the $10 it would cost at CDNow (after $5 off coupon, shippin & taxes?) I already bought the Japanese import of the Gentle People's "Simply Faboo" (with a $20 coupon, natch). Had i been patient, CDNow has a US Faboo release date of 10/19(@ $12.99), and using a $5 e-coupon its out the door and onto your doorstep for a little over $10 after shipping & tax. (But I still prefer "Soundtracks for Living)." Its only a fin, but.... http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=campus JB LeNoir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:18:09 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 11:35:12 PM, exotica@munich.netsurf.de wrote: > >Martin Denny appears in a 1959 edition of the Dinah Shore Show. and a 1969 special edition of Hawaii Calls # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:17:44 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 8:17:56 PM, kevin@kevdo.com wrote: >Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out? No, Gordon and Laura (the core of KBZ) can be found in Berlin performing at their club Schmaltzwald (Schmaltz - or "Cheese" - world) but have yet to release the third installment of their series which has plans for ten CDs!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) INSTANT AUTOMATONS Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:18:19 +0100 I would say that as purveyors of murky electronic pop, they fit quite nicely on the list alongside Bruce Haack. Here is a URL for the Street level site, with them and other Fuck Off Records related bands. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Pit/6644/ El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm Hello, Although the INSTANT AUTOMATONS music is not really related to this list, I take profit from the message below to ask whether someone could give me some info about them. Thanks, Jean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) pioneer women Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:29:52 +0100 There was Anne someone from the Age of Chance, who has done some soundtracks, stuff with Jaz Coleman, (and I believe the Spice Girls). Now, thats a CV. Although I don't if she counts as a pioneer, as its 80s stuff. can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) wout steenhuis Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:43:54 +0100 A while ago someone was asking about background for this musician, a friend has scanned a set of sleevenotes for me, which I can have anyone who's interested have. Basically, He's Dutch, was in the resistance and a concentration camp during the war, and is now (1964) an international jazz musician with a family. The file is a not very big jpeg. and quite interesting. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic Date: 14 Oct 1999 05:55:16 -0400 I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS and it's evoking endless thoughts and images. But one idea in particular seems relevant here. They talked about "National Geographic" magazine, how it began to publish photographs and the fact that those photographs defined the way "we" looked at the world. But as one of the commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans getting up and going to the office". This made me think about the relationship between those images and the very idea of the "exotic" that developed after that. I'd be willing to bet that you could connect National Geographic with the boom in (supposedly) exotic music. But if the photographs presented a distorted view, well... Not that I thought exotica was exactly ethnographically accurate. Just a thought... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:37:37 EDT In a message dated 10/14/99 : << No, Gordon and Laura (the core of KBZ) can be found in Berlin performing at their club Schmaltzwald (Schmaltz - or "Cheese" - world) but have yet to release the third installment of their series which has plans for ten CDs!! >> I thought Schmaltz was more referring to something sickeningly sweet? Literally, schmaltz means "pig (or pork) drippings"? Aren't Gordon and Laura also the inventors of the "Schmaltsalarm"? A so-called devise that would go off whenever the music got too sentimental? TB schmaltz also schmalz (noun) [Yiddish shmalts, literally, rendered fat, from Middle High German smalz; akin to Old High German smelzan to melt -- more at SMELT] First appeared 1935 1 : sentimental or florid music or art 2 : SENTIMENTALITY -- schmaltzy (adjective) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Some Esquivel and other questions Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:38:16 EDT In a message dated 10/14/99 12:20:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Ottotemp@aol.com writes: << and a 1969 special edition of Hawaii Calls >> is this available on video tape????? tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Louis Therouxs Weird Weekend Date: 14 Oct 1999 12:45:00 +0100 Ron Grandia wrote: > > > "Brilliant...Wildly funny." > > Entertainment Weekly > LOUIS THEROUX'S WEIRD WEEKENDS is Bravo's new original series in which > journalist and host Louis Theroux dives into a singular American subculture > every weekend and emerges on Monday with an entirely new point of view. These have been on UK tv for a few years now, but I thought they were pitched at a british 'look what those crazy Americans are doing' angle. Very funny some of them, anyway. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) National Geographic and the exotic Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:48:45 EDT In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS >> and <> I was watching the show and thought the same thing. Of course now there are many "educational" magazines out there to peruse. At the turn of the century and in the teens to the 40's NG was the "bible" of what other cultures in the world were like. It became very popular for the "gentleman" of the day to be a subscriber to NG (not unlike Playboy in the 1960s -- geez -- now there is a contrast -- of course both have pictures of naked women in them -- the Playboy ones had a little more "tone" though as I remember). Anyway, I agree that the "exotic" explorations of NG helped to spur the interest in things exotic and Exotica. The show on photography is excellent btw. One other similarity between Playboy and NG -- both are magazines that one never throws away. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More Brothers Castro Date: 14 Oct 1999 06:57:06 Thanks, Nat, for mentioning the Brothers Castro and their first Capitol LP, "Latin and Hip." Their second is also worth looking for. Titled simply "The Brothers Castro," it's "recorded on stage at Harrah's Club" in Lake Tahoe. They do a wild mix of stuff--"Malaguena," "Cubano Chant," "O Sole Mio," "One Note Samba." There's a great version of "Malaguena Salerosa" that includes a spoken part that makes it sound like a lounge lizard's mating call: "Hey baby ... Look over here now ... Don't be shy ... I luuuv yew!" It ends with an epic medley of "Caravan" and "Exodus." As the liner notes say, "Listen. They must be heard to be believed." God, it's wonderful what used to find its way onto vinyl. 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: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al) LPs Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:36:57 +0100 Someone said: "It's only a polite enquiry, but are you off yer bleeding rocker, mate, or wot, eh, eh? I mean, really, *7* POUNDS for a HARRY STONEHAM ALBUM? And it sounds tempting? I'm really curious, what is the going rate for dodgy hammond platters down there in the swingin' wing-dingin' house-price-inflatin' Wild Wooly Sarf? "Lowrey" does have a couple of good tracks on it, but let's face the sorry truth, it *doesn't* have a motorcycling bint and/or Michael Parkinson on the cover! Good grief! Ach, maybe I'm just not enough of a HS fan. " Wow, I agree - I'd think 50p would be about right for any of the MANY elpees by keyboard wizzo Harry Stoneham. They are standard junk/charidee shop fare, at least here in the smoke. There are dozens ofem by the way. Nearly all feature dolly birds on the cover and some also feature TV interviewers! I would say buyer beware whatever price you pay -in my experience there are usually only one or two half-decent cuts on this genre of albums and they are usually the ones where the musos were allowed to rock out a bit, perhaps at the end of sessions, rather than just play (for example) bossa versions of contemporary tooooooooonz. Paying seven Earth pounds for yer Stonehams, Hawkshaws, Mantovanis etc smaks of the EZ-listening "boom" of the mid-90s when suddenly previously bargain-bin items were escalated to "rarity" status in London's second-hand reckud stores, regardless of the fact that actually most of them contained 90% junk.And now I notice that they're back in the bargain bins. Funny, that. Just my opine of course. groovily phil dilemma # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jane Fondle" Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic Date: 14 Oct 1999 08:57:27 EDT >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com >To: bruno@yhammer.com, exotica@xmission.com >Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:48:45 EDT > > >In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >bruno@yhammer.com writes: > ><< I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS >> and <commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans >getting up and going to the office".>> Wow! Are we not an educated bunch, eh? I was also watching that...and they were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* enough...and I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy... You can tell we're like-minded! Jane Fondle ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al) LPs Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:57:27 +0100 Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of this sort of hammond stuff. I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something? This appears to just yer bog-standard 'hits' hammond (i.e. Tie a Yellow ribbon etc). Now Duke Grant's Hammond Disco (in the same series) was well worth the 10p i paid... fantastic stuff, and that's only the liner notes and cover... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) harry Stoneham (et al) LPs Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:28:06 +0100 > From: Michael Jemmeson > > Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond > M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've > heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of > this sort of hammond stuff. I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's > Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something? This appears to just > yer bog-standard 'hits' hammond (i.e. Tie a Yellow ribbon etc). Now Duke > Grant's Hammond Disco (in the same series) was well worth the 10p i > paid... fantastic stuff, and that's only the liner notes and cover... > One of those Big Jim H. albums has "Jungle Fever" on it, a torrid Hammond exploration accompanied by female moans (caused, of course, by the oppressive heat of the jungle). That's the one worth getting. In fact, it's so good I would recommend you stretch all the way to 50p for it. I'd recommend T.W. Ardy's "Hammond In Gold" if you ever run across a copy (side-spitting swinging cheese). And Howard Blake's "Hammond In Percussion" (Studio Two), simply for the staggeringly brilliant super-heavy version of the James Bond theme. And there's a Richard "Groove" Holmes album in which he covers "American Pie" uptempo... I think it's time to dig back down into that pile 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: Subject: (exotica) [obits] David A. Huffman,J. Franklin Hyde,Jules Glazer Date: 14 Oct 1999 09:38:16 -0400 The Associated Press Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999; 12:14 a.m. EDT David A. Huffman SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) – David A. Huffman, who turned his college term paper into a computer coding procedure still in use four decades later, died of cancer Thursday. He was 74. Huffman developed the Huffman Coding Procedure, a mathematical technique still vital to data storage and transmission. The procedure assigns strings of 0's and 1's to each character in a file. The codes are used to manage files in large computer systems; compress text, image and audio files; and compress data for transmission by fax machines, modems and high-definition television broadcast. Huffman created the system while a graduate student in the 1950s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. J. Franklin Hyde CORNING, N.Y. (AP) – J. Franklin Hyde, an organic chemist whose glass-making method made the fiber-optics revolution possible, died Monday. He was 96. Hyde's pioneering work with ultra-pure glass at Corning Glass Works in 1934 was used in radar during World War II. It didn't gain wide use until the 1960s when it led to durable spaceship windows, galaxy-gazing telescopes, precision lenses to build computer chips and signal-carrying optical fibers. Optical fiber is now Corning Inc.'s biggest business. "I'm surprised at some of the things it has gone into, but I'm not surprised at the versatility of such a beautiful and useful material," Hyde said in an interview with The Associated Press last November. Jules Glazer LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jules Glazer, an accountant who handled finances for entertainers such as Abbott and Costello and for leading Democratic political candidates over a 40-year career, died of cancer Oct. 7 in Palm Desert. He was 77. Glazer handled tax returns and other finances in Hollywood for motion picture personalities, including comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Glazer quickly segued to political accounting and developed a reputation for integrity. A staunch Democrat, he eventually served as national treasurer for the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. He also handled regional finances for John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy during their presidential campaigns. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics) Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:48:05 -0700 (PDT) --- Peter Hipwell wrote: > > "The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists > either... Joshua Rifkin? Yes, Joshua Rifkin. It should still be avaiable. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.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: "Jane Fondle" Subject: (exotica) Thee Swinging Eye Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:14:18 EDT Heeeellllo! I am soliciting opinions on Si Zentner's THE SWINGING EYE. His work is real mixed to me, some swingin', some tepid. Is this another great cover/so-so music deal, or does the music relfect the cover? Cool, thanks, Jane ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Great special! I really enjoyed the historical perspective of it. I agree with Nat's hypothesis that National Geograhic may have influenced exotica. I also think Look and Life magazines where quite influential in creating a perception of the coctail culture. I wonder if Esquivell, Baxter, Denny or other exotica musicians were ever featured in the magazines? I wonder how many time Sinatra made it? Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck Now playing: The Anita Kerr Singers "Reflect on the Hits of Burt Bacharach & Hal David > >In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > >bruno@yhammer.com writes: > > > ><< I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS >> and < >commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans > >getting up and going to the office".>> ---Jane Fondel wrote: > Wow! Are we not an educated bunch, eh? I was also watching that...and they > were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in > feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* enough...and > I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy... > You can tell we're like-minded! > Jane Fondle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:27:23 EDT In a message dated 10/13/99 10:21:11 PM, teppaz@panix.com writes: > I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in >the >> "soft pop" category. I put it into that category for my own thoughts on it. Does it fit into that category for all? I don't have the answer to that one >And Glenn Close sings and plays guitar on at least one of them! Notice >she >never discusses that part of her career in interviews. True, she is listed as Gleen Close on one of them, but there's no mistaking her face in the pic of the happy singers # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Exotic Trilogy Question Date: 14 Oct 1999 12:10:43 -0700 Michael Zadoorian wrote: > Where did you get this? I'd be very interested. Someone gave me a > bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in > exotica. The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one. > Thanks, http://manifoldrecords.com/ (I think...) This is a store in Canada, so the prices are all in Canadian dollars. I think the total, including shipping, was about $35 for both collections. -Kevin Crossman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:34:14 PDT that's anne dudley i seem to remember. she of the art of noise and suchlike, quite a surprise to me she worked with jaz... she now does quite mainstream soundtracks (the likes of the full monty). i seem to remember she was judging the mercury music awards (and this years award for the whitest band is....) narky bob > >There was Anne someone from the Age of Chance, who has done some >soundtracks, stuff with Jaz Coleman, (and I believe the Spice Girls). >Now, thats a CV. >Although I don't if she counts as a pioneer, as its 80s stuff. > > >can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers. > >El Maestro Con Queso > >djcheesemaster@yahoo.com >grr@brighton.ac.uk >http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic and tabu Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:44:30 PDT >were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in >feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* >enough...and >I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy... >You can tell we're like-minded! >Jane Fondle > which reminds me. by sheer coincidence i happened to be looking at murnau's tabu in the video shop last sunday before i read about it here considering whether to get it or not and the copy i saw was credited to murnau/ robert o'flaherty. he's famous for nanook of the north where they got an eskimo family to live in half an igloo for the cameras. at least one died of pneumonia. they still tell stories on the aran islands (in the delightfully wordy dialect of english they speak when they have to) about all the mad dangerous shite people did for his cameras that they never would do in real life. reminds me of that french(?) anthropologist living carefully with these people in australia with unique art apparantly uninfluenced by any people knew. by the time he left 3 months later they had ditched their old motifs for the design from camel cigarettes.... sad rob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.h