From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki News Caravan Date: 01 Mar 1997 01:12:03 -0500 (EST) has been updated in the red nagahyde lounge area that is the site for Los Angeles based Bitro historical magazine Lounge LA http://www.val.net/Lounge # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sevo Stille" Subject: (exotica) Radio X-Mix on air Date: 01 Mar 1997 11:54:54 +0100 Radio X-Mix on air from 01.03.-09.03. Radio X-Mix, the Frankfurt independent radio station, will be on air=20 again for another (and hopefully the last before permanent licensing)=20 ten day broadcast. Frequency 97.1 FM, with a coverage which may,=20 with a decent antenna, cover about 50 km around Frankfurt. The whole 200 hours will be transmitted on the net via RealAudio.=20 See http://www5.inm.de/xmix/ for further details and detailed=20 programming. The musical part of the program will cover the whole range of off- mainstream music currently produced in Frankfurt, with a slight bias=20 towards Drum and Bass and Exotica. Every night from 23:00 local time=20 on, there will be a four hour show with local DJs. Of particular interest to the exoticats and lounge aficionados out there = may be the three Exotica and strange pop special features: "Intersound Casino" (Sat. 19:00-21:00 local time),=20 "TIKI-Radioshow" (featuring Moritz Rrr of"der Plan", Sun 9.3. = 10:00-12:00) and=20 "The wacky Waikikians" (Sun.9.3. 16:00-17:00).=20 Sevo --=20 Sevo Stille sevo@inm.de Web Department sevo_stille@f.maus.de inm numerical magic GmbH Tel: ++49 (69) 9419630=20 Daimlerstrasse 32 Fax: ++49 (69) 94196322 D 60314 Frankfurt a.M. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Funeral music, Pt.2 Date: 01 Mar 1997 11:05:48 -0500 I stole the following from epulse (Tower's e-zine). No comment (from me anyway). -Lou 1. pass the hemlock, I think I'm Martin Denny: Somehow, we always knew that beneath the serious public face of assisted-suicide guru DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, a Les Baxter-style hipster composer lurked, waiting to burst forth and mesmerize the loungeosie. Yes, Kevorkian fancies himself a composer, and THE MORPHEUS QUINTET (composed of members of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, the Bonedaddies, Soulsonics, Big Town 7 and Bop Sh'bam -- like, dig tha pomo chin-scratcher aesthetic at work here, daddy-o) was willing to help Doc get some indie cred by interpreting his compositions on 'A VERY STILL LIFE' (Lucid/subjazz/Resist, late spring release; btw, Lucid's logo is a martini glass with olive, as in: achtung, young hipster consumer). Renaissance man Kevorkian -- he painted the cover, too -- plays flute and organ here. Four bucks per unit sold will go toward establishing a permanent patholysis (don't look it up; it's a succinct word for doctor-assisted suicide) clinic for Kevorkian. No, we haven't heard 'Still Life,' but even if it blows, there's always a market for kitsch. Still we can't wait for the inevitable jungle remixes. ... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bsalter@slip.net (Brian Salter) Subject: (exotica) Sense-O-Round closing Date: 01 Mar 1997 17:05:01 -0800 I regret to bring you all some bad news: The Sense-O-Round lounge will no longer be happening at Cafe du Nord in SF. February was our last month; thanks to all of our loyal fans for keeping the fun going for almost a year! In a month or so, we hope to resurface at a new venue, so keep your eyes peeled. We also may continue to appear from time to time as guest DJ's on Wednesday and Thursday nights at Cafe du Nord. -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) San Fran Tiki citing Date: 02 Mar 1997 00:22:34 -0500 (EST) check out the current issue of the SF Weekly for a photo of Otto von Stroheim with 7th Day Rototiller's drummer KP and a review of Tiki Party night at the Chameleon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki for sale Date: 02 Mar 1997 00:22:25 -0500 (EST) Tiki House that is "Tiki house. A most unusual property. Large living room with massive lava rock fireplace. HUGE closet and lots of cabinets and cupboards." 7050 West 85th Street Westchester (Los Angeles) 2 bdrms, 2.5 baths, pool, enclosed patio $263,000 Ilona 310/645-1450 ____________ I've seen this house and it has a bridge with a palm carved palmwood Tiki & a lava rock waterfall with a ship anchor in the front yard. An A-frame roof with a large carved wood Tiki panel on the facade, colored glass at the porch, and full tropical landscaping. Judging by the description the Polynesian theme extends beyond the front yard and into quite a swingin pad! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Perez Prado Date: 02 Mar 1997 09:50:11 -0500 I just found a Perez Prado EP from his late fifties heyday made to cash in on the success of "Patricia." It's from RCA's "Economy Package" series. Anyway, it has two cuts I don't recognize from any of his albums--"Mood Indigo" ("I could lay me down and mambo") ;) and "Whistling Rock." The back cover lists "hawaiian war chant" as one of the cuts, but it's not on there. Too bad! Are "MI" and "WR" non-LP flip sides from the original singles of "Patricia" and "Pretty Doll" (both from "Dilo! Ugh!" and included on "Patricia") ??) Thanks for any help, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) latest LPs Date: 02 Mar 1997 18:34:09 -0800 (PST) Thriftstoring this weekend was not as productive as the last time, but I did manage to find some cool LPs. 1. A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas! The Three Suns RCA LSP-2054 This is the BEST holiday album I have. I got it for 25 cents at the Gospel Thrift store in Tigard, OR. The condition wasn't the nicest, but thats because it has been played a lot (and THAT is because its GOOD). It's a Living Stereo LP with the Three Suns actually pictured on the cover... helping up a a fellow ice skater (who happens to be an attractive female). The little box with the RCA logo on the cover summarizes the sound with "Happy Christmas Music" and it is. There's great stereo separation on the title track, but all of them are super. In addition to the regular instruments there are chimes, bells, an oboe and two tubas. As Art Whitman put it (the album note writer) "The result of this lineup is a collection of melodic Christmas songs with a real crazy rhythm. The beat is Cha-Cha, Merengue and Rock 'n' Roll, all wrapped up in one." He goes on to say the Three Suns bring a "weird, exotic sound" to traditional holiday tunes. You bet! I know what a terrible money maker holiday albums seem to be for recording companies, but RCA ought to reissue this one on CD... there probably isn't a good copy of it anywhere except in the RCA vaults. 2. The Best of Mancini Henry Mancini RCA LSP-2693 I may have this somewhere, but this one was in stereo and had its original shrink wrap so is probably in better condition. Its great music and its nice to see the covers of all the albums I do not have (albeit in monochrome). 3. A Young Man and a Maid: Love Songs of Many Lands Cynthia Gooding and Theodore Bikel Elektra EKS 7109 "Panoramic Stereo" Now, I wasn't foolish enough to believe this was the Mr. Smooth brand of exotica, but I just had to get it for the cover...and I also enjoy folk music (which is what this is). Now I understand how a lot of the album covers got away with full female frontal nudity...they portrayed women whose skin was something other than pale. However, here they get away with it by putting the white woman behind a glass that distorts the image enough... sort of like putting vaseline on the lens. Still, I am not sure they could get away with this today, even on a CD! This album actually came with the original inner sleeve, the original business reply card and the lyrics booklet. The LP was a bit crackly, but otherwise okay. Its basically guitar and voices, but they are neat songs. My favorite was Sur La Route, a French song with onomateopeia (I'm sure I did not spell that correctly). The Elektra LP list was fascinating. Of course there are plenty of folk LPs...but also EKL-172 "Jean Shepherd and other foibles," EKL-176 "Hairy Jazz perpetrated by Shel Silverstein (and the Red Onions)," EKL-190 "Spook Along with Zacherley," EKL-177 "Ski Songs sung by Bob Gibson," EKL-183 "Boating Songs and all that Bilge; Oscar Brand," EKL-179 "The World in My Arms; Anita Ellis," EKL-115 "Adam's Theme; New York Jazz Ensemble," EKL-155 "Merry Muses of Caledonia; Paul Clayton," EKL-169 "Every Inch a Sailor; Oscar Brand," and EKL-140 "When Dalliance Was in Flower and Maidens Lost their Heads; Ed McCurdy." Some of these were folk, others spoken word...but most had very interesting or humorous covers. 4. Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, Orchestra Conducted by Nelson Riddle Capitol SW-1053 (stereo) As the album says, there are many Frank Sinatras. Sammy Cahn wrote the notes and said this the REAL Sinatra. I know some would agree. I personally found the songs a bit too depressing...but what do you expect with that title? Give me "Come Fly With Me" and more of that ring-a-ding-ding: the swingin' Sinatra is the sound for moi. Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Modest but not unworthy weekend haul Date: 03 Mar 1997 08:14:32 -0500 I didn't do so incredibly well at the flea market this weekend, but I found a few little gems--and had one huge disappointment as well. :( Patricia EP (see my other post about this little treasure) Eddie Layton at the Mighty Wurlitzer--Eddie poses with a ocelot on the cover (a wild kitty like the one Honey West had) and plays great tunes doin' lots of percussive effects on the mighty wurlitzer--he's accompanied by percussionist Doug Allen. Bob Harrington, the Chaplain of Bourbon Street--Holy Happy Hour: Great cover, liners, and preaching from the Chaplain. Console Magic by Charles Paul--Are there any Stereo Action LPs circa 1958 that aren't worth buying? This one has great organ music and a wild tune called "Tamboo." It says in the liners that Charles Paul did the music for two tv shows I've never heard of--Martin Kane and Mister District Attorney (I know this one used to be a radio show back in the day). What is it with TV composers making organ records? I have one by the guy who did the Phil Silvers show music. ^_^ Fireworks by Billy Mure and his Super Sonic guitars--Sounds great even if it is totally beat. That's the beauty of loud records. ^_^ Born Free by the Cheltenham Orchestra--A few exotica cuts hide in between standard piano music. Find em if you can! ;) Rusty in Orchestraville--Cute cover on 78 album that I finally broke down and bought, even though I don't have a 78 player. Oh well, maybe I'll find it on LP someday. Finally, the big heartbreaker of the day--I found a well-loved yet still mighty fine copy of Surfink! (one of those Gary Usher--Big Daddy Roth LPs on Capitol). I asked how much the guy running the stand wants for it (trying to keep a poker face). He says he doesn't know where it came from. In short, he wouldn't sell it to me. :( (I ask you, if you found a copy of this record, would you just casually forget it under a pile of Jim Nabors records? Excuse me, I'm just bitter). Thanks for the gab space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Singing Science Records Date: 03 Mar 1997 09:07:12 -0500 At 10:14 AM 2/28/97 -0500, you wrote: >At 08:44 AM 2/28/97 +0100, you wrote: >>A bit late on the children's records thread here, but is >>anyone familiar with the "Singing Science Records"? Dorothy Collins, wife of Raymond Scott, did a terrific, valiumatic one called Science Experiment Songs or something. Definitely was played at the elementary school in Stepford (for you "Stepford Wives" fans). Think I recall it from my own edjimicational trauma. "The Earth is like a great big grapefruit....la la lee" tony __________________________________________________________ ************************************************** On a similar note...this weekend I re-discovered... 'Mommy, Why?' by Mr. I. Magination (Paul Tripp) on Harmony Records consists of condescending 'Dorky Answer Songs' to such burning questions as Why the Earth is Round, and Where Does Rain Come From? My favorite track is a very short song set to a tropical theme entitled 'Why We Pick Banannas When They're Green'. Haven't all of you always wondered about that? Evidently Paul Trip was a popular children's TV science show star in the 50's and early 60's and made lots of these kind o' books n' records... Cal # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) bulletproof tunes Date: 03 Mar 1997 07:00:37 -0800 (PST) After watching people respond to the topic for a while, I thought about it but couldn't come up with anything... until I played some less than stellar records. There WERE certain selections that I discovered sounded good no matter who played them. If those tunes were played with the proper melody and rhythm to make them recognizable, then they would be listenable. So here are my endurable and enduring compositions that I have discovered so far: Caravan El Choclo The Third Man Theme Peter Gunn There are probably others. I ask myself, why... why is it that an organist with a mundane repertoire, a zither player, a banjoist or a harmonica player can do justice to these tunes and yet sound so bad with other stuff? Any musicians out there with an analysis? Is it that these depend on more complex rhythm patterns (more, that is, than 4/4)? Perhaps that mixed with a short melody pattern which can be altered and repeated in a variety of ways makes these truly classic tunes. NOTE: I did not use the s--g word anywhere in this. (:=>- Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Whole Lotta Laura Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:10 -0400 Does anyone want concert reviews of: John Cale, Crispin Glover, or Moe Tucker, all who I will see Mon-Wed? GREAT WEEKEND OF REKKID SCORES...btw VENTURES IN SPACE(vinyl) LAMBERT, HENDRICKS and ROSS WALTER WANDERLY(something about DOES BRAZIL) BILLY MURE-WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND YARDBIRDS-OVER, UNDER, SIDEWAYS, DOWN FRANK S-COME DANCE WITH ME CHARLES AZNERVOIR(I know I didn't spell that right!) LES BAXTER-LE FEMME($2) some 4-sider of SERGIO MENDES! every rekkid, a smash! other recent aquistions-SINATRA AT THE SANDS, ELLA AND ELLINGTON! Swinging on a Monday, Monday Star, Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Re: *I*N*S*E*C*T*S* Date: 03 Mar 1997 19:04:15 +0100 there's a 1 minute track on the "miniatures" lp, which is a collage of birds and insects... no, i won't send it to you ;-) also: "moskito killer" on Wunderlich's "uraltedelschnulzensynthesizergags" lp, on which the moog imitates a fly. Johan Dada@mail.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Weekend thrifting success Date: 03 Mar 1997 19:11:13 +0000 It's not often I can boast of a good find, but last Saturday I found a near mint UK copy of the Enoch Light produced Provocative Percussion by Terry Snyder & all stars. Excellent excellent excellent! Worth all the 75 pence ($1.20) I paid for it. Hard to believe it's over 30 years old. By the way, check out zany Laura's pic on http://www.Nashville.Net/~theremin/TBandsNZ.html Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Scott is fab Date: 03 Mar 1997 15:28:34 -0400 Oh yeah, anyone have any info on the ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS episode in which Scott Walker appeared? Is it on video or in re-runs? "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jpmckay@cyborganic.net (Paul McKay) Subject: Re: (exotica) Scott is fab Date: 03 Mar 1997 20:09:31 -0500 Lounge laura asked: >Oh yeah, anyone have any info on the ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS episode in which >Scott Walker appeared? Is it on video or in re-runs? > All three seasons plus How to be Absolutely Fabulous plus the movie are all on video now and should be at your local Video-Fascist Emporium (Blockbuster). Paul jpmckay@cyborganic.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lelia Ellen Raley Subject: (exotica) Re: Whole Lotta Laura Date: 03 Mar 1997 20:19:11 -0500 (EST) On 3 Mar 1997, Laura Taylor wrote: > GREAT WEEKEND OF REKKID SCORES...btw > LAMBERT, HENDRICKS and ROSS Pray tell, which fabulous one? (I hope it was "Sing A Song Of Basie"). I went ape for them waaaaay back, child, in '73, based on a garage sale score "The Most Vol. III" (50 cents) which included "Jumpin' at the Woodside", and I am SO GLAD to see peoples gettin' hip to this kind of groove again!!! Saw Jon Hendricks in a small club with his ensemble (daughter Aria, beautiful wife, young dude not in the family) Valentine's day '93 and it was The Bomb. And he's 70. Gosh, Lola > Lounge Laura > > "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter > Laura Taylor > (813) 974-3733 > BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu > PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carver Dan Cordes Subject: Re: (exotica) Singing Science Records Date: 03 Mar 1997 18:26:58 -0800 (PST) On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 ingemar.breithel@bbb.se wrote: > A bit late on the children's records thread here, but is > "Space Songs" ("a delightful song-journey into > outer space"). I was wondering if anybody had heard these? Does this contain the original version of "Why Does the Sun Shine?", the song that They Might Be Giants covered a few years back? Carver Cordes # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: Re: (exotica) theremin albums? Date: 03 Mar 1997 20:47:45 -0800 miguelito bandito wrote: > > does anyone have any suggestions on the best theremin albums > or reissues? Is "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as good as it sounds? Besides the Harry Revel/Sam Hoffman records ("Music Out of the Moon", etc.), there's another great theremin album - "Spellbound" (Warner Bros. BS1213), released in '58 and featuring the Miklos Rozsa music from the film, performed by Sam Hoffman with the Ray Heindorf Orchestra. Also, London recently re-released "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on CD, conducted by Bernard Herrmann in the '70s. Darrell # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Capitol Percussion Comps Date: 04 Mar 1997 07:54:21 -0500 Excuse me for having a dim memory, but isn't there a sequel or prequel to !Wild! Stereo Drums called simply "Percussion"? I think it had a slight overlap with the "Tri-Fi Drums" track. I saw it once a long time ago so I can't remember anything about it. Thanks for any help, Jessica ^_^ PS--What LP did Les Baxter originally do "Sim Sim" on? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Austin Exotica? Date: 04 Mar 1997 10:51:47 -0500 Hey y'all-- I'll be visiting Austin, Texas in a couple of weeks. Can anyone recommend Exotica hotspots of Austin that should not be missed? Thanks, --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newline.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: (exotica) Sammy on Broadway Date: 04 Mar 1997 12:19:30 -0500 This is usually Laura's job, but... Seems Quincy Jones is in cahoots with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s daughter to bring a musical version of his book "Yes, I Can" to Broadway. They're currently on the casting prowl for an appropriate actor to play Sammy. Any takers on potential song titles? Anita # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" Subject: (exotica) Italian Horror Film Music Date: 04 Mar 1997 12:37:42 -0500 Perhaps this CD has been discussed previously, but I can't seem to remember. I just saw a collection of film music from 70's Italian horror films on DRG ("Italian Soundtrack Classics" Series, or something to that effect)....my question to all those Italian film experts out there - Is this stuff groovy rock influenced go-go music (on par with the Easy Tempo comps, or some of the Lucertola reissues) or orchestral soundtrack fodder? Thanks Bryan C. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bryan J. Cuevas Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Queries Date: 04 Mar 1997 12:49:43 -0500 Does anyone out there know where I could find/buy a vinyl copy of "Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Colour?" It's for a friend (really), who has been looking for it for years, and for whom it will make a wonderful graduation present. I broke down and accepted a colleague's invitation to lecture on exotica in her media studies course yesterday, and ended it by playing the first cut off Easy Tempo 2: Psycho Beat. (It's a paycheck, Jack.) It sounded fabulous over the PA, and five students wanted to know where they could find the album. So if anyone can answer Bryan's question about other compilations of this kind, I'd be grateful too. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/ http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Grant China Subject: (exotica) Sammy on Broadway Date: 04 Mar 1997 08:26:19 -1000 >Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 07:35:55 -1000 >From: anita_serwacki@newline.com >Subject: (exotica) Sammy on Broadway >To: exotica@xmission.com > > This is usually Laura's job, but... > > Seems Quincy Jones is in cahoots with Sammy Davis, Jr.'s daughter to > bring a musical version of his book "Yes, I Can" to Broadway. They're > currently on the casting prowl for an appropriate actor to play Sammy. > > Any takers on potential song titles? Well, I hope I'm not just bringing up the obvious, how about the song "Yes, I Can", available on Sammy's CD "What Kind Of Fool Am I"? I'm betting that he had it specifically written for him after his book came out. He's got some great ad-libs in it, my favorite line being "a regular sun-burned superman, am I". BTW, did I ever mention that I have a really mod Cardin vest owned (and presumably worn) by Sammy? Unfortunately, it's far too small for me to wear. Aloha, Grant # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jbatutis@amexpub.com (Joe Batutis) Subject: (exotica) Eartha Kitt Date: 04 Mar 1997 15:46:22 -0500 I saw Eartha Kitt at the Caf=E9 Carlyle on friday night. She put on an ab= solutely fabulous show! She's 70 and her voice is as good, if not better, than eve= r. = She did some of her "hits" including C'est si Bon, My Heart Belongs to Da= ddy and that wierd turkish tune she does. She also did a Billie Holiday medley an= d another medley that included "I Will Survive". I wish she did "I Want to = Be Evil", but you can't have it all. She flirted with the men in the front row and belted out tune after tune.= The cover charge is outrageous($45), but well worth it for seeing a legend at= the top of her form in an intimate setting. = And yes, she did that growl thing that she does so well.... Grrrrrrr... Joe B. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: misanthropy Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist Date: 04 Mar 1997 16:42:16 -0500 MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 e-mail: misant@srv1.ic.net PLAYLIST ARTIST--(TITLE)--CD/CASS/LP--(LABEL) FEBRUARY 24, 1997 BRUNO NICOLAI--($100,000 for ringo)--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--(DRG) PHILIP JECK--(nelson surfs)--v.a. touch sampler--(TOUCH) DJ SHADOW--(napalm brain/scatter brain)--endtroducing...--(MOWAX) KLANGKRIEG--(nachtwache)--38cbm--(N D) ENNIO MORRICONE--(my name is nobody)--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--(DRG) LABRADFORD--(phantom channel crossing)--labradford--(KRANKY) TELE:FUNKEN/FSA--(part one)--distant station--(DRAG CITY) SERGIO BARROSO--(la fiesta)--delirantes--(DIFFUSION I MEDIA) LUSTMORD--(black star)--e.p.--(PLUG RESEARCH) PIERO PICCIONI--(i dont forgive, i kill)--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--(DRG) LAST FEW DAYS--(too much is not enough)--too much is not enough--(TOUCH) COIL--(airline 1, liquor, perfume,...)--hellraiser--(SOLAR LODGE) ROBERT ASHLEY--(isolde)--perfect lives(private parts)--(LOVELY) LAURIE SPIEGEL--(old wave)--the expanding universe--(PHILO) MAURICIO KAGEL--(transicion 2)----(MAINSTREAM) PIERO PICCONI--(a gun in the hand in the devil)--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--(DRG) SCHLOSS TEGAL--(cadaver obedience)--the soul extinguished--(TEGAL) MARCH 3, 1997 BARDOT/GAINSBOURG--(je t aime...moi non plus)--best of b.b.--(MERCURY) SCHLOSS TEGAL--(god vision)--the soul extinguished--(TEGAL) STILLUPPSTEYPA--(see through here)--one side mona lisa..--(FIRE INC/SOME) LAVELLE/HAGSTROM--(mokuyobi)--one day in golden week--(AUDIOPHILE) DOMINIQUE PETITGAND--(l imprevu)--10 petite compositions--(METAMKINE) LAURINDO ALMEIDA--(sarahs samba)--guitar from ipanema--(CAPITOL) PEOPLE LIKE US--(fire at will)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) MARK POYSDEN--(breathsweep)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) KAPOTTE MUZIEK--(3:28)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) MARK VAN HOEN--(vessel of flight)--last flowers from the darkness--(TOUCH) FINGERPAINT--(sirens of titan)--enormous swirling sound--(FNGP) PAUL MAURIAT--(somethin stupid)--blooming hits--(PHILIPS) IN BE TWEEN NOISE--(dry mouthed insects)--humming endlessly--(NEW PLASTIC) :R.H.Y.:YAU:--(context-dependent)--void fraction--(AUSCULTARE) Z EV--(3 kinds of game)--salts of heavy metals--(LUST/UNLUST) DEATH IN JUNE--(state laughter)--7 inch--(NER) DDAA--(terror interdit)--when a cap is raising--(BIG NOISE) CTI--(thy gift of tongues)--cti two--(ROUGH TRADE) FRANCESCO DEMASI--(seven men)--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--(DRG) MARCH 1997, RADIO MARABU JACKIE GLEASON--(darn that dream)--the love hours--(CAPITOL) CHRIS & COSEY--(stargate)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) CM VON HAUSSWOLFF--(mingling)--mingling--(ASH) RYOJI IKEDA--(headphonics 0/0)--v.a. touch sampler--(TOUCH) CARL STEVENS--(lazy river)--the high society twist--(MERCURY) TELE:FUNKEN/FSA--(part 2)--distant station--(DRAG CITY) DECIBLE ORGY--(unisexual cookie cutter)--v.a. no structure 2--(INSTAGON FOUN) INCAPACITANTS--(cccp & ccpc)--asset w/o liability--(TIME STEREO) GAINSBOURG/BARDOT--(bonnie and clyde)--best of b. bardot--(PHILIPS) DANIEL MENCHE--(eulogy for one)--furious eclipse--(SOLEILMOON) CURRENT 93--(tree)--horsey--(DURTRO) LUSTER--(dreamdroneone)--ne quid nimis--(AUDIOPHILE) KLANGKRIEG--(stuhlscharren)--38cbm--(N D) CEASAR GIOVANNI--(a minor boogie)--brilliant sound of pianos & perc--(MERCURY) ROBERT HAIGH--(juliet of the spirits)--juliet of the spirits--(LAYLAH) SPK--(twilight of the idols)--decompositiones--(SIDE EFFEKTS) GERECHTIGKEITS LIGA--(40 days)--hypnotischer existenzialismus--(THERMIDOR) 101 STRINGS--(a taste of soul)--exciting sounds--(ALSHIRE) these are great times to be a misanthropist Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5 fm Windsor, Ontario Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/ Detroit Michigan area. Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Noises of the modern world in spectra-sonic sound. We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 511 is also broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13 different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166, 49187, Belm Germany . e-mail: radiomarabu@t-online.de web site: http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/sztuka/Marabu.htm The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet, have a new 60 minute cassette release on Destroy All Music called #Heart of a Leaf#. It is the first release recorded entirely in our home studio. Destroy All Music can be reached at e-mail: pchavez@delphi.com for ordering info and catalog. The Hearing Trumpet has been described by others as #hallucinogenic soundscapes#, #ambient noise#, & #distant rumblings#. The Hearing Trumpet has 2 additional cassettes available. #Songs of Mystery and Magnetics# is a 45 min. cass featuring 2-20 min. pieces recorded live in the CJAM studio. #Collected Stories# is a 60 min cass featuring several shorter pieces all recorded live for our radio show. Write for more info or ordering. David Warmbier & Greg Hallock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re: (exotica) Austin Exotica? Date: 04 Mar 1997 16:52:21 -0500 Ross wrote: >I'll be visiting Austin, Texas in a couple of weeks. Can anyone recommend >Exotica hotspots of Austin that should not be missed? There's going to be an Ultra Lounge night at the Continental Club during the South by Southwest music fest. It's sponsered by Capitol Records, and will feature 4 bands that are on the upcoming "Ultra Lounge: New Sounds For Now" disc: Four Piece Suit, The Blue Hawaiins, 8 1/2 Souvenirs and Johnny Remo. The date is Saturday, March 15. (Four Piece Suit will be back at the Continental on the 18th & 20th, as well). br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Hawaii vs. Tahiti, Round 2 Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:05:30 -0500 Sorry if this comes out of the pipe twice. Hawaii vs. Tahiti, Round 2: 39 songs celebrating Polynesia, with aloha * There=92s No Place Like Hawaii 4:25 Sterling Mossman - the master, "hula= cop" * La Tahitite Est Arrivee 2:00 Carlos Rubio & his Orchestra * Green Rose 2:15 Genoa Keawe - from the great Party Hulas LP * Caf=E9 Au Lait 1:50 The Hawaiian Surfers * I=92m a Happy Hawaiian Cowboy 1:50 Hal Aloma -- get all his stuff * Hawaiian Cowboy 2:45 John Hall - horses whinny, cows moo * Hellaby 1:53 49th State * Little Grass Shack 2:25 Georgie Auld & his Hula-Gans - steelarama * E Hina 2:52 The Tropic Trio * Pineapple Princess 2:43 Teresa Brewer - compare to Annette's * Papio 2:25 The Royal Tahitians * Wailana 2:11 Marty Robbins - best haole doing HI'n falsetto * Minoi Minoi 2:28 Charles Mauu & the Royal Polynesians * When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop 2:33 Hilo Hattie - live * Vana Vana 2:45 Chango and the Polynesians * Little Brown Gal 2:26 Ohta San - from Ukulele Isle * Tahiti 2:10 Johnny Poi & the Oahu Islanders - killer steel LP * Hawaii=92s Santa 2:02 Prince Kalani - oh lord * Te Matete 1:41 Te Poppaa Group * Hawaii 5-0 2:17 Henry Mancini - disco Mancini, waka-waka guitar, mod horns, yeow! ---------- surf break ------------ * Keep Your Eyes on the Hands 2:33 Burl Ives * Learn to Do the Hula 1:42 Sonny Kamahele * Te Manu Pukarua 2:24 The Surfers - the boys do the famous "Mutiny" song * Hukilau Song 1:29 Annette Funicello - the fishnet Annette, not on CD! * Samoan Medley 2:50 Nani Wolgramm & his Islanders * Hawaiian Sunset 2:40 King Keoni & his Islanders - Quiet Village rhythm, steel overlaid * Ben Je Engay 2:50 The Tahitian Percussionists & Exotic Voices - SERIOUS exotica * Poinciana 3:48 Waikiki Beach Boys - one of the most beautiful recordings= ever * "Mutiny on the Bounty" theme 2:32 Catamaran Serenaders - ditto, for a= theme * Kaua Loku 1:47 Sonny Kamahele & his Surf Serenaders * Vini Vini 2:22 Les Tahitians * Sweet Someone 2:30 The Invitations, Russ Garcia * Samoan Knife Dance 1:54 Chick Floyd - with intro * Hawaiian Worm Raiser 3:37 Irving Taylor - novelty * To To To E 2:08 Eddie Lund & Tahitians - Tahitian accordion * Lovely Hula Hands 2:21 Roy Smeck - Wizard of the Strings, and how * O Vai Oe Tahia 4:15 The Tahitian Native Group * The Waikikis On Parade 1:54 The Waikikis - oooo, that Farfisa organ * Goodbye Honolulu 2:35 Francis "Freckles" Lyons and his Beach Boys What, no War Chant? Pupule, kane, pupule. tony __________________________________________________________ ((( The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ ))) \[] () \/ /\/ tiki art/music: tributes to unsung heroes, liners; records /| |\ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) that bad Eartha Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:27:44 -0400 We've seen one concert review of Eartha Kitt...has anyone else seen her on this tour and deem it worth their $? She's performing soon in Boston...so I need to know! Thanks! "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) FWD: INFO RESPONSE Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:16:40 -0400 Some of you want to know how to get on the SCOTT WALKER LIST...Here's how! Command: subsingle subscribe - successful ----- INFORMATION FOR LIST scott-walker ----- For a full list of available commands, send a message to with the word "help" in the the message. :From ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu Fri Feb 21 08:27:21 1997 :Received: from wusf.usf.edu (wusf.usf.edu [131.247.45.254]) by lists1.best.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09414 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:27:16 -0800 (PST) :Received: from 131.247.45.16 by wusf.usf.edu with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:27:02 -0500 :Date: 21 Feb 97 11:28:05 -0400 :From: Laura Taylor :To: "Scott-Walker-request" :X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.0.1 :X-Priority: 3 :Reply-To: Laura Taylor :Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" :Message-ID: <1355598074-326682826@wusf.usf.edu> : :subsingle : "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu Command: subsingle subscribe - successful ----- INFORMATION FOR LIST scott-walker ----- For a full list of available commands, send a message to with the word "help" in the the message. :From ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu Fri Feb 21 08:27:21 1997 :Received: from wusf.usf.edu (wusf.usf.edu [131.247.45.254]) by lists1.best.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09414 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:27:16 -0800 (PST) :Received: from 131.247.45.16 by wusf.usf.edu with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:27:02 -0500 :Date: 21 Feb 97 11:28:05 -0400 :From: Laura Taylor :To: "Scott-Walker-request" :X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.0.1 :X-Priority: 3 :Reply-To: Laura Taylor :Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" :Message-ID: <1355598074-326682826@wusf.usf.edu> : :subsingle : # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: studio@wayno.com (Wayno) Subject: (exotica) "Space Songs"/Captain Kangaroo Theme Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:44:14 -0500 Regarding the LP "Space Songs" Carver Cordes asked: >Does this contain the original version of "Why Does the Sun Shine?", the >song that They Might Be Giants covered a few years back? Yes, it does, along with 14 other delightful songs. Other LPs in the series are pictured on the back cover, including "Experiment Songs" sung by Dorothy Collins. ----------------- Does anybody out there know who recorded the tune "Puffin' Billy" that was used as the theme to the Captain Kangaroo TV series? Wayno studio@wayno.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: (exotica) electronic lounge Date: 04 Mar 1997 19:29:43 -0500 For those of you who enjoy the electronic lounge and EZ House hybrids, here's some new releases of note: The Wiseguys - "Casino 'Sans Pareil'" (Wall Of Sound 025, 12") Dimtri From Paris - "Dirty Larry" remixes (Yellow YP017, 12") Dimtri From Tokyo (same guy, new location) - Shibuya Connection (Disorient 01, 12") Jimi Tenor - Outta Space (Warp, CD-5) Jimi Tenor - Caravan (Warp, CD-5 + 7") br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SADIEC@brookers.co.nz (Sadie Coe) Subject: (exotica) Act-Along with Vincent Price Date: 05 Mar 1997 15:15:07 +0000 Just bought a record from the CO-STAR series. So THIS is what they did before TV! The record comes with a script book, and the concept is that you listen to Vincent Price (other records in the series apparently feature other great act-ors) read his lines, and reply with your own lines read from the script. Fabulous! I must spend an evening in alone with Vince sometime! Haven't listened to it yet - I'm too embarrassed. By the way, it's Vincent Price when he was still Mr Suave Studly, not Mr Scarey-Man. He still looks a bit wierd though. Kinda spooky. Maybe it's just the excess face powder. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sberry Subject: (exotica) March Contest At The Continental - The Boss Martians Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:42:28 -0800 (PST) Hello All- March is Boss Martians Month at The Continental Magazine's website. We will be giving surprise packs of music and the latest issue of The Continental to 5 lucky winners at the end of the month. Thanks to Evan Foster and Dionysus Records for all of their help with this contest. Surf on over to: http://www.az.com/~sberry The new issue of The Continental includes interviews with The Penetrators and Karla Pundit, plus part 2 of Evan Foster's Gear Report, and much more. Only $2 cash or check payable to The Continental. Sean The Continental Magazine & Mail-Order http://www.az.com/~sberry P.O. Box 4336, Bellingham, WA 98227-4336 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Act-Along with Vincent Price Date: 04 Mar 1997 19:45:01 -0800 (PST) At 03:15 PM 3/5/97 +0000, you wrote: >Just bought a record from the CO-STAR series.. >The record comes with a script book... Sadie, I've got one of these records, but its barely useable...no script book! a. Does anyone have a list of the CO-STAR series LPs (so I know what I don't have or do have)? If so, please post b. I believe mine is Virginia Mayo (I say believe because I still do not have access to most of my LPs). Anyone have that one? Could I get you to photocopy the book so I can at least follow along? The odds that I will find the book without the record are virtually infinite and probably not so good that I even find another Virginia Mayo record and cover with a book. Maybe YOU have the complete one.... Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Anyone been here ? Date: 04 Mar 1997 12:12:32 -0800 http://www.book.uci.edu/Jazz/JPRA1.html It is veeeeery cool Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the_curator Subject: (exotica) Return of Son of Other Worlds Other Sounds Date: 05 Mar 1997 13:37:44 +0100 Now EVERY THURSDAY night is Other Worlds Other Sounds Night Those inbred s, the Misterogers Twins exhort you to take a breath-taking trip into the unknown with ***************************** * Other Worlds Other Sounds * ***************************** at the Tea Rooms des Artistes, 697 Wandsworth Rd (where it crosses North St, near Clapham Common tube and Wandsworth Rd BR ) We'll be playing our subnormal ham-fisted selection of Exotica, Erotica, Eazotica and Esoterica and a couple of tipsy revellers will probably lurch around to Brigitte Bardot. 6th March is 'Astro Garden with Cuddly Tiger' Night. Special guest DJ: Jill Mingo from 'Space Safari' in Glasgow. It's free to get in, it's very mellow and it starts about 9 and you won't be transported back to the real world until about 12.30. Don't forget: "Your friends and you do big things now". The Misterogers Twins. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Esquire Lounge Date: 05 Mar 1997 11:36:53 -0500 (EST) " Lounge is the cover of Esquire for April, which should hit newsstands around mid-March. It doesn't, sad to say, contain much on tikis -- it's more a general scene-and-sociology piece on the phenomenon. " # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Exhibit? Date: 05 Mar 1997 11:37:31 -0500 (EST) Maybe everyone can go after attending the Dionysus bash May 23-25 (Memorial Day Weekend) --------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: Exhibit? This info from Bob at O.A.: April 16th to July 6th- Hawaiian Collectors Show & Sale at the California Heritage Museum 2612 Main St Santa Monica, CA 90405 Tel: 310/ 392-85 37 Fax: 310/ 396-05 47 Curator: Michael Trotter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 05 Mar 1997 13:06:20 -0500 This question has been burning a hole in the back of my head for far too long. Were "exotica" records popular with (or just aimed at) teens back in the day? Initially I read that men who were stationed in the South Pacific during World War 2 started the whole Hawaiiana/tropical/tiki thing. But two things made me wonder if these records weren't aimed at just dad (or Uncle Charlie): ONE: from the liner notes to Les Baxter's Teen Drums: "A couple of years ago, Les Baxter's wildly rhythmic 'Skins' album quickly became as vital to teen-agers' parties as pretty girls." (the title is pretty obvious as well) TWO: Once a guy who owned a pawn shop told me he really went for those jungle records when he was a teen-ager (I got Martin Denny's Exotic Percussion and Taboo 2 from him). The original audience for all the types of records discussed on the list really mystifies me. I've never been able to figure it out. Who bought these records--and more importantly, why don't they remember them? ^_^ Thanks for any ideas, nostalgic stories, etc. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@explorer.csc.com Subject: (exotica) Exotica Date: 05 Mar 1997 13:21:29 -0500 I'm new to the list, and genre, so forgive the naivete of the following: If we could reduce a genre essentials list to roughly 10 lps/artists, what/who would these be (other than Martin Denny and Les Baxter)? Thanks, and looking to build up my sparse collection, Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: (exotica) Slim list Date: 05 Mar 1997 12:58:32 -0800 > If we could reduce a genre essentials list to roughly 10 lps/artists, > what/who would these be (other than Martin Denny and Les Baxter)? My favor is as unpredicatble as the wind, but today, I say Bert Kaempfert. Loooove that Bert Kaempfert! Hearing the Happy Trumpet Within, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) WHO CAN YOU SEE? Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:19:11 -0400 There was a rumour floating around in Januray that none other than Julie London had performed in some Ramada Inn in nearby New Port Richey. Does anyone know if this could possibly be true? Does she still perform, even in cow towns? And, what's up with Ms. Sumac? Will we ever see her? Oh, and I know Keely Smith still performs, as does Arthur Lyman, but who else, besides that Bad Eartha, can one still see? "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) frank-date Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:46:21 -0400 FRANK SINATRA (Los Angeles) -- Frank Sinatra is doing better. His wife Barbara says Sinatra is ''getting stronger every day.'' She spoke with a Los Angeles T-V station (K-T-L-A) to promote ''The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook.'' Sinatra hasn't been seen in public since he suffered what was described as a mild heart in January. My question is: better than WHAT? "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 05 Mar 1997 15:53:15 -0500 [Jessica asks about initial popularity of true exotica records and mentions Baxter's Skins! bongo record] Exotica-- I don't think either exotica or "west-coast jazz" were ever terribly important here in the Rust Belt. Sunshine? What the hell is THAT? Probably appealed to all ages. Bongos-- But bongos were the most popular home/self-taught instrument since the universally appealling ukulele in the '20s. After teen drums the guitar was not far behind. On the other hand, Les Baxter made such a point about the ubiquitous presence of the bongo in the homes of American teens that I suspect him of presciently trying to forestall the utter doom soon to be brought on by '60s "rock" guitar -- those loud and dirty Beatles. tony __________________________________________________________ ((( The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ ))) \[] () \/ /\/ tiki art/music: tributes to unsung heroes, liners; records /| |\ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) frank-date Date: 05 Mar 1997 16:46:46 -0400 Isn't Entertainment Tonight doing a report on Frank's health tonight? Granted, it's not the New England Journal of Medicine, but they've promised us the real lowdown. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) The Muse has dope-slapped me! Date: 05 Mar 1997 19:20:28 EST Jack? An instrumental ain't a song. A vocal is a song. (They don't label it SONG, however) Without a melody in the voice, it ain't someone singing. It would be a song, though. Right Jack? But then the tranapplication of the term song to other compound words won't work with the same distinction. So, let's say then, that under your naming convention, The Ventures and other similar bands, would have a very small songbook, because they rarely recorded vocals. Would that be right? They'd have a small songbook, and a larger instrumental book. And the song (for rhetorical purposes only) Wild Thing would be where? The instrumental with spoken word book? Nah, that's lyrical enough for the songbook. About 100 years ago, this issue would be more obvious, as certainly the roots of the word are based on either music or lyrical verse, with or without any melody. Can give me some specific alternatives, perhaps with examples, Jack? I checked the O.E.D., and some other dictionaries, and it's a tough call, but I think that by today's standards (which admittedly may be poor) sometimes a cigar is just a song. Unless you care about using language. Does anyone besides Jack care about something as silly as one's mother tongue? I'll cave in under the right pressure. I know that if your pickin' at this issue, you're serious, and probably right. Teach me the true way!!!! >Jack "I'm here to fuck wit yo shit" Diamond Can't you leave that sort of behavior for Chuck Berry? Yes, I do believe everything I read, almost. Is there an antidote for caffeine? Ray (Sinkhole) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Rod keith: I died today Date: 06 Mar 1997 18:50:08 +0100 i liked this a lot better than "MSR madness" (in a so-bad-it's-good way of course): the atrociousnes is more explicit, i find. but i also think that there are a lot of good musical ideas in this music, which - with the help of some *real musicians*, and some work - could have been good songs. apparently, there is another cd in the same "lunatic fringe" series on Tzadik, called "Bible launcher". can anyone comment on that one? Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Crispin Glover Date: 06 Mar 1997 13:35:24 -0400 Tampa was almost like a real city on March 4th, what with iconoclastic film star and maker/author/orator Crispin Glover giving us a sneak preview of his new movie: WHAT IS IT? It stars Glover and a cast of mentally challenged actors and snails, who get the most abuse of all. I won't give away the premise. I'll just say this: it's all about power and control, and it may be glanced back at 20 years from now as a possible ERASERHEAD for the '90s. He then showed slides from several of his books(possibly some unpublished), like RAT CATCHING, and gracefully narrated them in a way that would make William Shatner jealous of his Shakespearean delivery. He looked rather dapper, too, his hair in a page-boy, much like in the Glover/Harry Dean Stanton(sp?) film TWISTER(see it!) and suit. There was a mob scene after the 3-hour performance/film screening, so we didn't get to press the flesh. But if his lil' show makes it to your burg, GO, BABY, GO! Enamoured, Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 BUSINESS ONLY: ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu PERSONAL ONLY: laura@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) ADMINISTRIVIA: Mail problems reported fixed Date: 06 Mar 1997 13:37:40 -0700 (MST) As you probably noticed, xmission has been munching a lot of mailing list email lately. According to Pete Ashdown at xmission, this problem *should* now be fixed. If you notice that you are missing any list email, please contact me directly and let me know. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Society of 7: Flashback -- pure HI'n cheese Date: 06 Mar 1997 16:13:42 -0500 You start with a jacket design straight out of Peter Max. The center band photo shows 7 VERY scary lounge-act veterans (though youngish) leaning on a jukebox. White tuxes, ties, and shoes, puka-shell leis, and haircuts directly from Planet of the Apes. Overleaf, one of my favorite backs ever. Each of the seven has a short bio and an artful kiddie/teen pic as well as a current one. There are Filipinos, a Scot, a Marylander (accordionist), one from Hong Kong, and presumably someone's actually from Hawaii. The songs? Well, this is MUCH more than your standard lounge-act record with More and Volare (it has those, natch). This is a nostalgia record. So you get great, wistfully cheesey, vocal-harmony covers of Splish Splash, 26 Miles, Blue Suede Shoes, Glory of Love, etc. But the best may be the waka-waka guitar (70s) cover of "I Got a Woman." "The Society of Seven are winners of two consecutive 'No Ka Oi' awards, Hawaii's symbol of entertainment execellence." -- how embarassing for Hawaii, such decline tony __________________________________________________________ ((( The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ ))) \[] () \/ /\/ tiki art/music: tributes to unsung heroes, liners; records /| |\ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) frank comstock Date: 06 Mar 1997 17:46:25 -0400 I have on tape FRANK COMSTOCK-"PROJECT COMSTOCK: M USIC FROM OUTERSPACE." It's freakin' amazing stuff, if you like Theremin and oscillators...Anyone else have this? Anyone sellin'? Can anyone tell me more about this guy? I understand, like JG Esquivel, that he wrote cartoon/incidental musique as well... Thanks! "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mrs. gene vincent" Subject: (exotica) Re: Crispin Glove Date: 06 Mar 1997 14:52:07 -0800 (PST) does anyone happen to know what crispin's touring schedule is. i know he's from los angeles, but i never heard any word of him doing anything here. so if anyone knows... jessica # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Freddy and the Hitch-hikers Date: 06 Mar 1997 18:38:25 -0400 Also, another piece of Theremin-weirdness is the song "Sinner..." by Freddy and the Hitchhikers, which I've only on tape....anyone have info on this? I really think, and I'm not alone on this, that both lists could benefit from more BIOGRAPHICAL information... Jonesin' Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Freddy and the Hitch-hikers Date: 07 Mar 1997 11:04:34 -0500 I think this track appeared on one of The Sin Alley compilations in the mid-late 80's....great song! ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: Laura Taylor at internet Also, another piece of Theremin-weirdness is the song "Sinner..." by Freddy and the Hitchhikers, which I've only on tape....anyone have info on this? I really think, and I'm not alone on this, that both lists could benefit from more BIOGRAPHICAL information... Jonesin' Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) The Greatest Record Ever Made Date: 07 Mar 1997 12:21:29 -0800 I write, of course, of "Sammy Davis Jr. Now!" on MGM Records from 1972. Every cut is a gem. "The Candy Man." Coming out of primordial Top 40 radio memory to strike fear into our hearts again. "I Am Over 25 But You Can Trust." Sammy relates to today's kids: "I won't put you down because I did everything you did." "I admit there were time I copped out . . . ." "Like you I followed the flower song . . . ." "Have a Little Talk to Myself." Sammy imitates Dean Martin imitating a country singer. "I Want to Be Happy." Sammy funkifies this Tin Pan Alley standard, adding his unique touches (can you dig it?). Sammy reveals his sensitive side with a 7:30 version of "MacArthur Park." That green cake in the rain--that's a metaphor, right? Wow, this is deep stuff. That Richard Harris guy is lame compared to Sammy. And finally, Sammy pays tribute to "Shaft" with an arrangement courtesy of Isaac Hayes. To top it all, the record jacket unfolds twice to become (a) a 2-foot square painting of Sammy in performance and (b) a photo collage tribute to Sammy's career in show biz. I can't believe I actually debating paying 75 cents for this. I wonder if my wife would let me frame the painting and put it up over the mantle. Gotta go have a little talk with myself now. Dig you later, baby. Brad Bigelow # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Shearing/Bardot Date: 07 Mar 1997 12:49:17 -0400 OK! Get to work...what I and others would like more from this list is INFORMATON! So, I have this Brigette Bardot picture disc, a compilation, called AND GOD CREATED THE WOMAN(the "The" is indeed in the title, it's not a misprint from me...) BUT I DON'T KNOW A GOSH-DARN thing about the record, like, who were the players on it? When was some of the material released? Obviously, she is doing some Serge Gainsborg number(s), HARLEY DAVIDSON...It's just this enigmatic thing plaguing me...I do have on order that INITIALS B.B. from 'FMU...Anyone else have this or other Bardot recording of which you would like to share your knowledge with the list? Also, spotted some Jane Birkin discs at Tower recently...anyone have these and care to SHARE an opinion? Point 2: I have the chance to see George Shearing on the 29th for 20-25 dollars....Anyone seen him lately, and can tell me if it's a money wisely spent? Gimme, gimme, gimme, Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Freddy and the Hitch-hikers Date: 07 Mar 1997 20:35:38 +0100 (MET) "Sinner" can be found on the LP comp Sin Alley Vol 2 "Rockarollaahillabilly= =20 wing ding do" on Crypt. I guess it=B4s on the CD also. Required listening! Stefan/Subliminal Sounds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Rodd Keith: I died today Date: 07 Mar 1997 15:59:39 -0500 At 06:50 PM 3/6/97 +0100, you wrote: >i liked this a lot better than "MSR madness" (in a so-bad-it's-good way of >course): the atrociousnes is more explicit, i find. but i also think that >there are a lot of good musical ideas in this music, which - with the help >of some *real musicians*, and some work - could have been good songs. The news from the American Song-Poem Music Archives is that the next 2 volumes of MSR Madness are now at the plant. The description from http://www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/intro.htm sez: MSR Madness Vol. 3 will be Tom Ardolino's The Human Breakdown Of Absurdity, and Vol. 4, compiled by Don Bolles (both drummers ... hmmm), will be I'm Just The Other Woman. Selections range from ear-candy tunes you won't be able to shake loose for days, through MSR Madness's typically great mind-numbing slop, all the way up to some songs you'll have to play three times just to convince yourself they even exist. >apparently, there is another cd in the same "lunatic fringe" series on >Tzadik, called "Bible launcher". can anyone comment on that one? > > Johan > Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be The Tzadik home page (http://www.kochint.com/tzadik.html) doesn't give any info on Bible Launcher. I'd also like to know what's up with that one. I can recommend Tzadik's release of Smoke by Jon in the Japanese series. This seems to be half an hour of a young woman playing organ and singing, in the voice of a 9 year old, a score of songs about a dog, while dressed (according to the photos) in an outfit with a cowhide pattern (sorta like a Gateway computer box). I'm completely mystified by this artifact which makes it exotic enough for me. -Lou o o o o o o> o .|. \|. \|/ // X \ | <| <|> /\ >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< >\ /< Mr. Asciihead learns the Macarena. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MoeLawns@aol.com Subject: (exotica) DIONYSUS DEMOLITION DERBY Date: 07 Mar 1997 16:42:30 -0500 (EST) Get ready for the mega-garage-surf-exotica-rockabilly-punk event of the decade! Saturday, May 24 & Sunday May 25 at Hollywood Moguls in Hollywood California... THE DIONYSUS DEMOLITION DERBY ! Featuring: BIG SANDY & THE FLY RITE BOYS, DAVIE ALLAN & THE ARROWS, THE HUMPERS, FRENCHY, THE BOMBORAS, RAY CAMPI, THE BOSS MARTIANS, GIRL TROUBLE, KARLA PUNDIT, SATAN'S PILGRIMS, HOT DAMN, THE SATURN V FEATURING ORBIT, THE DUKES OF HAMBURG, THE TIKI TONES, THORAZINE, THE KABALAS, THE DIABOLIKS and more! Also featuring A Tiki Room & Slide Show by Otto Von Stroheim's Tiki News, an art show by SHAG, the US debut of PERVERELLA, a film featuring The Diaboliks, Thee Headcoats and Thee Headcoatees, other unusual and rare films from the 50s & 60s, rare and unusual records and stuff for sale, and other events to be announced! STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION If you are interested in finding out about area motels, directions, airports, etc, please email us! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Al the guitarist Date: 12 Mar 1997 00:32:13 -0600 >Anybody have a favorite Al Caiola LP? I've found his style wavers from one >release to the next, so don't really know what is good and what is not. Al's great! I have "Ciao" (which I LOVE!... check out the cover on my website), "Paradise Village" (real nice polynesian stuff), "The Power of Brass" (later era, but really good "Odd Couple Theme" "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," "Look of Love" "Playboy" etc). "Tuff Guitar" (more 'rock' oriented, but ok), and "Best of" (featuring "Experiment in Terror", "Magnificent Seven" etc - good stuff). All are on UA. I recommend any of these ('cept maybe "Tuff Guitar" for my tastes). Al also did some tracks for the "Music to Read James Bond By" vol 2 that are great ("Thunderball" and "Underwater Chase") - also on UA. hope that helps! visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Al Caiola Date: 11 Mar 1997 11:51:43 -0800 Byron, Al Caiola is one of my very fave studio pop/pop/jazz guitar players. I love 'em. Not only was he a great guitar player BUT a damn good arranger too which is what alot of this period is all about, arrangers. To give you more of an idea who and what Al Caiola was/is, he is the leader/arranger/player of the Living Guitars on RCA Camden, he is the leader and arranger of the Unlimited Guitars PLUS 7 on RCA's Stereo Action series which is GREAT by the way. Find it, grab it. He did a few really great records on RCA Camden with his All Stars who consisted of 4 other top of the line studio jazz/jazz pop guitarists like George Barnes and Don Arnone that also include Marimba and Vibes and schwiiings like all hell. He's got such a great tone to the thing Oh man! He made a record of guitar tape manipulations on ATCO called Music for Space Squirrels in 1960 He played on the Nutty Squirrels 1st 2 LP's not related AT ALL to his ATCO release;) 58, 59 His 1st 2 solo rekkids are on Savoy from 1955 and 56 His primary label later on was United Artists and I will agree with you on "Dance Party" that it's not good BUT ALMOST ALL of his other records on UA are really good to great. There's a really great one called Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes on UA. If you love that John Barry "Beat Girl" kind of sound then this is your cookie, though IMHO , he has a fatter bigger sound than Vic Flick. Great rekkid He crossed over and into the pop charts and had a mega million seller with The Magnificent Seven which was The Marlboro Theme. For all you younger people, this was when they had cigarette commercials on TV, this was the theme music. You can't get a better record for the price, Al Caiola is my man. I play him almost every show. Other killer guitar players I dig are Roy Clark, Howard Roberts, Barney Kessel, Roy Lanham, Buddy Emmons, Herby Remmington, Jimmy Bryant, Phil Baugh, Mel Brown, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, George Barnes.....and a cast of thousands more.....Link Wray Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) Re: Al Caiola Date: 12 Mar 1997 10:24:00 +0000 I've always found Al Caiola's stuff sort of middling. I have quite a lot of it as it seems to be fairly easy to come by over here, but there is no one album I particularly like; just a few good tracks. That track 'underwater chase' he did which is on the Ultra Lounge 'Cocktail Capers' CD is really cool though. I noticed that that was from the old compilation 'music to read James Bond by', which looks so cool that I'm probably never going to find it cheap. Did Al do a cool spy themes type record on his own? Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Al Caiola Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:35:48 -0500 ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Author: Jack Diamond at internet Byron, Al Caiola is one of my very fave studio pop/pop/jazz guitar players. I love 'em. Not only was he a great guitar player BUT a damn good arranger too which is what alot of this period is all about, arrangers. Jack, Does Al still walk among us? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on 78 Date: 12 Mar 1997 12:05:53 -0500 David Trezza wrote: >I dabble in 78's occasionally and was wondering if any of >Esquivel or Denny's work were released on our girthy friends, >the 78rpm. Esquivel recorded 78's in Mexico. Besides his early RCA sides (from '54 - '57), his first ever recording was a 78 on the Peer label, recorded in the mid-40's. He does not remember the name (it was a solo piano piece), and doesn't have a copy of it. Happy hunting! br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Re: Terry Snyder et al Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:01:47 +0100 >From: bag@hubris.net >Other albums in the series look okay, but does anybody know? >WWS8504 Ferrante and Teicher "Dynamic Twin Pianos" fabulous, one of their best - if not THE best - prepared piano LPs, with a mysterious and weird (backwards?) tape effect on 1 track. exists in both mono and stereo Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) That Wild Apt. Date: 12 Mar 1997 13:48:00 -0400 Picked up the soundtrack to THE APARTMENT, with Jack Lemon(does he do bongos on this?) and somewhat to my surprise, as I was not familiar with the composer, IT SWINGS and ROCKS at moments. It's quite good, and I got it in a dollar-bin, so it's at least worth that much. Can someone fill me in on the composer, whose name escapes me? Plus, I discovered that KENYON HOPKINS did the score for Brando's THE WILD ONES...IS that thing AVAILABLE!?!??!!??!??!!?(well, I guess it was, because I saw it on the sleeve for the apt...)OK, is it hard to find, etc? Lounge Laura-drooling and trolling for info. "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: david.trezza@etak.com (David Trezza) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Terry Snyder et al Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:46:24 -0800 (PST) ()>From: bag@hubris.net ()>Other albums in the series look okay, but does anybody know? ()>WWS8504 Ferrante and Teicher "Dynamic Twin Pianos" () () fabulous, one of their best - if not THE best - prepared piano LPs, ()with a mysterious and weird (backwards?) tape effect on 1 track. exists in ()both mono and stereo () Can somebody please define "prepared" piano please. Thanks Dago # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: (exotica) Ignore this unless you're Ursula Blind! Date: 11 Mar 1997 12:15:54 -0800 Ursula- Hopefully you'll get *this* message... what's wrong with your email address? I've tried to mail you but for some reason I keep getting some kind of "syntax error." Yours is the only address that does this- any ideas? pea # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) That Wild Apt. Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:43:00 -0500 (EST) At 01:48 PM 3/12/97 -0400, L.L. wrote: >Picked up the soundtrack to THE APARTMENT, with Jack Lemon(does he do >bongos on this?) and somewhat to my surprise, as I was not familiar with >the composer, IT SWINGS and ROCKS at moments. It's quite good, and I >got it in a dollar-bin, so it's at least worth that much. Can someone >fill me in on the composer, whose name escapes me? > Adolph Deutsch wrote the music for Wilder's The Apartment. He also worked on Some Like It Hot, 7 Brides For 7 Brothers, Father Of The Bride, Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, etc. A good source of on-line info (including current commercial availability) is the All Music Guide site. For music questions, check out: http://www.allmusic.com/amg/music_root.html For movie questions, check out: http://www.allmusic.com/amg/movie_root.html The data bases aren't complete, but what info they have seems to be accurate. If you know something they don't, AMG includes a feature that allows you to add to their data bases. -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Introduction and Questions Date: 12 Mar 1997 21:30:21 GMT Right. I've just joined the list. Biographical notes, for those that are interested in that kind of thing: i) I live in Edinburgh, Scotland; ii) I DJ easy listening music on alternate Thursdays in a small pub along with two other guys who are depraved enough to collect this sort-of-a-thing; iii) What else is there to say? Perhaps that I most like sleazy-cheesy sort of music, if that can be distinguished as a genre, which it just has been. Oozing saxophones and that type of direction. But I like a range of "exotic" stuff. Forgive me if I bring up topics that have recently been discussed. I have a few questions that maybe someone can help me with: 1) Can people point me towards music that has the theme of Britain, or versions of songs that are very specifically British? I can only think of one complete album, and that's Phil Moore's album "An American In England", released on MGM in the late 50s. This has some catchy and cute little numbers on it that document Mr. Moore's feelings of pootling round the country to gain inspiration (there are detailed liner notes), plus some more laid back and mystical pieces that detail Stonehenge, Land's End, etc. Many of these pieces are supplemented with on the spot recordings of birdsong, sea, traffic and so on. It's quite a nice little number, in all. I can also think of Edmundo Ros' version of "Yes! We Have No Bananas" and Kurt Edelhagen's version of "Lambeth Walk", which I suppose would qualify as Cockney Pride kind-of numbers; there's Sid Philips's swing-jazz version of "Loch Lomond" and Alan Moorhouse's version of "Amazing Grace", which are the only penetrations into north of the border territory that I've found... Anyone got any more? There must be a whole slew of songs about London. Surely? I want titles like "Bowler Hat Bolero", "Stiff Upper Lip", "Bagpipe Boogie", "Celtico Tico", you get the picture, huh? 2) Augusto Alguero. I think there's several tracks of his on "In Flight Entertainment", but I don't own a copy. I do, however, own the album "Hey Jude", which has some brilliant pieces on it, not least the tune "Boccacio Soul" (which is just plain manic) and a stonking version of "Eloise". I've also got an album called "This Is Stereo", which is a Polydor compliation containing a track called "Gran Premio", which is one of my all-time favourite pieces of music, quite nuts. I know he did at least one other album, "Stereo Spectacular", I think (must be quite a few in the world with this title). Does anyone know of any more? Does the name conceal an otherwise well-known figure? Inquiring minds, etc. 3) Has there ever been a release of the music from "Carry On" films? I know that non-Brits are probably not familiar with these, so I'll just give a brief explanation that they are a long running series of films that were/are very popular in Britain. The films hinge around making as many sexual innuendos as possible on the word "it" in approximately 90 minutes, and also rely heavily on the strange vocal noises that the actors who regularly pop up in these make. I enjoy them, because they're so bloody terrible. But: there is also some incredibly fabulous music in some of them. For example, "Carry On Abroad" has this one background tune that is really incredibly catchy. It's been running through my head for months. Is this exotica? I don't know. But it certainly isn't _normal_. 4) Esquivel. I recently picked up a copy of the British release of "Latinesque", which I was very chuffed at. Were any others released in Britain (i.e. am I likely to find any copies lurking around)? Enough to be going on with. Cheers, Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: action+@sirius.com (Ursula Blind) Subject: (exotica) bongos + film! Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:06:01 -0800 OK, this is a test. Who can help me make a list of all known movies that include BONGO-PLAYING scenes? The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are "Bell, Book & Candle" and "Desk Set," but I know that's just because my brain isn't working properly. There must be more..... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bsalter Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Terry Snyder et al Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:17:52 -0800 > >Can somebody please define "prepared" piano please. > >Thanks > >Dago > "prepared" piano is the technique of changing the sound of a piano by placing various objects inbetween or on top of the strings, which may include nuts and bolts, rubber wedges, paper, wooden sticks, etc. etc. The sounds that result from this torture are varied and bizzare-- e.g. muted thumps, gong-like sounds, and metallic clanging. Also, there are some tracks on F & T's "Hi-Fire Works" and "Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi" where they create some great percussion sounds by drumming on different parts of the piano with their hands. The "prepared" piano was first made famous by John Cage who used it starting in the 1940s, I believe. I'm not sure if he coined the term... Another even older technique of piano manipulation, called "tack-hammer piano", is accomplished by sticking thumb tacks on the felt hammers which strike the strings, and also deliberately putting the instrument out of tune, which recreates the classic sound of a beat-up piano in an Old West saloon. -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net / brian@headspace.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Introduction and Questions Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:24:41 -0500 At 09:30 PM 3/12/97 GMT, you wrote: >1) Can people point me towards music that has the theme of Britain, or >versions of songs that are very specifically British? Col. Bogey's March -- scads of covers >I can also think of Edmundo Ros' version of "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Freddy Martin's "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" (more Cockney pride) >version of "Loch Lomond" The Polynesians (on Crown) do a great Waikiki version. Also the song Londonderry Air. >3) Has there ever been a release of the music from "Carry On" films? I >know that non-Brits are probably not familiar with these Yes we are (for more than two decades); they're no "Young Ones." >Is this exotica? No -- it may be cheesey pop or '60s fare, though. Precious little discussed here is exotica. Use of the term to mean any old pop record is yet another vile corruption of your language. >4) Esquivel. I recently picked up a copy of the British release of >"Latinesque", which I was very chuffed at. Were any others released in >Britain (i.e. am I likely to find any copies lurking around)? All sorts of RCA records were released in Britain. Cheers, tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Alvino Rey -- invented "pedal" steel? Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:49:45 -0500 Reading the liners to the Uncollected Alvino Rey (2 vols.), TV composer Jack Smalley (Rey's bass player once) implies it was Rey who invented pedals to "get more voicings" out the noble, native Hawaiian instrument known as the steel guitar. That so? [Besides leading the King family and his big band, as well as making such wonderful records as I Remember Hawaii and his Greatest Hits, Rey played slide for Esquivel and in the Denny knockoff group, the Surfmen.] The notes also say that in 1981 Rey was touring. Other records enjoyed today: Puente, Machito, Loco: Mambo Caravan ("Caravan Mambo" -- great LP) -- Tico Robert Maxwell: Song for All Seasons (one of his best) -- Decca stereo Conjunto Los Carinosos: Muchachas (great jacket anyway) -- RCA's Vik Lenny Dee: Happy Holi-Dee (beats the 3 Suns and Esquivel) -- Decca stereo Absolutely astounding, amazing exotic documentary series you gotta see: Ring of Fire -- try library or catalog via 800/727-8433 -- Mystic Fire Video tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) No Subject Date: 12 Mar 1997 22:34:48 -0500 (EST) Other killer guitar players I dig are Roy Clark, Howard Roberts, Barney Kessel, Roy Lanham, Buddy Emmons, Herby Remmington, Jimmy Bryant, Phil Baugh, Mel Brown, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, George Barnes.....and a cast of thousands more.....Link Wray Jack, are you also a James Burton fan? Are there any albums out of solo work by him? I really like him. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TothMD@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Exploring New Sounds In Akron Date: 12 Mar 1997 23:36:38 -0500 (EST) Hmm. I don't know if ANYBODY out there on the list is around the northeast Ohio area, but there seems to be enough of a smattering of regional event postings on here, that I thought I'd plug this at the almost-last-minute: This Saturday night 3/15/97 from about 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM I'll be DJing this "Cocktail-A-Rama" thing at Karl's Elbow Grill, 995 Kenmore Blvd. off of I-76 west of Akron; one night only, no cover charge. E-mail me if you'd like more directions or other info. Here's the scoop: there was once this crazy bar in downtown Akron called the Taj Mahal owned by this guy in his mid-80s who has spent the past few decades touring all seven continents. The Taj Mahal was filled with bizarre artifacts from his travels: odd primitive statues, spears, bones, knick-nacks, a ton of photos, etc., all with I.D. placards made with a Sharpie Marker scrawled on index cards. All this plus a ubiquitous eerie pink glow that eminated from neon and other colored effects lighting. Anyway, they tore this place down (with a bunch of other stuff) to make way for a minor-league ball-park in downtown Akron. Instead of retiring, at no minor expense he relocated the whole shebang to a more hard-to-find location with a weak new name, The Elbow Grill (I don't get it; there's no food either, BTW). It can't be beat for ambience, there are *3* juke boxes with 45s ranging from 50s/60s pop instrumentals to 50s-90s rock and EVERYTHING in between, really cheap drinks...but there's never ANYBODY in there. A couple concerned friends came up with some ideas to get people to check this place out and build (or re-build) his clientele. Since I'm the guy they know with the hundreds of Exotica LPs, I was asked to supply the music for a gala "Cocktail-A-Rama" benefit of sorts. If you're in the area and you'd like to support an insanely cool place to hang out and bask in new and vintage mood-altering sounds, drop me a line at the e-mail address below. Interest has been REALLY strong so far; hopefully you can stop by. Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) bongos + film! Date: 12 Mar 1997 23:44:29 -0500 (EST) Susan Hayward's great "I Want To Live" has a wild wild party, possibly with Jack Costanzo on bongos, cant find the soundtrack now . Not to mention Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz and other left coasters in a night club full of muggle-puffing hep cats in shades. There is also an excruciatingly long and detailed San Quentin gas chamber scene- drip drip drip goes the cyanide. And its showing in two days on TCM-Turner Classic Movies March 14th at 11 PST ! Not to be missed ! No TCM ?, rent the video and explain to me what a B-Girl was. JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Alvino Rey -- invented "pedal" steel? Date: 13 Mar 1997 09:47:39 -0500 I have an Alvino Rey 78 of 'Bloop Bleep' on Capital...really cool! Is this song available on any CD compilation/or original vinyl LP? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:05:45 -0500 Jessica wrote: >The original audience for all the types of records discussed on the list really mystifies me. I've never been able to figure it out. Who bought these records--and more importantly, why don't they remember them? < I can tell you who bought "Bongos, Flutes and Guitars" (Command label, Enoch Light production ca. 1959-60) - my sister. She was in high school and also enamored of The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Broadway musicals and bought this one because bongos were cool in a suburban-beatnik kind of way. When we were visiting my mom last year, I slipped a tape of Tony Mottola's "Roman Guitars" album on the player and she perked right up, "Hey this is pretty good, who is it?" She thought the whole lounge/exotica thing was amusing. As far as this stuff being marketed to teens, I think that most teenagers back then knew that any record with "teen" in the title (Teen Drums, Teen Party, Teen Beat, etc) should be avoided at all costs. At least that's how it was around my house. Of course we can appreaciate them now for their retro-coolness, but at the time I think the labels were just trying to tap into another market besides Dad and Uncle Charlie. If any kids had these albums, they were probably gifts from well-meaning aunts and uncles. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Al Caiola Date: 12 Mar 1997 16:57:25 -0800 Jonathan Perl wrote: > Did Al do a cool spy themes type record on his own? jack named it..."Sounds For Spies And Private Eyes" the cover has a CLOSE UP of a woman's eye with a reflection in the eyeball of a dude in a white tux pointing a gun right in yo face! nearby is the typical sixties chick, leaning back and exposing her thigh. side one the man from uncle the fugitive secret agent underwater chase third man theme slaughter on tenth avenue side two many of mystery the bronze doll baker street mystery goldfinger the eye in flat five a quiet thing # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) Re: F and T prepared piano Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:16:02 -0800 > >Can somebody please define "prepared" piano please. bslater wrote: > "prepared" piano is the technique of changing the sound of a piano by > placing various objects inbetween or on top of the strings, which may > include nuts and bolts, rubber wedges, paper, wooden sticks, etc. etc. > The sounds that result from this torture are varied and bizzare-- > e.g. muted thumps, gong-like sounds, and metallic clanging. see vik's page for upcoming CD reissue info on these two. what took 'em so long? their early work on westminster and abc paramount is like nothing you've heard - you would never think it is nothing more than two pianos!! if the only exposure you have had to F and T is their numerous, dime a dozen, true EZ listening, easily found in the thrift bins, then you are in for a pleasant surprise. soundproof soundblast heavenly sounds in hi-fi blastoff with percussion hi-fireworks (columbia) ...those are the ones you want (but expect to pay - hard to find for cheap - all gone) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) Agnes Mouthwash Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:58:18 -0800 got my first taste of jim copp and ed brown the other day - "Agnes Mouthwash and Friends" an excellent compilation of their children's stories from the late fifties / early sixties. "over 70 minutes of entertainment for small fry and sophisticated adults"...i took a chance on copp and brown based on some very good recommendations from this list and i'm glad i did. not quite sure how to describe it - lots of wacky sound effects, kazoos and voice manipulation - fast, slow, deep, high - the "tales" range from two to five minutes. very clever and most definitely ORIGINAL! an informative 29 page booklet is included. in fact, jim copp himself took my order! he was very pleased to hear there was a revival of interest in his work. you people with radio shows, slip a track from this CD into your show's line-up give'em something to scratch their heads about! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) the wild one Date: 12 Mar 1997 21:33:15 -0800 LL wrote: > Plus, I discovered that KENYON HOPKINS did the score for Brando's THE > WILD ONES...IS that thing AVAILABLE!?!??!!??!??!!? hmmmm...wasn't that leith stevens? maybe not...i thought it was. got this on kenyon: Baby Doll East Side/West Side Eleven Against the Ice Fugitive Kind, The Hustler, The Lilith Mister Buddwing Reporter, The Strange One, The This Property is Condemned Yellow Canary, The # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) bongos + film! Date: 12 Mar 1997 21:21:48 -0800 Jbtwist@aol.com wrote: > Susan Hayward's great "I Want To Live" has a wild wild party, possibly with > Jack Costanzo on bongos, cant find the soundtrack now . Not to mention Gerry > Mulligan and Stan Getz and other left coasters in a night club full of > muggle-puffing hep cats in shades. west coast brilliance composed by johnny mandel. extensive liners credit latin specialist mike pacheco on bongos and conga drums - part of a percussionist team which also includes shelley manne, larry bunker, mel lewis and milt holland. the first part of the record is upbeat and swinging, side two gets really dark and moody - that's when they lead barbara graham (hayward) off to the gas chamber and plink plank plunk! besides the original soundtrack, there is a gerry mulligan record "the jazz combo from i want to live". it is a second soundtrack to the film. graham had a specific interest in mulligan, so mandel wrote more and the music from this lp crops up throughout the movie as well. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) bongos + film! Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:21:31 -0500 (EST) At 03:06 PM 3/12/97 -0800, Ursula wrote: >OK, this is a test. Who can help me make a list of all known movies that >include BONGO-PLAYING scenes? > I haven't seen it, but I bet the Sir Cliff flick 'Expresso Bongo' is a good candidate. This really sounds like a question for the Weldon/PsychotronicFilm crowd. Does anyone know if there's a Psychotronic newsgroup or list out there somewhere? -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Alvino Rey -- invented "pedal" steel? Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:54:17 -0500 Tony wrote: >TV composer Jack Smalley (Rey's bass player once) implies it was Rey who invented pedals to "get more voicings" out the noble, native Hawaiian instrument known as the steel guitar. That so? < Visit Brad's Page of Steel. http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html It's a real treat, but I couldn't find out who put the pedals on the thing. Alvino Rey still does concerts and has played Disneyland every season since it opened. How about that! He is married to one of the King Sisters. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Frame Subject: Re: (exotica) bongos + film! Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:29:47 -0700 Ursula Blind wrote: > > OK, this is a test. Who can help me make a list of all known movies > that include BONGO-PLAYING scenes? hmmm, how about "high school confidential"? uncle fester (whoops, jackie coogan) uses one of them beatnik coffeehouses as a front for his illegal doings. i seem to remember a scene where a woman was reciting some poetry ("life's drag, man, life's a drag") with some bongo skins wailin' in the background. other beatnik fliks like "the rebel set", "beat generation", "daddy-o" come to mind, buy my memory is not so good these days. btw, i have a 60s adult paperback in my collection that has the wildest satanic bongo beatin' dope smokin' cover you ever did see. "swap meet", published by the infamous rapture books. i think i need a scanner. dave -- David Frame Graduate School of Business Administration CB 419 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0419 Telephone: (303)492-5616 Email: framed@colorado.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) Oh NO! Date: 13 Mar 1997 12:28:34 -0500 (EST) Gee whiz! Since I'm the writer, I *hope* people will read it before leaping to conclusions. That's not to say I'm credible, of course... On 11 Mar 1997, Laura Taylor wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Fuzz Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:48:48 EST Is the catalog number of the *rare* plush UltraLounge sampler CD <7 2438-38376 2 5>? I found one, for 21 bucks, and just wondering if it's worth it. Is this the *rare* one, or a second printing? Thanks Ray (tenderfoot and wet behind the ears) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Reed Subject: (exotica) bongos + movies Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:17:09 -0500 (EST) if i am not mistaken, one or more of the beach movies (b. party, bikini b., b. blanket bingo, how 2 stuff a wild bikini) had bongo players in them. does this jog anyone's memory? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Re: Al the guitarist Date: 13 Mar 1997 18:57:41 +0100 >From: bag@hubris.net >Anybody have a favorite Al Caiola LP? I've found his style wavers from one >release to the next, so don't really know what is good and what is not. same problem here: i got "have guitar wil travel" which really sucks, and "sounds for spies and private eyes" which is fantabulous, perfect spy music. Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Bongos & Film Date: 12 Mar 1997 22:32:46 -0800 Susan Hayward's great "I Want To Live" has a wild wild party, possibly with >Jack Costanzo on bongos, cant find the soundtrack now . Not to mention Gerry >Mulligan and Stan Getz and other left coasters in a night club full of >muggle-puffing hep cats in shades. That's not Jack Costanzo but it is Mike Pacheco;) Also Stan Getz is not in the film or in the combo it's the Gerry Mulligan combo with Frank Rosolino-(Wild, outraegeous) Trombone, Art Farmer-Trumpet, Pete Jolly-Piano... That rekkid came out in 2 different versions and I reccomed highly finding both of them. 1 is tha "actual score" which does include some killer west coast jazz as well as "incidental" music, which is the under score and then there's the actual Gerry Mulligan jazz Combo LP which is all pure, beautiful and perfect west coast jazz, all of it written and arranged by Johnny Mandel In the "party scene" in which Barbara has decided that she is going to "help" her loser pals out, Mike Pacheco who is sitting on the floor with his bongos between his thigh's, she say's "Put a head on it Manny" and he does indeed put a head on it or in layman terms... rips. AND he does rip indeed;)) Everyone in that scene, well almost everyone are wearing dark sunglasses inside, at night and they "clap" by snappin' their fingers. Too hip, gotta go! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Alvino Rey -- invented "pedal" steel? Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:31:38 -0500 At 09:47 AM 3/13/97 -0500, you wrote: > I have an Alvino Rey 78 of 'Bloop Bleep' on Capital...really cool! > > Is this song available on any CD compilation/or original vinyl LP? The Greatest Hits LP (on Dot I think) --as recommended by Jello Biafra-- has this and an equally great Tiger Rag. When it comes to steel, slide, and even classical guitar, Rey is the King (except for the unequalled Roy Smeck). tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Alvino Rey -- invented "pedal" steel? Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:14:19 -0500 I dig Rey, too! Wasn't it the King Sisters that sang with his band? >[Besides leading the King family and his big band, as well as making such >wonderful records as I Remember Hawaii and his Greatest Hits, Rey played >slide for Esquivel and in the Denny knockoff group, the Surfmen.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Agnes Mouthwash Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:27:27 -0500 got my first taste of jim copp and ed brown the other day - "Agnes Mouthwash and Friends" an excellent compilation of their children's stories from the late fifties / early sixties. ********************* I never had these records when I was a kid but I had heard the piece on NPR about these waxings last year and read more on the Exotica list recently and was intrigued...so I too placed an order a couple weeks ago. Checked out the Playhouse Webpage and called and spoke to Jim Copp. When I asked him if he had any vinyl left he told me 'no', but that he had cassettes and the two CD compilations. I checked the Webpage again and called an alternate number a Berkley phone # where Jim Leahey (Copps label partner) answered the phone. He told me that they indeed have limited vinyl stock on 4 titles. I purchased 'East of Flumdiddle' and 'Thimble Corner' on vinyl and 'Jim Copp tales' on cassette for my two sons. This stuff is great...great humor, voices, music, effects, and stories...Im sure that my kids will love these recordings for years...I know I will! Cal! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcb@ednet.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Re: Al Caiola Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:23:45 +0000 Jack wrote: > To give you more of an idea who and what Al Caiola was/is, he is the > leader/arranger/player of the Living Guitars on RCA Camden, he is > the leader and arranger of the Unlimited Guitars PLUS 7 > > [and much more...] And as well as all that stuff he was a member of Enoch Light's "Guitar Underground" too! Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site ** ** ** ** ** ** ** http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/5310/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) New Web Pages on Alvino Rey, et al. Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:35:04 -0500 Just wanted to let those who are interested that I just added bio pages for a few folks discussed recently on the list: Alvino Rey George Cates Frank Comstock Don Elliott Check them out at http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/home.htm (Tony, Jack--Please review the discographies and chastise accordingly for omissions.) Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcb@ednet.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Space Safari - Sunday 16 March - FREE! Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:26:42 +0000 Returning for another night of sparkling space-age sonics in its sumptuous new home, Space Safari DJs Bongo Boy and Mingo-go bring you: OFF-WORLD LOUNGE MUSIC! MOOG-DRIVEN MADNESS! BACHELOR PAD BONGOS! TOE-TAPPING EXOTICA FROM DIMENSION X! Sunday 16 March :: FILMHOUSE BAR (Edinburgh, UK) This expedition to Hi-Fidelity and Beyond commences at 9:30pm and takes approximately 3 hours. It remains an ENTIRELY FREE experience and you may join us at any time on the journey. However, we should warn you that you will experience musical sounds unlike anything known to Earth science. There will also be a selection of activity modules (books and boardgames) provided to further stimulate the simple human intellect and emotions... Prepare yourself for this event by cruising to the Space Safari website (URL below). The site includes a facility for testing whether your listening equipment is correctly aligned. Looking forward to welcoming you aboard... Transmission ends. Bongo Boy S P A C E S A F A R I - To Hi-Fidelity and Beyond! http://www.tripod.com/~space_safari/ Next Departure: Sunday 16 March, Filmhouse, Edinburgh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins is my god! Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:03:29 -0800 >LL wrote: > >> Plus, I discovered that KENYON HOPKINS did the score for Brando's THE >> WILD ONES...IS that thing AVAILABLE!?!??!!??!??!!? > >hmmmm...wasn't that leith stevens? maybe not...i thought it was. got this on kenyon: Right on the money again, ford;) Leith Stevens scored the music for The Wild One which featured some "new" and great jazz artists by the names of Art Salt and Roger Short. Due to contractual obligations otherwize known as Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers. Hey! You can see a scan of this cover at my KFJC site at http://www.kfjc.org/diamond by clicking on Album Covers. dig it Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) plink, plank plunk Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:05:22 -0800 side two gets really dark and moody - that's when >they lead barbara graham (hayward) off to the gas chamber and plink plank plunk! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Ford, you just kill me, no pun intended HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) just plain beatin' Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:10:14 -0800 >btw, i have a 60s adult paperback in my collection that has the wildest >satanic bongo beatin' dope smokin' cover you ever did see. "swap meet", >published by the infamous rapture books. i think i need a scanner. > >dave oh yeah, gotta get me on o' dem scanner too. Just scored TORTURA - SOUNDS OF PAIN AND PLEASURE on the BONDAGE rekkid label Dated on the label as 1965. About 20 tracks of you guessed it. Very real whipping and spankin sounds with major moaning, crying, laughing and crying at the same time AND THE COVER IS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! You got this one Tony ? Anyone EVER hear of or heard this freaked out rekkid???????? Gonna play it this Sunday fer shure Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) the steel guitars that destroyed the world Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:17:57 -0800 >When it comes to steel, slide, and even classical guitar, Rey is the King >(except for the unequalled Roy Smeck). > >tony Ahem, pardon me while I go OFF MY NUT HERE Tony!!!;))) How about Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green Speedy West, Herby Remmington, Vance Terry, Kayton Roberts, Jerry Byrd, Jimmy Day, Doug Jernigan, Leon McAullife!, Ralph Mooney for starters. Don't get me started on Steel players dude;)) I got about a hunnert steel rekkids Red Rhodes, Buddy Charleton, Walter Haynes Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Al Caiola Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:19:20 -0800 >> To give you more of an idea who and what Al Caiola was/is, he is the >> leader/arranger/player of the Living Guitars on RCA Camden, he is >> the leader and arranger of the Unlimited Guitars PLUS 7 >> >> [and much more...] > >And as well as all that stuff he was a member of Enoch Light's >"Guitar Underground" too! > > >Robbie > >- ------------------------------------------------------ >Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site ** ** ** ** ** >** ** http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/5310/ >- ------------------------------------------------------ YEAH! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) Steel Guitar Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:41:11 PST Let us not forget Thumbs Carlisle. He's a little silly but I've always liked the name "Thumbs"... Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Re: steel guitars that followed a great Vaudevillian Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:54:34 -0500 >>(except for the unequalled Roy Smeck). >> >>tony > >Ahem, pardon me while I go OFF MY NUT HERE Tony!!!;))) > >How about Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green Speedy West, Herby Remmington, Vance >Terry, Kayton Roberts, Jerry Byrd, Jimmy Day, Doug Jernigan, Leon >McAullife!, Ralph Mooney for starters. > >Don't get me started on Steel players dude;)) >I got about a hunnert steel rekkids That's precisely the prob, Jack. All you need is Roy Smeck. Chant his name. He was there first. He sweated the most. He played the most kinds of guitars. He made the most notes. Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck Smeck ... Lessee them other'n play uke behind their backs while telling a good joke. I'll settle for the joke. heretically tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine Date: 13 Mar 1997 03:13:56 -0800 Hello 1 and all, Will someone please tell me where there is a scan of this top 5 Moog classic lp Richard Hayman-Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine Thank you in advance;) jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) just plain beatin'/Tortura Date: 13 Mar 1997 03:04:34 -0800 >Sounds like a lot of fun. > >The kind of record you want them to find after you kick... HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) KFJC is LIVE on the WEB NOW! Date: 13 Mar 1997 03:22:58 -0800 That's right kids;) 89.7FM, KFJC is live on the web. Direct your browser to; www.kfjc.org and then seek and ye shall find! Click on Audio Feed. _________PLEASE_______ check out the entire site as there are TONS of killer and tremendously eclectic programs for you to hear and discover. This station is like NOTHING you have ever heard, every goddamn day of the year, 24 hours a day. We have already gotten mail from Tokyo and Austrailia as well as Idaho and New York City!! New York City???!!! about hearing us through their pewters sooo give it a shot already Maybe you can hear us in your town ? Some computers/people get us in good and some not so good;( BUT irregardless PLEASE e-mail tbag@lunacity.com who is Brian Potter our General Manager and tell him all about what you think, good or bad;) Thanx so much and bye for now! Jack Diamond Want a Program Schedule plus stickers and such ? E-mail me and I'll do my best to get it to you;) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) George Chakaris Date: 13 Mar 1997 18:43:28 -0500 (EST) Not George Maharis--the replacement part in Bud and Link's corvette on Route 66--but Chakaris--the great Greek hope of MOR 1965 plus or minus..Found an LP of his thriftying and it had 5 publicity shots including 2 B&W "glossies" and a color shot of the cleft-chinned waifer suitable for framing. PLUS a killer weak rendition of Cy Coleman's "Witchcraft" on which Mr. Chakaris warbles with all the emotion of Pat Boone in a tight shiny suit # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine Date: 13 Mar 1997 19:23:20 -0600 >Hello 1 and all, > >Will someone please tell me where there is a scan of this top 5 Moog >classic lp > >Richard Hayman-Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine > >Thank you in advance;) > >jack > there's a small one (3.5") on my site.... I bought it from YOU, Jack! visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins is my god! Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:56:09 -0500 (EST) I have The Wild One on a regular 12" record and on a 10". The 10" has a different pic of Marlon. Full body shot and VERY cool. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Henry Mancini Album Cover Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:56:32 -0500 (EST) Does anyone know of a web site where I can view the cover of Henry Mancini's Blues and the Beat? I'd love to see what it looks like. I have a ton of Mancini, but I don't have this particular album. Anyone have it for sale? Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Songs You Could Listen To Forever Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:00:59 -0500 (EST) A while back someone was asking to name songs that you could hear different versions of over and over. I have two that I'd like to mention: Mountain High, Valley Low and Like Young. Especially Like Young. Anyone know of any other versions besides Linda Lawson's. I thought Ray Anthony did a version of Like Young, but I could be wrong. BTW, anyone got a copy of Linda Lawson's album for sale at a decent price? (read cheap) Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) pucho info Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:48:37 -0500 Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers "Yaina" (Ubiquity/Cubop 7) i can't say i was blown away by this, but it is a nice album of cuban funk soul late '60s style. the cover of "You Can't Always Get Want You Want" starts as a slow blues and then kicks in blaxploitation style. some of it is fab...some not so much. if funk/soul is your thing...might be worth a listen. same label but highly recommended Soul Bossa Trio (Ubiquity/Cubop 3) yummmmy bossa note soul a la acid jazz which some might find a little adult contemporary in its leanings but then again so is wanderly, getz et al. excellent for sipping caipirinhas and munching fried plantains. and get this, friends, the group's a new one and they're from japan...this things spreading i tell ya! this one's got a cover song too...what happens when you take Bill Withers to Carnival in Rio??? track six...a soul bossa "Ain't No Sunshine" they also make an appearance on the truly swinging Instinct collection "Bossa Brava 2" (Instinct 345) features on all coming soon to Vik's... waking up in the city that never sleeps, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Fuzz Date: 13 Mar 1997 19:56:26 -0500 >Is the catalog number of the *rare* plush UltraLounge sampler >CD <7 2438-38376 2 5>? nope...that there is the second release...the rare first fuzzy sampler is DPRO-11166. DPRO is the prefix for EMI promotional items... waking up in the city that never sleeps, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Darrell Brogdon Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Songs You Could Listen To Forever Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:11:01 -0800 Stilgloria@aol.com wrote: > Mountain High, Valley Low and Like Young. Especially Like Young. Anyone know > of any other versions besides Linda Lawson's. BTW, anyone got a copy of Linda > Lawson's album for sale at a decent price? Other versions of Like Young by David Rose and Andre Previn on "Secret Songs for Young Lovers" (MGM SE 3716) and the Three Suns on "Fever and Smoke" (RCA LSP 2310). Linda Lawson's album has been reissued on CD by Fresh Sound (FSR-CD16). Try CD Europe or German Music Express. Hope this helps! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Music for Better Living Playlist Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:40:20 -0500 *** 3/12/97 *** Caravan -- THE THREE SUNS (v/a - The History of Space Age Pop Vol.2) Rollercoaster -- LES BAXTER (v/a - Cocktail Capers) Les Sucettes -- SERGE GAINSBOURG (De Gainsbourg A Gainsbarre) Ca Poirrait Changer -- BRIGITTE BARDOT (Bubble Gum) Taste of Sadness -- WALTER WANDERLEY (Samba Swing) Desert Hips -- GERT WILDEN & HIS ORCHESTRA (I Told You Not to Cry) That Old Black Magic -- ESQUIVEL (Other Worlds Other Sounds) Claudia -- PEREZ PRADO (v/a - Big Band Latino) Rock Gently -- ALVINO REY (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.1) Aquellos Ojos Verdes -- CONNIE FRANCIS (De Coleccion) Spy Vs. Spy -- COMBUSTIBLE EDISON (I, Swinger) The Man from T.H.R.U.S.H. -- HUGO MONTENEGRO (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Fascinating Rhythm -- THE COMMAND ALL-STARS (Provocative Percussion) Born to Lose -- THE NUTLEY BRASS (Beat on the Brass) Stratosphere Boogie -- SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT (Stratosphere Boogie) Misty -- JULIE LONDON (Around Midnight) Caravan -- MARTIN DENNY (Exotica III) As Long as I Live/Let's Live Again -- THE GEORGE SHEARING QUINTET (v/a = -Music for a Bachelor's Den in Hi-Fi) We raised over $300 in about an hour. Many thanks to all of you who = donated premiums or made pledges. Tune in to WZBC Sunday from 6-8pm for = the very first show in our new (and expanded) time slot. Now you can = listen to Music for Better Living while you're getting ready to watch = the Simpsons! Coming soon (if the station makes enough moolah this week): Live = broadcasting from ZBC via RealAudio (we're planning to buy our own = server). Watch this space for more info! ----- Music for Better Living -- Sundays 6-8pm WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Henry Mancini Album Cover Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:16:15 -0800 Stilgloria@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone know of a web site where I can view the cover of Henry Mancini's > Blues and the Beat? I'd love to see what it looks like. I have a ton of > Mancini, but I don't have this particular album. Anyone have it for sale? > Gloria go to the house that jack built and see your cover: http://www.kfjc.org/diamond/covers.html i've seen it around, now and then...if i remember right, i recall a cd reissue of it too....could it be it was at a tower records??? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: amycamus@interport.net Subject: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 14 Mar 1997 07:17:11 -0500 (EST) Laura (and anyone else who is fearful of what the media says about "the scene"); I was wrong about this article. I finally read it last night. It fulfills all of your deepest fears. Cherie amycamus@interport.net www.chaoskitty.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: Re: (exotica) Steel Guitar Date: 14 Mar 1997 06:15:50 -0700 (MST) This is a good time to ask about Pete Drake and his "Talking Steel Guitar". The music itself is pretty unamazing, but this steel guitar is used as a voice sounding a bit like a vocoder or synth but of course, it is a STEEL GUITAR! A friend of mine in Germany played it for me and I got a copy recently in Vegas. Does anyone else have this and are mystified by it??? Are there any other LPs from Pete? Jill "Mingo-go" Mingo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 14 Mar 1997 09:05:51 -0500 (EST) I have to throw my two cents in on the Esquire article. Not to belittle Sunday evenings at 99999's but when this place is mentioned ten times (maybe more) and Bar d'O which regularly sees people like Joseph Lanza, Irwin Chusid, Vik Trola and others, not to mention being the only club that has featured the afroementioned personalities as well as The Millionaire and Combustible Edison DJing it seems a massive oversight. (even Sam and Bradley of Lounge magazine have stopped by. - none of the above have ever hit the 99999's!!!) I didn't even note that the guys at Bar d'O who started these Thursday nights - Jack Fetterman and Scott Springer don't even get a mention). It seems the heartbeat of the NYC if not East Coast scene was missed in favor of describing the "let's dress up and fuck the music" crowd and peek-a-boo breasts of one of the 9999's bartenders. After even the staff of 9999's descrbing their crowd of customers as a motley crew of "let's dress up" trust fund babies I'm surprised that article concentrated so much on this aspect. May I say that the scene is about the music not about wearing a fez or thinking that by ordering a martini "shaken not stirred" you are showing your suaveness. The drinks and clothes are second - they are trappings to the music, not the other way around. The description of the 9999's reminded me of the old "$1.00 New Wave Nites" at the Ritz where I would pay a buck just to see jerks who thought that wearing skinny tie, a couple of safety pins and dumb glasses while dancing to A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran" meant they were punk and then the next miorning went to work listening to their Billy Joel tapes in their cars. If the scene is some much about dressing up, then I must be in some other scene. On the plus side though,and I really do mean this - there were some very strong pluses - the article did credit some people who, though in the background, have made strong contributions on the scene and is the first to mention them all in the same article. Kudos for that. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) A Wonder of the World [Wide Web]... Date: 14 Mar 1997 09:53:57 -0500 ...is the number of sites on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), all but one neatly gathered by the Easter Island home page (URL of which I've temporarily misplaced, sorry). Rapa Nui is, of course, one of the original seven Wonders of the World, along with the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, Heino, Little Marcie, Big Marcie, and Tura Satana. Not ones to miss a chance to issue forth --like so much volcanic ash-- our own skewed take on Rapa Nui and its weird cults (not to mention monstrous exotiphallic art), the Wilds Scene has added a few more bytes on the subject. Yes, the Moai in the home-page thumbnail is wearing a tiny, plastic, "pet" fez. Otherwise it's a bit more "PBS" (or at least local-access cable); in any case, still more vanity publishing in the name of exotica. Trivia ahead. tony "We are born, we eat sweet potatoes, then we die." -- Rapa Nui proverb (according to Accoutrements/Archie McPhee). _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:03:50 -0500 >May I say that the scene is about the music not about wearing a fez or >thinking that by ordering a martini "shaken not stirred" you are showing your >suaveness. The drinks and clothes are second - they are trappings to the >music, not the other way around. Traditionally, clothes, drinks, music, and everything else are always secondary to the PEOPLE who "make the scene." The importance of music got a little out of hand in the 60s and 70s. The Nines and Bar d'O are bars. One has very limited dancing, which is all a reporter can be expected to see and consider for reporting. Unfortunately, without dancing there isn't much draw to any kind of recorded music played in a bar. When you have people of Jack and Scott's caliber blasting uptempo exotica in a space at least the size of the Nines, you'll be hiding from recognition. Unless, of course, the people are more interested in martinis and gasbagging. But that's traditional. tony # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: Re: (exotica) Genuine Electric Latin Lov Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:26:00 +0000 >Hello 1 and all, > >Will someone please tell me where there is a scan of this top 5 Moog >classic lp > >Richard Hayman-Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine > >Thank you in advance;) > >jack > >>there's a small one (3.5") on my site.... I bought it from YOU, Jack! Jack/anyone else who is interested. You can still get it at the SABPM site http://www.users.interport.net/~joholmes/gallery/ellm.html or at its new home: http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/gallery/ellm.html Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brett Leveridge Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Songs You Could Listen To Forever Date: 14 Mar 1997 11:24:47 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Darrell Brogdon wrote: > Linda Lawson's album has been reissued on CD by Fresh Sound (FSR-CD16). >Try CD Europe or German Music Express. I had no luck at either CD Europe or GME. Any other ideas where one might track down this reissue? Also, a web search on "linda lawson" turned up several old TV shows on which an actress named Linda Lawson apparently appeared. Anyone know if these Linda L.'s are one and the same? Brett # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) Style - Music = Esquire Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:42:11 -0500 i was going to rant. then i decided to ignore it...it will go away. i guess people who love the music and are trying to preserve it just aren't as sexy or stylish as late night art school parties filled with eurotrash and trust fund babies. pardon my poverty...but why do you think they call it "thrifting"? another case of missing the point...tapping the trend...trying to selling mags with a seexy concept and pseudo-Playboy cover. at least i didn't actually buy a copy of the issue. gotta go...coffee's getting cold and i actually work for a living. sum it up this way...(to paraphrase keanu reeves) You've got $100 burning a hole in your pocket. What do you do? Buy a vintage suit or dress or try to get as many albums as you can before money runs out? Well, what do you do? (Answer: according to Esquire...buy the suit. heaven forbid you don't look fabulous and actully wear...eeewwww...blue jeans.) never never never....talk to strangers or the press... Vik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: david.trezza@etak.com (David Trezza) Subject: (exotica) Morning surprise Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:03:38 -0800 (PST) So I'm driving in to work on my long commute. On Fridays, I try to hit a garage sale or two if they are not out of the way. So I'm out in the sticks when I see a garage sale ahead at a farm house. I decide to check it out. I got 6 records for $3. 10" Three Suns - "The Three Suns Play..." on Varsity 10" Yma Sumac - "Legend of the Sun Virgin" Capitol L299 10" Korla Pandit - "Merry Xmas" Vita Records 10" Korla Pandit - "Musical Gems" Vita Records 10" Korla Pandit - "Remembering With Korla Pandit" Vita Records Korla Pandit "Plays Music of the Exotic East" Fantasy 3272 and it is autographed on the back to one "Wanita Underhill, Sincerely, Korla Pandit" The vinyl could be better, and the covers have seen it all. Split seams, water damage, rat-chewed corners, mud...they're not that bad though:) Straight outta the barn. Regardless of conditions, it goes down as one of the more odd finds I've experienced. Anybody have any other similar stories of finding gems in unexpected places. Dago, still trying to figure out why Korla did an Xmas album. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:24:49 -0600 think about it though kids... is there a cover story in the fact that a bunch of idiots (me included) buy trashed records at the goodwill? i think not. I DO think that the story dwelled a bit much on 99999s, but I'd be lying if i said i didn't like the "style" aspect of this genre myself. Yes, the music comes first, and we've got some obvious poseurs here in mpls too, but for all the slamming you guys are doing on the Esquire article you'll all be hippocrites if you ever bring up a "fez" or a "tiki" on this list again. lighten-up. have fun. isn't that whats its REALLY about? visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) Re: Esquire 'ticle Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:51:48 EST Oooh! I'm going to pick this up right now! I can't wait to get all riled up! And mebbe feel better about myself. I've been supportin' Bro Cleve at his Saturnalia night, and I don't always git dressed up, cuz I wanna listen, and if he's got the time... ask some questions, paw his records, etc. In fact, last night it got too damn noisy with conversation! I must thank Lazlo and all the list members because I've learned more from lurking and reading this stuff, and it totally rekindled my old record-collecting/bargain hunting passion that I thought had died over a decade ago when I started gettin' sick and tired of punk rock, and watching that scene turn into another trend to follow. My Ventures albums helped, and so did discovering some disco, but it didn't quite do it for me. Hey, I DO like to pose every once in a while, but I will freely admit it's a pose. And as for these damn cigars, why must people select the BIGGEST one they can find? Sometimes a cigar is indeed a long cylindrical object to suck on... but in public? I like the pee-wee ascots and better yet, Swisher Sweets, cuz you can gnaw on the plastic. It's better than the pens I chew at work... and sugary! > describing the "let's dress up and fuck the music" crowd > and peek-a-boo breasts of one of the 9999's bartenders. Let's UNDRESS and fuck TO the music, but take it home... please. (Laura, I must be shocking you.) Do these breasts swing in time to the beat? Tassel pasties? That would work for *me* for 5 minutes or so, and if I were waitin' on a drink, well... there you go! But, here I go, off to find the article. I hope I'm not going to see myself there, or I'm in BIG trouble. Ray (Skill Shot) Coffey P.S. D'ya like DINERS? ROADSIDE ONLINE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) manhattan transfer Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:24:50 +0100 if i like lamberts, hendricks & ross, do you think i'll also like the manhattanntransfer's "vocalese" cd? Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Pete Drake Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:30:17 -0800 Pete Drake and his "Talking Steel Guitar" Pete Drake was not an amazing steel guitarist BUT had a few hits with that "talking steel guitar" of his WHICH BTW Alvino Rey DID invent. Peter Frampton took it to new heights with his "Do You Feel Like I Do" on the 70's s well as Jeff beck from his Blow By Blow LP in the mid 70's. Pete Drake does do some killer fuzzed out steel guitar here and there BUT generally his records aren't that good. He has a rekkid called????, th nemae slips my mind, anyway there's a TUNE called "I'm Just A Guitar" (Everybody Picks On Me) where he does that "Talking guitar" thing. Pretty damn great as the steel is fuzzed out. Too cool. He was more of a producer than anything. I play instro steel on my show all the time, just about every week. I've got an AMAZING version of The Linus and Lucy Medley (Charlie Brown) from Buddy Emmons that I always get a million phone calls on every time I play it Smeck, Schmeck is what I say Tony boy;)) OK, Plays behind his head like T Bone Walker. Great and SO WHAT!;)) Yeah he has great tone, a great player BUT... Other steel guys I love are as Clark mentioned Thumbs Carlisle and then there's Freddie Roulette!!! Rock on kids, rock on Jack Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) "Like Young" Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:20:20 -0800 If I'm not mistaken Lambert hendricks and Ross do an amazing version. Then Mancini does one on his ??? LP The Monn-Keys do a fine version also from the OMEGA label I think they are from Sweden, music by Allyn Ferguson. Early 60's/Late 50's Mel Torme' does it to. It bacame a standard, no wonder why either Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Music Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:50:37 -0500 (EST) The word 'scene' almost always has negative connotations. I can't wait until the martini/cigar thing dies. All I need is my turntable, my box of records, and my suppliers (... hint hint... a nod to my dealer friends). How about some reviews... and not necessarily just stuff re-released on CD? I'd be happy to see some opinions on obscure releases that I might want to try in the future. pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Ramsey Subject: RE: (exotica) Al Hirt Date: 14 Mar 1997 13:31:45 -0600 >Hugh asks: >Given the publicity that Herb Alpert gets in this >group, I keep seeing adverts for discs and 8tracks >by another trumpeter, Al Hirt. > >Is he worth a listen please? In a word . . . No. Kathy Ramsey > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) dressing by the numbers Date: 14 Mar 1997 14:27:19 -0500 >be hippocrites if you ever bring up a "fez" or a "tiki" on this list again. >lighten-up. have fun. isn't that whats its REALLY about? i quote... "And with the increased audience has come a marked diminution in style: the cocktail dresses and rayon jackets are overwhelmed by Gap ensembles and - heaven forfend - blue jeans." "Liz Baum has noticed a fair number of undesirables wandering into the 999999s - frat boys, the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, 'guys who heard that girls with pasties go'" now i like the style of the period in culture as much as the next person. i especially enjoy the industrial and graphic design. the clothes are ok...not really my thing. my problem with this article is the attitude that you MUST be fabulous to be swank. you MUST dress the way Keith and Steve and all the swell trust fund / art school kids do or you are "undesirable". hey, i hate frat boys too, but they are insignificant compared to a flock of snotty eurotrash. it's all about lounging...lounging defined as relaxing. if you are comfortable in jeans and Gap ensembles...more power to you. if you love getting dressed to the nines...that's great too. it is about having fun...not about judging someone by the clothes they wear and the cocktail they drink... only dressed to about the 2.6s, Vik # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Katherine Ramsey Subject: RE: (exotica) EXOTICA-TV Date: 14 Mar 1997 13:57:28 -0600 >br cleve said-- >Bardot did a supposedly amazing TV special in '67 on French TV; that and >the Serge videos are available in France, on their particular format (is it >SECAM?) at FNAC's and HMV's all over the country. I believe the infamous >Serge/Whitney Houston exchange is available uncensored on a Gainsbourg >documentary. Paris Match put out a long documentary about Serge--I saw it on French TV in August '95. There were a lot of wonderful clips from his "videos." Our flat was across the street from Serge's, BTW, but he had died by that time. There was graffiti all over the wall next to the entrance and stencils of his likeness, and fans would leave flowers, etc. Anyone know approx. when he died? Was it around the time I was in Paris when I caught that documentary? Kathy > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Musical films Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:05:07 -0400 This is pretty cool: FILMING INSIDE GRACELAND (Memphis, Tennessee) -- Movie cameras are going to be allowed inside Graceland for the first time ever. Scenes of a movie called ''The Road to Graceland'' will be shot inside Elvis' mansion. Priscilla Presley is the executive producer of the movie and she gave her O-K. Harvey Keitel will star in the movie about a drifter who thinks he's Elvis. This is not!(Sorry, I hate FRIENDS!): ATT LEBLANC WILL BE LOST IN SPACE (London) -- It's a long way from Central Perk. Matt LeBlanc is going to be ''Lost in Space.'' LeBlanc has been cast as Don West in the movie version of the T-V series. He replaces Sean Patrick Flanery, who was originally cast in the role. Mark Goddard played Don in the T-V series. June Lockhart is in London filming a cameo in the picture. I dread this film...anyone else out there think MARS ATTACKS! sucks? Glumly, Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Morning surprise Date: 13 Mar 1997 12:21:50 -0800 David Trezza wrote: > > Korla Pandit "Plays Music of the Exotic East" Fantasy 3272 and > it is autographed on the back to one "Wanita Underhill, Sincerely, > Korla Pandit" > This brings up a question for me. Korla must have autographed a hell of alot of records, because 3 out of the 4 that I've found at thrifts (all for the typical .50 to $1.00) are autographed. Has anyone else experienced this sort of Pandit-autograph surplus?? Pea (PS- Hey Ursula, if you're reading this- I'm still not having any luck emailing you. I don't know what the problem is. But I got you're email re: the OY CD and I'd like to respond so hopefully we can figure this thing out...) -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Wild One Date: 14 Mar 1997 14:23:07 -0400 This all may be academic, because I'll have to check the record when I get home this weekend, but I coulda sworn Hopkins wrote the soundtrack to THE WILD ONE...Could it be one of those things, where he composed the music, but it was conducted and arranged by someone else, such as in BABYDOLL? Ok, everybody, 1-2-3, run to your rekkid shelves and consult the gods o' vinyl... Lounge"i'm only wrong once" Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Steel Gtr/Like Young Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:28:38 -0500 (EST) I saw a video documentary on Western Swing and it was stated therein that Speedy West was the fella that first had his Steel hotrodded with pedals. Who knows, though...I'l bet there are dozens of people laying claim to this innovation.In the same video it states that it was Merle Travis, not Leo Fender or Les Paul, who made the first solid body electric guitar.Hey Joe Gore--you work for "Guitar Player"...what's the real story? Buddy Greco does a version of "Like Young" on his LP of the same name.I know I have a few instrumental versions around somewhere, too. I'l go check. Ciao! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newline.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: Re: (exotica) Musical films Date: 14 Mar 1997 15:59:25 -0500 >ATT LEBLANC WILL BE LOST IN SPACE >(London) -- It's a long way from Central Perk. Matt LeBlanc is going >to be ''Lost in Space.'' LeBlanc has been cast as Don West in the movie >version of the T-V series. He replaces Sean Patrick Flanery, who was >originally cast in the role. Mark Goddard played Don in the T-V series. >June Lockhart is in London filming a cameo in the picture. >I dread this film...anyone else out there think MARS ATTACKS! sucks? Hey Laura, this year's bonuses are being gambled on that picture here at New Line (it's our HOT new franchise - after all, you need a new angle after Freddy kicks Jason ass) - don't get me more depressed than I already am! (Look for Gary Oldman as Dr. Smith. I ain't lyin). Anita # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: miguelito bandito Subject: (exotica) fabulous finds Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:08:02 -0500 (EST) I've always been unimpressed with the "score" stories on this list. Maybe I've just gotten real lucky. Some of my bigger mass encounters: When I first arrived here at Davidson College (NC) the school was about to auction off its wharehouse of over 50 years of junk thats piled up. I was lucky enough to look around before the auction and ran into a whole room of LPs. The employee that let me in said I could take all the records I wanted cause they were worthless. I damn near freaked! out of the 200 or so free records that day: all beautiful copies by the way baxter-tamboo, over ten moog lps, various denny, music for pack of hungry cannibals, sumac-xtabay, and 150 other random gems to numerous to remember. Ok, then this past summer I was back in Dallas driving around after a fairly unproductive garage sale morning (i recall 2 sides of nimoy was my only, although splendid find) and after I had given up and started looking for some art supply store in rural south Dallas I decided to stop at one last garage sale having missed the store. On the front porch of this house was (by the family's count) over 25,000 LPs. They said they owned a wharehouse that was used by a record club that went under. So it looked as if quite a few private individual's collections were just sitting here at a quarter an LP and a dime per 78. I had to drive back a second day to go through them all. That day was a tour through history. I found Edisonian records. They were like an inch thick and about a pound! I got Rcas from 1900 and later, Other worlds other sounds, infinity in sound, two bound 78 Sumac books, two copies of Music out of the moon (bound 78s), Various Denny(hypnotique, primitiva, enchanted sea, along with the usuals (exotica, quiet village of which i probably have at least 5 copies) , music for hifi bugs, Ritual of the savage (78 box), the list goes on... anyone have great storiDes like this. I love to hear 'em. Mike Miga, sophomore @ Davidson College # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: F and T prepared piano Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:34:32 -0500 > if the only exposure you have had to F >and T is their numerous, dime a dozen, true EZ listening, Before we totally write off all "late" F&T, I have to mention that the tune I am currently obsessed with (playing it several times a day) is their "Ritual Fire Dance" from the 1979 lp _Classical Disco_ . You haven't lived til you've heard this one. --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: amycamus@interport.net Subject: (exotica) Re: "That Article" Date: 14 Mar 1997 18:48:33 -0500 (EST) > >I didn't want to post this on The List,because Randall Rothenberg really is >a very nice, well-meaning guy and I didn't want to hurt his feelings...BUT. > Randall is a nice guy. I really would like to think that his editors are the nasty people. If this is true, I would really like to read the pre edited version. Cherie amycamus@interport.net www.chaoskitty.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ariel Tagar Subject: (exotica) Swingin'day Date: 15 Mar 1997 15:05:52 +0300 Here's the story: wednesday was my birthday, i was at my girlfreind's. she was having a shower and at about that time, i noticed the large collection of her dad's LP'S. Naturally i started browsing and i just couldnt believe my eyes! here is what i found and later on took to my own possession (and may i remind you that this is israel and you dont come round things like that very often): 1)Martin Denny- Golden greats 2)Les Swingle Singers- Jazz Sebastien Bach 3)MOOG- dick hyman 4)The Well Tempered Synthesizers- virtuoso electronic 5)Golden Guitar- (channel 20 sound) 6)Trans Music Production- Swiched on bach 7)Marino Marini e il suo quartetto ITS ALL MINE!!! MINE!!!! Ariel the EASY PAGE (easy listenning and longecore culture) http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076 Ariel Tagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: Re: (exotica) Morning surprise Date: 15 Mar 1997 08:51:15 -0800 Pea Hicks wrote: > This brings up a question for me. Korla must have autographed a hell of > alot of records, because 3 out of the 4 that I've found at thrifts (all > for the typical .50 to $1.00) are autographed. Has anyone else > experienced this sort of Pandit-autograph surplus?? That's because Korla sold them at intermission at his shows. You came down from and bought them from him, getting an autograph as part of the deal. Nine times out of ten, if you find an artist's autograph on an album, it's one that was sold at his shows. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "furpumper" Subject: Re: (exotica) Steel Guitar Date: 15 Mar 1997 09:24:59 -0500 What about that intriguing collection put out by Ryko - Slide Crazy or something. There are about four volumes. Can anyone provide brief reviews.... suggest which volume might make a good introduction or which might appeal most to this list? kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mingo@cqm.co.uk (Jill Mingo) Subject: Re: (exotica) Musical films Date: 15 Mar 1997 07:45:22 -0700 (MST) anyone else out there think MARS ATTACKS! sucks? C'mon! The movie is severely flawed. Like far too much Jack Nicholson mugging around. But anything that uses Slim Whitman and aliens (I don't want to give away any plots in case someone hasn't seen it!) and a healthy dosage of Tom Jones can't be too far gone. Anyone else think that Slim saved the film??? Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brett Leveridge Subject: (exotica) Linda Lawson Date: 15 Mar 1997 10:01:48 -0500 (EST) Called Footlights Records here in NYC. They told me the company that issued the CD re-release of "Introducing Linda Lawson" is now out of business. So if you see a copy of it, new or used, better grab it. (and if you see two, grab one for me!) Brett * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Enjoy BRETTnews, the Peppy Zine for Active People! http://www.brettnews.com/ Issue #34 is now out! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) atlantic xing Date: 15 Mar 1997 10:30:36 -0500 I'm headed to london and probably edinburgh for a couple of weeks in may. If there are any goings on or things not to be missed (besides the misterrogers twins gig and spaced out safari) please advise. kevin 'furpumper' king # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Morning surprise Date: 15 Mar 1997 10:48:01 -0500 (EST) Korla Pandit. Gee, yes, I just looked and believe it or not, mine is autographed on the back also. You suppose they were manufactured that way? Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: (exotica) Musical films Date: 15 Mar 1997 11:05:43 -0500 ANITA SERWACKI wrote: > (Look for Gary Oldman as Dr. Smith. I ain't lyin). Oh, the PAIN! the PAIN! kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Mars Attacks! Date: 15 Mar 1997 11:57:07 -0500 (EST) You say you love that mix of abstract female vox, theremin and bongos, but nobody makes music like that anymore? Well, think again. Danny Elfman's score for MARS ATTACKS is a tribute to '50s Science Fiction soundtracks. If you liked the ED WOOD sdtrk, you'll want to pick this up. Not every cut is awash in theremin - but at least half. DJ's will want to play "Martian Lounge", "Martian Madame", "Ungodly Experiments" "Main Titles"... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Los Indios Tabajara/Dick Schory Date: 15 Mar 1997 13:04:55 -0800 (PST) It may take me a year, but I will hit all the Portland area thrift stores for records. The latest excursion today netted LPs for a dollar each at the east side Salvation Army. They have an unfortunate practice of putting a huge sticker on each. You'd think it would be better for everyone if they simply just had one sticker at the cash register that said "$1 for each 33 1/3 LP record" with the scan code. Then, the person at the front register would only have to look at the records ("Oh, gee, those are 33 1/3 LP records"), count the number of records and scan the one sticker. As is, that is exactly what the checker does, only selects one of the LPs to scan! The SA has to bother to sticker each LP and I have to try and remove the things without damaging the LP cover (a virtual impossibility), and all for NO APPARENT REASON. I guess the SA is concerned that the checkers might not be able to figure out what an LP is. That's my gripe for the day. Anyway, I found Holiday for Percussion LPM-2485 on RCA by Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchesta. All selections great, but wish I would have found the original Stereo Action version. RCA put out mono versions of the stereo action series at a lower price (mono action?). Of course, its not just mono, its "brilliant hi fi." I won't comment much on Percussive Honky Tonk. I realized it would be not what I had hoped, but I was willing to chance it. There was a nice stereo LP that is quite fascinating. It is not what I normally go for, but I can't help but be drawn to it. It is called "Maria Elena" (from the title track) and features an acoustic guitar group called "Los Indios Tabajaras." Wonderful guitar work, some Portugese and/or Tabajaran vocals on some cuts. There is a great cut of Moonlight Serenade. Not percussive in the usual sense, but wonderful rhythm nevertheless. LSP-2822 The only marginally cool cut on Somerset SF-15600 "Gypsy Music From Over the World" was "Dark Eyes" by the "101" Strings. It starts off routine enough, but toward the end they throw all sorts of things into the performance. The rest of the album is a hodge podge of real gypsy music and stuff that is neither gypsy nor interesting. I think those people at Somerset had this great picture of a gypsy dancer and said "Okay, what tapes do we have that we can make an LP out of to go with this picture?" Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Los Indios Tabajara/Dick Schory Date: 14 Mar 1997 14:27:35 -0800 bag@hubris.net wrote: > There was a nice stereo LP that is quite fascinating. It is not what I > normally go for, but I can't help but be drawn to it. It is called "Maria > Elena" (from the title track) and features an acoustic guitar group called > "Los Indios Tabajaras." I work at Tower Records, and have been in debate with the manager about whether or not Los Indios Tabajaras CDs should go in the "World Music" or "EZ Listening" section. Currently they reside in "World Music" based on their name alone, but I think EZ is where they belong... -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "JEFFREY CHENAULT" Subject: (exotica) Space-Age Lounge Sale! Date: 16 Mar 1997 22:33:43 UT If anybody is interested I have a list of "Space-Age " Lounge Records for sale "CHEAP!! Just e-mail me personally and I will send the list to you. Also for those of you that are "NEW" to this list I still have a few copies of my "Illustrated Discography Of Les Baxter". It contains over 70 releases including all known soundtracks and over 50 illustrations. It even has a color Tiki sporting the cover. This has been professionally bound and is a very private pressing. It can be had for $10 postage paid. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) Style - Music = Esquire Date: 16 Mar 1997 21:35:53 -0500 (EST) Praise the Lord and pass the Campari. On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Vik Trola wrote: > > I guess I can't go back to Bar D'O, then? > > > > of course you're welcome back at Bar d'O no matter how you dress or what > you drink. > > waking up in the city that never sleeps, > Vik > > Vik's Lounge > http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html > > Space Age Bachelor Pad Music > http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jjones@richnet.net (John Jones) Subject: (exotica) Al Caiola Date: 17 Mar 1997 14:48:59 GMT Speaking of Al Caiola.... Recently found an LP of Al + Don Arnone called "Great Pickin", on Chancellor CHL-5008. I became acquainted with Al from some tapes Jack sent me from his show, and I agree....Al is the most. The album I found is the ginchiest! John jjones@richnet.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Back from Florida! Date: 17 Mar 1997 10:23:02 -0500 I just got back from Florida, and was happy to finally listen to some of the great records I got while I was there. I found so many that I had to send some home in the mail and leave another batch with my Grandparents. I won't see those until June :( But the most "favored" finds were lugged on the plane by yours truly. Now I have sore arms and an aching back. But there's always the music, right? BTW, do these "score" lists really bother people? I always liked reading them because it's nice to see what's "findable" and what's out there. But if everyone else hates them, I'll quit posting them. Personally, I think slogging through mold and filth and fighting off silverfish gives any devoted music lover the right to gloat a little. ^_^ EXOTICA Les Baxter: Ritual of the Savage (lovely upgrade!) Tamboo! (at long last) Jungle Jazz (beautiful record, tragically scarred cover) Million Seller Hits (not truly exotic, but nice) OTHER: Lotus Land by Gene Rains Pagan Festival by Dominic Frontiere Mele Kalikimaka by Arthur Lyman Safari by the Trans World Symphony Orchestra SPACE AGE POP, JAZZ, INSTRO POP Pete Rugolo: Percussion at Work Adventure in Sound--BRASS Rugolo Plays Kenton Lenny Dee: Happy Holi-dee (at long last!! BTW, is that Lenny himself vocalizing on "Mr. Santa"?) Lenny Dee in Hollywood! Mr. Dee Goes to Town (Lenny has a goatee on the cover--wow!) Now Spin This! by Mel Henke (I never knew this existed. What else did he do besides the Warner Brothers stuff?) Adventure in Time by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (looks lovely, plays lousy :( ) Sounds Different! by the Joe Venuto quartet (LP by ex-S-F band member. He covers "Swingcussion") From Another World by Sid Bass (great cover, great music) Wired for Sound by Marty Gold (much better than I thought it would be) Mr. Accordian by Dom Frontiere Hammond Gone Cha Cha by Jackie Davis the Blues and the Beat by Henry Mancini Uniquely Mancini by who else? Bongos by Los Muchachos Locos Mallet Magic by Harry Breuer (stereo upgrade) Persistent Percussion (lovely red vinyl, studio big shots play sweet percussion tunes. First record on Kent, Rudy Ray Moore's label!!) Swingin' Fling by Alvino Rey (sans cover, :( I read somewhere that later on, Alvino Rey started to HATE Hawaiian music with a passion. True?) Rockin' Rhythm Organ and Drums (cool looking local record with "Caravan") The Incredible World of James Bond (United Artists comp LP with a cheap feel to it--neat cover, with a bunch of Bond girls, one of which bears a frightening resemblance to me. Was I a cover girl in a past life?) The Thirteen Fingers of Sir Julian ^_^ Harp Magic by Robert Maxwell Percussion in a Tribute to Henry Mancini by the Frankie Capp Percussion group Spectacular Brass Goes Cha Cha Cha by Roger King Mozian James Bond Thrillers by the Zero Zero Seven Orchestra Feel Good! Look Great! by Debbie Drake (old exercise album with zippy music. This copy has the enclosed booklet--my old copy was a re-ish without it) ELECTRONIC STUFF Song of the Second Moon by Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan (I think this is a re-ish of some older electronic album. It's really really great--"modern" without being obnoxious) Silver Apples of the Moon by Morton Subotnick Switched on Bacharach, volumes 1+2, by Sir Christopher Scott plus two entries in the A+M Zodiac series by Mort Garson, Pisces and Aquarius VOCALS Julie London: About the Blues Swing me an Old Song Julie We've Only Just Begun by Claudine Longet SOUNDTRACKS Lord Love a Duck (Neal Hefti) Paris When it Sizzles (Nelson Riddle) The Man With the Golden Arm (is that a novachord in the middle of "The Fix"?) Modesty Blaise Juliet of the Spirits (I love it!!) MISC. What You Can Learn From the Kinsey Report by Dr. Murray Banks Daisy Chain Ain't a Piece of Jewelry by the Fabulous Mr. Billie Lee More than Music by MUZAK My Next Story is a Little Risque by Belle Barth More of Tom Lehrer Bag*Dad by Yousef and His Bag*Dad Ensemble (middle eastern resturaunt record) Mambo Mania EP by Perez Prado (missing one record, :( ) Tawny 10" by Jackie Gleason Carribbean Capers by the Caribs Thinking of You While Listening to Starlift (steel band LP) Didn't It Rain by Evelyn Freeman (Bel Canto gospel LP--one cut is on their sampler. Beautiful blue vinyl!) That's not everything, but I don't want to bore anyone. Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Pete Drake Date: 17 Mar 1997 10:17:12 -0500 Pete Drake and his "Talking Steel Guitar" Pete Drake was not an amazing steel guitarist BUT had a few hits with that "talking steel guitar" of his WHICH BTW Alvino Rey DID invent. Peter Frampton took it to new heights with his "Do You Feel Like I Do" on the 70's s well as Jeff beck from his Blow By Blow LP in the mid 70's. Pete Drake does do some killer fuzzed out steel guitar here and there BUT generally his records aren't that good. He has a rekkid called????, th nemae slips my mind, anyway there's a TUNE called "I'm Just A Guitar" (Everybody Picks On Me) where he does that "Talking guitar" thing. Pretty damn great as the steel is fuzzed out. Too cool. ***************** I think the LP is called FOREVER on the Smash label and 'I'm Just a Guitar (Everybody Picks on Me)' is extremely cool... The opening cut 'Danny Boy' also utilizes the weird vocalaise and is also pretty bizarre...AND JUST MIGHT BE THE PERFECT ACCOMPANIMENT FOR TODAY'S ST. PADDYS DAY CELEBRATION! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Dada'quariums Exotica update: eXotica Releases Overview v. 3.2 Date: 15 Mar 1997 17:10:15 +0100 just updated my eXotica Releases Overview: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/disq/disq.htm which now contains details about 675 in-print exotica CDs & LPs. Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) Style - Music = Esquire Date: 15 Mar 1997 14:38:58 -0500 (EST) I guess I can't go back to Bar D'O, then? On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Vik Trola wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vik Trola Subject: Re: (exotica) Style - Music = Esquire Date: 15 Mar 1997 16:59:17 -0500 > I guess I can't go back to Bar D'O, then? > of course you're welcome back at Bar d'O no matter how you dress or what you drink. waking up in the city that never sleeps, Vik Vik's Lounge http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Space Age Bachelor Pad Music http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Randall Rothenberg Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 15 Mar 1997 14:39:51 -0500 (EST) I guess I *can* go back to Bar D'O, then. On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 clean@bitstream.net wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Another fine compilation... Date: 16 Mar 1997 09:59:10 -0800 From the makers of the Japanese import "Mondo For Space Age" compilation, comes another in their series of "out there" Capitol records releases. This other compilation is entitled "Mondo For Flower Age". There is a third in this series which I don't have but am desperately trying to get my hands on. "Mondo For Flower Age" is a great compilation with half of the songs sounding like The Lemon Piper's "Green Tamborine" or Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning". The other half is an ecclectic mix of some wild sounding EZ stuff that my ears have not yet experienced. Here are the tracks: 1. Poto Flavus - Tartaglia 2. Good Morning Starshine - Tartaglia 3. Mah-na, Mah-na - Leroy Holmes Orchestra ** 4. Yellow Bird - Martin Denny 5. About Her - Charles Fox 6. Where Do I Go? - Charles Fox 7. Who's Afraid - Sue Raney 8. Callate Nina - Pic-Nic 9. Light My Fire - Julie London 10. I'm Shocked - I Avanti ** 11. Vegetables - Jan & Dean 12. Girl From Ipanema - Mrs. Miller 13. Sylvia's Theme - Reg Wilson 14. On The Trail - Ken & Beverly 15. Skip-A-Long Sam - The Sugar Shoppe 16. Groovy Summertime - Love Generation 17. 14th Annual Fun & Pleasure - Guild Light Gauge 18. Coming Soon - The Joyride 19. Behind These Stained Glass Windows - Shaggy Boys 20. Pigmaliao - Marcos Valle ** 21. Cloudy - Guild Light Gauge ** These songs are incredible! The best version of Mah-na, Mah-na I've ever heard. I don't know who I Avanti is, but she sounds like Bas Sheva singing over a car chase soundtrack. Marcos Valle is a cross between Andre Popp and... uh.. Serge Gainsbourg? Anyway, as with this series of compilations, the mining of the Capitol Records vault reveals many true gems. I say pick this one up. Okay... Doug # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nbccw20@nbnet.nb.ca (nbccw20) Subject: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge collection Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:00:08 +0000 http://www.ultralounge.com/ Are you guys familiar with this site? It's very cool if you have Shockwave listening to their songs. Anyway, I was wondering what people thought of those albums if any of you have them. It's sounds pretty good to me but I'm very sceptical because they don't list the songs on the albums. A new guy to this listserve and to this music, Quentin Matheson # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: legalrender@kinn.com Subject: (exotica) Wha' Dat????!!! Date: 17 Mar 1997 08:56:28 -0800 Greetings! Having seemingly gotten my email woes fixed, I decided to check in to see if anyone on the list knows anything about these two lovelies: Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band Music For Non Thinkers, RCA LSP 1721 This seems to be the 1958 version of the Portsmouth Symphonia! Buncha guys dressed up as Nazis, Kaisers etc. doing German sounding songs with silly names and polka versions of some classics. They all have Germanic sounding fake nom de guerres and I can't tell from the pics who they are though I suspect they are probably some famous players having a romp. The only person it identifies is the conductor Richard Gump owner of Gump's in San Francisco (where this was recorded!) who it says is a serious composer. All in beautiful LIVING STEREO! Sounds Galactic An Astromusical Odyssey, London SP 44154 Totally cool LP mostly of covers of songs with a "Space" theme ie Telstar, Across The Universe. Only credit is John Keating arrangements and also lists a K. Martin as the composer of a couple of originals and arranging too. It doesn't give any info on instrumentation but there is either Moog or some synths or it might just be the phaser/flanging they run everything through. At any rate, cool! If you've got any info, I'd love to know. Thanks, Kevin King cameron@kinn.com P.S. Check my for sale list at: http://www.kinn.com/cameron/index.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: (exotica) Score lists don't bug *me*, how about youse? Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:04:47 -0500 >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:03:20 -0500 >To: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) >From: Joe Kilmartin >Subject: Score lists don't bug *me*, how about youse? > >At 10:23 AM 17/03/1997 -0500, you wrote: > BTW, do these "score" lists really bother people? I >>always liked reading them because it's nice to see what's "findable" and >>what's out there. > >They are great precisesly because of the reasons youi mentioned.. > >>Personally, I think slogging through mold and filth and fighting off >>silverfish gives any devoted music lover the right to gloat a little. ^_^ > >Ex-AAAAAAA-ctly... > >Joey Jojo Shabadoo in Toronto > (416)535-4765 I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. -- Abe Simpson : "Homerpalooza" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Tilt Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:47:36 -0400 I've heard a lot about this, obviously. On what label is it, and is TILT an import? Is it still available(I believe it was released in '94, no?) Most importantly, WADDAYA THINK!!!!! Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) Re: Agnes Mouthwash Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:40:37 +0100 i agree completely with what basic hip and others said about these 2 cd's by Copp & Brown: there absolutely wonderful ISM and tales for kids (and for the kid in us all) Johan Dada@mail.dma.be = Dada@bewoner.dma.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Score lists don't bug *me*, how about youse? Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:21:11 -0400 If we can't tell this list about our weekend finds, and expect love and understanding rather than the cold, uncomprehending stares of a cruel world, then who can we tell? We are not freaks, to be pitied. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ Co-editor. Topia: A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge collection Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:17:56 -0400 Quentin: Welcome to the list (and to the music). We've discussed this before here, but I think very highly of the Ultra-Lounge series. For the most part, they're inventively programmed and you can't beat the packaging. I like them over all the other major label reissue series. My own feeling is that some of the tightly thematic ones are the weakest: The Crime Scene, Mondo Exotica, Mambo Fever and A Bachelor in Paris all get kind of tiresome after a while. But Bachelor Pad Royale, Space Capades, Wild, Cool and Swinging are all fabulous. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ Co-editor. Topia: A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nbccw20@nbnet.nb.ca (nbccw20) Subject: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:03:30 +0000 I'm looking for any hints you guys can give on collecting exotic music. From what I know yard/garage sales and thrift stores are possible sources. Well, they aren't around where I live unfortunately. Any other suggestions? -Q # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@explorer.csc.com Subject: (exotica) Exotic Guitars Date: 17 Mar 1997 11:35:10 -0500 On my fledgling exotica rummage I picked up an unopened lp by Bill Justis and the Exotic Guitars (fav. track is "Music to watch girls by"). Does anyone have any further info. on this? The only guitarist credited is Al Casey of Surfin' Hootenanny demi-fame: who are the others? Is the Bill Justis ouevre generally worth acquiring (familiar only with the much recorded "Raunchy")? For a Deliverance-set looking shop (trogs, skunk pelts, chicken bone windchimes), some relatively cool loot: Ennio Morricone; 60's biker flick soundtracks; Admiral Phantom 3rd Channel sampler and other stuff not in context of this list. regards, frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 14:34:44 -0500 At 01:03 PM 17/03/1997 +0000, you wrote: >I'm looking for any hints you guys can give on collecting exotic music. >From what I know yard/garage sales and thrift stores are possible >sources. Well, they aren't around where I live unfortunately. Any >other suggestions? > >-Q Well, where do you live? I've found some good stuf in Salvation Army stores, Goodwills, the like.. Brace yerself for some looking, tho.. You gotta dig in a lotta mud before you come up with a truffle... Joey Jojo Shabadoo in Toronto (416)535-4765 I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. -- Abe Simpson : "Homerpalooza" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Paul McKay" Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:57:43 -0500 On Mar 17, 1:03pm, nbccw20 wrote: > Subject: (exotica) Where to go? I have always had my best finds either searching through the basements and attics of older relatives or visiting estate sales. I usualy visit estate sales early to locate what I am interested in and then come back ten minutes before the end of the last day of the sale and and offer a fraction of the asking price. Usually the company running the sale is just glad to get rid of it and will accept any reasonable offer. I have missed on some very nice pieces that way but have gotten some great deals too. -- 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? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:04:34 -0500 I'm looking for any hints you guys can give on collecting exotic music. From what I know yard/garage sales and thrift stores are possible sources. Well, they aren't around where I live unfortunately. Any other suggestions? -Q Living in a place without garage sales and thrift stores is living in hell. If I were you, I'd pack up and move elsewhere like pronto! And now back to the discussion about records.... Cal # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kerry keane Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:16:27 -0600 (CST) If our luckless friend has a car, can he/she not drive to the nearest town that has thrift stores? Junk/antique stores are good places to look, too. I've found through personal experience that the least exhausted places are those boondock towns. I cannot imagine such hardship! On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Howard Enis wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: slogging through mold Date: 17 Mar 1997 16:47:46 -0500 >I think slogging through mold and filth and fighting off >silverfish gives any devoted music lover the right to gloat a little. ^_^ AAAAAaaaagh! But so true. Now here is a thread we haven't seen: "What is the most revolting color of mold you have ever found on a record?" --Ross P.S. your haul sounds outrageous--you are giving me a complex. --Ross || Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr || Ann Arbor, Michigan USA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) Eire Exotica? Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:18:17 EST All points bulletin: Micks, Paddys, Potato-eaters, and those of Irish ancestry: HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!! ( \/ ) ( /\ ) || Is there any Irish Exotica? ATTN: Ashley Are you familiar with Paul Mauriat's record *el condor pasa* (Philips - PHS 600-352)? The song (OOOPS!) rather, instrumental piece seems to be right up your alley, in a manner of speaking. 99 cents in good old Flooreederr. I'll be pickin' banjo in the backwoods yet. Deliverance, Walking Tall, Hud(?) and Faulkner novels. Can anyone please suggest videos I can rent that will concentrate on the rural backwoods south either in a positive or negative context? I wanna get an idea of what I might literally be getting into. FLASH! - - - WIRED magazine features George Lucas this month. Stills from THX-1138 are part of the feature. I recommend this movie, despite some people having reticence about renting it (Laura). Any comments? According to the Searchable Movie Database (Thanks to whomever posted this URL) the music was written by Lalo Schifrin. Just the cops in this movie are worth the rental. I love those chrome-dome pigs (Pride, Integrity, Guts)! Ray (Wasabi Chip) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Abbe Lane Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:24:49 -0800 Hey George, Could you let me know if the Abbe Lane album "When There's A Man" is a worthwhile CD to pick up AND does Cugat play on that album? It is pictured and for sale at: http://www.footlight.com/newvocals.shtml Thanks, Doug # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Miester Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire article Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:06:11 -0600 I just sat down and proceeded read the much maligned article in question, and I have to disagree with the consensus. Of course most of us on this obsessive-compulsive list would be offended by the scant attention to the music (although it's still adequate, I'd say). The fact is, for the wide-eyed quasi-hep middle American reader of Esquire (We can't all live in New York), "The Swank Life" is a fine, well-written introduction that covers the ambience, music, fashion, rationale, practitioners, roots, cultural theory and current state of Lounge. Yes, it's a little shallow, but aren't a lot of the kids who get dressed up like Hef a little shallow? An ascot does not equal depth. In particular, I thought Byron Werner's realization--"Wait a minute. I really love this stuff now. I'm not making fun of it anymore"--pretty much summed up my experiences with lounge and easy listening, and probably a lot of people on this list. Okay, off the soapbox. I guess I just wanted to encourage people not to take this generalist article as a personal attack. Whether you want to quibble about which club he chose to focus on or not, I think Randall still pretty much covered his bases. Just my nickel... ______________________________________________________________________________ Mark Miester (504) 865-5714-phone editor (504) 865-5621-fax Office of University Publications mark@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu 300 Hebert Hall, Tulane University http://mark.pubs.tulane.edu/ New Orleans, La. 70118 ______________________________________________________________________________ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Back from Florida! Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:51:54 -0800 (PST) At 10:23 AM 3/17/97 -0500, Jessica Cameron told us about all the great finds from her Florida trip and then asked: > BTW, do these "score" lists really bother people? Not me...and I'll tell you why (soapbox begins): There are many things these lists do: 1. Tells other people what the "reporter" likes. a. If you don't know the reporter, you get some insight into their personality, which is always fascinating. b. Critiques or simply mentions of what one person thinks is "good" can help direct people to certain artists and styles they may not have thought of before. 2. Helps define a genre that has no really good definition. In math or logic, sometimes a "group" can be defined by an equation, but often one has to use a list of items within the group to define that group. In the case of "exotica" I think you get a better sense of what it is by seeing what individuals consider as interesting. No one may ever have a real good group definition, but consensus and collection building can help make a definition. 3. Provides some idea about "whats out there." This may not be as comprehensive as a discography, but it is more fun this way. When people discover little jewels along the way, it can be enlightening to the rest of us. 4. Lets people know what LPs we can expect to find in rotten condition... you know the ones that were played over and over again by people who didn't respect the vinyl. This was the most popular music of its day and deserves to be listened to again. Unfortunately, that may make it difficult to find in good condition. By hearing about the condition of some albums you get a sense of what was popular, but also what levels of condition to expect on your own record excursions. 5. Gives a general feeling for the marketplace. You know all those record guides and antique price listings. The numbers they use weren't invented. They came from the authors' dealings with auction houses, dealers and others who regularly get a feel for what is selling, what's plentiful, what's in good condition, and, of course, what the prices are. By seeing more of these lists, we can all get an idea of the market and come up with our own conclusions. That way we know that shelling out $20 for Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream LP is probably unwise, but putting out the same money for a mint condition Juan Esquivel LP is a steal! 6. Allows fresh discussion about various artists that can add insight to the purchaser as well as to others on the LISTSERV. One small comment can lead to a thread of interesting historical, market and musical observations. 7. Provides an avenue to ask questions that come to mind in the course of the list ("Is this the ONLY album that he did?" or "How much involvement did she have in the production of that recording?" or others). There are some real wonderful people on this list with amazing knowledge who will help the rest of us with our confounding questions. Is this better than an "Exotica Encyclopeadia" or what? I'm sure you can add more reasons why these kinds of lists are useful. Yes, they can seem to be bravado and show-offy...but only if one or two people do it. My sense is that there are many people who have finds that we would all enjoy hearing about... the more the merrier. I may become envious of some (like the one person who ran into a sale in Texas of warehoused mint recordings), but that envy only pushes me onward toward my little pots of gold... and I enjoy the push. Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Score lists don't bug *me*, how about youse? Date: 17 Mar 1997 23:18:45 -0500 (EST) I don't mind reading about others' good fortune, unless they are so unbelievably fortunate that they make me ill. You know who you are. Now stop it! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Music for Better Living playlist Date: 17 Mar 1997 23:08:31 -0500 *** 3/16/97 *** Soul Bossa Nova -- QUINCY JONES (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.2) Bachelor in Paradise -- THE M-G-M STUDIO ORCHESTRA & CHORUS (v/a - Bachelor in Paradise Hey, Pretty Pussycat -- DOC SEVERINSEN, HIS TRUMPET & ORCHESTRA (High-Wide & Wonderful) Under Paris Skies -- IRV COTTLER (Around the World in Percussion) La Vie En Rose -- LEO ADDEO, HIS ORCHESTRA & CHORUS (Far Away Places) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- THE MALLET MEN (v/a - Rhapsodesia) Moonlight Becomes You -- WERNER MULLER & HIS ORCHESTRA (Percussion in the Sky) Midnight Sun -- CAL TJADER'S MODERN MAMBO QUINTET (Mambo with Tjader) Eu Nao Tenho Onde Morar -- WALTER WANDERLEY (Brazilian Organ) Love Goddess from Venus -- THE VENTURES ((The) Ventures in Space) Wheels -- CHET ATKINS (Travelin') Experiment in Terror -- AL CAIOLA (The Best of) The Enchanted Sea -- THE EXOTIC GUITARS (All-Time Guitar Hits) Kookie's Mad Pad -- EDD BYRNES (v/a - The Beat Generation) Hellraiser -- COMBUSTIBLE EDISON (Short Double Latte - 7") Sewer Lady -- NEAL HEFTI (Batman Theme) Light My Fire -- ENOCH LIGHT & THE GLITTERING GUITARS (s/t) Goldfinger -- MARTY GOLD & HIS ORCHESTRA (Something Special for Movie Lovers) Jungle Montuno -- LES BAXTER & 101 STRINGS (Que Mango!) Quiet Village -- LES BAXTER & HIS ORCHESTRA (Ritual of the Savage) Shiek of Araby -- LEO ADDEO & HIS ORCHESTRA (More Hawaii in Hi-Fi) Black Orchid -- MARTIN DENNY (Golden Greats) Girl from Ipanema -- LIVING JAZZ (The Girl from Ipanema and Other Hits) It's Magic -- JONATHAN & DARLENE EDWARDS (The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards) You and the Night and the Music -- LOS ADMIRADORES (Bongos) Git Git Git Guitar -- SKIP MARTIN (Perspectives in Percussion Vol.2) More -- DUANE EDDY (Twangin' the Golden Hits) Sippin' and Chippin' -- THE T-BONES (No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)) Roses/(Remember Me) I'm the One Who Loves You/I'm Movin' On/Tennessee Saturday Night -- THE THREE SUNS (Country Music Shindig) Without a Song -- EARL GRANT (Just for a Thrill) Mini Skirt -- ESQUIVEL (Cabaret Manana) Melody No.2 -- RICHARD HAYMAN (The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine) ----- Music for Better Living -- Sundays 6-8pm WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 17 Mar 1997 21:21:42 -0800 nbccw20 wrote: > > I'm looking for any hints you guys can give on collecting exotic music. > >From what I know yard/garage sales and thrift stores are possible > sources. Well, they aren't around where I live unfortunately. Any > other suggestions? $$$ - where do you live? if you are in the "hills", you can still get exotic music. mail order! many collectors are either on this list or have web sites. whip out your plastic and never leave your chair! record collecting is still quite affordable. 50 bucks for an LP? compare that to a 1964 GI joe - easily upwards of $200. or a Corgi Black Beauty - same thing...how bout a comic book? $$ - used record stores - i've done OK with these, particularly the types that are general in nature and are not specialty stores. the tend to underprice and condtion is often near mint. $ - garage sales and thrift stores in the san francisco bay area tend to suck. the same old, tired crap - eddie money and air supply. no selection, and the condition is beat to death. forget it. based on my thrift store experience, i find it hard to beleive how people walk out of stores with armloads of highly desirable, mint condition LP's for 50 cents each. our goodwills charge two bucks. must be a region specific thang! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) Uma as Emma? Date: 18 Mar 1997 02:00:45 -0500 Here comes the Saint to the big screen! The snippet from the revamped theme in the ads isn't bad... Wonder when Man From UNCLE is due. I noticed a rerelease of the soundtrack on cd is approaching. And according to usenet chatter, Uma Thurman is to be the next Mrs. Peel in an upcoming Avengers remake! (Intriguing, but even the best of the Thornson and Blackman episodes don't hold a candle to those featuring Diana Rigg - she's nearly impossible to follow imo). Caught a brief few moments of that new Spy Game show on tv - music's very disappointing... should've gotten Rugolo to do it (or a surf band)! kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) Soundtrack Advice Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:46:00 +0000 Can anyone tell me whether the following soundtracks are any good? I saw them reasonably cheaply but didn't know whether to bother getting them: The Sting II - Lalo Schifrin The Great Races (?) - Henry Mancini Thanks Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ariel Tagar Subject: (exotica) where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 13:51:36 +0300 >Living in a place without garage sales and thrift stores is living in > hell. If I were you, I'd pack up and move elsewhere like pronto! i guess that goes for me too, i had to dig in smelly boxes in this awful store that selles clothes to poor and old people. found some nice thing actually... ariel the EASY PAGE (easy listenning and longecore culture) http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076 Ariel Tagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Joseph O. Holmes" Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #177 Date: 18 Mar 1997 11:10:48 -0000 >>Will someone please tell me where there is a scan of this top 5 Moog >>classic lp >> >>Richard Hayman-Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine Jack, I've had one up for more than a year! Full screen, front & back covers, no less. -=-Joe # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Thrifting and Astromen Date: 18 Mar 1997 12:57:30 -0500 (EST) I visit thrift stores frequently and turn up nothing. If I do turn up something even remotely interesting, the sleeve is usually completely split on two sides and the disc was run over with a roto-tiller. I'm sure there are thrift stores out there that get steady streams of decent vinyl, but not around here (Philadelphia). I have a feeling that the burbs turn up vinyl in better condition at thrift stores. Hey out there: anyone have suggestions for Man-Or-Astroman? LPs? Saw them live months ago and wanted to score some MOAM? action. I prefer their music with vocals... their instrumentals were a bit tedious after a while. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 10:50:27 -0500 in re: kimbo@wenet.net, take on SF >$ - garage sales and thrift stores in the san francisco bay area tend to >suck. the same >old, tired crap - eddie money and air supply. no selection, and the >condition is beat >to death. forget it. based on my thrift store experience, i find it hard >to beleive >how people walk out of stores with armloads of highly desirable, mint >condition LP's for >50 cents each. our goodwills charge two bucks. must be a region specific >thang! > as someone who lived in San Francisco for 17 years and shopped every record outlet imaginable from the collector stores to the garage sales and every Salvation Army and Good Will from Sonoma to Santa Cruz, please know that San Francisco does * not * possess a "region specific" thing (thang ). The theory goes like this: When you are closer to a metropolitan area, you are closer to "hipsters" and to record buyers. The market in these places typically charges more than the market, say, in rural middle America. It is rare that you find 50 cent gems within or near San Francisco, New York, even Chicago and Detroit. But isn't it great to find those sealed old stock Esquivels for a nickel in Salvation Armys in Tuscaloosa, Iowa? Just kidding on the price quote, but I think you know what I am saying. One of the reasons that you find "the same old crap" in the San Francisco thrift shops is because you are not the only one searching for exotica/lounge records. In fact, the competition for ANY vinyl in the Bay Area is fierce. Also, the reason that " people walk out of stores with armloads of highly desirable, mint condition LP's for 50 cents each" basically is that they beat you to it. There *are* gems out there, it's just that there are fewer gems to be had when the gem seekers outnumber the gems, you dig? I know people that go to * every * Goodwill and Salvation Army in San Francisco * every * single day ( the question arises of when they work ). Sooooo....there are those out there who have been gaming this way longer than you and they have the skills to clean out "your" stock. I remember in the eighties when sixties vintage clothes had not reached the hip status that they now have, I could go to Good Wills and Salvation Armys all over San Francisco and pick up the craziest sixties clothes for dimes on the dollar. As the years progressed, more people became into that culture and the prices rose and rose and rose. However, trips to Gilroy and Modesto would yield crazy crazy loads! I would pick up two tone ,green to silver, Italian (!) sharkskin suits for 5 bucks! So the lesson, unfortunately comes down to the dollar: supply and demand. San Francisco does not necessarily have the worst thrift shops in the country. There's just a lot more competition. Believe me, SF is a GOLDMINE compared to Manhattan prices and supply. ># Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? ># Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. ># Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Retail Sales Manager Asphodel Records, NYC phone # (212) 965-0265, FAX # (212) 965-0959 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Abbe Lane Date: 18 Mar 1997 12:27:46 -0500 At 03:24 PM 3/17/97 -0800, you wrote: > > Could you let me know if the Abbe Lane album "When There's A Man" is a > worthwhile CD to pick up AND does Cugat play on that album? > > It is pictured and for sale at: > http://www.footlight.com/newvocals.shtml Cugat sings on the last track, a cute novelty duet. Otherwise it's Lane and Sid Ramin. I love everything Abbe Lane ever did (but that might be just a crush). This LP and other Abbe Lane LPs are available via http://www.charm.net/~wilds/WSounds/atomic.html#Torch Singers (Women) tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: Re: (exotica) Uma as Emma? Date: 18 Mar 1997 12:33:23 -0500 At 02:00 AM 18/03/1997 -0500, you wrote: >Here comes the Saint to the big screen! The snippet from the >revamped theme in the ads isn't bad... Wonder when Man From UNCLE >is due. I noticed a rerelease of the soundtrack on cd is >approaching. And according to usenet chatter, Uma Thurman is to be >the next Mrs. Peel in an upcoming Avengers remake! This I can see.. Uma might be able to pull off Emma.. I heard that it might be Mel Gibson as Steed... I dunno.. Thinking someone less likely but more thematicly "like him" like Kevin Spacey might be more appropriate... I mean, who'd look better in a bowler? Backto records!! Joey Jojo in Toronto (416)535-4765 I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. -- Abe Simpson : "Homerpalooza" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: david.trezza@etak.com (David Trezza) Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 09:38:22 -0800 (PST) This talk of a lack of interesting stock in thrift stores brings up the next topic. What is the extent of thrift store corruption in your areas. I'm also in the SF Bay area, and here's a familiar situation. You see a new box of donated vinyl in the back room, you ask a salesperson if you can take a look, sometimes they let you, but sometimes I get, "Oh, there's a guy coming to look at them first." I've known people who have donation trucks under their "payroll" (which can be as little as a 6-pack of cheap beer a week) and they receive calls from the attendents whenever a load of vinyl arrives. Then there are those who donate a minimal amount of time to a thrift shop so they can have 1st crack at donations. Is this common everywhere? Hey, if it works, it works, but I usually keep it fair. Usually. But I guess all's fair in love and vinyl hunting. Dago # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:52:27 -0500 (EST) > brings up the next topic. What is the extent of thrift store > corruption in your areas. I'm also in the SF Bay area, and > here's a familiar situation. You see a new box of donated > vinyl in the back room, you ask a salesperson if you can take > a look, sometimes they let you, but sometimes I get, "Oh, there's > a guy coming to look at them first." I've known people who have > donation trucks under their "payroll" (which can be as little as > a 6-pack of cheap beer a week) and they receive calls from the > attendents whenever a load of vinyl arrives. Then there are those > who donate a minimal amount of time to a thrift shop so they can > have 1st crack at donations. I have a feeling that this is what's happening in the Philadelphia thrifts... It seems that everything (clothes, records, etc.) is picked to the bone 99.9% of the time, as if someone is filtering it before it hits the racks. I bet half of the stuff I see in antique/record stores here is stuff that was filtered out of thrifts. Don't think that the managers don't know what the stuff is worth, either. There's a couple thrifts that I go to that have 'collectable' stuff (plates, banks, etc.) that they mark up to $50 - $100 per. I bet that they are searching out antique/record stores and outright selling it to them. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 13:44:20 -0500 I've always been fascinated by the question of whether thrifts let people go in and pick through stuff before it is put off. This must be the case with clothing in most thrifts around here, and I'm curious as to whether it happens with records. Probably not, since the thrifts in cities like Ottawa, Hamilton and here in Montreal still occasionally put out genuine gems. Pickings are getting a little slimmer in Montreal, but it remains the best place for second-hand records I've ever seen. As our economy goes down the tube, there are more garage and yard sales in the spring and summer than ever before, and pawn shops are springing up as fast as Starbucks outlets. And, until recently, we had a chain of second hand vinyl warehouses on a scale I'd never seen anywhere before, though many of those are closing or being combined. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/ http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Co-Editor, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Los Indios Tabajara/Dick Schory Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:48:38 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/15/97 3:52:41 PM, you wrote: <> Well, it could also go in the rock and roll oldies section as Los Indios Tabajaras had a one hit wonder in the top 10 of Billboard with "Maria Elena" in November of 1963. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Colorifics Wednesday 19 Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:25:31 -0500 (EST) at Cafe Du Nord 2170 Market Street near Sanchez San Francisco These guys have saturated the city with 5 live shows so far in the past two weeks and still not worn out their welcome with catchy loungey guitar riffs and a stunnig Astrid Gilberto-style singer how can they lose? Otto of Tiki News will dj before and after sets til 1:30 am see you there! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Trick Velour, TV Eye" Subject: (exotica) Man or Astroman/Bomboras Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:01:41 -0500 Paul Lewis wrote: > Hey out there: anyone have suggestions for Man-Or-Astroman? LPs? Saw > them live months ago and wanted to score some MOAM? action. I prefer > their music with vocals... their instrumentals were a bit tedious >after a while. Any MoAM album you pick up is as good as any other. No slight implied by that, I just mean that if you like one MoAM you'll like 'em all! I do, so does my dog. But for the real-est of the *REAL* deals, get hip to The Bomboras. I thought that their SAVAGE ISLAND CD was the be all end all, that is until I discovered the awesome booty shakin' power of SWINGIN' SINGLES (both on Dionysus), which kicks out the jams like a 300 pound Samoan rodeo clown riding a dirtbike through a burning whorehouse on PCP. Hold 'da onions, Trick Velour # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Back from Florida! Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:03:20 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/17/97 9:37:40 AM, you wrote: <> I, for one, love to read about other people's finds. Please don't stop posting what you pick up at garage sales. This last Friday I found a sampler that includes "The Blues" from Henry Mancini's "The Blues and The Beat". I finally was able to see what the cover looks like. I also found two Henry Mancini albums: "Christmas With" (one side has Eddy Arnold) and Henry Mancini's "Sousa's Greatest Marches", which I'm a little afraid to play. Anyone heard it? Also an albums by The Harmonica Rascals, with what looks like a midget on the cover. Also a couple of 78's by Julia Lee and her Boy Friends. Never heard of them, have you? Also found sheet music with the following pic covers: Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa, "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" as record by Martin Denny, "Unchained" (a movie) with Barbara Hale on the cover (wasn't she the secretary in the Perry Mason series? "The Third Man Theme with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton on the cover, Eddie Fisher "Oh! My Pa-Pa", Guy Mitchell "My Truly, Truly Fair, and Jo Stafford doing "Shrimp Boats". Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge collection Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:11:08 -0500 (EST) I think that "organs in orbit" is fabulous and I like "Mondo Exotica" as well. Was disappointed in the "Saxophobia" collection. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:16:29 -0500 (EST) I live in Brooklyn. Last summer I repeated the following scene many times: I show up at a stoop sale before it is scheduled to start. Most items are out . I ask, "where are the records you advertised?" They say, "oh we just sold all of them to someone". After the 5th or 6th time I decided to stop getting up early to go to sales. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra-Lounge collection Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:11:19 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/17/97 12:30:46 PM, you wrote: <> I'd have to second this opinion, although I think Mondo Exotica is pretty good. But Bachelor Pad Royale, Space Capades and Wild, Cool and Swinging are the best. I also like Saxophobia a lot. Hell, I like them all. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: slogging through mold Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:18:43 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/17/97 4:55:50 PM, you wrote: <<"What is the most revolting color of mold you have ever found on a record?">> Also, the most revolting smell? It's got to be moisture. Man, get a bunch of records or magazines that have been down in the basement for years is NOT pleasant. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) KUSF-FM Rekkid Swap Date: 17 Mar 1997 23:34:41 -0800 This Sunday at McLaren Hall at the Univ of SF off of Golden Gate Ave in San Francisco (duh) the KUSF Record Swap will be a happ'nin thang from (I believe) 10AM - ??? I'll be there sellin' records. Right next to Mickey McGowan He looks like a total beatnik in medium blue overalls and a beret, black framed glasses and I look exactly like Esquivel from 1958, swear to god. We're against the windows across from where you 1st walk in. I think it's 2 bucks at the door. Stop by and say hi, i'll be ready to deal;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the_curator Subject: (exotica) Other Worlds Other Sounds presents: 'Nancy Sinatra, mutilated by Chinese Warrior' Night Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:11:30 +0100 Unless you have a note from above, Thursday night has to be Other Worlds Other Sounds Night. Misterogers Twins invite YOU and YOU and YOU (and YOU, don't think we didn't notice you there, behind that box) to take another ricketty trip into the unknown with ***************************** * Other Worlds Other Sounds * ***************************** at the Tea Rooms des Artistes, 697 Wandsworth Rd (where it crosses North St, near Clapham Common tube and Wandsworth Rd BR ) We'll be playing our subnormal selection of Exotica, Erotica, Eazotica and Esoterica. 20th March is 'Nancy Sinatra, mutilated by Chinese Warrior' Night . It's free to get in, it's very mellow and it starts about 9 and you won't be asked to go back to the real world until 12 or 12.30. Don't forget: "We like you and we've got the feeling that you like us too." We're waiting for you... The Misterogers Twins. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Back from Florida! Date: 18 Mar 1997 02:56:48 -0800 Stilgloria@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/17/97 9:37:40 AM, you wrote: > > <> > > I, for one, love to read about other people's finds. As do I, but I haven't been thrifting much lately and have not had a chance to do any gloating. Until today, that is! For $1.00 I bought an *autographed* copy of "Surely Goodness And Mercy" by Merrill Womach (the gospel singer who got his head torched in a plane crash and then proceeded to use his disfigurement to his advantage with several quite tasteless shock-value album covers). The cover of this one is just as good as the cover for "Happy Again," which Jello Biafra discussed in ISM V. 2. He's standing there looking quite proud in front of his whole in-bred looking family in their living room, I think. Very nice. Nice teaser covers on the back, too. Out of curiosity I looked him up on the net and found that he still runs his record company in Spokane. Gotta contact them about gettin' that documentary video of his... could be better than the Evel Kenievel documentary! pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 19 Mar 1997 05:52:56 -0800 Peter Becker wrote: > > There *are* gems out there, it's just that there are fewer > gems to be had when the gem seekers outnumber the gems, you dig? I know > people that go to * every * Goodwill and Salvation Army in San Francisco * > every * single day ( the question arises of when they work ). Actually, that's their job. No kidding. They're freelance sharks who either work on a commission from a dealer or just work off the resale profit. You won't find them in every town--just the major cities. But ever wonder why you never see, say, a Beatles record in a thrift? Do you think no one ever donates them? Of course not--but they get scooped up before you, probably before they even hit the shelves, since these folks also pay off thrift employees for spotting obvious gems. One of the big reasons you can find any good exotica albums in thrifts still is because a lot of dealers just haven't realized it's saleable now. So the sharks just flip past them. You can find good stuff in thrifts, but the key is to check them often. I try to stop at a couple in my area at least once every two weeks. Sometimes you'd swear the stock hasn't even been touched since the last visit. But then there was the time I stopped in for two minutes while racing somewhere and found the Three Suns' Stereo Action LP, "Movin' and Groovin'". There are no guarantees, but persistent tends to pay off. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@explorer.csc.com Subject: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 19 Mar 1997 08:11:08 -0500 The other day I was poking around a used cd shop and heard someone trying to special order a Desi Arnaz disc: I assume this is the "Baba-lou" business he showcased on "I Love Lucy."... Has anyone seen/heard this recording? How stands it within the context of exotica? - Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting and Astromen (fwd) Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:21:44 -0500 (EST) This message was sent to me but was intended for the list so I'm forwarding a copy... Paul >>>Hey out there: anyone have suggestions for Man-Or-Astroman? LPs? Saw them live months ago and wanted to score some MOAM? action. I prefer their music with vocals... their instrumentals were a bit tedious after a while.<<<< Man or Astroman is on Estrus Records PO Box 2125 Bellingham, WA 98227 You can write to Estrus for a free catalog. They have vinyl and CDs and a number of groups/artists in the Surf/Pop genre. Probably the best Man or Astroman recording is "Is It...Man or Astroman?" which was released in 1993. They are from Auburn, Alabama originally, but I don't know where they are currently. If you like Astroman you may well like Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet. I believe that they are on Estrus also........also MonoMen.........and Phantom Surfers.........hope you locate what you want and enjoy it all. A NOTE -- this is my first posting to this group. Am I doing it right? Will the information go out to everyone on the list? Is it supposed to? I'm thoroughly confused! AND A QUESTION -- when was the Esquire article printed that everyone's been discussing? Would like to read it. Thanks. Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:27:20 -0500 (EST) > You > won't find them in every town--just the major cities. But ever wonder > why > you never see, say, a Beatles record in a thrift? Do you think no one > ever > donates them? Of course not--but they get scooped up before you, > probably > before they even hit the shelves, since these folks also pay off thrift > employees for spotting obvious gems. Another telling sign is the fact that I've never seen a KISS record in a large thrift store. Every damn kid in America had those LPs in the 70's... there should be tons of them in thrift stores. It's amazing how picked-through the LPs are in thrift stores. I don't even bother anymore. I'd rather pay $20 - $40 for a primo copy of something than spend hours a week in dirty stacks with the only reward being a rat chewed copy of Strings Aflame. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: slogging through mold Date: 19 Mar 1997 08:53:25 -0800 > <<"What is the most revolting color of > mold you have ever found on a record?">> > > Also, the most revolting smell? It's got to be moisture. Man, get a bunch of > records or magazines that have been down in the basement for years is NOT > pleasant. > Gloria Funny this topic should come up. Last night, a good friend was showing me the "spoils" of an estate sale he went to. He pulls out a tattered but still fairly good condition copy if the Sex Pistol JockBox 1 multi album set (I know its off topic, but bear with me) opened it to a deluge of roach feces. Now, that's gross. still vaccuuming, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: slogging through mold Date: 19 Mar 1997 09:54:20 -0500 I have an even worse story . . . I once bought a bag of roach feces and opened it up to find a Phil Collins album. (Stupid, immature joke.) Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/ http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Co-Editor, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 19 Mar 1997 09:36:21 -0500 The other day I was poking around a used cd shop and heard someone trying to special order a Desi Arnaz disc: I assume this is the "Baba-lou" business he showcased on "I Love Lucy."... Has anyone seen/heard this recording? How stands it within the context of exotica? I have the Desi disk that came out in Fall last year on BMG! I love it and think it's really cool...most of the tracks were recorded before he hit it big on TV...Cuban Pete swings! Desi holds the distinction of being the the first popular latin artist to successfully introduce the conga drum to American audiences...he had conga lines runnin around NYC clubs in the early/mid 40's.... Although much of the material is pretty much straight forward Cuban/latin/US pop...I think it definately fits into the exotica mode... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 19 Mar 1997 09:04:39 -0800 > I'd rather pay $20 - $40 for a primo copy of something than > spend hours a week in dirty stacks with the only reward being a rat chewed > copy of Strings Aflame. > Man, I disagree. I got into this whole thing from thrifting and garage saleing. The hunt is the thrill. A slightly warped copy of something that I waded through a mile of flotsam in an un-aironditioned warehouse and bought for a dime is much more rewarding to a CD copy of the same record bought at the mall. But that's me. awash in flotsam, alex . -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Happy to be wrong. Date: 19 Mar 1997 11:07:14 -0400 Aha! I knew there was a Kenyon Hopkins-Marlon Brando connection...but it's for aneither BETTER film: THE FUGITIVE KIND! Now, is *this* soundtrack hard to find? BTW-anyone from VARESE SARABANDE(sp?) on this list? It's time ya'll(or someone) re-release A LOT of my man Kenyon. Love, Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Happy to be wrong. Date: 19 Mar 1997 11:13:27 -0500 Are "Panic", "Shock" and the other Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra albums available on CD? Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/ http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Co-Editor, Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: Re: (exotica) KUSF-FM Rekkid Swap Date: 19 Mar 1997 06:21:57 -0800 Jack Diamond wrote: >.....and I look exactly like Esquivel from 1958, swear to god. he REALLY does poccess a strong resemblance to the maestro, with a little Kramer (Seinfeld) thrown in (similar hair and height). that's it...if Esquivel and Kramer had a baby - not that they would, but if they did - it would be Jack!!! i dropped by his house of games the other day - records, records, everywhere. all kinds of beautiful photographs (BIG) of classic records matted and framed. Extremely cool fifties fabrics hanging on the walls, along with lamps, chairs and various other artifacts from the era. bongos, congas, and other exotic carvings. he played Tortura for me - the whole record is about a man being beaten and whipped by masked women in high heels. Was very excited about playing it on his show the next day. did you hear it? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark koldys Subject: (exotica) Lots of LPs for Sale! Date: 19 Mar 1997 12:04:34 -0000 I'm cleaning out a lot of my LPs, and they are eager to find new homes. Over 100 titles, all stereo, with lots of percussion, Enoch Light, Dick Schory, and almost every RCA "Stereo Action" record--including a "lost" Stereo Action LP, never released in stores and not issued as part of the series. Best of all, there is no confiscatory "collector's" pricing: nothing is more expensive than $10, and many items are just $5. (But there's a catch.) The list is too long to post here, so I've made it into a web page: www.rust.net/~mkoldys Pay us a visit. Even if you don't want to buy, maybe you'll find the listings and comments on the LPs interesting. mkoldys@rust.net "Only very foolish mouse make nest in cat's ear." -- Charlie Chan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: Re: (exotica) Happy to be wrong. Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:08:33 -0700 (MST) > Are "Panic", "Shock" and the other Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra > albums available on CD? Shock, Nightmare, and selected tracks from Panic were issued as one of those exotica bootlegs that surfaced in late '95. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: slogging through mold Date: 19 Mar 1997 12:39:58 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/19/97 8:09:24 AM, you wrote: <> So far, you're the winner. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting and Astromen (fwd) Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:53:14 -0700 (MST) > AND A QUESTION -- when was the Esquire article printed that everyone's been > discussing? Would like to read it. Thanks. It's in the issue cover-dated April 1997, on the stands now. Trust me, you won't be able to miss it. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Thriftin' and Sharkin' Date: 19 Mar 1997 11:20:31 -0700 (MST) Okay, I have to admit to it -- I'm one of the folks who has, from time to time, had access to things before they go on sale to the general public . . . and yes, I've picked out the "good stuff". A friend of mine used to work for a local sales-and-auctions joint, and among the few perks of the job was that a) on auctions, he (we) got to go through boxes before they were previewed so we could plan on what to bid on (note: we did NOT shuffle records around to create a "special" box!) and b) he (we) got first crack at any of the stuff that was just going out as set sale. Do I think it's "wrong" to do this? Well . . . I don't like it when someone *else* gets to, but if it's me, I somehow manage to justify it. :-) This friend and his wife now spend every Saturday AM sharking the garage sales for books, which they turn around to the local used bookstores for credit on books they have a more direct interest in. It's not putting money in their pockets, but it's saving them quite a bit of cash on their collecting habit. The secret here (and it applies to records as well as it does to books) isn't being the early bird, it's being pleasant and polite. They've been doing this for long enough that they know most of the pro dealers who work this circuit, and most of them are -- to be frank -- snotty, sullen assholes. I was along at one sale when simply because she was polite and friendly, my friend Patricia got invited into the house to cherry-pick a collection of good-to-excellent condition Southwestern hardcovers that dated back to the 1940s, at a dollar a book. This was at one in the afternoon -- I guarantee you that the asshole dealers had been there (the sale had advertised books on the paper) but because they're snotty, sullen assholes, all they ever saw was the bags of paperbacks out on the driveway. One more thing along these lines: the "big" local new-and-used-mystery bookshop closed its doors last week, and I really love the way the owner did it: she sold off all the used paperbacks at $1/two shopping bags and all the used hardcovers at $1/book -- ALL of them, including signed firsts -- and she DIDN'T PUBLICIZE THE SALE . . . so the people reaping the benefits of the sale were her *regular customers*, not a bunch of sharks who read about it in the paper. Very classy. And I got some Vintage Crime trade paper on the cheap, so I ain't complaining! -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) The pro's and cons of bootlegs Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:10:29 -0800 >> Are "Panic", "Shock" and the other Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra >> albums available on CD? >Shock, Nightmare, and selected tracks from Panic were issued as one >of those exotica bootlegs that surfaced in late '95. For the record, "Shock" and "Panic" were going to be released through Varese Sarabande because a Big Wig over there really loves Hopkins records. Because of the bootlegs that came out, people settled for a few pops and crackles and plunked down the original $20.00 price for a CD that was not half bad. The Big Wig got discouraged that the bootlegs stole any heat that may have occured if so many people in the key cities (NY, LA, SF) didn't already have them. The reissue would have sounded great and been a labour of love, but alas, the bootleg killed it. The bootlegs are a godsend and at the same time, a curse. The Esquivel bootleg for instance would be a prime example of what RCA would NOT ever release. So, it's a good thing someone had the balls to give me a two-fer CD of those elusive albums but it's a bad thing that for all the bootlegs that were sold (8,000 to 10,000), they were never recorded in legit tracking systems that would allow record companies to see how popular they were, thus paving the way for legit SABP releases. Right or wrong, I own every single bootleg that put out, so I personally would like to thank him ... AND then tell him to go @%*$ off! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: New Crime Jazz Compilation Date: 19 Mar 1997 14:22:57 -0500 (EST) Hey Exoticasticians--I have the privilege of being contracted to produce liner notes for an up and coming Crime Jazz double CD pack slated for May release from a respected record company.. I thought I'd reach out for commentary on the tracks and put YOU and EXOTICA DIGEST on the map (or at least on the inner notes of an obscure compilation)! I have a track listing. Anyone who would like to try some commentary is welcome to E-Mail me. In particular, those with some musical credentials, radio programs, or pure knowledgeable passion---Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Life is tough, ain't it ? Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:06:16 -0800 Anyone who is willing to get the good stuf also must be willing to go through hell for it. I've crawled on my stomach through asbestos ceilinged basments with a gas mask on and a flashlight strapped to my forhead to get the good shit Scored my 1st copy of Astro Sounds by driving 350 miles to get to a record swap that "starts" at 3AM, sat on the cold cold ground and looked though hundreds of boxes of JUNK and found it, never giving up and I found the fucker It's on my KFJC web site at www.kfjc.org/diamond Also used to get up at 5AM on a Saturday morning after i mapped out 30 or so garage/estate sales the night before for 4 hours MANY MANY times I did that I get very excited and very happy and thankful for 1 great record Just 1, I'm not greedy. So go through hell if you have to kids;) Or at least pay someone else to go through hell for you...LIKE ME!!! You're going to have to pay me for it, of course ;)) Because my time is precious Want to be on my e-mail mailing list for the killin'est vinyl you NEVER heard of or will ever see in your life time that are clean and wonderful ??? You will NEVER find Jimmie Haskel's Countdown. Mono OR stereo Just sold a mint-/mint-/stereo. Cleaner than my own copy;)) That's OK, I'll live;) I have both the Mono and Stereo copy and to be honest, the mix on the Mono is better;) It was released borderline mono/stereo era and when they went back to do the stereo mix they changed it, it doesn't sound as good The mono is MUCH more up front in your face with all the outer space noises and that guitar!!! You can see that too on my KFJC web page Or I guess you can spend your precious time finding nothing, and then when you do find something for a buck or less, I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for you to convince yourself that you only paid a buck, Know what I mean ? Stop the fantasy and start listening to alot of really great music and enrich your lives with the album cover art AND liner notes while your listening to the vinyl;) Most of the people on my list do have much better things to do with their time than waste it getting dirty and getting nothing and I mean nothing in return Please e-mail me direct if you would like to be on my e-amil mailing list for extrordianary vinyl treasures ingenrs; Space Age Pop, Exotica, Moog/Electronic/Music Concrete/Whistling, TV and Film Soundtracks including Private Eye Jazz, Guitar Instrumentals, Beatnik Poetry, Female Pop/Pop Jazz Vocals, Cheesecake/Nude album cover art and soooooooo much more! Jack Diamond # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) 350 miles in 9/10 of a second for 101 Strings! Date: 19 Mar 1997 19:05:07 -0500 That's over 3 miles to the string. Diamond, your dedication to the cause is unequalled. But I'll stick to the comfort of my easy chair, from which I bought today: * Sun Ra: Bad & Beautiful * Les Baxter: Barbarian (again, which means selling my first one soon) * Les Baxter: Bora Bora * some by that Esquivel guy * plus a couple others * made offers on still more (haggling is traditional here in the buyers' market) Did I pay more than $10 for any? Except for Bora Bora (stereo promo -- tired of missing it in record auctions), no. Did I move a muscle? No. Are all in excellent-to-sealed shape? Supposedly. Stereo? You bet. Would I trade any of these for a 101 Strings record (even Astro Sounds in the Year 2000)? Not on your life. For those who hate reading "scores," sorry. I've long since taken myself out of the ring. But if Jack's gonna brag, well, this was just a typical day of NOT getting dirty knees... Diversify your sources and buy from strength. [Jack does have some great space stuff.] "Shop early, and avoid panic buying," as Negativland tells us. "Clean knees, clean records" tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 19 Mar 1997 20:06:47 -0800 Just wanted to put in a plug for Warren Kime's Brass Impact albums on Command. They feature a great tight blend of brass and high female vocal affects, a little like Ray Conniff at his more extreme (ala his "You Make Me Feel So Young" LP) or Esquivel. Best cover of "Mr. Lucky" you'll ever hear. Rates up there with Command's best. Easy to spot in the junk piles--they're the shiny metallic yellow gatefolds. Once you've scraped off the mold and rat feces. Brad Bigelow bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 19 Mar 1997 18:19:55 -0800 (PST) At 08:11 AM 3/19/97 -0500, Frank wrote: >The other day I was poking around a used cd shop and heard someone >trying to special order a Desi Arnaz disc: I assume this is the >"Baba-lou" business he showcased on "I Love Lucy."... Has anyone >seen/heard this recording? How stands it within the context of exotica? Frank, BMG released a Desi Arnez disc not too long ago (1996) and its pretty good. I ran it on "The Mr. Smooth Hour." However, I was not wild about it because it was not hi-fi...it was stuff from the 40's and early 50's before the higher frequency range recording techniques became possible. Therefore, the stereo remastered stuff I had just sounded much better in comparison, even though the performances themselves were perfect exotica. The album notes were very well done, much like the RCA bluebird series which this reminds me of. Also, if I remember correctly, this was a full platter...more than 50 minutes of music. There is also a Laserlight CD with an offair broadcast. Half was featuring Chico Marx's band and the other half Desi Arnez...sometime during the early 40's. Its an interesting curiousity, certainly. As usual for Laserlight, the album notes were not particularly good. Also, I don't think this was a full platter like the BMG issue. However, the lower prices of Laserlight make the lack of niceties still worth it. Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 19 Mar 1997 18:34:47 -0800 Alex cook wrote: > The hunt is the thrill. You hit the nail on the head. I started with the Cugat records in my deceased father-in-law's estate sale, on to thrift stores, garage & estate sales, antique stores, and ultmately used record stores, and record swaps. Because of time and money, the latter two are my favorites, as there's often something decent in the bargain bins. (Paul Horn post-Maharashi, Howard Robert's wacky Antelope Freeway, and Alan Watts last Sat.), or you can blow $5 on Arabesque. Little league screws up early-birding on Saturdays, and I'll miss buying from Jack and Mickey at KUSF's Sunday swap because of my kid's birthday party. Someday I'll order over the net, but i still like and need the visual and tactile sensation of flipping through the boxes and the understock. (The record fever permeating the KUSF swaps is indescribable.) Check Goldmine for the ones in your town.) I still occasionally hit a thrift hoping for serendipity, and found Sarod player Vasant Rai's "Spring Flower" for a quarter last week - he was backed by everybody in Oregon except Ralph Towner - and Ive been meaning to say that Oregon was doing fine hippie exotica back in the 70's, and very seldom get a mention on this list. Sitar, oboe, tabla, etc. Off my soapbox now, everybody just look everywhere, try a bit of everything, and discover what you like. There's too much music to have it all ! Remember the fabulous Tubes' 80's anthem "I Want It All Now" ? You ain't never gonna get it, but you can try. And if you get too demented like me you'll never have time to listen to everything until after the divorce. But when I complete my Jackie Gleason collection, what next ? Apologetically long-winded Jim G - and newbies go to Lazlos esotica list archives for tons of ancient history ! I have previously ranted on this topic. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:19:44 -0500 (EST) I don't want to diminish the 'thrill of the hunt' since I search for other things besides records (namely clothes) at thrift stores/flea markets/etc., but records are not a strong point at thrift stores in large cities for previously mentioned reasons. I much prefer garage sales and estate sales for records. Record shows seem to be a dying breed, though. You'd think that a city like Philadelphia with such a great musical history would have frequent record shows, but it just doesn't happen. NYC is another story however... I really wish I could have gone to the WFMU show a few months ago. pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) Space-Age Lounge Sale! Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:55:48 -0600 > > If anybody is interested I have a list of "Space-Age " Lounge Records for sale > "CHEAP!! > Just e-mail me personally and I will send the list to you. Also for those of > you that are "NEW" to this list I still have a few copies of my "Illustrated > Discography Of Les Baxter". > It contains over 70 releases including all known soundtracks and over 50 > illustrations. > It even has a color Tiki sporting the cover. This has been professionally > bound and is a very private pressing. It can be had for $10 postage paid. I would love to buy this. Let me know the particulars. mark55@airmail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) George Chakaris Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:55:27 -0600 > > Not George Maharis--the replacement part in Bud and Link's corvette on Route > 66--but Chakaris--the great Greek hope of MOR 1965 plus or minus..Found an LP > of his thriftying and it had 5 publicity shots including 2 B&W "glossies" and > a color shot of the cleft-chinned waifer suitable for framing. PLUS a killer > weak rendition of Cy Coleman's "Witchcraft" on which Mr. Chakaris warbles > with all the emotion of Pat Boone in a tight shiny suit > George Maharis was not the replacement part- he was one of the originals,the other being Martin Milner. And I think their characters names were Buzz and Todd,respectively. Glenn Corbett was the replacement part. Mr. Know-it-all # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) Re: Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:39:03 -0600 > > Jessica wrote: > > >The original audience for all the types of records discussed on the > list really mystifies me. I've never been able to figure it out. Who > bought these records--and more importantly, why don't they remember > them? < > > I can tell you who bought "Bongos, Flutes and Guitars" (Command label, > Enoch Light production ca. 1959-60) - my sister. She was in high > school and also enamored of The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Broadway > musicals and bought this one because bongos were cool in a > suburban-beatnik kind of way. If this is the same LP I have,it's full name is "Brass,Bongos,Flutes,and Guitars",and it has an orangish cover with some cool period beatnik art of the aforementioned instruments. My parents bought it in 1960, influenced by a family friend their age who was very much into stereo and hi-fi test records. We still keep in touch with him, and this posting just reminded me to see if he still has a collection next time I see him. GREAT LP! The first exotica(if you can call it that)record I ever hoid,and an early Doc Severinsen appearance on vinyl. mark55@airmail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) Re: Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:55:05 -0600 > > Jessica wrote: > > >The original audience for all the types of records discussed on the > list really mystifies me. I've never been able to figure it out. Who > bought these records--and more importantly, why don't they remember > them? < > > I can tell you who bought "Bongos, Flutes and Guitars" (Command label, > Enoch Light production ca. 1959-60) - my sister. She was in high > school and also enamored of The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Broadway > musicals and bought this one because bongos were cool in a > suburban-beatnik kind of way. If this is the same LP I have,it's full name is "Brass,Bongos,Flutes,and Guitars",and it has an orangish cover with some cool period beatnik art of the aforementioned instruments. My parents bought it in 1960, influenced by a family friend their age who was very much into stereo and hi-fi test records. We still keep in touch with him, and this posting just reminded me to see if he still has a collection next time I see him. GREAT LP! The first exotica(if you can call it that)record I ever hoid,and an early Doc Severinsen appearance on vinyl. mark55@airmail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) bongos + film! Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:29:00 -0600 > > At 03:06 PM 3/12/97 -0800, Ursula wrote: > >OK, this is a test. Who can help me make a list of all known movies that > >include BONGO-PLAYING scenes? > > Dennis Wilson looked goofy and played bongos while the other Beach Boys looked goofy and sang "Little Honda" in the 1964 masterpiece GIRLS ON THE BEACH. mark55@airmail.net P.S. Sorry to the owner of this list. I've sent two postings to you as of late instead of to the list. Too much caffeine. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark a welsh Subject: RE:(exotica) Re: Exotica audience: Teen-agers? Date: 18 Mar 1997 00:54:45 -0600 > > Jessica wrote: > > >The original audience for all the types of records discussed on the > list really mystifies me. I've never been able to figure it out. Who > bought these records--and more importantly, why don't they remember > them? < > > I can tell you who bought "Bongos, Flutes and Guitars" (Command label, > Enoch Light production ca. 1959-60) - my sister. She was in high > school and also enamored of The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Broadway > musicals and bought this one because bongos were cool in a > suburban-beatnik kind of way. If this is the same LP I have,it's full name is "Brass,Bongos,Flutes,and Guitars",and it has an orangish cover with some cool period beatnik art of the aforementioned instruments. My parents bought it in 1960, influenced by a family friend their age who was very much into stereo and hi-fi test records. We still keep in touch with him, and this posting just reminded me to see if he still has a collection next time I see him. GREAT LP! The first exotica(if you can call it that)record I ever hoid,and an early Doc Severinsen appearance on vinyl. mark55@airmail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Vernon Stoltz Subject: Re: (exotica) Where to go? Date: 20 Mar 1997 04:18:46 GMT >> brings up the next topic. What is the extent of thrift store >> corruption in your areas. I'm also in the SF Bay area, and >> here's a familiar situation. You see a new box of donated >> vinyl in the back room, you ask a salesperson if you can take >> a look, sometimes they let you, but sometimes I get, "Oh, there's >> a guy coming to look at them first." . . .but let's not immediately assume that "the guy whose coming in" is going to skim the best off the pile. He/She could be someone who actually knows the value of the stuff and will price the records accordingly. I've been in a few thrifts recently that would have their regular pile of the 50 cent common stuff, but also a separate area with the appropriately higher priced collectibles. Although I might not pay the higher price in a private used record store, I will do so at the Salvation Army/Goodwill because 1) its for a good cause and 2) I'll have more respect for the store knowing that they are not giving the best records away in some shady behind the scenes deal. Although I have made some rare finds at the thrifts, I always feel a little guilty, like rather than going around saying "Look what I found for $1 dollar", I should instead be taking the record to the manager and saying "You should be really pricing this much higher" Maybe more of us should volunteer at the thrifts and help them price their records. I would love to read a posting here where someone says "I found this rare mint Esquivel record. . .it's now priced $50 at this certain thrift" alas, I am not at this point of enlightment myself yet. The thrill of owning the records is just a tad too much for me to overcome....but Someday!! (hold hands, fade into chorus. . ."We are the World. . .We are the People") Vern . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vern Stoltz Cannot Become Obsolete PO Box 1232 Lorton, VA 22199-1232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johnston-Reading Subject: (exotica) Working smarter, not harder Date: 19 Mar 1997 21:27:02 -0800 >Okay, I have to admit to it -- I'm one of the folks who has, from time to >time, had access to things before they go on sale to the general public >. . . and yes, I've picked out the "good stuff". Hey, no reason to feel guilty. Most of us would do the same if we were presented with the oppotunity. Me? I'm still waiting... Michael # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:01:12 -0600 >Just wanted to put in a plug for Warren Kime's Brass Impact albums on >Command. They feature a great tight blend of brass and high female >vocal affects, a little like Ray Conniff at his more extreme (ala his >"You Make Me Feel So Young" LP) or Esquivel. Best cover of "Mr. Lucky" >you'll ever hear. > >Rates up there with Command's best. > >Easy to spot in the junk piles--they're the shiny metallic yellow >gatefolds. > >Once you've scraped off the mold and rat feces. > >Brad Bigelow >bbigelow@netrail.net oooh!.... i gotta agree!! I've got vols 1-3 (were there more?) and they are WONDERFUL! I use them all every saturday at Club Velvet. check out the version of "Mais Que Nada" (from vol.1) - first song on my first RealAudio set (http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean) - it fucking rocks!! I guess I'm lucky; mine don't have mold OR rat feces on 'em. - Dean visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:48:52 -0800 clean@bitstream.net wrote: > > >Just wanted to put in a plug for Warren Kime's Brass Impact albums on > >Command. These are a great example of buying a record for the cover and then being pleasantly surprised that the music is just as good! They're still something of an inept Esquivel approximation, but I love them nonetheless- perhaps even more so because of it... pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 20 Mar 1997 08:04:17 -0500 (EST) In addition to the BMG release, the first Dezi Arnez CD (1991) was "Babalu Music" on Columbia which features the songs Arnez sang on the "I Love Lucy" TV show including the theme instrumental. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) I'd rather be licking toads Date: 20 Mar 1997 9:54:32 EST > I'd rather pay $20 - $40 for a primo copy of something than > spend hours a week in dirty stacks with the only reward being > a rat chewed copy of Strings Aflame. For me, the hours are often simply exposure to what is available, and particularly, the real cheap (yet potent) and very dated (style-wise, music and covers) seem to show up more often at thrifts than at used vinyl shops (for good reason). These are public historical documents, as it were. I've also found many records that are near mint, but without covers that are passed over. I wanna hear the music, more than get a mint record, although both would be ideal. Sometimes just covers. (Mary Lou Retton!) But for 50 cents, I'll at least get to listen to, albeit scratchy, some of the music I'm so curious about. It beats jukebox prices. If I do make a real score, I can spend the money saved on something much more worthwhile, like expensive cocktails, or delicious meals. If you've got the money and not the time or patience, I completely understand why you aren't willing to waste your time. But my opportunity-cost is low, and I can find something else at the thrifts (10-dollar GE tube radios for instance) while I'm there. Brad is right. Persistence pays off. I learned that just from the regular used vinyl stores as a teen. You'll eventually be rewarded. As for pre-filtered record bins, yes, I'm familiar. But keep looking at all sorts of different thrifts. If there are used furniture, or even antique or consignment shops around, there is often a carboard box of records there too. They might want to get the thing out from underfoot for a song. Or an instrumental. [My apologies, Jack. d;?) ] El Panquequero Loco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Where to look? Date: 20 Mar 1997 10:19:14 -0500 Somebody mentioned serendipity... That's it! I'll try all kinds of odd stuff for 50c, but when it gets to $2 and on up I need some reassurance that I'll like the disc. I've been going to thrifts and fleas since about 1965, it's just enjoyable for me. Garage/yard sales are definitely the most fun (except the traveling time, which I really _don't_ like) because there's a certain anthropological (read: nosey) thrill too. Un-exotica material ahead: Scored recently in a major downtown Boston thrift: Dave Clark Five Glad All Over w/ portrait cover (it's rare), Wayne Fontana - Game of Love, Herman's Hermits - Frazetta cover album (Title?), Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring (w/picture sleeve) and a dozen Connie Francis 45s w/picture sleeves. Less than $10 for all. I'm also finding good vinyl in those antique supermarket things that are all over the north-east. And check used bookstores, too. Last fall I scored about 30 Gilberto-Jobim-Mendes albums on Verve, CTI etc all *gorgeous* near-mint copies for 75c each, and I love that music so I was all excited and happy about that. The Astrud Gilberto-Walter Wanderly collaboration is especially nice. These were from a used bookstore. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: (exotica) Galt MacDermot and Hair Date: 20 Mar 1997 15:50:36 GMT A while back I picked up a rather nice album, The Music Of Galt MacDermot played by Ken Jones and his orchestra. This is a late 50s Canadian release (can't recall the label) and contains lots of great smooth, swinging numbers. It took me a while to make the connection, but eventually I got it: Galt MacDermot wrote the music for "Hair". Anyone know of any other Galt MacDermot albums, or especially groovy renditions of Hair-pieces? The Chaquito and the Quedo Brass version of "Aquarius" contains some monstrously good, over-the-top honking. I'm still hunting for the elusive "Hair Goes Latin" by Edmundo Ros, although I'm willing to bet that "Ros At The Opera" would give it a close run for its money :) (it has utterly frightening "Cockney" sleevenotes, plus the best damn "Toreador Song from Carmen" I've ever heard, with castanets at such a speed it makes your head whirl). -- Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Frank Lawrence Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Where to look? Date: 20 Mar 1997 11:46:51 -0500 Why not join in. I have found one particular thrift store in my area to be a font of good finds in a variety of genres. Within the last month, I've found the following for .50 apiece: Dave Clark 5 Coast To Coast, Glad All Over; Herman's Hermants: Introducing (two others whose titles escape: one a soundtrack); Don Dailey: Surf Stompin'; Ventures A Go-Go; Al Caiola: Let the Sunshine In (cover looks like something out of a bad STP trip); Soundtrax to Fistfull of Dollars and Born Losers (with Davie Allen on one track); Gus Farney on the Colossal Wurlitzer; Couple of PR/Raiders lps, etc. The uncanny thing is that many of these look as though they've never been handled, let alone played. Frank Scored recently in a major downtown Boston thrift: Dave Clark Five Glad All Over w/ portrait cover (it's rare), Wayne Fontana - Game of Love, Herman's Hermits - Frazetta cover album (Title?), Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring (w/picture sleeve) and a dozen Connie Francis 45s w/picture sleeves. Less than $10 for all. I'm also finding good vinyl in those antique supermarket things that are all over the north-east. for 50c, but when it gets to $2 and on up I need some reassurance that I'll like the disc. I've been going to thrifts and fleas since about 1965, it's just enjoyable for me. Garage/yard sales are definitely the most fun (except the traveling time, which I really _don't_ like) because there's a certain anthropological (read: nosey) thrill too. Un-exotica material ahead: Scored recently in a major downtown Boston thrift: Dave Clark Five Glad All Over w/ portrait cover (it's rare), Wayne Fontana - Game of Love, Herman's Hermits - Frazetta cover album (Title?), Elvis Presley - Wear My Ring (w/picture sleeve) and a dozen Connie Francis 45s w/picture sleeves. Less than $10 for all. I'm also finding good vinyl in those antique supermarket things that are all over the north-east. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: Re: (exotica) Galt MacDermot and Hair Date: 20 Mar 1997 10:48:43 -0800 > Anyone know of any other Galt MacDermot albums, or especially groovy > renditions of Hair-pieces? The Chaquito and the Quedo Brass version of > "Aquarius" contains some monstrously good, over-the-top honking. I'm > still hunting for the elusive "Hair Goes Latin" by Edmundo Ros, > although I'm willing to bet that "Ros At The Opera" would give it a > close run for its money :) (it has utterly frightening "Cockney" > sleevenotes, plus the best damn "Toreador Song from Carmen" I've > ever heard, with castanets at such a speed it makes your head whirl). > > -- Pete. I recently came across The Cowsills "In Concert" ( or something like that) where the cleanest hippy kids ever crank out a redition of "Hair" I believe The Cowsills were the real life performing family that "The Partridge Family" was based on. Slightly off the subject, a freind played a video of this variety show on HBO called "Mr. Show" where the ensemble cast did a really funny parody of Jesus Christ Superstar called "Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star". check out if'n you can. Down to here, down to there, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Galt MacDermot and Hair Date: 20 Mar 1997 12:12:03 -0500 Outside of the original cast recording of Hair, there is a collection of songs that were left out called "DisinHAIRited" that pops up every so often. He may have also been associated with the almost completely forgotten "Via Galactica" musical which ran on Broadway, but apparently, not fast enough. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Esquire Date: 20 Mar 1997 10:47:18 -0700 (MST) I finally read the evil nasty article last night before I hit the sack and have to admit I didn't find it evil or nasty at all. Given where it appeared it should come as no surprise to anyone that the focus was more on style and fashion and their place in the "scene" than it was on music -- Esquire is, after all, concerned primarily with style and fashion. I would have loved to see a longer, more in-depth version of the piece, but I have no meaningful quibbles with what appeared. Maybe the folks who are actually *in* the scene have good reason to feel differently, I don't know. I kind of feel like I did last year when everyone was dissing "Swingers" -- a movie I thoroughly enjoyed -- for what seem in retrospect to be very similar reasons. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: Re: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 20 Mar 1997 13:23:34 -0500 At 08:04 AM 20/03/1997 -0500, you wrote: >In addition to the BMG release, the first Dezi Arnez CD (1991) was "Babalu >Music" on Columbia which features the songs Arnez sang on the "I Love Lucy" >TV show including the theme instrumental. Actually.. Bablu Music' s PRODUCER was none other than "Weird Al" Yankovic, a die-hard Desi fan and someone who knows good cocktail-mambo when he hears it... I thot it was a Rhinoo release, but I could be wrong... There's a lso a split CD of Desi Arnes and CHICO MARX 's Big Bands, tho I haven't seen it in years (yes, I'm looking foer i, Desi fan that I am...). Joey Jojo in To. (416)535-4765 I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. -- Abe Simpson : "Homerpalooza" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: loidlink@pixi.com Subject: (exotica) Esquire-vel! Date: 20 Mar 1997 09:01:38 +0100 Just got my copy of Esquire (things happen slower in Hawaii) and have to agree with Mr. Lazlo. What's gotten all you listers up in arms re Esquire's dire mire focus on attire is true, and the music tips could have been a lot hipper... however it's nice to see that Rothenberg did research and quote efferfezcent scene heroes like Byron Warner, Ashley Warren, Frank Davis, Sam Wick, The Millionaire, et al. I say spreading the word via a pop culture mag only keeps the scene alive and viable for all of us, particularly musicians. Alohadercci, Fluid Floyd of Don Tiki (currently featured artists @ Vik's place) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shereen@worldsite.net (Kevin, not shereen) Date: 20 Mar 1997 13:42:43 -0700 speaking of scoring and all that... i've been "scoring" at public libraries. i found it's pretty random which libraries will have what sorts of treasures (if any). but i definitely have a deep appreciation for libraries as i'm on a tight budget. of course, thrifting and garageing is the best, but if you're penniless and want to check out a LOT of music go to your local libraries... you may be suprised at what you'd find. esp. if you're in a big city. some things i have found (and in decent condition): soundtracks: sisters (b.hermmann), cool hand luke (l.shifrin), umbrellas of cherbourg (legrand), Quiller Memorandum (j.barry), blow up (herbie hancock), car wash (r.royce), elephant man, east side/west side (our man k.hopkins),... just came upon a bunch of delarue scores, gosh... tons of cool stuff...i can't remember them all... others: esquivel greatest hits, leonard nimoy (forget which one), lots of great rhino comps for surf and instrumental rock and r&b and new orleans, dick dale greatest hits, box tops record, ventures play tv hits from 70's, lots of tv detective theme comps, stooges raw power, lots of stan kenton, a few chet bakers, a pretty groovy instrumental music comp from Time Life that came out way way way before any of these recent cocktail/sabpm/exotica comps....i could go on... ultimately, it's been a great educational experience at no cost cos i'll check out on average 10 records per week. if i don't like something i'm not stuck with it either. kevin leeeeeeeeeee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Chilson Subject: (exotica) Laserlight? Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:30:20 -0800 (PST) I know this was discussed a few months ago, but the budget label Laserlight has "cocktail music "comps out? My friend saw one that had the Star Wars theme on it! What gives? Also, anyone in the San Diego would do well to check out a thrift on University called the Barras Foundation. TONS of vinyl...so much that I couldn't look through it all (but I DID find some Morricone!). JC # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquire Date: 20 Mar 1997 22:09:22 -0500 (EST) Why don't we write a "chain column" about Lounge/exotica/bachelor pad/spy jazz music? We could each add to the column and then at the end I'd be happy to edit it. We could submit it to different magazines and see if we get any bites. At least we'd all be happy with the content. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: (exotica) Test Date: 20 Mar 1997 22:30:02 -0500 Please excuse this test -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Re: Date: 20 Mar 1997 20:06:43 -0800 (PST) At 01:42 PM 3/20/97 -0700, Kevin wrote: >speaking of scoring and all that... >i've been "scoring" at public libraries. i found it's pretty random which >libraries will have what sorts of treasures (if any). but i definitely >have a deep appreciation for libraries as i'm on a tight budget. Kevin, tis true. Also, be on the look out for friends of library sales. Many libraries are starting to dump their vinyl stock for little or nothing and there are some interesting finds there. Call and find out if there is a friends organization at your library! Note, these sales usually happen around April or September. I think April is around National Book Week or something. Byron Caloz bag@hubris.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert P. Krajewski" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge Fuzz Date: 20 Mar 1997 23:37:42 -0500 >>Is the catalog number of the *rare* plush UltraLounge sampler >>CD <7 2438-38376 2 5>? > >nope...that there is the second release...the rare first fuzzy sampler is >DPRO-11166. DPRO is the prefix for EMI promotional items... Hey, remember, that's _Grammy-award-winning_ *rare* plush UltraLounge sampler ! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Anyone wanna see a Bubbleator ? Date: 20 Mar 1997 21:36:36 -0800 Yeah, that up there Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: (exotica) Re: Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:37:40 -0800 Kevin, not shereen wrote: > > speaking of scoring and all that... > i've been "scoring" at public libraries. YES!!! I used to check out alot of weird records at the library! At the San Diego central library they have (among lots of other stuff): Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits Several pure theremin records lots of calliope records lots of older, more obscure sound FX records and spooky records lots of obscure ethnic records, ie Folkways stuff A nice computer music/avant garde selection All these records are beat to hell, but it's fun to check them out nonetheless... most universities won't loan out records or CDs at all- often you can't get a tape, either, unless you're a in class that requires it. pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: magnus.sandberg@ztv.se Subject: (exotica) a video report Date: 21 Mar 1997 10:29:20 +0100 Hello everyone. Saw some great films yesterday, a friend had ordered a bunch of videos from= =20 "Something Weird". We started with a Coffin Joe pic called "Awakening of the Beast", an odd mi= x=20 off french new wawe, Jodorowsky and Russ Meyer. There were some interesting= =20 music in the film, strange 60s psychedelia/garage and a several minutes Ba= s=20 Sheva from Les Baxters "The Passions" Next picture we saw were "Daughter of Horror" aka "Dementia". A film I have= =20 wanted to see for a long time and had great expectations for. It turned out= =20 to be a Wonderful film! No dialouge, but a strange evil-sounding narrator=20 and some beautiful photography by the same guy who shot Ed Woods films.=20 And through the WHOLE film music under the guidance of Shorty Rogers and=20 his Giants. W O W!!! "Horrors of Spider Island" were really amusing, it was one of them films=20 that change character as the film goes. Some nice music also. The last one we saw were "Acid Eaters" a Tune in, turn on, drop Your=20 pants-kinda movie. Great fun! The most memorable figure, a guy called Arnie= ,=20 looked like Mel Brooks but acted like Donkey Kong (I am not kidding!!) A little of topic maybe, but all films were made in the 50-60=B4s which mak= es=20 it O.K. (I think?) Also found "Music to read James Bond by, vol 2" yesterday. 10 Kr (approx.=20= 1=20 $) Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Laserlight? Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:31:48 -0800 John Chilson wrote: > Also, anyone in the San Diego would do > well to check out a thrift on University called the Barras Foundation. TONS of > vinyl...so much that I couldn't look through it all (but I DID find some > Morricone!). JC I was just at Baras yesterday. They've had all that vinyl for a long time now and it's kinda similar to the St. Vincent's downtown- tons of stuff but still slim pickins. Carol Baras has another thrift in Clairemont that's not quite as good, but she's good friends with Florence Henderson and Flo donated a bunch of her clothes. You can see them all in a window display at the Clairemont store- boy did she have horrible taste!! The Baras Foundation also has a really creepy "dial-a-hug" line for latchkey kids. We sampled it on one of our albums several years ago. I think it's (619) 231-KIDS. Anyway... enough ramblin'... pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: (exotica) Wax Huntin! Date: 20 Mar 1997 17:09:11 -0500 I have had some success with running classified ads in local newpapers...I worked at one such classifed tabloid once and I had the opportunity to run adds for free. One ran something like... Old Records Wanted: Call 9999999 My phone # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: (exotica) Wax Huntin! Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:32:32 -0500 Whoops...sent this out before it was finished... ****************** I enjoy meeting nice folks @ garage/yard sales who invite me into their homes to show me their waxen 'treasures'. It definately pays to ask 'got any records' when attending these kinda things. I have had some success with running classified ads in local newpapers...I worked at one such classifed tabloid a couple years back and I had the opportunity to run adds for free. One ran something like... Old Records Wanted: Call 999-9999 My phone rang frequently for weeks...of course I encountered some wild goose chases and wackazoid hucksters... But it was worth it...Highlights included sealed Denny LP's, Mint Esquivelers, and a near perfect 'Gene Vincent Rocks!...and the Blue Caps Roll' plus lots & lots more...all for very little cash. Have any of you encountered such situations? Hmmmmmmnnn? Cal # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) a video report Date: 21 Mar 1997 15:30:10 +0100 (MET) Excuse the self promotion. Anyone in Scandinavia/Europe interested in the fantastic Something Weird=20 video collection should conntact Subliminal Sounds & Stuff in Stockholm as we=B4ll soon carry the complete catalog in PAL format for buying or renting.= =20 Contact stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds & Stuff Brannkyrkagatan 112 S-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN tel/fax: +46 - 8 - 84 56 66 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: (exotica) Kai Winding Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:19:30 -0800 I came across a copy of Kai Winding's "Mondo Cane #2" and it knocks me out. Cool surf jazz with bugged out Ondioline(sp? early synthesizer with some kind of ripcord mechanism that adjusts the pitch) playing. I read the bio in The Exotica Standards (http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/homepage.htm - (bbigelow- U rock!))and didn't realize he was on Birth of the Cool. Are any of his other albums up to par? Wound up and winded, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Man W/Golden Arm ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 11:47:14 -0400 Does any body remember the name Frank Sinatra(aka 'FRANKIE MACHINE') changed his name to in THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, in order to get more "class?" Please respond to me individually, as I am on the digest and it takes awhile now for me to get it. However, if you wish to copy to the list, why should I care? Gratefully, Lounge Laura-a Klassy Broad... "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Early jazz/swing recommendations? Date: 21 Mar 1997 10:04:19 -0700 (MST) On the off chance that someone out there also has tastes in this direction: I'm looking for CDs that are good samplers of early jazz/swing a la Django Reinhart and Glen Gray. Any ideas? -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) Sound Gallery/Brigette(non Scott) Date: 21 Mar 1997 12:07:47 -0400 I just got a copy of SOUND GALLERY 2, and it has that swinging Brigette Bardot song with the ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE fanfare begining. Can anyone tell me if that was taken from an album of hers, or why it was recorded? Thanks! :) "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Man or Astroman rip off artists Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:12:14 -0800 If you want to see the cover of the incredibly rare AND incredibly GREAT outer space electronic exotica LP "Attileo Mineo Conducts Man in Space with Sounds" then just find the MOAM LP cover that is VERY colorful AND has a cartoon-like cover of "outer space". VERY colorful! That's the cover of Man in Space with Sounds originally released on Seattle State Worlds Fair Records, catalog # LP 66666 You'd never know that of course if you have never seen it Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) slogging through mold Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:20:01 -0800 Re: slogging through mold In a message dated 3/19/97 8:09:24 AM, you wrote: <> Yummmmmmmmmmmm-y Yum yum yum Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:18:49 -0800 Are "Panic", "Shock" and the other Hopkins/Creed Taylor Orchestra > albums available on CD? Shock, Nightmare, and selected tracks from Panic were issued as one of those exotica bootlegs that surfaced in late '95. In fact Lazlo, that was the VERY 1st Bootleg of the "series". Wish it was recorded a little higher BUT, WHAT THE HELL. Do you have those Lazlo ? The last time I saw "The Fugitive Kind" it was 75 bucks at Saturn in Oakland. Knowing the owner, I know I could have gotten it for 60 BUT I had already spent 200 by that time sooooooo I thought I'd pass;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Esquire Article / Movie Bongos Date: 21 Mar 1997 12:22:57 -0500 (EST) Thanks to Lazlo for the information on the Esquire article. I'm buying it today! Also, I believe I read at one point that someone is looking for movies with bongos played in them -- right? I think "Take Her, She's Mine" from 1963 has a coffee house scene (beat poetry being performed, natch) and bongos in the background. WARNING: This is a terribly sucky movie with Jimmy Stewart as Dad and Sandra Dee as teen-aged daughter. The only scene of any interest is the one I mentioned. View at your own peril!! And one last question -- anybody else interested in this music who's in the Memphis, Tennessee vicinity? Most of the Bible Belt hasn't quite caught onto it yet, but I'm sure there are others around here --- huh??? Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins Date: 21 Mar 1997 10:24:51 -0700 (MST) >> Shock, Nightmare, and selected tracks from Panic were issued as one of >> those exotica bootlegs that surfaced in late '95. > > In fact Lazlo, that was the VERY 1st Bootleg of the "series". Wish it > was recorded a little higher BUT, WHAT THE HELL. > > Do you have those Lazlo ? What, the boots or the originals? I have eight or nine of the boots that came in that wave, but lost my head of steam after that. I still see a couple of them around here from time to time . . . -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) George Chakaris Date: 21 Mar 1997 12:39:20 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 97-03-19 23:21:30 EST, you write: << > George Maharis was not the replacement part-- he was one of the originals,the other being Martin Milner. And I think their characters names were Buzz and Todd, respectively. Glenn Corbett was the replacement part. Mr. Know-it-all >> Mr. Know-it-all is, as his name would imply, exactly right. Also, I think Chakiris was best known for his role in "West Side Story" as leader of the Sharks (Chicano gang, right?), Rita Moreno's boyfriend -- won a supporting actor Oscar for the role. Does this make me ---- Ms. Know-It-All (???) Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) It's impossible... Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:42:38 -0800 Off my soapbox now, everybody just look everywhere, try a bit of everything, and discover what you like. There's too much music to have it all ! Remember the fabulous Tubes' 80's anthem "I Want It All Now" ? You ain't never gonna get it, but you can try. Yeah sure, please go ahead and try BUT it's impossible to have all "the great stuff" I have friends who have 8,0000 rekkids in their collection. 12,000 rekkids in their collection AND they are still discovering killer stuff that they never saw before. That's 1 of the true original joys of rekkid collecting. Constantly and always discovering new finds that I never heard of or saw. A listener and big fan of my show once said to me after I tol,d him that I was going to LA on a buy, he said "Why, what's the point ? " It kind of pissed me off BECAUSE if I only count 1950's and 60's jazz there are thousands of gorgeous rekkids I don't have AND NEED DEPARATELY;) "You" have no idea how many rekkids were released (LP's, 10", 45's) since they started makin' them Millions of great rekkids have been released I'm ALWAYS discovering new killer stuff I never heard or saw before like Music For Sensuous Lovers by Z" (Mort Garson) or Fantasy for a Girl and Orchestra by Phil Moore to name but 2;) It's impossible to have ALL the killer shit. You just have no idea how encompassing it really is. It's never ending and thank god for that;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:49:56 -0800 As far as I know from my own research is that real space age bachelors didn't listen to what "many of us" know as SABPM or Space Age Pop but what they did listen to was jazz, plain and simple. West Coast and Hard Bop. No Bob Thompson, Ray Conniff, Esquivel, Ray Martin, Keith Textor, Les Baxter, Martin Denny BUT Shorty Rogers, Stan Kenton, Thelonius Monk, Art Blakey, Chico Hamilton, Pete Rugolo, some Mancini, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Howard Rumsey, Barney Kessel, the Candoli Bros, etc etc etc Jazz. God how I love 50's and 60's jazz music Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Perl Subject: (exotica) Pricey records Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:49:00 +0000 >I would love to read a posting here where someone says "I >found this rare mint Esquivel record. . .it's now priced $50 at this certain >thrift" I'm sorry, but no one should be encouraging anyone to ask 50 dollars for any record. (sorry Jack). I would pay 15, maybe 20 if it was a real stunner, but if you work hard on your searching, then surely you deserve a bargain every now and then (not that I ever find anything...). Jonny # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 21 Mar 1997 10:54:08 -0700 (MST) > As far as I know from my own research is that real space age bachelors > didn't listen to what "many of us" know as SABPM or Space Age Pop but what > they did listen to was jazz, plain and simple. > > West Coast and Hard Bop. No Bob Thompson, Ray Conniff, Esquivel, Ray > Martin, Keith Textor, Les Baxter, Martin Denny BUT Shorty Rogers, Stan > Kenton, Thelonius Monk, Art Blakey, Chico Hamilton, Pete Rugolo, some > Mancini, Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Howard Rumsey, Barney Kessel, the Candoli > Bros, etc etc etc > > Jazz. God how I love 50's and 60's jazz music Oh yeah. I'm working my way through the Miles Davis/Gil Evans box, and every track is a revelation. I think I'm in trouble. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ccarlson@valsmtp.riag.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Early jazz/swing recommendations? Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:28:15 -0500 Lazlo asked: >I'm looking for CDs that are good samplers of early jazz/swing a la >Django Reinhart and Glen Gray. Any ideas? Here's few that are probably on CD: Cats and the Fiddle (Bluebird) Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Decca) Joe Venuti (?) Stephan Grappelli (Still going strong) And tons more that I don't know of. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:39:55 -0500 (EST) Ok, now, this is just My Personal Theory (MPT): There WERE no space age bachelors with pads -- not EVER! Of course there were bachelors and they had apartments and some of them listened to a lot of hi-fi music (and of course it was really jazz), but what we're talking about here is a pleasant invention, a way of life that never really existed. You know, like Happy Hookers and the 30-year-old Playboy in his Smoking Jacket and Jim Anderson and his Nondisfunctional Family. So, by God, we can ascribe any sort of music at all to those Danish Modern designed blond wood record shelves, near the wet bar with chilled gin and cocktail onions. See, it's OUR game, we make the rules!! (MPT) Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: Re: (exotica) Pricey records Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:51:49 -0500 At 12:49 PM 3/21/97, Jonathan Perl wrote: >>I would love to read a posting here where someone says "I >>found this rare mint Esquivel record. . .it's now priced $50 at this >certain >>thrift" > >I'm sorry, but no one should be encouraging anyone to ask 50 dollars for any >record. (sorry Jack). >I would pay 15, maybe 20 if it was a real stunner, but if you work hard on >your searching, then surely you deserve a bargain every now and then (not >that I ever find anything...). > >Jonny > It's all relative. There are those folks that think that "15, maybe 20" is outrageous. I remember once selling a punk 45 for 300 dollars to a sixteen year old kid who travelled 150 miles to buy it. Did I feel guilty? No. If you have (or don't have) the dough, it's up to you, y'know? It's all relative. I have paid 100.00 for an LP and felt great about it. I have also paid a dollar for an LP and felt * realy * ripped off. So who has the right to say that " no one should" this or that? respect to you, Jonathan bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Retail Sales Manager Asphodel Records, NYC phone # (212) 965-0265, FAX # (212) 965-0959 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: (exotica) Inflight II Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:11:14 -0500 Last week I bought "Further Inflight Entertainment - Music from around the world and beyond" On Vinyl (Of coures) Pardon my vinyl snobery... Its the newest release from the Karminsky's Lots of fun tracks with a few standouts from Bollywood cica the 70's Jonny Sender -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica)TV Appearance Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:11:04 -0500 (EST) Anyone in San Francisco who's interested, I'll be on channel 53 Saturday night at 9:30pm. I'm being interviewed about my record collection. They also did film footage from my office with record covers decorating my walls. It was REALLY fun to do the show. Gloria PS: I may as well tell you now, I made a mistake when I my mind went blank trying to think of "Lady Bo" and I called her "Little Bo". Ask David Smay what image he got when I told him that. LOL Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: (exotica) Live this Sunday Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:40:05 -0500 For those in the New York-Manhattan area.... this Sunday! Family of God -Live Family of God -Live Family of God -Live BUN on Sunday March 23rd. Save up to 20% of your time- come early at 2PM meet the original dancing woman! BUN Disco Disc Jockeys: Chris the disco husband, Alex Gloor, Dirty Harry Jonny Sender with his Green Disco Machine and special guest dj Bolle from Switzerland BUN - the first disco in the world in this area... your disc jockeys for this special Sunday are from Smylonylon and the Cosmic Brotherhood Disco BUN - unmixing the mixed up... BUN films, projections and luminaries brought to you by the BUN brothers... Bun presents live on stage... Showtimes: 5pm Family of God 6pm Halcion 9pm Halcion 10pm Family of God The New York Kunsthalle 210 East 5th street (East of the Bowery) Doors at 2pm. suggested donation $6.00 realAudio cybercast by Sonicnet (www.sonicnet.com) -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@csc.com Subject: Re: (exotica) slogging through mold Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:40:15 -0500 Re: slogging through mold In a message dated 3/19/97 8:09:24 AM, you wrote: <> While pulling away still moist clots of the above, found a few nuggets: 1.Arthur Lyman Group: Love For Sale (1980; still sealed). 2.Arthur Lyman: Isle of Enchantment 3.Martin Denny: Golden Greats 4.Johnny Cash and his Hot and Blue Guitar (original Sun label): not exotic, though. I don't get the feeling that the value of this stuff has dawned on the suburban consciousness (Northern VA) yet. The lps above cost me $3 apiece, all in great condition (a little cover damage on the JC thing). Yours in hunting & gathering, Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: Re: (exotica) Pricey records Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:15:48 -0700 (MST) >> I'm sorry, but no one should be encouraging anyone to ask 50 dollars for >> any record. (sorry Jack). > > It's all relative. There are those folks that think that "15, maybe 20" > is outrageous. I remember once selling a punk 45 for 300 dollars to a > sixteen year old kid who travelled 150 miles to buy it. Did I feel > guilty? No. If you have (or don't have) the dough, it's up to you, > y'know? It's all relative. I have paid 100.00 for an LP and felt great > about it. I have also paid a dollar for an LP and felt * realy * ripped > off. So who has the right to say that " no one should" this or that? My opinion on the subject of online discussions of how things should be priced: I think anyone has the right to ask whatever they want for things they sell. I also think anyone has the right to (respectfully) point out when they think those asking prices are unreasonable. The only time any of this is inappropriate is when it degenerates into sniping and/or flaming. Enduring public commentary on the prices you're asking is a fair exchange for getting to advertise your stuff for free. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ray Coffey" Subject: (exotica) Kookie Date: 21 Mar 1997 10:49:58 -0400 I was listening to *You're the Top* (?) by Edd Byrnes (1959 - WB, I think) and heard a reference that I didn't get. Here's the lyric: Chorus: You are gone Kookie: There are no others Chorus: You come on Kookie: Like the Maverick brothers Who are the Maverick Brothers? Is this a TV reference? Music? Some other entertainment? The only Maverick I knew of was the Western with the Jim Rockford guy. Is that who Maverick was? This cover version really *makes my jet burn*! Ray (Hyper-Diaper) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Sealed Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:34:32 -0500 (EST) Any comments on the practice of opening sealed LPs? Who does it and who doesn't? pablito! Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) pricey records Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:30:39 PST I have to say, as long as I average out to less than the cost of a CD for every record I buy (that is to say, now and again I pay through the nose, and the rest of the time, most records i buy are in the 1 to 7 dollar range) i feel good. If any prices are inflated, it is current new CD prices! Remember back when when CD's came out at the outrageous 20 dollars and we heard from teh industry that they'd come down? Have you checked the prices on many CD's at the huge chain stores such as Wherehouse or Blockbuster music? What gives? New vinyl still hovers at 1985 prices! You can get many new releases on vinyl for about 8 bucks. I will never understand how it all works. But, I can tell you that on the *rare* occasion when I spent big bucks on a record, it was darn well worth it to me to hear the music. Every record (and everything else in the world for that matter) is worth *exactly* what a buyer is willing to pay for it. No more, no less. That is the definition of value. Not flamin', just emotional about a good discussion of an important music collectors' issue... Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) Subject: (exotica) sealed LP's Date: 21 Mar 1997 13:43:44 PST I LOVE LOVE LOVE opening sealed LP's. Then I stomp on them a bit out on my driveway so they get that "vintage" sound I love so much. A new LP sounds too damn good. no really, open 'em up and listen to them. We, as record collectors, should not fall prey to notions of "investment" where records are concerned. Unless i find a double of an item and I have one of them sealed (thus have no reason to crack it open) I open it and play it. Anyone else? Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@csc.com Subject: Re: (exotica) sealed LP's Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:28:13 -0500 You betcha. Why own it if you can't enjoy it? Though I must admit, there is that unseemly deflowering aspect that makes one feel a bit of a trog and wistful for factory-sealed purity lost. Frank Clark Scheffy wrote: I LOVE LOVE LOVE opening sealed LP's. Then I stomp on them a bit out on my driveway so they get that "vintage" sound I love so much. A new LP sounds too damn good. ... Anyone else? Clark # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 21 Mar 1997 18:15:20 -0500 At 09:49 AM 3/21/97 -0800, Jack D. wrote: >As far as I know from my own research is that real space age bachelors >didn't listen to what "many of us" know as SABPM or Space Age Pop but what >they did listen to was jazz, plain and simple. > With no research whatsoever, I'd say that the "real" SAB's listened to: 1) Whatever topped the Downbeat Reader's Poll 2) Whatever the Playboy Philosopher recommended, and, 3) Whatever their Space Age Bachelorettes expected to hear when they crashed at the crib. Lou >>>---> Smith # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Gloria's "chain column" Date: 21 Mar 1997 18:35:31 -0500 At 10:09 PM 3/20/97 -0500, you wrote: >Why don't we write a "chain column" about Lounge/exotica/bachelor pad/spy >jazz music? We could each add to the column and then at the end I'd be happy >to edit it. We could submit it to different magazines and see if we get any >bites. At least we'd all be happy with the content. >Gloria > And/Or create the definitive Music Essays for the All Music Guide web site. If you go to http://www.allmusic.com/amg/mus_Essays.html you will find many essays on many musical styles, but none (that I could see) on Lounge/exotica/BP/SJ/mid-century american pop. The advantage to submitting the essay to the Site is that, obviously, it will be there as a resource long after any magazine would be tossed in the trash. $0.02 Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) sealed LP's Date: 21 Mar 1997 19:15:29 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 3/21/97 3:11:58 PM, you wrote: <> I have several sealed Bo Diddley albums that I bought from a warehouse sale. Most of them are doubles. You have just given me the courage to crack them open and actually listen to them. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Kai Winding Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:08:39 -0800 >I came across a copy of Kai Winding's "Mondo Cane #2" and it knocks me >out. Cool surf jazz with bugged out Ondioline - early synthesizer with >some kind of ripcord mechanism that adjusts the pitch) playing. Are any of his other albums up to par? Yep, Kai (Kye) Winding, killer straight ahead jazz trombonist. Musta taken some acid or sumpin' BUT he hit paydirt with it. He also made another "Crime jazz" rekkid though a tad bit more straight ahead, no Ondioline The Ondiline is a French keyboarded instrument that Jean Jack Perrey uses alot as well as Esquivel on Whachamacallit. It has quite a broad wide and unique sound range to say the least! He's got another killer rekkid called MORE with 5 guitar players featuring Kenny Burrel on reverb deluxe electric guitar in the lead role. Surf Jazz BIG TIME. It smokes. I did a trade with John for a record that he definitely got the better end of the deal on;) Ever get that Johan ? What do YOU think of it ? Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) George Chakaris Date: 22 Mar 1997 00:40:11 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 97-03-21 13:17:05 EST, you write: << Also, I think Chakiris was best known for his role in "West Side Story" as leader of the Sharks (Chicano gang, right?), Rita Moreno's boyfriend -- won a supporting actor Oscar for the role. Does this make me ---- Ms. Know-It-All (???) Carolyn >> Wouldn't it have been cool for David Lynch to have dredged up Bernardo aka George Chakiris as a foil for Tony aka Richard Beymer in those dismal closing episodes of Twin Peaks when Beymer was refighting the Civil War or something? Of course maybe George (wherever he is) doesn't fit into those sharkskin suits and lavender shirts as well anymore. Lynch also cast Russ Riff Tamblyn as that wacko shrink in TP. Too bad he couldn't have signed Natalie Wood for plastic bag lady Laura Palmer, but he probably tried. Yes Sergeant Krupke, I'm psycholgically distoibed.....Easy Action, Cool it A-Rab!! Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it, stay loooooose boy! And to paraphrase Bobby Slayton, when Tony hollers "MARIA" in a Spanish Harlem(?) tenement, how come only ONE GIRL sticks her head out the window ? Signed Mr. Gladhand - Now dance kids, and no hittin below the belt. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) It's vinyltalk, all the time Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:30:02 -0800 So what can you come up with for a rekkid that's not in "the best shape" ? 1) Beat 2) Beat up 3) Beat to hell 4) Hammered 5) Gone ??????? I bet you have some good ones Gloria ??? ;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jbtwist@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) slogging through mold -Sonny Bono Date: 22 Mar 1997 01:03:47 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 97-03-21 15:42:33 EST, you write: << While pulling away still moist clots of the above, found a few nuggets: 1.Arthur Lyman Group: Love For Sale (1980; still sealed). 2.Arthur Lyman: Isle of Enchantment >> I may need new glasses, but last week I saw Sonny Bono listed as producer on a trashed Lyman LP that i didn't buy. I know he was in the Phil "Carpeteria" Spector cult, married an exotic Armenian cradle-robber-to-be, played on the world's greatest girl group record ('Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica" of course), and invented the Bill Gates haircut. A true visionary (Pammie's On a Bummer Now), and he'll be a formidable opponent for Hillary Clinton in the next presidential election. And can't SOMEBODY put a decent Sonny & Cher style variety show on TV? The last attempts were Howard Cosell and Pink Lady & Jeff. C'mon P-Five, I can't take too much more of Sabado Gigante, tho Jenny McCarthy's first episode showed promise, with an obligatory puke scene from the John Waters' Movie Manual. JB "Jungle Jezebel" Twist # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Kai Winding Date: 22 Mar 1997 09:20:24 -0500 (EST) I have a Kai Winding album that I won on the radio years ago (I used to win radio contests all the time) that has a fabulous surfing photo on the front. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Soundbliss@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Creed Taylor/Kenyon Hopkins Date: 22 Mar 1997 10:25:39 -0500 (EST) Does anyone have a source of where to get the boot copy of "Shock, Panic & Nightmare"? soundbliss@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sealed Date: 22 Mar 1997 10:37:02 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 97-03-21 17:13:19 EST, lewis@netlab.texsci.edu (Paul Lewis) writes: >Any comments on the practice of opening sealed LPs? Who does it and who >doesn't? If it's a Kathy Lee Gifford album I keep it sealed. ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TheR0Coco@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Kookie Date: 22 Mar 1997 11:28:11 -0500 (EST) Ray, from Kookie's song you asked about a lyric: >>Chorus: You are gone Kookie: There are no others Chorus: You come on Kookie: Like the Maverick brothers Who are the Maverick Brothers? Is this a TV reference? Music? Some other entertainment?<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may get a thousand replies to this, but yes, it's a TV reference. "Maverick" was the most successful western (and at one time, most successful program) produced by Warner Brothers Television in the late 50s-early 60s. The brothers were Bret (Jim Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) with a cousin Beau (Roger Moore) from England. They were smooth, pacificst-type gamblers, and the scripts were more comedy than western drama. It's what began Garner's career. And, as I'm sure you know, Kookie was a character from "77 Sunset Strip" which was another WB TV Production. The lyric is just a case of a little cross-promotion. Carolyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: Re: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 22 Mar 1997 11:56:59 -0800 TheR0Coco@aol.com wrote: > > Ok, now, this is just My Personal Theory (MPT): > > There WERE no space age bachelors with pads -- not EVER! Of course there > were bachelors and they had apartments and some of them listened to a lot of > hi-fi music (and of course it was really jazz), but what we're talking about > here is a pleasant invention, a way of life that never really existed. I dunno--I remember my dad had a bachelor friend who had: - Danish modern furniture - Hi-fi with appropriate albums (I particularly recall Ferrante & Teicher's "Keys to Her Apartment"--other prepubescent boys may also remember it fondly) - Sportscar (Triumph) - Brick fireplace in a sunken living room - V-neck sweaters - Black hair slicked back with lots of Brylcreme I always think of him when I hear the phrase "space-age bachelor pad." I agree it's a stereotype, but now and then in life, we do come across pretty good fits to stereotypes. Brad bbigelow@netrail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Kilmartin Subject: Re: (exotica) It's vinyltalk, all the time Date: 22 Mar 1997 13:57:51 -0500 At 09:30 PM 22/03/1997 -0800, you wrote: >So what can you come up with for a rekkid that's not in "the best shape" ? > >1) Beat >2) Beat up >3) Beat to hell >4) Hammered >5) Gone >??????? > >I bet you have some good ones Gloria ??? ;) Always liked - "fragged" -"road-killed" -"sandpapered" -"stonewashed" Just a few JoeyJojo in Toronto (416)535-4765 I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. -- Abe Simpson : "Homerpalooza" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Karl Engel Subject: (exotica) Best selling Ultra-Lounge CD? Date: 22 Mar 1997 14:11:10 -0500 Out of sheer curiosity, I was wondering if anyone knows which Ultra-Lounge CD has sold the most copies? Better yet, can anyone list the 12 CDs in order of their sales? Just curious, -KE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Gerwitz" Subject: Re: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 22 Mar 1997 13:14:41 -0800 Lou, re research item # 3, betcha Johnny Mathis was # 1, case closed (younger and cuter than runner-up Nat Cole, and single too). Seems like he made everybody all gooey inside. Wonderful Wonderful, Your Chances Are Awfully Good, the sperm-launching anthems of the SABPM era ! ---------- > From: Lou Smith > To: exotica@xmission.com > Subject: (exotica) Real Space Age Bachelor Music > Date: Friday, March 21, 1997 3:15 PM > With no research whatsoever, I'd say that the "real" SAB's listened to: > 1) Whatever topped the Downbeat Reader's Poll > 2) Whatever the Playboy Philosopher recommended, and, > 3) Whatever their Space Age Bachelorettes expected to hear when they crashed > at the crib. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLPowellJr@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) sealed LP's Date: 22 Mar 1997 16:59:56 -0500 (EST) In a message dated 97-03-21 17:11:58 EST, Clark Scheffy wrote: > no really, open 'em up and listen to them. We, as record collectors, > should not fall prey to notions of "investment" where records are > concerned. Unless i find a double of an item and I have one of them > sealed (thus have no reason to crack it open) I open it and > play it. > > Anyone else? Keeping an album hermetically sealed is like the guy in "Ferris Beuhler's Day Off" with the Ferrari kept in museum condition, never driven, etc: What's the point? Do you really enjoy having something just to say you have it? Maybe. Is it being kept for investment purposes? Ok, until lounge has all the respectability of, oh, disco (hey, I like disco, but how much do Bee Gees and Tavares albums sell for?), and the investment value drops. I agree, listen to it, enjoy it, don't worry about the wear and tear. While you're at it, eat off of the fine china. Life is to be enjoyed! Bob, seizing the day # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLPowellJr@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Another thing about keeping records sealed... Date: 22 Mar 1997 17:12:23 -0500 (EST) Keeping a record sealed for investment purposes assumes you'll sell the record when "the price is right." If you've decided that no way, no how, will you sell that gem of vinyl with the enchanted groove produced by Esquivel, Lyman, or Englebert Humperdinck, then what's the point of keeping it sealed? Bust that sucker open! Bob, still seizing the day # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Jazz-West Coast and Otherwise Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:10:20 -0500 (EST) It's great to see the topic of 50's & 6T's jazz broached (thanx Jack). For me, serious collectin' began in 1974 when I disco-vered late 50's, early 6T's Blue Note, Riverside and Prestige recordings while doing P.R. for Broccoli College of Rock & Roll in Boston. At the time I was on a funk roll, as it was hott, and rock had died its first death. The "outness" and sensibility of that jazz period really turned me around--and while I have re-developed a "pop" sensibility, I will forever LOVE that period of jazz--and now on to the West Coast! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:34:28 -0500 (EST) I just met the tooth fairy...He told me that REAL space-age bachelors had pads (wouldn't get too specific, however) AND false teeth. And every last one of them listened to Esquivel, straight-through SEALED copies while Jayne Mansfield look-alikes slithered at their feet.....They ALL wore ascots and henweighs...and not one of them had a drinking problem....Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) More Martin Milner Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:39:41 -0800 > George Maharis was not the replacement part-- he was one of the >originals,the other being Martin Milner. And I think their characters names >were Buzz and Todd, respectively. Glenn Corbett was the replacement part. It's amazing and kinda scary to think that Martin Milner portrayed John Pisano-the guitarist in the Chico Hamilton Qrt/Qnt in the film Sweet Smell of Success. Great great film/soundtrack/soundtrack score if you've never seen it/heard it. Listen to what you watch and you'll "see" Tony Curtis as the sleaziest of sleazy agents in the world of show biz with Burt Lancaster portraying "Walter Winchell" as the biggest of the BIG newspaper columnists that make or break lives and careers working together and against each other at the same time, sometimes in the same moment in the most covert of ways, always;)) Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm good And who was Susie ? She is KEY-YUUUUUUUUUTE! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) FLAME Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:48:49 -0800 >Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 17:49:00 +0000 >From: Jonathan Perl >Subject: (exotica) Pricey records > >>I would love to read a posting here where someone says "I >>found this rare mint Esquivel record. . .it's now priced $50 at this >certain >>thrift" > >I'm sorry, but no one should be encouraging anyone to ask 50 dollars for any >record. (sorry Jack). >I would pay 15, maybe 20 if it was a real stunner, but if you work hard on >your searching, then surely you deserve a bargain every now and then (not >that I ever find anything...). > >Jonny Jonny, How fucking dare you include me in your post. I have no problem whatsoever with what anyone decides to do with their time. If they consider it precious or not it is their business and their decision for their own peace and state of mind or lack there of. it is their business what people do with their own lives I never name names unless I'm tearing them a new asshole or 12 which is what I'm doing here to you now in the same manner that YOU CHOSE to include me in You made that decision You made me a "player" in your own little theatre called your life without my permission. Please don't do that again Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) 50's jazz Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:52:37 -0800 Lazlo wrote; >Oh yeah. I'm working my way through the Miles Davis/Gil Evans box, and >every track is a revelation. I think I'm in trouble. It's a good trouble though Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Crack 'em or not ? Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:13:44 -0800 Paul Lewis >Subject: (exotica) Sealed > >Any comments on the practice of opening sealed LPs? Who does it and who >doesn't? Well, I've had a sealed Lucia Pamela-Into Outer Space sitting here for a month now and I still ain't cracked it open;)) Jack I like doing it though...ALOT!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) early jazz/swing Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:01:19 -0800 Lazlo asked: > > >I'm looking for CDs that are good samplers of early jazz/swing a la > >Django Reinhart and Glen Gray. Any ideas? > > Here's few that are probably on CD: > > Cats and the Fiddle (Bluebird) > Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Decca) > Joe Venuti (?) > Stephan Grappelli (Still going strong) I'm not "real sure" I understand what you want ___really___ Early early rockabilly that is swing too ? Is that good ? Joquain Records (CD's) who used to be Western (on LP) have just released some Billy Jack Wills (Bob's youngest brother) transcriptions from 1952-54 outta Sacamentie er I mean Sacramento California that is THE SHIT! I just reviewed it for KFJC and though I tried like the devil to get them to categorize it as JAZZ, they said Blah blah balh, it's got steel guitars man. SO WHAT!!! IT'S JAZZ DUDE! Most of the titles are jazz as in Tuxedo Junction, Air Mail Special, Stardust etc and there are a few instros. The liners kill too, It's aan amazing release all the way around and needs to be celebrated Electric lead guitar, electric mandilin by Tiny Moore, trumpet, steel guitar, fiddle, stand up stompin' bass and drums. Vocals by Tiny Moore and Billy Jack I think this is what you need Lazlo;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) sealed LP's Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:17:30 -0800 >From: cscheffy@kinglet.Berkeley.EDU (Clark Scheffy) >Subject: (exotica) sealed LP's > >I LOVE LOVE LOVE opening sealed LP's. Then I stomp on them a bit out >on my driveway so they get that "vintage" sound I love so much. A new >LP sounds too damn good. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ! Ohhhhhhh... some of you guys REALLY crack me up!!! Clark, thank you for that! Jack PS Plink, Plank Plunk!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Sealed rekkids Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:19:38 -0800 anyone ever open up a sealed record jacket only to find a partially pressed rekkid???;(((!!! or 2 very separate and rounded halves ? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhh! jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) Re: Bollywood! Date: 23 Mar 1997 01:43:00 -0500 Jonny.S wrote: > Lots of fun tracks with a few standouts from Bollywood cica the 70's During a recent trip to tower records, I spotted a collection on a budget label (Venus) called Bollywood '95 that has since become my current frequent player. One moment it's hip-hopping, then it's doing a Morricone guitar thing, then it's electronic disco-pop, then a humming chorus of villagers, and maybe a polka?... always with an interesting melody that often has it's own surprises. This one is vol. two and I'm on the lookout for any other releases in the series. (curious if anyone's heard the new Bally Sagoo...) kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Sealed records... Date: 22 Mar 1997 07:39:27 +0000 Further to posts on the vexed subject as to whether or not to open sealed albums, I bought a sealed album which turned out to have the wrong record inside. "The Greatest Hits of The Hollies" may have had merit, and it gave me an opportunity to hear some of their singles in stereo for the first time, but it wasn't what I thought I was buying :-) So I'd say, yes, open. Hugh. (http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tribute/lounge.htm) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Tell 'em this Date: 22 Mar 1997 23:26:32 -0800 Anywhere you go, tell 'em Jack Diamond sen' 'cha, and they'll charge you double # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) pricey records Date: 23 Mar 1997 06:02:25 -0800 >I'm sorry, but no one should be encouraging anyone to ask 50 dollars for any record. (sorry Jack). >I would pay 15, maybe 20 if it was a real stunner, but if you work hard on your searching..... i responded to this post a couple of days ago, but it never made it through. so, if it eventually gets through, pardon the repeat. i have no problem at all with fifty dollar records. if an item is hard to find, desirable and in excellent condition, why not? i visit alot of toy, comic book and antique shows and am very aware of the pricing of fifties / sixties "memoribila". those toys and games and lunch boxes and all the other stuff that many of you grew up with go for big bucks. BIG bucks. i've seen "Quisp" and "Quake" cereal boxes with fifty price tags. Have you priced a mechcanical space toy lately? Like a tin robot with eyes that light up? fifty bucks is nothing. it will barely get you dinner for two or a pair of chinos or a round of golf or a bag of weed or an evening of (for all you swingers :) cigars and martinis - double or triple that if you have to have your vintage fez and smoking jacket. i'm a poor bastard but collect records because i love music AND it is affordable. rid yourselves of this idea that a record should cost no more than a magazine and be thankful. I # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nbccw20@nbnet.nb.ca (nbccw20) Subject: Re: (exotica) Ricky Ricardo Date: 23 Mar 1997 14:38:45 +0000 Joe Kilmartin wrote: > > Actually.. Bablu Music' s PRODUCER was none other than "Weird Al" Yankovic, > a die-hard Desi fan and someone who knows good cocktail-mambo when he hears > it... I know exactly what you're talking about. "Weird Al" did a great job with Babalu Music. We knew he was a Desi fan way back when he did "Ricky" a parody of "Mickey". Anyway, I find it really interesting that "Weird Al"'s name would show up in exotica. As much as I love lounge music (my favorite type of music) my favorite musician will always be Al. I'm just wondering if any one else here likes Weird Al. His music isn't the same music we talk about here but he's still different, interesting, and creative. Just wondering. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net Subject: (exotica) Tipsy on TV Date: 23 Mar 1997 15:50:36 -0500 (EST) *Blatant advertising* I made a point of reviewing the online PC ( political correctness, not personal computer ) nature of advertising before posting this, but I decided that this topic definitely relates to exotica/lounge/ SABPM. my name is Peter. I am in charge of promotions at Asphodel records in NYC. One of our releases in the exotica/lounge/ SABPM categories is "Trip Tease" by the group Tipsy. Perhaps you have heard it. If not, email me for info. We are happy to announce that our first video for Tipsy ( and the first video on our label ) will be aired on MTV! We are very excited at this exposure and hope that many people can enjoy it's airing. It will be shown on the much acclaimed electronica/"next big thing" show: "AMP" The show has been moved from 1 AM Sat/Sun to Friday evening at 9 PM. This jump to prime time will be great for us as we spread Tipsys vibe to many more people. It is the second video in the show after Ryuichi Sakamoto and before DJ Shadow, so for all you diehards that cannot stand that which lies beyond lounge, you won't have to work so hard to catch it. However, there are some other cool vids to check out including the hilarious and exciting Jimi Tenor! For those of you that don't know Jimi...it's worth the wait to sit through the show and check him out. Jimi, like Tipsy, stands out strong in the newest wave of exotica/lounge/ SABPM. *IF* all goes as planned ( delays are often the nature of television programming ) the show will air at 9 PM on Friday 3/28. Hope to see you there! bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker Retail sales manager, Asphodel records, NYC Phone: (212) 965-0265 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Flea Market Follies! Date: 23 Mar 1997 17:18:23 -0500 Just in time for the big "to dig or not to dig" issue...just kidding!! ^_^ Found this weekend at the flea market: The Sound of Speed, composed by Bob Thompson Destination Moon by Leith Stevens (wow!!) Our Man in Latin America by Perez Prado Super-fonics by Caterina Valente The Happy Hits by Dick Schory Les Baxter's Wild Guitars The Call of the Wildest by Louis Prima (with Sam Butera and the Witnesses)--not truly exotic, but what a cover, and who can resist the Wildest clan? Swingin' Things from Cole Porter's "Can Can" by Skip Martin and the Video All Stars--another in Skip's "switched for jazz" series. The End on Bongos by Jack "Bongo" Burger Steel Drums by ??? --no credit given on this cool HiFi label record..."Jungle Cha cha" and other neat titles The Fabulous 50s--neat Columbia sampler with Rosemary Clooney and Marlene Dietrich(!!!) doing "Too Old to Cut the Mustard," plus other 50s gems like "Istanbul," "Skokiaan," etc. Opening Night--tunes for kiddie dance classes...with "The Adams Family" (sic!) Another Voyage by the Ramsey Lewis Trio (kalimba on one track) A Night in Latin America by Tito Portillo (cool Prado-esque sounds) Tuff Guitar Tijuana Style by Al Caiola (I like it a whole lot more than I thought I would) Malaguena--Music of Cuba by Percy Faith Insensatez by Lalo Schifrin PLUS: A whole raft of A+M latin-style albums and A+M latin-style rip-offs for a paper I'm doing on Latin American music in the US for a Latin American culture and mass media course I'm taking. You'd have to be living under a rock to miss these, so I won't mention them--BTW, if anyone has any advice for album covers with good "Baja Marimba Band" style graphics, send 'em along! Thanks, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy on TV Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:34:04 -0400 I like the Tipsy album a lot -- congratulations to Asphodel for bringing it out. Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University 3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7 Phone: (514) 398 7667; Fax: (514) 398 4934 http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/ Co-editor. Topia: A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Maxwell House Blind Date Date: 23 Mar 1997 22:00:50 -0800 (PST) I saw a great 30 second ad on CBS-TV tonight that had this great background music. It was an ad for Maxwell House coffee. This short guy has a blind date with a very tall woman and they meet at his place. He goes off to the kitchen to get them coffee. He uses some sort of instant Maxwell House coffee and does sound effects (blurble, blurble, blurble). The woman interprets the sounds as a cappucino machine. He brings the coffee out and she is impressed. Anyone see and hear this? What is the music? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Music for Better Living playlist Date: 24 Mar 1997 03:17:00 -0500 ***** 3/23/97 ***** Soul Bossa Nova -- QUINCY JONES (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.2) Red River Cha-Cha -- SKIP MARTIN (Perspectives in Percussion Vol.1) The Peanut Vendor -- XAVIER CUGAT & HIS ORCHESTRA (Viva Cugat) La Cucaracha Cha Cha -- TITO RIVERA & HIS CUBAN ORCHESTRA (Cha Cha Cha) In the Mood -- PEREZ PRADO & SHORTY ROGERS (Voodoo Suite) Hey There -- PEGGY LEE (Latin ala Lee) Fever -- RICHARD MARINO & HIS ORCHESTRA (The Magic Beat!) Midnight Madness -- JOE HARNELL & HIS ORCHESTRA (The Sound of the Asphalt Jungle) Tipsy -- HENRY MANCINI (Mr. Lucky) Volare -- JOHN BARRY (The EMI Years Vol.3) Psychopathia Sexualis -- LENNY BRUCE (v/a - The Beat Generation) Penelope -- JOHNNY WILLIAMS with THE PENNYPIPERS (Penelope soundtrack) Caravan -- TOM & JERRY (Guitar's Greatest Hits) Vive L'Amour -- DICKIE DOO & THE DONT'S (A Bachelor in Paris) They Can't Take That Away from Me -- BILLY MURE'S SUPERSONIC GUITARS (Fireworks) Meet Benny Bailey -- THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (s/t) Dreamer -- ASTRUD GILBERTO (The Astrud Gilberto Album) Jim on the Move -- LALO SCHIFRIN (Mission: Anthology) Mi Cafetal -- LIVING MARIMBAS (Mexican Joe & Other Favorites) Petite Fleur -- LAURINDO ALMEIDA & THE BOSSA NOVA ALL-STARS (Viva Bossa Nova) All I Do Is Dream of You -- JAYE P. MORGAN (Just You Just Me) When You're Smiling -- DORIS DAY (Wonderful Day) Mangos -- HENRI RENE (Riot in Rhythm) Do I Love You? -- THE THREE SUNS (Love in the Afternoon) The Girl with the Wiggly Walk -- ALAN BLACK SCHACKNER (The Electric Harmonica) Borodin's Polevitian Dance -- LES BAXTER (Moog Rock) Petite Paulette -- ENOCH LIGHT (4 Channel Stereo Demonstration) Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head -- SIR CHRISTOPHER SCOTT (More Switched on Bacharach) Aquarius -- DICK HYMAN (The Age of Electronicus) Moon River -- PERREY & KINGSLEY (The Essential) Melody #2 -- RICHARD HAYMAN (The Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine) Eleanor Rigby -- WALTER CARLOS (By Request) 124 Miles an Hour -- FRANCIS LAI (Music from the Score of A Man and a Woman) So Danso Samba -- WANDA DE SAH (Softly) Come on a My House -- ROSEMARY CLOONEY (v/a - Cocktail Mix Vol.3) ----- Music for Better Living -- Sundays 6-8pm WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TothMD@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Taylor & Hopkins/Ros/Hair/et al. Date: 23 Mar 1997 21:57:09 -0500 (EST) Whew. There have been a handful of Exotica digests I hadn't gotten around to reading, let alone replying to. Quickly though, I wanted to toss in a couple cents on some recent threads (sorry for quickly bundling them together): - Creed Taylor/Kenyon Hopkins - has anyone brought up their "Sound Tour" series on Verve? "Impressions In Sound of an American On Tour." Produced in conjunction with Esquire (there's that stupid magazine coming up again!) in these crazy trifold-opens-out-from-the-center covers, they were supposed to prepare you for (or be a cheap substitute for) actual exotic vacations. Just like the SHOCK series, they had jazzy tunes with mood-inducing sound effects (plus a booklet with a tourist storyline to follow along with). I have "France" and "Hawaii" and two more are listed inside, "Spain" and "Italy." *Almost* as cool as the SHOCK records, but not quite. - Edmundo Ros' "Hair Goes Latin" IS *ingenious*. One of my ten fave LPs in the broadly defined "Exotica" genre, and the LP that sent me grabbing all the Ros I could find. Most of 'em are pretty nice, with "Bongos from the South" particularly memorable. Still second to Prado in my book, though. Ros typically *sings* on one or two tracks on each LP, and his Spanish-accented "Let the Sunshine In" and "Hare Krishna" are priceless, IMHO. - There were a couple Moog "Hair" LPs I know are out there, but I've never seen 'em. It seemed like there were zillions of LPs around that time that had anywhere from 2-4 "Hair" hits on the same album. Of note in that genre that I've found are Dick Hyman's "Age of Electronicus" Moog LP, and the fabulous, delightfully spacey "Good Morning Starshine" by Tartaglia with Moog & orchestra on Capitol. Ray Bloch had an all-Hair LP with an incredible psychedelic Rorshach-blottish layered photo cover that I've seen in two minor cover variations; it didn't quite live up to its cover for me, but I didn't mind. I had a "DisinHAIRited" 45 that I got in a cutout-45 grab-bag as a tyke with "Washing the World" b/w "The Bed." Fairly bizarre, and I played it incessantly in my formative years. I passed on a $7 copy of the LP 6 years ago and haven't seen one since. Anyone who has the album: how does it measure up? What's the story on those tracks -- did they ever INTEND for them to be part of "Hair?" "Oh, a bed comes complete with pillows and sheets and blanket electric and breath antiseptic" "Washing the world, we're gonna scrub it sunny, waaashing the worrrld!...with a little water and soap, a little laughter and hope, we'll make this whole world cleeeean. We'll make this whole world cleeeeeeeeeeean!" (from memory - ouch!) Michael David Toth TothMD@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nbccw20@nbnet.nb.ca (nbccw20) Subject: Re: (exotica) Maxwell House Blind Date Date: 24 Mar 1997 08:05:57 +0000 bag@hubris.net wrote: > > I saw a great 30 second ad on CBS-TV tonight that had this great background > music. > Anyone see and hear this? What is the music? No, but I'm always noticing commercials with cocktail/lounge music these days since it's become popular again. -Q # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: Re: (exotica) a video report Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:58:31 -0500 >Hello everyone. > >Saw some great films yesterday, a friend had ordered a bunch of videos from >"Something Weird". Something Weird Video has tons of low-budget movies with wonderful soundtracks. I can highly recommend "Something Weird" (the movie that named the company) for its nutty score with moments that sound like Hal Blaine's "Psychedelic Percussion!" Just watch the attacking blanket scene and see what I mean! Also worth catching: "She Freak": Heavy on organ and electric guitar--I like this one a lot! "Blood Feast": Cool enough to be reissued on LP in the early 80s. Eerie organ and violin mix, with a little tympani thrown in (I think). Any Herschell Gordon Lewis movie is certain to have cool music. "Double Agent 73": Cool 70s lounge music. Not "Shaft-style", more like resturaunt music trying to sound like spy music. This movie is not for the faint of heart!! ;) "The Thrill Killers": Excellent action-packed score! (also check out Rat Pfink a Boo Boo's blistering theme tune!) "The Phantom of Soho": Super cool crime jazz sounds. "Teenage Gang Debs": The title says it all. JD jazz and great rock tunes to boot! "Manos, the Hands of Fate": Forget what you've heard: this movie is worth catching just for the wild bongo solos on the soundtrack! I could go on and on, but I hate to sound like a fanatic. See you at the movies, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) TIPSY Date: 24 Mar 1997 05:59:04 -0800 So I met 1/2 of the genius duo that created TIPSY yesterday at the KUSF Rekkid Swap and he told me that I and KFJC were the 1st to "discover" the "ties" between the "New and the Old" It was Dick Hyman's riff in Bye Bye Blues from Moon Gasssssssss in TIPSY's Nude Vollyball. I played them back to back. Of yeeeeeeeeeeeeah The 1st on the planet or any other planet for that matter;) KFJC is still and always is FIRST... by years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.kfjc.org OK kid, now watch the pea go under the shell...you see it ?...there it is and then.......there it isn't Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johnston-Reading Subject: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:31:50 -0800 >As far as I know from my own research is that real space age bachelors >didn't listen to what "many of us" know as SABPM or Space Age Pop but what >they did listen to was jazz, plain and simple. Jack makes an excellent point. As much as I love most of the stuff that is discussed on the list, 30 or 40 years ago no self-respecting "hipster" would be caught dead with a Three Suns OR a Martin Denny record. They were the Kenny G's and Yanni's of their day. And I say that from more of a sociological, rather than musical point of view. In other words, a typical listener from 1960 was probably "using" a Martin Denny album for the same reasons that someone might throw on a Kenny G CD in 1997; to provide pleasant background music or "atmosphere." And before I'm engulfed in flames, please note that the above statement has nothing to do with musical merit. I don't own, nor have I ever owned a Kenny G disc. But it's certainly possible that in 30 years a new generation will find Kenny G "hip," listening to him in the context of a different era (disturbing as that may be to some of you). On the other hand, Art Pepper, Sun Ra, Dizzy, Bill Evans Zoot Sims, Coltane, Miles and a hundred more will ALWAYS be cool. Michael R. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) a video report Date: 24 Mar 1997 15:42:45 GMT > From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) > > Something Weird Video has tons of low-budget movies with wonderful > soundtracks. I can highly recommend "Something Weird" (the movie that named > the company) for its nutty score with moments that sound like Hal Blaine's > "Psychedelic Percussion!" Just watch the attacking blanket scene and see > what I mean! > > Also worth catching: > I've got to mention Suzuki Seijun's films "Branded To Kill" and "Tokyo Drifter". These are 60s Japanese yakuza gangster movies: tongue in cheek, with intelligent but convoluted storytelling and many director's pranks. The groovy gangster HQ in "Tokyo Drifter" has little fur lined alcoves in the walls to contain stuff like telephones (hence is cool), and is at the back of a go-go club (hence is even cooler): every time someone opens the door you get a blast of music and occasional shots of groovy teenagers. The soundtracks are excellent crime jazz (i.e. containing many jazz crimes) with bonus go-go, etc. plus the obligatory oft-repeated mournful song: the lyrics in Branded To Kill start off "Who is that man / He has a pale face / I think I've seen him before / I want to kill him / *gunshot effect* / But he's gone''. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. I often find myself humming "Sukiayaki" or the music from "A Better Tomorrow". These were released on video by the ICA in Britain a couple of years ago, so they might be available. Branded To Kill is the best. "Zoltan: Hound Of Dracula" also has many odd musical things. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) fifty bucks is fine Date: 21 Mar 1997 21:04:53 -0800 I open sealed LP's immediately and have absolutely no problem with fifty dollar records. Perfectly fair pricing, in my opinion. you want a near mint copy of Moon Gas? go ahead and try to find it at your Salvation Army. you may not even be able to find it through a collector. so why should you expect it to be five bucks? i've said it before and i'll say it again - record collecting is very afforable. Yes, it is - that's one of the reasons i got started in it in the first place. i am very aware of what the collectible market for fifties and sixties memoribilia is. Just stop by any baseball card, comic, toy, doll or antique show and look at the prices. All those toys and games and cereal boxes and lunch pails that many of you grew up with...do you have any idea what kind of prices they now command? fifty dollars will barely get you the box that GI Joe or Barbie came in. Rid yourselves of the idea that records should cost no more than a magazine. why should a highly desirable, hard to find, mint condition record album be any different? well, it IS different - it's fifty bucks instead of five hundred or a thousand. Be thankful and dig in! bye for now and keep those collector's lists coming... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghostown@ix.netcom.com Subject: (exotica) Theremin Festival Date: 23 Mar 1997 23:55:46 -0400 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Theremin Festival------- Don't miss it! Thereminists Lydia Kavina and Eric Ross will wave their arms in the air. Robert Moog, Elliott Schwartz, Albert Glinsky, and Olivia Mattis will talk. Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21 at the Portland Performing Arts Center Portland, Maine * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Another re-issue label heard from Date: 24 Mar 1997 10:48:05 -0500 Here's an item I picked up from Tower's e-zine, Epulse. Does anyone have any info on Hip-O? --Lou BTW, this epulse issue also contains part 1 of a two part appreciation of John Hartford written by Skip Heller. >--- THE EPULSE8 >>>> A peek at the notebooks of your favorite editors >1. smokin' in tha boy's room: > Anyone with active olfactory equipment knows that stogies have made a >big comeback. Discriminating palates of both genders have been spotted -- >and smelled -- whilst igniting stinkers at finer establishments everywhere, >so the four-volume 'CIGAR CLASSICS' series, compiled by those connoisseurs >of combustibles at Universal Music Special Markets for their reissue >imprint Hip-O (out now), should come as no big surprise. The series, culled >mainly from Universal's vast label portfolio (or "humidor," as the series' >subtitle puts it), is hit-and-miss from a stogiephile's standpoint, i.e., >some of this stuff is smoking-jacket cool, and some of it isn't. 'VOL. 1: >THE STANDARDS' adheres closest to the "class"-as-defined-by-Vegas >aesthetic, with lotsa stuff sourced from old Decca sides: the Mills >Brothers, the Ink Spots, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan, Bing Crosby w/ the >Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland. With 'VOL. 2: URBAN FIRE,' things get a bit >dodgier: The vibe here is decidedly Swisher Sweet, what with "Car Wash" >(Rose Royce), "I Gotcha" (Joe Tex), "Popcorn" (Hot Butter) and "Tell Me >Something Good" (Rufus w/ Chaka Khan) padding the bluesier offerings of >Bobby Bland, Denise LaSalle and Ike & Tina Turner; much of this volume is >mid-'70s r&b culled (ironically) from the ABC-Dunhill catalog. 'VOL. 3: >COOL SMOKES' is, perhaps, the most Cohiba-friendly set; it opens with John >Coltrane sweetly blowing the Sinatra-identified standard "Nancy (With the >Laughing Face)," then meanders through Coleman Hawkins, Shirley Scott, >Dizzy Gillespie, Hal McKusick, Johnny Hartman w/ Illinois Jacquet, Ramsey >Lewis, Ben Webster, Betty Carter, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Odell Brown and >Gerry Mulligan sides before finishing with Johnny Hartman crooning "I Just >Dropped By to Say Hello." If you're gonna buy one, we recommend this, as >most of it is sourced from Universal's Impulse! and Cadet/Argo catalogs; >it's mellow jazz that made us want to burn Churchills whilst listening. >Don't know what those Hip-O boys were burning when they compiled 'VOL. 4: >SMOKIN' LOUNGE,' though, but we suspect it had a higher hemp content than >your average Hoyo de Monterrey: The pair of Perez Prado cuts licensed from >RCA/BMG make sense, but some of this stuff has more of an exotica vibe >(Frank Hunter's "Ritual of the Torch," Earl Grant's goofy "Ebb Tide" >replete with weird bird noises -- i.e., pipe-smoker music) and some is >straight from Neptune (a pair of Enoch Light sides from the whizbang >audio-geek Command label with tailfin-esque stereo-gimmick effects). But >the album's closing cut comes from far beyond this solar system: Whoever >picked William Shatner's ridiculously histrionic "Lucy (in the Sky With >Diamonds)" to close the set musta been inspired by, if not a dose of >Owsley, then at least a good bong hit or two. The series' graphics are >quite pretty (think cigar motif), and getting Milton Berle to write liner >notes was a stroke of subgenius, especially his "I always noticed there a >lot more old cigar smokers than old doctors" line: Go Uncle Miltie! >To subscribe to epulse, send the message "subscribe epulse-L" to the >address listserv@netcom.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 24 Mar 1997 11:14:42 -0500 At 7:31 AM 3/24/97, Johnston-Reading wrote: >>As far as I know from my own research is that real space age bachelors >>didn't listen to what "many of us" know as SABPM or Space Age Pop but what >>they did listen to was jazz, plain and simple. > >Jack makes an excellent point. As much as I love most of the stuff that is >discussed on the list, 30 or 40 years ago no self-respecting "hipster" would >be caught dead with a Three Suns OR a Martin Denny record. They were the >Kenny G's and Yanni's of their day. And I say that from more of a >sociological, rather than musical point of view. In other words, a typical >listener from 1960 was probably "using" a Martin Denny album for the same >reasons that someone might throw on a Kenny G CD in 1997; to provide >pleasant background music or "atmosphere." And before I'm engulfed in >flames, please note that the above statement has nothing to do with musical >merit. I don't own, nor have I ever owned a Kenny G disc. But it's >certainly possible that in 30 years a new generation will find Kenny G >"hip," listening to him in the context of a different era (disturbing as >that may be to some of you). > >On the other hand, Art Pepper, Sun Ra, Dizzy, Bill Evans Zoot Sims, Coltane, >Miles and a hundred more will ALWAYS be cool. > >Michael R. > 10,000 agreements from me, as a lover of the pate *and* liverwurst! I could'nt agree with you more. Thanks for making such a daring statement. If you are flamed, I will give you some water bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Retail Sales Manager Asphodel Records, NYC phone # (212) 965-0265, FAX # (212) 965-0959 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Apology Date: 24 Mar 1997 08:50:46 -0800 Dear members of the Exotica Mailing List. I screwed up and included all of you in my FLAME to this Jonny person. That wasn't appropriate as you had nothing to do with it whatsoever Please accept my most sincere apology as it will never happen again Jack Diamond # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Re: Fantastica Date: 24 Mar 1997 09:15:44 -0800 I sold a stone mint inside and out Black and Silver label stereo copy of Russ Garcia's Fantastica to this person a couple of weeks ago. He had it when he was just a kid in the late 50's/early 60's so that makes him, Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm how old ? >To: dyemund@best.com >Subject: Re: Fantastica > >>Jack Diamond wrote: >>Well it was released on CD from the Japanese. Usually sold for about $40 >>BUT it's been out of print for quite awhile. >> >>I have the CD and the record and LOVE the record so much more. >> >>So are you interested in other outer space Easy Listening types of musics >>with electronics ? >> > >My story: (This is rambling and long-winded--just delete it if you >want!) > > In the late 1950's a local classical dance instructor used Fantastica >as the music and theme for her annual dance reviev in which I and my >sister >were participants. I liked the record and obtained a copy for myself. >I >played it over and over on my cheap record player; I dubbed it to reel >to >reel tape in order to preserve it. Since then I misplaced the record (I >loaned >it out I think) and also accidently erased most of the tape. At that >time >I made no particular effor to save records as I thought that once a >record >was produced, it would always be available; if not from a music store, >it >could surely be ordered from somewhere. Especially since the >reproducing >equipment of the day was very hard on records. (Hi-Fidelity outfits >with >decent turntables were owned only by an elite few!) > > Of course later I learned that this was not the case. (I still don't >know what happens to the original source material and why it's not just >copied and made available on more modern media but that may just be my >ignorance.) Anyway, I have been looking for my old favorites at used >record >shops, flea markets, antique stores and more recently via the internet >(on >which I am a novice user!) At the suggestion of one used records shop >owner >(collectors records in Dallas) I subscribed to a couple of record >collecting >magazines, but I can't figgure them out. They seem to just be lists of >people's collections that are being auctioned or something. (I was >hoping there >would be information about what to collect, why to collect it, why >record xxx >is so collectible, where to look for stuff and how to research records: >the >historical significance, the who, what, where and why of the record >etc. But >the magazines seem to be for people who already know all that.) I have >been >looking for how to find information about records (such as Fantastica) >but >these publications don't seem to be much help. When you responded to my >news >posting, I jumped at the opportunity to obtain a copy of the record I >used >to have. > I don't consider myself a record collector per se, but I do obtain >stuff I like. My interests are some classical, big-bands, swing, and >easy >listening. I like some 50's rock and roll but I do not like the later >Rock >that beats you up! > > Since CD's have become available, I have concentrated on them; >especially since much of the good old music has been re-released on >them. >And CD's are the first and only media available to the public that >provide >a totaly non-destructive playback! (And perfect fidelity to boot!) > > My current phoebia is Theatre Pipe Organ. I am attempting to obtain >all of the CD's that are or ever have been made of the Theatre Organ. I >currently have about 150 and usually about 10 new ones come out each >year. >This is a very small market and very few people are involved. I get all >of the catalogs and am subscribed to all of the publications regarding >Theatre Pipe organ. Maybe someday some of the old Theatre organ artists >(from the 20's and 30's) will be released on CD but I doubt it as most >of the >source material would likely be 78 (or 80) rpm records. > > I am collecting some electronic organ records from the 60's but I >am not really concentrating on them. (These are often the $1.00 >"K-tels" >etc. originaly sold at the grocery store etc.) I just pick them up at >the >flea markets etc. > > I am interested in the Theremin and would like to learn about and >perhaps obtain some recordings that used the Theremin. There are >supposed to be some 'significant' recordings but I have not learned >about >what has been produced yet. I built a Theremin as a high-school science >project around 1959 or 1960 from the "Popular Electronics" magazine >plans >and have noticed a renewed interest recently in the electronic music >area. >I don't know if the Theremin was used in "Fantastica", however, I would >like to know what was used. (There are and were other electronic means >to >generate Thermin like sounds.) > > I would be interested in learning about easy listening, 'outer-space' >type music and perhaps obtaining some examples. > > I'm sorry if I have bored you with the above dissertation but you seem >have taken an interest in one of my hobbies. > >Regards, Richard. Ain't that cool ? OK kid, now watch the pea go under the shell...you see it ?...there it is and then.......there it isn't Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Kai Winding's Soul Surfing (More) Date: 24 Mar 1997 12:28:09 -0500 >He's got another killer rekkid called MORE with 5 guitar players featuring >Kenny Burrel on reverb deluxe electric guitar in the lead role. "More" was also released as "Soul Surfin'" the same way Arthur Lyman's Wish You Love was also released as Love for Sale. It's a VERY short record (but that generally is a virtue). Shows that Winding wished he'd been a guitar player, his hippest LP. Readily available (as surf records go). There's also Heavy Vibrations, The In Instrumentals, and some others from the 60s. Winding was in love with the Ondioline, which is a significant bonus -- it's a much better-sounding instrument [in recorded pop music] than the theremin. tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Ever hear of this one ? Date: 24 Mar 1997 09:43:07 -0800 The Electric Piano Playground - Electric Seeds (Bell Records) The 1st psychedelic LP to come out of Nashville Fuzzy psych steel guitars, alvino rey type talking guitars, kazoos, electric pianos. 5 Stars indeed! Rockin' out and veeeeeeeeeeeeeery very cool! Listen for it Sunday on 89.7FM starting at 9AM Find it now! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) pricey records and EARTHA KITT Date: 24 Mar 1997 12:49:20 -0500 >fifty bucks is nothing. it will barely get you dinner for two or a pair of >chinos or a round of golf or a bag of weed or an evening of (for all you >swingers :) cigars and martinis - double or triple that if you have to have >your vintage fez and smoking jacket. > > i'm a poor bastard but collect records because i love music AND it is >affordable. rid yourselves of this idea that a record should cost no more >than a magazine and be thankful. This starving artist just blew a month's worth of record shopping for one precious night of 70+ year old Eartha Kitt. She was great, and like the records, won't be around forever. Turned her down about 5 years bc of price, but that was before collecting all her records and the three autobiographies (she's entitled). Also before loosening up and seeing that some things in life are worth giving it up for. [Time to make the mac'n cheese.] "With my champagne taste and your beer budget..." -- Eartha Kitt tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) cheap stuff alert! Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:02:19 -0400 Forget the thrift stores for a second, kids! If you have a CIRCUIT CITY in your town, they're having a really good CD blow-out....There are probably Scott Walker CDS there, too! For instance, a bunch of sound-tracks, CAN'T STAND THE REZILLOS for $5, and for $1.92, JUST A LITTLE/BEAU BRUMMELS... It's like being at the Good Will of CDS! "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: david.trezza@etak.com (David Trezza) Subject: Re: (exotica) fifty bucks is fine Date: 24 Mar 1997 10:07:22 -0800 (PST) I don't have a problem with $50 price tags, especially when you relate it to other collectibles like others have mentioned. I used to deal baseball cards, and have spent 50+ on a card and what do you get other than a questionable investment? Records are an investment that performs. At this point, I haven't spent $50 on a record because my want list isn't that narrowed down to that level yet. I can support my habit with affordables at this point. This week's edition of the weekend finds: Extremely productive weekend, an all-star cast. Denny - Hypnotique Denny - Afrodesia Denny - Primitiva [nice black label stereo] Lyman - Taboo #2 Hyman - Fantomfingers Mottola - 3 nice Project 3 selections. The Merriest of Christmas Pops [The biggest surprise] June Christy - Something Cool Hayman - Cinemagic Hits [Movie Moog] A stunning Hawaiian Decca release by Alex Stordahl, gatefold with many pictures inside. 3 Suns - Ding Dong Xmas album 3 Suns - Fever & Smoke [scratching post kitty damage to spine, but nice vinyl, other than the fact it's the mono release] Prado - Mambo Mania One of the more interesting finds was a reading of To My Beloved [I think that's right], with nice background music. An old glossy Atlantic release. Harmonicats - The Cat's Meow Tak Shindo - Accent on bamboo Most for $1, all under $5, most from estate sales. Happy hunting, Dago # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dada@dma.be (Johan Dada Vis) Subject: (exotica) 'CIGAR CLASSICS' series Date: 24 Mar 1997 19:20:01 +0100 >From: owner-epulse-l@majordomo.netcom.com > >1. smokin' in tha boy's room: > Anyone with active olfactory equipment knows that stogies have made a >big comeback. Discriminating palates of both genders have been spotted -- >and smelled -- whilst igniting stinkers at finer establishments everywhere, >so the four-volume 'CIGAR CLASSICS' series, compiled by those connoisseurs >of combustibles at Universal Music Special Markets for their reissue >imprint Hip-O (out now), should come as no big surprise. The series, culled >mainly from Universal's vast label portfolio (or "humidor," as the series' >subtitle puts it), is hit-and-miss from a stogiephile's standpoint, i.e., >some of this stuff is smoking-jacket cool, and some of it isn't. 'VOL. 1: >THE STANDARDS' adheres closest to the "class"-as-defined-by-Vegas >aesthetic, with lotsa stuff sourced from old Decca sides: the Mills >Brothers, the Ink Spots, Peggy Lee, Louis Jordan, Bing Crosby w/ the >Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland. With 'VOL. 2: URBAN FIRE,' things get a bit >dodgier: The vibe here is decidedly Swisher Sweet, what with "Car Wash" >(Rose Royce), "I Gotcha" (Joe Tex), "Popcorn" (Hot Butter) and "Tell Me >Something Good" (Rufus w/ Chaka Khan) padding the bluesier offerings of >Bobby Bland, Denise LaSalle and Ike & Tina Turner; much of this volume is >mid-'70s r&b culled (ironically) from the ABC-Dunhill catalog. 'VOL. 3: >COOL SMOKES' is, perhaps, the most Cohiba-friendly set; it opens with John >Coltrane sweetly blowing the Sinatra-identified standard "Nancy (With the >Laughing Face)," then meanders through Coleman Hawkins, Shirley Scott, >Dizzy Gillespie, Hal McKusick, Johnny Hartman w/ Illinois Jacquet, Ramsey >Lewis, Ben Webster, Betty Carter, James Moody, Zoot Sims, Odell Brown and >Gerry Mulligan sides before finishing with Johnny Hartman crooning "I Just >Dropped By to Say Hello." If you're gonna buy one, we recommend this, as >most of it is sourced from Universal's Impulse! and Cadet/Argo catalogs; >it's mellow jazz that made us want to burn Churchills whilst listening. >Don't know what those Hip-O boys were burning when they compiled 'VOL. 4: >SMOKIN' LOUNGE,' though, but we suspect it had a higher hemp content than >your average Hoyo de Monterrey: The pair of Perez Prado cuts licensed from >RCA/BMG make sense, but some of this stuff has more of an exotica vibe >(Frank Hunter's "Ritual of the Torch," Earl Grant's goofy "Ebb Tide" >replete with weird bird noises -- i.e., pipe-smoker music) and some is >straight from Neptune (a pair of Enoch Light sides from the whizbang >audio-geek Command label with tailfin-esque stereo-gimmick effects). But >the album's closing cut comes from far beyond this solar system: Whoever >picked William Shatner's ridiculously histrionic "Lucy (in the Sky With >Diamonds)" to close the set musta been inspired by, if not a dose of >Owsley, then at least a good bong hit or two. The series' graphics are >quite pretty (think cigar motif), and getting Milton Berle to write liner >notes was a stroke of subgenius, especially his "I always noticed there a >lot more old cigar smokers than old doctors" line: Go Uncle Miltie! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) What you missed Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:28:52 -0500 (EST) If you didn't hear David Garland's Spinning On Air radio show (in NY) this past Saturday you missed hearing an hour of highly-commercial commercially-unavailable advertising and production music composed by Mel Henke, Les Baxter, Denis Farnon, Dean Elliot, Jack Fascinato, and more. Where's the reissue label that'll put this stuff out in the market for us?!? Don't you want pieces with titles like 'slowly rotating octagonal man' spinning on your rig? And here's a consumer tip: If you plan on hosting a Luau this year, call the Oriental Trading Company at 800-228-269 and request the Spring Catalog #144. Look for the 7+ page Fun Under The Sun section featuring 8 styles of grass skirts, real coconut bras, the deluxe luau decorating kit, 24" and 13" bamboo tiki torches, and my favorites, the Umbrella Straws. --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) URL 45 sleeves Date: 24 Mar 1997 14:12:24 EST This is a bandwith-challenged site, and rather sloth-like, but it looks derned interesting... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) Sandpapered, etc. Date: 24 Mar 1997 14:13:02 EST Hola, > I LOVE LOVE LOVE opening sealed LP's. Then I stomp on them a bit out > on my driveway so they get that "vintage" sound I love so much. > A new LP sounds too damn good. What about Sandpipered albums? Might as well toss those away too. I came across a Pete Rugolo rekkid (Arugula record?) this weekend that had *kids* engraved all over it. Shuffleboard, perhaps? Or one of my favorite activities, with more recent vintage (and more flexible) vinyl, playing *flying disc* and skipping the thing off of asphalt to make a bounce pass to your record-collecting and exchanging partner(s). I may have to go back and get the record anyway, I could use a Hokey Pokey sound machine (whatever its called - Archie McPhee catalog) to play it. Jack, should I grab ANY Rugolo, despite condition, (we're talking 50 cents here) to at least hear the stuff? I figure I'm gonna get hooked. One my tolerance goes way up, I'll have to shell out for the high purity stuff. Ray (Jolly Ollie Orange) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: (exotica) Suggestions and Questions Date: 24 Mar 1997 15:55:10 -0500 (EST) I ask this again because I haven't heard anything in months... Does anyone know if and when Yma Sumac will be appearing in the US? A bit off-topic, but I thought there would be plenty of people in the know... Can anyone suggest a good source for exposure to late 60's and early 70's black funk/soul? I hear a lot that I like, but don't know names to go look for the stuff on vinyl. I'm looking for some heavy bass, phase shifted guitar, sex-filled lyrical references, etc. Any source on the net for sound samples of this type? BTW: shame on anyone who has bought into this David Helfgott crap... I gagged when I saw a CD for $17 at Tower Records. Paul Lewis lewis@netlab.texsci.edu Coordinator of Academic Computing (215) 951-2834 [office] Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science "We do it because we are compelled." -Alan Moore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ariel Tagar Subject: (exotica) GRAND ROYAL #3 Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:08:27 +0300 (IDT) In the new addition of the GRAND ROYAL MAGAZINE, there is a huge section regarding moogs, theremins, synthisized music, moog albums reviews and artitsts interviews. go and get it! ariel the EASY PAGE (easy listening and longecore culture) http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076 ariel@tokyomail.com, arielt@inter.net.il Ariel Tagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Steve Zimmerman" Subject: Re:(exotica) Suggestions and Questions Date: 24 Mar 1997 14:31:41 +0000 > Can anyone suggest a good source for exposure to late 60's and > early 70's black funk/soul? I hear a lot that I like, but don't know > names to go look for the stuff on vinyl. I'm looking for some heavy > bass, phase shifted guitar, sex-filled lyrical references, etc. Any > source on the net for sound samples of this type? Hello, group. http://dustygroove.com has several great breakbeat samples and sells what looks like some pretty neat stuff, although I've yet to actually buy anything. Does anyone know where to get price info on old Keane prints. I found a great one for $3 yesterday and I'm curious - not about to sell, though. *************************************************** Steve Zimmerman Multimedia Learning, Inc. stevez@media.com **************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: gsassoun@lehman.com (Garo Sassouni) Subject: Re: (exotica) TIPSY Date: 24 Mar 1997 20:50:46 EST > From: Jack Diamond > Subject: (exotica) TIPSY > > So I met 1/2 of the genius duo that created TIPSY yesterday at the KUSF > Rekkid Swap and he told me that I and KFJC were the 1st to "discover" the > "ties" between the "New and the Old" > > It was Dick Hyman's riff in Bye Bye Blues from Moon Gasssssssss > in TIPSY's Nude Vollyball. > I played them back to back. Of yeeeeeeeeeeeeah > > Jack > Here's another one: the bass line and the catchy organ riff in Tipsy's tune "Space Golf" are virtually identical to the one's in Sir Julian's "Caravan" recorded in 1960. They are played in the same key (sampled?). Play these back to back and you'll know what I'm saying. Garo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: (exotica) emil richards Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:43:00 -0500 Cartoon jazz percussion? I'm a real fan of Emil Richards' quirky inventiveness - both in the moogy originals on Stones, and in the cover versions of New Time Element. Finally picked up a recent cd of his that I'd been eyeing called Wonderful World of Percussion - and it delivers! It opens with a melody from Stones in a new piece and continues through 50 min. of wonderfulness. He plays every instrument on this.. and there is a wide variety here - angklungs, flapamba, m'bira, philipino devil chasers, cat meows, whiskey bottle, duck call, fight bells.... lots of others. If you like his work on those classic exotica records, you won't go wrong with this one. kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: shereen@worldsite.net (Kevin Lee) Subject: (exotica) stupid question (portishead) Date: 24 Mar 1997 18:08:23 -0700 ok, someone told me that Portishead had swindled much of their hit tune, "nobody loves me" (i think that's the title right?) from Lalo Schifrin. but i have yet to find which schifrin soundtrack it's from. was this a lie? told you this was a dumb question. kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin Festival Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:08:32 -0800 (PST) At 11:55 PM 3/23/97 -0400, ghostown@ix.netcom wrote:. >Theremin Festival---. >Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21 >at the Portland Performing Arts Center Wow, you mean.... >Portland, Maine DRATS! Byron Caloz Portland, OREGON # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "kevin king" Subject: Re: (exotica) stupid question (portishead) Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:47:43 -0500 Kevin Lee wrote: > someone told me that Portishead had swindled much of their hit tune, > "nobody loves me" (i think that's the title right?) from Lalo > Schifrin. but i have yet to find which schifrin soundtrack it's > from. Not a dumb question, but a 'Dummy' question. Get it? hahaha The sample in 'sour times (nobody loves me)' is from 'Danube Incident' which is indeed from Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible. I just saw the Mission Anthology cd at a local shop which has both MI Lps and I believe is out of print (replaced by a one-fer of the first Lp) Don't know how hard this is to find, but if anyone's interested I can grab it next time I'm there. And that Portishead cd has similar sampling all over.. beautiful stuff, if you like terribly depressed trippy lounge singing. And who doesn't? kevin king xanadu@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~xanadu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) stupid question (portishead) Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:09:55 -0800 kevin king wrote: > > Kevin Lee wrote: > > > someone told me that Portishead had swindled much of their hit tune, > > "nobody loves me" (i think that's the title right?) from Lalo > > Schifrin. but i have yet to find which schifrin soundtrack it's > > from. > > Not a dumb question, but a 'Dummy' question. Get it? hahaha > The sample in 'sour times (nobody loves me)' is from 'Danube > Incident' which is indeed from Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible. One of the online exotica jukeboxes has this tune on it. Sorry I can't remember which one!! Anyone else know...? pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clean@bitstream.net Subject: Re: (exotica) stupid question (portishead) Date: 25 Mar 1997 02:27:48 -0600 >kevin king wrote: >> >> Kevin Lee wrote: >> >> > someone told me that Portishead had swindled much of their hit tune, >> > "nobody loves me" (i think that's the title right?) from Lalo >> > Schifrin. but i have yet to find which schifrin soundtrack it's >> > from. >> >> Not a dumb question, but a 'Dummy' question. Get it? hahaha >> The sample in 'sour times (nobody loves me)' is from 'Danube >> Incident' which is indeed from Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible. > >One of the online exotica jukeboxes has this tune on it. Sorry I can't >remember which one!! Anyone else know...? > > yeah... "Danube Incident" is from Lalo's "More Mission: Impossible" LP. You can hear the track on my wesbite's "in Hi-Fi": http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean (it's on Show#1) - Dean visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Straight Line (was: re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music) Date: 25 Mar 1997 03:25:44 -0500 CitiGuy471@aol.com writes: >They ALL wore ascots and henweighs... What's a henweigh? ----- Music for Better Living -- Sundays 6-8pm WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rcb@ednet.co.uk Subject: (exotica) Re: sale list Date: 25 Mar 1997 10:57:15 +0000 Mark - I bought the US currency yesterday but realised I don't have your address! Not sure if you have mine, it's: R C Baldock 23a Blacket Place Edinburgh EH9 1RJ UK Robbie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: keitha@Perigee.net (Keith Allison) Subject: (exotica) Stranded Date: 25 Mar 1997 09:07:52 -0500 I recently moved from Florida to Charlotte North Carolina, which in retrospect was a bad idea. I was surprised upon settling into Charlotte to find that I could dig up nary a decent record store. Media Play is about it, or hippy record stores stocking scratched up old Steve Miller LPs. No exotica, no lounge, no rockabilly or surf except for the recent flood of lounge comps on CD at Media Play. I'm hanging onto the hope that I'm just missing something. If anyone out there know much about record shopping here in the Queen City, please fill me in, because I can't afford more gas for endless weekends of wandering around aimlessly in a hopeless search. Keith keitha@perigee.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: Re:(exotica) Suggestions and Questions Date: 25 Mar 1997 09:51:13 -0500 >Does anyone know where to get price info on old Keane prints. I found >a great one for $3 yesterday and I'm curious - not about to sell, >though. There is a Keane*gallery* in San Francisco. They exhibit and sell prints and originals. I don't know the name. You've gotta do some research. If travelling, it's on lower Market in the Financial district. bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Retail Sales Manager Asphodel Records, NYC phone # (212) 965-0265, FAX # (212) 965-0959 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: anita_serwacki@newline.com (ANITA SERWACKI) Subject: (exotica) Andre Popp/Boris Vian Date: 25 Mar 1997 10:57:15 -0500 While digging through my stacks of purchased but never played records, I discovered an album entitled "Chansons possibles, ou impossibles..." by a cabaret singer named Boris Vian (it's on Philips - but a French pressing). Each side includes an incredible instrumental composed by Vian and A. Goraguer, and performed by Andre Popp and his orch. The tracks are "La Java Des Bombes Atomiques" and "La Java Martienne". Any Andre Popp fanatics have any info on this? At the very least I'd be interested in determining the year it was released. Anita # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) If Esquire bothered you ... Date: 24 Mar 1997 18:10:06 -0500 then take a look at Milo Miles' article for the on-line mag salon1999: http://www.salon1999.com/10/reviews/lounge1.html Aren't purists tiresome? --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) first marcy record Date: 24 Mar 1997 19:10:31 -0800 helllloooo! got my first Marcy record this weekend, oh sweet jeezus on the mountain top! you all know Marcy, right? you'll find her doing Gospell Express on one of the ISM cd's. Marcy is Marcy Tigner, a fine Christian woman who wanted to pursue a career as a vocalist, but sounded like she was seven years old! So her hubby suggested she get herself a dummy (Little Marcy) and make children's records. a singing ventriliquist (sp?) if you will. Sings about God and warns that you are BAD if you don't attend sunday school. although suitable for the whole family, there is something very sick and demented about this Marcy broad and her recordings. which is probably why i liked it. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Jack Fetterman Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:27:03 -0800 I'm trying to locate jack fetterman. Please everyone else pardon this irrelevant post as this is the only way I know how to contact him. That includes you too Lazlo;) Jack Got your mail about your mailbox being full so when I replied it bounced back twice telling me it was full (again) sp I guess it's still full ? Good luck;) Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) Sidney Poitier Date: 24 Mar 1997 21:41:47 -0800 I have an amazing record that this sensitive, dramatic actor put out in the sixites on the Warner Bros label called "Poitier Meets Plato". Backed by beautiful jazz supplied by Fred Katz, Poitier interprets the works of the great philosopher. Katz also provided the background music for Ken Nordine on "Word Jazz" and "Son Of Word Jazz". I have heard there are a couple of other titles by Poitier and wonder how they compare to the Plato recording. They are "Journeys Inside The Mind" and "Poetry Of The Black Man". If someone could furnish me with a little info on one of my favorite actor's recording efforts, it would be most appreciated! thanks... Q: Which track in "Guess Who's Coming Dinner" features a sitar? A: Groovy Delivery Boy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) What you missed #2 Date: 24 Mar 1997 15:44:05 -0500 At 01:28 PM 3/24/97 -0500, I wrote: >And here's a consumer tip: >If you plan on hosting a Luau this year, call the Oriental Trading Company >at 800-228-269 and request the Spring Catalog #144. Uh, that should be 800-228-2269. Damn '2' key musta been stickin' again. --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: basic hip Subject: (exotica) ditto Date: 24 Mar 1997 21:47:30 -0800 sorry about the multiple copies of the same post... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: heileson@u.washington.edu (Thom Heileson) Subject: (exotica) reviews Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:40:52 -0700 among this weekend's highlights was a visit the backdoor lounge's "rat pack" nite in downtown seattle. great tunes, great thrift store art (and choice rekkid sleeves), 2 dollar flavoured martinis, free pizza. (i discovered that a seagram's & seven, when done _well_, is my new drink du choix.) found a copy of ye olde organs & bongos zine there, surely because it contains a review of the backdoor -- the zine itself i recommend as well. recent relevant musique acquisitions: sukia: sukia highly recommended. it is belly-quakingly hilarious, in a mindbending way. ween meets 60s sci fi flick music and spy music. chock full of cheez whiz, but the gourmet brand of. theremins, moogs, and surf-guitar, oh my. these guys are asking for a serious spanking, and after being seduced by their phunky "music", i am just about keen to deliver it, with affection. i gar-un-teee that tracks like "feel'n free", "gary super macho", "mr. robot", and "dirty afro" will make your day. (and check out the cd-insert art: bare-chested space cowboys, cylon warriors, swanky canines and digitized tacos galore.) marianne faithful: 20th century blues also highly recommended, peut etre more so. this is a live paris concert of faithful avec piano doing a smash-up job of replicating a weimar republic berlin cabaret show. most the songs are by kurt weil, including klassiks like "alabama song" ("show me the way to the next whiskey bar" etc.), "boulevard of broken dreams," "falling in love again," "mack the knife," and "surabaya johnny" (which combustible edison did on their 1st lp). but don't be fooled by the versions you have heard of these; faithful does them incredibly faithfully, with the quirky piano stylings (strange time structures, an slightly atonal melodics) and a voice which is more like marlene dietrich circa 1930 than one could imagine dietrich ever was. it should also be pointed out that the effort yields not-at-all the novelty-act feel one might fear it would; she is very into the emotionality, the genius of weil's work, and pays due respect. my guest and myself were verily itching, once we heard this cd on saturday to see faithful do this show in person on sunday (we envisioned imagining we are transported to ye olde weimar cabaret grotto), but alas by that point it was sold out. sigh. mouse on mars: vulvaland cheeky postkrautrockers make bouncy and/or trancy tunes for the space age bachelor pad of the 00s. think sprockets meets willy wonka's chocolate factory. i know from experience that mouse on mars tends to be the best soundtrack for watching frisky hyperactive kittens frolic. holger hiller: oben im eck + ein bundel faulnis inder grube deutsch genius hiller puts forth the musikal equivalent of a smart drink + absinthe cocktail. features very strange and hyperoperatic vocals by machonancyboy billy mckenzie, who headed the groop associates, and whose vox graces "achieved in the valley of dolls" on barry adamson's _oedipus scmhoedipus_. _oie+1bfig_ contains not as much electronic ear-candy as on _as is_, but is an interesting, and quite unique, listening experience. mu-ziq: urmur bile trax volume 1 volume 2 come on and ride the jungle train. but of course here the conductor is master of electrofuturism avec fromage, mike paradinas, meaning the ride will have unexpected twists and turns. dramamine might, in fact, be a good idea. _ _ _ Thom S. Heileson //)) //^~ ((// // heileson@u.washington.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: magnus.sandberg@ztv.se Subject: SV: (exotica) Andre Popp/Boris Vian Date: 25 Mar 1997 18:48:52 +0100 Boris Vian was soooo much more than a Cabaretsinger! Read his books. You won=B4t regret it. Magnus While digging through my stacks of purchased but never played records, I discovered an album entitled "Chansons possibles, ou impossibles..." by a cabaret singer named Boris Vian (it's on Philips - but a French pressing). Each side includes an incredible instrumental composed by Vian and A. Goraguer, and performed by Andre Popp and his orch. The tracks are "La Java Des Bombes Atomiques" and "La Java Martienne". Any Andre Popp fanatics have any info on this? At the very least I'd be interested in determining the year it was released. Anita # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Andre Popp/Boris Vian Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:53:24 -0500 "La Java Des Bombes Atomiques" is on the recently reissued "Delerium in Hi-Fi", which was recorded in 1957. > Any Andre Popp fanatics have any info on this? At the very least I'd > be interested in determining the year it was released. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dfrisby@mgm.com (Doug Frisby) Subject: (exotica) Re: If Esquire bothered you ... Date: 25 Mar 1997 10:03:55 -0800 >then take a look at Milo Miles' article for the on-line mag >salon1999: >http://www.salon1999.com/10/reviews/lounge1.html I don't know who the hell or what the hell Milo Miles is, but if there are any hackers out there reading this, I'll be forever grateful if you go to the above site, hack into it and trash it. It's one thing to be critical of this genre of music, but did he have to be such a dick? Hackers? Are you listening? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) a video report Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:22:32 +0100 (MET) Jessica wrote: >"Blood Feast": Cool enough to be reissued on LP in the early 80s. Eerie >organ and violin mix, with a little tympani thrown in (I think). Any >Herschell Gordon Lewis movie is certain to have cool music.=20 Yes! That=B4s Herschell himself banging away on a kettle drum! Stefan/Subliminal Sounds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Andre Popp/Boris Vian Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:28:42 GMT > > Any Andre Popp fanatics have any info on this? At the very least I'd > > be interested in determining the year it was released. > > "La Java Des Bombes Atomiques" is on the recently reissued "Delerium in > Hi-Fi", which was recorded in 1957. > I have an album from the Adventures in Sound series called "Paris 1925": Andre Popp with two singers I can't remember the names of performing songs of the 1920s (plus a couple of instrumentals). I love the style of this album, the quirky orchestral work and the English songs sung with glutinously heavy French accents (mangle that Charleston!). The liner notes mention "Delirium In Hi-Fi", saying that he recorded under the name of Elsa Popping, which was good for a quick chortle, even better now I know the song title. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Another re-issue label heard from Date: 25 Mar 1997 15:12:54 -0500 (EST) Lou Smith & Gentle Readers--I know a little about Hippo. Their logo is similar to Rhino (believe it or don't). And they put out 3 double CD's last year and called the series "The Best Disco In Town". It's loaded with VG+ to Fair 7T's club classix most of which didn't get airplay. I am partial to vocal group disco and there isn't much of that on these compilations, but if you like good disco, these make the grade. And the re-mastering work is excellent. I'm starting to hear some 7T's disco mixed with EZ and Cocktail, and it fitz......Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: CitiGuy471@aol.com Subject: (exotica) what's a henweigh? Date: 25 Mar 1997 15:16:08 -0500 (EST) glad you axed that question sucker--About 6 pounds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bsalter Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: If Esquire bothered you ... Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:57:21 -0800 > > >then take a look at Milo Miles' article for the on-line mag > >salon1999: > >http://www.salon1999.com/10/reviews/lounge1.html > > I don't know who the hell or what the hell Milo Miles is, but if there > are any hackers out there reading this, I'll be forever grateful if > you go to the above site, hack into it and trash it. It's one thing to > be critical of this genre of music, but did he have to be such a dick? > Hackers? Are you listening? > from the Salon site: >Milo Miles is a Cambridge, Mass.-based freelancer. His reviews of world >music can be heard on NPR's "Fresh Air." How much more does one need to know? ;) With this fact in mind, my hunch is that what we have on our hands here is a typical crusty, condescending old-school lefty who simply doesn't get it. I went to a college where there were plenty of these birkenstock and Guatemalan-fabric clad types around (UC Davis); they were universally horrified to hear the stuff that I would put on my stereo, much to my delight!!! Some people freak out when they can't live in a world of black & white morality where every type of music has a convenient socio-political ID tag, which they can proudly pin on their lapel. In his article, Mr. Milo proclaims that Lounge is "Rebublican Ambient". Fool. Although I have encountered quite a few dorks around this scene, the great majority of people I have met, especially through our Sense-O-Round series here in SF, have been intelligent, savvy, and all-around cool! Mr. Milo is just speaking out his pent-up arse; don't give him a second thought. We're smarter than him. :) -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net / brian@headspace.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: henis@lcp.com (Howard Enis) Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Re: If Esquire bothered you ... Date: 25 Mar 1997 16:51:03 -0500 > > >then take a look at Milo Miles' article for the on-line mag > >salon1999: > >http://www.salon1999.com/10/reviews/lounge1.html > > I don't know who the hell or what the hell Milo Miles is, but if there > are any hackers out there reading this, I'll be forever grateful if > you go to the above site, hack into it and trash it. It's one thing to > be critical of this genre of music, but did he have to be such a dick? > Hackers? Are you listening? > from the Salon site: >Milo Miles is a Cambridge, Mass.-based freelancer. His reviews of world >music can be heard on NPR's "Fresh Air." How much more does one need to know? ;) With this fact in mind, my hunch is that what we have on our hands here is a typical crusty, condescending old-school lefty who simply doesn't get it. I may be wrong about this but didnt Milo Miles also review punk rock, garage rock and New Wave performances & records in the late 70's early 80's for Boston Rock and other trendy rock mags of that ilk? I seem to remember reading his stuff way back when...can anybody else confirm this? If I am correct this means that Milo has developed new 'tastes' and sets of ethics regarding music and popular culture.... If this is true it makes him double-dipped pretentious.... Maybe we should all welcome an Incredibly Strange backlash trend...it might make it easier for all of us to find cool records and stuff...let tomorrows generation discover my old Charlie Daniels records... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: misanthropy Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist Date: 24 Mar 1997 17:35:46 -0500 MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 e-mail: misant@ic.net A couple of announcements first. This Friday, March 28th, Misanthropy is pleased to present KNURL(from Montreal) wsg The Hearing Trumpet at Zoots Coffeehouse in Detroit, MI. For those of you in the Toronto area, The Temple of Transistorized Spectra-Sonic Sound Exotica Ministries/ Praise Exotica, the wacky alter ego of Misanthropy, is coming live to CIUT (University of Toronto radio) on the Great Lakes Radio Conspiracy Show, Wednesday morning April 2nd from 2am-6am. Call us up and let us tell you your fortune, interpret your dreams, read your tea leaves and/or coffee grounds, discuss your favorite donut flavor, and have you do psychic karaoke along with your favorite easy listening song. A special edition of Misanthropy 511 can still be heard at the web site for Vik Trola’s Lounge of Self Indulgence using Real Audio. It is a half hour mix using easy listening/spoken word/found sounds and dialogue. This mix was created specifically for Radio Vik.The lounge is found at: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html Also check out the Misanthropy 511/ The Hearing Trumpet site under works within Viks Lounge at: http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/hearing.html PLAYLIST ARTIST--(TITLE)--CD/CASS/LP--(LABEL) MARCH 17, 1997 ARTHUR LYMAN--(busy port)--best of arthur lyman--(DCC) DAVID TOOP--(boneless)--v.a. the unfinished--(SUB ROSA) THIS HEAT--(graphic/varispeed)--repeat--(THESE) C M VON HAUSSWOLFF--(mingling...)--mingling...--(ASH) FRANK CHACKSFIELD--(so rare)--love letters in the sand--(LONDON) TWO FOOT TALL JERK--(side 1)--nice music for nice people--(TFTJ) DAVE FUGLEWICZ--(delirious)--orange mist sunset--(D.F.) LEO KUPPER--(electro-acoustic santur #2)--electro-acoustic--(POGUS) HAL--(corridor)--va10--(HAL TAPES) POST PRANDIALS--(silas marnier)--flight--(ARTICHOKE) DACHISE--(palaces)--palaces--(AUDIOPHILE) SIRANO--(poor butterfly)--seductive strings--(TIME) PLOTKIN/HARRIS--(momentum)--collapse--(SOMBIENT) QUEST--(velocity)--electro-city--(LUNAR) ETANT DONNES--(moname)--v.a. sonderangebot--(STAALPLAAT) BRUCE GILBERT--(national grid pt.1)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) HARRY PARTCH--(and on the 7th day)--v.a. gravikords, whirlies--(ELLIPSIS ART) AIN SOPH--(gradalis)--ars regia--(NEKROPHILE) BOURBONESE QUALK--(hell w/ the consequences)--laughing afternoon-(RECLOOSE) SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN--(freifrau kniggendorf)--you lucky star--(STAALTAPE) MINIMAL MAN--(rue de cinema)--slave lullabyes--(FUNDAMENTAL) MERZBOW--(nil vagina tape loops 1)--lowest music 2--(EXTREME) PYROLATOR--(inland 4)--inland--(WARNING) MARCH 24, 1997 JOHNNY KEATING ORCH--(the clown)--v.a. the easy project--(SEQUEL) PHAUSS--(hafiz phauss)--v.a. multimood sampler--(MULTIMOOD) HIS MASTERS VOICE--(singing the boundaries)--singing boundaries--(MANIFOLD) BERND FRIEDMANN--(leisure zones [edit])--leisure zones--(ASH) DEAD VOICES ON AIR--(ralbag)--how hollow hart--(INVISIBLE) JOHN BUZON TRIO--(idaho)--inferno--(LIBERTY) CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI--(iszkarrchse)--3 camels for orch--(AMER ARCHIVE) INSTAGON--(cheese fish)--voodoo lounge--(THEE INSTAGON) NULL--(voice of eternity)--terminal beach--(MANIFOLD) LOCUST --(winter)--v.a. the unfinished--(SUB ROSA) JACK COSTANZA--(jack, jack, jack)--mr. bongo plays hi-fi--(TOPS) PASTRY W/ HALF LIFE--(bad weather)--pastry w/ a half life--(AUDIOPHILE) TWO FOOT TALL JERK--(doobie mothers)--7 inch--(BURNT MUSIC) PATRICK ASCIONE--(valeurs d’ambre)--polyphonie-polychrome--(DIFFUSION I M) ALEXANDER SCRIABIN--(the poem of fire)--2 tone poems--(CANDIDE) JOHN WHITE--(drinking & hooting machine)--machine music--(OBSCURE) T. LEER/ R. RENTAL--(perpetual)--the bridge--(INDUSTRIAL) SPK--(side 1)--the last attempt at paradise--(SIDE EFFECTS) LE SYNDICAT--(obverse)--ignitur--(STAALPLAAT) RAY MARTIN ORCH--(spellbound)--witchcraft--(JUBILEE) RADIO MARABU: APRIL, 1997 STU PHILLIPS--(hells angels on wheels)--hells angels on wheels--(SMASH) KEELER--(mindshrine)--v.a. multimood sampler--(MULTIMOOD) AUBE--(transfer)--7 inch--(PINCH A LOAF) SMALL CRUEL PARTY--(home borders:...)--v.a. shiroseasons--(SHIROCOAL) PETER APPLEYARD--(the man w/golden arm)--percussive jazz--(AUDIO FIDEL) RLW--(unidentified)--v.a. antiphony--(ASH) DISINFORMATION--(data storm pt. 5)--ghost shells--(ASH) PANASONIC--(puhdistus)--kulma--(MUTE) DANIEL MENCHE --(eulogy for one)--furious eclipse--(SOLEILMOON) SPOKE--(live nevers 2/6/96)--v.a. sonderangebot--(STAALPLAAT) BRASS BREED--(girls galore)--music to watch girls by--(WYNCOTE) QUEST--(sol-mir mix)--electro-city--(LUNAR) DAVE FUGLEWICZ--(reality free zone)--passage--(D. FUGLEWICZ) SAINKHO NAMCHYLAK--(letter 2)--letters--(LEO) MORTON SUBOTNICK--(sidewinder pt.1)--sidewinder--(COLUMBIA) S-CORE--(plasmodium)--pretension--(STAALTAPE) MUDGUARDS--(butcherman)--western cultural noise--(CHEAPSOUND) ETANT DONNES--(le sens positif)--l’ eclipse--(STAALTAPE) GLENN BRANCA--(lesson #2)--the ascension--(99 RECORDS) ELLIOTT SHARP--(no remorse)--virtual stance--(DOSSIER) ARTHUR LYMAN--(00)--aphrodIsia--(LIFE) BERNARD FORT--(fractal xi)--fractals--(METAMKINE) these are great times to be a misanthropist Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5 fm Windsor, Ontario Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/ Detroit Michigan area. Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Noises of the modern world in spectra-sonic sound. We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 511 is also broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13 different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166, 49187, Belm Germany . e-mail: radiomarabu@t-online.de web site: http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/sztuka/Marabu.htm The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet, have a new 60 minute cassette release on Destroy All Music called #Heart of a Leaf#. It is the first release recorded entirely in our home studio. Destroy All Music can be reached at e-mail: pchavez@delphi.com for ordering info and catalog. The Hearing Trumpet has been described by others as #hallucinogenic soundscapes#, #ambient noise#, & #distant rumblings#. The Hearing Trumpet has 2 additional cassettes available. #Songs of Mystery and Magnetics# is a 45 min. cass featuring 2-20 min. pieces recorded live in the CJAM studio. #Collected Stories# is a 60 min cass featuring several shorter pieces all recorded live for our radio show. Write for more info or ordering. David Warmbier & Greg Hallock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jfc135@psu.edu (Jessica Cameron) Subject: (exotica) Latin Twist (or is it Twist Latin?) Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:41:19 -0500 Hi! Could anyone lead me to some Latin Twist recordings besides the ones Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat did? I need to know for a paper I'm writing for a class. Thanks, Jessica ^_^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) Sandpapered, etc. Date: 24 Mar 1997 13:07:09 EST Hola, > I LOVE LOVE LOVE opening sealed LP's. Then I stomp on them a bit out > on my driveway so they get that "vintage" sound I love so much. > A new LP sounds too damn good. What about Sandpipered albums? Might as well toss those away too. I came across a Pete Rugolo rekkid (Arugula record?) this weekend that had *kids* engraved all over it. Shuffleboard, perhaps? Or one of my favorite activities, with more recent vintage (and more flexible) vinyl, playing *flying disc* and skipping the thing off of asphalt to make a bounce pass to your record-collecting and exchanging partner(s). I may have to go back and get the record anyway, I could use a Hokey Pokey sound machine (whatever its called - Archie McPhee catalog) to play it. Jack, should I grab ANY Rugolo, despite condition, (we're talking 50 cents here) to at least hear the stuff? I figure I'm gonna get hooked. One my tolerance goes way up, I'll have to shell out for the high purity stuff. Ray (Jolly Ollie Orange) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 24 Mar 1997 09:39:46 -0700 >As much as I love most of the stuff that is >discussed on the list, 30 or 40 years ago no self-respecting "hipster" woul= d >be caught dead with a Three Suns OR a Martin Denny record. =20 Well, speaking for my parents, who lived in the 'burbs and spent weekends in= SF's North BEach in it's heyday, you're mistaken. They'd cruise down to= Laguna in their MG and hang at the Lighthouse, listen to all sorts of jazz,= they dug Streisand (who was kooky and fun pre-Broadway) and they loved= Martin Denny, Baxter and even Arthur Lyman. Obviously not for the same= reasons but they liked it all. It's been said before, but in those days,= people weren't so limited to genres. I remember their collection had= Broadway shows, Edith Piaf, Fats Waller and Lenny Bruce records. Maybe they= were unique but there were lots of parties where all of this was played so= their whole circle enjoyed the range. I doubt that today they'd recognize the name Esquivel. I guess my point is that the tropical/tiki/exotica thing did co-exist with= the hip. Look at Chet Baker's hawaiian shirt on the Lighthouse live disc! My Aunt Peg in Michigan listened to the 3 Suns. She was not a bachelor nor= was she even remotely hip, just very very nice. > >On the other hand, Art Pepper, Sun Ra, Dizzy, Bill Evans Zoot Sims, Coltane= , >Miles and a hundred more will ALWAYS be cool. =20 Growing up on Calif, we heard mostly West Coast cats and for some reason= Chicago blues. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Re: If Esquire bothered you ... Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:42:46 -0500 >>Milo Miles is a Cambridge, Mass.-based freelancer. His reviews of world >>music can be heard on NPR's "Fresh Air." >With this fact in mind, my hunch is that what we have on our hands here is >a typical crusty, condescending old-school lefty who simply doesn't get >it. > > I may be wrong about this but didnt Milo Miles also review punk rock, > garage rock and New Wave performances & records in the late 70's early > 80's for Boston Rock and other trendy rock mags of that ilk? I seem > to remember reading his stuff way back when...can anybody else confirm > this? All true. I know MM, although I haven't seen him in years. Last I heard he was ranting about the 'horror' of this SABP revival in the local used record shops to other like-minded baby boomers. Oh, I feel their pain! They're not young and hip anymore!! bollocks, br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Latin Twist Date: 25 Mar 1997 20:29:59 -0500 At 07:41 PM 3/25/97 -0500, you wrote: >Hi! Could anyone lead me to some Latin Twist recordings besides the ones >Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat did? I need to know for a paper I'm writing for >a class. > >Thanks, Jessica ^_^ Will do a web tribute to it and comp tape sometime soon, but off the cuff there's: El Twist -- Roger King Mozian Latin Twist -- Tito Rodriquez These two are absolute killers, more on a par with (or better than) Twist Goes Latin than that Cugat thang. There are all sorts of one-off songs and related stuff, such as Pablo Betran Ruiz's covers of 60s rock songs, and oddities like the Castro Twist on Ross Talbot's solo LP. Good luck. tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the_curator Subject: (exotica) Other Worlds Other Sounds presents: 'Henry Mancini found alive in cellar after 150 Years' Night Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:22:09 +0100 Unless Thursday night is Other Worlds Other Sounds Night, Thursday night has to be Other Worlds Other Sounds Night. Misterogers Twins invite anyone who's listening to swallow another dodgy ***************************** * Other Worlds Other Sounds * ***************************** pill at the Tea Rooms des Artistes, 697 Wandsworth Rd (where it crosses North St, near Clapham Common tube and Wandsworth Rd BR ) We'll be playing our subnormal selection of Exotica, Erotica, Eazotica and Esoterica. 27th March is 'Henry Mancini found alive in cellar after 150 Years' Night . It's free to get in, it's very mellow and it starts about 9 and you won't be asked to go back to the real world until around 12.30. Featured records this week may include: 'That Aldrich Feeling' - Ronnie Aldrich, and the horrifying 'Mancini Magic' - The Keyboards, if we can find a track which will hold the food in. Don't forget: "We like you and we've got the feeling that you like us too." The Misterogers Twins. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) first marcy record Date: 25 Mar 1997 20:45:31 -0500 At 07:10 PM 3/24/97 -0800, you wrote: >helllloooo! > >got my first Marcy record this weekend, oh sweet jeezus on the mountain top! you all >know Marcy, right? you'll find her doing Gospell Express on one of the ISM cd's. Marcy >is Marcy Tigner, a fine Christian woman who wanted to pursue a career as a vocalist, but >sounded like she was seven years old! So her hubby suggested she get herself a dummy >(Little Marcy) and make children's records. a singing ventriliquist (sp?) if you will. >Sings about God and warns that you are BAD if you don't attend sunday school. although >suitable for the whole family, there is something very sick and demented about this >Marcy broad and her recordings. which is probably why i liked it. My favorite drag here in Baltimore (who, by the way, is not alone in doing actual, wonderful performances to SABPM songs rather than getting written about in articles on the hippest scene on the entire East Coast) is an expert on both Big Marcy and Little Marcy (equally scary sides to the same person). Little Marcy meets Smokie the Bear is one I have, and yes, the sexual weirdness is thinly veiled and absolutely unimaginable as something publishable today. Freak out with Little Marcy yourself, then share it with those perfect little Flanders kids next door. And don't forget to write Word Records in Waco for more of her stuff. tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Welsh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Incredibly Cool Finds Date: 25 Mar 1997 23:57:36 -0600 Laura Taylor wrote: > > Oh my! I actually SCREAMED in the Goodwill when I found the following > yesterday for .50 apiece: > A PICTURE SLEVE 45 of Jane Birkin(and of course, Serge) of J'TME(I don't > > think I spelled that correctly) with JANE B. on the flip > side...MINT-O-DELIC!!!!!! > I also have the original 45 of "Je T'aime" but it's scratchy and not a picture sleeve. 50 cents! You struck gold. A beautiful girl,a theremin,and moans and groans....mmmmmmm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Welsh" Subject: Re: (exotica) That Wild Apt. Date: 26 Mar 1997 00:05:16 -0600 Laura Taylor wrote: > > Picked up the soundtrack to THE APARTMENT, with Jack Lemon(does he do > bongos on this?) and somewhat to my surprise, as I was not familiar with > the composer, IT SWINGS and ROCKS at moments. It's quite good, and I > got it in a dollar-bin, so it's at least worth that much. Can someone > fill me in on the composer, whose name escapes me? Charles Williams was the composer for the famous theme song. This song is actually adapted from a piece called "The Dream of Olwyn",written in the late 40's,I think. Don't know who did the rest of the soundtrack. mark55@airmail.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mark koldys Subject: (exotica) LP sale list Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:17:30 -0000 Thanks to all who visited my LP sale site, and especially thanks to those who ordered! For those who may have missed the earlier announcement, the page will be up for another day or two, so feel free to drop on by and poke around... http://www.rust.net/~mkoldys mkoldys@rust.net "Timid man never win lottery prize." -- Charlie Chan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MoeLawns@aol.com Subject: (exotica) LOUNGE, GARAGE, SURF FEST, MEM DAY WEEKEND! Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:18:15 -0500 (EST) DIONYSUS DEMOLITION DERBY AT HOLLYWOOD MOGULS, HOLLYWOOD, CA MAY 24-25. Club address is 1650 N. Schrader Blvd. Club phone number is 213-465-7449 Parking is available in lots for $3.00 to $5.00, and free parking on the street. Saturday, May 24 1997 Doors open at 4:00 PM. In the lounge, there will be a Tiki paradise, with music, films and slide shows courtesy of Otto Von Stroeheim and Sven Tiki from Tiki News. There will also be a SHAG art show. Assortments of vendors will selling all kinds of cool and weird stuff. The bands start at 5:30! The Kabalas, Satan's Pilgrims, Ray Campi, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Frenchy, The Boss Martians, The Bomboras and Girl Trouble. Your host & MC, comedian Rube Ruben! Sunday, May 25 1997 Doors open at 4:00. In the lounge, we will be showing the US debut of the movie PERVERELLA featuring The Diaboliks and Thee Headcoatees. Also, we will be showing a recently discovered 16MM print of the Louis Prima & Sam Butera movie TWIST ALL NIGHT. JOHNNY LEGEND will be presenting a question and answer session with THE AZTEC MUMMY! The bands start at 5:30! Thorazine, The Dukes of Hamburg, The Saturn V Featuring Orbit, Hot Damn, The Tiki Tones, The Diaboliks, Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Boys, The Humpers. Your host & MC, P. Edwin Letcher! Admission is $12.00 per night, for anyone 18 and over. The club has had its capacity lowered to 300. Anyone from out of town might want to reserve admission by sending a check to Dionysus Records for $13.00 per night ($1.00 service charge). Each admission needs a full name (no plus ones). DIRECTIONS FROM AIRPORTS & MAJOR FREEWAYS FROM BURBANK, BURBANK AIRPORT Take the 5 Freeway south to Los Feliz Blvd., exit Los Feliz going west. Take Los Feliz to Franklin Ave. Go right onto Franklin, still traveling west, to Cahuenga. Make a left, go south to Selma Ave. Make a right on Selma, and a right at Schrader. FROM THE VALLEY Take the 101 South to Cahuenga. Exit Cahuenga, go right (south) to Selma Ave. Go right (west) onto Selma. Take Selma to Schrader and go right (north). FROM LAX, SOUTH BAY, SANTA MONICA Take the 405 North to the 101 South. Exit Cahuenga, go right (south) to Selma Ave. Go right onto Selma Ave. Go west to Schrader, go right (north). FROM PHEONIX, TUCSON, LAS VEGAS AND OTHER POINTS EAST Take I-10 West into Los Angeles, make the transition to 101 North, just east of Downtown L.A. Go to Sunset Blvd, exit, going west. Travel west to Wilcox Ave, make a right (north) onto Wilcox. Take Wilcox to Selma Ave. Make a left (west) onto Selma, follow to Schrader, and go right (north). HOTELS: Note, we've chosen hotels slightly outside of Hollywood. If you want to stay closer to the club, call information for 213 and ask for numbers for hotels on Highland, near the Hollywood Bowl. The following hotels are in great neighborhoods! BAHIA MOTEL 3400 W. Olive, Burbank (818) 841-9000 $40-$43, sngl bed, dbl occup. $42-$48/dbl bed. Reservation time: 2 weeks SAFARI INN (yes, as seen in the movies!) 911 W. Olive, Burbank (818) 845-8586 $59 + tax, one bed $79 + tax, two beds Reservation time: 2 weeks UNIVERSAL MOTEL 10612 Ventura Blvd., Studio City (818) 508-8022 $37 + tax, one bed $53+ tax, two beds Reservation time: 1 week EL PATIO MOTEL 11466 Ventura Blvd., Studio City (818) 760-9602 $49 + tax, one bed $55 + tax, two beds Reservation time, 1 week to 3 days TROPICO MOTEL 401 W. Chevy Chase, Glendale (818) 242-5098 $33 + tax, one bed $50 + tax, two beds BURBANK INN & SUITES 180 W. Alameda, Burbank (818) 842-1114 $65 one bed $75 two beds Reservation time, 1 week # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kpundit@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Marcy's origins Date: 26 Mar 1997 02:38:31 -0500 (EST) Unless I'm mistaken, Marcy (Tigner) was not a frustrated vocalist. Because I have an album that has a somewhat younger Marcy (the woman - not the doll) playing all your favorite Christian tunes on the trombone! Yes, she was a trombonist who probably realised there wasn't much of a future in playing gospel trombone. The cover has a full cover photo of her holding her beloved instrument which she plays to piano accompaniment. By the way, she was actually selling Marcy dolls during her hayday & I'm told she now lives somewhere in Florida & still can be convinced to part with them. Does anyone know either how to get ahold of her or where I can get a genuine Marcy doll? Actually, I've wanted to do a Marcy-like single with the doll character turning out to be blatantly evil, racist & violent but my record label thought it was too stupid. So..."I Played a Trick On Daddy" will have to wait for the time being. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Marcy's origins Date: 25 Mar 1997 00:33:53 -0800 Kpundit@aol.com wrote: > > Unless I'm mistaken, Marcy (Tigner) was not a frustrated vocalist. > Because I have an album that has a somewhat younger Marcy (the woman - not > the doll) playing all your favorite Christian tunes on the trombone! Yes, she > was a trombonist who probably realised there wasn't much of a future in > playing gospel trombone. Well, one of the records I have seems to support both theories. The liners describe Marcy Tigner's "problem" of trying to make her childish voice sound credible, and they also mention that Lil' Marcy plays trombone on three songs on the album. I thought this was a really great image- that demonic puppet playing a trombone! Anyway... "I'm too young to march in the infantry, Ride in the cavalry, shoot in the artillery. I'm too young to fly o'er the enemy But I'm in the Lord's Army!" -Lil' Marcy BTW, for all of you who might be interested in ordering a copy of my band's new CD, "Spotlight On Optiganally Yours," you can find sample snippets and ordering info (only $12.00 post paid!) on my web page (see URL below). Should appeal to... just about everyone, really!!! It's especially a must-have for folks interested in *strange* musical instruments... ;) Pea -- Pea Hicks "Memory is my drug of choice." <---Realm 'O' The Optigan---> http://www.pilot.com/optigan Who will be the next to brave the *perils* of the VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Welsh" Subject: Re: (exotica) More Martin Milner Date: 25 Mar 1997 23:01:40 -0600 Jack Diamond wrote: > > > George Maharis was not the replacement part-- he was one of the > >originals,the other being Martin Milner. And I think their characters names > >were Buzz and Todd, respectively. Glenn Corbett was the replacement part. > > It's amazing and kinda scary to think that Martin Milner portrayed John > Pisano-the guitarist in the Chico Hamilton Qrt/Qnt in the film Sweet Smell > of Success. > > Great great film/soundtrack/soundtrack score if you've never seen it/heard it. > Listen to what you watch and you'll "see" > Wasn't this guy the guitarist for the Tijuana Brass? That name is so familiar,but the music is so different that it would have been a move for the money,I guess.... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark A. Welsh" Subject: Re: (exotica) George Chakaris Date: 25 Mar 1997 20:53:19 -0600 TheR0Coco@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 97-03-19 23:21:30 EST, you write: > > << > > George Maharis was not the replacement part-- he was one of the > originals,the other being Martin Milner. And I think their characters names > were Buzz and Todd, respectively. Glenn Corbett was the replacement part. > > Mr. Know-it-all > >> > > Mr. Know-it-all is, as his name would imply, exactly right. Also, I think > Chakiris was best known for his role in "West Side Story" as leader of the > Sharks (Chicano gang, right?), Rita Moreno's boyfriend -- won a supporting > actor Oscar for the role. Does this make me ---- > > Ms. Know-It-All (???) > > Carolyn So much knowledge, so little time....welcome to the club. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 26 Mar 1997 08:37:26 -0500 (EST) The argument that Martin Denny, Les Baxter, or Esquivel for that matter were the Kenny G's of their day really doesn't hold water. Each of these guys (a bit less so with Baxter) were releasing very quirky musical offerings that were definitely "out there" for their time and because of that appealed more to a younger crowd than some of the other instrumental offerings of the day. Just look at the crowd of KIDS going into Chicago's London House in 1958 to see Martin Denny, who also by the way made an appearance on American Bandstand - did Kenny G ever do that?. This stuff was not just older people's music. If you want a comparison of the Kenny G of the day you are treading on more secure ground if you mention the likes of Mantovani, Freddie Martin, and the more straight-forward "classically-arranged" orchestral albums of the day. As for what defines "hipster" that is always open to interpretation...remeber that the late fifties and early sxities were musically very active times...while someone who listened to jazz at the early end of this short spectrum was definitely a "hipster" by the time rock n roll really gained a stronghold those jazz guys were definitely "square" to the larger, younger record buyimng demographic. Make no mistake I fully agree that Art Pepper, Sun Ra, Dizzy, Bill Evans Zoot Sims, Coltane, Miles will always be cool and so will Denny, Esquivel, and Baxter because they did things different too! Remember coolness is always relative. I'll occaisonally throw on a Pharoah Sanders CD for background but please because of that don't lump him in the same category with Kenny G! By the way I doubt even thirty years from now Kenny G will be regarded as hip unless there is a real '80s/'90s kitsch music thing that hits in the next millenium. Kenny g is sacharine rubbish now the same as Mantovani was suagr-coated pedestrian orchestral music for the masses then. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johnston-Reading Subject: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 26 Mar 1997 06:16:27 -0800 >By the way I doubt even thirty years from now Kenny G will be regarded as hip >unless there is a real '80s/'90s kitsch music thing that hits in the next >millenium. Kenny g is sacharine rubbish now the same as Mantovani was >suagr-coated pedestrian orchestral music for the masses then. Ashley: All of your points are well taken. And yes, Kenny G (and I really just threw him in as an example that everyone is familiar with) absolutley could be the beneficiary of some "80/90s kitsch music thing." My point is that we have no idea what listeners will be into in 30 years. We can't control that. Again, I'm not saying we can compare Kenny G to Martin Denny from a pure musicality point of view. I'm viewing it from another angle. Your post certainly warrants more discussion. Michael R. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex V. Cook" Subject: (exotica) Attention Citizens of San Francisco Date: 26 Mar 1997 10:09:20 -0800 Do not be alarmed. You will have a crazed Cajun lounge lizard in you midst, namely me! I'll be there all next week for the big Java conference Sun is putting on. If anybody knows of cool goings-on, please email me. muchas gracias, alex -- voodooboy@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/soho/1274 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco Subject: (exotica) I can see for Milo Miles Date: 26 Mar 1997 11:43:16 EST > With this fact in mind, my hunch is that what we have on our > hands here is a typical crusty, condescending old-school lefty who > simply doesn't get it. > I went to a college where there were plenty of these birkenstock and > Guatemalan-fabric clad types around (UC Davis); they were universally > horrified to hear the stuff that I would put on my stereo, much to my delight!!! OK. Enough already. I live next to Cambridge, MA, pass through and visit daily, and it indeed has plenty of those types, but it isn't nearly as bad as Berkeley. You have Harvard Business students and MIT geeks to round out the stereotypes. Even some (gasp!) foreigners with strange musical taste and/or talents. > I may be wrong about this but didnt Milo Miles also review punk rock, > garage rock and New Wave performances & records in the late 70's early > 80's for Boston Rock and other trendy rock mags of that ilk? I seem > to remember reading his stuff way back when...can anybody else confirm > this? Yes he certainly did. I'm not very familiar with his work, and I always wondered if he was this Milo guy I met back in the early 80s. I think he's mostly disappointed that instead of people looking back to older music and pulling out the jazz classics and the *best* music from the period, or the most influential, this *trend* is only exposing people to schlocky covers and heartless and uninspired studio copies of other styles. I don't think he understands that at least on this list, that we are at least aware of those roots, and it often leads us to find the gems from the world of jazz and blues if we at least get a start on just learning the songs. Frankly, I think he dismissed this *genre* too swiftly. I often find music that is terribly entertaining, and more rarely actually that moves me. The experimentation sometimes leads to failure, but the experiment itself can tell us about what these labels, musicians, songwriters, etc., were all about, even though often is is just to cash in on a trend. Like pop music today, most of which I cannot tolerate, but possibly due to constant repetition. But some popular music really is GOOD. Brother Cleve, can you enlighten us any further? Oops. Too late. But your oft-stated comment about the people who claim *This is the music we rebelled against!* would fit Milo Miles. I learn all sorts of things about the period through listening to this stuff and reading this list, and looking at mags and movies from the period. This music may not reflect the BEST of American culture, but it certainly reflects the MOST TYPICAL American culture. And that's a nice reflection on you. Ray (Poland's Angry Workers fan) Coffey # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Chilson Subject: (exotica) Jack Jones help Date: 26 Mar 1997 09:04:23 -0800 (PST) Hi all....if this is off-subject, I apologize, but people on this list seem to be know their stuff. I cannot find ANY biographical info on singer Jack "Wives and Lovers" Jones. I DO know he has a new album and is touring, and bits of info I've gleened off of liner notes. Other than that, any help would be great. Thanks! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bpm0@interport.net (Peter Becker) Subject: (exotica) Help! Date: 26 Mar 1997 12:00:20 -0500 I need to get in contact with the individual on this list who d.j.s a small station in the south that is an auxilary of an AM station? I lost your email, your name and everything else. thanks, bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Retail Sales Manager Asphodel Records, NYC phone # (212) 965-0265, FAX # (212) 965-0959 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) I can see for Milo Miles Date: 26 Mar 1997 13:48:02 -0500 (EST) > disappointed > that instead of people looking back to older music and pulling out the jazz > classics > and the *best* music from the period, or the most influential, this *trend* > is only exposing people to schlocky covers and heartless and uninspired studio > copies of other styles. I don't think he understands that at least on this > list, > that we are at least aware of those roots, and it often leads us to find the > gems from > the world of jazz and blues if we at least get a start on just learning the > songs. I'm really sick of hearing that the off-beat music of the 50's and 60's has less merit than "classic" jazz or be-bop jazz. That classic shit bores the hell out of me. I need music with a degree of structure, not some meandering horn tooting. How can any of these zealots knock the talent of the likes of Baxter and Esquivel? Also notice that Milo Miles mentions compilations and not actual LPs from the time period. We all know how watered down those comps can be. pablito! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Laura Taylor Subject: (exotica) My wild apt... Date: 26 Mar 1997 13:14:27 -0400 I now get the Exotica Digest, and someone wrote something in response to my inquiry about THE APARTMENT soundtrack. Unfortunately, as are many digests, it was too large to down-load. If you are the person who responded to that, please contact me individually. I feel so cut off from the world! :( Thanks-xoxoxox-Lounge Laura "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr. Leslie Baxter Laura Taylor (813) 974-3733 ltaylor@wusf.usf.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: (exotica) ATTN: Moog fans!!! Date: 26 Mar 1997 09:57:15 -0800 Pardon me if this has already been mentioned on the list, but Moog Music is re-issuing the classic Moog modular systems of the late 60s!!! from www.moogmusic.com: > To electronic musicians and > synthesists alike, the Moog > modular systems built in the '60s > and '70s are legendary. Now, > Moog has reissued these classic > synthesizers, making the dream > of owning a Moog Modular a > reality. These synthesizers are not > merely approximate replicas, but > exacting recreations of the > originals, hand-crafted and > reproduced down to the smallest > detail. btw, Robert Moog has not been involved with the company since the mid-70s, so it's a good thing they didn't try to re-design anything... -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net / brian@headspace.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bsalter Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 26 Mar 1997 10:24:01 -0800 >The argument that Martin Denny, Les Baxter, or Esquivel for that matter were >the Kenny G's of their day really doesn't hold water. Each of these guys (a >bit less so with Baxter) were releasing very quirky musical offerings that >were definitely "out there" for their time and because of that appealed more >to a younger crowd than some of the other instrumental offerings of the day. > Just look at the crowd of KIDS going into Chicago's London House in 1958 to >see Martin Denny, who also by the way made an appearance on American >Bandstand - did Kenny G ever do that?. This stuff was not just older people's >music. >If you want a comparison of the Kenny G of the day you are treading on more >secure ground if you mention the likes of Mantovani, Freddie Martin, and the >more straight-forward "classically-arranged" orchestral albums of the day. Well spoken-- the very same thoughts have been going through my mind after following the previous posts. I personally find it very difficult to find a parallel to the music of Denny, Baxter or Esquivel in today's world... while no-one can foretell what marginal fashion and style of today will become ultra-hip tomorrow, IMO it is a cop-out just to say that all is relative. Because it ain't. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I don't think there is a lot out there today which has the particular qualities of the above-mentioned, which for me are naive enthusiasm, shameless and ingenuous creativity, and blatant exploitation of strange and exotic things... I hope that more of these qualities will creep into new music, and that the revival of all this great old stuff represents more than just another retro fetish! -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net / brian@headspace.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcleve@pop.tiac.net (Br. Cleve) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 26 Mar 1997 13:29:00 -0500 Ashley writes: >By the way I doubt even thirty years from now Kenny G will be regarded as hip >unless there is a real '80s/'90s kitsch music thing that hits in the next >millenium. Ash, I agree with you 100%, and I sure hope it doesn't happen............but if it does, folks, let's accept it with a smile and not act like the disgruntled, idiotic "critics" who take us to task now for liking something they don't. (Are you listening in, Absolute Sound, Salon, and NY Post?) As Buddy Rich said, "Get off my bus!!!" br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Portishead/Schifrin Date: 26 Mar 1997 13:37:32 -0500 (EST) I saw "More Mission:Impossible" on CD at Other Music in NYC recently;also,"Danube Incident" is available on the excellent comp "Mission:Impossible...and More!" on the German label Motor Music(Motor 535 495-2).Ashley,isn't Scamp planning a Schifrin release? Thee Millionaire # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: riviera@tiac.net Subject: (exotica) Salon Article Date: 26 Mar 1997 14:05:06 -0500 (EST) That article reminds me of a former band-mate from my distant past dismissing "Pet Sounds" because "it doesn't Rock". Where would we be without intrepid cultural watch dogs like Milo Miles,perspicacious,roll-up-your-sleeves,salt-of-the-earth,not-afraid-to-cal l-em-like-they-see-em visionaries,the consciences of popular culture,blowing the whistle on spurious irony and fatuous kitsch-mongering! Jeez..that was close; I was enjoying to the music! You know something's right with your taste,when a fellow like MM gets bummed out by it! Yours in Shame, The Neo-Retro,Irony-Convoluted Millionaire # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Real Space Age Bachelor Music Date: 26 Mar 1997 14:31:00 -0500 >following the previous posts. I personally find it very difficult to >find a parallel to the music of Denny, Baxter or Esquivel in today's world... I recommend everyone contact GNP Records in CA and buy both the LPs --that's right NEW LPs-- by Elisabeth Waldo. Second choice, the CD which has all but about 4 cuts. She also has video performances and all sorts of new projects going on. Some of you musicians on that coast may even want to see about studying under her. Elisabeth Waldo is the greatest living, practicing exponent of exotica and I wouldn't readily place her second to any of the above. Please show her some support, and after that you can yell at me about subjecting you to pan flutes. Or email her some appreciation. GNP also sells 3 NEW LPs by Les Baxter and at least 4 including Baxter in some capacity. Good surf too. [Unfortunately, none of the early GNP jazz with Sabu or Josephine Premice.] tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Incredibly Trivial Music ...criticism Date: 26 Mar 1997 14:58:30 -0500 "Incredibly Trivial Music" is a review of the first Incredibly Strange Music book and CD by Robert Christgau in the Village Voice. It REALLY incensed me when it appeared, but I never mailed him my abrasive reply (and I dare not read my own writing from years ago). Several records by Sabu and Blakey, Roland Kirk, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and even cats like Shorty Rogers and Herbie Mann (for Afro-Cuban LP "Flautista!") later, I'm slowly making my peace with jazz. And given the unevenness, to be charitable, of the ISM book and most of the subsequent comp CDs, I can't say I blame Christgau too much now. The best pop still is yet to come [out on straight reissues]. Not his fault. My favorite [living or dead] music critics are Lester Bangs, Nat Hentoff (also at the Voice but not on jazz these days), and Leonard Feather. These are guys with --besides incredible knowledge-- great style, passion, and certainly enough taste not to squander too much time on mediocre artists. That's what I want in a critic much more than a (gag) sympathetic pollyanna. I've always hated the local papers' music critics who compare everything they like to the Ramones, the Dolls, and when really displaying their breadth and depth, the Sonics. These are the first guys to fly off on some weird, paranoid trip about how the cigar fad is emasculating their little lives. Good critics usually must be bred over decades. Of course it's easy to ignore all of that crap when you have lots of liner notes to read, or so says the troglodyte with the Hokey Pokey Sound Machine. tony _____________________________________________________ ---- { The new nui Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ \ / / \ () | Tiki Gallery * Definitive _EXOTICA_ * Sabu * Best LPs |==| | # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kerry keane Subject: Re: (exotica) I can see for Milo Miles Date: 26 Mar 1997 12:15:11 -0600 (CST) My theory is that it is all about pleasure. Critics are puritanical. Would you want to be a critic? I wouldn't. They use these standards to mask blazing insecurities about their own status. Most musics that are blatantly produced for pleasure and extol pleasure above all other things are not viewed as legitimate by critics. Fine-- who the hell wants to be viewed as "legitimate" anyhow? Not anyone on this list, I hope. You never know what kind of record is going to move you-- it might be something you'd thought wouldn't be caught dead listening to. I welcome those kinds of surprises. On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Paul Lewis wrote: [NOTICE: This message was delayed on its way to the list because it contained excess quoted text, which has been automatically removed. To prevent this from happening to your messages, be sure to include as little text as possible from the message you are responding to.] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Wilds Subject: (exotica) Jivometric Drummology/Scatman/Arrows Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:53:46 -0500 >First, an incredible essay supposedly out of Morgan State called: Fore Play: A Lesson in Jivometric Drummology > >http://www.newsavanna.com/meanderings/me206/me20604.shtml > >This is satire and creative scholarship at its best. Kind of like Monty Python goes African-American. This thing is good for a few yuks -- "Slackmaster Cleve and the Spurious Jive" would appreciate -- Egyptians, weird music, golf, weirdness And now for something completely different: anyone know of Scatman Crothers on record apart from the appearance in Ralph Bakshi's animated "Street Fight?" How about a recording of Davie Allen and the Arrows' original "I Love Rock and Roll" (Joan Jett cover)? tony ______________________________________________ The Wilds Scene http://www.charm.net/~wilds/ Tiki Gallery * Definitive EXOTICA * Sabu * LPs # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlawren1@csc.com Subject: (exotica) Crrrrrrrrritics Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:04:17 -0500 Like anyone else, critics tend to extol what is to their taste, such as it is, and to disparage what is not. Occasionally personal preference will speak under the alias of Universal Norms of Taste. This is the tack generally pursued if the intent is deflect dissent (especially if generated by a fellow critic) as the squawk of congenital idiocy. They tend to rankle more than others who do not hold our views because they have an institutional platform. My basic philosophy is fuck them if their tastes diverge from my own and right on if they pat me on the back. In other words, Milo who?. Hold fast to the gnosis that eludes the hooting rabble. Om. -Frank kerry keane wrote: My theory is that it is all about pleasure. Critics are puritanical. Would you want to be a critic? I wouldn't. They use these standards to mask blazing insecurities about their own status. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jbatutis@amexpub.com (Joe Batutis) Subject: (exotica) Promo Stills Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:34:46 -0500 Does anyone know a good source of promotional stills of musicians? I'd like some photos of the rat pack for my den. -Joe B. ODD Music Page http://www.amexpub.com/jbatutis/noddmusic/oddmusic.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Promo Stills Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:51:21 -0500 At 05:34 PM 3/26/97 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone know a good source of promotional stills of musicians? I'd like some >photos of the rat pack for my den. > >-Joe B. Hey Joe, You can try The Bettmann Archive at 902 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC 10010 <> and yes, bill gates does own them now. --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Lewis Subject: Re: (exotica) Promo Stills Date: 26 Mar 1997 21:21:52 -0500 (EST) > Hey Joe, > You can try The Bettmann Archive at 902 Broadway, 5th Floor, NYC 10010 > <> > > and yes, bill gates does own them now. Of course... he owns Broadway and New York City. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Jones help Date: 26 Mar 1997 20:55:14 -0500 (EST) I only know that his father, Alan Jones, had a hit called "Donkey Serenade". Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: heileson@u.washington.edu (Thom Heileson) Subject: (exotica) Delerium in Hi-Fi Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:43:45 -0700 >"La Java Des Bombes Atomiques" is on the recently reissued "Delerium in >Hi-Fi", which was recorded in 1957. Is this easy to get ahold of in the states? What is the label? Thanks, T