From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Bell, Book and Candle (and a cowboy) Date: 01 Mar 1998 12:27:32 -0500 This coming week's movie with the highest list-interest factor is "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958), airing Friday night/Saturday morning at 4:00 am (eastern standard time) on A&E. It's one I haven't seen, but on my continuing journey through the list archives (circa August '96), I found an enthusiatic thread on it. Stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, bongo-beatin' Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs and Hermione Gingold. It's a witchcraft comedy -- supposed to include a very hip witches' nightclub. Another movie mentioned more recently here airs a half hour earlier on TCM -- "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). I would imagine there are likely to be some cuts made on that channel. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 2/28/98 Date: 01 Mar 1998 15:37:23 -0500 (EST) Les Baxter-Oasis of Dakhla Combustible Edison-Intermission Sir Christopher Scott-Promises Promises Teo Esvelli-Piacere Sequence Pieor Umliani-Essere Donna Esquivel-MiniSkirt Dimitri of Paris-Une Very Stylish Fille Pizzicato 5-Tokyo Mon Amour Schulmadchen Report-Blue Mood Joey Altruda-Remembering Jobim Xavier Cugat-Tabasco Laurie Johnson-Gala Performance Wayne Newton-Wives And Lovers Don Tiki-An Occasional Man Serge Gainsbourg-Baudelaire Lalo Schifrin-More Mission Don Julian-Title Theme, "Savage" Curtis Mayfield-Junkie Chase Irving Joseph-Stool Pigeon Henry Mancini-Wait Until Dark Montefiori Cocktail-A Man and a Woman Mongo Santamaria-La La La Bob Crewe Generation-Birds of Britain Michelle Le Grand-Love is a Ball Bob Thompson-Early Bird Whirly Bird Les 54321-Bond Street Fifth Dimension-Dimension 5 Orpheus-I've Never Seen Love Like This Les Masques-Il Faute Tener Hugo Montenegro-Guaglione La Plata-Hollywool Cha Cha Henry Mancini-Mr. Lucky Goes Latin Lalo schifrin-Jim On The Move~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) 2 cents Date: 01 Mar 1998 15:00:19 PST I bought a box of mint condition lps at an estate sale this weekend and would like to sell off some of the clutter. Artists will include Lalo Schifrin, Al Caiola, David Carroll, etc. I will have a brief list ready in a day or so. If anyone is interested, mail me. We use your dead as hosts, BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: "Michael Greenberg" Subject: (exotica) "song-poem" prices Date: 02 Mar 1998 17:21:19 -0500 Hi - This posting isn't strictly about "exotica," but I know there are other collectors of "song-poem" records on the list, sometimes referred to as "MSR music," and hope it's reasonably "on topic." Recently there was discussion on the list about the extreme variation in pricing for "exotica" and so-called "incredibly strange music." In other words,many times we find our gems in thrift shops, but they also can fetch much higher prices in certain situations. My question is this - what are people's experiences with the prices for song poem records, now that they have become collectable, at least to some of us. I've seen 45's from $ .50 to $10, and lp's for up to $15. I've been thinking about selling some of my collection, and I'm wondering what the market will bear. I feel a little weird about it, because, as a collector, I don't want to see prices become more inflated. On the other hand, as a person who could use the money, I'm interested in getting the best price I can, and I've heard quite a few people say (even seasoned thrift shop veterans) that they've bought the cd compilations, but never come across the actual records. I would be interested in feed back from others about this and hope it isn't too far "off topic" for this list. thanks, 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Garage sale season is nigh! Date: 02 Mar 1998 14:44:28 +0000 A few garage sales this weekend - not much, but what I did score made it all worth it. Two years ago, I was digging through a pile of records at a garage sale. When I brought my treasures to the man with the panama hat and the roll of bills in his fanny-pack he looked them over to price them. He took one of the records, a belly dancing instructional album and informed me curtly that it was in the stack by mistake and not for sale. I could not persuade him otherwise. This weekend I followed a garage sale sign right back to the scene of the crime. As I pulled up, I told my wife about what had happened last time. As I walked around, I did not find any more records, so I asked. The guy (same hat as last time) said, "I only have one - some old Belly Dancing instruction record." He was asking two bucks. I was too happy to haggle. The instruction booklet inside was worth the wait. Heloooooo Princess!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) Looking for a Beach Boys video Date: 02 Mar 1998 23:44:10 +0100 European Exotica-listees: I'm looking for an OOP Beach Boys videodocumentary called "Beach Boys: An American Band", it might also have an alternative title "25 Years Of 'Good Vibrations'". The videocompany is Vestron Video and it was released in 1985, does anyone on this list (preferably European since the American and European videosystems aren't compatible with eachother) have it on tape? I'm completely broke right now but I'll try later to repay whoever offers to tape it for me..... Chester W. Nimitz "A blind class aristocracy Back through the opera glass you see The pit and the pendulum drawn Columnated ruins do-MIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-no" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Caravan and beyond Date: 02 Mar 1998 21:49:54 +0100 Talking about covers of Caravan a while back, picked up Ska-boo-da-ba by the Skatalites up last week. Originally issued on Top Deck in 1966, and considered one of the best ska albums ever, this has just been reissued on Westside in the UK. One of the tracks on it is an absolutely scorching version of Caravan called Ska-ra-van. It also features a skaversion of Arthur Lyman's "China Clipper". Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 2-22-98 Playlist for Jack Date: 02 Mar 1998 14:40:52 -0800 KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM Planets Chunky Marty Paich Original Dimension in Thirds 10", 1953 W/ Shorty Rogers,Bill Holman Contemporary Jack Montrose,Bob Cooper Jimmy Guiffre Shelly Manne Vol 2 Neal Hefti's; 40 Guitars and The Flinstones 8 Pianos Mineo, Attileo Gayway to Heaven Conducts Man in Space W/Sounds Ken Nordine Looks Like It's Gonna Rain Les Baxter Orch Jungla Brava Jungle Jazz Gianni Ferrio La Morte Accarezza... 1973 Hot Club of America Swamp Fire Johnny Cucci and Jody Carver Chaino Love Chant of the Mau Verve Mau Elmer Bernstein Orch Electrotherapy Les Baxter Orch Cult Party Dunwich Horror Pete Rugolo/ Skip Martin Killed in the Elevator Jack the Ripper Pino Donaggio School in Flames Carrie Kenyon Hopkins The Operation Panic! in Mono! Ray Brown Orch. W/ Sally Kellerman-Voice Coming and Going and Coming! Gregory Corso Bomb Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo For All We Know Mooooon Gaaaaas Phil Moore Orch Naked Island N.Y.Sweet Johnny Pate Orch Truck Stop Shaft in Africa Annie Ross Twisted 1953! Toots Thielmans Fallin' in Love W/ Whistlin' Love Perrey, Jean Jacques/Chazam,D. Cyberbugs Time Machine Eklectronics Tom Dissvelt Gold and Lead Fantasy in Orbit Gwen Verdon/Tab Hunter 2 Lost Souls Damn Yankees, 1956 Odell Brown and the Organ-Izers Mirar, Mirar Cadet Jud Canlon's Rhythm- Aires Dobie Gillis Theme Burt Bacharach Orch Bird Bath After the Fox Bob Crewe Generation W/ Vinnie Bell-Guitar Dead Duck Bar- Ltd Edition Cd The Pill Bar- Smoke(Vipor Vapor) Ella Gerry Mulligan Septet I Want to Live Ost W/ Bud Shank, Frank Rosolino Art Farmer, Pete Jolly Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers To Sir, with Love Impulse, 1967 Carl Brandt Orch. My Favorite Martian Paul Tanner; ElectroTheremin Dave Vorhaus Video Games Kpm Library Music Jimmie Haskel Orch W/ As-Tro-Sonic Ltd Edition Cd Big Jay McNeely-Sax George Barnes Qrt Rockin' the Weasel Country Jazz! The Fabulous Jokers Song of Orfeo Negro Monument Woody Leafer Drums in My Typewriter Pictures From The New Bangs Go Go Kitty The Gone World Rick Holmes-Spk. Word Cannonball Adderly, V-I-R-G-O Soul Zodiac Nat Adderly,Mike Deasy Boris Karloff-Spk Word Nightmare Mercury, Mono Tom Dissvet/Kid Baltan-Song of the 2ND Moon Runs Underneath Boris' Voice Jerry Goldsmith Border Crossing The Last Run Ost Robert Margouleff; Moog and Spoken Word Caldera; A Moog Mass Julie Cruise Falling Twin Peaks Agnes Moorhead Sorry, Wrong Number Air Talisman Moon Safari Ali Akbar Khan W/ Yvette Mimieuex-Word The Albatross Flowers of EVIL,'68 Umiliani, Piero La Signora Cameriera Sweden Heaven and Hell Henke, Mel The Twisters La Dolce Henke Stanley Myers Main Title Kaleidoscope Pete Rugolo Orch Diamond on the Move That's me! 51 titles in 3 freakin' hours! Rock on kids! KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 http://www.KFJC.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry House Subject: (exotica) My addional 2 cents worth. Date: 02 Mar 1998 18:03:58 -0500 Sorry if I'm picking up a thread that has just about played out, but I really enjoy the "scores" or "finds" that get posted. And if someone does indulge in a bit of bragging, I, for one, am not bothered at all. I feel like a lot of real emotion comes through when someone is sharing their stories of success, and because of that, for me, these stories are among the best things on the newsgroup. I wind up feeling good for people who find great stuff, and these postings usually inspire the hope that I can do the same thing. Another quarter heard from, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) [exotica] Brother Dave Gardner Date: 02 Mar 1998 12:27:41 +0000 Anybody out there stumble onto Brother Dave Gardner yet? He was a comedian/song and dance man in the 60's whose Southern drawl belied a fierce wit and a crystal-clear understanding of human nature. His take on the world was remarkably progressive and probably earned him more than a few enemies in the charged atmosphere of that particular place and time. His language is a combination of rural rube and city slick all rolled into one mess. Imagine Jim Varney (Ernest goes to...) Billy Graham and Lenny Bruce sharing the same body. Unlike a lot of humor in the 60's, it still works, though a lot of the imagery he conjures is deeply rooted in the time. Brother Dave did a stint as fill-in host when Jack Paar walked off the "Tonight" show. I found one of his records at a Salvation Army store, and could tell by looking Picture of brother Dave on the cover looking ever-so smug (Kick Thy Own Self, RCA, 1960 or so) that I was in for a treat. I have since bought several others. I think the guy is frigging Geeeneeeeuuusss! Rumor has it that he died penniless in the early eighties. ======================================================= Wow! i just looked up Brother Dave in the All-Music Guide, and I guess I share some psychic connection to the person who did the write up. Here's an excerpt: > Next to Homer and Jethro, the most successful Southern-derived comedian was undoubtedly Brother Dave Gardner. In the late > 1950s and into the middle 1960s, Brother Dave's albums found themselves esconsed in record collections in far more urbane > and Northerly locales than one would suspect and his style was instantly influential and widely imitated. Variously described > as a "Southern Lenny Bruce" or "Billy Graham with a sense of humor," Gardner's best routines still sound fresh and original > today, a testament to his off-kilter genius. There was much, much more to this small statured stand up comic than your average > hillbilly plowboy set of wheezy jokes; Brother Dave may just very well have been the true innovative genius of classy > Southern humor. > > After recording a handful of semi-successful singles as a drummer/vocalist in and around his native Memphis (he had the > original hit of "White Silver Sands"), Gardner found his true calling when Chet Atkins discovered him in Nashville doing > comedy routines between drum solos. His on stage character (and by most accounts, off stage as well) was one part hipster, > one part Sunday-morning preacher, peppered with off-the-wall observations about history and life, all of it barely concealing a > personality that was as convention shattering as the times would barely allow. His debut album on RCA (Rejoice, Dear > Hearts!) was released at the height of the comedy-album craze in 1960 and his followup, Kick Thy Own Self, was even more > successful. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) DJ Bongo-Boy Back from the Twilight Zone Date: 03 Mar 1998 00:04:55 +0000 Hi all - Just a note to let those of you within striking distance of Edinburgh (UK) know that, as from Weds 4 March, DJ Bongo Boy ("hi!") returns (after the demise of Space Safari last year) with a new weekly 5-hour (ouch!) slot at the prestigious DOUBLE SIX CLUB here in Edinburgh. The Double Six Club is on at the City Cafe, Blair Street every Wednesday from 8pm to 1am - and it's FREE! The Double Six Club is a "board games with easy listening" club which started in London about 4-5 years ago but is now active across the whole land. The Edinburgh 'branch' is their first foray into Scotland. So if you fancy some Monkey Madness, Kerplunk, Giant Jenga or Twister alongwith me providing the Space Age EZ-ness you know where to be on Wednesdays from now on! DJ Bongo 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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Sitar Date: 02 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0800 Just received a record from an Indian guy as in not "original American" but waaaaaaaaaaaaay east. "V. Balsara and His Singing Sitars - Golden Hits" I was actually expecting another title but you don't want to give too much away when looking/asking for weird LP's in general. I was expecting Great International Hits but got Golden Hits instead on the Indian "Odean" label, a subsidiary of those bastards, EMI Actually quite nice exploitative weird psych-esque easy listening. MUCH BETTER than the guy who invented the electric sitar's record, Vinnie Bell's "Pop Goes The Electric Sitar" which is not that uncommon, sorry to say, amongst KILLER GUITAR PLAYERS who backed up and played on ZILLIONS of records to make more than a couple of shitty solo records themselves. If Quiet Village wasn't on Vinnie Bell's "Pop Goes..." I'd have trashed it long ago. Another KILLER GUITAR PLAYER who played on ZILLIONS of records backing up everyone and his brother in the 50's who made only 1 solo record that ab-so-lute-ly sucks dogs is Mickey Baker and trust mew on this 1, I LOVE Mickey Baker. That guy was Un-be-lieve-a-ble w/ a capitol U But this V. Balsara record, like I said is quite nice. It's gotta really bright sound w/ bright bells ringing right along with the sitar. I LIKE IT! Titles; The Last Waltz, Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've Got Love In My Tummy), San Francisco De Assisi, A Man Without Love, Bend Me Shape Me, Lara's Theme, Guantanamera, Theme From "Come September", Roses Moonlight and One Little Bottle of Wine, Acapulco 1922, Kiss Me Goodbye, Strangers In The Night. Dated 1969 on the label! Yeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaa! It's always nice finding ANOTHER record by some one/some artist that I thought only had 1 record and on a completely different label to boot. Now all I have to find is a 2nd rekkid by the Mindexpanders and I've got it made @:-O 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: Stilgloria Subject: Re: (exotica) Bell, Book and Candle (and a cowboy) Date: 01 Mar 1998 21:59:27 EST <<<"Bell, Book and Candle" (1958), airing Friday night/Saturday morning at 4:00 am (eastern standard time) >>> Why are these great movies always on at such ungodly hours? 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Bell, Book and Candle Date: 02 Mar 1998 21:46:11 -0800 At 12:27 PM 3/1/98 -0500, you wrote: > >This coming week's movie with the highest list-interest factor is "Bell, Book >and Candle" (1958), supposed to include a very hip witches' nightclub. Yeah. It's called The Zodiac Club and there are a few super cool numbers on the soundtrack score relating to it like Zodiac Blues and such. The jazz sequences in the film feature Barney Kessel-Guitar, Jack Lemmon-Bongos, Pete and Conte Candoli-Trumpets. Jack Lemmon is REALLY playing the bongos on that score and in the film. He was quite a beat, y'know:-) 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: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Questions Questions Date: 02 Mar 1998 13:56:47 UT For the benefit of myself and other newbies, can anyone recommend: 1) An excellent Les Baxter comp. 2) An excellent Esquivel comp. 3) An excellent Martin Denny comp. Just to get us started? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Sitar Date: 03 Mar 1998 07:42:18 -0500 >"V. Balsara and His Singing Sitars - Golden Hits" Does this one say "Dum Dum" on the back as well? For the listers, "Great International Hits" does indeed say "Dum Dum" on the back, so this is not a swipe. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Answer Answer Date: 03 Mar 1998 07:48:05 -0500 >For the benefit of myself and other newbies, can anyone recommend: > >1) An excellent Les Baxter comp. The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter - Great 2 CD comp, which includes the original version of "Quiet Village", "The Left Arm of the Buddha" and the previously unreleased "Bacoa" >2) An excellent Esquivel comp. I rather liked "Music From a Sparkling Planet" Not a bad song to be had in the bunch! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Karasick" Subject: (exotica) What IS Schlager? Date: 03 Mar 1998 09:24:29 EST Johan wrote: > just wanted to point out that "Get easy 4: the German Pops collection" > is NOT a schlager comp. I guess this would be a good time to try to establish what exactly IS Schlager. To my understanding it is a form of easy listening music, often traditional (conservative?) and almost always wirh German lyrics. As it has a reputation for being of marginal quality, I read into this comment that the material on Get Easy Vol. 4 is good. My suspicions are that the matrial from the 50's and into the 60's is better than that of the late 60's and 70's, though for "exotic" value, I need to hear more to make a better judgement. Certainly after hearing Marianne Rosenberg, I realized that by 70's disco reared its ugly head even into Germany! I'm looking to get Get Easy Vol4. Any other rcommendations for more material, and other opinons on what is Schlager as well? Regards, Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) New Quincy Jones CD Date: 03 Mar 1998 09:47:03 -0500 I noticed that Rykodisc/MGM has released the following CD: QUINCY JONES: In The Heat Of The Night/They Call Me Mr Tibbs - Rykodisc 10712- Does anyone have it? Or either of the albums? I was always interested in 'they call me Mr Tibbs' after I heard the rousing Chaquito version on the 'Inflight entertainment' compilation. I've NEVER seen the record anywhere, either. So I guess this CD sounds like a good buy - can anyone confirm this? Regards Jonny _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Sitar Date: 03 Mar 1998 19:06:24 +-200 "V. Balsara and His Singing Sitars - Golden Hits" My friend DJ Bonanza has this and I quite enjoy it in a perverse sort of = way. Strangers in the night knocks me out. Usually this is done in = fairly straight fashion, but not here! I wonder is Mr Balsara vaguely = related to Freddie Mercury who was Bulsara?? Does anyone know a moog = version of Strangers in the night?? CHACHACHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangri-la Subject: FW: (exotica) Bell, Book and Candle Date: 03 Mar 1998 19:07:57 +-200 Theres also a new(?) quite boring pop group by the same name. I just cannot figure this one out... CHACHACHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 john sloane Subject: RE: (exotica) Moog strangers in the night Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:57:57 -0600 (CST) On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Shangri-la wrote: > Does anyone know a moog version of Strangers in the night?? Perrey and Kingsley do one, on their second album. Rob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) New Quincy Jones CD Date: 03 Mar 1998 12:30:54 -0500 At 9:47 AM -0500 3/3/98, Jonathan M Perl wrote: >I noticed that Rykodisc/MGM has released the following CD: >QUINCY JONES: In The Heat Of The Night/They Call Me Mr Tibbs - Rykodisc >10712- >So I guess this CD sounds like a good buy - can anyone confirm this? I have ".......Heat of the Night", and it's a very cool, sinister crime jazz record. I have the theme to "Mr. Tibbs" on a UA soundtrack comp; it's a groovy blaxploitation type of track. Never seen the album, so I've been looking forward to this reissue. These new Ryko MGM/UA discs are enhanced with QuickTime versions of the trailers of the films; if you have a fast CPU, these things look incredible, almost 3 dimensional. They have a special QT player you can download from the disc. 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) What IS Schlager? Date: 03 Mar 1998 12:21:16 -0500 At 9:24 AM -0500 3/3/98, Brian Karasick wrote: >My suspicions are that the matrial from the 50's and into the 60's is >better than that of the late 60's and 70's, The material from 'Get Easy' (3 of the 4 volumes) is all from the late 60's and 70's, as is nearly all "easy listening" from Europe that has been reissued since the mid-90's. I don't know if the 50's/early 60's material is better, but I doubt it, in the context of what the EZ scene is about. You have to remember, exotica was pretty much a North American sound (although the Japanese picked up on it early on). And as far as a revival goes, thrift store hipsters in the U.S. were prone to picking up the exotica and space-age bachelor pad records, while skipping over the majority of the discotheque a go-go records that became the focus of the sound in Europe, where the dance club scene has had much more of an importance over the years (after all, the discotheque was a French creation) >I realized that by 70's disco reared its ugly head >even into Germany! Have you forgotten the great Georgio Moroder, whose Munich Machine teamed with Donna Summer to reinvent the sound? Or how about Kraftwerk? Disco was a worldwide phenonmenon, currently being reinvented again quite nicely by the French. > Any other rcommendations >for more material, and other opinons on what is Schlager as well? Schlager has nothing in common with the go-go sound being reissued these days. Schlager has its roots in German beer hall music; it is a peppier, more pop oriented kind of oom-pah sound, sung by popular vocalists. In many ways, its the Teuton equivalent of country & western music, as it's favored by truck drivers and the more working class type of folks. For more of the go-go sound: - Scamp has a Peter Thomas Sound-Orchester comp due this Spring (produced by The Millionaire), as well as 2 volumes of The Sound Gallery; Motor Records from Germany has a cool Horst Jankowski comp; Britain's Karminsky Experience has produced 3 volumes of "Inflight Entertainment" and 1 Latin go-go comp; "Swinging Cheese" on the Irma label, and Mood Mosaic Volume 4 : Les Yper Sound", both from Italy; or just scan your thrifts and used record stores for LP's with pictures of middle aged guys wearing nehru jackets and love beads on the cover, playing rock songs you told yourself you never wanted to hear again (keep an eye out for Deiter Zimmerman doing "Whole Lotta Love"; it could erase your mind). 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Klaus Beyer Date: 03 Mar 1998 19:47:18 +0100 (CET) anyone knows more details about a Beatles covers cd by German artist Klaus Beyer mentioned in the latest issue of C&SM, like title and label and so? there's one track of his on "the exotic beatles part 2", and it is very special, hilarious and charming at the same time. thanx! Johan quiet@village.uunet.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica Date: 03 Mar 1998 19:47:24 +0100 (CET) Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 7 -------------- * Jack Costanzo & His Orchestra: "Peter Gunn Mambo" [compil. CD: "Ultra-Lounge Volume 2 - Mambo Fever"] much discussed series, and I love almost each volume. this track combines the best of 2 worlds: spicey mambo + the action of one of the best tv themes ever! * Bo Axelzon: "Cachita" [10": "Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds"] read review at my web site: * RODE DRAAD/THREAD: Monty Python: "Embarassment" [CD: "Previous Record"] * Serge Gainsbourg: "Evgenie Sokolov" [LP: "Aux Armes Etc"] reggae without lyrics, just (fake) farts all the way through :-) * Gainsbourg Imitator: "Lemon Incest" [French TV Show: "?"] no idea who he is, but he imitates both Serge and Charlotte. * Giao & Astrud Gilberto: "Girl From Ipanema, Beach REMIX" [LP: "Best Of"] the surf, children playing... fits the song perfectly! * Bob Thompson: "Star Fire" [compil. CD: "Cocktail Mix Volume 1"] my favorite volume of Rhino's series * Perrey & Kingsley: "Girl From Venus" [CD: "The Essential Perrey & Kingsley"] it sez _Essential_ , OK?! * Esquivel: "Lazy Bones" [CD: "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"] * TV Tune: "The Addams Family" [compil. LP (CD): "Television's Greatest Hits"] * Lurch: "Lurch Sings!" [TV Series: "The Adams Family"] i was lucky to tape the episode in which Lurch becomes a pop star! * Disney: "Music In Your Soup" [soundtrack CD: "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs"] Zounds for kids! * Mandy Miller: "Nelly The Elephant" [Single: "Nelly The Elephant"] the "original" of a song covered by the Toy Dolls * Les Baxter: "Sabre Dance" [LP: "Wild Guitars"] about the only decent track on this over-rated LP * Kali Bahlu: "How Can I Tell My Guru" [LP: "Cosmic Remembrance"] if you own the ISM cd with a track from this lp, you know how the rest of it sounds. * Stu Mitchell: "Acid" [compil. CD: "Only In America"] one of my fave "mad, bizarro, novelty" comp cd's! * Dennis Cooper: "Seven Poets Choosen By John Ashberry" [compil. LP: "English As A Second Language"] * The Seven Stooges: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" [compil. LP: "The Rhino Brothers Present The World's Worst Records"] 4 + 3 = 7 * Sebastian Cabot: "Who Killed Davey Moore" [LP: "Sebastian Cabot, Actor - Bob Dylan, Poet - A Dramatic Reading With Music"] needs reissuing badly! each track is as good as the few featured on several comps * Rod McKuen, Anita Kerr, The San Sebastian Strings: "The Mud Kids" [LP: "The Earth"] cool! I like it better each time I hear it. * Living Brass: "Bye Bye (Vocal)" From The Film "Gunn" [LP: "Swingin' Hearts Along Moon River"] yes, a VOCAL, and dynamite version! the only excellent track on this LP. (CD) = exists on CD the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.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: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Throbbers Date: 03 Mar 1998 13:35:33 -0500 Hi everyone, Just a quick diversion... I just got done building two throbbers for my Netscape browser using Denny's Exotica and Exotica 2 covers. For those who don't know, I am referring to the annoying little "N" in the upper right corner of your Netscape browser. I have made some things more interesting to replace it with. Is her name Sandy? I have her blinking those incredible eyes. They are quite simple, really, but if you would like them for yourself, reply and I will send them to you with instructions...They will work on Netscape version 3 and they are each only about 120k bmp files. Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "allanc" Subject: Re: (exotica) Questions Questions Date: 03 Mar 1998 15:09:39 -0500 Peter wrote: > For the benefit of myself and other newbies, can anyone recommend: > > 3) An excellent Martin Denny comp. The compilation that got me started was the Japanese 1991 release: "The Exotic Sounds: The Very Best of Martin Denny" (EMI TOCP-6770). The cd contains 29 tracks of Denny at his tiki room best. Some of the tunes included: Quiet Village (original & moog version), Sake Rock, Jungle Madness, Hypnotique, Mau Mau...you get the idea. The booklet includes discographies of Denny, Lyman, Baxter (exotic only), plus a long list of suggested listening. Which reminds me, has anyone ever heard "Water Melon Group: Cool Music"? Another first rate comp would be another Japanese release called "The Very Best of The Exotic Sounds" released in 1989. This cd was released by EMI (CAT No. CP32-5781). 27 tracks with about 50% being by Denny with the rest by Les Baxter, Ethel Azama, Sondi Sodsai, Tak Shindo, The Beach Boys ("Diamond Head") & Russ Garcia. Aloha, Allan. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Questions Questions Date: 03 Mar 1998 16:14:10 -0500 (EST) Les Baxter--the double CD on Capitol released in conjunction with Ultra Lounge Martin Denny--the Rhino Denny CD called "Exotica" Esquivel--The three Brother Cleve productions on Bar-None # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: 03 Mar 1998 16:28:25 -0500 MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 u.s. e-mail: misant@ic.net RADIO PLAYLIST (edited for exotica content) ARTIST--TITLE--CD/CASS/LP--LABEL FEBRUARY 16, 1998 FALCO--der kommissar--einzelhaft--A&M JR & HIS SOULETTES--thing, do the creep--psychodelic sounds GANIMS ASIA MINORS--daddy lo lo--v.a. jungle exotica--STRIP RONALD STEIN--spider orgy--not of this earth--VARESE PIERO PICCIONI--i dont forgive, i kill--v.a. spaghetti westerns 2--DRG JEAN TINGUELY--shop window displays--j. tinguely--MANHOOD FLEE-REKKERS--fireball--joe meeks fabulous--C-5 TERRY RILEY--ethereal time shadow--v.a music from mills--MILLS COLLEGE ATTILIO MINEO--around the world--man in space w/ sounds--SUBLIMINAL RADIO MARABU, MARCH 1998 THE FREE DESIGN--a man and a woman--kites are fun--PROJECT 3 DAVID BEHRMAN--interspaces small talk 2--v.a. music from mills--MILLS ENOCH LIGHT--enjoy yourself cha cha--pertinent perc. cha cha--COMMAND ENOCH LIGHT--theme from shaft--movie hits--PROJECT 3 ENOCH LIGHT--try a little tenderness--most precious violins--COMMAND FLEE-REKKERS--sunday date--joe meeks fabulous--C-5 LOTHAR & HAND PEOPLE--machines--presenting...--ONE WAY GERT WILDEN--title theme--schulmadchen--CRIPPLED DICK GERT WILDEN--hong kong twist--i told you not to cry--CRIPPLED DICK JERRY VAN ROOYEN--death walks high heels--at 250 mph--CRIPPLED DICK NURSE W/ WOUND--think jazz, think punk attitude--v.a. foxtrot--CHALICE M. M. OF JAJOUKA--eyes are like a cup of tea--brian jones presents--POINT MARCH 2, 1998 ALFREDO MENDIETTA--chicken run--v.a strummin mental 2--CRYPT LOSERS--snake eyes--v.a. strummin mental 2--CRYPT PIERO UMILIANI--fotomodelle--v.a the psycho beat--EASY TEMPO IANNIS XENAKIS--concret ph--electronic music--EMF 101 STRINGS--karma sitar--astro sounds--SCAMP 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. Surrealism in living stereo. 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 throughout Europe. 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.mediaDD.de/radiomarabu/ 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: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Everyone has stories Date: 03 Mar 1998 17:22:06 EST In a message dated 98-02-26 02:55:53 EST, you write: << and i will add: if i was going to plop down $30 for an import CD reissue, why wouldn't i pay that amount for a mint copy of the original on vinyl?! that's not to say i haven't scored-top dollar shit for FREE at times... it all balances out... >> I apologize if I'm running late on this thread..... But I will say this: it's great that the list members can actually buy stuff for 50 cents or a dollar, because that's the only way one can afford to take a chance and try out alot of new (or in our case old) music. I really hate buying a CD for $15 and then finding out it is crappy, don't you? So even if we can agree about time being valuable and that we are willing to pay such and such a price for something - we also realize that the list members who do comb the thrifts or garage sales are serving a very important function - they're finding out about the stuff and posting whether it is good or bad on the list and then people like me who can't afford the time to look for stuff cheap - at least know whether or not we want to risk spending good cash for it when we come across it at the record swap meet where I pay more than a few dollars for something. I can't tell you how many records I've bought because somebody has raved about it on the list. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) New Quincy Jones CD Date: 03 Mar 1998 21:52:13 EST In a message dated 98-03-03 13:20:31 EST, you write: << a groovy blaxploitation type of track. >> jessica was right! get Roy Ayers' COFFY now!!!!! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Subject: (exotica) The Single Eye Playlist for March 1/98 with comments Date: 02 Mar 1998 02:24:05 GMT The Single Eye can be heard every Sunday at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal, Canada This week's show was guest -hosted by Cheryl and Brian. It featured music by some well-known, not-so-well-known, and some best left unknown artists, playing exotica from around the world! Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry: Tchip Tchip "Dancing at the Moog-o-Theque" + the "bird dance" (yes, that bird dance) performed by the resident band of the Hilton Hotels. What more do we need to say? Heino: Die blauen Dragoner "...und sensucht uns begleitet" + this one pre-dates the sunglasses and slick hairdo, although it's not necessarily an improvement... musically! Peter Ehhlebracht & Karl Dall: Der mude Cowboy "Quartett im Bett" + cowboy music from a German porno film... at least that's what the cover implies! Pascal Comelade: Bal de moros i christians "Un Tal Jazz" + even Pascal Comelade can do schlager-style exotica! Scary... The Three Suns: Danny's Inferno "Cocktail Mix Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + another masterful compilation, as only Irwin Chusid can put together! Hawaiian Brass: Quiet Village "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" Orizabah: Tabu "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" + just two of the many offbeat variations of Quiet Village, Tabu and Caravan contained on this compilation. Vol. 1 is just as good! Robert Maxwell, His Harp & His Orchestra: Accidental Slip On An Oriental Rug "Cocktail Mix Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + reminded us of Combustible Edison, so... Combustible Edison: Breakfast At Denny's "I, Swinger" + a modern classic Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: In Honolulu "Lauter Lose Lieder" + where's the suntan lotion? Harry Breuer & His Quintet: La Rosita "Mallet Magic" + continuing on our exotic journey around the world... Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris "Frenzy" + truly an original version! Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: Ohne Hemden, ohne Hosen "Lauter Lose Lieder" + no shirt, no pants, no comment Korla Pandit: Harbour Lights "Hypnotique" + there's only one Korla Pandit... Jonathan Richman: "South American Folk Song "Rock & Roll With The Modern Lovers" + and now for something completely different... The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards: Lime And Salt "The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards" + 70's dub meets ambient Brian Eno: Juju Space Jazz "Nerve Net" + thankfully not of the ambient strain. Jean_Jacques Perrey: Flight Of The Bumblebee "Moog Indigo" + always a fun song, and different from the Perrey and Kingsley version. Harry Breuer & His Quintet: Tulip Polka "Mallet Magic" + more fine percussion from Mr. Breuer Thanks for reading. Any comments? Cheryl & Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Brother Dave Gardner Date: 02 Mar 1998 15:19:17 +0000 Message-ID: <34FAA5BB.1AEF@earthlink.net> Reply-To: rgrandia@earthlink.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anybody out there stumble onto Brother Dave Gardner yet? He was a comedian/song and dance man in the 60's whose Southern drawl belied a fierce wit and a crystal-clear understanding of human nature. His take on the world was remarkably progressive and probably earned him more than a few enemies in the charged atmosphere of that particular place and time. His language is a combination of rural rube and city slick all rolled into one mess. Imagine Jim Varney (Ernest goes to...) Billy Graham and Lenny Bruce sharing the same body. Unlike a lot of humor in the 60's, it still works, though a lot of the imagery he conjures is deeply rooted in the time. Brother Dave did a stint as fill-in host when Jack Paar walked off the "Tonight" show. I found one of his records at a Salvation Army store, and could tell by looking Picture of brother Dave on the cover looking ever-so smug (Kick Thy Own Self, RCA, 1960 or so) that I was in for a treat. I have since bought several others. I think the guy is frigging Geeeneeeeuuusss! Rumor has it that he died penniless in the early eighties. ======================================================= Wow! i just looked up Brother Dave in the All-Music Guide, and I guess I share some psychic connection to the person who did the write up. Here's an excerpt: > Next to Homer and Jethro, the most successful Southern-derived comedian was undoubtedly Brother Dave Gardner. In the late > 1950s and into the middle 1960s, Brother Dave's albums found themselves esconsed in record collections in far more urbane > and Northerly locales than one would suspect and his style was instantly influential and widely imitated. Variously described > as a "Southern Lenny Bruce" or "Billy Graham with a sense of humor," Gardner's best routines still sound fresh and original > today, a testament to his off-kilter genius. There was much, much more to this small statured stand up comic than your average > hillbilly plowboy set of wheezy jokes; Brother Dave may just very well have been the true innovative genius of classy > Southern humor. > > After recording a handful of semi-successful singles as a drummer/vocalist in and around his native Memphis (he had the > original hit of "White Silver Sands"), Gardner found his true calling when Chet Atkins discovered him in Nashville doing > comedy routines between drum solos. His on stage character (and by most accounts, off stage as well) was one part hipster, > one part Sunday-morning preacher, peppered with off-the-wall observations about history and life, all of it barely concealing a > personality that was as convention shattering as the times would barely allow. His debut album on RCA (Rejoice, Dear > Hearts!) was released at the height of the comedy-album craze in 1960 and his followup, Kick Thy Own Self, was even more > successful. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 4-27-97 Playlist for Jack Date: 03 Mar 1998 21:00:52 -0800 KFJC play list 4/27/97 for Jack Diamond http://www.kfjc.org ARTIST TRACK ALBUM ____________________________________________________________________________ ______ Planets Chunky Rumsey Lighthose All Stars w/ Jimmy Guiffre,Shorty Rogers Frank Patchen Milt Bernhart,Maynard Ferguson Four Others 1953,1ST Lp,Live 101 Strings Blues for the Guru Sound of Today John Barry A Man Alone Ipcress File Harry Breuer TV Funeral March George Cates Orch Quiet Village Rex Garvin Strange Happenings George Duning Suzie Wong Blues World of Suzie Wong Hot Butter Pop Corn 1972 Group One Fallout Wordless Vocals Riz Ortolani La Croisette Women of the World Esquivel Aqua De Beber Genius Of... Gabor Szabo Paint It Black Jazz Raga Fabulous Jokers Saturnus! Don Tiki with Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny! Exotica '97 Don Tiki June Christy W/ This Is My Theme 1947 Jack Costanzo Ray Heindorf Orch W/ Sam Hoffman-Theremin Spellbound The Burned Hand Lyle Murphy Octet Lost in a Fugue 10", Red Vinyl Ferrante & Teicher Bye Bye Blues Quincy Jones Aftermath Slender Thread Ananda Shankar Snow Flower 1970 Elec. Concept Orch Rock Me John Kay Tune Jerry Fielding Orch Hide and Seek Underground Scorpio Leda Annest/Phil Moore Portrait of Leda Pt 2 Columbia Mary Osbourne I Let a Song Go Out... Warwick, 1959 Jack Kerouac Abraham Hanover Fortune Tellers Spaghetti Twist Kapp Ken Nordine What Time Izzzzit????????? Word Jazz, 57 Ennio Morricone The Odds Malamondo Vicki Carr The Silencers Phil Moore Orch Night Bloomin' Trashman N.Y.Sweet Leith Stevens Orch W/ Paul Frees-Spoken Word Exploring the Walter Schumann Voices The Comets Unknown, 1955 Chim Kothari Cast Your Fate to the Wind Kenny Burrell Bye and Bye 1961 Wendy and Bonnie The Winter Is Cold Skye, Promo Lalo Schifrin The Shadow Mannix Del Close & John Brent The R I F F How to Speak Hip Lambert,Hendricks,Ross 1 O'clock Jump Lloyd Green Green Strings Nashville, 66 Davey Allen/Arrows The Ghost Story Devils Angels Rod Mckuen R.S.V.P. Beatsville David Amram Switchblades on Parade Young Savages Bernard Herrmann Day the Earth Stood Still 1974 Leith Stevens The Thin Man Pete Rugolo Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 http://www.kfjc.org No need for reviews of artists and titles, it all rip kills;) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jan Fornell Subject: (exotica) Watermelon Date: 04 Mar 1998 15:21:06 +0900 allanc wrote: > > Peter wrote: > > > For the benefit of myself and other newbies, can anyone recommend: > > > > 3) An excellent Martin Denny comp. > > The compilation that got me started was the Japanese 1991 release: "The > Exotic Sounds: The Very Best of Martin Denny" (EMI TOCP-6770). The cd > contains 29 tracks of Denny at his tiki room best. Some of the tunes > included: Quiet Village (original & moog version), Sake Rock, Jungle > Madness, Hypnotique, Mau Mau...you get the idea. The booklet includes > discographies of Denny, Lyman, Baxter (exotic only), plus a long list of > suggested listening. Which reminds me, has anyone ever heard "Water Melon > Group: Cool Music"? Oh yes! This is very, very wonderful and highly recommended. Melon was originally a (not very interesting) Japanese punk/new wave band, with Watermelon as an exotica side project. Yan Tomita, who wrote the sleeve notes for the compilations you mention, also played steel drums in Watermelon and apparently had a HUGE collection of exotica records (this was 15 years ago already). On "Cool Music", they perform tongue-in-cheekish versions of "Quiet Village" and other exotica favourites, as weel as some original songs in the same spirit. There was also a live album called "Snakeman Show Presents the Watermelon Group Live at the Pithecantropus Erectus" (P.E. was a club in Tokyo in the early 80's) with some other songs (songs, yes -- there are vocals on most tracks) interleaved with strange jokes mostly in Japanese. (Hilarious, actually, if you speak the language.) Once again, this is great stuff. None of the more recent neo-exotica stuff I've heard is even in the same league. > Another first rate comp would be another Japanese release called "The Very > Best of The Exotic Sounds" released in 1989. This cd was released by EMI > (CAT No. CP32-5781). 27 tracks with about 50% being by Denny with the rest > by Les Baxter, Ethel Azama, Sondi Sodsai, Tak Shindo, The Beach Boys > ("Diamond Head") & Russ Garcia. Jan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Re: Soundtrack Question Date: 04 Mar 1998 02:49:17 EST My hippy friend wants to know if the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was released as a soundtrack album on its own. He claims every CD by this composer (who?) has got this material but in compilation with other material. He wants a soundtrack only. Do any of you know if this was released as a soundtrack by itself and if it will be easy to find? He also wants to find the soundtrack for a movie called "Under Fire". He claims he's been looking for year for that one, but has not been successful. Thanks in advance to anyone that can answer these questions. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: playlist Date: 04 Mar 1998 00:09:47 -0700 >From: Jack > > KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond > > ARTIST TRACK > ALBUM > Planets Chunky > Marty Paich Original Dimension in Thirds > 10", 1953 > W/ Shorty Rogers,Bill Holman > Contemporary > Jack Montrose,Bob Cooper Music Since you post these playlists so frequently, I feel it's my duty to inform you that this columnized version of your playlist may look really nice on YOUR computer screen, but it comes out a thoroughly unreadable jumble on mine (and I doubt I'm alone). I suggest a different, less fancy format. Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: [Eb: (exotica) Re: playlist] Date: 04 Mar 1998 11:11:08 GMT > >From: Jack > > > > KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond > > > > ARTIST TRACK > > ALBUM > > Planets Chunky > > Marty Paich Original Dimension in Thirds > > 10", 1953 > > W/ Shorty Rogers,Bill Holman > > Contemporary > > Jack Montrose,Bob Cooper > Music > > Since you post these playlists so frequently, I feel it's my duty to inform > you that this columnized version of your playlist may look really nice on > YOUR computer screen, but it comes out a thoroughly unreadable jumble on > mine (and I doubt I'm alone). > > I suggest a different, less fancy format. > To keep to a universally readable standard, you need to keep the line length down to about 72 characters, and jettison any use of tabs (that's what's screwing these up). I would LIKE to read these lists, but it's impossible to decipher what's what. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Re: Soundtrack Question Date: 04 Mar 1998 09:59:12 -0500 (EST) At 02:49 AM 3/4/98 EST, Michele wrote: >My hippy friend wants to know if the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly was released >as a soundtrack album on its own. >- Michele Any search for info about soundtracks and their composers should start at the Film Score Monthly site: Scroll down to the search box labeled "Does it exist?" and plug in the last name of the composer. Here's your answer: EMI CDP-748408 Good, the Bad & the Ugly, The Morricone, Ernie --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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Yes! It's worth a dollar...... Date: 04 Mar 1998 10:25:01 -0500 I've been going through all of my albums and writing down the tracks that are "worthy" for inclusion in compilation tapes. Since a lot of these albums appear generic but contain a few great tracks, I thought I'd start posting the albums so you don't inadvertantly pass something by in the $1 bins....... Fire and Romance of South America (101 Strings) - Yellow cover with color drawing of cosmopilitan nite-lifers whooping it up in a congo line against the night sky and row of skyscrapers. Three tracks pull this LP outta the standard "101 Strings treatment." But when their "lush sound" works - it works! - Desifinado - Inca Theme - Encanto del Caribe Of course, we all know Desifinado..... Both "Inca" and "Encanto" include great "female voice" accompaniment, two haunting scores that would sound right at home on any "exotica" LP release. Don't pass it up! Sorry, describing music in words isn't my forte' but there's a strong emphasis on the rhythm section and bassoon. BTW- What do ya call that wooden scratchy thing with grooves in it that you run a wooden rod across? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) How do my playlists look ? Date: 04 Mar 1998 08:30:24 -0800 Hello, Someone on the list told me that on their screen, my playlists come out all screwed up. How do they look on YOUR screen ? I certainly don't want them to be "unreadable" as that is not the point. I am not doing anything "fancy" to them as that is the exact way they are on the KFJC DJ Playlists page. http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/ I just simply "save" them in text form and then cut and paste them into my Eudora mail program and send them off. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated:-) Thanks! 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: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Yes! It's worth a dollar...... Date: 04 Mar 1998 10:56:56 -0500 hey gang, >BTW- What do ya call that wooden scratchy thing with grooves in it that >you run a wooden rod across? > >- Nate Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but I think it is called a Guaracha in the Afro-Caribbean scene. I donno what they call it in the states, tho... surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman Date: 04 Mar 1998 18:02:43 +0100 >Both Neil Richardson and Alan Hawkshaw were primarily production music library >composers. If you love the stuff from these guys you'll really enjoy "Music >For TV Dinners - The '60s" as they feature 3 more Alan Hawkshaw and one really >incredible Neil Richardson track that perfectly apes the lush Les Baxter sound >called "Rio Magic." These tracks were taken from the same vaults as the stuff >culled for the Sound Gallery. What's the catalog number for "Music For TV Dinners"? Has it been re-issued on CD or is it a rare LP which is impossible to get hold of unless you find a copy out of pure luck in a thrift store? Chester W. Nimitz "The equipment in today's recording studio was created so that they could make records the way Brian Wilson was making them in 1966 without the technology. They've almost caught up" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) Re: Soundtrack Question Date: 04 Mar 1998 09:00:39 -0800 > >Any search for info about soundtracks and their composers should start at > >the Film Score Monthly site: > > > Here's another KILLER link to TV and Film Everything you would ever want to > know about, whether it be Music or whatever! > This is absolutely brilliant! > http://www.tvgen.com/movies/database/ > Jack "Ernie" 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: Vik Trola Subject: (exotica) Music For TV Dinners Date: 04 Mar 1998 12:25:12 -0500 >What's the catalog number for "Music For TV Dinners"? Has it been re-issued >on CD or is it a rare LP which is impossible to get hold of unless you find >a copy out of pure luck in a thrift store? Two volumes of Music For TV Dinners The '50s (Scamp 9721) The '60s (Scamp 9722) more info (and real audio) can be found at http://www.scamp-records.com/moodsong/ listening to what might be the '70s volume as i write this... cheers, some call me Vik, some call me Frank, but everyone knows i'm just shillin' for the man! tho...nice work if you can get 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: Kerry Keane Subject: Re: (exotica) Yes! It's worth a dollar...... Date: 04 Mar 1998 11:19:36 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, NATHAN MINER wrote: > > I've been going through all of my albums and writing down the tracks that > are "worthy" for inclusion in compilation tapes. Since a lot of these > albums appear generic but contain a few great tracks, I thought I'd start > posting the albums so you don't inadvertantly pass something by in the $1 > bins....... > > Fire and Romance of South America (101 Strings) - Yellow cover with > color drawing of cosmopilitan nite-lifers whooping it up in a congo line > against the night sky and row of skyscrapers. > > Three tracks pull this LP outta the standard "101 Strings treatment." But > when their "lush sound" works - it works! Thanks, I always wonder about those 101 strings albums. I just have not been able to bring myself to buy one, yet, because I can remember that my grandparents had them. One "one hit wonder" album that comes to my mind is a comp called _Music to Scare Hell (sic) Out of Your Neighbors_. I bought this one for the cover, which is a cartoon of a skeleton hanging from a gallows, and "Crime Jazz"-type graphics and lettering. This has an odd assortment of stuff, including a symphonic interpretation of "Adolf Hitler" which I can't bring myself to listen to. Anyway, I never fail to use this when making mix tapes, because it has "Fire Goddess" by the Surfmen on it! It's a great crescendo exotica piece, complete with femme oo-ooo vox on it. I've never seen this one anywhere else, but I'll bet someone else here has this album. I managed to score this one before the "Incredibly Strange.." craze, for a mere $6. Worth it for the cover alone! http://www.ripco.com:8080/~luddite # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings Date: 04 Mar 1998 09:28:46 -0800 The 1 to find though is "101 Strings Play Jimi Hendrix" THAT'S THE 1 to find:-) 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Surfmen etc. Date: 04 Mar 1998 12:36:30 -0500 Kerry: Glad to "enlighten" you. Actually, I've seen that "Music to Scare Hell...." album, but unfortunately some brat got hold of it and colored all over the cool skeletons. Actually, that cover reminds me exactly of an old Aurora model kit box illustration - hell, the skeletons might actually be an Aurora model kit. I've got that Surfmen album, it's called "Exotic Island" and has a great cover of an exotic flower with a nekkid native girl emerging from its "trumpet." It's on a familiar "budget" label but I can't recall the name right off. Great album! Love that female voice ooo-oooo stuff :-) !!! - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings -Reply Date: 04 Mar 1998 12:38:31 -0500 Didn't they also do a wild "Space Age" Esquivel type thingy??? (It's out on CD, but I'm holding out for that $1 record find!) - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) How's this 1 ? Date: 04 Mar 1998 09:54:46 -0800 KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM Planets Chunky Marty Paich Original Dimension in Thirds 10", 1953 W/ Shorty Rogers, Bill Holman Contemporary Jack Montrose, Bob Cooper Jimmy Guiffre Shelly Manne Vol 2 Neal Hefti's; 40 Guitars and The Flinstones 8 Pianos Mineo, Attileo Gayway to Heaven Conducts Man in Space W/Sounds Ken Nordine Looks Like It's Gonna Rain Les Baxter Orch Jungla Brava Jungle Jazz Gianni Ferrio La Morte Accarezza... 1973 Hot Club of America Swamp Fire Johnny Cucci and Jody Carver Chaino Love Chant of the Mau Verve Mau Elmer Bernstein Orch Electrotherapy Les Baxter Orch Cult Party Dunwich Horror Pete Rugolo/ Skip Martin Killed in the Elevator Jack the Ripper Pino Donaggio School in Flames Carrie Kenyon Hopkins The Operation Panic! in Mono! Ray Brown Orch. W/ Sally Kellerman-Voice Coming and Going Gregory Corso Bomb Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo For All We Know Mooooon Gaaaaas Phil Moore Orch Naked Island N.Y.Sweet Johnny Pate Orch Truck Stop Shaft in Africa Annie Ross Twisted 1953! Toots Thielmans Fallin' in Love W/ Whistlin' Love Perrey, Jean Jacques/Chazam,D. Cyberbugs Time Machine Eklectronics Tom Dissvelt Gold and Lead Fantasy in Orbit Gwen Verdon/Tab Hunter 2 Lost Souls Damn Yankees, 1956 Odell Brown and the Organ-Izers Mirar, Mirar Cadet Jud Canlon's Rhythm- Aires Dobie Gillis Theme Burt Bacharach Orch Bird Bath After the Fox Bob Crewe Generation W/ Vinnie Bell-Guitar Dead Duck Bar- Ltd Edition Cd The Pill Bar- Smoke(Vipor Vapor) Ella Gerry Mulligan Septet I Want to Live Ost W/ Bud Shank Frank Rosolino Art Farmer Pete Jolly Shelly Manne Red Mitchell Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers To Sir, with Love Impulse, 1967 Carl Brandt Orch. My Favorite Martian Paul Tanner; Electro Theremin Dave Vorhaus Video Games Kpm Library Music Jimmie Haskel Orch W/ As-Tro-Sonic Ltd Edition Cd Big Jay Mcneely-Sax George Barnes Qrt Rockin' the Weasel Country Jazz! The Fabulous Jokers Song of Orfeo Negro Monument Woody Leafer Drums in My Typewriter Pictures From The New Bangs Go Go Kitty The Gone World Rick Holmes-Spk. Word Cannonball Adderly, V-I-R-G-O Soul Zodiac Nat Adderly,Mike Deasy Boris Karloff-Spk Word Nightmare Mercury, Mono Tom Dissvet/Kid Baltan Song of the 2ND Moon Runs Underneath Boris' Voice Jerry Goldsmith Border Crossing The Last Run Ost Robert Margouleff; Moog and Spoken Word Caldera; a Moog Mass Julie Cruise Falling Twin Peaks Agnes Moorhead Sorry, Wrong Number Air Talisman Moon Safari Ali Akbar Khan W/ Yvette Mimieuex-Word The Albatross Flowers of EVIL,'68 Umiliani, Piero La Signora Cameriera Sweden Heaven and Hell Henke, Mel The Twisters La Dolce Henke Stanley Myers Main Title Kaleidoscope Pete Rugolo Orch Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 http://www.kfjc.org # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) 101 Strings -Reply Date: 04 Mar 1998 13:01:45 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, NATHAN MINER wrote: > > Didn't they also do a wild "Space Age" Esquivel type thingy??? > > (It's out on CD, but I'm holding out for that $1 record find!) I think you're thinking of _Astro Sounds from Beyond 2000_. Is that the Living Strings, though? This one would be pretty tuff to find in the cheapie bins, so I would get the CD. It's pretty good, if you like psychploitation, which I do. There's one track, though, which is a total ripoff of "Gimme Some Lovin", and it is damn annoying. A few tracks on this, BTW, were also included on the Arf Arf anthology _Everything You Need to Know about ..._, which I would recommend. Arf Arf has been accumulating quite a bit of psychploitation, judging from their compilation output. I don't know if anyone has seen that _Easy Listener_ magazine, but they came up with the genre of "acid easy". Two of my favorite genres combined in one! This would include the above album, along with any easy listening record that has *sitar* on it. Yessss.... http://www.ripco.com:8080/~luddite # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 04 Mar 1998 11:21:09 PST One of my favorite recent finds is Danny Guglielmi's Adventures In sound, with vocals by Dena. As I mentioned to someone, if I had to describe the sound of this record to someone I could only describe it as Les Paul and Mary Ford produced by David Lynch. Perhaps as a result of her reputed pipe-smoking, Dena's voice is pleasantly ethereal and together with husband Danny's Les Paulish "multitaping" techniques, this is a very curious lp (I love "I'll Remember April" in which Dena's voice fades out in haunting oohs and ahs). Can any recommend other lps by these two? Has anything made it to cd? BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Flea Markets, Yard Sales, Hurrah hurrah! Date: 04 Mar 1998 14:30:16 -0500 Yes, folks, as somebody mentioned - 'tis quick approaching the time when weekends will be spent sprinting to strangers' front yard to pick through records and knick-knacks..... Here's a helpful hint: When drawing up your itinerary (looking through the paper for yard sale ads), put a piece of clear tape over the ad you want and then lift it off. Then, transfer that tape to a sheet of paper and viola! you've got a list of all the places since the ink will lift off onto the tape. Thanks Heloise..... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Also, a moment of silence.... Date: 04 Mar 1998 14:36:30 -0500 (EST) Guy calls his lawyer and says, "Can I ask you a couple of questions?" Lawyer says, "Sure, what's the second one?" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Karasick" Subject: (exotica) The Single Eye Playlist for March 1/98 Date: 04 Mar 1998 14:39:06 EST PLAYLIST FOR "THE SINGLE EYE" The Single Eye can be heard every Sunday at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal, Canada This week's show was guest -hosted by Cheryl and Brian. It featured music by some well-known, not-so-well-known, and some best left unknown artists, from around the world! Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry: Tchip Tchip "Dancing at the Moog-o-Theque" + the "bird dance" (yes, that bird dance) performed by the resident band of the Hilton Hotels. What more do we need to say? Heino: Die blauen Dragoner "...und sensucht uns begleitet" + this one pre-dates the sunglasses and slick hairdo, although it's not necessarily an improvement... musically speaking! Peter Ehhlebracht & Karl Dall: Der mude Cowboy "Quartett im Bett" + cowboy music from a German porno film... at least that's what the cover implies! Pascal Comelade: Bal de moros i christians "Un Tal Jazz" + Pascal "Toy instrument" Comelade doing exotica! Scary... The Three Suns: Danny's Inferno "Cocktail Mix Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + another masterful compilation, as only Irwin Chusid can put together! Hawaiian Brass: Quiet Village "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" Orizabah: Tabu "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" + just two of the many offbeat variations of Quiet Village, Tabu and Caravan contained on this compilation. Vol. 1 is surpisingly different! Robert Maxwell, His Harp & His Orchestra: Accidental Slip On An Oriental Rug "Cocktail Mix - Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + reminded us of Combustible Edison, so... Combustible Edison: Breakfast At Denny's "I, Swinger" + a modern classic Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: In Honolulu "Lauter Lose Lieder" + where's the suntan lotion? Harry Breuer & His Quintet: La Rosita "Mallet Magic" + continuing on our exotic journey around the world... Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris "Frenzy" + truly an original version! Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: Ohne Hemden, ohne Hosen "Lauter Lose Lieder" + no shirt, no pants, no comment Korla Pandit: Harbour Lights "Hypnotique" + there's only one Korla Pandit... Jonathan Richman: "South American Folk Song "Rock & Roll With The Modern Lovers" + and now for something completely different... The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards: Lime And Salt "The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards" + 70's dub meets ambient Brian Eno: Juju Space Jazz "Nerve Net" + thankfully not of the ambient strain. Jean_Jacques Perrey: Flight Of The Bumblebee "Moog Indigo" + always a fun song, and different from the Perrey and Kingsley version. Harry Breuer & His Quintet: Tulip Polka "Mallet Magic" + more fine percussion from Mr. Breuer Thanks for reading. Any comments? Cheryl & Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: RE: (exotica) How's this 1 ? Date: 04 Mar 1998 11:36:16 -0800 If you could keep it down to 1 column FORGET IT BABE! 1 COLUMN??? HOW FUCKIN' BOOOOOOOOORING These guys say different; >c'est fantabulous. and legible, too. ________________________________________________________________ At 09:54 AM 3/4/98 -0800, you wrote: > >KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond > > ARTIST TRACK ALBUM > Planets Chunky > Marty Paich Original Dimension in Thirds 10", 1953 > W/ Shorty Rogers, Bill Holman Contemporary Awesome, Jack! You da man! EZ does it, Jeff Phillips __________________________________________________________________ At 02:15 PM 3/4/98 -0500, you wrote: reed4@leo.infi.net >It's all aligned now, Jack. Looks great! > >Jack wrote: > >> KFJC play list 2/22/98 for Jack Diamond >> >> ARTIST TRACK ALBUM >> Planets Chunky # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 3-2-97 Playlist for Jaaaaaaack Date: 04 Mar 1998 11:58:33 -0800 KFJC play list 3/2/97 for Jack Diamond KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Http://www.KFJC.org KFJC DJ Playlists; http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/ ARTIST TRACK ALBUM Planets Chunky Don Elliot Orch Love for Sale Rca, 1955! Buddy Emmons Buddy Spicher-Violin Lenny Breau-Lead Gtr Lil Darlin Neal Hefti Title Fred Lowery Sentimental Journey 58, Decca Mary Gold Ti-Pi-Tin Vik, July 56 Rod Mc Kuen What Is a Fabian ? Beatsville Jerry Goldsmith Love Shop Logan's Run Andre' Previn 1 Million Dollars Fortune Cookie Shorty Rogers Giants Viva Puente' Afro Cuban Influence Hugo Montenegro More Today than Yesterday Moog Power Dean Elliot You're the Top Zounds! What Sounds Steve Cropper Crop Dustin Volt Nutty Squirrels Eager Beaver Kenton/Rugolo Gerry Mulligan Sextet Bob Brookmeyer-Trombone Mulligan Comp W/Jon Eardley-Tpt Zoot Sims-Tenor Apple Core 1956, Emarcy Alvino Rey On Green Dolphin Street Decca, 1954 Nelson Riddle Orch My Three Sons Billy Mure Hawaiian War Chant Hawaiian Percussion Jack Webb/David Jansen Psa About Drug Abuse Phil Moore Fantasy for Girl & Annette Warren Orchestra Tipsy Zenith At 33 1/3 Rpm Luis Rivera Sextet W/ Herb Ellis-Guitar Blues for Terry Pt 2 Imperial, 1959 Boz Scaggs Runnin' Bluuuuuuuuuuuuue Barry Gray Sting Ray Gary Miller-Vox Phil Baugh Take One Country Guitar Arnold Stang Peter and the Wolf Bruce Haack Electric to Me Turn Electric Lucifer Ennio Morricon Investigation of a Citizen Phil Krause Conflict 2ND Movement Buddy Morrow Rawhide Sheb Wooley Rawhide Love Sculpture Exerpts From Sabre Dance Forms & Feelings Jack Costanzo W/ Pete Rugolo Orchestra Bongo Riff 1958, Emarcy Lalo Schifrin No Dining Allowed Murderer's Row Ferrante & Teicher The Moon Was Yellow Heavenly Sounds Det Moore Orch Fat Boy Lambert,Hendricks&Ross It's Sand, Mannnnnnnnn 1ST Lp Vinnie Bell Quiet Village Electric Sitar Greg Oliver and Seduction Lois Cooper Baxter, Les & 101 Strings Orch Tropicando Que Mango Tony Mottola Danger Cbs/Tv Tom Dissvelt Mexican Mirrors Fantasy in Orbit Shorty Petterstein A Visit to My Best Girl Richard Bennett Kaarna Billion $ Brain John Cacavas Agent Who?????????????????? Herby Remmington Big Dance at the Windmill Greasin' Cucumber Under Arf Arf Comp! Pete Rugolo Diamond On The Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Http://www.KFJC.org KFJC DJ Playlists; http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) KFJC RECORD SHOW 3-8-98 Date: 04 Mar 1998 12:01:18 -0800 Starting at 9AM, Sunday March 8th in the Main Dining Hall of Foothill College, KFJC-FM Presents it's Umpteenth Version of it's World Famous Rekkid Swap! 9AM-4PM Off of El Monte Rd and Hiway 280 in Los Altos Hills, CA (650) 949-7260 for more info $2 at the door solely benefits 89.7, KFJC-FM, a non commercial college station ******IMPORTANT****** PLEASE BRING 8 QUARTERS FOR PARKING!!! ******IMPORTANT****** Rekkids, 78's, 45's, 10", CD's, Videos, Posters, Memorabilia et al will all be sold, bought and traded starting at 9AM No Early Birds ALLOWED and we are quite serious about that. We can not be bribed! Metal, Noise, Electronic, Blues, Funk, Soul, Spoken Word, Outer Space, Psych, Garage, Soundtracks, Easy Listening, Guitar, Hip Hop, Trance, Bass and Drums and anything and everything else you can possibly imagine will all be for sale or trade here. (650) 949-7260 for more info Thank you all and maybe I will see you there. Especially you Eb;) 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: Re: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 05 Mar 1998 00:08:44 -0800 Ben Waugh wrote: > > One of my favorite recent finds is Danny Guglielmi's Adventures In > sound, with vocals by Dena. As I mentioned to someone, if I had to > describe the sound of this record to someone I could only describe it as > Les Paul and Mary Ford produced by David Lynch. *perfect* description!!!! in fact, i think the ultimate would be Danny & Dena doing a cover of "In Heaven" from Eraserhead.....!! > Perhaps as a result of > her reputed pipe-smoking, Dena's voice is pleasantly ethereal and > together with husband Danny's Les Paulish "multitaping" techniques, this > is a very curious lp (I love "I'll Remember April" in which Dena's voice > fades out in haunting oohs and ahs). Can any recommend other lps by > these two? Has anything made it to cd? This is the only album they ever released...... hasn't been done up on CD, but i've made my own bootleg CD version...... my copy is scratched like crazy, which for me actually adds to the spookiness of this record..... it's one of my prized possessions!! still, i was chatting with irwin chusid and he mentioned that he thought this one should be re-mastered and re-released properly, and i agree..... suppose someone ought to do some digging around for the master tapes..... i would hate to see this obscure classic disappear for good.... 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 04 Mar 1998 14:21:58 +0000 I love this record! Mine is kinda sketchy condition as well - I bought it for the album cover and the letter from Mamie Eisenhower on the back. (Mamie and Ike dug the Three Suns too!) "I Remember April" is a standout in my mind as well along with "Mosquito Parade" (Or is it Mosquito March?) In any case my question is this: Has anyone ever seen a S T E R E O copy of this 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: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Danger Island Date: 04 Mar 1998 14:51:37 +0000 Has anyone ever run across a record with the Danger Island theme, either OST or cover? You know, the serialized live-action adventure from the Banana Splits Show. I've caught a few episodes on cable. KILLER opening!!!! Seen 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 Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: playlist Date: 04 Mar 1998 15:28:43 -0800 It's not possible for me to care less Charlieman Go here if you want to see my play lists as well as everyone else at KFJC's playlists http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/ Jack At 10:51 AM 3/4/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Gang and Jack, > >>but it comes out a thoroughly unreadable jumble on >>mine (and I doubt I'm alone). >> >>I suggest a different, less fancy format. > >Eb is not alone, Jack. Sorry, I thought it was just me. Maybe a >"non-tab delineated" format? > >Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "V.Stoltz" Subject: Re: (exotica) Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 04 Mar 1998 22:09:30 -0800 >> What do ya call that wooden scratchy thing with grooves in it that >>you run a wooden rod across? >> > Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but I think it is called a Guaracha in > the Afro-Caribbean scene. I donno what they call it in the states, Believe it or not, many people call it simply "a fish" or "a wooden fish", because many are made and painted to look like a hollow fish, where the grooves look similar to the fish scales. 'scratching the fish'....that's probably the most exotic I ever got when I was played percussion in my high school band. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 04 Mar 1998 19:25:43 -0800 > >>> What do ya call that wooden scratchy thing with grooves in it that >>>you run a wooden rod across? >>> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but I think it is called a Guaracha in >> the Afro-Caribbean scene. I donno what they call it in the states, > 'guiro' is what i've usually heard it called... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / 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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 04 Mar 1998 22:21:59 -0600 >'scratching the fish'.... funny. that's what we used to call... oh, never mind. visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # 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) Re: Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 04 Mar 1998 08:34:06 -0800 clean@tamboo.com wrote: > > >'scratching the fish'.... > > funny. > > that's what we used to call... oh, never mind. > uh huh.... well, 'guiro' being the most common name, the next common i've heard is "cut the grass," because if you say those words in the typical rhythm of th guiro, it sorta sounds like it.... (the pattern is 2 eighth notes followed by one quarter note, repeated ad infinitum) 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: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 04 Mar 1998 08:36:04 -0800 Ron Grandia wrote: > > I love this record! Mine is kinda sketchy condition as well - > I bought it for the album cover and the letter from Mamie Eisenhower > on the back. (Mamie and Ike dug the Three Suns too!) > > "I Remember April" is a standout in my mind as well along with "Mosquito > Parade" (Or is it Mosquito March?) In any case my question is this: Mosquito Festival.... > > Has anyone ever seen a S T E R E O copy of this album? doubtful it ever existed in stereo, given its date and also the technology danny was working with..... it was hard enough to overdub yourself back then, let alone create and preserve a stereo image in the process... 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: whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Kirsten Whitley) Subject: Re: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 04 Mar 1998 23:22:57 -0600 > From phix@adnc.com Wed Mar 4 14:10:39 1998 > > This is the only album they ever released...... hasn't been done up on > CD, but i've made my own bootleg CD version...... > it's one of my prized possessions!! still, i was chatting > with irwin chusid and he mentioned that he thought this one should be > re-mastered and re-released properly, and i agree..... suppose someone > ought to do some digging around for the master tapes..... Yes, Pea, this LP is one of my prized possessions too!! I truly hope this one gets re-released! Doesn't the back of the album jacket imply that they made other albums (I don't have my copy with me as I write this)... like that Mamie liked all their albums... after all, how did Mamie get to hear them before their Adventures in Sound album was released? I'm wondering how you know that they never did anything else. Were these their real names? My favorite track is probably "A-E-I-O-U". --Kirsten # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) playlist posting feedback Date: 04 Mar 1998 21:51:30 -0800 hello everyone, hey! thanks for all the feedback and there was TONS of it:-) the consensus i have come to, is that most everyone says that the last 1 i put out was a winner. it woiked! so i guess i *pretty much* have the problem solved:) thanks for everyone's help and for those of you whom it didn't work for, well all i can say is, bummer dude. so when you see the subject title as "Playlist for Jack" just trash it instead of *upsetting yourself* because it ain't gonna get any better than this. no way no how. later dudes and dudettes and once again, thank you all:-) 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: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 05 Mar 1998 02:20:03 EST In a message dated 98-03-04 21:57:54 EST, itsvern@ibm.net writes: << Believe it or not, many people call it simply "a fish" or "a wooden fish", because many are made and painted to look like a hollow fish, where the grooves look similar to the fish scales. 'scratching the fish'....that's probably the most exotic I ever got when I was played percussion in my high school band. >> That's what I was going to say, but I didn't wanna look dumb! - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: [Jack: (exotica) 101 Strings] Date: 05 Mar 1998 10:38:27 GMT > The 1 to find though is "101 Strings Play Jimi Hendrix" > > THAT'S THE 1 to find:-) > Jack > Try "Gil Evans Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix" -- storming. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Wooden Scratchy Thing -Reply Date: 05 Mar 1998 08:39:51 -0500 Cut the grass.....cut the grass....Damn! Yes! That's 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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Danny and Dena G Date: 05 Mar 1998 06:05:42 PST DG sent Ike a tape to perk him up during his convalescence. I believe the lp came after the tapes? BW like that >Mamie liked all their albums... after all, how did Mamie get to hear >them before their Adventures in Sound album was released? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Stiction issue #7 Date: 05 Mar 1998 18:01:56 +0100 >From: seefeel@juno.com (Bo Jangles) Is this just a coincidence or has yr email-address something to do with the group Seefeel? You have a great taste in music, if so, they're really one of my favourite bands! My Bloody Valentine gone ambient-techno, yum yum yum! :) Oh yeah, for me being seemingly half the age of some people on this list, I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen to? So far, I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like Pierre Henry.... Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Adrift in a sea of vinyl (1) Date: 05 Mar 1998 13:30:30 -0500 To make sure no old wounds are reopened, I will completely refrain from describing how this most recent heap of LPs came into my possession, the quantities of money changing hands, etc. . . . Well, I WILL just say two words: "Lansing, Michigan." But after that, my lips are sealed. I'm finding scads of Three Suns LPs lately: _Midnight for Two_ (1957). Just a cleaner copy of the first 3S album I ever got. . . even though _Midnight_ an older, lower-Fi mono release, this is still a sentimental favorite for me. . . that mix of sprightly guitar and thundering pipe-organ just slays me. Recommended. _The Happy-Go-Lucky Sound_ (RCA Camden). Nominally 1958, it turned out to be a reissue of older sessions dating back to 1947. . . so THAT's why it has this more dippy, roller-rinky quality. Still there were plenty of odd touches even back then. The liner notes are kind of interesting, because they name all the sidemen who worked on those orginal sessions (you rarely get to see that). Many are folks who turn up again and again in later exotica: Billy Mure, Marty Gold, Art Ryerson, George Barnes, Phil Kraus. . . _A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas_ (1959). Ringingly endorsed (ouch) by Vern Stoltz, I was excited to find this. The plusses include *extensive* tuba soloing, and some very off-the wall arrangements (I loved "Rudolph"). The minuses? Well, it *is* still christmas music. . . . (Shoppers' Advisory: the title is NOT kidding about the "Ding Dong" part. . . this whole disk is awash in sleigh-ride jingles, orchestral bells, etc. If you don't get this LP in *perfect* condition, it will be a severely eardrum-jangling experience.) _Fever and Smoke_ (1961). Well _Movin' and Groovin'_ may be the holy grail of Suns collecting, but I think this one is now my all-time favorite. The title track "Fever" (widely known from the Rhino Cocktail Mix vol. 1 CD) is thrillingly weird, but there are about 4 other tracks of equal caliber. Their "Colonel Bogey March" is fabulous too (and Tipsy fans will recognize the off-kilter drum intro from "Space Golf"). In a way, _F&S_ sneaks up on your more than _Movin and Groovin_ : It has a few normal, mild-mannered Suns tracks, where you let your guard down and your attention starts to wander--and then WHAM! they come back at you with another wild-ass, stare-at-the-speakers-in-shock arrangement. _Fun in the Sun_ (also 1961). Not nearly as wigged as the above, but still it has many odd sounds and surprises up it's sleeve. Basically I think any Suns LP with "Charles Albertine" listed as arranger would be worth checking out--the man is a god. Some other goodies: Orchestra Del Oro _Pop Classics Go Latin_ ("Stereo Fidelity," aka Somerset/Miller). Who was just posting about "classical travesty" LPs? This one certainly fits. . . It just goes to prove that ANYTHING can be made into a Cha Cha, even "Song of India," Grieg, "Carmen," etc. . . Some of this gets a bit string-heavy, but there are 2 or 3 cuts here that make me giggle quite a lot. (Anyone know if conductor "Juan del Oro" is actually a moonlighting Marty Gold?) Eddie Layton _Great Organ Hits_ (Mercury). If you liked the UltraLounge _Organs In Orbit_ CD, this LP is for you. Eddie takes the signature tunes from other popular organists of the day, and maybe hams it up just the *tiniest* bit (especially on "Tico Tico"). . . The cover shows Eddie lashing his Hammond to the tailfins of a Minuteman missle (I think that's what it is--I'm a little rusty on my ICBMs). Now that's space-age pop for you. _The Best of Al Caiola_ (1963 United Artists). In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit to Jack and the world that this one was indeed, "hammered." Still I had no particular hopes for it, and this was actually a pleasant surprise. What I knew of Caiola was his jazzier stuff, but on this a lot of twist and rock elements sneak into it. Al's fat buzzy guitar sound just rules--even though most of the repertoire bored me (oh god, not "Moon River" again). The Mancini theme from "Experiment in Terror" was a standout cut, kind of "Twist Noir" (is "crime twist" a category?) Terry Snyder _Footlight Percusssion_ (United Artists). From Mr. "Persuasive Percussion" himself, this should have been better. The songs generally start out with a promising latin-ish percussion flourish, but a lot of the melodies are done in a jazzy "soft" treatment with piano, muted horns, etc. At least "Anything Goes" and "Give My Regards to Broadyway" crank up the percussive energy level a bit. (This LP has that top-hat-on-bongoes cover photo which always reminds me of the Residents eyeball . . .) _Spanish Guitars_ (Time 2000). Al Caiola and a whole posse of studio guitar vets play on this one. I wasn't so interested in that wistful "european" feel on most of these tracks--but they also cut loose on a couple of full-bore latin percussion numbers, "Mambo Jambo" and "Piel Canela." And they do a nice version of the always-evocative 'Poinciana." George Wright _Now's the Right Time_ (Dot). Recently--swayed by the endearing ball-point pen scribble "This is #1 dad's favorite" on the cover--I bought myself yet another unknown pipe-organ LP. . . which turned out to be utterly boring and generic. And I quietly vowed to myself, "never again." However George Wright is in another category entirely. _Right Time_ has him straining mightily to make the pipe organ seem "groovy" and "with it," with Jimmie Haskell arrangements and songs like "Galveston" and "Aquarius." But even better, George tears into "Mission Impossible" too. . . And his masterpiece (?) is an ominous, brooding Wurlitzer cover of "Light My Fire." I was crumpled up on the dining room floor listening to that one. Righto, that's not the end of it, either. . . --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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 05 Mar 1998 13:35:39 -0500 I don't know if it's just a creation of Latin Percussion (the company), but there's also the "torpedo" -- a metal cylinder with a rough exterior, scraped with a sort of 'fro comb brush. It also has filler inside so it can be used as a shaker. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Adrift in a screed of vinyl Date: 05 Mar 1998 11:30:04 PST someone said > >To make sure no old wounds are reopened, I will completely refrain from >describing how this most recent heap of LPs came into my possession, the >quantities of money changing hands, etc. . . . all that and to share my childish enthusiasm and because other such postings give me more to look for.... Ok, out here in Blenorrhea, VA (where you can't rent a deer-stand for less than a squirrel hide) citizens are apparently divesting themselves of somewhat interesting items at a mildly alarming rate. Within the past week, to fill in the void that haunts my life, I subsumed: Gershon Kingsley: Music To Moog By (Hey, those flowers are ... very classy) Apollo 100: Master Pieces (Not very interesting musically, but the cover art is high cheez) Kazdin & Shepard: Everything You Always Wanted To Hear On The Moog (Cover somewhat victimized, but vinyl is clean. Must spin this one as soon as I walk in the door. Heard a soundclip at Frank's Vinyl Museum) Ferrante & Teicher: Sound Blast (I have not yet heard Blast Off!, but of all the other PP works, this is the most "out there" and, to my taste, the most enjoyable. Neat cover, too.) The Guglielmi thing. (Somebody) and The Guadaljara Kings. Mariachi with a fast rock beat. Produced by Bruce Botnick. A Couple of Volumes of Hits of the Day (early 70's) "performed in the style of the original artists": i.e.:godalmightyawful - cheez-whiz gamut from Simon and Garfinkels to Alice Cooper. Now the covers, which I suppose were the only things that EVER moved these abominations, young waifs in various stages of see-through dress. UK imports. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Adrift in a sea of organs Date: 05 Mar 1998 14:35:04 +0000 > George Wright _Now's the Right Time_ (Dot). Recently--swayed by the > endearing ball-point pen scribble "This is #1 dad's favorite" on the > cover--I bought myself yet another unknown pipe-organ LP. . . which turned > out to be utterly boring and generic. And I quietly vowed to myself, "never > again." > > However George Wright is in another category entirely. _Right Time_ has him > straining mightily to make the pipe organ seem "groovy" and "with it,".... >I was crumpled up on the dining room floor listening to that one. Wurlitzer pipe-organ stuff can be a real mixed bag (and WAY more bad than good, I'm afraid.) Occasionally you get that big-ass bombastic sound with all the percussive trimmings, but more times than not the best you'll find is another wheezy rendition of "Fascination" One will do well to be particularly wary of anything with the word "reverie" printed anywhere on 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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Wooden Scratchy Thing Date: 05 Mar 1998 17:28:29 -0600 >"torpedo" funny. that's what we used to call... oh, never mind. visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria Subject: (exotica) Cool & Strange Music Date: 05 Mar 1998 21:13:59 EST Is the new issue out yet of Cool & Strange Music? 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: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) peter cotton Date: 05 Mar 1998 21:26:30 EST i recall someone mentioning a Peter Thomas release, PETER COTTON. who is peter cotton? is this a television show? a secret agent man? i did a quick search oh HOT BOT, but all the hits were on Peter Cottontail! can someone tell me (us) about this recording, please. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) The Meat and Potatoes Date: 06 Mar 1998 00:31:35 EST In a message dated 98-03-05 13:33:31 EST, rotohut@ic.net writes: << Some other goodies: Orchestra Del Oro _Pop Classics Go Latin_ ("Stereo Fidelity," aka Somerset/Miller). Who was just posting about "classical travesty" LPs? This one certainly fits. . . It just goes to prove that ANYTHING can be made into a Cha Cha, even "Song of India," Grieg, "Carmen," etc. . . Some of this gets a bit string-heavy, but there are 2 or 3 cuts here that make me giggle quite a lot. (Anyone know if conductor "Juan del Oro" is actually a moonlighting Marty Gold?) >> Hi Gang: I'm probably going to make waves once again with this one - (altho this post unlike my last comments about spit wads - is in ALL seriousness) but Ross really comes through with what us unseasoned record collectors need - the meat and potatoes of it. To just list what you found, that's nice. But what the hell use is it? Just to know it is out there!? I think these lists could be turned into something far more productive if people would offer a short comment or two about the album so that those of us inexperienced collectors can gain something from it. Give us a description of the albums you find - I know it is alot of energy to sit there and do what Ross just did, but what he did is HIGHLY valuable! And if you can't write a brief review, than just tell us if it is good or bad. That is all I ask from you "list" people: make it useful!!! - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Adrift in a screed of vinyl Date: 06 Mar 1998 00:31:40 EST In a message dated 98-03-05 14:33:42 EST, kahuna77@hotmail.com writes: << Within the past week, to fill in the void that haunts my life, I subsumed: Gershon Kingsley: Music To Moog By (Hey, those flowers are ... very classy) Apollo 100: Master Pieces (Not very interesting musically, but the cover art is high cheez) Kazdin & Shepard: Everything You Always Wanted To Hear On The Moog >> After a post saying you can't get a Moog album for less than $40 (was that the price?) I think you are going to have to confess to us all, just how much you paid for these moog albums.... - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Adrift in a sea of vinyl (2) Date: 06 Mar 1998 00:44:52 -0500 Some recent finds, continued. . . I'm awash in Lenny Dee lately, too (all on Decca): _Mr. Dee Goes To Town_ One of the better mono-era Dee LPs. His natty goatee seen in the cover photo has already provoked much comment here. The liner notes mention that his playing "adds strange effects in the color and rhythm. . . " to which I can only add OH YEAAHHH!!! There are a few obligatory "sensitive" numbers here, but also oodles of Dee's patented "chicken walk" rhythm and other generally kooky and inventive stuff throughout. "The Peanut Vendor" totally wails. _Most Requested_ shows Dee bursting through blue paper on the cover. And Lenny is in full command of an arsenal of weird Hammond effects on this one--plus he's backed up by a tight, boppin' rhythm section. Side Two has most of the stronger songs, like "Java," but all of the up-tempo numbers are pretty irresistible. He even manages to do something fresh with the "Pink Panther" theme. . . kind of noir-ish and blues-y. _Dee-Licious_ (Cover art: Lenny, as chef, crookedly leering and serving himself up under glass.) If you can possibly use the word "restraint" in the same sentence as "Lenny Dee," I would have to call this one of his more restrained albums (and somewhat lo-fi as well). Maybe I was just disappointed because Lenny Dee, combined with "Hawaiian War Chant" SHOULD have torn the roof off--but this version just didn't. He does throw himself into "Tarragona" like a madman, and there are a few other nice Dee moments . . . but I'd have to say, "not essential." Other odd stuff, good and bad: Robert Maxwell, His Harp and Orchestra _Peg 'O My Heart_ (Decca). Can you imagine how it would sound if you locked a Julilard-trained harpist in a studio with Lenny Dee, Boots Randolph and a rhythm section? Well it might sound a little like this! (It doesn't actually say who performs here, but Dee is actually a possible, since he's another Decca artist). Anyway what with the raunchy sax, several cuts sound like some weird kinda strip-club music to me. But it's all rather hard to categorize. I love a few of the tracks, including a very spacey/spooky "Sophisticated Lady." (Tipsy sample-spotters note: the first bars of "You Belong to My Heart" made their way into "El Bombo Atomico," and a few other harp blips sound familiar to me as well) Alfred Newman/Ken Darby _Ports of Paradise_ (1960 Capitol). Another lavish Polynesiana production, from around the year of Hawaii statehood. . . Brown cutout cover, 16-page photo booklet of tropical paradise scenes. . . unfortunately the music is PRETTY HURTIN'. This is the string-sodden, orchestral camp of Exotica, with way too much chorus singing dopey lyrics. It does have a few entertaining moments of "oooo-oooo" vocals and "booga booga" chants, and one truly bent version of "Little Grass Shack," so I guess it's still a keeper. Ray Martin conducts _Pop Goes the Swingin' Marchin' Band_ (1958 RCA). Wall-to-wall kitsch on this one, from "Rock Around The Clock" all the way down to "Mexican Hat Dance March." Agreeably silly, but probably not one I am going to play very often. Al Caiola _Greasy Kid Stuff_ (?1963 United Artists). Not at all what I expected from an old exoticat. Really spare, slightly loungey covers of "teen" hits like "He's So Fine" and "Pipeline." It's kind of Ventures Lite. I really liked the Bossa-fied version of "Our Day Will Come," with fragmentary female vocals: ". . . Young to know. . . . Oooo oooo. . . . Love you so. . . Oooo oooo. . . . " 101 Strings _East of Suez_ (Somerset). All right, this cover is one of the Great Moments in Exotica Cheesecake--but what was I thinking? The music is still the same old bloated orchestral snoozefest. . . Listen guys, shaking a tambourine occasionally does NOT make a song "Exotic." Martin Denny _The Enchanted Isle_ (Liberty). Can one of our Denny experts tell me WHAT is going on with this one? The copyright is 1982(!), and with its mint-y pastel green cover, I was terrified I would find Denny had gone New Age or something. I was floored, shocked and unprepared to discover that the music was pure 1958-ish exotica jazz all over again! Even the bird calls and the shimmering celeste tinkles were back. The sound was so *totally* 50s (particularly the weird echoey whistle on the title track) that I began to wonder if these were old sessions unearthed from some forgotten Liberty vault? In any case it was much more to my tastes than anything else Denny did in the 60s. . . keep an eye out for it. _Sound Off. . . Softly_ (Promo LP for Gold Bond "Silentex" ceiling tile; sampler of Columbia artists). You may recall seeing this pictured in _Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 2_ (in Candi Strecker's interview). It's the weird cover photo looking up towards a woman and her Hi-Fi, with acres of ceiling tile behind her. . . and it's one of those "infinite regress" things where the album she is holding is _Sound Off. . . Softly_, so she and all of her ceiling tiles are repeated over and over again. And you perhaps have been curious about the MUSIC on this album? Well aside from exactly 53 seconds of energetic percussion from Saul Goodman, this is one to AVOID. All the artists are either better represented elsewhere, or best not heard at all. Trippy cover, though! _Let Us Entertain You_ (Magnavox promo LP; RCA artists). Another sampler LP, with mostly musically negligible tracks. But you might still want to grab this one, just for Marty Gold's quasi-discoteque cover of "Hard Day's Night." Like, whoa. . . Righto, that's enough from me. . . I promise not to buy any more records for a while! --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: tom talmon studio Subject: (exotica) THE MOOD MOSAIC Date: 05 Mar 1998 21:47:04 -0800 a thousand appoligies in advance if this topic has already been covered, BUT.... does anyone know anything about a new series of cds coming out of italy (i think) called "THE MOOD MOSAIC"? there's at least six volumes out including "the sexploitation" and "supervixens"....i took a look at them at my local music store and while they looked very very cool...the $30 a piece price tag scared me (and this store is usually very fair when it comes to prices...most italian import soundtracks are less than $20 a piece). is this a limited edition thing? bootleg? and most importantly, is the music any good? thanks for any help. tom # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Oooooh, that Gert Date: 06 Mar 1998 01:35:57 EST Whoever recommended Gert Wilden "I Told You Not To Cry" CD, I picked that up and just love it - the romantic jazzy numbers are the best. Thanx! - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Adrift in a sea of vinyl (2) Date: 05 Mar 1998 12:21:03 -0800 Ross Orr wrote: > > Some recent finds, continued. . . > > I'm awash in Lenny Dee lately, too (all on Decca): > Speaking of Lenny Dee (one of my alltime heroes....), I can't remember if i ever mentioned this on the list before, but has anyone else noticed that on most of his earlier albums, he has this one stock song ending that he uses *over and over* again!?!? Several years ago this prompted me to a bit of creative action and i created a piece of music out of Lenny Dee endings.... I made samples of every occurance of that particular ending and just kinda strung them together with people saying words like "peanuts" and "donuts" in between..... but it's interesting to listen to all of those endings back to back because you can hardly tell the difference between them, other than the fact that they're in slightly different keys and tempos.... ....said Pea, contemplating a new album tentavively titled "Mr. Pea Goes To Town." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: [BasicHip: (exotica) peter cotton] Date: 06 Mar 1998 11:37:05 GMT > From: BasicHip > > > i recall someone mentioning a Peter Thomas release, PETER COTTON. > > who is peter cotton? is this a television show? a secret agent man? > > i did a quick search oh HOT BOT, but all the hits were on Peter Cottontail! > > can someone tell me (us) about this recording, please. > It's "Jerry Cotton" -- secret agent man, in lots of German movies. The album is called "100% Cotton"; it's released by Crippled Dick Hot Wax, on 2LP or 2CD; there's (allegedly) also a boxed set with T-shirt, tie, cigarette lighter, 3 piece suite and kitchen sink which is unfeasibly expensive, although I haven't seen a copy. I think it's great music, not as way out as "Raumpatrouille", but excellently idiosyncratic crime jazz. http://www.crippled.com/soon.html gets you a cover piccie and this description: The compositions for the Jerry Cotton film are perfect examples for the unique style of German film music icom Peter Thomas, well known for musical contribution to "Raumpatrouille" ("Space Patrol"), the Edgar Wallace crime thrillers and the Karl May based "Winnetou" series. For Jerry Cotton, the smart jack of all trades of the FBI, he created the perfect audio environment of the 60's: moody, swinging, experimental, jazzy, and above all, pretty damn cool. This album is the first complete release of Thomas' music for the Cotton films, featuring dozens of previosly unheard tracks. CD comes with detailed liner-notes, filmstills and poster reproductions. Predestined to become a cult fave everywhere! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dan hill Subject: (exotica) schulmadchen und cinecitta Date: 06 Mar 1998 11:46:57 +0000 sorry if these have already been mentioned (i guess they have) but what are people's impressions of schulmadchen and cinecitta records on crippled dick? any good? also i KNOW this was mentioned but just how good is the funky sitar record on BBE? dan (currently planning his record purchasing routes through berwick street tomorrow) ---+ dan hill mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn ---+ motion: http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/ +--- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) << Martin Denny _The Enchanted Isle_ (Liberty).>> Date: 06 Mar 1998 07:45:53 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 00:49:36 EST, you write: << Martin Denny _The Enchanted Isle_ (Liberty). Can one of our Denny experts tell me WHAT is going on with this one? The copyright is 1982(!), and with its mint-y pastel green cover, I was terrified I would find Denny had gone New Age or something. I was floored, shocked and unprepared to discover that the music was pure 1958-ish exotica jazz all over again! Even the bird calls and the shimmering celeste tinkles were back. The sound was so *totally* 50s (particularly the weird echoey whistle on the title track) that I began to wonder if these were old sessions unearthed from some forgotten Liberty vault? In any case it was much more to my tastes than anything else Denny did in the 60s. . . keep an eye out for it. >> Liberty had an agreement with Denny that they could "commission" is work. Recently he admitted that there were albums that he never even played on. He was slightly embarrased to mention this but quick (and accurate) to point out that this happens all the time in the recording industry. I am not sure if this album is "ghost performed" but this may explain some of your observations. So these may be releases that were stored originally and never released. Someone got the rights and figured what the hell. Any more comments from those more versed than I? Ashley? Vik? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Adrift in a screed of vinyl Date: 06 Mar 1998 05:52:41 PST Just to clarify, the $40 post was someone else's (and that Denjean lp is worth it). I will say, however, that I paid somewhat less than $40. I also left one out: Permissive Polyphonics. Although it isn't as visually exciting a product as Spaced Out, I think I like it better. I mean, for the first time in years I caught myself thinking "I have got to hear Scarborough Fair one mo' time." Regards, Ben > >After a post saying you can't get a Moog album for less than $40 (was that the >price?) I think you are going to have to confess to us all, just how much you >paid for these moog albums.... > >- Michele > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Poppin' Fresh Bacharach Interview Date: 06 Mar 1998 09:26:53 -0500 Fresh new Burt Bacharach interview here: http://www.mcall.com/html/news/am_mag/2594.htm m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Answers Answers Date: 06 Mar 1998 15:26:28 UT Well, the answers are in for my question about Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Sergio Esquivel. The results were nearly universal for Les Baxter and Martin Denny: Pick up the Captiol Ultra-Lounge comps and maybe check out the Mondo-Exotica. For Esquivel, check out the Bar-None comps as composed by Brother Cleve. This leads me to another question however. I have the Cabaret Manana collection of Esquivel on RCA and it doesn't really do it for me except for, say, three songs (Harlem Nocturne, Sentimental Journey and El Cable). My next question is: Is Cabaret Manana a decent collection and should I just admit Esquivel is not my bag? Or is this not a particularly great collection and should I run right out and pick up the Bar-None ones? Anyone willing to offer a constructive comparison? Thanks Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Verbage Date: 06 Mar 1998 15:27:26 UT What's the difference between: Cheese Kitsch Schmaltz and Schlock? Anyone? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Verbage Date: 06 Mar 1998 10:59:21 -0500 My thoughts: >What's the difference between: Cheese - Grandiose ideas, ending up with not-the-greatest, or campy results. Kitsch - The Umpteenth rendition of an old something or other that is culturally or generationally familiar, as in "this could only happen in _____". Peripatetic maybe, but not always peripathetic. Schmaltz - Maudlin sentiment, mawkishly presented. and > Schlock - A not-the-greatest or campy idea, ending up with silly or poor results. Note that I left out examples of anything or anyone. I do not wish to start a flame war, nor do I wish to step on anyone's semantics ("Hey, I am fan of "Schlocky" things, wise guy!"). Just my thoughts, gang. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Lyrics?.... Date: 06 Mar 1998 11:24:33 -0500 Okay, while I don't really like lyrics in my record collection, I DO enjoy having the lyrics to songs so that I can chirp along with my favorite renditions....... So - can anyone recommend a good "lyric search" site on the net? Also, is there a good "Treasured Favorites" song book I should keep my eyes peeled (I'm mostly concerned with the Latin stuff....) Listened to Phase 4's "Exoctic Percussion" with Stanley Black last night. BIG disappointment! The liner notes are great, (I'll have to bring in a few to share next week) but the orchestration is dull, dull, dull!!!! Surprising, since Mr. Black has cut some very enjoyable records such as "Laecuna (sp?) Nights, etc. I was looking forwards to the voice tracks, but these too are stoooopidly utilized, a chorus of gals piping in every once in a while with "Babalu" or some other nonsense.........*sigh* - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Stiction issue #7 Date: 06 Mar 1998 18:09:28 +0100 Just wanted to apologize if I made things sound like y'r all 80 years old, and even if I *am* half of everybody's age on this list, I'm also probably twice as stupid! :D As the Beach Boys sang; let's be friends! :) Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) The Gentle People Date: 06 Mar 1998 09:31:37 -0800 THE GENTLE PEOPLE Soundtracks For Living Anyone have any comments on this release ? 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) THE MOOD MOSAIC Date: 06 Mar 1998 12:30:31 -0500 At 9:47 PM -0800 3/5/98, tom talmon studio wrote: >does anyone know anything about a new series of cds coming out of italy (i >think) called "THE MOOD MOSAIC"? >is this a limited edition thing? bootleg? > >and most importantly, is the music any good? yes they're Italian, yes they're bootlegs (they have different copyright laws in Italy), and yes they're good - if you like the funkier, jazzier end of the 'easy' spectrum. Volume 1 ['The Haschish Party'] features tracks that have been sampled on recent electronic dance records, like the cuts from "Barbarella" that Dimitri From Paris and Chris The French Kiss have used, and the version of "Batucada" sampled by Towa Tei and Pizzacato Five. Many of the break & beat compilations feature funky easy listening tracks that have been sampled, but this comp highlights only that sound =2E.........in other words,there are no obscure soul/funk 45's on this LP, just tracks by people like Michel LeGrand, Nelson Riddle, Serge Gainsbourg, etc. Volume 2 ['Barnie's Grooves'] is all funk, acid jazz and what I call "cop-fu" music, like Mancini doing "The Streets of San Francisco". It opens with a great version of the them from "Baretta", sung by Sammy Davis. Not as strong overall as the other volumes, though. Volume 4 ['Les Yper Sound'] features all 60's/70's "=E1 go-go" style; it's a winner from start to finish. If you like "The Sound Gallery" and "Inflight Entertainment", etc, you'll love this. Peter Thomas, Stan Getz, Ken Thorne, Stanley Myers and Enoch Light are among the artists represented. Volume 5 ['Supervixens'] is all rare disco, much of quite exotic. Similar to "Spaced Out" and other new disco compilations that have surfaced recently. Unless you were going to underground discos in the mid 70's, you never heard any of this stuff, and it's great. I haven't seen volume 3, although there is another one that has the same look and style (again from Partners In Crime, the label that has done all of these) called "The Mighty Mellow" (subtitled "a folk-funk psychedelic experience"). This is really nice, a mellow groove album of funky soul by people like Mancini, Montenegro, David Axelrod, Andre Previn, etc. While not technically part of the Mood Mosaic series, it shares the same sensibilities As a DJ, I take these records to my gigs every week. The packaging is great, too. You'd be getting ripped off at 30 bucks a piece though..........Dusty Groove has these online for under 20 bucks; my local store has them (on vinyl, my preferred format) for $18 for the 2-LP sets, $10 for volume 1. 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: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: Re:(exotica) Wooden Scratchy THing Date: 04 Mar 1998 15:43:00 UT I believe the wooden scratchy thing is called a Guiro. I think. Peter ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com BTW- What do ya call that wooden scratchy thing with grooves in it that you run a wooden rod across? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Subject: (exotica) The Single Eye Playlist for March 1/98 with comments Date: 02 Mar 1998 02:24:05 GMT The Single Eye can be heard every Sunday at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal, Canada This week's show was guest -hosted by Cheryl and Brian. It featured music by some well-known, not-so-well-known, and some best left unknown artists, playing exotica from around the world! Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry: Tchip Tchip "Dancing at the Moog-o-Theque" + the "bird dance" (yes, that bird dance) performed by the resident band of the Hilton Hotels. What more do we need to say? Heino: Die blauen Dragoner "...und sensucht uns begleitet" + this one pre-dates the sunglasses and slick hairdo, although it's not necessarily an improvement... musically! Peter Ehhlebracht & Karl Dall: Der mude Cowboy "Quartett im Bett" + cowboy music from a German porno film... at least that's what the cover implies! Pascal Comelade: Bal de moros i christians "Un Tal Jazz" + even Pascal Comelade can do schlager-style exotica! Scary... The Three Suns: Danny's Inferno "Cocktail Mix Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + another masterful compilation, as only Irwin Chusid can put together! Hawaiian Brass: Quiet Village "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" Orizabah: Tabu "Exotic Trilogy Vol. 2" + just two of the many offbeat variations of Quiet Village, Tabu and Caravan contained on this compilation. Vol. 1 is just as good! Robert Maxwell, His Harp & His Orchestra: Accidental Slip On An Oriental Rug "Cocktail Mix Vol. 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" + reminded us of Combustible Edison, so... Combustible Edison: Breakfast At Denny's "I, Swinger" + a modern classic Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: In Honolulu "Lauter Lose Lieder" + where's the suntan lotion? Harry Breuer & His Quintet: La Rosita "Mallet Magic" + continuing on our exotic journey around the world... Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris "Frenzy" + truly an original version! Peter Lauch und die Regenpfeifer: Ohne Hemden, ohne Hosen "Lauter Lose Lieder" + no shirt, no pants, no comment Korla Pandit: Harbour Lights "Hypnotique" + there's only one Korla Pandit... Jonathan Richman: "South American Folk Song "Rock & Roll With The Modern Lovers" + and now for something completely different... The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards: Lime And Salt "The Secret Dub Life Of The Flying Lizards" + 70's dub meets ambient Brian Eno: Juju Space Jazz "Nerve Net" + thankfully not of the ambient strain. Jean_Jacques Perrey: Flight Of The Bumblebee "Moog Indigo" + always a fun song, and different from the Perrey and Kingsley version. Harry Breuer & His Quintet: Tulip Polka "Mallet Magic" + more fine percussion from Mr. Breuer Thanks for reading. Any comments? Cheryl & Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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.Ramsay@ed.ac.uk (Mark F Ramsay) Subject: (exotica) Wacky Races Date: 05 Mar 1998 14:22:53 +0000 Hi folks, Does anybody out there know if any of the music from Wacky Races is available anywhere?? Cheers, Mark. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool & Strange Music Date: 05 Mar 1998 22:48:31 -0600 (CST) On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Stilgloria wrote: > > Is the new issue out yet of Cool & Strange Music? I think so... I just recently (and belatedly) renewed my sub, and I received issues #7 and #8 last week. #8 contains stuff on: Herb Alpert & the Tia-Wannabe's; Stan Freberg; Tiny Tim; and way more. -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 8 Date: 06 Mar 1998 19:30:15 +0100 (CET) Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. Fantastica # 8 -------------- * Lalo Schifrin: "Mission Impossible" [soundtrack LP (CD): "Mission: Impossible"] classic spy pop jazz. there's a cd with the original soundtrack, but then there's also a cd with both "Mission: Impossible" and "More Mission: Impossible" which i highly recommend! * THREAD: Ken Nordine: "Stereo Demonstration" [compil. LP: "Sounds In Space"] another over-rated LP. nice cover, and the man Nordine is on it, but only for a couple of minutes, demonstrating stereo effects. THREAD means that i'm using fragments all through the show, linking tracks. * Leo Diamond: "Laura" [LP: "Subliminal Sounds"] heavenly beautiful ISM. there are Zounds that you can only hear when playing attention, like trains, ocean... * Shooby Taylor: "Peg O' My Heart" [Cassette: "The Human Horn"] don't know if WFMU is still carying this tape... this man is maaaaaaaaaad! he uses existing music recordings, both vocal and instromental, and then immitates a horn (hence the title) on top of it, and he lets him self go completely in his improvisations! hilarious! * Peter Thomas: "Hickup" [soundtrack LP (CD): "100% Cotton. The Complete Jerry Cotton Edition"] one of the more than 30 short tracks on this compilation of Jerry Cotton soundtracks. short, but still good! * Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra: "Twilight Zone" [compil. LP: "The Very Best Of Trash Horror"] * Les Baxter & Bas Sheva: "Despair 2" [Bootleg CD: "The Passions"] abstract/wordless vocalisations of pure emotions. incredible, impossible to describe, brilliant... i hate it to promote a bootleg ;-) * Isaac Hayes: "Shaft Theme" [Film: "Shaft"] i record lots of films from TV on a HiFi VCR, which gives me tons of interesting sound material to use, like this version of the theme with background (street) noises, a lot better than the soundtrack lp/cd version. *** which reminds me: saturday 7 March on BBC 2: GET CARTER! * ?: "Bonus Track" [compil. CD: "Only In America"] see my review "Dada'quariums Exotica": * Joe Loss: "Poppa Yo Quero" [compil. LP: "Break-Through. An Introduction To Studio Two Stereo"] one of the few LPs i gor for free, rescued from the trash can by a friend, when her parents divorsed and cleared the house. great track on a bad LP. * Guy Pedersen Et Son Grand Orchestre: "We Love You" [compil. LP: "Succes"] cool and "pop" big band version, and once again 1 great track on a bad (French or Belgian) LP * Edmundo Ros: "Mexicali Rose" [LP: "This Is My World"] * 101 Strings: "Strings For Ravi" [LP: "Sounds Of Today"] maybe not as far-out as "Astro sounds", but still great! lots of sitar, and even the tracks without sitar are good, that is, if you like the "classic rock" series of the London Symphony * Tobi Rix En Zijn Toeteriks: "Malle Vent Ja (Malaguena)" [compil. LP: "Liedjes Die Herinneringen Doen Herleven Deel 2"] Tobi Rix (from the Netherlands) played car horns like Spike Jones * Les Charlots: "Hey Max" [LP: "Les Grands Succes"] French comedy group that made several movies. this one track is a French fun version of "Hey Joe" * Bob Rosengarden & Phil Kraus: "Mr. Ghost Goes To Town" [LP: "Percussion Playful And Pretty"] wacky multi-percussion stereo space age pop * Bernie Green And His Orchestra: "Under Paris Skies" [compil. CD: "The History Of Space Age Pop Vol.3] essential comp cd series if you can't find the original LPs * Jack Daugherty: "No.9" [compil. CD: "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz Vol 1"] * Jerry Goldsmith: "Sputnik Code" [soundtrack LP: "Sebastian"] great! spy sounds meet electronics * David Shea: "Screwy Squirrel" [CD: "I"] most of it is too harsh for my ears, but this is one of 2 or 3 short collages of cartoon soundtrack samples. very funny, think JJ Perrey. * Thurston Knudson: "Watusi Wedding In The Jungle MIX" [LP: "Primitive Percussion"] i've added just a bit of jungle noises to make it "complete" * Sounds Galactic: "Nocturne" [LP: "An Astromusical Odyssey"] mostly softly played electronics (Moog etc) covers of pop songs * The Benzedrine Monks Of Santo Domonica: "We Will Rock You" [CD: "Chantmania"] highly recommended, but of course everyone knows this already... * Jack Emblow (Accordion): "Ritual Fire Dance" [compil. LP: "Impact"] yet again: 1 great track on a bad LP (CD) = exists on CD the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Zounds in cyber space Date: 06 Mar 1998 19:30:19 +0100 (CET) I've just opened a new home page, called "Zounds in cyber space", dedicated to (RealAudio) fragments of less known exotica & novelty CD's. Currently featuring: Attileo Mineon (rare and brilliant outer space electronic exotica) Don Tiki (NEW "classic" exotica) Palm Springs Yacht Club (with an arm fart version of "Caravan"! :-) Patrick Husson (male soprano voice!) The London Punkharmonic Orchestra (a small symphonic orchestra plays punk!) Zounds in Cyber Space: Johan quiet@village.uunet.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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Lyrics?.... Date: 06 Mar 1998 10:40:40 PST > >Listened to Phase 4's "Exoctic Percussion" with Stanley Black ... dull, dull, dull!!!! Exactly. I don't have much else by Mr. Black (excepting a scratchy old Rhumba 7") that I enjoy and had high hopes for this one, given the "Sacre du Sauvage"-esque liner notes of which you speak ("peering through the underbrush you spy the forbidden dance of the jungle women. In the distance a monkey screams for his dinner"). And I don't know why I thought of it, but in the realm of female voice as exotic instrument, I love "Jungle Romance" from the The Surfmen's Hawaii lp. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds in cyber space Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:59:23 -0500 > >I've just opened a new home page, called "Zounds in cyber space", dedicated >to (RealAudio) fragments of less known exotica & novelty CD's. And you're not going to get away with that without kudos from me! Yahoo! Boing, Boing, Boing! Yippee! ...and thank you. Passing out from too much jumping about, Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Lyrics?.... -Reply Date: 06 Mar 1998 14:42:20 -0500 Ben mentioned the Surfmen, were these guys "prolific" or what? I've got their "Exotic Island" which is fun - and yes, good use of female "oooooo/eeeee" vocals. Now I know there's a Hawaii title out there they I've gotta get - anything else that they've done?? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: (exotica) Re: Cabaret Manana, Exotic Moods Date: 06 Mar 1998 11:34:47 -1000 >My next question is: >Is Cabaret Manana a decent collection and should I just admit Esquivel is >not my bag? Maybe so... I like it a lot for the variety and would suggest it as a good Esquivel starting point (the only track I don't like is the small group one from "Four Corners of the World" album). It was the 3rd Esquivel CD I got, after the "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" and "Music From a Sparkling Planet" compilations, and I was pretty much totally converted by that time, so it's a little hard to say. Maybe give it a few more listenings. Also on the Les Baxter front, I finally bought the 2CD "THe Exotic Moods of..." a few days ago and love it muchly. Time seems suspended as you listen to these sounds of imaginary paradise... A great set! - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 john sloane Subject: Re: (exotica) Verbage Date: 06 Mar 1998 14:47:58 -0600 (CST) Hi Peter, Here's an (academic/theoretical) answer provided by a book called _The Postmodern Arts_, edited by Nigel Wheale. (His terms are slightly different than yours.) Wheale says there are three different levels of appreciating "bad" or "low" art: schlock, kitsch, and camp. Schlock is "applied to the decorative trivia that we buy or give to each other, meaningless objects that have sentimental value as gifts or mementoes: what we put on the mantelpiece..." Kitsch is a "step up" from schlock, or "bad taste with pretensions, stuff bought by people who *think* they know, but don't really; so those of us who *do* know, can get a rise out of their pitiful ignorance. . . . Kitsch taste is therefore what other people have, as identified by you and your knowing friends who naturally share a privileged community of taste." Camp is a more serious version of kitsch, or "a carefully cultivated bad taste": "it is a perverse elitism, taking pleasure in tastes and values which are conventionally scorned. Camp in this sense can also be applied to the valuation of normally despised objects, where a taste is developed and shared among a cult following." (Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'"--derived from experiences in gay subcultures--is the seminal work here.) Clearly, these definitions may diverge somewhat from conventional use, and are themselves up for debate. See ya, Rob On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: > What's the difference between: > > Cheese > Kitsch > Schmaltz > > and > > Schlock? > > Anyone? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Exotic Moog Question Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:02:24 PST This may be a naive question, but here goes... Has this Martin Denny title made it onto cd? To put it politely, the folks at the local Tower had absolutely no idea.... Thanks. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: (exotica) ...oops... Date: 06 Mar 1998 20:15:56 GMT Sorry - through an address glitch while changing from the digest version to the regular version of this list, my playlist was posted several times... Won't happen again... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Exotic Moog Question Date: 06 Mar 1998 16:57:07 -0500 (EST) At 01:02 PM 3/6/98 PST, you wrote: >This may be a naive question, but here goes... >Has this Martin Denny title made it onto cd? To put it politely, the >folks at the local Tower had absolutely no idea.... >Thanks. It has been re-issued on CD, but not officially. It was part of that series of 2-fer "Limited Edition" reissues that came out a few years back. I think you can find it at Footlight's on-line shop: You'll have to search for it by looking for the other LP on the same disc: BAXTER, LES MOOG ROCK VANGUARD 24.95 --Lou (and no - they aren't legal or mastered from anything other than clean vinyl copies) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) introduction Date: 06 Mar 1998 16:56:27 -0500 I'm sending replies at the same time I'm sending this. Maybe I should have introduced myself - as I was asked - first. Age: 40's. Where? Toronto. I try my best NOT to buy this stuff - which I find myself calling "easy listening" more often than not - on CD. I guess it's less important for me that I hear the stuff and more important that I own it in a form that means something to me. I buy lots of CD's but pretty well only new stuff or stuff that I can't imagine ever finding on the original. Not waiting for the original 78's for instance. I've found a lot more of this stuff than I need and lots of stuff I never expected to find. But unlike friends of mine, I don't believe that eventually I'll find everything - or most things. 65% - or so(????) - of this stuff, I find at thrift stores. Another 25% - yeah I know this is stupid - for around five bucks. What's left? 10% for under $10, a threshold I try not to cross... but I'd probably spend a little more for "The Party" soundtrack or that Bill Plummer solo album I once heard. (Electric sitar, plays on "The Party" and on Bob Thiele's "Light my fire" record) Is this too long? Right now I'm most obsessed by 60's cover versions. I no longer buy everything with the word "Percussion" on it and more versions of "Canadian Sunset", "Frenesi", "Caravan" or even "Patricia". On the other hand, the other day I bought 3 "Little Marcy" records - bringing my total to 6 - and if you don't know who she was, count yourself blessed. Nat Kone # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Moog Question Date: 06 Mar 1998 14:18:23 -0800 >I think you can find it at Footlight's on-line shop: > > >You'll have to search for it by looking for the other LP on the same disc: > >BAXTER, LES MOOG ROCK VANGUARD 24.95 PLUS SHIPPING Lou:-) and isn't that the "Electronic Vanguard" label ? Which doesn't exist, of course:)as all of those "labels" are bogus On 2 of those "labels" they give the address of ROUNDER RECORDS!!! One Camp Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 @;-0 >--Lou >(and no - they aren't legal or mastered from anything other than clean vinyl >copies) Not terribly clean clean as one can hear the clicks and pops 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: "Michael Greenberg" Subject: (exotica) sorry, but now I'm really confused!! Date: 06 Mar 1998 17:45:04 -0500 Here's what showed up on my web browser: It all came to an end in 1973, with the failure of the remake of the film "Lost Horizon.'' Asked about it now, Bacharach's voice becomes thoughtful, almost wistful, hiscontinue to experiment and "just have fun". The "fun" element of NRBQ's live performance is essential to an understanding of what they offer night after night, year after year. Much of rock music takes itself much too seriously and the sheer joy that they convey is one of the true wonders of it all- after 30 years and thousands of shows, they still look as if they couldn't imagine anything else they'd rather be doing. They have persevered, and even thrived at times , while continuing to build on their unique the other day. We're still great friends; we talk a lot.'' When I printed it, the text about NRBQ isn't there, so maybe I jumped the gun and it's just some cyber-weirdness at this end. The weird thing is, I haven't seen the section about NRBQ before, so I couldn't have unintentionally cut and pasted it. verrrrrrrry strange! Next I'll be talking about UFO's and NRBQ... oh well, sorry about that one folks. I didn't make it up, but I also can't explain it.... I gotta go lie down now... 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) Exotic Moog Question Date: 06 Mar 1998 17:52:53 -0500 (EST) At 02:18 PM 3/6/98 -0800, Jack wrote: > >>I wrote: >>I think you can find it at Footlights' on-line shop: >> > >PLUS SHIPPING Lou:-) Aw, don't be too hard on Footlights. After all, they're carrying a CD near and dear to you (MINEO, ATTILIO: MAN IN SPACE WITH SOUNDS)! -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: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Lisa Carbon Date: 06 Mar 1998 17:16:49 PST Chester wrote: << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen to? So far, I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like Pierre Henry....>> I've not seen anyone on this list mention Lisa Carbon. I believe this is a pseudonym for German techno artist Atom Heart, or maybe just an associate of his. At any rate, I think there are basically three CDs available which are essentially freeform moog jam sessions over electronic vamping beats. Latin rhythms are not uncommon. Occasionally an early jazz or latin sample will form a backbone for a song. The overall sound is sort of retro-future lounge. I picture some jaded, blase-looking musicians in an airport (or spacedock) bar of the future when I hear this music. The releases I'm aware of are: Lisa Carbon and Friends - Stereococtail (Pod Communications) (re-released 4-5 years ago on Instinct with different title, now probably out of print) Lisa Carbon - Trio de Janiero (Rather Interesting label) Lisa Carbon Trio - Polyester (Rephlex) None is particularly easy to find, at least in the U.S., but if you see one in a store, ask if you can give it a listen. -- Brad Yost # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) Boo ! ! ! Ghost questions? Date: 06 Mar 1998 21:38:23 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 21:05:34 EST: << ....said Pea, contemplating a new album tentavively titled "Mr. Pea Goes To Town." >> Which brings a question to mind: What is the origen (or explaination) of the title "Mr. Ghost Goes To Town" on the UL Organs in Orbit CD. I does not sound Halloweeny or scary?!? Really cool tune but I have never heard it recorded anywhere else. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) << Martin Denny _The Enchanted Isle_ (Liberty).>> Date: 06 Mar 1998 23:33:21 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 07:48:33 EST, you write: << << Martin Denny _The Enchanted Isle_ (Liberty). Can one of our Denny experts tell me WHAT is going on with this one? The copyright is 1982(!), and with its mint-y pastel green cover, I was terrified I would find Denny had gone New Age or something. I was floored, shocked and unprepared to discover that the music was pure 1958-ish exotica jazz all over again! Even the bird calls and the shimmering celeste tinkles were back. The sound was so *totally* 50s (particularly the weird echoey whistle on the title track) that I began to wonder if these were old sessions unearthed from some forgotten Liberty vault? In any case it was much more to my tastes than anything else Denny did in the 60s. . . keep an eye out for it. >> Forbidden Island was Denny's 3rd album released in 1958...I'm confused by the copyright date and the partial description you gave of the cover as I was under the impression the only alternate cover to this album was from 1960 when a metallic finish was added to the tiki and other tropical greenery images. can you describe the cover in more detail I'm sure several others on the list we love to hear about this....I am especially curious about the copyright date as I was unaware of any Deny albums being reissued that late on. Liberty had an agreement with Denny that they could "commission" is work. Recently he admitted that there were albums that he never even played on. He was slightly embarrased to mention this but quick (and accurate) to point out that this happens all the time in the recording industry. Actually these ghostings (which by the way for all you Denny fans, really only started in the early '60s (after about the "Exotic Night" album), when the style and sound of these albums definitely has a lesser feel to them. The deal with Liberty was that they were trying to "burn the candle at both ends" as you might say from Denny (and other artists) by stipulating in the contract that he both produce up to 3 albums a year (!!!) as well as tour for a minimum of a certain amount of months. It doesn't take a genius to figure that you can't be in both places at the same time and while they couldn't hire a Denny impersonator (!) on an instrumental album they could more easily get away with the ruse. Being a good "company man" Denny did not want to admit at the time to this ghosting arrangement for these mid '60s period of albums. So fear not Denny fans that is definitely him on the first 20 or so albums...after that it does get sketchy. As for the "Exotic Moog" while it is not Denny on the keyboards he was there and very much involved, over seeing the sessions and arrangements, leaving the more seasoned moog player to do the "knob twidling." I am not sure if this album is "ghost performed" but this may explain some of your observations. So these may be releases that were stored originally and never released. Someone got the rights and figured what the hell. Any more comments from those more versed than I? Ashley? Vik? >> I hope this clears things up. 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: Dlsmay Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo ! ! ! Ghost questions? Date: 07 Mar 1998 00:14:48 EST It's a Halloween novelty (with vocals), perhaps most famously done by The Five Jones Boys on the Human Orchestra collection. But Louis Prima did it too on that cool jump blues/big band halloween collection (Halloween Stomp? Somebody help me out. Has a Milton Knight cartoon cover with a sexy witch on it, done in the style of a 30s cartoon). Anyway, the human orchestra version is my all-time favorite Halloween song, up there with Big Bee Kornegay's "At the House of Frankenstein" and "Little Demon" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 07 Mar 1998 00:22:51 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 11:27:26 EST, NMINER@gwgate1.jhmi.jhu.edu writes: << Listened to Phase 4's "Exoctic Percussion" with Stanley Black last night. BIG disappointment! >> What are some good Stanley Black albums to look for? Can anyone recommend some for the next time I'm at the swap meet??? Thanks in advance. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Stanley Black Date: 06 Mar 1998 21:54:38 +0000 At 12:22 AM 3/7/98 EST, Michele wrote: >What are some good Stanley Black albums to look for? Can anyone recommend >some for the next time I'm at the swap meet??? Gershwin Goes Latin, London PS 206 is my favorite. There are only three slow tunes (Love Walked In, Love is Here to Stay and Embraceable You), but the other 9 are up tempo. It was well recorded. Only Embraceable You gets a little schmaltzy when Stanley handles the glissandos and other keyboard effects. This is one of the early stereo records, but a good copy sounds just as good as today's recordings. I can listen to it over and over without getting bored. I have to agree that Exotic Percussion, London SP 44004, doesn't live up to the build-up, but its nothing to sneeze at. Its only good one cut at a time, because Stanley tries to throw alot of stuff in each selection. Its like he wanted to make sure every musician got in a two measure solo for EVERY bit. Of course, its a great stereo demo and uses its bongos well. I think I like the triangles the best. Anyway, with Jungle Drums and Caravan it can't be turned down. I love Misirilou with its xylophones, bongos, marimbas and tibales. Also...one of my favorite covers. These are the only Stanley Black LP's I have run across and like both of them. I look forward to hearing about other recordings he has made... Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 07 Mar 1998 05:12:42 -0500 I'll make it a simple question for my first posting. It certainly sounds like him but is that Alvino Rey playing the pedal steel on Esquivel records? Maybe it lists musicians on CD's but I only have vinyl. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: KEIRK@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: (exotica) The Karminsky Experience Date: 07 Mar 1998 06:28:09 +0000 (HELP) A quick report on my UK travels. In London I found out about "Bossa Beach/More Espresso" at a great club called Havana (Fulham Broadway tube), where my heroes, the Karminsky Twins DJ every Sunday night. The club itself is classic mid-90s lounge decor - zebra skin sofas and vaguely exotic wall decoration. (Reminds me a bit of Bossa Nova, a cool tapas lounge in Chicago). Introduced myself to Martin and James Karminsky and had a great time discussing our mutual obsession with all things bossa (they played an amazing sitar version of "Mas Que Nada" by a jazz cat on Verve whose name I promptly forgot due to beer and scotch). They said the whole lounge or easy revival kind of took them by surprise - at one point they were asked to judge a cardigan sweater contest! The revival seems to be waning in the UK, but the dance/acid jazz side of things seems to be picking up the slack, and in London and Glasgow (the Karminsky's say hi to Jill Mingo-go) I was able to find amazing Brazilian and bossa reissues I've never heard of, much less seen in Montreal or even New York (picked up a _vinyl- reissue of RCA's "THe Exciting Latin-American Sound of Brazil" (with late 60s tracks by Mario Castro-Neves) - this is a series I've found in thrift stores in Montreal and Ottawa, but never dreamed I find re-issued, on vinyl no les). Finally, Air are huge here - I can hear "Sexy Boy" just by turning on the radio - ah, paradise... From BossaNovaVilles, Keir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo ! ! ! Ghost questions? Date: 07 Mar 1998 08:21:29 EST In a message dated 98-03-07 00:14:48 EST, you write: << It's a Halloween novelty (with vocals), perhaps most famously done by The Five Jones Boys on the Human Orchestra collection. >> Is the availability limited to vinyl only? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Three Suns Update... Date: 07 Mar 1998 10:34:13 -0500 I realized with a shock last night that I now have more Three Suns LPs (14) than I have of ANY other artist. With this last batch, they pulled into the lead, ahead of Enoch Light and Pere Ubu (is this the sign of a diseased mind or what?) And I have to make a small retraction: Even just listening to my destroyed mono (!) copy again, _Movin'and Groovin'_ is STILL the ultimate Three Suns album. Every single song just has that extra little fillip of percussion weirdness that puts it over the top. . . With a boo bam in my heart, --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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Late Denny Date: 07 Mar 1998 10:37:09 -0500 >Forbidden Island was Denny's 3rd album released in 1958...I'm confused by the >copyright date and the partial description you gave of the cover >can you describe the cover in more detail This album is called _The Enchanted Isle_ (not "Forbidden Island"), Liberty LN-10195. The cover has Denny's name in girly script across the top, and has a large photo of an orchid blossom about to hit the surface of a limpid blue pool. The background (front and back) is a gradient going from pastel green at the bottom to white at the top. The back has a small photo of Denny looking 60-ish, so that would be about right for 1982. It's blurbed (somewhat confusingly) by Don Ho! He says Denny ". . .waxes well with his original exoticats. They're all here." The song titles are: Coronation (not the version from _Quiet Village_ / Rain / Happy Island / An Occasional Man / The Enchanted Isle / Sugar Train / Tahitian Sunset / Friendly Island / Adventures in Paradise / South Sea Island Magic Hope this helps. . . --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: LTepedino Subject: Re: (exotica) schulmadchen und cinecitta Date: 07 Mar 1998 10:46:48 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 06:48:11 EST, dan@state51.co.uk writes: << sorry if these have already been mentioned (i guess they have) but what are people's impressions of schulmadchen and cinecitta records on crippled dick? any good? also i KNOW this was mentioned but just how good is the funky sitar record on BBE? >> I'd stick with the Easy Tempo series over any of the Cinecitta volumes they are far superior. 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: LTepedino Subject: Re: (exotica) Verbage Date: 07 Mar 1998 11:07:13 EST In a message dated 98-03-06 10:30:40 EST, peter_risser@cinfin.com writes: Here's my 2 cents... Cheese: really over the top silliness that can often verge on being corny or just too much of what could have been a good thing had there been some restraint. This can be someone try to be kitschy (see definition below) while being too heavy handed doing it and in turn lowering himself to the same level they are trying to make fun of. Kitsch: This is the best of the lot, it is often silly verging on embarrassing stuff which the performer(s) doesn't realize they are making fools of themselves and by playing down to the lowest common audience denominator are unknowningly making a statement about society or they ARE fully aware of appealing to this lowest common denominator but at the same time are giving a conspirational wink to the more discerning audience/listener while level the low masses unknowning. (This later example is the hardest to bring off as it can often become too heavy handed and drift into "chees", it takes a real skilled performer to walk this tightrope.). Kitsch at its best is a sacrastic mirror held up to society that shows how bourgeois its tatses can be instead of the level of sophistication that it thinks it is achieving and so can make a high art form out of what is essentially a low art form genre. Schmaltz: while also appealing to the lowest common denominator this has more cornball/cliche-ish leanings -- rarely is there the hint of irony in schmaltz that can raise it to kitsch. and Schlock: Just plain bad unintentional crap that is trying to pass itself of as good without the least bit of ironic twist or aspertions to kitsch...just plain garbage. 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: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) The Karminsky Experience Date: 07 Mar 1998 11:18:05 EST In a message dated 98-03-07 06:28:05 EST, you write: << (they played an amazing sitar version of "Mas Que Nada" by a jazz cat on Verve whose name I promptly forgot due to beer and scotch). >> sounds like Alan Lorber's "The Lotus Palace", which is on CD and pretty darn OK! basic "jerry gunn" hip # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 07 Mar 1998 08:16:55 -0800 I think Stanley Black's "Exotica Percussion" is a damn masterpiece 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) schulmadchen und cinecitta Date: 07 Mar 1998 08:43:57 -0800 ><< sorry if these have already been mentioned (i guess they have) but what are > people's impressions of schulmadchen and cinecitta records on crippled > dick? any good? also i KNOW this was mentioned but just how good is the > funky sitar record on BBE? >> > >I'd stick with the Easy Tempo series over any of the Cinecitta volumes they >are far superior. For Me, All the Easy Tempo Volumes RULE and Beat at Cinecitta VOL 1 is equally tremendous. Vol 2 is the 1 I have heard to stay away from, though I have not heard 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) annotated Playlist Fantastica: Beatles exotica 2: not again!!!!! Date: 07 Mar 1998 19:35:43 +0100 (CET) I have no idea how it came that this appeared more than once in the list... Johan quiet@village.uunet.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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Stanley Black Date: 07 Mar 1998 12:51:53 -0600 Jack sez: >I think Stanley Black's "Exotica Percussion" is a damn masterpiece i whole-heartedly concur. the rest of you is nuts. - Kini visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # 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: Re: (exotica) Lisa Carbon Date: 07 Mar 1998 20:53:22 +0100 (CET) On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, B. Yost wrote: > > Chester wrote: > > > I've not seen anyone on this list mention Lisa Carbon. I believe this is a > pseudonym for German techno artist Atom Heart, or maybe just an associate > of his. At any rate, I think there are basically three CDs available which > are essentially freeform moog jam sessions over electronic vamping beats. > Latin rhythms are not uncommon. Occasionally an early jazz or latin sample > will form a backbone for a song. The overall sound is sort of retro-future > lounge. Atom Heart moved to Santiago de Chile last year, and you can expect more latinesque releases from his projects in the near future - we recently had him here at the station with lots on new tracks in this vein. regards Sevo -- Sevo Stille - Radio X sevo@inm.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) THE MOOD MOSAIC Date: 07 Mar 1998 15:10:53 EST << >does anyone know anything about a new series of cds coming out of italy (i >think) called "THE MOOD MOSAIC"? >> ...and then there were the MOOD MOSAIC releases from England. The MArk Wirtz go-go one (vol 1) and the Thriller Memorandum spy one (vol 2). on RPM. were there more than 2? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) Late Denny Date: 07 Mar 1998 23:38:37 +0100 >This album is called _The Enchanted Isle_ (not "Forbidden Island"), Liberty >LN-10195. > >The song titles are: > >Coronation (not the version from _Quiet Village_ / Rain / Happy Island / An >Occasional Man / The Enchanted Isle / Sugar Train / Tahitian Sunset / >Friendly Island / Adventures in Paradise / South Sea Island Magic All the genuine trademarks are there, but this _can't_ be a reissue (or previously unissued tracks or a ghosted session), the clarity of the recording and the production suggest otherwise (to my ears at least). Isn't it possible that Denny was given one last stab at recording by his record company? (The subsequent "Exotica '90" was recorded in Japan without any involvement of Liberty/Capitol as far as I can tell.) Anyway, I agree that this is the great overlooked Denny album, and it is certainly something of a mystery that it could have come out in 1982. I'm not much help here, I wish someone knew for sure. Ingemar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo ! ! ! Ghost questions? Date: 07 Mar 1998 20:46:52 EST The Human Orchestra was a vinyl, import compilation - now out of print (I think it was issued in the 80s). Lynn Peril mentions it (and "Mr Ghost") in her section of Incredibly Strange Music. Personally, I've only got it on tape. The music is from 30s and 40s vocal groups that would imitate musical instruments as well as do the lyrics to the song, usually with one acoustic guitar as accompaniment. Like the early Mills Brothers who were exemplars of the style. Lots of almost lost musical techniques, like "blues blowing" (pursing your lips together and getting a musical, raspberry/kazoo sound. Cf., King Louie (the Orangutang, aka Louie Prima) in The Jungle Book when he imitates the trumpet solo). Cool cool music. I've been looking but have never found that particular collection on CD, or that song. So, start hitting the bins... --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: vinyllives@earthlink.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo ! ! ! Ghost questions? Date: 07 Mar 1998 18:02:08 -0800 (PST) > Like the early Mills Brothers who were exemplars of >the style. Lots of almost lost musical techniques, like "blues blowing" >(pursing your lips together and getting a musical, raspberry/kazoo sound. >Cf., King Louie (the Orangutang, aka Louie Prima) in The Jungle Book when he >imitates the trumpet solo). Leon Redbone was a later practitioner of this art; he called it the "throat tromnet." ********************************** Exotica/Et Cetera -- "Celebrating the Vinyl LP as Art, Amusement and Artifact." and www.vinyllives.com -- "It's the closest thing you can get to flipping through a rack of records without going to a record store." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Two LPs, Mystery Artists, Record Sleeves Date: 07 Mar 1998 18:59:09 +0000 I found two monophonic albums today I had to get, even though I know at least one of them can be found in stereo. Percussion--Playful and Pretty Bob Rosengarden, Phil Kraus and their Orchestra RCA CSM-113. This was issued in 1965 as a benefit of membership in the RCA Victor Record Club. A stereo version, CSP-113, was also issued but not in this record store to buy. The tunes here would sound great in stereo because they already sound so good in mono. They do a version of Mister Ghost Goes to Town that would work very well around Halloween. I am quite impressed by this album. The arrangements make sense and use the variety of instruments appropriately well. The cover features two women in casual clothes amidst a variety of percussion instruments hitting large cymbals. The Swinging '59 Henri Rene Imperial LP 9096. Not exotica per se, Mr. Rene to me had a way of swinging a tune that separated his performances from others. This album with arrangements of 1959 hit tunes continues that tradition. This is in mono and I don't think there is a stereo version (but please let me know if there is so I can look out for it!). There are two mystery musicians. Playing the guitar next to Tommy Tedesco is "You Guessed It." Who could that be? And on percussion with Mel Lewis and Lou Singer is "You Know Who." Anyone know who these jokers are? I suppose it was obvious in '59, but I am not so sure who the hot musicians were back then (musicians who probably couldn't get a courtesy appearance waiver from their record companies). When I bought the albums, I asked about buying LP inner sleeves with plastic linings (those are what I like to use). The owner said he doesn't sell them because HE doesn't like to use them. He says the plastic can do strange things to vinyl, so he only uses paper sleeves. I personally have liked plastic lined sleeves because the record can slide in and out easily, various particles from the paper don't shed onto the record and the label can be seen without compromising a "dust seal." I have personally seen no evidence that plastic lined sleeves do anything to vinyl. On the contrary, the records I have in the best condition have been kept in plastic-lined sleeves. So...what do you think? Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Caravan Date: 07 Mar 1998 21:20:07 +0000 It is time once again for a "They All Played..." program on The Mr. Smooth Hour. The tune to be repeated at least 16 times is "Caravan." What are your favorite recordings of it? Here is a short list so far. Any to add? I could use at least six more. Duke Ellington Black, Brown & Beige RCA/Bluebird CD 6641 The Three Suns Space Age Pop Volume 2 RCA CD 66646 The John Buzon Trio Ultra Lounge Vol. 4 Capitol CD Sir Julian Space Age Pop Volume 1 RCA CD 66645 80 Drums Around The World UL Vol. 1 Capitol CD Art Mooney Big Band Dance Time Hurrah LP H 1002 Earl Grant Yes Sirree! Decca LP DL 4405 Buddy Cole Pipes, Pedals and Fidelity Columbia LP CL 1003 The Organ Happenings Organ Serenade Power LP DS 413 Richard Lawrence Romantic Moods Waldorf Music Hall LP MHK 33-1228 Thanks in advance for your ideas! Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 08 Mar 1998 01:37:21 -0500 Can anyone tell me more about Stu Philips? I know that he did the early Hollyridge Strings records and I saw his name once on the credits for the Monkeys TV show. But I have this soundtrack for "Angels from Hell" and his cuts are amazing. The equal of any of that "Vampiros Lesbos" stuff. If there was more stuff like that around, I'd even be willing to buy it on CD. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Two LPs, Mystery Artists, Record Sleeves Date: 08 Mar 1998 02:44:51 -0500 At 6:59 PM +0000 3/7/98, bag@hubris.net wrote: >When I bought the albums, I asked about buying LP inner sleeves with >plastic linings (those are what I like to use). The owner said he doesn't >sell them because HE doesn't like to use them. He says the plastic can do >strange things to vinyl, so he only uses paper sleeves. I have heard this argument before, and some of the evidence is pretty solid. The best argument I've heard is from older collectors who have had an LP in a plastic sleeve for, say, around 30 years before they take the album out again, only to have the LP be stuck inside the plastic and be damaged upon pulling it out - plastic coating stuck to the LP, etc (I'm obviously talking about people with thousands of records here, like many of us on this list probably have). Also, I have a friend whose apartment suffered a fire - - his plastic-lined sleeve records were destroyed; curiously, his records that were in plastic mylar bags were saved, although the covers were destroyed. Personally, I stick with paper sleeves. I think the plastic *does* do strange things to vinyl. br cleve - who has records that he bought over 30 years ago, too # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Late Denny Date: 08 Mar 1998 02:57:44 -0500 At 11:38 PM +0100 3/7/98, I. Breithel wrote: >>This album is called _The Enchanted Isle_ (not "Forbidden Island"), Liberty >>LN-10195. >I agree that this is the great overlooked Denny album, and it is certainly >something of a mystery that it could have come out in 1982. I'm not much >help here, I wish someone knew for sure. Yes, I just remembered that I have this. Found it last year in fact (Ashley....remember I made a tape of it for you.....). It is indeed from '82 - it is *not* a reissue, it is all new material done in the classic style. This was about the time that renewed intrest in Denny was starting........Throbbing Gristles Greatest Hits was released around this time, and Yellow Magic Orchestra's version of "Sake Rock" was getting airplay (I think that was a hit in Japan). '82 was when I first heard Denny; we used to play him on our punk sports talk show on the MIT station here in Boston. (it really sounded good under the pro wrestling play by plays that we'd record at the Boston Garden, back when Freddie Blassie managed Hulk Hogan). But I digress..............it's an excellent album, well worth picking up if you see it. Has the song "Occasional Man" that Don Tiki has done such a fine job with on their current CD. 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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 07 Mar 1998 21:36:01 +-200 I THINK 'EXOTIC PERCUSSION' IS BRILLIANT. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL = ALBUMS I'VE HEARD AND I CAN STRONGLY RECCOMMEND IT. IT MAKES COMMAND = PERCUSSION ALBUMS SEEM AMBIENT!! LISTEN AGAIN. CHA CHA CHARL. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:43:15 +-200 This cannot be complete without the Sandy Nelson version off the Manhattan Spiritual LP...It's so funky! CHA CHA CHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Party-Sitar-Bollywood Date: 08 Mar 1998 09:11:06 -0500 I watched "The Party" last night for the first time and discovered that the Mancini LP omits Claudine Longet's vocal version of "Nothing to Lose". Is this a label contract thing - Longet on A&M and Mancini on RCA? On another topic - I recently returned from a year long trip to India and I spent some of my time there collecting Hindi film soundtracks from the 60's and 70's. A few months back Grand Royale magazine had an ad for a new Motel Records CD with some title about sitars and Bollywood, etc. - promising to be a compilation of some of the groovier music from Indian cinema. Anyone know anything about this CD? Yet another topic - some people have repeated this before but I'll say it again....great records can be found cheap outside of the BIG CITIES! Take a road trip...the country isn't very far. Also look for estate sales - the best way to find cheap carefully preserved records is to go to these people's homes. Just to illustrate my point....a few recent finds for under $5 - all in absolutely great shape: QUINCY JONES Mirage OST (Mercury, 1965) dynamic crime jazz...been looking for this one fer years! Includes the stunning "Shoot to Kill" track from the new Rhino Crime Jazz series. MARTIN DENNY Exotic Moog (Liberty, 1969) i don't care if Denny didn't play on this one...i love it! oh, and what a hauntingly beautiful version of "Canto de Ossanha". Don't flame me....this was an estate sale find for $2.00! HENRY MANCINI The Party OST (RCA, 1968) i'm a Mancini fanatic and this one delivers - very groovy lounge moods with a few bright go-go moments. The instrumental version of the title theme is too much....sitar, tabla, Mancini! BILLY MURE Hawaiian Percussion (Strand Elite, 1960s?) guitar...percussion....dynamite! Does anyone know what year this record was released? Also, any info on the label? A nice companion to another flea market find "Supersonic Guitars in Hi-Fi" GARY McFARLAND Soft Samba (Verve, 1964) ooooohh! beautiful male wordless vocals over smooooooth samba versions of "From Russia with Love", "More", "Ringo", "The Love Goddess", etc. I'm a sucker for dreamy wordless vocals. And yet another topic - plastic inner sleeves CAN damage records over time. I've seen these leave horrible wrinkle impressions on the vinyl...all it takes is a little dampness, or high humidity levels in your home and that plastic starts sticking. Keep the paper. That's enough from me....I haven't piped up on this list in over a year. Keep on steppin' 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: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Sleeves + The Egyptian Date: 08 Mar 1998 15:42:27 +0000 Bryan Cuevas wrote: >And yet another topic - plastic inner sleeves CAN damage records over time. >I've seen these leave horrible wrinkle impressions on the vinyl...all it >takes is a little dampness, or high humidity levels in your home and that >plastic starts sticking. Plastic lined inner sleeves were supplied with all full price 12" albums in the UK throughout the 1960's and I didn't have any problems with them. That said, we have a pretty even climate compared with many parts of the USA and the far east, so I think Bryan hit the nail on the head by mentioning dampness and humidity. For keeping vinyl in good condition, I'd also like to put in a good word for antistatic pistols which really do a good job, stopping airborne bits of dust etc. from being drawn onto the surface of the disc by negating the charge on its surface. On a completely different subject (but still hopefully exotic enough), has any reader ever been to The Egyptian Drive-in Movie Theater which is in Herrin, South Illinois, please? This is 'famous' for having the world's biggest screen, described as 'twelve storeys high'. I'm interested in finding out how it stays up in bad weather and doesn't get blown away like a sail. It must be pretty rugged as it celebrates its half century this August. Regarding indoor vs outdoor cinema, conventional cinemas now have Dolby stereo soundtracks almost as standard. Have drive-ins managed to keep up with that at all? Many thanks, 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 10:55:13 -0500 > The tune to be repeated at least 16 times is "Caravan." What are your > favorite > recordings of it? > Here is a short list so far. Any to add? I could use at least six more. Les Paul, from "The Legend & The Legacy" cd set (unless you happen to have the 78). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Lolita, Sabu, Doug & Luis Date: 08 Mar 1998 11:59:25 -0500 Tagging a few movie highlights of list-interest (eastern standard time, you know the drill)... "Lolita" (1962) early Tuesday morning at 6:00 am on TCM. A double bill of the Sabu (1940) and Douglas Fairbanks (1924, silent) versions of "The Thief Of Bagdad" -- late Tuesday/early Wednesday at 2:00 am and 4:00 am on AMC. "The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie" (1972) Thursday afternoon at 12:30 pm on Bravo (US). I won't try to argue it as list-related, but how the heck often do you get to see a Luis Bunuel (grandmaster of surrealist cinema) film on TV? m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:15:23 EST In a message dated 98-03-08 00:21:18 EST, you write: << The tune to be repeated at least 16 times is "Caravan." What are your favorite recordings of it?>> enoch light has a mysterious, sitar version on the Exotic Trilogy (vol 2) disc. i can't figure our which LP it came from, but i think the title has the word "Future" in 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: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:32:29 EST jack said: << I think Stanley Black's "Exotica Percussion" is a damn masterpiece >> cha cha charl said: <> i say: are these two different LP's? Exotic Percussion and EXOTICA Percussion. I saw "Exotic Percussion" yesterday, a Phase 4 gatefold cover with some green in it and a small head and shoulder photo of a woman looking at you. i passed on it because i had a feeling this was not the LP jack was talking about - that he was referring to an earlier record. so, what's the deal? is this one record, or two? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 11:50:48 -0600 Bert Kaempfert, ...Love That Bert, Decca LP <> Eddie Layton, Caravan, Mercury LP Candido, Candido in Indigo, ABC LP Martin Denny, Exotica III, Liberty LP <> Perez Prado, This is Perez Prado, RCA LP <> Irv Cottler, Around the World in Percussion, Somerset LP Marty Gold, Skin Tight RCA LP Dick Schory, Music to Break Any Mood, RCA LP Antonio (Chocolat=E9) Diaz Mena, Eso Es Latin Jazz... Man!, Audio Fidelity L= P Los Admiradores, Bongos/Fultes/Guitars, Command LP Cozy Cole, -single-, Grand Award 45 <> Arthur Lyman, Taboo, Hi-Fi, LP that should keep ya busy... visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:48:38 EST withing 24 hours of reading Brad Bigelow's "Brass" article in the latest Cool and Strange issue, I tracked down the Warren Kime Brass Impact LP (Command RS 910 SD). I love it when that happens! six bucks - not bad for SF, less than a movie. Hard hitting, exciting LP loaded with brass (obviously) offset with female doo-doo-dooing and ooo-ooo-oooing. the always extensive Command liner notes refer to the choir as "the girls". 4 flugelhorns 3 trumpets 4 trombones woodwind guitar bass drums 3 man percussion team and..."the girls" titles include: Mas Que NAda, Elenor Rigby, The Breeze And I, One Note Samba, Mr. Lucky, In The Still Of The Night... thank you, 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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: Late Denny "Enchanted Isle" Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:53:55 -0500 >It is indeed from >'82 - it is *not* a reissue, it is all new material done in the classic >style. This was about the time that renewed intrest in Denny was >starting........ Interesting! I've been listening to _Enchanted Isle_ again more closely, and I have to say I'm still a little up in the air about whether I think it's new or old. . . the sound is just such classic Denny it's rather confusing. If nothing else I've decided that "Coronation" can't be an alternate take from the _Quiet Village_ sessions. I agree with Ingemar that the sound quality is excellent, suggesting it really is from 1982. . . . But. . . The sound quality of those original sessions was pretty amazing too (I was just listening to the CD reissue of _Exotica II_ on headphones). I do notice that on "Enchanted Isle" you can definitely hear tape hiss as the tracks begin. On the other hand, the spatialization is more natural than those early stereo releases (where some instruments got panned hard to one side or the other). Who knows, maybe they hauled all their Ampex three-tracks and vintage tube gear out of the closet, to get the sound *exactly* the same as the original! Yours in Hi Fi, --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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 08 Mar 1998 12:13:10 -0600 the Brass Impact LPs have been a staple of Club Velvet from the start. perfect for when i need a little 'punch'. i've always been surprised that they don't get more mention on the list and i refuse to think of Warren Kime as a "poor man's Esquivel" as has been said! Love 'em! get all three! - kini >withing 24 hours of reading Brad Bigelow's "Brass" article in the latest Cool >and Strange issue, I tracked down the Warren Kime Brass Impact LP (Command RS >910 SD). I love it when that happens! six bucks - not bad for SF, less than >a movie. > visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: (exotica) Re: Stan Black Date: 08 Mar 1998 11:13:23 PST Tropical Magic is fun. My copy is a 10" 33-1/3 (London LPB 510). Piano, strings and Latin percussion (accompanied by the George Mitchell Choir on a couple of tracks), but a bit more lively than on other efforts. Ben > > What are some good Stanley Black albums to look for? Can anyone recommend some for the next time I'm at the swap meet??? Thanks in advance. > >- Michele ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 14:14:13 -0500 (EST) Once again I would like to mention the fine Bert Kaempfert recording with the fuzz bass # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jimmy's Easy 3/8/98 Date: 08 Mar 1998 14:31:29 -0500 (EST) Jimmy's Easy airs on 88.1FM-WMBR Cambridge Sat @ 6-8am David Frost Theme--Billy Taylor Orchestra Ennio Morricone--Un Altro Mare Buddy Morrow Orchestra--Markham Theme Edwin Astley Orchestra--Halo Joe Harnell--So Soon John Barry--Theme from The Knack Joey Altruda--Tropical Espionage Giovanni Fenati & Orchestra--Budapest Piero Piccioni--Easy Lovers Henry Mancini--Playboy Theme Leroy Holmes--Search For Vulcan Don Tiki--Hot Like Lava Lalo Schifrin--Maria Ennio Morricone--Una Voce Alto Specchio Xavier Cugat--Gesundheit! Herb Alpert--Lollipops & Roses (request) Boris Schocka--Toys For Boys Leroy Holmes--Odd-Job Man (only) Gerhard Narholz--Speaking Guitar Montefiori Cocktail--Gypsy Woman Walter Wanderly--You & I Dean Martin--Tangerine Englebert Humperdink--Quando Quando Quando Cal Tjader--Soul Sauce (request) Willie Bobo--Nightwalk Esquivel--Dark Eyes DJ Rodriguez--Personality Peter Covent Band--Watermelon Man Pizzicato 5--Baby Baby Baby Tom Jones--It's Not Unusual Ventures--Theme from Charlie's Angels Sammy Davis, Jr.--Baretta's Theme James Taylor Quartet--Theme from Starsky & Hutch Roy Ayers--Escape (from "Coffy" soundtrack) Akimbo--Executive Party (from "Rollerball") Lalo Schifrin--Jim On The Move~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 11:35:20 PST >The tune to be repeated at least 16 times is "Caravan." Any to add? I could use at least six more. From my own comp., Caravansari ad Nauseam: Les Paul; Perez Prado; David Carroll; Ferrante & Teicher; Michel Legrand; Lenny Dee; Buddy Merrill.... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Shangri-la Subject: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:25:54 +-200 I really enjoy most of Stanley's 'piano and percussion' combo records. = Cuban Moonlight stands out here. The percussion is crisp and the piano = cheeky. I would however be careful with his big band music and I stay = away from his London Festival Orchestra sessions... CHA CHA CHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:22:08 +-200 i say: are these two different LP's? Exotic Percussion and EXOTICA Percussion. I saw "Exotic Percussion" yesterday, a Phase 4 gatefold cover with some green in it and a small head and shoulder photo of a woman looking at you. i passed on it because i had a feeling this was not the LP jack was talking about - that he was referring to an earlier record. so, what's the deal? is this one record, or two? I have Exotic Percussion and it has the cover you describe. Go back and get it! CHA CHA CHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this 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: Michael D. Toth Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns Update... Date: 08 Mar 1998 17:23:06 -0000 Ross Orr wrote: >I realized with a shock last night that I now have more Three Suns LPs >(14) than I have of ANY other artist. With this last batch, they pulled >into the lead, ahead of Enoch Light and Pere Ubu (is this the sign of a >diseased mind or what?) I'll note MY shock when I stopped, counted, and realized I now own around *50 DIFFERENT* Three Suns 10"/12" LPs and 7" sets. I group all my Grand Award/Command/Project 3 albums under "Enoch Light" (i.e. includes Dick Hyman, Free Design, et al.), and that category is insanely into the triple digits. (My secret shame, especially with them being local kids, is I own NO Pere Ubu and I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to that band.) >And I have to make a small retraction: Even just listening to my destroyed >mono (!) copy again, _Movin'and Groovin'_ is STILL the ultimate Three Suns >album. Every single song just has that extra little fillip of percussion >weirdness that puts it over the top. . . I don't know. I guess I need to listen to M&G more, but _Fever & Smoke_ was the LP that got me to stop and collect the Suns, and it's still by FAR my favorite. It's a crazy thing with my overblown interest in these guys...I'd have to admit I find a LARGE percentage of their stuff totally uninteresting, but I also usually find at least one cool and/or off-the-wall track to my liking on just about every release. I've felt some sense of cultural obligation to develop the definitive Three Suns Web site, with track listings, cover scans, commentary by various fans, a database where fans can rate their favorite albums, etc. Other than that "Jazzpants" Suns site, I don't think this has ever been attempted. (One of the essentials is a means to link up the pre-_Midnight For Two_ RCA 12" albums to their 7"/10" source albums -- in case folks didn't know, most of those LPs were repackagings of sundry albums from the late 40s to early 50s; plus, there's a ton of 7" material that never turned up on LPs.) I'd probably never get around to devoting the time and/or be able to pull it off myself though... UNLESS I had offers from folks to contribute info/ASCII track listings (and liner notes?) from their records and any scans of covers I don't have (and there ARE quite a few). If you feel you'd like to chip in some time to get this monster constructed, please drop me an e-mail. Also, if anyone has any oddball non-USA RCA Three Suns albums with covers/content not on American releases, please contribute; plus I'd need scans of the green-painting alternate cover to _The Sounds of Christmas_ and the colored-shapes-on-white alternate cover to _Love in the Afternoon_; I've got a picture sleeve 7" with four songs from _Midnight For Two_ with a romantic couple and a clock instead of the usual flying broom cover -- has anyone ever seen a 12" of MF2 with this cover?) Also, for anyone who cares, while it hasn't gotten beyond the talking stage, I actually talked some local musician friends into a band idea, "The Sons of the Three Suns," a Three Suns tribute band. (No, I'm not a musician myself, more of a Malcom McClaren type ;-) ) The idea is to perform songs originally done by the Suns like "Twilight Time," "Movin' & Groovin'," and "Beyond the Sun." >|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr <> >|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA I should probably seek professional help, Michael "McClaren" Toth Northeast Ohio USA (spawning grounds of Enoch Light, Henry Mancini, Devo, Pere Ubu, Marilyn Manson, The Raspberries, AND MANY MORE! :-D ) Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:28:06 +-200 I tracked down the Warren Kime Brass Impact LP (Command RS 910 SD). I love it when that happens! six bucks - not bad for SF, less than a movie. Have you got the gatefold with the copper and weird green dot? I love this cover. cha cha charl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Re: Record Sleeves Date: 08 Mar 1998 17:29:35 -0000 "Br. Cleve" wrote: >>When I bought the albums, I asked about buying LP inner sleeves with >>plastic linings (those are what I like to use). The owner said he doesn't >>sell them because HE doesn't like to use them. He says the plastic can do >>strange things to vinyl, so he only uses paper sleeves. > >I have heard this argument before, and some of the evidence is pretty >solid. The best argument I've heard is from older collectors who have had >an LP in a plastic sleeve for, say, around 30 years before they take the >album out again, only to have the LP be stuck inside the plastic and be >damaged upon pulling it out - plastic coating stuck to the LP, etc To add to the argument: I've picked up some London Phase 4 LPs (which apparently often came in the plastic-lined sleeves in their initial release) where this "stuck" thing happened and the record surface was all noisy. Those "wax papery" plastic sleeves (Chrysalis and other labels used them in the 1980s) seem to be ideal. I wonder why you can't get *those* from collector supply places. Or does someone know something archivally evil about these as well? Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: clean@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) RE: Brass Impact Date: 08 Mar 1998 17:29:19 -0600 >Have you got the gatefold with the copper and weird green dot? I love this >cover. beauty. you can see it on my site... http://www.tamboo.com/Selections23.html visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Hollyridge Strings Date: 08 Mar 1998 15:38:18 -0700 >From: Nat Kone > >Can anyone tell me more about Stu Philips? >I know that he did the early Hollyridge Strings records and I saw his name >once on the credits for the Monkeys TV show. Speaking of which, I'd love to find a cheap copy of the Hollyridge Strings' "Beatles Songbook Vol. 2," if someone has an extra. It's one with a violin painted like a Union Jack on the cover. I'm not picky about surface noise. Let me know if you know somewhere I can find this record.... Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Brass Impact #2 Date: 08 Mar 1998 19:10:04 -0800 If you like Warren Kime's three Brass Impact albums on Command (I personally love 'em!), be on the lookout for "Brass Impact #2", which he recorded for Claremont Records many years later! Same inventive arrangements, same wordless vocals, great stuff all around. I can't find a date on my copy, though judging by the width of Mr. K's shirt collar on the back cover photo, it looks like it might've been late '70s or even early '80s. The liner notes say Warren Kime also ran a "music consulting firm" in Chicago and produced albums for Matrix, the New Chicago Rhythm Kings and others. Apparently he also did one called "Warren Kime and his Holiday for 5 Trumpets". Anybody ever see THAT? And, Warren Kime, where are 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: Dlsmay Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 20:20:13 EST One of my favorite "Caravan" covers is a live, in-store guitar trio version featuring Les Paul, Jimmy Bryant and Jody ("Endless Sleep") Reynolds. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Renwick Subject: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 20:55:05 -0500 I'd like to add George Wright's rendition from the Dot album, "The Wright= Touch," to the "Caravan" list. --Mark Jacksonville, Florida tibia@compuserve.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tibia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 19:21:10 +0000 Thank you so much for your ideas! Some of them were so obvious and were already in my library. Others may take a bit of searching, but now I know where to start! I know I have enough to do the show now, but hope to find others that will be better than some of my worst selections. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 08 Mar 1998 19:28:17 -0800 I know I have enough to do the show now, but hope to find >others that will be better than some of my worst selections. >Byron WAIT!!! THERE'S MORE:-) 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: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) Super Sounds Of Bosworth Date: 08 Mar 1998 23:13:55 EST Super Sounds Of Bosworth what little i found on this in previous posts (going way back) were not much help in regard to this being a recommended collection. so, to anyone who has it, please offer a thumbs up or a thumbs down. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) Bert is Evil! Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:29:52 -0800 http://fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm Have fun kids:) 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 09 Mar 1998 01:31:00 -0500 I have this record by someone called - that week anyway - THE KOKEE BAND. It's called "Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" and it's on Solid State. The often great Sonny Lester is listed as producer. Maybe that should be enough but does anyone know anything about this "band". Did they actually exist? Who were they? It's way better than I expected it to be. Great version of "After the fox". The liner notes point out "the crafty usage of an occasional alto saxophone". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Super Sounds Of Bosworth Date: 09 Mar 1998 04:48:36 -0500 BasicHip,BasicHip@aol.com,internet writes: >Super Sounds Of Bosworth . . . > . . . >so, to anyone who has it, please offer a thumbs up or a thumbs down. thumbs Up! And... on vinyl!! Also, De Wulfe re-issue comp. called "bite hard" on BBE records (Barely Breaking Even Records) out of London. Late '60s early '70s TV library music great fidelity and crazy , spacey funky grooves. Everything from Manix like moody chase music to funky bass & guitar to super fuzz guitar rock taken at about the same tempo as Raw Power(Iggy) And... there is also a 45 , equally great. BBE are the same folks who put out the Ravi Harris sitar LP which is great but a little dull on the high end. (As was the 45 of Hot Pants Road). Anyway, blah blah, I like it. regards, 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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "Caravan" covers Date: 09 Mar 1998 05:17:06 Some suggestions--a fuller list can be found at: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/caravan.htm Stanley Black, Exotic Percussion, London Phase 4 SP 44004 Billy Byers, Impressions of Duke Ellington, Mercury/Wing SRW 16397 Ray Conniff, You Make Me Feel So Young, Columbia CL 2116 Irv Cottler, Around The World in Percussion, Somerset P-13900 Martin Denny, Exotica Vol. 3, Liberty LST-7116 Duke Ellington/Max Roach/Charles Mingus, Money Jungle, Blue Note 46398 Ferrante and Teicher, Hi-Fireworks, Columbia CL 573 Marty Gold, Skin Tight, RCA Victor LPM-2230 Bert Kaempfert, Love That Bert Kaempfert, Decca DL 74986 Phil Kraus/Bob Rosengarden, Like Bongos, Time S/2025 Eddie Layton, Caravan, Mercury SR 60098 Robert Lowden, Motion in Percussion, Somerset LP Buddy Merrill, Guitars on Fire, Accent SQBO 91997 The Mighty Accordion Band, They Said It Couldn't Be Done, Capitol T1212 Perez Prado, Our Man in Latin America, RCA Victor LSP-2610 Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Tough!, Prestige 24138 The Sheik's Men, The Belly Dancer, Reprise R-6056 Tak Shindo, Brass and Bamboo, Capitol T-1345 Felix Slatkin, Fantastic Percussion!, Liberty LST 7150 The Three Suns, Movin' 'n' Groovin', RCA Victor Stereo Action LSA-2532 Si Zentner, Si Zenter and His Orchestra Play Desafinado, Liberty LST-7273 Brad spaceagepop@earthlink.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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Norrie Paramor Date: 09 Mar 1998 05:28:08 I wanted to mention this in case any of the label-connected list members may be interested. In the nearly two years that I've had my "Space Age Pop Standards" website up, the one artist I've had the most inquiries about--at least one or two a month, many from overseas--is Norrie Paramor. I'm constantly being asked if his "In London, In Love" and follow-on albums (strings with wordless vocals by Patricia Clark) are available on CD (they're not). It's not my favorite stuff, but I've been impressed by the strength of the interest in these albums (which are usually not too many thrift bins away here in the U.S.). Brad spaceagepop@earthlink.net Visit the Space Age Pop Standards page at: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/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: LTepedino Subject: (exotica) Re: Late Denny Date: 09 Mar 1998 08:25:41 EST In a message dated 98-03-07 10:36:08 EST, rotohut@ic.net writes: << >Forbidden Island was Denny's 3rd album released in 1958...I'm confused by the >copyright date and the partial description you gave of the cover >can you describe the cover in more detail This album is called _The Enchanted Isle_ (not "Forbidden Island"), Liberty LN-10195. The cover has Denny's name in girly script across the top, and has a large photo of an orchid blossom about to hit the surface of a limpid blue pool. The background (front and back) is a gradient going from pastel green at the bottom to white at the top. The back has a small photo of Denny looking 60-ish, so that would be about right for 1982. It's blurbed (somewhat confusingly) by Don Ho! He says Denny ". . .waxes well with his original exoticats. They're all here." The song titles are: Coronation (not the version from _Quiet Village_ / Rain / Happy Island / An Occasional Man / The Enchanted Isle / Sugar Train / Tahitian Sunset / Friendly Island / Adventures in Paradise / South Sea Island Magic Hope this helps. . . Now I know the album you are talking about...I heard this courtesy of Br,. Cleve...yes, the album was a return to the old sound after a real hiatus and it's not an album you see too often. 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: LTepedino Subject: Re: (exotica) Late Denny Date: 09 Mar 1998 08:29:47 EST In a message dated 98-03-07 17:37:11 EST, breithel@lund.mail.telia.com writes: << All the genuine trademarks are there, but this _can't_ be a reissue (or previously unissued tracks or a ghosted session), the clarity of the recording and the production suggest otherwise (to my ears at least). Isn't it possible that Denny was given one last stab at recording by his record company? (The subsequent "Exotica '90" was recorded in Japan without any involvement of Liberty/Capitol as far as I can tell.) By the time "Exotica 90" was recorded, Denny no longer had a recording contract and this was done as a one-off. Regards 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: LTepedino Subject: (exotica) Big apple bullshit Date: 09 Mar 1998 08:52:25 EST Here's a lovely end piece to all of you who followed the debate on the NYC club the 999999's appearing in Time Out magazine. It is a wonderful self- incriminating quote of the our music in the hands of someone whose record collection/knowledge will never ver match her ego: "..."Penelope Tuesdae, describes herself as a 'cabaret minx." She sees the new trend {i.e. cabaret} as a logical extension of loungecore nights, such as the one she hosts at the 999999's every Friday at Flamingo east. The popular night, which spawned a host of imitators {oh really????}, has featured dressed-up dames and kitschy performances since its launch two years ago. But when people started to come for the visual stimuli as much as the music, Tuesdae 'saw the death of lounge was immenent.'" Thus spoketh the queen of east village dress-up! Cabaret the next craze?? Holy shit I thought swing was bad enough...as Br. Cleve has said maybe it's time to wear flannels and turn that baseball cap around and move to Seattle! By the way the article describes her cabaret performance consisting of singing the song "Cabaret." - how original!!!! Anyone who has forgotten what performers who got gonged by Chuck Barris' celebrity guests sound like should definitley catch her show...what very good DJ Steve Spain has to put up with at that place! 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Re: Stanley Black -Reply Date: 09 Mar 1998 09:43:28 -0500 >>> 03/07/98 01:51pm >>> Jack sez: >I think Stanley Black's "Exotica Percussion" is a damn masterpiece i whole-heartedly concur. the rest of you is nuts. - Kini There's some twisted minds out there ;-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!! visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # 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: Will Straw Subject: (exotica) Exotic Percussion Date: 09 Mar 1998 10:02:35 -0500 I, too, think Stanley Black's Exotic Percussion is a wonderful album, and the version of "Babalou" is on the list of tracks I've compiled for the purpose of someday making compilations of my favourites. The album is one of a dozen or so I keep in my office and listen to several times a week. At the moment, I'm listening to the Mantovani album "Manhattan," about the only one of his records I've bothered to buy. But I sort of collect albums with city themes and nocturnes on them, and his version of "Take the 'A' Train," with subway whistles and other effects, is pretty good. I spent last week in Hamilton, Ontario, revisiting thrift stores where, in 1996, I had found a couple of hundred treasures. Finds were a little more scarce this time, but I did get the Henri Rene and Vic Schoen Stereo Action albums, and a big-colour-booklet-with-album-attached called "Honeymoon in Hawaii" by the Hilo Hawaiians. It seems to have been put out by Continental Airlines, and has pages in which you may write your trip itinerary. Will Will Straw Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 09 Mar 1998 07:06:22 PST They did exist. I have an lp by them called called "Exotica 1970". I don't think it gives much in the way of information regarding the band... I'll pull it out tonight. I don't believe there's much information on the WWW about them. I tried a search after I found my lp with only a couple of hits. BW >I have this record by someone called - that week anyway - THE KOKEE BAND. does anyone know anything about this "band". Did they actually >exist? Who were they? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Hawaii! Date: 09 Mar 1998 10:20:14 -0500 Speaking of Hawaii, there is a great version of "Tahiti" on http://www.junkradio.com . You will need shockwave to 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: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:18:22 +0000 another version of caravan (which i posted last time round), also in response to the recent request for more contemporary sounds, is jimi tenor's version on his wicked album "intervision" on warp records ... seriously nasty keyboard sound and 'pseudo-primitive' percussion solo that always makes me smile ... there's a real audio version on the warp site - click on jimi tenor's album at: http://www.warp-net.com/warp/ography d. ---+ dan hill mailto:dan@state51.co.uk 91 brick lane, london e1 6qn ---+ motion: http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/ +--- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Mancini, etc.... Date: 09 Mar 1998 10:20:49 -0500 Speaking of Mancini soundtracks, I just found "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and began thinking, "You know, there's probably a lot of cool films out there that combine the music I like so much with the visual dress/cars/style of bygone eras....... Soooooo, what are some films that I absolutely must see that capture all of this ambiance??? Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably one to see......what are some more?......... Thanks - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) The Egyptian -Reply Date: 09 Mar 1998 10:27:25 -0500 Hugh: Yes! The drive-in theater has tried to stay competitive, setting up stereo sound through FM radio broadcasts. If you've got a decent car system, the sound can be very good! But of course, we sticklers for the "drive-in of yesteryear" refuse the FM OR AM channel selector in favor of those beloved window-speakers (which by the way were experimented with heavily in the late 50's) you had anything from a box with three speakers in it that hung from your rear-view mirror to a pair of speakers mounted on either side on the passenger/driver's side. As far as how these towers stay put. They are constructed (The better ones anyway) with a criss-cross steel infrastructure that'll withstand just about anything. You haven't seen a screen tower until you've witnessed (although you can't know, it no longer exists - and I forget the name!!) the one in Michigan that had a waterfall cascading down the entire length of the back of the screen with colored lights shining up through it!!!!!! Nathan (somewhat of a drive-in expert) Miner # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Record Sleeves Date: 09 Mar 1998 10:48:01 -0500 (EST) According to the Council On Library & Info Resources, a group of professionally anal archivists, it is preferable to use *soft polyethylene* inner sleeves. Avoid the PVC inner sleeves - those are the ones that degrade over time. For more info on storing 78s/tapes/LPs/CDs, see this site: The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials Here some of the recommendations for discs: Grooved discs: -Do not use paper or cardboard inner sleeves and do not store records without inner sleeves. -Use soft polyethylene inner sleeves. Do not use record sleeves made of PVC. -Remove grooved discs from the jacket (with the inner sleeve) by bowing the jacket open by holding it against the body and applying a slight pressure with a hand. Pull the disc out by holding a corner of the inner sleeve. Avoid pressing down onto the disc with the fingers as any dust caught between the sleeve and the disc will be pressed into the grooves. -Remove grooved discs from the inner sleeve by bowing the inner sleeve and letting it slip gradually into an open hand so that the edge falls on the inside of the thumb knuckle. The middle finger should reach for the centre label. Never reach into the sleeve. -To hold a disc, place the thumb on the edge of the disc, and the rest of the fingers of the same hand on the centre label for balance. Use both hands on the edge to place disc on turntable. -Grooved discs are best cleaned using a record cleaning machine such as the Keith Monks, VPI, Nitty Gritty using 0.25 part of Tergitol 15-S-3 and 0.25 parts of Tergitol 15-S-9 per 100 parts of distilled water. These machines allow for an even dispersion of fluid and can then vacuum the liquid leaving a clean, dry surface. The discs must then be rinsed thoroughly with distilled water and vacuumed dry to eliminate any trace of detergent residue. Records should be cleaned before each playback. -Remove shrink-wrap on LPs completely. Shrink-wrap can continue to shrink, thus warping the disc. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Black -Reply Date: 09 Mar 1998 11:13:40 -0500 Well, I think there's only one "Exotic Percussion" with Stanley Black - but hell, there's probably a TON of records that say "Exotic Percussion" on them. You're a wise man passing up that Phase 4 album (yes, green with a tiny picture of a gal on the front) as it is MEDIOCRE I repeat MEDIOCRE......... Matter of fact, for the most part "blah blah Percussion" albums of any sort are dull and routine (there ARE a few exceptions). Okay everybody, send those hate letters telling me how much you LOVE those percussion LP's!!!!!.......... :-) - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Re: "Caravan" covers Date: 09 Mar 1998 12:03:27 -0000 Brad Bigelow wrote: >Some suggestions--a fuller list can be found at: > >http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/caravan.htm And an essential one at that! I'm doing a DJ gig tonight, and before I'd had a chance to read/respond to this thread I was planning on a Caravanathon segment of my own and had consulted this list a few days ago. I found on his list several versions I'd forgotten I owned! Also, to find versions of this song that are in print on CD, try punching in "Caravan" as a song title on one of those MUZE in-store kiosks or probably even in CD NOW's online database. (I didn't try it, but it should probably work quite nicely) A few questions/additions/corrections to Brad's amazing page that I was going to send him and might as well send to everybody since the thread is hot: >Perez Prado, Our Man in Latin America, RCA Victor LSP-2610 Really? It's not on MY copy. Were there different versions of this LP? Also, I think _Persuasive Percussion_ was listed on the Web site with the catalog number for _Persuasive 1966_. (I'm pretty sure it's not on _Persuasive Percussion_) Additions to the list (and all recommended): LPs: Vincent Bell, The Soundtronic Guitar of..., Independent LLP 8012 (dif. from Musicor version) Vinnie Bell, Big Sixteen Guitar Favorites, Musicor MS3047 Vincent Bell, The Best of..., Musicor MS3192 (reissue of MS3047) Enoch Light, Future Sound Shock, Project 3 PR5077SD Hugo Montenegro, Ellington Fantasy, Vik LX-1106 Les Paul, Les Paul NOW!, London Phase 4 SP44101 CDs: Bill Haley & His Comets, Mr. Rock & Roll, Charly CDCD 1080 (Euro comp CD; probably on a US LP) Ventures, Live In Japan '65, EMI 7243 8 32820 2 9 (9min 44sec version!) Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Jonathan's Tape: santo & johnny Date: 08 Mar 1998 20:27:07 +0100 jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) posted a track list of a tape, containg, amongst others: >slave girl - santo & johnny >* more steel guitar magic, from their self-titled first LP i know this track, but it is the only by santo & johnny that i know. can anyone recommend a cd by them? the only one i came accross is "The original recordings" (Black Tulip 2636424), but that one doesn't contain any of the 3 tracks mentiuoned by Jonathan... thanx! Johan quiet@village.uunet.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: VHS format in Hong Kong Date: 08 Mar 1998 20:28:29 +0100 >From: NATHAN MINER >Anyway, can anybody tell me if Hong Kong uses the same VHS format >(NTSC) as we do???? yes. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Monty Kelly Date: 09 Mar 1998 11:48:48 PST Long time not post from me... But here's something that warrants rearing my ugly head once again. Monty Kelly "Summer Set" on the Carlton label (same folks who brought you Dante and Orchestra's "Serenade for Sex Kittens" oft featured in certain publications by Mr. Peek. Anyway, this record is a winner. I have no idea how difficult it is to find, but if you do, pick it up. It ranges from easy rock-flavored numbers to Bob Thompson or Esquivel-like arrangements. A very varied and delightful mix of easy fun. Clark (the west coast variety) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Cassette Tapes Date: 09 Mar 1998 20:07:17 UT I know most people here deal with Vinyl and the occasional CD, but I also know that we all enjoy the good mix tape every once in a while. I used to tape on all 90s and 100s, but have recently seen the influx of 110 minute tapes. Thinking back to when I was a boy, I remember being warned against 120 minute tapes as they were thinner than 90s and were more susceptible to breaking. So, for some reason I'm suspicious of these 110 minute beasts and was wondering if anyone had any success or failures with them. Anyone know the skinny on tapes or can anyone point to an appropriate web site? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) vocal caravan Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:10:08 -0500 (EST) I believe a vocal rendition of Caravan (by the Useless Playboys) showed up on the Livin' Lounge collection a couple years ago. I've seen but not heard this CD -- anyone want to recommend for/against it?? --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: "Michael Greenberg" Subject: (exotica) what's nrbq doing in this Bacharach article??? Date: 06 Mar 1998 17:35:08 -0500 Fresh new Burt Bacharach interview here: http://www.mcall.com/html/news/am_mag/2594.htm m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ Okay - so I go to the above link, start reading and find text from an article about (my beloved) NRBQ in the midst of it!!! Anyone know what happened here? It's kind of neat - I'm a huge fan of Bacharach and NRBQ, and know the band loves his work - they've even covered a couple of his songs in concert and Tommy Ardolino had a hand in some Japanese cd compilation (I think of covers of Burt's songs) awhile back. What a weird thing! 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: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 07 Mar 1998 07:36:27 -0800 -----Original Message----- exotica@xmission.com ><< Listened to Phase 4's "Exoctic Percussion" with Stanley Black last night. > BIG disappointment! >> >What are some good Stanley Black albums to look for? Can anyone recommend >some for the next time I'm at the swap meet??? Well there's just no accounting for taste! Black's EXOTIC PERCUSSION happens to be my favorite "exotica" album. One listen to "Temptation" and I'm being hurled into a volcano by an Amazon love goddess. And "Babalu" just might be the definition of kitsch one reader was looking for! Does anyone know why my messages have been taking about a week to post? C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) FWD: epulse 4.10 [fishing] Date: 09 Mar 1998 09:54:28 -0500 (EST) Here's an excerpt from the latest ePulse - for those who are wondering what's next after Incredibly Strange Music. --Lou >--- CONTENTS / March 6, 1998 >>>> Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous >weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine >^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ >6. swing's the thing: > The latest book from San Francisco-based V. Vale's V/Search >Publications doesn't focus on tattoos, modern primitives or freaks. >Instead, 'SWING! THE NEW RETRO RENAISSANCE' (V/Search/224 pgs., out in May) >focuses on the partner-dancing, '40s retro-lifestyle craze that's spreading >eastward from California. It's much more than just a recreational hobby; >the musicians, dancers and chanteuses interviewed in SWING! strive for an >authentic retro lifestyle -- from the cars they drive to the shoes, ties >and even underwear they wear. The book is divided into segments of q&a >interviews with bands and musicians, dancers, pioneers and publishers. A >few of the musicians reveal the best thrift shops and where to find the >best spats, zoot suits and stockings with seams. There are guides to San >Francisco's best swing clubs, swing in movies, plus an "A to Z" guide to >bands and pioneers of the scene. Musicians profiled include Lavay Smith, >the Rhumba Bums, the legendary Sam Butera and Mr. Lucky. The interviews, >like most of Vales, go with the flow of the speaker, are detailed and very >personal. > This book is probably of interest to those already in the scene or >people in the Bay area curious about it. It's in-depth approach will either >fascinate readers (like this editor, who's too much of a sloppy dresser to >ever consider the scene) or overwhelm those marginally interested with too >much information. >'Swing!' has got to be the most positive topic V/Search has ever tackled >and it's a pleasure to read. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) Re: Gentle people's album Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:25:30 -0500 Jack mentioned the Gentle people - soundtracks for living. I was put off at first by the pastel colored, kitschy packaging, but enjoyed it very much when I heard it. I think it's a pretty nice release. I particularly enjoy the Legrand style 'floating' string sound. It's very atmospheric and warm and has a very pleasant aura about it. I also think it uses samples more subtly and effectively than Dimitri from Paris's Sacrebleu (enjoyable as that album is - nb. shame they replaced the mystery track at the end on the US version). Regards Jonny _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 09 Mar 1998 14:44:29 -0800 RATSO, YOU RUUUUUUUUULE! Stanley Black's EXOTIC PERCUSSION rocked this guys world SO MUCH that he couldn't wait for me to hear it even though I already had it and promptly sent me a DAT of it. So true so true Ratso, there is NO accounting for taste @:-0 STANLEY BLACK'S EXOTIC PERCUSSION IS AN EXOTICA MONSTER!!! Jack >-----Original Message----- >From: Micheleflp >To: NMINER@gwgate1.jhmi.jhu.edu ; >><< Listened to Phase 4's "Exoctic Percussion" with Stanley Black last >night. >> BIG disappointment! >> > > >>What are some good Stanley Black albums to look for? Can anyone recommend >>some for the next time I'm at the swap meet??? > >Well there's just no accounting for taste! Black's EXOTIC PERCUSSION >happens to be my favorite "exotica" album. One listen to "Temptation" and >I'm being hurled into a volcano by an Amazon love goddess. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beachbum Berry Date: 09 Mar 1998 18:23:15 -0500 (EST) Here's an item solicited to comic book stores (look for it in 2 months or so): Beachbum Berry's Grog Log by Jeff Berry (Slave Labor publishing) With the Cocktail Nation still reigning supreme, tropical drinks are bigger than ever. The irony is, they've never tasted worse. Tiki bar mixology is a lost art - but Beachbum Berry's Grog Log rescues it. A 20 page introduction traces the history of Polynesian Pop Culture from the 30's through the 70's, then teaches you everything you need to know about how to make the Log's 80 tropical drink recipes. Gathered over the course of seven years' research, many of these recipes have never before been published anywhere - including vintage, "lost" recipes by Don The Beachcomber, Trader Vic, and long-gone Polynesian restaurants from the island of Manhattan to the islands of Hawaii. Profusely illustrated with vintage tiki menu graphics from the 50's and 60's, with cover art by famed Exotica artist Bosko. Black&White, 96pg. $9.95 --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: Pearmania Subject: (exotica) Mr. Ghost Goes to Town Date: 09 Mar 1998 19:32:55 EST "Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" was written by Will Hudson, Mitchell Parish, and Irving Mills. The earliest recording of it that I'm aware of is by the Hudson-De Lange Orchestra from 1936 (one of the great black Harlem swing bands). It is included on Legacy's Swing Time 3-cd box set outlining the history of big band swing. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania Subject: (exotica) Stanley Black Date: 09 Mar 1998 19:39:49 EST My favorite Stanley Black album is "Spain" on Phase 4. I have several others, but this one is very different. Black's version of Malaguena is one of the more memorable that I have heard. Great gatefold, too, featuring the IM2CR (Individually Monitored 20-Channel Recording) design! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 09 Mar 1998 20:57:26 -0500 I can't remember which of you it was that mentioned your spaceagepop site but I loved it. Exactly the kind of thing I knew - maybe "feared" would be a better word - would be on the net but hadn't found yet. I'm not sure you did me a favour by encouraging me to finally set out on my all-Third-man-theme tape but thanks for the help anyway. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) FWD: epulse 4.10 [fishing] Date: 09 Mar 1998 19:01:39 +0000 At 09:54 AM 3/9/98 -0500, Lou Smith wrote: >Here's an excerpt from the latest ePulse - for those who are wondering >what's next after Incredibly Strange Music. >> The latest book from San Francisco-based V. Vale's V/Search >>Publications 'SWING! THE NEW RETRO RENAISSANCE' focuses on the partner->>dancing, '40s retro-lifestyle craze that's spreading... Actually, its "what goes around comes around." One of the leading performers of this music finds that his favorite music to listen to right now is Capitol's Ultra Lounge series! So, really, this both expands the concepts of exotica and strange music and brings new people into it as well. Check out Lee Press-on and the Nails website: http://www.zweb.com/lpn They recently won a "Bammie" (Bay Area Music) award. I dig 'em. They have several nice .WAV files from their CD online and some great photos, columns, et cetera. Their website is almost as fun as one of their shows. SOMEDAY they promise they will come to Portland, but for now I have to go to the Bay Area, Hollywood or Las Vegas to see and hear them (venues for their shows in March). Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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@greennet.net (Craig Carlson) Subject: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:12:29 -0800 Hugh asked: >Regarding indoor vs outdoor cinema, conventional cinemas >now have Dolby stereo soundtracks almost as standard. Have drive-ins >managed to keep up with that at all? Yes. If you leave your car window rolled up, you can take the sound system home with you. Craig PS: Sadly, there are no drive-ins (that I know of) left here in New England. There were two two in my immediate area (The Middleton Drive-In and the Rowley Drive-In) less than 10 years ago, but they have been malled and office-parked, respectively. The Rowley Drive-In made a valiant attempt to survive with monster/sci-fi/beach double features, but did not make it. The last drive-in I was at, we saw "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad". Five of us in a '54 VW. Yow! ccarlson@greennet.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 john sloane Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 10 Mar 1998 01:32:23 -0600 (CST) FYI: I know (Prince) isn't exotica, but a song on his "new" album _Crystal Ball_ uses the first phrase of "Caravan"'s melody line as a keyboard riff. The track is "Days of Wild," an outtake from _The Gold Experience_. In case you cared (probably didn't), Rob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Beachbum Berry Date: 10 Mar 1998 02:43:15 EST In a message dated 98-03-09 18:25:35 EST, lousmith@pipeline.com writes: << Here's an item solicited to comic book stores (look for it in 2 months or so): Beachbum Berry's Grog Log by Jeff Berry (Slave Labor publishing) >> If Otto of Tiki News hasn't already posted about this, this Grog Log is available thru Tiki News for $10 and is really excellent telling you what brands of the different kinds of rums and mixers to buy. I swear by it. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Francisco Date: 10 Mar 1998 02:51:09 -0500 (EST) Where: Radio Valencia, Valencia at 23rd When: Every Saturday night from 7:30 - 11:30 How Much: free (tables reserved for diners, bar seating avialable) Legendary jazz cafe Radio Valencia has added live djing on Saturdays. Four djs will be on the rotating schedule. Exotica and Lounge music merge with soundtracks, TV themes, and other seldom heard popular music when the Tiki News team of Otto von Stroheim and DJ The Now Sound bring their mix to Radio Valencia. The Tiki News crew garnered a Best of the Bay award for their shows last year. This year they have djed Bimbo's and are scheduled for spring gigs at Urban Outfitters. From the eclectic source of alternate music - Aquarius Records - comes Byram Abbott with a blend of everything from Contemporary Pop to Early Americana DJ The Now Sound appears Saturday, March 7 & 28 Otto plays Saturday, March 14 Special guests on Saturday, March 21 & 28 Byram spins Saturday, April 4 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) SF shows Date: 10 Mar 1998 02:51:30 -0500 (EST) Jumbo Shrimp start off the evening for the ever exciting Legendary Stardust Cowboy Friday, March 20 Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco _____________ Frenchy for Free Friday, March 20 Virgin Megastore at 2 Stockton @ Market 5 - 5:45 and Rocket Records Sunday, March 15 6 - 7 pm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Shangri-la Subject: RE: (exotica) vocal caravan Date: 10 Mar 1998 15:40:56 +-200 I believe a vocal rendition of Caravan (by the Useless Playboys) showed up on the Livin' Lounge collection a couple years ago. --Lou The best vocal one I've heard was The Duke himself with Ella Fitzgerald. Boy it takes off when the swing kicks in! CHACHACHARL # Need help using (or leaving) this 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: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al Date: 10 Mar 1998 09:25:52 -0500 I've seen those drive-in speakers for sale at a flea market that is held each week on the grounds of an old drive-in in the Poconos, PA. Go figure. All the drive-ins in New Jersey are gone too, the last was the Turnpike Drive-In, so named because RT35 was once a turnpike. It closed about 5 years ago. The rest have since become strip malls, or megaplex theatres. The only surviving drive-in I know about anywhere on the east coast is in/near Matamoras, PA. It is called the Starlight Drive-In, and they use the FM radio broadcast sound system, so I hear. BTW, the Starlight's design is the Definition of 1950's Kitch... Charlieman >Yes. If you leave your car window rolled up, you can take the sound system >with you. >PS: Sadly, there are no drive-ins (that I know of) left here in New England. > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: The Egyptian, et al Date: 10 Mar 1998 10:30:57 -0500 (EST) On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Rajnai, Charles, NNAD wrote: > > All the drive-ins in New Jersey are gone too, the last was the Turnpike > Drive-In, so named because RT35 was once a turnpike. It closed about 5 > years ago. The rest have since become strip malls, or megaplex > theatres. The only surviving drive-in I know about anywhere on the east > coast is in/near Matamoras, PA. It is called the Starlight Drive-In, > and they use the FM radio broadcast sound system, so I hear. There are still a number of drive-ins in the east, including Shankweiler's, the nation's oldest (and the second one ever built) in Oreville, PA, just outside Allentown. I operate a e-mailing list devoted to drive-in theatres, populated with fans and theatre owners. Interested parties should e-mail me for info. Brett http://www.brettnews.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Lyrics?... Date: 10 Mar 1998 11:09:11 -0500 (EST) >From: NATHAN MINER >Date: 06 Mar 1998 11:24:33 -0500 >Okay, while I don't really like lyrics in my record collection, I DO enjoy >having the lyrics to songs so that I can chirp along with my favorite >renditions....... >So - can anyone recommend a good "lyric search" site on the net? I know of 2 lyric archive servers (though there are probably many out there): If you find any better lyric servers, let us know! --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: NATHAN MINER Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: The Egyptian, et al -Reply Date: 10 Mar 1998 11:16:45 -0500 Charlie: No, no, no....there are a few more drive-ins here on the East Coast. Bengies and the Bel-Air right here in Maryland, and also one in Delaware (this may have closed recently - the owner wasn't exactly "business savvy")..... Don't believe all the "gloom and doom" about the ozoners....just do a search on the Internet and you'll find quite a few with web pages even!!! - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "allanc" Subject: Re: (exotica) schulmadchen und cinecitta Date: 10 Mar 1998 11:52:31 -0500 Jack wrote... > For Me, > All the Easy Tempo Volumes RULE and Beat at Cinecitta VOL 1 is equally > tremendous. Vol 2 is the 1 I have heard to stay away from, though I have > not heard it "Beat at Cinecitta" Vol 2 sounds good to my ears, especially the vocal numbers. "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" displays a charming use of English (I swear that one of the lines is "Squish me tight"!), & "Bada Caterina" which is very "hippy-hippy-shake-a-go-go". Allan. P.S. I would recommend "Schulmadchen Report" as it is psychsploitation of the highest order. Although I like both Gert Wilden releases on Crippled Dick Records, Schulmadchen is quite different from "I Told You Not to Cry". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Stanley Black -Reply Date: 10 Mar 1998 13:03:09 -0500 Okay! Seems to be a lot of talk about Mr. Black. He has also released a few "dinner" records, and I think what sets him apart from the 100's of other piano plinkers who put out dinner recordings is his backing band. The orchestrations really compliment his piano playing and keep the entire program from getting too monotonous. The Night was Made for Love - Couple embracing on the deck of a ship, guy's wearing a cheesy plaid jacket.... Music for Romance - cover has a close-up shot of couple kissing with wild "circle within a circle within a circle" graphics sprialing straight from the lovers' locked lips..... Moonlight Cocktails - shot of a martini glass with the moon as the prerequisite olive. All three of these are "moody background" type of music, enjoyable but nothing toooo outstanding. Music of Lecuona - A couple embracing on an all-too-obvious mock-up of the deck of a ship floating past paper machie coastline. While this has a "Latin" flavor, it's "lush/strings" execution isn't quite as fun as the next two. Still, it's pretty damn enjoyable. Tropical Moonlight and Cuban Moonlight (Do we see a favorite theme here??) - Forget the covers, one's got a gal behind a clothes screen poking her leg out seductively (?) surrounded by maracas, etc. Both of these albums are very enjoyable, with great Latin back-up for Stanley's piano...... The "Love" records are packaged in an impressive heavy sleeve with full-color graphics and a thin layer of plastic over the front - brought to you by "ffs London" (think that's right.....) He's got one horrible record out, I think it's got something to do with Spain. It's got dumb cartoon-like graphics of a London lamppost on the front - that's all I can remember........ - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Caravania Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:04:15 +0000 Jack <> quoted and wrote: >>I know I have enough to do the show now, but hope to find >>others that will be better than some of my worst selections. >>Byron >WAIT!!! THERE'S MORE:-) >Jack Oh no! Jack's going to post a list of 458 versions of Caravan! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:04:15 +0000 BasicHip wrote: >enoch light has a mysterious, sitar version on the Exotic Trilogy >(vol 2) disc. i can't figure our which LP it came from, but i think >the title has the word "Future" in it. That'll be Future Sound Shock then - not heard it myself but I gather apart from this track it's pretty average. I think my favourite version so far has to be the Three Suns. And don't forget Jimi Tenor's distorted grungey electronic version amongst many thousand others! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:04:15 +0000 Michael Toth quoted and wrote: >>And I have to make a small retraction: Even just listening to my >>destroyed mono (!) copy again, _Movin'and Groovin'_ is STILL the >>ultimate Three Suns album. Every single song just has that extra >>little fillip of percussion weirdness that puts it over the top... >I don't know. I guess I need to listen to M&G more, but _Fever & >Smoke_ was the LP that got me to stop and collect the Suns, and it's >still by FAR my favorite. Of the LPs I've heard F&S is my favourite too but I always think 'Fun in the Sun' tends to get ignored in these discussions. I've only heard it once but I thought that was a killer too. >I've felt some sense of cultural obligation to develop the >definitive Three Suns Web site, with track listings, cover scans, >commentary by various fans, a database where fans can rate their >favorite albums, etc. Other than that "Jazzpants" Suns site, I don't >think this has ever been attempted. I seem to remember asking myself the same question re: Enoch Light about three years back - go Michael go! >I'd probably never get around to devoting the time and/or be able to >pull it off myself though... UNLESS I had offers from folks to >contribute info/ASCII track listings (and liner notes?) from their >records and any scans of covers I don't have (and there ARE quite a >few). If you feel you'd like to chip in some time to get this >monster constructed, please drop me an e-mail. Happy to do what I can with my limited collection. >Also, if anyone has any oddball non-USA RCA Three Suns albums with >covers/content not on American releases, please contribute; I've got an Italian compilation LP ('Gli Anni D'Oro Della Musica Americana: Celebri Complessi Vol 1' ) which has 6 Suns tracks culled from wartime(?) 'V-Disc' 78s plus tracks from Spike Jones, Les Paul Trio and others... more info if needed. >Also, for anyone who cares, while it hasn't gotten beyond the >talking stage, I actually talked some local musician friends into a >band idea, "The Sons of the Three Suns," a Three Suns tribute band. Ooh yeh! >I should probably seek professional help, Too late! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 20% Off Sale Date: 10 Mar 1998 10:07:27 -0800 I'm having a 20% off sale on about 25 rekkids right now. All great one's If you're not on my e-mail mailing list and *only want in* on that, that's cool:) Drop me a line and lemmie know you want in Thanks! 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: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Banana Splits Date: 10 Mar 1998 10:14:32 +0000 As a result of my recent "Danger Island" post, I had promised to tape a few episodes of the Banana Splits for someone on the list. Now I can't remember who that person is and have deleted the messages. If that person is you, please contact me. Apologies for the inconvenience to everyone else. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) Santo & Johnny Date: 10 Mar 1998 13:31:38 -0500 I have recently become an S&J obsessive and have gathered the following: - the song 'slave girl' was actually recycled just three albums later as the song 'Cairo' on the LP 'Around the world'. Same recording exactly, just with a different name. - The only CDs on the market seem to be the Black Tulip release mentioned by Johan (apparently there are some questions about the sound quality on this one; I haven't heard it) and 'the best of santo and johnny', a 1997 Canadian release. I have the latter of these. It has a 20 or 25 tracks, including most of the tracks from the coveted first album (but not 'slave girl'), some of which are in stereo. However, the liner notes are sparse and the other tracks are not sourced, so it is hard to tell where they are from. I gather that they are from the second album 'Encore', and from various 45s. Overall it's pretty great, but when you listen to some of these alongside someone like Roy Smeck, there is a clear difference in quality. On some of the tracks from 45s, the playing is too out of tune for my ears. I assume there is some legal problem with reissuing the CDs, as the vinyl prices are sky high, yet only these two under-distributed titles seem to exist. - The album I actually like best is Offshore (CALP 11). This is a sea-themed album produced by Mort Garson. It is a seriously beautiful record, with great sound effects, haunting choruses (in one song this reminds me of Esquivel's 'harlem nocturne') and great renditions of familiar tunes. Someone should reissue it. - I have the first five LPs (except 'come on in); can anyone recommend anything they did after that? I know they did an album of beatles covers, but am not sure what happened after that. - I also gather that Johnny Farina released some records on his own. Anyone know about that? Any further info would be appreciated by me. Sorry to drone on. regards Jonny _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: Re: (exotica) Beachbum Berry Date: 10 Mar 1998 13:57:49 EST In a message dated 98-03-10 02:45:21 EST, Michele writes: << If Otto of Tiki News hasn't already posted about this, this Grog Log is available thru Tiki News for $10 and is really excellent telling you what brands of the different kinds of rums and mixers to buy. I swear by it. - Michele >> And I "slur" by it ! ! ! Robert (aka - Tiki Bob in certain circles) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Q Subject: (exotica) Re: Mancini, etc.... Date: 10 Mar 1998 15:01:02 -0000 >Soooooo, what are some films that I absolutely must see that capture all >of this ambiance??? Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably one to >see......what are some more?......... I can't offer much on this subject, I'm interested in hearing other answers. But here's one thing I can offer: check out the TV show "The Avengers" - it has a lot of style, one of my favorites. Q Quentin Matheson Multimedia Developer Renaissance Interactive Studios Inc. ___________________________________ q@ri-studios.com www.ri-studios.com tel. (506) 458-8254 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns Date: 10 Mar 1998 19:13:21 UT I hesitate to ask, but has any Three Suns material been released other than on various artist compilations? Are there any Three Suns comps or re-releases? The only album I have is _Warm and Tender_ which I bought not knowing anything about them. It's not that great as they've compromised their threesome by adding "romantic strings" which means, well, schlock. In fact, most of it is strings and you can hardly hear the Three Suns at all. :( I've since heard their good stuff (Space Age Pop Vol 1) and it's fan-friggin'-tastic. Anyway, I'd say stay away from _Warm and Tender_ (and it's sister album with strings), except for what is definitely one of the most bizarre songs in recorded music history: Fly, Butterfly, which has Flight of the Bumblebee-type strings zipping wildly over a staggeringly slow rendition of the song by the Suns. Not _fun_ to listen to even, really, just very very unsettling. So, it may be worth a quarter (that's what I paid) but I don't think it's worth much more. Any other takes on this album? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beachbum Berry Date: 10 Mar 1998 20:30:16 +0100 (MET) > >In a message dated 98-03-10 02:45:21 EST, Michele writes: > ><< If Otto of Tiki News hasn't already posted about this, this Grog Log is > available thru Tiki News for $10 and is really excellent telling you what > brands of the different kinds of rums and mixers to buy. I swear by it. The first post was refering to volume 2! Out soon! Dont miss! By the way...Stanley Black's "Exotic Percussion" is one of the best!!! S # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Yikes!!! Date: 10 Mar 1998 14:36:04 -0500 Okay, okay, tonight I'm going to listen to Exotic Percussion again - Man I must've been listening to ANOTHER Exotic Percussion.....go figure :).... Geeez...... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Avengers Date: 10 Mar 1998 20:11:15 +0000 Quentin wrote: >I can't offer much on this subject, I'm interested in hearing other >answers. But here's one thing I can offer: check out the TV show "The >Avengers" - it has a lot of style, one of my favorites. Yes, yes,yes! Particularly the middle period, when Steed was accompanied by Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). Mmmmm! Very stylish indeed. 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... Date: 10 Mar 1998 14:46:52 -0500 An unusually high volume of finds this past weekend..... Somebody unloaded their Bond soundtrack collection, I'm not a big fan of these soundtracks since most of the tracks sound like, well - soundtrack music!!!! Some of the title songs are cool though. Thunderball Moonraker (blech) Man w/Golden Gun Spy Who Loved Me From Russia w/Love I'd probably pass on these usually but for .33 each what the hell..... At another thrift I found: Breakfast at Tiffany's Hawaii Five-O Soundtrack Stanley Black "Exotic Percussion" Webley Edwards presents "Island Paradise" - yet another entry into the "Hey Hawaii is way cool and we own it now!" series complete with a color booklet inside. There's some weird stuff on here, including the sounds of riding an outrigger through the ocean! There's also a Lyman track thrown on...... Lyman's "Legend of Pele" (Great Cover!!!) and "Many Moods of....." Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA" (in great shape) This bunch for .50 each. Man I love uncovering the Lyman stuff - don't see that a lot around here! - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Bond in the USA. Date: 10 Mar 1998 16:05:38 -0500 >Somebody unloaded their Bond soundtrack collection, I'm not a big fan of >these soundtracks since most of the tracks sound like, well - soundtrack >music!!!! Some of the title songs are cool though. The Bond soundtrack to find, when you're finding more than one is "On her Majesty's Secret Service". The music was so good that it tided me over for the 11 or so years before I saw the movie! I would skip the "Nina"(Nina who, by the way?) track after having heard it a couple of times, but you are talking to someone who heard it a LOT! Incidentally, about Stanley Black, I haven't heard you-know-what, but to those who have heard the Goon Show (Hello, Hugh!), a wonderfully surreal radio show of the fifties, Black was the first bandleader for the show and then Wally Stott took over after the second season Instrumentally elsewhere on the show, the Harmonica playing of Max Geldray is wonderful as well. Yes, it's the Stargazers (Goon Show Ref), Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Wonderful technology......... Date: 10 Mar 1998 16:25:54 -0500 <> Okay, whoever this is, what's the problem with your address???? I keep gettin' this friggin' message everytime I send something to the beloved exoticats out there.......anybody else???? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: (exotica) On Her Majesty's Secret Service Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:27:18 EST In a message dated 98-03-10 16:00:09 EST: << The Bond soundtrack to find, when you're finding more than one is "On her Majesty's Secret Service". The music was so good that it tided me over for the 11 or so years before I saw the movie! I would skip the "Nina"(Nina who, by the way?) track after having heard it a couple of times, but you are talking to someone who heard it a LOT! >> I recently ordered the CD for OHMSS from Music Boulevard and was very please that I did. Most of the album is instrumental and the composition is excellent. Spy Jazz but not campy. On a side note, I always thought OHMSS was one of the better written, orchestrated and (yes) acted James Bond movies. Lots of folks don't like George Lazenby as JB but he is probably much more like the JB that Ian Fleming created in the novels. Now a days we don't think twice when they change Batman actors but in 1967 when they replaced Connery this was big stuff. I always thought Lazenby did an excellent job stepping into such a difficult (and unpopular) position. Finally, I also like that movie because Bond showed a compassionate side (as Fleming would have had him) by falling in love with Tracy. Anyway, sorry to digress but I always feel compelled to stand up for poor George and the film many Bond fans treat like a bastard child. Regards, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) schulmadchen und cinecitta Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:18:11 -0800 -----Original Message----- Cc: exotica@xmission.com >Jack wrote... >> For Me, >> All the Easy Tempo Volumes RULE and Beat at Cinecitta VOL 1 is equally >> tremendous. Vol 2 is the 1 I have heard to stay away from, though I have >> not heard it Also look for STROBOSCOPIA, subtitled, "Italian 70s psychedelic b-movies soundtracks and sonorizations." Import CD from Plastic Records. Groovie like Easy Tempo comps but I'm having a helluva time figuring out the titles of the films from the liners! C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod Subject: Re: TFS Delivery Failure: Re: (exotica) Beachbum Berry Date: 10 Mar 1998 18:31:48 EST << From: elizabethb@ibo.nyc.ny.us To: Rcbrooksod@aol.com (Rcbrooksod) CC: elizabethb@ibo.nyc.ny.us Your message to the following recipients was undeliverable: clarkd@ibo.nyc.ny.us >> I have no idea what in the hell is going on with the above. Who is elizabethb@ibo and why is she carbon copying me?????? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Three Suns Date: 10 Mar 1998 16:45:07 -0700 (MST) > I hesitate to ask, but has any Three Suns material been released other > than on various artist compilations? Are there any Three Suns comps or > re-releases? Yeah -- there are at least two compilations of their stuff on Circle in the US (I have "The Three Suns: Second Volume 1949-1953", Circle CCD-145, but I got it used and don't know where to go to buy another). Collectors Choice Music (www.ccmusic.com) also used to have at least one or two RCA reissues from Germany. -- ::: 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) Wonderful technology......... Date: 10 Mar 1998 16:48:27 -0700 (MST) > < clarkd@ibo.nyc.ny.us>> > > Okay, whoever this is, what's the problem with your address???? I keep > gettin' this friggin' message everytime I send something to the beloved > exoticats out there.......anybody else???? Usually I get all the undeliverable bounces, since I'm the list admin, but every now and then some system somewhere is misconfigured enough to send them to people who post to the list. When this happens just let me know and I'll take care of 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: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: Re: (exotica) On Her Majesty's Secret Service Date: 10 Mar 1998 16:55:44 -0800 > >On a side note, I always thought OHMSS was one of the better written, >orchestrated and (yes) acted James Bond movies. Lots of folks don't like >George Lazenby as JB but he is probably much more like the JB that Ian >Fleming >created in the novels. Yeah, I agree... it's impossible not to like Connery in the role, but imo he's the _least_ like Ian Fleming's Bond of any of them. In the novels, Bond has a very cruel, neurotic edge that often creeps out; he's a much darker and more conflicted character than how Connery portrayed him. speaking of dark horse bond films, another that i saw recently that i thought was really an excellent story and well made film was For Your Eyes Only. After the flaccid excess of Moonraker, I suppose they were trying to get back on course and keep focused on the basics. But alas, it has what must be one of the very worst Bond scores, a cheezy, cliched, and melodramtic effort penned by Bill Conti. so, what was the last Bond film that was scored by John Barry? Anyone know why he has not been involved in the more recent productions? I suppose he might just be burnt out on Bond... too bad. The recent scores that i remember have been dowright feeble. -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / 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: Kerry Byrnes Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny Thrubber? Date: 10 Mar 1998 20:32:05 -0500 Not sure if "thrubber" is the correct term but I recall that a member of this list posted an e-mail about having a file (and instructions) on how to replace the "N" in the upper right of the browser with some Martin Denny graphics (such as the picture of Sandy Warner from one of the Denny covers). I misplaced that e-mail. Could the sender kindly repost your message and send the files/insturctions directly to me at: kjbyrnes@erols.com Many thanks. Mahalo! Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HAP SLOVE Subject: Re: (exotica) Cassette Tapes Date: 10 Mar 1998 21:50:56 EST In a message dated 3/9/98 8:25:47 PM, peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: <> I never saw anyone answer this, so I guess I will. I heard from a fairly reliable source that the plastic shells on today's cassettes are made from thinner plastic than the ones on the old cassettes. Therefore, the tape itself doesn't have to be made overly thin to fit inside the shell. I don't recall ever having a 120 minute tape break on me, much less the newer 110s. Gary Koehl hapslove@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: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) "Yma Rocks" CD Date: 11 Mar 1998 00:43:49 -0000 How did I miss this? Has this been mentioned before on here? From the Yma Sumac Web site: http://www.accesscom.com/~pc/sumac/files4/ysnews.htm ------------------------- Yma Rocks CD Due Out Soon! The long awaited CD of Yma Sumac's 1971-72 rock efforts is on its way to energize the moribund musical world. Robert Covais, the producer has also made available two works that he owned and which will be a joy of new sounds for Miss Sumac's fans. The additional tracks are "Savage Rock" and "Parade". It is called: Yma Rocks! When James O'Maoilearca (aka Jim Branciforti) passed away after a long battle with cancer, Robert, his constants companion of 38 years, thought that the release of the rock work would be an appropriate dedication to a wonderful guy. In addition the passing of Les Baxter, the King of Exotic Music, and also of Hernan Brana, who was the unsung hero in the Sumac legend, gives us all the opportunity to say thanks to those gone and to let them live again through the music. Robert Covais is preparing new linear notes and Raymond Bennett, noted modern painter from Carmel by the Sea, will offer an artist's insight into the rare beauty of Yma. Make sure that Yma Rocks! is not confused with any pirated productions. Don Pierson is the digital guru who has mastered a sound that is superior to anything Yma's fans have heard. A collectors edition will be sold through this site. A short e-mail to indicate your interest in the collectors edition would be welcome. Sales through regular musical outlets are a possibility, but whether they will included the additional tracks is in question. Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: "Moritz R®" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mancini, etc.... Date: 11 Mar 1998 12:53:54 +0000 >Soooooo, what are some films that I absolutely must see that capture all >of this ambiance??? Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably one to >see......what are some more?......... How about "The Thomas Crown Affair" with that wonderful section of "Windmills of your mind"? Of course "Barbarella", "Charade", "Cincinatti Kid". =AE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Moritz R®" Subject: (exotica) James Bond Date: 11 Mar 1998 12:54:07 +0000 The best Bond-Collection I ever found is: 007 Special 10th Anniversary Edition James Bond Collection United Artists Records UAD.60027/8 =AE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Barry. More? Date: 11 Mar 1998 08:15:04 -0500 >so, what was the last Bond film that was scored by John Barry? Anyone >know why he has not been involved in the more recent productions? I >suppose he might just be burnt out on Bond... too bad. The recent >scores that i remember have been dowright feeble. The last one seems to have been "The Living Daylights" in 1987. Why he stopped is not an answer easily found on the internet, but this link http://www.auracle.com/pia/ has a link to a book about him, with excerpts. I am a long time Barry fan, so I wouldn't mind seeing him doing the next Bond, but it is conceivable that he doesn't want to anymore, having done 11 or so of the scores for them (although Desmond Llewelyn and until recently, Maurice Binder sure keep coming back for more!). Don't forget that the soundtrack side of things is a strange world sometimes. No less than Bernard Herrmann was dumped by Hitchcock after a long a fruitful series of collaborations! If I find out that it has to do with some behind-the-scenes (Money?)penny-pinching, I'lll...I'll... Brian Phillips will return in: "His Next 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: lousmith@pipeline.com (Lou Smith) Subject: (exotica) Prozak for Lovers Date: 11 Mar 1998 14:59:44 GMT The following item just showed up in Usenet. Anyone familiar with this CD? Is it worth the US$10?? My RealAudio ain't working at the mo', so I can't get a hint from the site. --Lou In alt.exotic-music, "B LASH" wrote: >Prozak for Lovers: Ten pop/rock classics rendered as bosa nova gems. Now >available without prescription in new easy-to-swallow CD's! Hear RealAudio >streams of "Aqualung", "Pump It Up", "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" and "London >Calling" as they are given the "Prozak for Lovers" treatment. It's very >relaxing... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DProv11 Subject: (exotica) Re: Bond compilation Date: 11 Mar 1998 10:28:53 EST Any thoughts on the Bond compilation that came out recently? I think it's called "shaken not stirred..." or something of that sort. Can't seem to find it. -Daniela # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Prozak for Lovers Date: 11 Mar 1998 08:00:41 PST Listening to the mellow beat of Don't Fear the Reaper as I type. Wistful male/female duet. Gotta get it! >The following item just showed up in Usenet. Anyone familiar with this >CD? Is it worth the US$10?? My RealAudio ain't working at the mo', so I >can't get a hint from the site. > >--Lou > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns Date: 11 Mar 1998 10:49:24 -0500 At 6:04 PM +0000 3/10/98, Robbie Baldock wrote: >Of the LPs I've heard F&S is my favourite too but I always think >'Fun in the Sun' tends to get ignored in these discussions. I've >only heard it once but I thought that was a killer too. 'Fun in the Sun' is a great one, but the one that gets really overlooked is "A Swingin' Thing", from 1964. It's got kind of a Now Sound vibe to it, with the killer track being "African Waltz". It was their second to last RCA album (the final one is a C&W medley album that's not that great). I know they made one album for Musicor after that, with Vinnie Bell on guitar, replacing Al Nevins. Don't know if there were any others after that, though. br cleve who'd probably grade Movin & Groovin slightly above Fever & Smoke, at least on Wednesdays. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Mancini, etc.... Date: 11 Mar 1998 11:05:00 -0500 At 10:20 AM -0500 3/9/98, NATHAN MINER wrote: >Soooooo, what are some films that I absolutely must see that capture all >of this ambiance??? Breakfast at Tiffany's is probably one to >see......what are some more?......... a good starter kit : La Dolce Vita Oceans 11 The Oscar Kiss Me, Stupid The Party The 10th Victim The Pink Panther / A Shot In the Dark any of the assorted spy films - but especially the Flint and Matt Helm ones, and The Liquidator 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: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Throbbers Date: 11 Mar 1998 11:35:43 -0500 This is a repost... I have built 2, going on a few more, throbbers to replace the Netscape N on the web browser (and mail, I discovered) using the covers of Exotica 1 and 2. If you would like them, let me know. surfing the chaos, Charlieman > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) 3 Suns Date: 11 Mar 1998 08:45:31 -0800 More great 3 Suns LP's; Happy Go Lucky; (RCA Camden) Though it is somewhat of a "comp" LP, there are tracks that I have never seen on any other RCA release and includes a few titles that they themselves call the "Super 3 Suns" that is a 7 piece outfit including both Billy Mure and George Barnes on electric guitars, maybe Al Caiola too! This is as ROCKIN' as they get Swingin' On A Star; (RCA) Features the burnin' smoooooooth tenor sax of the great King Curtis Killin' swingin' sounds from '59 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: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) 3 Suns -Reply Date: 11 Mar 1998 11:56:32 -0500 Okay, WHAT makes the 3 Suns so great?? I've never really heard them - although I think one of their songs was on a comp. CD that I passed up (RCA put out a bunch of volumes which are pretty lame......) Anyway, the only album I've seen is orange and red and I think has a picture of a seashore on the front (just the sand and the waves rippling in).....but I'm not too clear on this..... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) Subject: (exotica) Milton DeLugg Date: 11 Mar 1998 18:44:58 +0100 Milton DeLugg, anyone? I just played his "Accordion My Way -- Ole!" and was pleasantly surprised: this album really swings! It's mostly Brazilian tunes, and he's accompanied by some top musicians such as Bucky Pizzarelli, Eumir Deodato, Bob Rosengarden, and Phil Kraus. Accordion was never my favorite instrument, but these guys have come up with a seriously infectious modern beat. And he looks absolutely preposterous on the cover -- that's really why I bought this thing in the first place, but the music won. Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? His music for "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" was never released on record, was it....? -Ingemar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns] Date: 11 Mar 1998 17:51:51 GMT > 'Fun in the Sun' is a great one, but the one that gets really overlooked is > "A Swingin' Thing", from 1964. It's got kind of a Now Sound vibe to it, > with the killer track being "African Waltz". It was their second to last Is this the same "African Waltz" as the one written by Galt MacDermot? I've got a great album of Galt's pre-Hair music played by Ken Jones and his orchestra, on Capitol (Canadian), which I really love; it has "African Waltz" on it, but some other great tracks such as "New Frontier" and "Saffron". 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: Ross Orr Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns Date: 10 Mar 1998 15:54:22 -0500 Robbie Wrote: >Of the LPs I've heard F&S is my favourite too but I always think >'Fun in the Sun' tends to get ignored in these discussions. I've >only heard it once but I thought that was a killer too. I agree. . . One observation is that while _Fever and Smoke_ has a killer Side One and some more subdued tracks on Side Two, with _Fun In the Sun_ it's the reverse. So maybe it gets overlooked for that reason. . . Yours in Hi Fi, --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: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:14:59 EST I thought soundtrack music was practically the basis of this whole musical "movement"...It is an important reference point for yours truly anyway.......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: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:16:25 EST I thought soundtrack music was practically the basis of this whole musical "movement"...It is an important reference point for yours truly anyway.......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: DJJimmyBee Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:26:31 EST I haven't seen this mentioned so I thought I'd share a find: The "Satan In High Heels" soundtrack is out on CD. Composer Mundell Lowe with a 1961 stereo crime-jazz/late night at the supper-club sound that's in stereo and on Collectable Records--and taken from the original tapes, not vinyl...Jimmy/has had trouble with Collectable product in the past # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:27:34 EST I haven't seen this mentioned so I thought I'd share a find: The "Satan In High Heels" soundtrack is out on CD. Composer Mundell Lowe with a 1961 stereo crime-jazz/late night at the supper-club sound that's in stereo and on Collectable Records--and taken from the original tapes, not vinyl...Jimmy/has had trouble with Collectable product in the past # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) 3 Suns -Reply Date: 11 Mar 1998 10:36:34 PST If you come across Movin' & Groovin' in "Swinging Stereo Actio your eyes can follow" (I think that's the quote) and get 30 seconds into "Danny's Inferno", (etc.) all will be revealed ;) This is one is much more lively and "exotic" an effort than many of the others I have (though I will not slight Twilight Time and On A Magic Carpet and...), the accordian/keys/guitar supplemneted with jew's harp and a variety of percussive instruments. I am sure their are others here who can praise the merits in greater detail than I. All the best, Ben > > >Okay, WHAT makes the 3 Suns so great?? I've never really >heard them - ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:43:47 EST Hey all, Chester wrote: > << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen to? So far, > I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you > but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff > like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand > with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin > sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like > Pierre Henry....>> Funny you ahould bring this up... Here in Montreal, our favourite store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise classify and isn't original-retro exotica. That's precisely where you'd find two of the best 90's prjects: Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or Astro Man. etc. Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones. Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance" is a personal favourite! Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories" of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at, Aphex Twin certainly being among them. Definitely a name to check out is Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent release by F X Randomiz. A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL. This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica these days if you ask me... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Karasick" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:46:15 EST Hey all, Chester wrote: > << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen >to? So far, > I understand Air and Combustible Edison are appreciated among some of you > but what else? A lot of that French stuff such as Kid Loco and other stuff > like Mouse on Mars and Stereolab and High Llamas certainly go hand in hand > with some of this list's musical Gods. Even something like Aphex Twin > sounds like a logical Nineties progression if you listen to something like > Pierre Henry....>> Funny you ahould bring this up... Here in Montreal, our favourite store uses "acid jazz" for anything that they can't otherwise classify and isn't original-retro exotica. That's precisely where you'd find two of the best 90's prjects: Tipsy and Sukia. Then there's the whole "surf & drag " scene aka. The Phantom Surfers, Man.. or Astro Man. etc. Also lots of great stuff on the Mai Tai label aka. The Tiki Tones. Incidentally, Pierre Henry's "Machine Dance" is a personal favourite! Personally, I find it a challenge trying to wade throught the "categories" of 90's electronica but there's a lot out there worth looking at, Aphex Twin certainly being among them. Definitely a name to check out is Pascal Comelade, who has for years been perfoming his own hybrid of Nino Rota inspired cabaret music using toy instruments. Also, lots of interesting stuff on the German AtaTak label over the years that has been inspired by exotica, not the least of which is the recent release by The Bad Examples that was discussed on the list. Lots of fun things also on the German A-Musik label, particularly a recent elease by F X Randomiz. A-Musik was a pioneering label with personalities from it moving on to such projects as Oval, Mouse on Mars, and POL. This said, there's altogether too much of the same thing going on in electronica these days if you ask me... Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend Goodies... -Reply Date: 11 Mar 1998 13:59:15 -0500 Well, yeah, but I think you're missing my point. There's soundtrack music that is a great composition in it's own right with catchy rhythm etc., then there's soundtrack music that is little more than a series of swells, and musical "asides" ala a great deal of the Bond stuff...... >>> DJJimmyBee 03/11/98 01:14pm >>> I thought soundtrack music was practically the basis of this whole musical "movement"...It is an important reference point for yours truly anyway.......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. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Date: 11 Mar 1998 14:06:11 -0500 Great title!!! So where can we get this CD????? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: What IS Schlager Date: 11 Mar 1998 14:25:23 EST Br cleve wrote: > The material from 'Get Easy' (3 of the 4 volumes) is all from the late 60's > and 70's, as is nearly all "easy listening" from Europe that has been > reissued since the mid-90's. I don't know if the 50's/early 60's material > is better, but I doubt it, in the context of what the EZ scene is about. I'm thinking of Hildegard Knef, etc, but you're probably right about the lower EZ listening value from this era. Things didn't really start to "looosen-up" until the (really) late 50's, if at all during the decade. I'm a bit too young to judge having been only 3 yrs old when the 60's began! > >I realized that by 70's disco reared its ugly head even into Germany! > Have you forgotten the great Georgio Moroder, whose Munich Machine teamed > with Donna Summer to reinvent the sound? Or how about Kraftwerk? Disco was > a worldwide phenonmenon, currently being reinvented again quite nicely by > the French. Having started listening to Kraftwerk via Autobahn, I remember the difficulty I had with the change, natural as it was for the evolution of electronic sound. Hey even Conrad Schnitzler did a pseudo disco record! All things aside, the MR record I picked up had more of a Bee Gees feel to it so I failed to make the connection. > Schlager has nothing in common with the go-go sound being reissued these > days. Schlager has its roots in German beer hall music; it is a peppier, > more pop oriented kind of oom-pah sound, sung by popular vocalists. In many > ways, its the Teuton equivalent of country & western music, as it's > favored by truck drivers and the more working class type of folks. Hmm... I suspect you're right to a large degree but I have to cringe at the thought of me listening to "country & western" music. But from the perspective of what makes for a good EZ record, my experience is that many of the best ones (not necessarily artistically but most fun!) seem to be precisely those that were originally intended to be serious. That being said, there's no end to where this line of thinking can take us, the least of which would be the vindication of those horrid William Shatner crooner songs for instance, or even Heino! Call it a weakness but it's one way to sort through the offerings out there, aside from a totally irresistable name (hey could anyone resist "Bobby Setter's Cash & Carry - Live a the Moog-O-Theque", even if it did turn out to be a moog version of "The Bird Dance" ) even if it may bring up all sort of would be negative associations... I think the whole bizzaro-exotica movement as best defined through the ReSearch readings would support my approach... That being said, maybe Schlager could be the next big thing (I shudder to think)!!! > For more of the go-go sound:... Thanks for the recommendations. I reallly did like Gert Wilder's I Told You Not To Cry. Looking forward to getting the Get Easy German comp... But are there two Get easy German volumes or did I get this wrong? Regards, Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Man In Space Date: 11 Mar 1998 19:51:12 +0000 Hey - I keep fogetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I picked up last week. Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros! Let's have more of this stuff please! Robbie - on his "gay way to space"... ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) The Flying Red Horse Polka Date: 11 Mar 1998 15:00:01 -0500 On which Three Suns album does this track show up? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jcimaru@kes.miracosta.cc.ca.us (James Cimarusti) Subject: (exotica) A question Date: 11 Mar 1998 12:34:08 -0800 Bryan Cuevas suggested I throw this question out on the list (Thanks Bryan!): >>>>GARY McFARLAND Soft Samba (Verve, 1964) My copy of the above album mentioned by Bryan is manufactured by Capitol Records and not by MGM. I have two MGM records >>>manufactured by Capitol. Was there a period when MGM didn't have >>>their own pressing plant? (The label number was STAO ??? on the SS >>>record, which is what Capitol records used for their gatefold sleeved >>>records). Anyone out there who can shed some light on this? Thanks! James "After the game, the King and pawn go into the same box" Italian Proverb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Man In Space Date: 11 Mar 1998 12:57:55 -0800 Hey - I keep forgetting to say a big "thank you!" to Jack Diamond and Stefan Kery at Subliminal for the 'Man In Space' reissue a copy of which I picked up last week. Love this fine slice of orchestral electronica - and such ENTHUSIASTIC vocal intros! Let's have more of this stuff please! Robbie - on his "gay way to space"... ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** Robbie, Thanks a lot and I do mean A LOT! The chances of "anymore" of that and the like being reissued is slim and none. The major labels are idiots and way too greed oriented, even to their own people! Thanks 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: "Lazlo Nibble" Subject: (exotica) Re: Bond compilation Date: 11 Mar 1998 14:05:37 -0700 (MST) > Any thoughts on the Bond compilation that came out recently? I think it's > called "shaken not stirred..." or something of that sort. Can't seem to find > it. If you're thinking of "Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project", it's a far better disc than it deserves to be. It's a collection of vocal and instrumental Bond OST tracks covered and/or reinterpreted by folks like Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop, Leftfield, The Propellerheads, and Martin Fry in association with Arnold, who scored Tomorrow Never Dies. Very big production sound blending orchestra and electronica, rarely sounding like a cheap knock-off as so many of these "tribute"-style albums do. There are a couple of tracks that do nothing for me but the bulk of the disc is really solid -- "Diamonds Are Forever" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" stand out. My only regret is that Billy MacKenzie died before he could do "Diamonds Are Forever" for this disc . . . -- ::: 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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) The High Llamas... Date: 11 Mar 1998 22:23:08 +0100 Not only have those Llama-guys released a fantastic EP called "The Sun Beats Down" (the best of exotica mixed with the best of the new electronica) this week, but songwriter Sean O'Hagan has also remixed a Pizzicato 5 song (the name escapes me at the moment, maybe you guys know the title?) to be released in early April on Matador Records as well as doing another remix of yet another Japanese guy called Cornelius. His song "Microdisneycal World Tour" from his "Fantasma" album has been remixed by O'Hagan to be released next month (I think), also on Matador Records. One musical dream for me would be The Llamas doing something with Combustible Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play. High Llamas Spring 1998 Tour WHEN CLUB CITY WITH/ March 14 9:30 Club WDC Trans Am 15 Cat's Cradle Carrboro, NC Sharkquest 16 The Point Atlanta Neutral Milk Hotel 17 40 Watt Athens TBA 18 Howlin Wolf New Orleans TBA 20 Waterloo Records Austin/SXSW it's an in-store 21 Electric Lounge Austin/SXSW His Name Is Alive, others 24 Troubador LA Apples In Stereo 25 Great Am. Music Hall SF Apples In Stereo 27 Crocodile Seattle Apples In Stereo 28 Starfish Room Vancouver Apples In Stereo 29 Music Millenium Portland it's an in-store 31 Bluebird Theatre Denver Apples In Stereo April 1 Bottleneck Lawrence TBA 2 Side Door St. Louis TBA 3 Metro Chicago Low 4 Concert Hall Toronto Exclaim magazine party 5 Secret Sounds Records Bridgeport, CT it's an in-store 6 Trocodaro Philadelphia Low 7 The Call Providence Low 8 Middle East Boston Low/TBA 9 Tramps NYC Low/Magnetic Fields "Cold and Bouncy" Quotes: "The electronic embellishments on Cold and Bouncy (the Llamas' fourth album) help focus their melodies - especially on the serene "Tilting Windmills" and veer the band away from the mere rock revivalism and occasional aimless wafting and that they were prone to in the past. As Brian Wilson once said, "Won, won, wonderful." - ROLLING STONE "Sean O'Hagan still wears the hearts of Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks on his sleeve, but finally his adventurous work with Stereolab shines through; while there's plenty that recalls the vital orchestral pop of 1966 (i.e. challenging, rather than vapid, easy listening), there are enough electronic and rhythmic textures to make it seem perfectly modern." -CMJ MONTHLY ---------------------- Not affiliated with the band, just a diehard fan :) Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mailing List Trivia Date: 11 Mar 1998 17:56:00 -0500 Lazlo wrote: >Usually I get all the undeliverable bounces, since I'm the list admin, but >every now and then some system somewhere is misconfigured enough to send them >to people who post to the list. FYI, this is often accompanied by a flurry of double-posts to the list--people misinterpret the bounce message as meaning their exotica post didn't go through at all. Having gotten bit by this one a few times myself, --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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica movies (formerly Mancini, etc) Date: 11 Mar 1998 19:00:54 -0500 Okay, here's a hasty and subjective listing of some films that may somehow relate to the exotica (loose definition) sensibility -- trying to steer towards the 60's swank zone, but often veering off-course. Apologies for repeating anything someone else has mentioned, painfully obvious choices, or anything exceeding your cinema pain threshold. The Apartment Autopsia de un Fantasma Barbarella Beat The Devil Bedazzled Bell, Book And Candle Black Orpheus Breathless (1959 version only!) Casino Royale Contempt The Cool Ones 007 films (pref. earlier) Dr. Strangelove 8 1/2 F For Fake A Guide For The Married Man In Like Flint The Ipcress File It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Johnny Cool Juliet Of The Spirits The Knack, And How To Get It Lolita Lord Love A Duck The Loved One The Magic Christian The Manchurian Candidate Mars Needs Women Matt Helm films The Million Eyes Of Su Muru Modesty Blaise Mondo Cane Ocean's Eleven Orgy Of The Dead Our Man Flint Our Man In Havana The Party The Pink Panther The President's Analyst Seconds A Shot In The Dark Touch Of Evil Thunderbirds Are Go Vertigo What A Way To Go! countless assorted spy movies m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: [Br. Cleve: Re: (exotica) Three Suns] Date: 11 Mar 1998 17:29:11 -0500 At 5:51 PM +0000 3/11/98, Peter Hipwell wrote: >Is this the same "African Waltz" as the one written by Galt MacDermot? yes it is. 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: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... Date: 11 Mar 1998 17:28:07 -0500 At 10:23 PM +0100 3/11/98, Chester W. Nimitz wrote: > The Llamas doing something with Combustible >Edison, that'd sound fantastic, don't you guys think!??!! Finally, I might >as well post the tourdates for the Llamas forthcoming sojourn in USA, if >anyone wants to go but don't know when and where they play. >April >8 Middle East Boston Low/TBA This date will not be at the Middle East, but rather at my "Swank" night at Bill's Bar/Karma on Landsdowne St. I will be DJ'ing between sets. Maybe I should discuss ComEd remix possibilities with them while they're here. 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 11 Mar 1998 19:58:50 -0500 At the last record show here, a friend of mine, desperate for a new tributary, finally bit the bullet and dropped a few hundred dollars on this soundtrack dealer. All these soundtracks for films that were important to him. Got them home, listened and took them to the used record store the next day. Where he proclaimed "It just sounds like music they play in the background of a film"... as the clerk calculated all the money he'd lost in that short period. I could have saved him the money; then again, what better way to contact your self-loathing than wasting a few hundred dollars on records you don't want. With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories. There's background music and there's background music. And then there's foreground music. Which is fine if you like overly long opening credit sequences. Or musicals. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 11 Mar 1998 16:15:41 -1000 >With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if >you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories. Okay. Some soundtracks that I would rate among those "occasional records" you mention that hold their own as musical masterpieces with or without the "movie memories:" 1. The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith 2. A Clockwork Orange by Walter/Wendy Carlos and various artists 3. The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morriconne 4. Once Upon A Time in The West by Ennio M. 5. Psycho by Bernard Hermann 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Ligeti, Strauss and others 7. On the Waterfront by Leonard Bernstein 8. The Man With The Golden Arm by Elmer Bernstein 9. The Piano by Michael Nyman 10. Superman:The Movie by John Williams (soft spot for this one) ... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list. - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg Date: 11 Mar 1998 22:43:22 -0500 breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) writes: >Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? His music >for "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" was never >released on record, was it....? There was an album released, but I seem to recall that it's more of a storybook & record combo with mostly dialogue from the film, rather than an album of the score. I know it does have that great "Hooray for Santa Claus" song on it, though. Peter --- Music for Better Living Wednesdays 6-7pm -- 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: Darrell Brogdon Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg Date: 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800 In addition to "Accordion My Way", Milton Delugg also did an album of monster music in the mid-60s. Don't remember the exact title - something like "Music for Munsters, Monsters and Mummies". Anybody ever see this one? Had a picture of the Munsters on the cover. It wasn't a children's record per se - more like big band renditions of themes from "The Munsters", "The Addams Family", "Bewitched" and others, plus some tunes penned especially for the album. Used to have a copy years ago and would love to find another one! Milton didn't play accordion on this one, though. He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV precursor to "The Tonight Show". Later he led the band on "The Tonight Show", too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Milton Delugg Date: 11 Mar 1998 22:45:26 On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:16:24 -0800, dbrogdon@ukans.edu wrote... > >He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV >precursor to "The Tonight Show". Later he led the band on "The Tonight >Show", too. And don't forget his gig as "Milton Delugg and his Band with a Thug" on "The Gong Show"! -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.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: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 12 Mar 1998 02:25:04 GMT I have to disagree with Nat on this - some of my favourite recordings are soundtracks. Perhaps not exotica-inspired, but excellent nonetheless. To Stephen's list, I would add anything by Goran Bregovic (especially his soundtracks for Emir Kusturica films), Nino Rota, early works by Gabriel Yared (his soundtracks for Jean-Jacques Beineix films), and, of course, Peer Raben's work for Fassbinder. And that's just for starters. I could go on and on... Of course, a lot of 60's movie soundtracks were just intended as background music, and nothing you'd want to listen to by themselves. But it's hard to generalise about soundtracks - a good soundtrack is just as good whether or not you're watching the film. And then there's Combustible Edison's 4 Rooms soundtrack, which is infinitely superior to the film itself.... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) The High Llamas... Date: 12 Mar 1998 00:12:03 EST Curiously, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's music section has a big piece on Cornelius (japanese bricolage popster, took his name from Roddy McDowell's monkey on Planet of the Apes). Fascinating stuff. Both Cornelius and a british musician, Momus, write for a Japanese idol (Idoru) named Kahimi Karie. If you can imagine an arch brit with a Scott Walker tendency writing for a Japanese idol singer, or have fallen under the spell of Serge Gainsbourg writing for Jane Birkin, or BB or France Gall, then you might want to check out Kahimi Karie's music. I dig the Llamas - they've got a long, drifty cut on _Gideon Gaye_ that's everything exotica ought to be. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton DeLugg Date: 12 Mar 1998 00:27:38 EST << Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? >> i don't know if i'd call it a gem, but i've got this soundtrack from 1966 on Mainstream, Gulliver's Travels On The Moon. Credits Anne DeLugg, too. many of the tracks are "happy, snappy songs", with Rise Robots, Rise being the standout. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tosh@loop.com (Tosh) Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. Date: 11 Mar 1998 23:11:08 -0800 (PST) I have heard a rumour that there will be a 'best of' release for Kahimi Karie in the U.S. Does anyone on the list have the inside word about this project? ----------------- Tosh Berman TamTam Books ---------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Milton DeLugg? Date: 12 Mar 1998 05:34:52 >breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (I. Breithel) wrote: >Milton DeLugg, anyone? I just played his "Accordion My Way -- Ole!" >and was pleasantly surprised: this album really swings! It's mostly >Brazilian tunes, and he's accompanied by some top musicians such >as Bucky Pizzarelli, Eumir Deodato, Bob Rosengarden, and Phil Kraus. > >Any other DeLugg gems to look out for? DeLugg's main claim to fame was as the bandleader for "The Tonight Show" after Skitch Henderson left. He recorded one album for RCA leading this band. Then Johnny Carson replaced Jack Paar and replaced Milton with Doc Severinsen (among other staff changes). From what I've been able to track down, he was a performer on the vaudeville and night club circuit, then settled in NYC as a studio conductor and arranger. His other score credits include "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon" (1966 US version of Japanese animated movie) and "The Gong Show Movie," which I bet most of you had thankfully forgotten until I mentioned it. 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: "Moritz R®" Subject: (exotica) New and modern music ATA TAK Date: 12 Mar 1998 14:28:40 +0000 Reply to Brian Karasick: Thanks for mentioning my old label Ata Tak. Yes, we were definitely influenced by exotic music. We heard of Martin Denny for the first time in 1981 by an American named Boyd Rice. He and his friends from San Diego had a band called "The Tikis" at the same time. Those people are the earliest manifestation of a Tiki-Revival that I know. If somebody knows any events earlier than that, I=91d like to know! Boyd was also an expert in German Schlagermusic and actually knew more about it, than I did at that time... Ata Tak was and still is located in D=FCsseldorf, one of four european towns that have a "Trader Vic=91s". (The others are Hamburg, Munich and London). The label is not very active anymore (I quit it legally 1990, still in contact though), but they have a relatively new homepage, which is relatively mediocre and needs an improvement. I=91m living in Munich now and we have a groovy little Tiki-scene going o= n here. If you ever visit the original Oktoberfest, don=91t forget to go to the "Egon Bar", Seitzstrasse 12, the center of good taste and music in this city. =AE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 12 Mar 1998 06:08:37 PST >9. The Piano by Michael Nyman >... I'm sure others would be happy to add to this list. > >- Steve Yes. Anything by The Michael Nyman Group, particulary the Greenaway soundtracks (A Zed and Two Naughts being my favorite, today). Not exactly exotica, but may qualify as strange. BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Milton Delugg and his band with a Thug Date: 12 Mar 1998 09:29:25 -0500 He also was on the "Gong Show" (credited per the subject line) and backed Jackie Wilson on his hit records. >He was also the bandleader on "Broadway Open House", the early TV precursor to "The >Tonight Show". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion (again!) Date: 12 Mar 1998 09:39:46 -0500 Okay gang, I re-listened to this LP last night and will have to revise my remarks..... Side 1 is pretty cool, I like the arrangements, and my favorite is track 3 which has some sort of French name (somthin' about a carnival or something?.........) how's that for descriptive? Side 2 on the other hand, isn't nearly as good - the arrangements are boring and I think by the time you flip the LP over, the "amusement factor" of the arrangements has worn off....... That's my last word on this album - it gets a "50%-50%" rating (re:good/bad)...... - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) High Llamas contact Date: 12 Mar 1998 15:03:32 UT Does anyone know how to get in touch with the High Llamas, or who distributes their stuff? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Don Fln Party Ą NYC Date: 12 Mar 1998 11:10:23 -0500 Don Fl‡n promotions presents ... 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Deejays Ricardo Nixon and Juanny SendŽr "ambiente Familiar" Home made decor and special drinks! 10 PM till 4 AM on Thursday, March 19th at Baraza! 133 Ave C (8th & 9th Street) 212.539.0811 It's Free Don Fl‡n will now be monthly at Baraza The next event will be Thursday, April 16th for Info call Juanny 212.228.9518 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry. More? Date: 12 Mar 1998 18:03:12 +0100 >The last one seems to have been "The Living Daylights" in 1987. Why he >stopped is not an answer easily found on the internet, but this link >http://www.auracle.com/pia/ has a link to a book about him, with excerpts. >I am a long time Barry fan, so I wouldn't mind seeing him doing the next >Bond, but it is conceivable that he doesn't want to anymore, having done 11 >or so of the scores for them (although Desmond Llewelyn and until recently, >Maurice Binder sure keep coming back for more!). >If I find out that it has to do with some behind-the-scenes >(Money?)penny-pinching, I'lll...I'll... You might've actually given us the answer to why he stopped doing Bond-scores! There was a long interview with Barry in the New Musical Express 2 or 3 months ago and what he said was similar with behind the scenes arguments involving, yes, money and the usual movie director versus filmcomposer fights. It was actually a bit of a shock to read the interview cos Barry came across as a sad old bitter ego-minded man....Sean Connery was allegedly a horrible and self-obsessed actor, so was all the other Bonds as well, according to Barry. Actually, Barry seemed to think everyone he was involved with were complete idiots...It's been awhile since I read it but I got the impression he tried to be rude towards as many people as possible before the interview was over....It's really sad to find out that a man who's been responsible for some of the greatest music ever made (had Barry lived 200 years ago, people would've definitely compared him to Bach/Mozart/whoever of that calibre) turned out to be so seemingly bitter about everything and everyone....I also got the impression John Barry will *not* score another Bond-movie....:( Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 18:03:20 +0100 In my city (I dunno if it's qualified to be called a 'city', there's only 25000 people living here...), there's actually only one place where they sell vinyl/2nd hand records and I checked it out for the first time today. To my surprise, they had literally tons of Ferrante/Teicher, Francis Lai, Michel Legrande, Bacharach, John Barry albums, and seemingly every single moviesoundtrack made in the sixties. The thing is that they were all priced about $15/record which I think is quite a lot compared to what most of you guys pay. The thing is, this store is also a really disgusting pornshop (believe me, the cliche about hairypalmed men in grey overcoates is actually true, hahahaha! :)) and the owner doesn't seem to have the faintest idea about how much some of these records are worth. I'm not joking when behind John Barry's "The Knack" there was a Samantha Fox record followed by Wham and then Legrande's "Umbrellas...", and they were all given the same price! Totally ridiculous!! ANyway, my question is, should I really pay $15 for records like these...?? Would you guys have done it???? I'm not sure if I want to go back but there is on the other hand no other place where I live where I can get hold of the fantastic music being discussed on this list....I'm a poor student with very little money so what to do? Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Wait! You might want this one..... Date: 12 Mar 1998 12:25:16 -0500 Continuing my list of albums that aren't altogether a waste of time..... Perspectives in Percussion Vol. 2 (Somerset) Although this is, for the most part, you're standard crap arrangements that jump from one speaker to the next, two tracks are worthy...... Irv Cottler is featured on drums, we've heard Irv before on Somerset with their Around the World in Percussion. The back of the album features a groovy photo of the studio session, showing all the groupings of the various instruments. The cover is a rip-off graphic from those wacky Command guys - a grey background w/black squares floating over a broken red-bar pattern. Tiger Hunt - A mix of cha-cha/jungle beat w/organ, trumpet, bongos, flute solo, backed by upright base, and electric guitar to produce a Bondish sounding cool jazz sound with muted horns and "whaaaaa" accent...... Git Git Guitar - "Rock n Roll" beat on the drums followed by a cool sax solo, and flute solo - another slick jazz number with the guitars surprisingly taking the "second seat" to the other instruments. Predominant xylophone shenanigans. These couple of hits are squeezed between your standard La Cucaracha, How High the Moon, etc. - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Re: Flying Red Horse Polka/Camden 3Suns Date: 12 Mar 1998 12:42:11 -0000 Brian Phillips wrote: >On which Three Suns album does this track show up? I don't think I have it on any of mine (unless it's buried in one of those Dance Medley records). It could be on one of the LPs I don't have, but I suspect it's either: - from a pre-12" album (set of 7" 45 or 10" 78 singles, or a 10" 33.3 LP) - it's a non-LP single A-side or B-side (there's a TON of Three Suns stuff that was never on albums) and/or on a compilation of such loose single tracks (like most of the Camden releases and foreign RCA Suns collections) Speaking of Camden releases, were there any such Three Suns collections on Camden other than these: The Happy-Go-Lucky Sound A Continental Affair At the Candlelight Cafe I've also got a 1970s Camden Suns LP, _Mean To Me_, which recycles tracks from their last few 60s albums, and I believe there's another 70s Camden comp called _Three Suns Gold_. FYI, _Sounds of Christmas_ on Camden is a reissue of RCA Victor LPM-1132, a collection of NEW recordings and not a collection of Christmas singles and EPs and one would sensibly suspect. As far as I've been able to tell, the following Three Suns Christmas song collections are ALL DIFFERENT RECORDINGS: Christmas Favorites Christmas Party Sounds of Christmas A Ding-Dong Dandy Christmas Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) EZ 60s & 70s Date: 12 Mar 1998 12:46:23 -0500 As part of my continued stumbling on into the EZ 60s and 70s, I just had a rather gruelling session where I listened to: 2 Brass Ring LPs 2 James Last LPs A Columbia 4-record set _The Best Song Hits of Today_ (EZ covers of 60s hits, with "groovy" cover: Lennon glasses, love beads.) The Brass Ring, I just don't know. They're a time capsule all right--but after the initial shock of recognition (didn't they use this one in a Benson & Hedges cigarette commercial?) this didn't do a lot for me. . . (Afterwards I considered declaring my house a "Bossa-Free Zone"!) James Last is often compromised by the fact that he's just doing a watered-down-but-plausible clone of some real song. However I did start to get giddy during Side Two of _El Condor Pasa_, getting into the chorus's odd accents. Were they from Holland or something? This big 4-record set is pretty terrifying, with lots of famous EZ singers/instrumentalists doing their takes on 60s pop hits--e.g. Robert Goulet doing "MacArthur Park"; Jim Nabors' scary "Galveston," etc. One highlight was the Ed Sullivan Singers doing the most plodding cover of "Aquarius" ever heard. There's one complete record of Beatles covers, and another of Bacharach and Simon & Garfunkel songs. Mostly these were just worth the odd groan, but there WERE a few surprises to me. When did Peter Nero start getting down with the Moog? His cover of "Scarborough Fair" is totally pickled in hallucinogens. . . I never would have thought in a million years I would be saying this, but I gradually became mesmerized by the Ray Conniff Singers tracks--versions of songs like "Hey Jude" and "Bridge Over Troubled Waters"--they just have this disturbing robotic quality to them. . . Brrr!!! I'm sailing mighty high, --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: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:14:38 EST Collectable Records is at www.oldies.com, or at Box 35 Narberth, PA 19072 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:15:41 EST Collectable Records is at www.oldies.com, or at Box 35 Narberth, PA 19072 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:25:01 EST Collectable Records is at www.oldies.com, or at Box 35 Narberth, PA 19072 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels -Reply Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:31:10 EST Collectable Records is at www.oldies.com, or at Box 35 Narberth, PA 19072 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 10:44:19 +0000 Here we go again (?) on the record price issue, but a valuable excercise I think. This is exactly the type of stuation I referred to at the beginning of the recent hullaballoo (I LOVE that word) about certain breeds of record dealers -Mercenaries that will set arbitrarily high prices because they are too lazy or stupid to put any efort or thought into grading or pricing records fairly. Offer them what you are willing to pay. You might even work out a trade with them to root through the records and bring their pricing into reality in exchange for some product. If they are the shifty type, chances are they will think you are trying to scam them. (Man, I really have learned NOT to trust people who are paranoid about being ripped off - I have come to believe it's because they expect everyone to be just like THEM) The worst they can do to you is say no. If they don't want to play fair, they will have to sit with their overpriced treasures. What you described is not really a thrift store is it? I hope it's not one of those outfits (there are many around here) that call themselves thrift stores, take donations from kind but unwitting souls, take all the good stuff home, mark the rest of the trash up outrageously, and give a measly portion to some dubious charity. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 14:09:52 -0500 Hi Chester-- I've mined some great gold at estate and garage sales, although the Salvation Army and Goodwill are my routine sources of music. You avoid the grasping at garage sales, although some estate sales managers view piles of old LPs with dollar signs in their eyes. Check out some of those sources. $15 per disk seems way pricey to me--especially if you don't already know the disk. But three for a buck, or even a buck a disk--that's a small investment for the occasional big thrill you get when a mystery record turns out to be a treasure. BTW, I'm new to the list and found out about it through my pal Ross Orr, AKA Rotohut, the prince of vintage toasters. Enoch Light is a god who strode the earth, Esquival rules the cosmos, and Command stereo test recordings send me over the moon, along with such oddities as "Zithers South of the Border," whose artist and label elude me. It's great to link up with other exotica fans! Mimi Mayer Austin, TX, 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: Shangri-la Subject: (exotica) Pizzicato 5 Date: 12 Mar 1998 22:12:35 +-200 A while back someone sent in a comprehensive list of Pizzicato CD's with = reviews. If anyone still has this posting I would greatly appreciate it = being forwarded to me. chachacharl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 12:41:27 PST Enoch Light is a god who >strode the earth And Enoch did not die, for he was taken by God. And Dick Hyman was on NPR last Sunday night as well. , and Command stereo test >recordings send me over the moon, Not to mention the Time Series 2000 efforts such as Like-Bongos! We're talking bongo reports ricocheting off the walls (and Al Caiola on gee-tar)! along with such oddities as "Zithers >South of the Border," whose artist and label elude me. Ruth Welcome? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: peter_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Estate Sales Date: 12 Mar 1998 21:04:47 UT This sounds like a great way to get old records, but I'm not sure where or how to find out about them. Are they usually just advertised in the paper? And, yeah, these days, every time I hit a flea market, the folks with the vinyl do the same mark-up gig, five bucks an album, no matter what the condition or content. Although it always seemed to me they'd sell more than five dollars worth at 50 cents or a buck a disc. I know I'm more liable to spend twenty bucks on 20 discs than I am on four. Maybe someone should hip them into this... Curiouser and Curiouser, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies Subject: (exotica) Kahimi Karie Date: 13 Mar 1998 08:23:13 +1100 Minty Fresh are tipped to be releasing a Karie Compilation CD sometime soon. This will be a godsend to Karie fans as the prices for the import releases are astronomical. As a side note, I'd like to add 'Seven Golden Men' and 'Charade' to the exotica soundtracks. Wayne # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:19:20 PST Stefan once said when I complained about LPs ruining me -you get rich in sounds. And it is so true. Buy the good stuff, all you can afford, because $15 doesnt sound expensive to me. And you'll probably get them cheaper if you show a little interest in the porno stuff ;) Magnus (who unfortunately has to work and not be able to listen to his new Enchanted Tiki Room LP) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Opient Subject: (exotica) who i am Date: 12 Mar 1998 16:24:11 EST Me? 19 year old student of life, aspiring artist, writer. My intrests have a range so wide that i could never deicate myself to anything. Also in my life up to this point i have been delayed from cultivating my hobbies and collections. One of my biggest regrets to date is that my CURRENT record collection is portable (also that i choose to write this letter after 52 hours beings up). I love a good jazz beat, a swing tune, or anything pleasing to the ear and soul. i just dont happen to know where to beggin! All my thanks Simon Grant PS. not to be held responsible for gramatical and (especially) spelling errors. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) Evolution records Date: 12 Mar 1998 16:11:32 -0500 I bought a record last week which I just got a chance to listen to. Gene Bertoncini - Evolution! (Evolution Records - Stereo Dimension 3001) The record is excellent - nice picked guitar with a crisp backing which gets going into a 'now sound' in many of the songs. The record comes in a gatefold sleeve, features Dick Hyman, Bobby Rosengarten, Phil Kraus etc, and is produced by Bobby Byrne. So it seems essentially like a late, post-Enoch Light Command record - from the musicians to the typeface used on the spine to the distinctive cover art (signed 'Giusti'). But the logo says 'Evolution' records. I had never heard of this before, but it seems to be a label started by Byrne around 1970. This appears to be the first release on the label - has anyone heard of any others? What is the story with this label? Robbie - any ideas? Regards Jonny _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 12 Mar 1998 16:56:01 EST perhaps you are buying up the wrong soundtrax, but I have found at least as many worthy songs on MANY soundtracks as I have on professionally compiled CD's--try composers like Hefti and Mancini for starters--and see Exotica, Etc. 'zine for their great "Soundtracks" page...Jimmy/lots to learn out 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: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 12 Mar 1998 16:09:27 -0500 For Ben Waugh (now) and peter_risser@cinfin.com (later) >>Enoch Light is a god who strode the earth > >And Enoch did not die, for he was taken by God. And Dick Hyman was on >NPR last Sunday night as well. Some trivia you probably know--Hyman wrote the soundtrack to "Moonstruck," reprising his arrangement of "It Must Have Been Moonlight/Theme from 'Picnic'" >Not to mention the Time Series 2000 efforts such as Like-Bongos! We're >talking bongo reports ricocheting off the walls (and Al Caiola on >gee-tar)! OOH! Record lust! Let's hear it for the Scully lathe. >>along with such oddities as "Zithers South of the Border," whose artist >>and label elude me. >Ruth Welcome? Si! That's the senorita. For Peter, re, Estate sales >This sounds like a great way to get old records, but I'm not sure where or how >to find out about them. Are they usually just advertised in the paper? Yup, often with the garage sales listings. Happy hunting! Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: (exotica) satan Date: 12 Mar 1998 17:08:59 EST your mother sucks cock in hell........sorry, my 'puter or the system was wackoid today~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Kahimi Karie Date: 12 Mar 1998 17:23:24 -0500 Tosh Berman wrote: > >I have heard a rumour that there will be a 'best of' release for Kahimi >Karie in the U.S. Does anyone on the list have the inside word about this >project? > It's been listed as "coming soon" from Minty Fresh Records for quite some time. I e-mailed them to ask about it, but never got a reply. CD Now has the following Japanese discs listed as in-stock: Candy Man $16.99 I Am A Kitten $23.99 Larme De Crocodile $36.99 Le Roi Soleil $19.99 Leur L'Existence $17.99 My First Karie $23.99 Tiny King Kong $15.49 Yum Yum Radio has a Karie discography posted at: . Glad to see the index back on the digest version of the list. Wayno # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Norton Subject: Re: (exotica) Evolution records Date: 12 Mar 1998 14:33:42 -0800 (PST) On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Jonathan M Perl wrote: > But the logo says 'Evolution' records. I had never > heard of this before, but it seems to be a label started by Byrne around > 1970. This appears to be the first release on the label - has anyone > heard of any others? What is the story with this label? Robbie - any > ideas? Wasn't the first Michael Quatro LP on Evolution? Mike Quatro was Suzi's brother and he recorded keyboard extravaganzas similar to Rick Wakeman. I may be wrong about this, but Canada's Lighthouse may have been on the Evolution label in the States for an LP or 2 as well. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) "Yma Rocks" CD Date: 12 Mar 1998 17:45:11 -0500 (EST) At 12:43 AM 3/11/98 -0000, MDToth wrote: >How did I miss this? Has this been mentioned before on here? >Yma Rocks CD Due Out Soon! >The long awaited CD of Yma Sumac's 1971-72 rock efforts is on its way to >energize the moribund musical world. It is called: Yma Rocks! >A collectors edition will be sold through this site. Here's what Don Pierson says about the new CD: -Lou I'm not planning a bulk mailing but am hoping to have CD ready sometime in April. It will be sold only through the Official Authorized Yma Sumac Homepage and updates about its release will be posted in the Latest News area. Sincerely, Don -- Contact and Webpages: Don Pierson e-mail: pc@accesscom.com Official Authorized Yma Sumac Homepage http://www.accesscom.com/~pc/sumac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) Soundtracks continued Date: 12 Mar 1998 15:16:44 -0800 The Wild Side of Henry Mancini; Music from "Touch of Evil" http://www.jackdiamond.com/Wild_Side.jpg Seven Golden Men Just scored this masterpiece for myself; Armando Travajoli-Treasure of San Gennaro All sorts of fucked up electric/electronic organs/keyboards Cleve would love this 1 if he doesn't already have it Never seen it before either AND IT WAS CHEEEEEEEEP Leith Stevens Orchestra; Private Hell 36 You know how Leith Stevens died ? He had a heart attack moments after he learned that his wife had been killed in a car accident:( That is just sooooooooo romantic Talk about a musical genius; From Private Hell 36 to Destination Moon to Exploring The Unknown to The Wild One to The Interns, James Dean Story, Hell to Eternity, War of The Worlds, Dr Strangelove. One of the TOP of the TOP in the field of jazz orchestra composition for film and NO, I don't have any extras of these:-) More killer OST's in general; Sweet Smell of Success Mirage Slender Thread In Cold Blood The Lost Man The Dynamite Brothers And sooooooooooooooooooooooooomany more! Jack PS Where's Eb ? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Antho=?ISO-8859-1?B?8Q==?=io Mighuel Pettit" Subject: Re: (exotica) Pizzicato 5 Date: 12 Mar 1998 15:30:27 -0800 Psss-ss-sst.... Hey, buddy... I can tell you *anything* you need to know about Pizzicato Five CDs.... Just let me know how detailed to get... Regards, Antho=F1io Mighuel Bishop Pettit Pacific NorthWest #1 Pizzicato Manic pettit@cnw.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: Jack Subject: (exotica) Vox Humana Date: 12 Mar 1998 15:44:54 -0800 Anyone ever hear of this LP on Folkways label, dated 1956 ? Oh god, I love records so much:-) Review later, this is serious 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) EZ 60s & 70s Date: 12 Mar 1998 16:11:26 +0000 Along the same lines, I was just given "On the Rocks," Rock and Roll hits distilled for Easy Listening. HooEEEeeEE!! Part of the admirable Ultra Lounge series, it's just what the title says. Track one is the Johnny Mann Singers comin' at ya HARD with "Heart Full of Soul." It's a bumpy ride from there! Some tracks are just lay there and wheeze, but when it works, LOOKOUT BABY! Highlights include: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - David Mcallum I heard it throught the Grapevine - The Little Big Horns Everyday People - Peggy Lee Yummy Yummy yummy (I got love in my tummy!!) Julie London Other artists: Mel (the blue fog) Torme, Lord Sitar, Mrs. Miller, David Rose, Buddy Morrow, and MORE! Need I go on? Happy Birthday INDEED. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) EZ 60s & 70s Date: 12 Mar 1998 20:49:37 EST In a message dated 98-03-12 12:51:08 EST, you write: << The Brass Ring, I just don't know. They're a time capsule all right--but after the initial shock of recognition (didn't they use this one in a Benson & Hedges cigarette commercial?) this didn't do a lot for me. . . >> that's right, ross, it's "The Dis-Advantages Of You". Tall, leggy blond sixties chick on the cover cuddling the portly, bald guy. I'm not real stuck on the NOW sound of Phil Bodner and The Brass Ring but love that smoke ad track sooooo much i may make it my "official" opening theme for anyone unlucky enough to recieve a Basic Hip tape. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Milton DeLugg? Date: 12 Mar 1998 19:42:28 +0000 At 05:34 AM 3/12/98, Brad Bigelow wrote about Milton DeLugg: >DeLugg's main claim to fame was as the bandleader for "The Tonight Show" >after Skitch Henderson left. According to Total Television this is true. Skitch left in 1966. DeLugg succeeded him, but only briefly. >He recorded one album for RCA leading this >band. I just listened to it! 'Presenting Milton DeLugg and "The Tonight Show" Big Band' RCA LPM-3809 (the stereo version is LSP-3809). Can't say that album did much for me, but I did enjoy three of the 11 cuts: Hawaiian Village and Maria's Mantilla (both written by DeLugg) and The Cry of the Wild Goose (by Terry Gilkyson). I absolutely abhored their version of Penny Lane. >Then Johnny Carson replaced Jack Paar and replaced Milton with Doc >Severinsen (among other staff changes). Well, this isn't quite true, according to Total Television. Johnny Carson started doing the show on October 1, 1962. It was in 1967 that Doc Severinsen became the band leader. I guess Skitch was good enough for Johnny, but Milton wasn't. My theory is that DeLugg was hired as an interim measure because he sort of looked like Skitch (with the goatee and all). I am curious about his other music, though, because his Hawaiian Village shows some potential with bongos and sort of electric harpsichord thing in it. Oh, by the way, Anne DeLugg co-authored Maria's Mantilla (wife?). Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) ykodisc press release Date: 11 Mar 1998 21:51:27 EST this came from the soundtrack newsgroup: Message-id: <19980311143601.JAA12817@ladder02.news.aol.com> Release Date: April 7th, 1998 SWINGIN' 60s SOUNDTRACKS! FAB BABY, FAB! After the Fox/ (Here We Go Round) The Mulberry Bush/ The Knack_And How To Get It/ The Thomas Crown Affair/ The Whisperers The Rykodisc and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. co-venture to produce, launch, and promote a series of high-quality original soundtracks continues with the roll out of five titles from the legendary library of United Artists Pictures, now a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. On April 7th, 1998, Rykodisc will release the original motion picture soundtracks to AFTER THE FOX, (HERE WE GO ROUND) THE MULBERRY BUSH, THE KNACK_AND HOW TO GET IT, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and THE WHISPERERS. Our cast of composers and performers starring in this group includes Burt Bacharach, The Spencer Davis Group, Michel Legrand, John Barry, Peter Sellers and The Hollies, Traffic, Noel Harrison and more! As with all releases in the Original MGM Soundtrack Series, these are pristine remastered recordings which include extensive liner notes, exclusive photographs, a reproduction of the original movie poster, select incidental movie dialogue, and CD-ROM capabilities featuring a film clip or theatrical trailer previewing the home video release, where available. These releases mark the first time all but one (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush) are available on compact disc. AFTER THE FOX (RCD 10716): Music Composed by Burt Bacharach, Lyrics for the title song by Hal David This soundtrack is a zany comic concoction by pop legend Burt Bacharach, the composer of over 25 Top Ten hits. The mischievous score for this 1966 comedy features the lyrical talents of his collaborator Hal David on the title song, performed by The Hollies with the star of the film, Peter Sellers. Sellers assumes the guise of a Fellini-like director and persuades an entire Italian village to help him make an absurdist movie. In reality, they are helping him pull off an outrageous gold heist. Quintessential Bacharach perfection! First Time on CD! (HERE WE GO ROUND) THE MULBERRY BUSH (RCD 10717): Music by Traffic and The Spencer Davis Group This 1968 British comedy offers a humorous look at one man's desperate attempts at losing his virginity. The film features pop songs by Traffic and The Spencer Davis Group, which were written specifically for the film, rather than the standard orchestral score. This prime slice of psychedelic R&B features the UK Top Ten title track as well as liner notes written by Beatles biographer Hunter Davies, who also wrote the original screenplay. (continued) THE KNACK_AND HOW TO GET IT (RCD 10718): Music Composed and Conducted by John Barry This 1965 film fully captures the essence of London in the swingin' 60s , and John Barry's seductive jazz-tinged pop score is the perfect accompaniment. This delightfully cool soundtrack to the story of one man who has "The Knack" and another who is desperately trying to get it, remains one of Barry's most sought after scores. Fabulously "mod," the film won the prestigious Golden Palm Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. First Time on CD! THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (RCD 10719): Music Composed and Conducted by Michel Legrand Michel Legrand's jazz-influenced "symphony" for this classic 1968 caper movie features the Academy AwardO winning, #1 single "Windmills of Your Mind" performed by Noel Harrison. The film stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and Michel Legrand's music received an Academy AwardO Nomination for Best Score. Legrand and Harrison were both interviewed for our liner notes. First Time on CD! THE WHISPERERS (RCD 10720): Music Composed by John Barry John Barry's 4th full-length score is a subdued departure from the rich canon of his Bond works. The music to this 1966 film matches its sensitivity perfectly and is a clear indicator of his scoring genius. The melancholic and subdued themes create a haunting atmosphere to this film about an elderly woman (Dame Edith Evans in an OscarO nominated performance) succumbing to the whispers of old age. First Time on CD! For more information regarding these or any of the releases in the Original MGM Soundtrack Series, please contact Beth Krakower at CineMedia CineMedia@aol.com, or Darcy Mayers or Sonya Kolowrat at publicity@rykodisc.com visit www.rykodisc.com or www.mgm.com Academy AwardOand OscarO are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. Date: 12 Mar 1998 23:46:22 EST There's an article on Kahimi Karie in the current issue of the SF Bay Guardian that mentions a collection titled "I Am a Kitten" but it seemed to be on the japanese label (Cruel LP) that's put out her other stuff. I seem to remember that in an article on Momus a few weeks back the Guardian said there would be a U.S. collection of her material out this year, but I don't remember the details. Check out their website and see if you can dig up the articles on Momus, or on Cornelius.... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Milton DeLugg? Date: 12 Mar 1998 20:50:06 -0800 I've gotta record by Milt on...can't remember the label though Does some great versions of TV themes and 1 of the titles is FLIPPER with Vinnie Bell and his "under water" guitar sound. I think 12 O'Clock High is on there too and a great version Killer record Jessica!!! Where are you ???? 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: Irwin Chusid Subject: (exotica) HARRY PARTCH: THE ODYSSEY CONTINUES Date: 12 Mar 1998 23:55:22 -0500 HARRY PARTCH: DEAR LANDLORD [NY Press, Mar. 11/17] by Irwin Chusid Harry Partch's music may be an otherworldly escape for its audience. But for Dean Drummond, it's three tons of backbreaking reality. Drummond, a prot=E9g=E9 of the late hobo composer (see NY Press Arts, 12/31-1/6) and leader of the ensemble Newband, has been custodian of Partch's massive collection of hand-crafted instruments--without which it's nearly impossible to play Partch's unique music--since 1990. In 1993, Drummond and the fragile 43-note devices obtained a residency at the Purchase College (then SUNY Purchase) Conservatory of Music. But recently, the landlord served a de facto eviction notice: the school has asked Drummond to vacate his space by Fall 1998. "I wasn't told," said Drummond. "I found out by having called to my attention what was in the course catalog for next year. I walked in and confronted the new dean [of music, Karl Kramer], who said he was going to wait until after Newband's [spring] concerts to tell us. He thought I was too busy to deal with it." Kramer insists it's a question of real estate. "The problem the Conservatory is having--sort of a good problem--is that we're growing so fast, we have so many applicants, that the space Newband is now occupying we need for teaching," he explained. "It's a very difficult decision. We've enjoyed having them here. We're still trying to locate alternate space on campus. But currently they're in a space which we absolutely need." Drummond can't afford to wait-and-see. In more ways than one, he's following in his mentor's leatherworn footsteps. Partch, a vagabond most of his life, often experienced similar displacements. That--and chronic poverty--eventually made him a bitter, cynical crank, especially during what Partch scholar Phillip Blackburn terms "his drinking period" late in life.=20 "This is the second time I've lost a space," Drummond attests. "I'm not the drinking sort, but I can understand how for someone who was, this would be a time to get totally soused and bitter about the world. But I'm a different person, and I'm taking it differently." Finding a new home for 6,000 pounds of fragile woodwork won't be easy. "We're looking for an institution--just about anywhere--that thinks preserving Partch's legacy is essential, and for whom providing a space is no skin off their nose," asserted Drummond. "We'd be willing to move to most major cities in the United States or Europe." Which does not bode well for local Partch aficionados. Over the past decade, New York audiences have had the enviable privilege of enjoying Partch's works in concert several times a year. But that's likely to change if the instrumentarium leaves the metro area. The caravan is a gargantuan undertaking: transport costs, the exhaustive packing process, lengthy setup and breakdown, and the general cumbersomeness of these relics have benefited NY audiences by default. Wherever Drummond settles, the freight won't venture far. "Ideally," said Drummond, "I'm interested in moving to an institution dedicated to participating in the production of major multi-media works by Partch, commissioning and performing new works for the instruments, and training the next generation of composers and performers in the growing language of microtones." Whether such a paradise exists in the metro NY region remains to be seen. The collection could remain at Purchase, but that's far from assured. "When it comes down to a decision between a resident group and teaching the students," stressed Kramer, "my first priority has to be the students. Those kinds of decisions are never fun to make, but I have to make them." Drummond can be contacted at Partch on the web: http://www.purchase.edu/newband # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) Some Great Theremin News! Date: 12 Mar 1998 21:23:06 -0800 >Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:03:31 -0800 >From: Charlie Lester >Reply-To: clester@137.com >Organization: 137 Technologies >To: Lev Net , > "Charlie Lester's Cyber-Friends" <137@137.com> >Subject: Some Great Theremin News! >Charlie Lester writes; >Two wonderful upcoming theremin gigs have just been confirmed for me: > >First, I will be playing the theremin and presenting a seminar on the >instrument as a featured "clinician" for the annual national conference >of the National Association of Negro Musicians this August in Las Vegas. >It will be held at the new Orleans Hotel & Casino overlooking the Las >Vegas Strip. I'm pretty excited about this, especially since it will be >my first time ever to go to Vegas!! Maybe I'll run into Wayne Newton and >do some duets! (Just hope David Copperfield doesn't make my theremin >disappear!) > >Then, I have been invited to appear with the Los Angeles based Southeast >Symphony at their annual pops concert in May 1999. The featured work that >evening will be the Spellbound Concerto, and other surprises as well TBA. Charlie is a really good guy and a customer of mine. Here he is; http://www.137.com/theremins/ and here's Sam, the man; http://www.137.com/hoffman/ If you happen to catch 1 of his shows, say "Hi Charlie!" for me, I'd appreciate it:-) Thanks, 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: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: caveat emptor Date: 12 Mar 1998 23:25:24 -0700 >From: Ron Grandia > >(Man, I really >have learned NOT to trust people who are paranoid about being ripped off >- - I have come to believe it's because they expect everyone to be just >like THEM) *Excellent* observation. Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) The film with the tiki bar Date: 13 Mar 1998 02:44:56 EST In a message dated 98-03-11 19:00:13 EST, ecam@voicenet.com writes: << The Apartment Autopsia de un Fantasma Barbarella Beat The Devil Bedazzled Bell, Book And Candle Black Orpheus Breathless (1959 version only!) Casino Royale Contempt The Cool Ones 007 films (pref. earlier) Dr. Strangelove 8 1/2 F For Fake A Guide For The Married Man In Like Flint The Ipcress File It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Johnny Cool Juliet Of The Spirits The Knack, And How To Get It Lolita Lord Love A Duck The Loved One The Magic Christian The Manchurian Candidate Mars Needs Women Matt Helm films The Million Eyes Of Su Muru Modesty Blaise Mondo Cane Ocean's Eleven Orgy Of The Dead Our Man Flint Our Man In Havana The Party The Pink Panther The President's Analyst Seconds A Shot In The Dark Touch Of Evil Thunderbirds Are Go Vertigo What A Way To Go! countless assorted spy movies >> Sorry to quote the whole list here, but I have a purpose: Can anyone think of the name of the 50/60's lounge era film (it's gotta be one of the usual suspects) that has a scene in it where the main characters meet for drinks in a tiki bar???? I just can't remember what film or who starred in it. Maybe it was The Apartment??? Anyone??? - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Re: There ARE soundtracks Date: 13 Mar 1998 02:44:57 EST In a message dated 98-03-11 20:02:19 EST, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << With the exception of the occasional record- and you guys can name them if you want - soundtracks are only useful as objects to trigger movie memories. There's background music and there's background music. And then there's foreground music. Which is fine if you like overly long opening credit sequences. Or musicals. >> Well, I'd have to say at least ONE exception that I've been listening to over and over again in the car, is "Touch of Evil." All those endless variations of 50's songs are really the tops. Anyone else have any favorite soundtracks they'd like to mention? - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers Date: 13 Mar 1998 02:44:53 EST In a message dated 98-03-10 15:15:58 EST, you write: << Yes, yes,yes! Particularly the middle period, when Steed was accompanied by Emma Peel (Diana Rigg). Mmmmm! Very stylish indeed. >> I used to watch this show all the time when I was a kid and it wasn't until I visited a local video store here in L.A., that rummaging thru their classic TV section, I found out that there was another woman that Steed was with, besides Ms. Peel???? I don't remember seeing any episodes that had another gal??? Also, in all those shows there never was ANY people in the typical crowd scenes (like when they show them in or on a Main street somewhere) - how unrealistic I thought. But when I was a kid, I just thought, "where are all the people?" - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 13 Mar 1998 04:29:40 -0500 The "list of "good" soundtracks keeps rolling in... And given that the majority of records I own in the genres we discuss here, are only in my collection as fodder for the odd cool cut on a tape - and for the objects themselves and what they represent - then soundtracks fit right in. But for instance, I just got out my copy of "Man with the Golden Arm". The cover has those great graphics, just like the great titles in the film, also by Saul Bass. Frank played a junkie musician so the film had this jazz-flavoured soundtrack. That opening flourish, riding the the hi-hat. And it says it right on the cover: "jazz sequences... Shorty Rogers... Shelly Manne". Then you play it. You certainly get to hear that opening tune as many times as you'd ever want and in as many incarnations. But otherwise, it's pretty damn thin. Or try "Anatomy of a Murder". Another Saul Bass cover. They hired a "real" jazz composer for this one - Duke Ellington - instead of Elmer Bernstein. And this is a definite improvement over the last one. There are a couple of pieces that are okay. But it's hard to ignore all those moments that are just Duke's attempts to provide a little atmosphere or mood... and not much more. Duke pulling his punches is better than many others pulling out the stops but still... it's not much of a record. I love that period of "jazz scoring" in films and I love discovering new ones.("The Edge of the City"!) And these soundtracks evoke that for me. But are those the records you listen to if you like the jazz of that period? How high on your list are these records when you're recommending Shorty Rogers or Shelly Manne to someone? Where does that soundtrack rate on the Duke Ellington discography? Michael Nyman? I don't know his music. But I know that there are these composers out there, who you might call "minimalism light". I don't doubt that their soundtracks closely resemble their "real" music. To the degree their music can stand on its own, I guess their scores can too. I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records. And there's all those Tangerine Dream soundtracks which are mighty similar to their records. Practically any music - within reason - put in the background of a film, helps the film. But in general, when someone's music is said to resemble "film music", I didn't think it was meant as a compliment. Somebody brought up "Four Rooms" and how the soundtrack there is better than the film. If anything, that example proves my point. It was a bad film and one of the reasons - not that the music could have saved it - was that they (Tarantino?) tried to prop it up with inappropriate (though groovy) music. That wasn't a score and it did nothing to help the film except distract you from the excruciating boredom. By the way, somebody - Jack? - mentioned "Private hell 36". I'd love to find that record. I watched the film again last night and the Leith Stephens music may be great but it's buried at a barely audible level for most of the film. (No music at all for the car chase.) Okay, let the rain start up again. "McCabe and Mrs.Miller" anyone? "The Hot Spot"? "Kamikaze 89"? Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: michael jemmeson Subject: (exotica) New and modern music Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:29:31 +0000 >> << I was wondering what 'new' and 'modern' music do you guys listen >to? So far, Aerial M, Mogwai, Broadcast, Stereolab Mike Paradinas - (Jake Slazenger, u-ziq, Gary Moscheles) I don't think i've seen Pram mentioned on the list, and i'm sure that at least a few of you must like or would like them. That is, once you get used to the slightly out-of-tune sounding vocals. Pram - Helium (Too Pure?) Pram - Sargasso Sea (Too Pure) New: Pram - North Pole Radio Station (Wurlitzer Jukebox) Haven't heard this. Any good, anyone? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Moritz R®" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Avengers "EXOTICA"??? Date: 13 Mar 1998 13:12:53 +0000 Dear Michele, in fact there were TWO other Emma Peels (that makes three alltogether, Uma Thurman is No.4), one I don=91t remember, the other was Honor Blackman, who was not so bad after all. In 1966 she was singing along with Patrick McNee that "camp"-classic "Kinky Boots", that became the B-Side of a 198x-12 Inch on Cherry Red- Records. A-Side was the incredible Remix of the Avengers-Theme, that was actually better than the original. Which does not happen to be the case so often. I like some of the very first Avengers-episodes that were still filmed in Black/White. It was really a cheap production in the beginning and got all the class from it=91s bizarr ideas. SOUNDTRACKS: Listen to the music of the films of Jaques Tati. Nobody mentioned them as far as I know. And now something completely different: THIS EXOTICA MAILING LIST SEEMS TO BE MORE LIKE AN EASY LISTENING RECORD COLLECTOR MAILING LIST. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH ARTS, PERFORMANCES, COLLECTORS ITEMS, TIKI-STUFF ETC.? =AE # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) My life is a click-track.(Warning! Long as a David Lean film) Date: 13 Mar 1998 08:13:09 -0500 >Anyone else have any favorite soundtracks they'd like to mention? Hoo-boy. I AM my mother's son: The Sea Hawk - Ernest Korngold (the Charles Gerhardt recording also has Deception. Buy that CD and you will be strutting about the living room and posing. Guranteed!) The Manchurian Candidate - David Amram (looking for a copy of this!) Battle of Algiers - Ennio Morricone (I saw the movie, don't have this one. Don't know about the record, except that it's SHORT!) The Tin Drum - Maurice Jarre' Captain from Castille - Alfred Newman Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith Dracula - John Williams (my favorite of his and yes, I have seen Star Wars) The Red Shoes - Brian Easdale Hangover Square - Bernard Herrmann (also on a Gerhardt recording called "Citizen Kane") The Day The Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann (I was at a screening where they applauded the main titles, the music is so good) Sweet Love, Bitter ("Today's Scene! Today's Shocks! Today's Shout ... Make it - any way, with any one - but MAKE IT!") - Mal Waldron. Haven't seen this, either. The Private Affairs of Bel Ami - Darius Milhaud (I would fall out dead if I saw this soundtrack on an original record) Rear Window - Franz Waxman (I don't know why some are down on this one. Cool and Jazzy!) On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry The music to this is so good, my mother bought this, leggy women on the cover and all. MacKenna's Gold - Quincy Jones The BIG Country - Jerome Moross Death of a Scoundrel - Max Steiner The previous three are soundtracks to movies that I have yet to see. As a child, these records were all that I had because when I was growing up, there was no cable (it existed, but my father thought it was Un-American!) and TV wasn't about showing too many old movies and letting you know about them). I am not careening into stories about bad childhood (which wasn't too bad, actually), I am saying that growing up as I did, I keep a special ear out for the music, because without the movie, all I could do was listen to the music and imagine what was happening. It's not as fun as seeing the movie, but it sufficed. I can still see Robin Hood's men leaping out of the trees at that point in Korngold's score, one can easily imagine a chase on skis when "Ski Chase" is playing on "OHMSS". There are soundtrack albums that don't measure up to the movie, such as "Zulu" (where is the war chanting!?). However, there are others that such as the Red Shoes or Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokoviev ( Prokofieff? Prokovieff? Procough -E -F? Protocol?) that are so good they are played as concert pieces. Some soundtracks are complete surprises: I really enjoy Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin and I thought he was just a great actor. One of his films, maybe this one, he composed the music first and then wrote the movie as a sort of ballet to fit the music and he was able to act out the entire movie for the studio heads with the soundtrack playing in the background. There is a rather nasty spate of song-comps-as-soundtracks, however, there are some gems to be had there, too. Malcolm X is a great collection of Jazz and Rhythm and Blues of the time, for example. Midnight Cowboy also boasts the great "Jungle Gym at the Zoo" by Elephant's Memory and I STILL don't know what the song's about, though! Listen before you buy, if you can, is all I can say. Don't kick me off the list for long-windedness, Brian Phillips, son of Dolores and Orva, brother to...Oops! Sorry. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: NATHAN MINER Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie. -Reply Date: 13 Mar 1998 09:02:29 -0500 Are we saying that the SF Bay Gaurdian has a web site so we can read the article on Kahimi??? Ohhhh, she sounds so cute!!! Did I miss a discussion here or something? Can anybody tell me what music of hers is available??? Thanks to Mutsumi over in Japan I was able to hear this gal.....Mutsumi did you get my comp tape yet??? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Retief" Subject: Re: (exotica) Caravan Date: 13 Mar 1998 16:16:30 +0200 Yes siree... >Once again I would like to mention the fine Bert Kaempfert recording with the fuzz bass # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Retief" Subject: Re: (exotica) Brass Impact Date: 13 Mar 1998 16:14:12 +0200 I have an ABC re-release (the white double-lp set with bad colourful ilustration on front) called Dynamic Brass Impact. Is this vol 1 & 2 or a combo of all 3? I can't agree more - great great stuff! David. clean@tamboo.com on 08/03/98 08:13:10 PM cc: (bcc: David Retief/Tredcor) the Brass Impact LPs have been a staple of Club Velvet from the start. perfect for when i need a little 'punch'. i've always been surprised that they don't get more mention on the list and i refuse to think of Warren Kime as a "poor man's Esquivel" as has been said! Love 'em! get all three! - kini >withing 24 hours of reading Brad Bigelow's "Brass" article in the latest Cool >and Strange issue, I tracked down the Warren Kime Brass Impact LP (Command RS >910 SD). I love it when that happens! six bucks - not bad for SF, less than >a movie. > visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # 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: "David Retief" Subject: Re: (exotica) Norrie Paramor Date: 13 Mar 1998 16:32:28 +0200 I generally steer clear of Mr. Parramour after some bad experiences with extremely bland 70's string albums (The Magic Strings of...) that contain no magic...Even made the heinous mistake of buying an early eighties one whith oh so much bad synth (during my soaring seventies strings obsession). Now if it even says produced by (many british bbc-ish productions do)..I leave i be. DavidR. Brad Bigelow on 09/03/98 07:28:08 AM cc: (bcc: David Retief/Tredcor) I wanted to mention this in case any of the label-connected list members may be interested. In the nearly two years that I've had my "Space Age Pop Standards" website up, the one artist I've had the most inquiries about--at least one or two a month, many from overseas--is Norrie Paramor. I'm constantly being asked if his "In London, In Love" and follow-on albums (strings with wordless vocals by Patricia Clark) are available on CD (they're not). It's not my favorite stuff, but I've been impressed by the strength of the interest in these albums (which are usually not too many thrift bins away here in the U.S.). Brad spaceagepop@earthlink.net Visit the Space Age Pop Standards page at: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/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. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 kasdorf Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry. More? Date: 11 Mar 1998 17:53:45 -0500 It's really sad to find out that >a man who's been responsible for some of the greatest music ever made (had >Barry lived 200 years ago, people would've definitely compared him to >Bach/Mozart/whoever of that calibre) turned out to be so seemingly bitter >about everything and everyone.....:( >> Bach, Mozart? John Barry? Let's please not get carried away. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:21:28 GMT Nat Kone,bruno@yhammer.com,Internet writes: Michael Nyman? I don't know his music. But I know that there are these composers out there, who you might call "minimalism light". I don't doubt that their soundtracks closely resemble their "real" music. To the degree their music can stand on its own, I guess their scores can too. I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records. And there's all those Tangerine Dream soundtracks which are mighty similar to their records. Okay, not to beat a dead horse, but....why is it necessary to differentiate soundtracks and "real" music - a proper score IS real music. "Minimalist Light"? I think listening to Philip Glass's "Mishima", or Nyman's "A Zed and Two Noughts" pretty much disproves that idea. The only Eno soundtrack I have is better than his "Music For Films" - it's called "Jubilee", and it's punk. There are so many good records out there, and a decent number of them happen to be soundtracks. What a shame to write off an entire group of recordings just because of what they're called... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:10:40 GMT Darrell Brogdon,dbrogdon@ukans.edu,Internet writes: In addition to "Accordion My Way", Milton Delugg also did an album of monster music in the mid-60s. Don't remember the exact title - something like "Music for Munsters, Monsters and Mummies". Anybody ever see this one? Had a picture of the Munsters on the cover. It wasn't a children's record per se - more like big band renditions of themes from "The Munsters", "The Addams Family", "Bewitched" and others, plus some tunes penned especially for the album. Used to have a copy years ago and would love to find another one! Milton didn't play accordion on this one, though. I actually have this one! It's called "Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies and other TV Frends" - the exciting sound of Milton Delugg and his Orchestra. It's got the themes from The Munsters, Bewitched, Addams Family, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Theme, etc... Definitely not a kiddies' record. It's got a purple cover, with a picture of the Munsters on it. Imagine The Munsters theme played with an orchestra that includes a not only a horn section, but an organ... cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryls@babylon.montreal.qc.ca (cheryl shinfield) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:12:45 GMT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dbrogdon@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: (exotica) Milton Delugg Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:08:04 +0000 > I actually have this one! It's called "Music for Monsters, Munsters, Mummies > and other TV Frends" - the exciting sound of Milton Delugg and his Orchestra. > It's got the themes from The Munsters, Bewitched, Addams Family, The Outer > Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Theme, etc... Yes! That's the one! I had this one when I was a kid and either wore it out or lost it years ago before I was smart enough to actually take care of my records! I distinctly remember the purple cover. My favorite track was "Creature From Under the Sea". If any of you dealers out there ever have this one for sale, please let me know! Darrell Brogdon Program Director KANU The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 (785) 864-4530 (phone) (785) 864-5278 (fax) http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm dbrogdon@ukans.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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51 Date: 13 Mar 1998 19:04:37 +0100 Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, and _maybe_ on other stations too in the near future... stand by for more news... Fantastica # 51 --------------- * Terry Snyder: "Putting On The Ritz" [LP: "Mister Percussion"] typical spage age stereo percussive jazzy big band crazyness a la Enoch Light * Marty Manning And His Orchestra: "Spellbound Concerto" [LP: "The Twilight Zone"] heavenly beautiful, mysterious, wordless vocals and theremin * Jim Backus And Friend: "Delicious!" [compil. LP: "Frolic Dinner Vol. 3"] demented cocktail laughing "song". highly disappointing volume, I prefer the previous 2 volumes * Singing Dogs: "Oh! Suzanna" [compil. CD: "Your Hit Parade: Golden Goofers"] only available from Time Life, lots of rare novelty stuff, recommended for Dr. Demento fans. * Leo Diamond's Orchestra: "Strange Enchantment" [LP: "Exciting Sounds From Romantic Places"] brilliant LP! tens of different harmonica models plus lots of other strange sounds make incredibly strange versions of classic themes. EZFX: easy listenig with sound effects. * Lenny Bruce: "Psychopathia Sexualis" [compil. CD: "Spy Magazine Presents: White Men Can't Rap"] * Robert Mitchum: "What Is This Generation Coming To" [CD: "That Man"] this Bear family CD contains not only the full "Calypso Is Like So" but also plenty of Mitchum singles * Robert Maxwell, His Harp And Orchestra: "September In The Rain" [LP: "The Magic Of Robert Maxwell"] EZFX * Shirley Bassey: "Light My Fire" [compil. CD: "Blue Break Beats Volume Three"] if you wanna try one, i'd recommend starting with this volume * Astrud Gilberto: "Call Me" [CD: "Beach Samba"] * Air: "La Femme D'Argent" [CD: "Moon Safari"] only 10 tracks on their CD, and i liked 5 of them, which is not bad ;-) this is soo seventies! lots of Pink Floyd and other prog rock influences. * Tipsy: "Something Tropical" [CD: "Trip Tease"] "name that sample game" but is also great music to listen to * Ellie Mannette And The Shell Invaders Steel Orchestra: "Number 69" [LP: "Carnival Calypso Hits 1962"] isn't that an odd song title for a steel band? they're called after the big Shell oil drums they use to make into steel drums. * Sabu: "Rhapsodia Del Maravilloso" [CD: "Palo Congo"] afro-latin percussion jazz * Lorne Green: "Ringo (French Version)" [compil. CD: "Golden Throats 3: Sweethearts Of Rodeo Drive"] all in all not a great episode in Rhino's series, but i gues worth it for this rare gem. Mr. Ponderosa's French accent is awful of course. * Los Albinos: "Frere Jacques Conga" [compil. CD: "Shake Your Congas. Another Crazy Cocktail Party"] typical novelty-esque Belgian 60's beat-lounge * Emil Richards: "Celesta" [CD: "Wonderful World Of Percussion"] brilliant! he plays all the featured percussion instruments. all tracks except this one have odd rhythm patterns and meters * The Robert Cobert Orchestra: "No. 1 At The Blue Whale" [soundtrack LP: "Dark Shadows"] great great soundtrack! both charming melodies and more scary kind of things * John Barry: "The Human Jungle" [compil. CD: "Ultra-Liunge Vol. 13: TV Town"] typical Barry: electric guitar plus some electronics in a heavenly theme. (CD) = exists on CD the radio pages on my web site: http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:08:13 PST While we are at it, is anyone familiar with "Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score for 'I Want To Live'" to offer a brief musical appraisal/release date? The track titles are enough to sell the thing: Gas Chamber Unveiling; Nightmare Sequence; Preparations for Execution; etc. We seem to have all sorts of, uh, exotic percussion going on here, burmese gongs and the like, so I assume this thing may be interesting. "Danke Schön" BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) thriftstore dilemma Date: 13 Mar 1998 19:23:39 +0100 (MET) Chester is in Sweden. Arn't you? It's a completely different ballgame compared to thrifting in the USA. $15 for the good stuff is peanuts here. Sure you can be lucky sometimes but there arn't that many 1950s US pressing with the killer stuff floating around over here. Pay what you feel the music is worth to You. That's the only rule. Buy a cheap portable player and check the discs out first. 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: brian@headspace.com (Brian Salter) Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:54:01 -0800 >I suppose there's probably a film with an Eno soundtrack out there >somewhere and if it sounds "as good as" his "Music for Films" or his other >ambient records, that wouldn't surprise me. I have those records. 'For All Mankind', a pseudo-documentary of the moon landings. The soundtrack uses music from 'Apollo', maybe some of his other albums too, i can't remember. highly recommended-- it's a very lyrical and beatiful film! Keep an eye out for it... -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter brian@headspace.com / 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: Jack Subject: Re: (exotica) Annotated Playlist Fantastica # 51 Date: 13 Mar 1998 10:50:07 -0800 >* Marty Manning And His Orchestra: "Spellbound Concerto" > [LP: "The Twilight Zone"] > > heavenly beautiful, mysterious, wordless vocals and theremin Johan, There is NO theremin on that LP Ondioline and Martenot-YES and definitely no theremin 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Avengers Date: 13 Mar 1998 14:34:15 -0500 Several years back, one of the US cable channels ran a bunch of the early "Avengers" episodes. In some of them, Steed's partner was a man, Dr. (I forget his name (no! not Who!)), but they seemed to quickly abandon that in favor of Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. I thought she was pretty cool. Her attitude was a little more stern than Diana Rigg's, and her leather wasn't as tight, but she did pioneer the intelligent (I *think* the character was an anthropologist in her day job), butt-kickin', modern grrl aspects of the role. Ms. Blackman went on to play Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", but you already knew that, right? Another note -- John Steed was quite the rogue in those early episodes, doing things like smacking barmaids on the booty. What a cad! (He did know better than to try that on his partner, who likely would have flipped him through a window.) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: breithel@lund.mail.telia.com (Ingemar Breithel) Subject: Re: (exotica) Avengers Date: 13 Mar 1998 21:54:53 +0100 At 14.34 980313, m.ace wrote: >Ms. Blackman went >on to play Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger", but you already knew that, right? >Another note -- John Steed was quite the rogue in those early episodes, doing >things like smacking barmaids on the booty. What a cad! (He did know better >than to try that on his partner, who likely would have flipped him through a >window.) Very likely -- in fact she wrote an entire book on the subject: "Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence" (1965), with instructive photos of Ms. Blackman herself, handbag in hand, disposing of a wide variety of thugs in all manner of unlikely ways. Hilarious stuff. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie Date: 14 Mar 1998 08:12:47 +1100 For the fans there's another page worth a visit - Kahimi Karie's Playhouse http://www2.eccosys.co.jp/~kawakazu/kk/karie.html ----- With regards to the thrift store issue, I find them a total gold mine, but you've got to be prepared to delve (as any good vinyl hunter does anyway). Only yesterday I picked up 2 french Francoise Hardy releases, a 3LP set of 1960's British TV themes and Birds and Brass (as featured on the 'Espresso Espresso' comp), all a buck each (even the 3LP set). You can't beat value like that with a stick! Wayne # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) "the living trio" Date: 13 Mar 1998 18:04:12 -0500 Can any of you "Three Suns" experts - or anyone else - answer this? Is the "Living Trio" another incarnation of the "Three Suns"? A friend of mine claims this and I can see the logic in it. The instrumentation seems to be the same and their version of "Holly holy" on the "Ballad of Easy Rider" record I have, reminds me of what the Suns would have done with it. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) Barry. More? Date: 14 Mar 1998 01:05:25 +0100 >Bach, Mozart? John Barry? Let's please not get carried away. Why not? I don't see why Barry and Bacharach (in particular) could *not* be compared to Mozart and Bach....they're all composers in the true sense of the word, combining complex harmonies and rhythms with popularmusic at its best. Mozart did a hell of a lot of music which could be described as easylistening or muzak, didn't you know that? Y'know, several of his pieces which are considered 'classics' today were simply courtmusic at the time, written to be performed in the background while the kings and counts discussed things over dinner or whatever. The music wasn't created to stick out or make itself heard - it was created to be just a pleasant wall-tapestry sound, maybe providing somekind of atmosphere but not to the extent that the conversations would be disrupted or to the extent that the people would focus their attention on the actual music. Sounds a lot like the idea behind most moviescores, eh? Anyone who's a musician could confirm that the complexity of Bacharach hardly matches *anyone* but some of the most extreme classical composers and that's a fact which can't be denied. I don't like Bach or Mozart the slightest but Bacharach is definitely up there, IMO. Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) High Llamas Date: 14 Mar 1998 01:05:57 +0100 Peter wrote: >Does anyone know how to get in touch with the High Llamas, or who distributes >their stuff? I had a direct address to the band written down on a piece of paper but I seem to have lost it.........Doh! :) *But*, I'm pretty sure you can contact Sean and Co through their management: Nancy Phillips Cracks 90 PO Box 1115, London N8 7DX I dunno who distributes their music...they have their own label, Alpaca Park, but are also signed to V2, while being published by Sony Music. Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Re: Brass Impact Date: 13 Mar 1998 19:23:26 -0000 "David Retief" wrote: >I have an ABC re-release (the white double-lp set with bad colourful >ilustration on front) called Dynamic Brass Impact. Is this vol 1 & 2 or a >combo of all 3? >I can't agree more - great great stuff! It's a combo of all three if I recall correctly. (I've got the originals and don't own the twofer, although I have seen it for sale before) Also, I seem to remember it doing an amazing job of coming close to collecting all the best tracks of those three original records. Did anyone here ever confirm that there were any pre/post Command Kime albums we should be looking for? Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Sam_Wick@sonymusic.com Subject: (exotica) re: High Llamas Date: 13 Mar 1998 16:19:03 -0800 >I dunno who distributes their music...they have their own label, Alpaca > Park, but are also signed to V2, while being published by Sony Music. The High Llamas are signed to V2 in the U.S. V2 just released both "Cold and Bouncy", "Gideon Gaye," and "Santa Barbara" domestically. All should be quite easy to find at your local hip record store. sw. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Avengers (& Avengers-related records) Date: 13 Mar 1998 20:36:45 -0000 I'm an Avengers *nut*. My affinity for the stylishly mod and surreal is no doubt cultivated by countless hours watching Avengers re-runs in my formative years. This summer's Avengers movie is supposedly really mod/pop art in its approach, but I'm trying not to get my hopes too high for it. I wish Combustible Edison could have gotten in on the project to do "Short Double Latte" type tunes for the soundtrack. I'm not expecting much in the soundtrack department. Avengers-related records: "Kinky Boots" b/w "Let's Keep It Friendly" sung by Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman has already been addressed. In addition to that French Cherry Red 12" reissue, there was a later UK 12" on Deram. There was also a Goldfinger-era London (US)/Decca (UK) Honor Blackman LP called _Everything I've Got_ where Honor belts out an LPs worth of torch songs, some of which are (unintentionally) gut-bustingly hysterical. The Deram 12" includes a Blackman song from that LP (as well as a lame-o "remix" of "Kinky Boots.") I believe the Roland Shaw version of the theme song on the Cherry Red 12" was originally from a London/Decca "Phase 4 World of Thrillers" LP. It's pretty nice, and I think it surpasses the version recorded for the Laurie Johnson Avengers album (on CD on Varese). The only other vintage cover version of the theme I've run across is the Harmonicats' version (with crazy screeching and crashing car and gun sound effects edited in). Has anyone run across any others? (while not vintage, recent Finnish surf band Laika & the Cosmonauts does a fabulous rendition) Some Avengers links on the Web for more info on the subject: http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~dawe/avengers.html http://www.nipperland.demon.co.uk/avengers/noondoom.htm Supposedly there's an official movie site at http://www.the-avengers.com/ but I couldn't connect. Spammers and shortage of time to sort through it all have driven me from checking USENET for about three years, but there's an alt.tv.avengers newsgroup out there too. Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Weird and Tender Date: 13 Mar 1998 20:23:35 -0000 peter_risser@cinfin.com wrote: >I hesitate to ask, but has any Three Suns material been released other >than on >various artist compilations? Are there any Three Suns comps or re-releases? I think someone already covered this, but just in case: there are the non-RCA radio transcription disc recordings released on two CDs by Circle and the _Twilight Memories_ reissue by RCA/BMG Germany. >The only album I have is _Warm and Tender_ which I bought not knowing >anything >about them. It's not that great as they've compromised their threesome by A mighty reliable source informed me once that for the Living Stereo/Albertine era, "The Three Suns" were mostly original Sun Al Nevins as producer, Charles Albertine as arranger, and a bunch of uncredited studio musicians. The other two Suns may not even be ON those later albums. >adding "romantic strings" which means, well, schlock. Hmm. I sense a negative value judgment associated with the term "schlock" and therefore its apparent synonym "romantic strings." ;-) If you have a blanket prejudice against strings, this album could be a lost cause, but I think this record does some pretty unorthodox and interesting things with strings. >In fact, most of it is >strings and you can hardly hear the Three Suns at all. :( I've since heard >their good stuff (Space Age Pop Vol 1) and it's fan-friggin'-tastic. See above comment about the "ghosted" studio musicians -- I'm not so sure they can be heard on the Space Age Pop CD tracks either... >except for what is definitely one of the most bizarre songs in recorded music >history: Fly, Butterfly, which has Flight of the Bumblebee-type strings >zipping >wildly over a staggeringly slow rendition of the song by the Suns. Not >_fun_ to >listen to even, really, just very very unsettling. So, it may be worth a >quarter (that's what I paid) but I don't think it's worth much more. > >Any other takes on this album? From the first listen I was astonished with "Unchained Melody" and it's been one of my favorite Three Suns tracks since. The rest of the LP didn't really grab me for quite some time. The thing that pushed me to reevaluate this album was a Three Suns article in the first issue of _Cool & Strange Music! Magazine_. The writer had only heard a handful of the Suns' LPs and not most of the big-named favorites folks have mentioned on this list, but *WARM & TENDER* was the record that drove him to obsessive fascination. I must concur, I now truly see this as one WEEEEIRD record, albeit in a really subtle, sneaky...*tender* way. When this album finally clicked for me, it felt kind of like noticing Marilyn Monroe actually had *twelve* fingers but nobody's been paying attention all these years. (She DIDN'T, to my knowledge, but imagine how you'd feel if you found she DID!) I'll be the first to admit not EVERY song on here is a winner, but you're already on your way to unlocking the pleasure and underlying weirdness in this LP with your assessment of "Poor Butterfly." I kinda had to approach this album *academically* to really get at it and enjoy it: this sort of bizarre imposition of multiple melody lines, and neurotic combinations of instruments in the arrangements that by all rights should clash, but somehow superficially come across as "romantic." But again, note that I too was essentially bored with it on first listen. This album has slowly evolved from mostly indifference to almost equal interest with _Movin' 'n' Groovin_ in my book. It gets trippier and more fascinating every time I pull it out and pick up on its subtleties. I say, if you can get into "Poor Butterfly," someday you'll probably find more on this record of interest as well. Charles Albertine was a genius in my book. Does anyone know if he's still alive? Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.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: "Satan's little helper" Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks Date: 13 Mar 1998 22:07:12 -0600 (CST) allo. A soundtrack that no one has mentioned that I think is a great example of stretching instrumental music in very exotic ways is Akira. Yes, thats the landmark Anime movie from the late 80s. I dug the music in the movie so much I got the imported CD soundtrack, and it is nothing but brilliant in parts. It is definately foregroud music as opposed to simply incidental swells. Extremely exotic and powerful and creative at the same time. cheers! joel you know what makes me really angry about Iraq... the fact that they don't follow the Q with a U. That's just a blatent disreguard for propor speling. Ereh saw Esiuled mod HTTP://www.execpc.com/~sir-real/index.htm SKA++75-/LOCnaM6/EDUgd=3/WRK40=5.3$+/REL?&@/POL+lbt3/CAI+caf7-.imp3=.mix4+ SCN+88.91.6=.5+/STY++mod5.pat4.plb2/MUS3C350\150.T15\5.R15\90.S45\30.V3\1.B2\0* MIX+lou6.swg3.reg2/SHO+++24.6/MEDweb2.zin2-.dee0+/BND1vox2.prc3.acc0/02-06-98 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lang Thompson Subject: (exotica) need Bacharach info Date: 13 Mar 1998 23:56:29 -0500 Hi, I'm doing freelance research on Bacharach for the upcoming TNT special; what I specifically need is concrete information such as the number of songs that made the charts, etc. I've already got a list of songs from ASCAP (although it looks incomplete) and will check the Joel Whitburn books soon (but I suspect they don't have a writer index). The info I've found on the Internet is usually too general and will have to be double-checked anyway. There don't seem to be any book-length biographies. Does anybody know of any sources (hard obsessive-type info, not magazine profiles or general reference work entries) that I might have overlooked? Thanks Lang Thompson http://www.tcf.ua.edu/wlt4 New at Funhouse: Pazz & Jop Ballot, Overlooked Albums of 1997, expanded links, William Burroughs obituary. "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles." -- Ambassador Kosh # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies Subject: Re: (exotica) Avengers (& Avengers-related records) Date: 14 Mar 1998 16:28:31 +1100 Michael D. Toth wrote: > "Kinky Boots" b/w "Let's Keep It Friendly" sung by Patrick Macnee and Honor > Blackman has already been addressed. In addition to that French Cherry Red 12" > reissue, there was a later UK 12" on Deram. There was also a Goldfinger-era > London (US)/Decca (UK) Honor Blackman LP called _Everything I've Got_ where > Honor belts out an LPs worth of torch songs, some of which are > (unintentionally) gut-bustingly hysterical. The Deram 12" includes a Blackman > song from that LP (as well as a lame-o "remix" of"Kinky Boots.") I would totally recommend the Honor Blackman album if you come across it, it's great fun and a perfect "personality" record. Even if you hated it (unlikely) it's worth it alone for the liner notes which are a killer. To summarize Honor apologizes for the record and hopes we won't be "too horrified" by it. She says "...on the face of it can you think of a clearer case of suicide than an actress suddenly going berserk and singing her way through two sides of an LP?". According to the liner notes she decided to do the record treating as a challenge which she likens to learning judo, figuring that she never thought she could "hurl fifteen stone men around" so she might as well try and sing. With regards to the "Emma Peels" - There was only one Emma Peel as such (not counting Uma) played by Diana Rigg - seasons 4 &5. The other Avengers working with Steed were Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) - seasons 2&3, Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) season 1 and Tara King (Linda Thorson) season 6. Then later on there was The New Avengers with Joanna Lumley as Purdy and Gareth Hunt as Mike Gambit. Does anyone know much about the movie, will it be retaining the style of the original series? One remake that looks like it may not be anything like the original is the Lost in Space movie. Call me a purist but where are the purple velour space suits?? Did anyone out there get the Irwin Allen CD boxed set? It features music from Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, Land Of the Giants and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea. I'd be interested in hearing what it's like. Also, one other thing if I may - The Mood Mosaic series - Les Yper Sound and the four other volumes. Opinions? Thanks for reading Wayne D. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Otto temp Subject: (exotica) Beachbum Berry's Grog Log Date: 14 Mar 1998 06:05:06 EST >To clarify, > >for those of you who have bought the first edition of Beachbum Berry's Grog >Log, bless you and cherish it. > >This newly revised and new format edition will feature several NEW drinks and >will also nix five of the older ones in favor of the new ones!! >It will feature new art (thereby omitting some of the old art) and has an >expanded intro to boot. > >Moral of the story is: >those of you who have it already may want to get the new version too! >Those of you who do not have it will definitely be obligated to get THIS >version! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Living Trio Date: 14 Mar 1998 22:23:49 +0000 Nat Kone wrote: >Can any of you "Three Suns" experts - or anyone else - answer this? >Is the "Living Trio" another incarnation of the "Three Suns"? No, as far as I know they're not. Dick Hyman (alongwith several other Command alumni) was involved on many of Ray Martin's "Living..." recordings and he once told me that he'd put out a Three Suns "pastiche" album - I reckon this is the one. Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "allanc" Subject: (exotica) Playlist: The Single Eye for March 15, 1998 (with comments) Date: 14 Mar 1998 17:32:43 -0500 The Single Eye can be heard Sundays at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal, Quebec. Canada. Gert Wilden & Orchestra: Beach Party "I Told You Not To Cry" + a great compilation of Mr. Wilden's B movie soundtracks. Minus 8: Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos "The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos" + from the double lp set of trip hop remixes of "Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party" Chaino & his African Percussion Safari: The Spear Dance "Jungle Echoes" + all percussion lp on the Omega label. Goblin: Safari "Dawn of the Dead soundtrack" + Goblin are best known for providing the soundtracks for Dario Argento movies. Prog rock that won't embarrass. Traffic Sound: Meshkalina "1968-1969" There is nothing quite so exotic as late sixties Peruvian psychedelia.... Ladies W.C.: W.C. Blues "Ladies W.C." ...except maybe this band from Venezuela! I must say that Ladies W.C. has to be worst band name that I have ever heard. New Albanian Riots: A Twilight Affair "The Cream of Stars" + imagine Joe Meek producing The Ventures. John Barry: Beat Girl (Main Title) "The EMI Years Vol 1" + recorded for the teenager-in-peril movie. Tipsy: Ugly Stadium "Trip Tease" Armando Trovaioli: Bada Caterina "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 2" + this song is soooo grooovy. Air: La Femme D'Argent "Moon Safari" Syrinx: Tillicum "Long Lost Relatives" + From this Canadian instrumental band's second & last lp released in 1971. They had an unusual line-up of (primarily) ARP synth, Sax & hand percussion. Exotic sounding, but not in the way you'd expect. This track was the theme for a television show called "Here Come the Seventies". The White Noise: Firebird "An Electric Storm" + strange lounge/psych/sound effects album recorded in 1969. Recorded by David Vorhaus who you might recognize from the Electronic Toys comp. Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan: Orbit Aurora "Song of the Second Moon" + on the Limelight label. Why hasn't anyone reissued this electronic classic? Piero Montanari: Frog in Love "Scoctopus: The In Sound from Octopus Records" Angelo Baroncini: Sculturea Beat "Scoctopus..." + not a bad track on this double vinyl set. Similar to the Beat at Cinecitta collections. Combustible Edison: Mudhead "Schizophonic!" Sharpshooters: Omega "Audio Alchemy" + from the cd compilation released by Ubiquity. Comments or questions welcome. Allan. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Bacharach show review Date: 14 Mar 1998 21:49:42 -0500 Newspaper review of recent Burt Bacharach concert here: http://www.mcall.com/html/gettin/reviews/26787.htm Hopefully, NRBQ won't make any cameos in the text this time. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Records of C. Hall Date: 14 Mar 1998 21:13:34 +0000 Someone named C. Hall donated a bunch of records to the Hillsboro Goodwill and I found some interesting titles although not all great: Musically Mad Bernie Green RCA LSP-1929 I actually already had this (from an auction of records previously owned by a Mr. Pennington), but this copy was in much better condition. A favorite of mine, satirist Henry Morgan, is included in many of the cuts. The music is pretty much in your face stuff and usually pointed at classical music, but there are three that I think work as "exotica:" Give Me That Good Old Progressive Jazz features the chimes and a drummer none too appreciative of the chimist chiming in, Clinkerated Chimes offers more, Two Guitars has no guitars...the main parts played by a banjo and mandolin! 1958. Spellbound Heindorf with Dr. Sam Hoffman playing the theremin WB 1213 From what I could tell, this is a very faithful reproduction of the music by Miklos Rozsa heard in the film. Hoffman played the theremin for both and Heindorf didn't stray too much (if at all)from the original. This is not fun or light music, but it is quite creepy. 1958. Loving You Has Made Me Bananas Guy Marks ABCS-648 This is an album parody of live radio music dance bands of the 30's...done in 1968. It sounds like Lawrence Welk or Guy Lombardo...but here it is consciously a parody. It was not engineered well...the vocals and narration are slightly buried by the music. The cover features a woman about to eat a banana...but wait, that's Guy Marks in the banana peel! The question is: did the woman eat Guy Marks or return what was supposed to be a banana to her grocer? Maybe this is what happens to bananas if you leave them in your re-fri-ger-a-tor. Far Away Places Enoch Light Command RS 822 SD I really liked this. It features Billy Rowland playing the harpsichord with Phil Kraus and Bob Rosengarden doing "exotic percussion." There's yet another version of The Third Man Theme as well as Banana Boat Song, Calcutta and The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai. 1961. Wonderland by Night Louis Prima Dot DLP 3352 From looking at the catalog number and comparing to some of his earlier Dot releases, this looks like one of his later recordings. I think he was on Capitol, then he went to Dot, right? Somehow he think either didn't have the creative control in the Dot era or he simply mellowed out. Anyway, this album simply features Louis Prima's trumpet in very plain arrangements by Billy Vaughn. "I could have danced all night" showed hints of his unique approach to driving rhythm and syncopation. I think every cut uses wordless vocals...but so much they are like an overused string section. I didn't expect much from this album subtitled "Pretty Music--Prima Style Volume II" and that's what I got. Cuban Moonlight Stanley Black and his Orchestra London LL 1166 Orchestra? Hardly. This is a far cry from his later efforts where his piano is only part of the sound. Here, the piano is about the only thing, with some percussive instruments in the background. Siboney was just a bit more interesting than the rest, but generally the entire record sounded the same. Broadway '59 Pat Suzuki RCA LPM-1965 I am constantly surprised at how Ms. Suzuki was able to belt out the tunes. She *LOOKS* like a young softspoken oriental woman. I realize this is a stereotype, but it does generally seem true by my experience. In fact, she may well have been this way...but give her a microphone and WATCH OUT! I especially enjoyed the way she growled in "I Enjoy Being A Girl." George Siravo arranged and conducted, Herman Diaz, Jr. produced...all in background with Ms. Suzuki far in front. 1959 (duh!). Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way visit my website: http://www.hubris.net/zolac # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Robbie's Record Round-up #1 Date: 15 Mar 1998 15:32:05 +0000 For no particular reason, I thought I'd write some mini-reviews of some the records I've been picking up recently. These are all CDs unless otherwise stated. Ana D - Satelite '99 (Elefant (Spain) 1997, green vinyl LP) Hard to review an LP when my turntable is out of commission! But I did manage a quick listen in the shop I bought it from and also risked a skim listen at home. It's kind of like melancholy Astrud Gilberto in a keyboard laboratory (Casio, synth, Hammond organ, theremin etc appear, though these are all very subtly used). More than that will have to wait until I get a new stylus! Oh, you should also check out the Elefant website (http://www.get.es/elefant/) which has one of the coolest uses of Java I've so far seen. Add N to X - On the Wires of Our Nerves (Satellite (UK), 1998) This has been getting a lot of airplay on John Peel's show recently and deservedly so. Although some of the tracks do have the distinct feel of "what happens if I press this button" they are mostly totally inspired, wacked-out slabs of analogue electronic space rock(?!). It also sports some of the most gruesome cover art I've ever seen! The Lonesome Organist - Collector of Cactus Echo Bags (Thrill Jockey (US), 1997) A relatively short (37 minutes) and almost totally indescribable CD - this is a one man band featuring organ, vibes, marimba, toy piano, drums, guitar and seemingly pretty much anything else that came to hand. Imagine creepy carnival music, spacey cocktail lounge music, Hasil Adkins style screaming (not on all tracks!) and you might just get the idea... this is the work of a musically gifted lunatic! April Stevens/Nino Tempo - Teach Me Tiger (Marginal Records (Belgium) MARCD 086, 1997) A whopping 30-track compilation CD, the title track of which will be particularly familiar to cat-owning TV viewers here in the UK. A super sexy sixties selection of tunes and even though April Steven steps out of the limelight about halfway through the CD to allow her brother in on the action the quality of the arrangements remains high. For example, I never thought I'd describe any arrangement of 'Indian Love Song' or 'Begin the Beguine' as 'rocking' but these certainly are! Well, I hope that will be of interest to some of you. There'll be a few more of these when I can afford to buy some more tunes - unless of course any kind label-owners out there want to send me some promos! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Moritz R®" Subject: Re: (exotica) Otto THE TIKIS Date: 15 Mar 1998 16:43:58 +0000 "The Tikis also included an artist named Steve who I met a few years ago and he's still doing his noise/art rock band (forgot the name)" (Otto) Are you talking of Steve Thomson? I didn=91t know, he was actually in THE TIKIS. At least he doesn=91t appear in the credits of the 1981 World Imitation Records-Single of the band. But he definitely belonged to that circle, he was a member of MONITOR, who got their album licenced in Germany on my label ATA TAK. I=91ll ask Steve... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: (exotica) basic hip for shamus Date: 15 Mar 1998 13:00:38 EST Side One BASIC HIP John Brent And Del Close “The Beat Generation” [CD] THE DIS-ADVANTAGES OF YOU The Brass Ring “The Dis-Advantages Of You” [LP] - Benson and Hedges NOW sound official opening theme (phil bodner) ALFREDO Jimmy Smith “Crazy Baby!” [CD] - an organ, guitar and drums - nuttin' else MR. LUCKY The Anita Kerr Quartet “We Dig Mancini” [LP] - the Anita Kerr to get. lots of swinging wordless vocals LE RAGAZZE DELL’ARCIPELAGO Piero Umiliani “Svezia E Inferno Paradiso” [CD] MARCH OF THE MARTIANS Harry Breuer “The Happy Moog” [LP] - fat, juicy, bubbling moog fun with space age titles WE GET MESSAGES Jimmie Haskell “Countdown!” [CD] - outer space electronics mixed with rock-a-billy. read about it in Cool and Strange WOMAN IN SPACE Mel Henke “La Dolce Henke” [LP] WHERE WERE YOU IN 1982? 101 Strings “AstroSounds From Beyond The Year 2000” [CD] TEMPTATION Stanley Black And His Orchestra “Exotic Percussion” [LP] ARKANSAS TRAVELER Speedy West And Jimmy Bryant “Stratosphere Boogie” [CD] WALKING ALONG (KICKING THE LEAVES) Fred Lowery “Walking Along Kicking The Leaves” [LP] - blind whistling virtuoso and a happy tune. i prefer him over Muzzy. THE ENCHANTED SEA Martin Denny “Exotic Moog” [CD] GUANTANAMERA Chim Kothari “Sound Of Sitar” [LP] - pop sitar LP that can get annoying. best to slip in one track and move onto somehting else. BLACK TROMBONE Serge Gainsbourg “Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin” [CD] MAS QUE NADA (POW, POW, POW) Warren Kime “Brass Impact” [LP] - esquivel was not the only one doin' the Pow Pow Pows DOWN THE DRAIN Ken Nordine “The Best Of Word Jazz” [CD] LA DOLCE VITA (FINALE) Nino Rota “La Dolce Vita” [CD] Side Two A MAN ALONE John Barry “The Ipcress File” [LP] EDEN’S COVE Eden Ahbez “Eden’s Island” [CD] BONGO IN THE CONGO Preston Epps “Bongo Bongo Bongo” [LP] YOU NEED CONNECTIONS Babs Gonzales “Weird Lullaby” [CD] FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN Gil Trythall “Country Moog” [LP] CARAVAN Enoch Light “Exotic Trilogy II” [CD] SEA HUNT THEME Buddy Morrow “Impact” [LP] - in tribute to the recently passed Lloyd Bridges. one of the best of the "TV theme" LPs. AROUND THE WORLD Attilo Mineo “Man In Space With Sounds” [CD] - before you spend another dime on another Ultra-Lounge comp, do yourself a favor and get this, will ya? A HISTORY OF JAZZ Shorty Petterstein “The Wide Weird World Of Shorty Petterstein” [LP] - truly unique recording of "interviews". THE PLUM BLOSSOM Yusef Lateef “Eastern Sounds” [CD] - tenor sax jazzman who liked to experiment with unusual flutes. "World Music" way before it was ever called that. an Original Jazz Classic. THE TRIP Jerry Goldsmith “Sebastian” [LP] - 1966-67 computer world film about english decoder whose staff is beautiful young girls. SUMMER WINE Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood “The Hit Years” [CD] - Nancy Sinatra? sure, why not? i like the strings that back this duet. I might slip in Barry White next time. GEMINI Rick Holmes “Soul Zodiac” [LP] - Cannonball Adderley, fuzz psych guitar, soulful narration of the birth signs. CAT IN THE NIGHT Jean Jacques Perrey “Moog Indigo” [CD] THREE O Dave Vorhaus “Electronic Toys” [CD] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Playlist Fantastica # 51: (no) theremin on The Twilight Zone Date: 15 Mar 1998 14:10:49 +0100 >From: Jack > >There is NO theremin on that LP >Ondioline and Martenot-YES and definitely no theremin oops! you're the expert, Jack! ;-) i don't have the original cover for this one, so i couldn't check the instruments used; it sounded so much like a theremin, but heck, those weird electronic devices are sometimes hard to distinguish! Johan quiet@village.uunet.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: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Chester W. Nimitz) Subject: Re: (exotica) New and modern music Date: 15 Mar 1998 19:26:16 +0100 >Aerial M, Mogwai, Broadcast, Stereolab Broadcast are the greatest! Have you noticed how they've ripped off Elephant's Memory's "Old Man Willow"? It's a clever rip off actually, cos they've spread parts of that song all over that compilation of early EPs they released last year! Mogwai are...interesting, though I'm having none of that "the new My Bloody Valentine" hype from the british press...I'm going to see them live on Wednesday, actually. >I don't think i've seen Pram mentioned on the list, and i'm sure that at >least a few of you must like or would like them. That is, once you get used >to the slightly out-of-tune sounding vocals. I like them, atleast some of it....It's like if Stereolab would overdose on Krautrock and record an entire album with toy instruments... >Pram - Helium (Too Pure?) Yep, Too Pure. >Pram - North Pole Radio Station (Wurlitzer Jukebox) Haven't heard this. Any >good, anyone? If this is the new *album*, it's actually released on the Domino Records label. I heard a song from this, it's pretty good although it hardly sounded any different from their earlier releases. Chester W. Nimitz # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack, 3-1-98 Date: 15 Mar 1998 10:54:19 -0800 KFJC play list 3/1/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM ___________________________________________________________ Planets Chunky Instro Hollow Fat Guitar Echoed with Orchestra backing and percussion Bill Holman Octet Back to Minors 45 Ep W/ Bob Gordon Stu Williamson Kenton Jazz Herb Geller Curtis Counce August, 1954 Bob Envoldson Stan Levey Don Fagerquist Great 8 piece west coast jazz that is melodic and all alumni of Stan Kenton that flows and is melodic and perfect in every way Barigozzi Group, the Red Face Psycho Beat collection Everything on Easy Tempo Vol 2 is great Library Music Opening,Designing Chevrolet, 1974 Blaxploitation psychedelic funk orchestra for "OST" that Chevrolet made for their employees Chim Kothari Lookin' Thru the Eyes- Sitar, Deram Of Love Fun, pop sitar with simple backing instro Billy Mure's- Supersonic Guitars Cherokee RCA/57/MONO 5 killer studio guitar player orchestra" with Billy in the lead role tearin' in up big. Barry Gray Orch. W/ Gary Miller-Vox Stingray Great "Tom Jones like" vocals over guitar/orchestra backing out of Great Britan circa early 60's Tartaglia Within You Without You Moog and Sitar grooviness Bob Crewe Generation- Pygar's New Wings Barbarella on Cd!! Orchestra! Fight in Flight Vinnie Bell rockin' your world 1 of a kind CD backed with Jimmie Haskel's "Countdown" LP Charles Earland Raindrops Keep... Black Drops Smokin' funk hammond organ sextet roots of acid jazz with tenor, guitar, bass, drums, conga Larry Elgart Orch. The Dancing Class Barefoot Ballerinas Gypsy Festival Great jazz orchestra early 50's, mono only Fabulous Jokers Greyhound Express Perfect smokin' brittle guitar instro, circa mid 60's, Great Britan Sneaky Pete-Steel Gtr, Rusty Young-Steel Gtr Sunshine of Your Love Kinda cheesy but actually really good arrangement of Creams hit Beaver and Krause Moogy Blues Funk Limelight Great weird "somewhat vocal" with major screwed up electronics Animated Egg Sock It My Way Alshire Fat full and rich psych guitar instro that is the basis for Astro Sounds, without 101 Strings Orchestra Kenyon Hopkins Stop and Go (Main Title) The Hustler Always brings tears to my eyes, unmistakable main title to OST Mesmerizing Eye Psychedelia- A Musical Light Show Instrumental psychedelic collage of sounds with sound effects of machine gun fire and people protesting/marching etc Ken Nordine The Sound Museum A genius in his own lifetime Kenyon Hopkins Orch No Smoking Panic, Son of Shock Cool and weird spoken word with faint chamber like jazz backing. The 3rd and last of 3 LP's inna series of 1 of a kind recordings from the late 50's/early 60's I Componenti Sugar Boy Mo'plen 3000 Psychedelic fuzzed guitar w/ orchestra backing Mort Garson Solomon's Ring Black Mass Lucifer Psychedelic tripped out moog and electronic instro Betty Glaaman Qnt Pullin' Strings Bethlehem Gorgeous quiet chamber like jazz sextet led by jazz harpist Glaaman Mundell Lowe Theme From Tightrope 1960 Killer guitar led private eye/crime jazz w/ small orchestra backing Don Sebesky Orch Spiral Nebulae/ The Blue Scimitar Funk and psychedelic jazz instrumental Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron Cauldron Perfect electronic psychedelia from 1967 Tortura Sound of Pain and Pleasure Very real whipping of male person with screams and such, sounds of searing horrible pain, from Bondage records and dated 1965. Nice to throw into the mix. Kinda breaks things up a bit;-) Perrey, Jean Jacques/Chazam,D. An Elephant on the Roof Eklectronics Absolute fuckin' genius NEW jean Jacques Perrey LP with great great backing by David Chazam and his band at the time, name of TSACK! BETTER than Moog Indigo. If I had a band and was making a new rekkid w/ Jean Jacques Perrey, THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD SOUND LIKE! Unavailable in any format, promo Jack Costanzo Octet Taboo Latin Fever Smokin' Latin Afro Cuban jazz with piano by Eddie Cano, Jay Corre'-Tenor Sax Mary Mayo Desafinado Moon Gasssss Kenny Burrell/ Illinois Jacquet Mambo Twist 1961 Killin' smokin' straight ahead jazz guitar with equally smokin' killin' tenor sax inna funk jazz sort of way Elmer Bernstein Orch Early to Bed Silencers Sexy sultry soundtrack sounds, hammond organ led Riz Ortolani Sitar in Blues Una Sull'altra Great sitar led funk instro from new CD release of 3 OST's on 1 CD, also w/ Tiffany Memorandum Mineo, Attileo Around the World Conducts Man in Space W/Sounds 1 of a kind outer space electronic exotica LP(s) just reissued on CD John Carradine-Word Night Song for the Sleepless Music By Chico Hamilton 1957 Unbelieveable spoken word beat poetry by people that are not beat poets backed by very real beat jazz, title of music "Blue Sands" originally composed by Flautist Buddy Collette Boots Brown and His Blockbusters Chile Beans 45, Rca Actually full tilt west coast jazz/studio players, performing 50's R & B inflected small orchestra sound. Includes Barney Kessel and Al Viola-Guitars, Bob Cooper-Bud Shank-Dave Pell; Saxophones, Milt Bernhardt-Trombone, Shelly Manne-Drums, Howard Rumsey-Bass, Shorty Rogers-Trumpet. Originally issued on the Groove label circa 1955 Mel Brown Swamp Fever The most ab-so-lute-ly killin' funk jazz fat full rich Texas influenced guitar instro with punching funked horn sections, like nothing you ever heard, circa 1968, Impulse label Kai Rautenberg Bounce It Up Studio One Organ led library music from Great Britan, circa late 60's/early 70's Dave Grusin California Montage Winning Ost I forget, just threw it on for the 1st time. Good though Kenyon Hopkins Orch Whistle While You Work Ping, Pang, Pong... Wordless vocals backed by over 100 piece percussive orchestra with major west coast jazz horn bend to it Mario Molina E Fuzz psych guitar 3 minute instro from Mo'Plen 2 or 3,000 CD release Jerry Goldsmith Tell Me More About that Our Man Flint Ost Take Some Risks, Mr Flint Lots of electronics, electric/electronic guitar instrumental spy sounds Les Baxter Orch. Strange Sleep Dunwich Horror electronic, theremin-esque with orchestra, very weird and cool spookiness Pete Rugolo Orchestra Diamond On The Move just might be the coolest bongo beatin' beatnik jazz small combo instro you ever heard, from TV series. Music for TV circa 1958 KFJC play list 3/1/98 for Jack Diamond KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 http://www.kfjc.org - Main Site http://www.spies.com/misc/kfjc/md/pl/ - KFJC DJ Playlists # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" Date: 15 Mar 1998 15:17:13 EST "Jimmy's Easy" airs Saturdays 6-8am on 88.1 WMBR Cambridge Mundell Lowe-Pattern of Evil (from "Satan in High Heels") Warren Barker-Late at Bailey's Pad (from 77 Sunset Strip) Skip Martin-Riff Blues (theme from TV's Mike Hammer) Oliver Nelson-The Sound Machine (beautiful stuff) Brass Ring-Disadvantages of You (Benson &Hedges Commercial) Roy Budd-Plaything (not sure of my feeling on this one yet) Roger Williams-Music To Watch Gyrrls By (real swingin') Gert Wilden-Main Theme (Schulmadchen Report) Los Admidores-All of Me (bongo-ridden version of a classic) John Cameron-Sunny Speed (sucks I decided after playing:( ) John Gregory-Jaguar (thanks Br. Cleve's "Saturnalia" tape) Lalo Schifrin-Wave (brilliant strings) Ennio Morricone-Belinda Mae (jet-set bossa-swing) David Lindup-In The Limelight (TV Dinner never tasted so good) Pizzicato 5-Trailer Music (TV Dinner Music n Club Beats-wow) LaYellow 347-Quelle Sensation Bizzare (sample factory) Bob Crewe-Pyger's Persecution/Blackqueen's Beads (of course) Sounds Orchestral-Sunny (best version of Sunny for my money) Johnny Keating Orchestra-The Clown (pure pop for now people) Mark Wirtz-You Didn't Have To Be So Nice(jury still out on him) Ventures-Skylab (Telstar 2, and I missed then here on Thu.) Henry Mancini-Party Poop (from "The Party" and a list fave) Piero Piccioni-Amanda's Train (saying these names on-air sux) Elmer Bernstein-Birdito (from "The Caretakers" exc. sndtrk) Francesco DeMasi-Diamond Bossa Nova (jet set sound) Joe Graves & The Diggers-Witchcraft (swanky rendition) Tokyo's Coolest Combo-Comment Te Dire Adieu (a must-hear) Pepe Jamarillo & His Latin-American Rhythm-Exotica (sic) Combustible Esquivel-Miniskirt (packed a dance floor Sat nite) Michel LeGrand-Theme (from "Young Girls of Rochefort") Perez Prado-Lullaby of Birdland (nice Living Stereo record) Cyril Stapleton-Love Today, Cry Tomorrow (cause I love it) Pizzicato 5-I (first song I ever heard by them-love it) Herbie Mann-In Like Flint (nice busy cover) Port Authority-Super Strut (irresistible funkiness) Ben Platano Group-Castile Bottle (from Sexopolis) Lalo Schifrin-Jim On The Move (because I can~) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Cobra Woman Date: 15 Mar 1998 16:40:58 -0500 Movie previously discussed here... "Cobra Woman" (1944) on AMC, Thursday, March 19, 3:00 pm (eastern standard time). m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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@tamboo.com Subject: (exotica) Radio Velvet Date: 15 Mar 1998 16:41:48 -0600 (CST) "King Kini's Radio Velvet" can be heard coast-to-coast on Beat Radio every Sunday Night at 12am EST, 11pm CST. Beat Radio Network: New York City...WJDM 1660AM Philadelphia...WPWA 1590AM Los Angeles...KPLS 830AM Chicago...WAUR 930AM Phoenix...KIDR 740AM Denver...KKYD 1340AM Detroit...WCAR 1090AM Kansas City...KCAZ 1480AM Dallas/Ft. Worth...KAHZ 1360AM Minneapolis/St. Paul...WWTC 1280AM playlists available at http://www.tamboo.com tune in tonight! visit... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ King Kini's C L U B V E L V E T http://www.tamboo.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Kinky Avengers Date: 15 Mar 1998 22:52:06 +0000 Michael Toth wrote: >There was also a Goldfinger-era London (US)/Decca (UK) Honor >Blackman LP called_Everything I've Got_ where Honor belts out an LPs >worth of torch songs, some of which are (unintentionally) >gut-bustingly hysterical. I've got a Deram *compilation* LP from 1990 called 'Kinky Boots' - have you come across that? Tracks: Kinky Boots, Everything I've Got, Darling - Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, Men Will Deceive You, I Wish I'd Never Loved You, Den of Iniquity, World Without Love, Remind Me, To Keep My Love Alive, C'Est Drole, I Wouldn't Walk Across the Street, Tomorrow Is My Turn, I Want a Fair and Square Man. The cover has Honor sitting in a garden chair on an airfield, sipping a cocktail with her feet up on the front of a Mercedes! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Cool And Strange Music! Mag #8 Date: 15 Mar 1998 19:31:59 -0500 (EST) Well, Mr. PROCRASTINATOR finally got the press release done,so if you would be so kind to post it on the Exotica Mailing List, I'd be grateful. -Dana (Coolstrge@aol.com) C&SM Mag Issue #8 of Cool And Strange Music! Magazine is here!! It's another 48 pages, beautifully offset-printed, with a cool color cover, lots of high-quality photos, tons of new wacky and weird CD reviews and it's more fun than ever! Featuring exclusive interviews with comedy music legend, STAN FREBERG, and the late TINY TIM!! We also have articles on MILWAUKEE'S COOLEST RECORD STORES, and a story about the records made by the copycat bands that sprang up after the success of The Tijuana Brass with our article, HERB ALPERT AND THE TIA- WANNABE'S!! Learn all about the record industry's fascination with NASA's space program in the early '60s with our piece on MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE, and we'll take a look at some of the world's most ridiculous liner notes, with THE ART OF THE LINER NOTE. You'll also find lots of wacky, new CD reviews, and loads more!! Our centerfold features some of WEIRDEST AND MOST WONDERFUL LP COVERS you've ever seen! It's 48 pages of musical mayhem and madness! It all starts with a cool cover story/interview with the brilliant song- satirist, STAN FREBERG. Mr. Freberg shares with us many stories behind the scenes of recording some of his classic, funny records of the late '50s and early '60s. With the release of his STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PART TWO, last year, this funny-man is obviously still in top-form and we're proud as punch to present J.R. William's exclusive interview with this modern-day comedy genius! Next, we have an exclusive interview with the late, great TINY TIM. Author Ernie Clark, chatted with Tiny a few years before his death and we're happy to run several pages of this fascinating interview. Tiny discusses his little- known involvement with Bing Crosby, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Lenny Bruce, among others, as well as discussing some of his most obscure recordings. Some of the most fascinating albums were recorded in the late '50s and early '60s, to quench the public's obsession with the Space Program and NASA's plan to send a man to the moon. With their colorful, imaginative covers depicting moon people, spaceships and the heavens, the music inside these fanciful sleeves were often just as wonderful. Ken Saari takes us through a tour of MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE, highlighting the cream of the crop of these "space" records. We travel to the Mid-West, for a look at MILWAUKEE'S BEST RECORD STORES, as Kevin John takes us on a brief tour though the choice places to find unusual vinyl! You've got to have this article if you're shopping for unusual records in Milwaukee! Our photo centerfold this time is the ever-popular, LATIN BABES!, some of the sexiest senoritas to ever grace a Cha-Cha album! Take a gander at these gals! Woo-woo! When Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass hit the bigtime, with their zippy instrumental music, nearly every fly-by-night record label rushed to put out their own "copycat" version to cash in on the craze. Brad Bigelow escorts us through the best and worst of these records with his piece on HERB ALPERT AND THE TIA-WANNAVE'S. These are the records you've probably been passing up for years! Some of these discs are excellent, so find out all about what you've been missing! If you believe EVERYTHING you read, then you must be convinced that Elvis is really alive and living on Mars! You also probably bought most of the records described in Ed Kaz' article, ART OF THE LINER NOTE. Our funnyman-writer points out some especially hilarious examples of some of the most incredible liner-note hype ever written, desperately trying to sell records to the browsing buyer! If you don't chuckle at a few of these ACTUAL liner notes, you must be dead. All this, and a whole lot more fun stuff than we dare mention, and you'll find a very Cool Issue #8 of COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE. So get on board! It's gonna be a cool ride through the wild, wacky and sometimes tacky world of records! COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE is available at most Tower Records and Tower Books stores and the following bookstore chains: Borders, Bookstar, and Bookstop. We are also in hundreds of newsstands and independent bookstores around the U.S., so take a look! If you have trouble locating COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE locally, (our #1, #2, #3 and #4 issues have sold out, but #5, 6 and 7 are still available), we'd be happy to mail you a copy of #4, #5, #6 or the latest issue (#8) for a measly $3.95 in the US, $5 Canada, and $6 to all other countries. (U.S. funds, please) Hey, there's never an extra charge for postage. THAT'S the kind of magazine we are! Subscriptions (we publish quarterly) are just $12 a year (4 issues) for cool guys and gals in the U.S.A., $16 Canada, and $25 (U.S. funds) for our foreign buddies! All prices includes shipping. Send your Check, Cash or Money Order to: Cool And Strange Music! Magazine 1101 Colby Ave. Everett, WA USA 98201 ************************************************************** Hey, take a look at our Web Site, for more info about the magazine, past issues, downloadable cool cover art and exotic links galore! There are lots of fun LP covers to download, lots of cool links to other great related websites, scads more info about the magazine, and even reviews of the mag by other magazines! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip Subject: Re: (exotica) soundtracks on and on Date: 15 Mar 1998 22:15:02 EST ben writes: << While we are at it, is anyone familiar with "Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score for 'I Want To Live'" to offer a brief musical appraisal/release date? >> released in 1958. Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) awaits her fate on San Quentin's death row. She is a huge jazz fan and "has all of Gerry Mulligan's records". there is a night club scene where Mulligan and bongoist Mike Pacheco appear in the film. the score is all West Coast jazz all-stars doing what they do. side one starts out nice and easy with side two getting increasingly dark and depressing as the hour of execution nears. there are two "I Want To Live" records - the original soundtrack and Mulligan's Jazz Combo performing more music from the film, also arranged by Mandel. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nam B. Do" Subject: (exotica) New Member Date: 16 Mar 1998 01:09:18 -0500 (EST) hello, my name is Nam Do and yes, i'm a new member. my musical interests spans various ranges...i guess it depends upon my mood that day...currently i've grown particularly more interested in lounge pop, space aged bachelor pad music, bossa nova, french pop and progressive jazz. the music i currently have spinning on my CD player is: the gentle people: music to watch comets by laila amezian: initial walt wanderly w/ astrud gilberto: samba swing songs for the jet set: various austin powers soundtrack: various super: tickets p5: antique 96 i am interested in purchasing import material from artists like ollano, lorraine bowen experience, lindberg hemmer foundation and japanese import material as well...please guide me in the right direction if you can help out... thanks again, ciao, nDo --------- Nam B. Do namdo@hpd.acast.nova.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: Jonny.S@nyo.com (Jonny.S) Subject: (exotica) Don Fln in NYC Date: 16 Mar 1998 04:52:29 -0500 sorry if this is a repeat for anyone... Don Fl‡n promotions presents ... Back at long last, yet another once in a lifetime event! a Pre-Spring Special Sabor Caribeno 7 It's Free SuperSalsa, Afro-Cuban & Bachata Madness! Dancehall Reggae Extravaganza with sfx! Soca, Calypsos & Chutney, and . . . Brazilian Samba & Batucada! Your favorite Disco Hits in Spanish!! Plus... Funky disco breaks!!! A steamy Pre-Spring fiesta with your Hostess... La Cynthia and... Deejays Ricardo Nixon and Juanny SendŽr "ambiente Familiar" Home made decor and special drinks! 10 PM till 4 AM on Thursday, March 19th at Baraza! 133 Ave C (8th & 9th Street) 212.539.0811 It's Free Don Fl‡n will now be monthly at Baraza The next event will be Thursday, April 16th for Info call Juanny 212.228.9518 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Charles Albertine Date: 16 Mar 1998 07:06:27 Michael Toth wrote: >Is Charles Albertine [arranger of some of the Three Suns' best material on RCA Living Stereo] still alive? Sadly, no. He died in 1986. Albertine also contributed the arrangements on Les and Larry Elgart's Columbia albums, which include some great early 1960s dance numbers (ala frug, swim, monkey, jerk, twist). Here's his bio from his page on the Space Age Standards website: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/albertin.htm Charles Albertine Born 1929, Passaic, New Jersey Died 18 May 1986, Los Angeles, California Albertine started as a tenor saxman with a variety of dance bands, including Sammy Kaye's, in the late 1940s. He then spent a year in the pit band of a Broadway show before going to work with Les Elgart's newly-formed band. Albertine quickly became the lead arranger and a prime factor in the success of the Elgart sound, which kept one foot in traditional sweet swing and another in the more minor-keyed jazz of late bebop. He left the Elgarts in the late 1950s and began working with Al Nevins and a number of Aldon Music's stars such as Neil Sedaka. He arranged most of The Three Suns' later albums during the RCA "Living Stereo" era, including the classic "Movin' and Groovin,'" "Fever and Smoke," "Warm and Tender," and "On a Magic Carpet." These albums contain some of the boldest, most jarring use of stereo separation and contrasting instrumentation to be heard in supposedly safe, mainstream pop music. Most of these albums also featured one or two originals penned by Albertine. He worked with the Elgarts again in the early 1960s, arranging some of their best "discotheque"-style dance albums. He also contributed occasional arrangements to Lawrence Welk's 1960s albums. Albertine's Bandstand Boogie" was adopted by Dick Clark as the theme song for his long-running series, "American Bandstand." He dabbled in film scoring, providing the title song for the Viking epic, "The Long Ships," but most of his later career was spent in television, on series ranging from the soap opera, "The Days of Our Lives" to "Gidget," "The Incredible Hulk," "The Bionic Woman," and "Fantasy Island." He wrote classical pieces as well, including a symphony and concert settings of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Nietzsche. Brad spaceagepop@earthlink.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) FWD: More Web radio Date: 16 Mar 1998 11:03:06 -0500 (EST) Q Radio: Q Radio, the Q stands for Quincy, as in Quincy Jones, is a very visually appealing Web site that offers lots for the lover of world music. You can listen to live radio from South Africa's SABC, search the music mine for famous and lesser known artists, read features about music makers and much more. You need audio capability on your PC to get the most from this site. World Wide Web: http://www.qradio.net Reel Radio: Reel Radio is all about old-time rock'n'roll radio. You can hear audio clips from the past, including Wolfman Jack on XERB in 1970, Dan Ingram on WABC from 1965 to 1968, Charlie Tuna on KHJ in 1969, the American Forces Network Vietnam in 1969 and more! A ranking provides quick access to the most popular clips and you can search for others. World Wide Web: http://www.reelradio.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: KEIRK@vax2.concordia.ca Subject: (exotica) The Disadvantages of Trader Vic's Date: 16 Mar 1998 13:47:23 +0000 (HELP) Been outta town, just caught up on my digests: 1) I agree heartily, "Disadvantages of You" is the Now Sound anthem! But I also have very, very vague memories of being obsessed with a Dr. Scholl's TV ad in the late 60s when I was a little kid, and the Brass Ring track really reminds me of it - does this ring any bells out there?? 2) A Trader Vic's in London!!! Must know more - where, what hotel? One of the most perfect evenings of my adult life was when we stumbled completely accidentally into the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, discovered the Trader Vic's, and where drunk before the end of the first Menehuni Mike cocktail... There used to be a Vic's knock-off in Montreal called the Kon-Tiki (next to Ben's Deli, for those familiar with Montreal), but I only once looked in the door before my lounge-enlightened days... what a waste - it was shut down in the early 80s, I believe. From BossaNovaVille, Keir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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_risser@cinfin.com Subject: (exotica) Barbarella on CD Date: 16 Mar 1998 19:47:48 UT Is this true? What does Jack mean when he says this? Has it been released, and if so, by whom? If not, (or even if so) is there any CD comp anywhere that might include the original theme song by Bob Crewe, because that's what I'm most interested in. Anyone? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sfunk@pop.adn.com (Stephen Funk) Subject: (exotica) Music for TV Dinners Date: 16 Mar 1998 11:22:07 -1000 A long search finally ended when I found "Music for TV Dinners", and "M for TVD the 60s". I've been looking for this orchestral "production music" stuff for a couple of years and thought I may never find a recording of it. These are great CDs, with my only complaint being they're a little on the short side (about 35 minutes each). The sound quality is truly amazing. Hooray for Music for TV Dinners! Does anyone know of any other similar releases out there? Will there be another volume in this series? (or is there one already that I don't know about?) - Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wayne Davidson/Tony Davies Subject: Re: (exotica) Music For TV Dinners Date: 17 Mar 1998 08:48:41 +1100 The Sound Gallery Compilations are similar in mood and artists - Laurie Johnson, Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw etc, great swinging London sounds. I'm a big fan of that style too. I wasn't as wildly impressed with the 1st volume of the Music For TV Dinners CD, but the second one (The 60s) is the biscuit. And yeah, a tad on the short side (The Sound Gallery Releases are more substancial). Wayne D. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Email majordomo@xmission.com with "info exotica" in the message. # Postings must go to exotica@xmission.com -- replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nam B. Do" Subject: (exotica) sergio mendes and bacharach Date: 16 Mar 1998 18:57:59 -0500 (EST) hi, this is a request to all US listmembers, can you recommend your favorite domestically released sergio mendes and burt bacharach album? thanks... --------- Nam B. Do namdo@hpd.acast.nova.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: DJJimmyBee Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Music For TV Dinners Date: 16 Mar 1998 21:17:21 EST With regard to the shortness of the Scamp TV-Dinner CD's..First of all, how much TV Dinner music can be out there to begin with? Sure its not known as TV Dinner music and the very existence of the concept is owed to the creativity of the producers, but its there for all to have! And it sounds damn good too. Secondly, imagine producing such an esoteric product from conception to distribution. The amount of work licensing, locating, remastering, running off, producing art-work for, and distributing such a product is immense. Companies like these often labor out of love and see little profit. I only hope we see much more Scamp product. You can buy it sight unseen..........Jimmy/tried to do a CD once and it never came 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: Micheleflp Subject: (exotica) Tiki bars, anyone? Date: 16 Mar 1998 22:34:33 EST In a message dated 98-03-13 07:14:34 EST, Moritz.Reichelt@munich.netsurf.de, u writes: << THIS EXOTICA MAILING LIST SEEMS TO BE MORE LIKE AN EASY LISTENING RECORD COLLECTOR MAILING LIST. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH