From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, August 30 Date: 01 Sep 1998 10:54:42 +0100 > From: cheryl > > Horst Wende: Sugarbush "Stop Look And Listen! Vol. 3" > Not as overly accordion-like as some of his other stuff, this one's > quite good (as is the whole album, which is a Polydor Germany > compilation from the 60s) > It's originally from his "Africana" album, which is excellent. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 12:51:57 +0100 >>One of the reasons that I'm mentioning this is because I'll be doing a special monthly feature on my radio program where I'll do a show entirely of many versions of the same song. I figure I have at least a dozen songs that I can fill an hour and a half with. I've gotten good responses when I did a "Caravan" and a "More" show.>> I don't mean to criticise or knock other people's ideas (which have probably risen through their best intentions and desire to do good for their fellow man) but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). I know that if I tuned in to a radio station that did it, I would reach out for that dial asap. Thank god I am on the other side of the world so that I may be spared 90 minutes of Caravan. Why not try an hour and a half radio program where you amusingly play your collection of songs about vomit? I'd be interested in finding out what sort of nutter gave a 'good response' to repeated renditions of More. On a lighter note (and without the sense of nervous edginess that accompanies me after a bank holiday weekend) I got the Get Easy German and French collections on LP this weekend and I know they have been discussed on the list this weekend but I would like to point out again that they are superb, especially the German - wacky and funky (like those colourful Germans themselves) at the same time. Just a quick question though - What are Get Easy volume 1 and 2 like compared to 3 and 4? Thanks. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's/etc. Date: 01 Sep 1998 04:58:00 PDT >2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). > Yellow submarine, Back in the USSR, Oh happy day, Isrealites, etc. Yes. I picked this one up over the weekend. Some of the songs provide good campy, poppy fun - (such as Yellow Submarine, sung as "Yella Submarine"), Others are bland folky cheese. Also found Les Baxter's Moog Rock in the same bin. This turned out not to be what I had expected. As some probably know, there are no baxter originals on this album. Like "The Moog Strikes Bach...", Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear on the Moog...", it's a collection of classical/modern works performed on electronic instruments. Unlike the other two lps I mentioned, the alien sound of the Moog (accompanied by the Novachord) is not accentuated, but a more melodic effect is achieved. The songs are performed to a Latin beat. I was happy to find this one as the two attempts I have made to buy the bootleg CD never worked out. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sevo Stille Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 14:29:25 +0200 Charles Moseley wrote: > I don't mean to criticise or knock other people's ideas (which have > probably risen through their best intentions and desire to do good for > their fellow man) but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only > plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to > shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). Well, I've enjoyed stuff like that when it was new (some ten years ago). But I don't think that topical programming can still be done at such a basic level without getting boring - the time when any topical programming by non-educative criteria was a change from the usual artist or label portrait is over, especially where ideas as generic as "lets do an entire program of Song X cover versions" are concerned. Of course it will depend on the way it is done - just playing some thirty versions of one song probably will not get exciting no matter how smart the ordering and mixing is, but good text might make it worth while. But doing research and writing text at a quality level that could warrant listening to 90 minutes of Caravan won't be easy, IMHO. Sevo -- Sevo Stille - Radio X sevo@inm.de # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply Date: 01 Sep 1998 09:00:34 -0400 I've got this album. I felt like most of the arrangement were "pedestrian" at best - with a few = enjoyable cuts. I wouldn't dare mention Cates in the same breath as Denny, etc. as Robert = did! An "okay" addition but not a "must have" by a long shot. - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell (it was kinda hot!!!) Date: 01 Sep 1998 10:42:48 EDT In a message dated 98-09-01 08:15:11 EDT, a tiki flaming exoticat wrote: << . . . isn't an hour and a half radio program that only plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). I know that if I tuned in to a radio station that did it, I would reach out for that dial asap. >> You would surely have to have a loyal listenership. It works for the Exotic Trilogy tho. Of course you can always turn off the CD. I have to admit, the format is interesting but I do prefer the variety of a show, say like The Retro Cocktail Hour. They do theme shows sometimes and occasionally play a variation on a tune. Anyway, I am sure the above quoted passage will generate a lot (of heat???) on our humble list. Contributing to the combustion, Robert (wearing an asbestos coated pair of gloves as I type) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Hurricane By . . . George Cates -Reply Date: 01 Sep 1998 10:50:53 EDT In a message dated 98-09-01 08:57:15 EDT, Nate wrote: << I've got this album. (Polynesian Percussion -ed.) I felt like most of the arrangement were "pedestrian" at best - with a few enjoyable cuts. I wouldn't dare mention Cates in the same breath as Denny, etc. as Robert did! An "okay" addition but not a "must have" by a long shot. - Nate >> Please don't miss the point. Being a devout Denny fan I would never suggest Cates as equal status. The point of my post was to indicate that Cates positioned himself right between Baxter and Denny. The percussion of Denny and the melodic orchestration of Baxter. As for followers of Exotica. If you find this album in a Salvation record ben for 50 cents as I did I would say that it is a "must have". I helps round off a true exoticat's collection. Plus, you have a likeness of Otto on the back as a bonus. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's Date: 01 Sep 1998 11:56:25 EDT Vern Stoltz wrote a fine article about the California Poppy Pickers in Cannot Become Obsolete in the last issue # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark D. Head" Subject: (exotica) California Poppy Pickers Date: 01 Sep 1998 09:41:17 -0500 2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). Yellow submarine, Back in the USSR, Oh happy day, Isrealites, etc. This looked interesting to me, too - major disappointment - vapid vocals and insipid arrangements, not groovy at all, sorry to say.... -- Mark D. Head _________________________________________________ TANSTAAFL! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack Date: 01 Sep 1998 10:08:01 -0700 KFJC play list 8/2/98 for Jack Diamond Http://www.KFJC.org ARTIST TRACK ALBUM _________________________________________________________________________ The Planets Chunky Julius Watkins Sextet Linda Delia Dawn Label, Mid 50'S Charlie Rouse-Tenor Gildo Mahones-Piano Chino Pozo-Bongos Ron Jefferson-Drums Martin Rivera-Bass Lewis, Johnny Quartet Cissy Strut Shuckin' N' Jivin' LP Jerry Fielding Hide and Seek Underground Tipsy Grossenhosen Trip Tease Hugo Montenegro Lady in Cement 1968 Ost 18TH Century Concepts 18TH Century Dream Sidewalk, Mike Curb Shadowy Men Onna Good Cop Bad Cop Shadowy Planet Jim Gordon; Rites of Passage Plays Heavy My Music Bed Don Julian Where I'm Comin' From Savage Ost Gabor Szabo Summertime Jazz Raga West Coast Workshop T.T.B.C.Theme 2 Wizard of Oz Frontier Space Invaders Heater Gerry Mulligan Septet; Theme From "I Want to Live" Shelly Manne-Drums Frank Rosolino-Trmbne Bud Shank-Flute Pete Jolly-Piano Red Mitchell-Bass Art Farmer-Trumpet Koray, Erkin Cemalim Elektronik Turkuler Sir Adrian Boult; Mars, the Bringer of War Gustav Holst Orig. Philharmonic Westminster, 1956 Promenade Orchestra Adamson, Barry Jazz Devil As Above, So Below Gerald Fried Orch Reform School Dino Ost Martin Milner PSA for Drug Smuggling Ennio Morricone Sfinge Lesiman Padmina Future Sound of Lesiman Ken Nordine Spectrum Word Jazz Vol 2 Fireflies So and So Pierro Umiliani Open Space The Phantom Sound Trip Through The Catacombs Last Tango in Paris Last Tango...-Jazz Waltz Last Tango in Paris Coyle and Sharpe The Last Sleep :40 Secs Nino Rota La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita Ost Titoli De Testa Canzonetta Buddy Defranco Qrt W/ Star of Africa 45 Rpm Mccoy's Swing Choir; W/ Sabu Martinez Art Blakely Pete Rugolo Orch Voodoo! Thriller Ost Taxi Driver (Soun Diary of a Taxi Driver Taxi Driver Helen Gurley Brown Keep Your Wife Seductive Lessons in Love Bernard Hermann Runs Underneath Helen Gurley Brown Keep Your Wife Seductive Greg Oliver and Seduction, Side 2 Copy Written By Lois Cooper-Voices Dr. Billy Rogers Music and Elec. Guitar By Del Staton Kenyon Hopkins Orch The Operation Panic, Son of Shock John Corgliano The Laboratory Experiment, Altered States Ost Jessup's Transformation, Collapse of the Laboratory Thurle Ravencroft You're a Mean 1, Mr. Grinch Lord Sitar Black Is Black Capitol 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Re: Vern is taking hula lessons..... Date: 01 Sep 1998 13:50:44 -0400 > > I saw a cute cartoon commercial the other night that starts out, "Vern is > taking hula lessons...." Well, my own name is Vern, and I was especially struck by the timliness of this commercial. I saw it for the first time the week after I threw my own personal tiki party. Of course, the 'cartoon' Vern was more rotund and more bald than I am, but overall I liked the spirit of the whole thing. One other good 'Vern' coincidence you might be amused by. About 12 years ago I went to visit family in Wisconsin for Christmas, and while there I bought an inflatable blue cow which was advertising the famous Wisconsin cheese. Of course, I told a few of my co-workers about it to humor them a bit. Two days later the Far Side cartoon in the newspaper featured two bulls sitting in a living room. One is blowing up an inflatable cow, while the other one is saying "She's Looking Good, Vern" My name seems to be a good name for cartoonish characters I guess Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 14:34:17 -0500 >I don't mean to criticise or knock other people's ideas (which have >probably risen through their best intentions and desire to do good for >their fellow man) but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only >plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary. It seems to >shout pretension and self indulgence (as well as sheer boredom and tedium). >I know that if I tuned in to a radio station that did it, I would reach out >for that dial asap. Thank god I am on the other side of the world so that I >may be spared 90 minutes of Caravan. Why not try an hour and a half radio >program where you amusingly play your collection of songs about vomit? I'd >be interested in finding out what sort of nutter gave a 'good response' to >repeated renditions of More. First of all let me mention that this is Charles' second rather acid coment on a post of mine within the last week. So, I'm not all too sure if it's something personal. Actually I was going to comment on this reply but, after re-reading it I realize that it's far too idiotic a post the comment on. Really, songs about vomit? And how the hell am I being pretensious and self-indulgent? Plaese stop me before I burst in flames. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 15:00:34 -0400 Allow me to jump into the discussion (wearing my asbestos suit, of course). I must say that I have harboured the idea of doing a one-song show for quite a while. Of course, Space Bop is only one hour long, which would make it a lot easier to do. However, I would probably only end up doing about 6 versions of the same song, in all likelihood. For example, I have 6 or 8 versions of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", in a variety of languages, and some without vocals altogether. You could play all of them back to back, and marvel at just how different they all are! Of course, people can always change the dial if they don't like what they're listening to. That's their prerogative. Evidently, one wouldn't play weeks on end of one-show-only songs, but once would be a fun idea. cheryl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) California Poppy Pickers Date: 01 Sep 1998 14:03:29 EDT The thrust of Vern's story on the California Poppy Pickers was that it was total Hippy/California Lifestyle-sploitation project aimed at consumers who wanted to be groovy but hadn't either clue or personal taste... The buyer of the album bought the image--apparently the cover is sort of soft focus and kind of Peter Max-y in a vague way The Poppy Pickers themselves are wearing state-of-the-art California smiles, mod clothes and long hair and have that inexplicably ecstatic look so common on late 6T's facial expressions # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 16:07:38 EDT In a message dated 98-09-01 15:03:22 EDT, Cheryl of Space Bop writes: << Allow me to jump into the discussion (wearing my asbestos suit, of course). I must say that I have harboured the idea of doing a one-song show for quite a while. Of course, Space Bop is only one hour long, which would make it a lot easier to do. However, I would probably only end up doing about 6 versions of the same song, in all likelihood. For example, I have 6 or 8 versions of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", in a variety of languages, and some without vocals altogether. You could play all of them back to back, and marvel at just how different they all are! >> I think Cheryl has a somewhat middle ground approach. These older tunes (like Boots) are about 2.5 to 3.5 minutes long and six songs in a row would only last about 25 minutes max. Of course all my versions of "Vomit" are about 6 minutes long and I guess after about 25 minutes of listening to vomit music I would probably change stations. Now my "Puke" recordings are only about 3 minutes long so I guess I could listen to about 20 minutes of those. My "Dingleberry" songs (of which I do not like as much as my "Vomit" or "Puke" variations) are 4 minutes long but because of my lack of fondness for these I could only stand one or two versions. On the subject, I hear that there is a rare version of "Vomit" by Martin Denny that has the various animals and birds wretching in the background. Now I bet that is a good version of "Vomit". Feeling slightly nauseous, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 17:48:13 EDT In a message dated 9/1/98 8:15:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Charles_Moseley%MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM writes: > Why not try an hour and a half radio > program where you amusingly play your collection of songs about vomit? That I would sincerely like to hear! Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) re: radio show from heck Date: 01 Sep 1998 17:56:23 EDT Let me add to my earlier comment, I would truly ENJOY hearing 11/2 hours of good versions of "Caravan" and can see how it could be done to great effect...alternating a serious jazz version with a moog version followed by Lambert, Hendrics, and Ross then intermixing some sound bites from Ellington interviews, etc. I would still like to hear the vomit show, but for different reasons. Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 16:32:43 -0600 I've got to say that I have on several occasions played several different versions of the same song back to back to back when I am DJing out. Sometimes just to see if anyone is paying attention. Sometimes because I think they are all different and rather amazing. Sometimes to simply try to drive people nuts. But whenever I do it, I have a strong sense of purpose and rather enjoy it. And listening to something like this is the kind of thing that makes me smile. I wish more people did it. As long as the versions are good. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Alshire LP's Date: 02 Sep 1998 00:47:40 +0200 (MET DST) >1.) The California Poppy Pickers: Sounds of '69 (Alshire S-5152). >2.) The California Poppy Pickers: Hair/Aquarius (Alshire S-5153). >3.) The California Poppy Pickers: Today's Chart Busters (Alshire S-5163). >4.) John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims: Apricot Brandy and Albatross > (Alshire S-5154). >Anyone heard these? The covers look very cool and psychedelic. Yeah..."John Bunyan's Progressive Pilgrims" is the ticket. The only one that lives up to your psychedelic dreams although you have Wilson McKinley who did several ultra rare west coast psych LPs on guitar on some tracks on the Poppy Pickers. Stefan Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 19:31:39 -0400 Then, of course, there was the radio station that, as a stunt, played any available version of "Louie, Louie". That's about 10,000 + versions! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 20:59:10 EDT <<...but isn't an hour and a half radio program that only >plays the same song (albeit different versions) a little scary >> I don't think so at all. I can listen to Thunderball all day long. Then again, I also listen to field recordings of birds and insects, so whadda I know? I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like it, the hell with 'em. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) too much monkey business Date: 01 Sep 1998 21:09:02 -0400 For Labor Day weekend, AMC is doing a marathon of all 5 "Planet Of The Apes" movies (soundtrack recently discussed here). It runs from early Sunday to early Tuesday. They have a strange pattern to the showings -- they're beginning with the last film and working their way back to the first. Then they run through them in the proper order. Then backwards again. Then forwards again! And they have a couple of "behind the scenes" documentary films thrown randomly into every cycle -- I think that's just to confuse us even more when programming the VCR. The letterbox format showings are reserved for the last cycle. Here's the details (eastern daylight times): SUNDAY 9:00am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 10:30am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Noon - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 1:45pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) 3:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 5:30pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 7:30pm - AMC Behind The Screen (documentary) 8:00pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 10:00pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) Midnight - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) MONDAY 1:35am - AMC Behind The Screen (documentary) 2:05am - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 3:45am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) 5:15am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 6:45am - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 9:00am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) 10:30am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Noon - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) 1:45pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) 3:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) 5:30pm - Planet Of The Apes (1968) Letterboxed 7:30pm - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) Letterboxed 9:15pm - Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) Letterboxed 11:00pm - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) TUESDAY 1:00am - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972) Letterboxed 2:30am - Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) Letterboxed 4:00am - Behind The Planet Of The Apes (documentary) 6:00am - apes out, Buster Keaton in - Seven Chances (1925) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: (exotica) The Breeze & I (25versions) Date: 02 Sep 1998 01:04:28 -0500 Thank you all for all the recent input on = multiple-versions-one-song-shows. Tonight I had my first as part of a = regular first Tuesday of the month feature show. I made a point of soliciting listener input and the response was = overwhelmingly positive! I chose the song The Breeze and I as topical because of recent = hurricane activity and a local freak wind storm last week. The 25 = version dovetails nicely to the stations celebration of it's 25th = anniversary and by being careful of my announcing time I hope to be = able to do 25 each time. The Breeze & I Playlist Charles Magnante/Romantic Accordion Eddie Layton/No Blues on this Cruise David Carroll/ House Party Discotheque Leo Diamond/ Exciting sounds from far away places Don Costa/ Echoing Voices & Trombones Terry Snyder/ Persuasive Percussion George Cates/ Hit Songs-Hit Sounds 50 Guitars of T. Garrett/ Maria Elena Ted Auletta/ Exotica Robert Maxwell/ Shangrila Arthur Lyman/ Percussion Spectacular Percussion Espa=F1ol/ Al Caiola et. al. Don Alessi/ Guitar Spectacular Earl Grant/ Fly Me to the Moon Ruth Welcome/ Latin Zither Sonny Lester/ After Hours Spain Jo Ann Castle/ Accordion in Hi Fi Henry Mancini/ The Versitile ... Buddy Cole/ Organ Moods in HiFi The Three Suns/ Twilight Time Ted Heath/ Latin Swingers Marty Gold/24 Pieces of Gold Ferrante & Teicher/ Sound Proof The Rhythm Rockers/ Soul Surfin' Buddy Merrill/Latin Festival I took my usual four or five breaks to announce, I say this because I = think that some of the downer thoughts on this kind of show was with = the mistaken belief that the versions would be a continuous flow with = no little islands of respite.... I must say that the averall sound of the mix was pretty good. Sure = there were a few weaker cuts but there were no overtly "bad" versions. Stand out versions were the Eddie Layton (I love it when organ = players make wind sounds), Leo Diamond a multiple harmonica arrangement, Ferrante and Teicher in = their very early days sounding like John Cage and The Persuasive = Percussion natch. The Breeze and Frank My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Okay, My Playlist Date: 01 Sep 1998 22:15:36 -0700 Well since everybody's gettin' into da act, here's my playlist for 9/1/98 on KUSF, 90.3 FM, San Francisco (www.kusf.org). Of immediate interest to this group is THE FUTURE SOUND OF LESIMAN (Right Tempo) and PHASE SIX SUPER STEREO (Plastic), both Italian re-issues of funky production music. (Though LESIMAN is a shitty keyboardist, his rhythm section and effects make it a near-must-have. And PHASE SIX is a lesser continuation of the STOROBOSCOPICA comp.) Exotic moments on CALEXICO (featuring members of FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTIN maybe?) and new Japanese releases from TAKAKO MINEKAWA and NEO TROPIC. ________________________________________________________ * = new release ** = re-issue LOS CANARIOS "3 - 2 - 1 Ah" (Exitos a Go-Go compilation) ** JESSAMINE "Pilot Free Ignition" * ADAM F (#1 - #3)* TAKAKO MINEKAWA "Turntable Tennis" * APOLLO 100 "Exercise in A Minor" UNSCRUBBED "Video Kid" * DANIELSON FAMILE "Potty Mouth" * PAUL ANKA / GEORGE HAMILTON IV "Teen Commandments" ACME ROCKET QUARTET "Battle Royal" * WALLMEN "Xanthoma Morning" PINEAL VENTANA "He Said 'She Won't Dance'" (Our Heat compilation) * ECHO PARK (#2) * NATHAN DAVIS "Tragic Mule" (Luv 'n' Haight, vol. 1 compilation) ** DJ SPOOKY / DJ GRAZZHOPPA "Subconscious" * NEO TROPIC "Vacetious Blooms" (Funkungfusion compilation) * AQUAMEN "Panty Raid" * HILLBILLY HELLCATS "Road Rage" * DAVID NUDELMAN "Don't Buy Drugs Off the Street" ** NEGATIVLAND "Happy Hero" * RECLOOSE "Welcome" * STRANGULATED BEATOFFS "Oh, My Favorite!" * PETE DRAKE AND HIS TALKING STEEL GUITAR "Abilene" EPIC TRASH "Party God" (Spontaneous Consumer Combustion compilation) CALEXICO "Fake Fur" * JOE CUBA SEXTET "Bang Bang" SPOI 2 (#6) * FRESHNESS "Friends, Lovers and Family" (State of Nu Art compilation) * FUNDAMENTAL "Blood in Transit" * HASIDIC NEW WAVE "Men Trinkt Mashke" (Hasidic New Wave compilation) * KABLE "Everything in its Place" * DURWOOD DOUCHE "Merrilou (When I'm Sitting on Your Face)" JAD AND DAVID FAIR "Big Foot" * THE IN CROWD "Speed Queen" (Madness Invasion compilation) ** (UNKNOWN) "Walk Like an Egyptian" (Hopelessly Devoted to You compilation) * DUB NARCOTIC "Out of Your Mind" * MIRANDA JULY "I Can--Japan" * LESIMAN "Traffico d'armi" ** DOC WOR MIRRAN "Wet, Sweat and Breasts" BRUNO BATTISTI D'AMARIO" Mas Que Nada" (Phase Six Super Stereo compilation) ** THE JOYRIDE "Big Bright Green Plastic Machine" JOHN'S CHILDREN "Smashed Blocked" (Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll) ** TADPOLES "Jaded Jean" * JAIME FIELDING "Home Brewing" * SKEPTIX "Rumble on a Mission" (United States of Drum 'n' Bass compilation) * SPIN-17 "Pebbles and Bam Bam" * PAUL HUMPHREY "Baby Rice" XAO SEFFCHEQUE "Kassa Bubu" SENOR SOUL "Don't Lay Your Funky Trip on Me" (Tell It Like It Is compilation) ** C. "Ratso" Russo c_russo@mns.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 01 Sep 1998 23:17:17 -0700 At 08:59 PM 9/1/98 EDT, BasicHip wrote: >I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like >it, the hell with 'em. Well put! I second this emotion. Back when I was in college radio, I sometimes played maybe five or six versions of a song - the most well known version, some well-known artists covering the same song, then celebrity oddities, and finally some loungey versions. You can't imagine the irate calls I would get from drunk frat boys. >Then >again, I also listen to field recordings of birds and insects, so whadda I >know? I just saw a CD of North American frog field recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label, orginally released in 1958, "digitally remastered from the original master tapes." Woah! You guys take those animal noises seriously! Dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck Date: 02 Sep 1998 01:33:40 -0400 At 05:56 PM 01/09/98 EDT, SLarry3595@aol.com wrote: > I would truly ENJOY hearing 11/2 hours of >good versions of "Caravan" and can see how it could be done to great >effect...alternating a serious jazz version with a moog version followed by >Lambert, Hendrics, and Ross then intermixing some sound bites from Ellington >interviews, etc. Isn't it kind of inevitable that collecting exotica is going to lead you to notice that there are a couple of dozen tunes, of which at least one is bound to show up on every single record you own? And it's inevitable that some of the collectors will take special note of all these different versions. And it's inevitable that a few of them will devote entire tapes or radio shows to these "classics". I've never really heard an exotica radio show but I suspect that if I turned on such a show and had it on in the "background", it would probably take me at least a half hour before I noticed that they were playing different versions of the same song repeatedly. And after I noticed it, I'd probably forget it soon enough. I suppose it could get tiresome but it's the arrangements and the "sounds" that draw me to this music, not the melodies per se. If it was a great tune like Caravan and the arrangements were varied enough I'm sure I'd enjoy an hour or so. But the bigger point is that I can't believe someone on this list is criticizing someone else on the list for exhibiting whacked-out or obsessive behaviour or for exhibiting strange musical taste. I'm sure an occasion will arise again for me to write one of my "I can't believe you like that crap" postings but the truth is that with all the crap I've listened to in the last few years - all the while telling myself that I'm trying to ferret out the few hidden gems - I really have lost all standing to ever again question anything anyone does when it comes to buying or playing records. But don't remind me I said that the next time someone mentions Arthur Lyman or Edmondo Ros. BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned here so I'll report that the new issue of WIRED with John Fahey on the cover, has an article which appears to be about exotica, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Arthur Lyman and how the music was influenced by Hawaii or some such thing. With all the crappy records I'm buying, I can't afford magazines. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 02 Sep 1998 10:24:44 +0000 I remember spending a new years night in this bar on a boat at the kay of the river Rhine in Dusseldorf, called "Koller's Kahn", when the DJ started to play the same record (Gentle on my mind) over and over again for like one and a half hours. It was a tremendous success, people went absolutely crazy, sang along and danced on the tables and by the time it was midnight almost smashed the whole place in excitement. It was as if since the music wouldn't play its role as the background entertainment anymore people would be challenged to do something of their own, become active and take entertainment into their own hands. Well, the late seventies were a good time for pranks of all kinds anyway... today... I dunno. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) re: radio show from heck Date: 02 Sep 1998 07:13:29 EDT In a message dated 98-09-01 17:59:07 EDT, you write: << I would still like to hear the vomit show, but for different reasons. Larry >> Keep your pants on Larry -- I'm working on it (baaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaahhh) Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Music to Wretch by Date: 02 Sep 1998 07:27:08 EDT In a message dated 98-09-01 19:28:26 EDT, Brian wrote: << Then, of course, there was the radio station that, as a stunt, played any available version of "Louie, Louie". That's about 10,000 + versions! >> Yeah, but after about 5 versions of that I am pretty drunk and don't know the difference anyway. I prefer Caravan sober. Now when I listen to "Vomit" I usually have a large meal consisting of raw meat (and lots of it), raw eggs, pepper, mustard and anchovies. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 02 Sep 1998 12:37:57 +0100 So just in case there's any confusion on the list: Self indulgent - Using one's allotted opportunity in the public eye to entertain oneself rather than one's public. i.e., playing fucking untold versions of Caravan because its clever (when really, one's listeners would far rather hear some entertaining music) I also liked this quote: 'I say play your show the way you wanna play it and if some people don't like it, the hell with 'em' - quality. I'm DJing tomorrow and I'm looking for suggestions for the most annoying set I could play. I'm not sure that I could top an hours worth of Caravan or even an amusing collection of songs about vomit but I think I could definately get people's backs up with a well-chosen set. I'm only in a South London pub so lets really let fly and I'll take the piss and then let you all know the result. Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re:Radio Broadcast + anecdote Date: 02 Sep 1998 07:47:52 EDT In a message dated 9/2/98 4:27:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz.Reichelt@munich.netsurf.de writes: > he DJ > started to play the same record (Gentle on my mind) over and over again > for like one and a half hours. It was a tremendous success, people went > absolutely crazy OK, this is a true story. My roommates held a party for me on the occasion of my 21st birthday. In keeping with the tradition of the 21st birthday party I perhaps overindulged on the alcohol. After the guests left I played the song "Turtles And Trees" by Bobby Sherman over and over on the stereo, quite loudly. This went on for atleast 3 or 4 hours. The following morning Jeanette, one of my roommates, said I was lucky she had not killed me. Be gentle with the flames, this was well over ten years ago. "turtles and trees are friends to me help me keep my sanity turtles and trees are friends to me keep on movin' I wanna be free" Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: d th Subject: (exotica) Different Versions Date: 02 Sep 1998 06:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Hi all. Maybe I dreamed it, but I coulda swore I've seen albums that have 12 versions of the same song. Louie Louie and LaBamba come to mind. I've heard radio shows that play different versions of the same song, but they usually break it up with other songs. However, I did once hear a radio DJ play 8 or 10 different versions of Night and Day, all in a row, all by Frank Sinatra. What amuses me, though, is people who sneer at artists who record covers of hits by others, not realizing that their own fav song is a cover of someone else's more obscure version. "Elvis' Houd Dog comes to mind, ditto Fats Dominoe's Blueberry Hill. Darren! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 02 Sep 1998 07:06:11 -0700 >Then, of course, there was the radio station that, as a stunt, played any >available version of "Louie, Louie". That's about 10,000 + versions! That was KALX in Berkeley who devoted a day to it in the early 80s. Got a lot of press for it at the time. Here's a start for the vomit song set. I don't believe Denny or Lyman ever recorded one. CARCASS "Vomited Anal Tract" DEAD KENNEDYS "Religious Vomit" IMPALED NAZARENE "Rapture Goat Vomit and Gasmasks" CANNIBAL CORPSE "Vomit the Soul" QUEERS "You Make Me Want to Puke" And The Queers also lead off our set devoted to flatuence. QUEERS "I Can't Stop Farting" STINKY PUFFS "I'm Gross" PELIGRO "Black Bean Chili Thing" RED BOVINE "The Phantom Windbreaker" DELLWOODS "It's a Gas" RICH THE HAPPY COW "I've Got Gas" WIG TORTURE "Ernie Fart" DURWOOD DOUCHE "Air for a Dinosaur" NATIONAL LAMPOON "Fartman" (Bonus:) CAPTAIN BEEFHART "Old Fart at Play" Care for the diarrhea theme set? C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 02 Sep 1998 11:06:14 EDT In Boston there was once on my radio station a song played daily called by "Chuck Solids" ..I still have the cart here in my "library"...and on the DJ tip--doing radio can get as boring as shaving at times..you talk into a mic and hope its registering but you really have no way of knowing unless you beg listeners to call and no self-respecting DJ does THAT # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:Radio Broadcast + anecdote Date: 02 Sep 1998 12:40:36 EDT In a message dated 9/2/98 12:03:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kahuna77@hotmail.com writes: > Simply because of these lyrics, which sound like something David Lynch > might have come up with 15 years ago, I have to find the Sherman LP. > Much more disturbing than David Cassidy and Tony DeFranco. > > > >"turtles and trees are friends to me > > help me keep my sanity > > turtles and trees are friends to me > > keep on movin' I wanna be free" > > > >Larry It's on "Here Comes Bobby" and the rest of the lyric is even better! He also recorded a song titled "Sweet Gingerbread Man" --- feel like I'm made out of peppermint nice sticky, hands sticky peppermint all tasty and tan sweet gingerbread man..... This one had "ahhing" women in the background. No doubt about the implication of this one. Sammy Davis also recorded this song. Larry PS. Too bad all of you couldn't have been there for my 21st all those years ago. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Versions Date: 02 Sep 1998 10:08:47 PDT >What amuses me, though, is people who sneer at artists who record covers of hits by others, not realizing that their own fav song is a cover of someone else's more obscure version. "Elvis' Houd Dog comes >to mind, ditto Fats Dominoe's Blueberry Hill. And The Macc Lads' "God's Gift To Women." Think The Fleetwoods popped that one off back in "59. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 02 Sep 1998 10:28:47 PDT If vomit is the theme, GG Allin, the Mel Torme of the alternative scene, would be a rich vein to tap: I know he did a little melody called "Sleeping in My Piss" in which he also muses about sleeping in his chender. A marginally qualified, but endearingly spunky nominee could be The Angry Samoan's "The Ballad of Jerry Curlan" ("eats puke! sleeps with midgets! and drives a ferrari!"). I think there's also a Beat Farmer's song with vomit in the title. >CARCASS "Vomited Anal Tract" >DEAD KENNEDYS "Religious Vomit" >IMPALED NAZARENE "Rapture Goat Vomit and Gasmasks" >CANNIBAL CORPSE "Vomit the Soul" >QUEERS "You Make Me Want to Puke" And the flatulence thing. The Descendents did an lp with one 2-3 minute track being nothing more than voluble fundamentals and concomitant giggling. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 02 Sep 1998 13:30:27 -0400 I know this thread is going to get us yelled at before very long, but... The Dead Milkmen - "The Puking Song" m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) Dry heave Date: 02 Sep 1998 10:40:36 PDT ...for what may be the last straw (but a classic): Root Boy Slim: Boogie Till You Puke > >I know this thread is going to get us yelled at before very long, but... Washing my hands now before this gets sour, BW ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) REVIEW> Jack Costanzo & His Afro-Cuban Band: "Mr. Bongo" Date: 01 Sep 1998 19:14:32 +0200 This review has been added to my web site........... Jack Costanzo & His Afro-Cuban Band: "Mr. Bongo" REVIEW Jack "Mr. Bongo" Costanzo is a self-taught, master bongo player, who has backed lots of big names in show business, and also made several solo albums. This CD appears to be a compilation drawn from at least a couple of those. Unfortunately, the notes don't say anything about the origin or recording dates of the tracks. The keywords here are variation and versatility: the rhythms and musical styles range from typical Cuban Guajira ("Meloda De Cana") and Guaracha ("Goza Negra"), over mambo ("La La La", "Abaniquito"), cha-cha ("El Resbaloso") and other Afro-Cuban patterns, to boogaloo (which is Latin dancefloor funk-jazz, often with screaming electric guitar, like here in "Viva Tirado", a song made famous by El Chicano). Half of the 16 tracks are vocal, the other half instrumental; except for two tracks ("Bongo Festeris" and "Abaniquito"), the bongo is not featured as a solo instrument. The repertoire includes Cuban traditionals, and standards like "Just One Of Those Things", "La Bamba" done as mambo, a Latin pop version of "Pata Pata", a really stomping "Guantanamera", and by far the hottest and most swinging version of "Caravan" ever! My favorites here are: [1] a novelty-esque mambo version of "Chopsticks", that starts with Eddie Cano's interpretation of his first piano lesson; [2] a remarkable fusion of Mariachi and boogaloo in "Cu Cu Ru Curu", and [3] last but not least "Bongo Festeris", THE killer track of the whole CD, with its ferocious bongo solo. Recommended, especially for Mongo Santamaria and Tito Puente fans. DETAILS: Jack Costanzo & His Afro-Cuban Band: "Mr. Bongo" cd, GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2255, USA, 1998, 47:30 minutes, rated +++ GNP's e-mail: gnp@pacificnet.net web site: http://www.gnpcrescendo.com/ (c) Johan Dada Vis 1996 - 1998 All Rights Reserved This review is brought to you by: Dada'quariums exotica: , reviews, eXotica Releases Overview and more # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: damn, what is this Date: 02 Sep 1998 14:33:55 +0200 Nat Kone wrote: >It's kind of funny to me how often I hear "exotica" tracks that I know I >own and how seldom I can say anything but "Oh I have this. This is... >damn, what is this?" oh yes, this happens to me too al the time. like recently, i wanted to play a french version of that 40's novelty song "the thing" (maybe best known in the version of Phil Harris), but i just damned couldn't remember what record it was on, or who sang it!... Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) "Women of exotica" site? Date: 01 Sep 1998 19:14:19 +0200 anyone knows what happened with the "Women of exotica" site? it was located at chaoskitty.com (vik's place), but has disappeared... Johan, desperately trying to keep his "Linquarium" up to date... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Alshire LP's: The California Poppy Pickers Date: 02 Sep 1998 14:34:05 +0200 i found The California Poppy Pickers' "Hair/Aquarius" uninteresting; these are just remakes of (and very close to) the originals. i think these were one of those cash-in records; people heard a tune on the radio, and then went out to buy a record with that tune, and probably The California Poppy Pickers' lp's were priced lower than the beatles and the other original performers' albums? don't waste your money on them. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Keith Louis Larsen Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 02 Sep 1998 12:50:16 -0500 (EST) inappropriate repetition has influenced my musical tastes profoundly. one summer when i was 12 or 13 my dad took me camping. he packed a radio and tuned in every night to a local easy listening station. one night while i was trying to sleep, the record being played started to skip. this wasn't abnormal in the vinyl broadcast days, but on this night the dj never corrected it. the same few bars kept skipping over and over again for the next few hours. i thought, "my god, has someone killed the dj? did he get stuck in the bathroom? locked out of the station?" we never found out. but the repetition, at first annoying, slowly fascinated me. i heard more and more music within this fractioned rhythm each time around. it usually has a really cool effect on the brain after a while, sort of an ecstasy. my first jouney into mind altering substance abuse. after that i never hesitated to play a scratchy record and scratched a lot of songs i really liked to hear what made a good loop. later when i became a dj myself, playing vinyl, i always let a good loop play itself out, mixing loops whenever possible. cd that skip are pretty cool, too. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Gainsbourg and more Date: 02 Sep 1998 19:48:47 +0200 Just bought the sept. issue of Record Collector and if anyone's interested it contains a 7 page article (incl. discography) of Serge Gainsbourg Other interesting snippets in that issue: news that the Get Carter soundtrack is getting a proper UK release on CD and vinyl at the end of the month plus in the "Queasy" section a very favorable review of the reissues Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Leers It's Inquisitive Head" (RPM 187). Anyone heard this yet? Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) REVIEW> Jack Costanzo & His Afro-Cuban Band: Date: 02 Sep 1998 11:10:50 -0700 Palladium re-issued this on Lp in the late '80s with only the original tracks and the sound was much better. I like the boogaloo stuff but it's odd how GNP mixes them throughout the album instead of at the end. >The keywords here are variation and >versatility: the rhythms and musical styles range from typical Cuban >Guajira ("Meloda De Cana") and Guaracha ("Goza Negra") "Melado de Cana" is a mis-print. It's really 'Melao de Cana' (Cane Syrup) and both are Celia Cruz numbers from her years with Sonora Matencera. The instrumental Melao de Cana is fun but Celia's Goza Negra is 100% better. By the way, if you like Melao de Cana, Celia sings it in English (very stupid lyrics but swinging arrangement) on the Mambo Kings soundtrack. MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Renault Clio ad Date: 02 Sep 1998 19:33:55 +0100 Any UK exoticans seen the new TV ad for the Renault Clio car? If so, any idea who the Hammond player is? Jimmy Smith perhaps? It's way cool, and I like the replacement for Nicole almost as much as Nicole... Help us out on this one please, Jill! Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 02 Sep 1998 19:33:52 +0100 Anyone know if the Capitol Collectors Series, which came out in around 92, included a Les Baxter CD please? Thanks (and stepping cautiously around the pavement pizzas!) Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: grinderman@juno.com (Hess Jeffery) Subject: Re: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 02 Sep 1998 13:41:24 -0500 On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:30:27 -0400 "m.ace" writes: > >I know this thread is going to get us yelled at before very long, >but... > >The Dead Milkmen - "The Puking Song" This next statement is knowhere near exotica, but in the spirit of the present thread, I have mention the Butthole Surfers "Lady Sniff" (I think), where an actual vomit launch can be heard on the recording. Jeff _____________________________________________________________________ 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Vomit Lunch Date: 02 Sep 1998 15:07:17 -0400 (EDT) At 01:30 PM 9/2/98 -0400, you wrote: > >I know this thread is going to get us yelled at before very long, but... > >The Dead Milkmen - "The Puking Song" The Dictators - Weekend -L # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Russ Garcia's "Fantastica" Date: 02 Sep 1998 12:18:49 -0700 Something interesting happened to me a few weeks ago. I got an e-mail from a guy name of Charles Thaxton who found me through a search for Russ Garcia's "Fantastica" LP. To make a long story short, I sent him a CD-R of Fantastica and he made copies of it for himself, Russ Garcia and the Producer of the initial sessions for Fantastica AND Russ's score to the "Time Machine" He, Charles, had been searching for a clean, or for that matter ANY stereo copy for I think he said 5 years Jack to the rescue;) Yes, Russ is still alive and still working, mostly with symphonies and on tour! In Australia or New Zealand. I think he lives in 1 of those countries, the guy gave me his address and I have it somewhere SO! He is going to try and get it reissued onto CD I told him that Capitol/EMI supposedly "owned" it and it would be next to impossible for him to get them to relinquish it to him so he could reissue it but he said he's going to make it his mission in life, from this point forward. Russ didn't even have a copy of Fantastica so needless to say, he was PLEASED AS PUNCH to finally get a copy after all these years. Charles also told me that there are different mixes on the Stereo and Mono LP's Different arrangements AND different electronic passages. FUCK ALL YOU STEREO NAZIS!;^) I think he said Russ is about 80, now More later, Jack "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! Http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm Http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) *Primary* USA Wholesale Distribution: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ alicia@naildistribution.com (Distributor Sales) ingrid@naildistribution.com (Retail Store Sales) OR Retail Sales and Distribution: Jack Diamond Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Store Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Cool $ Strange #10 Date: 02 Sep 1998 15:32:49 -0400 (EDT) Just a note to say I received my copy of C&SM! #10 in the mail this past Saturday. Those who purchase C&S and newsstands should keep their eyes open. Here's some interesting news from Dana's editorial page: Varese Sarabande Records/Cool and Strange Music Magazine CD Project- I'm delighted to announce that Varese Sarabande Records and Cool and Strange Music! Magazine are planning to issue a jointly produced CD, tentatively sometime next year! Varese President Cary Mansfield recently proposed the idea to me, and I'm really excited about it. We're counting on you, the loyal readers of C&SM to throw some ideas my way about what make a great "cool and strange" CD, under the banner "Cool and Strange Music Magazine Presents ..."! Do you have a favorite album or artist that has never come out on CD? Is there a compilation of a certain recording artist or a comp of a certain genre that still hasn't come out? Send your ideas in! We're listening! I'll print as many lists as I can find space for in the letters column of upcoming issues, so put your thinking caps on and start rifling through your vinyl colections! To start the ball rolling, here are some of my personal candidates of things that I believe have never made it onto CD yet: Songs For The 21st Century - Sheldon Allman Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits - Mrs. Miller Percussion, Wild & Pretty - Phil Kraus & Bob Rosengarden Zounds! What Sounds! - Dean Elliot But this is a joint effort, the more that Cary and I see of the same title coming up in everyone's list, the greater the chance of that recording coming out on CD! So get busy! --Dana Countryman coolstrge@aol.com There ya go. -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 02 Sep 1998 16:45:10 -0600 >Self indulgent - Using one's allotted opportunity in the public eye to >entertain oneself rather than one's public. I am the public, and I am greatly entertained by the repetion of songs. Therefore, I would conclude that doing this is NOT self indulgent. i.e., playing fucking untold >versions of Caravan because its clever Most DJs play lots of tracks that are good as well as clever - like playing the original track that has been sampled by a popular artist. Clever, yet the original may still be good. > >I also liked this quote: 'I say play your show the way you wanna play it >and if some people don't like it, the hell with 'em' - quality. The usage of the word "quality" in a sarcastic tone is pretty uncalled for. I am not into pleasing everybody all the time. In fact, as a DJ, I would be a little worried if everyone enjoyed my set. I definitely try to antagonise my audience. Many people hear the music I play and make comments like it is that cheesy, lounge music. They mean it to be friendly (honest, you'd have to be there), but I find that very offensive. I like to play just enough songs in my set or mess around with them just enough so that people are maybe just a little frightened. I like disturbing music as well as beautiful music, and I try to reflect that in my set. I think most people who are into repetitive track playing probably want a bit of this "disturbing" element in their set. They are perhaps trying to say a little bit more about the music other than "isn't this a nice sounding and entertaining track for the audience". Just because this isn't the kind of set you would play doesn't mean it isn't entertaining to some. And according to the reaction on this list, it may actually be entertaining to many. Just a thought, not a flame. Jill "Mingo-go" - the thinking man's DJ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 02 Sep 1998 20:31:35 EDT In a message dated 98-09-02 14:39:00 EDT, you write: << Anyone know if the Capitol Collectors Series, which came out in around 92, included a Les Baxter CD please? >> I am not sure of The Collector series but there is The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter. This was an 2 CD set under the Ultra Lounge guise. I have it and it is very good. The sound reproduction is excellent. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Re: The California Poppy Pickers Date: 02 Sep 1998 21:55:11 -0400 > > i found The California Poppy Pickers' "Hair/Aquarius" uninteresting; > For the most part, I agree with this assessment. There is one song on this album I really dig though that made the whole record worthwhile, called "Narrow People" It's really interesting how well this song captures both the "us versus the mainstream" and the "don't worry - be happy" hippie viewpoints. As a rousing anthem, it fails, but it is an interesting effort and a genuine piece of documentation from that era of generational conflict. Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Versions Date: 03 Sep 1998 03:01:50 -0400 At 06:34 AM 02/09/98 -0700, d th wrote: > >Hi all. > >Maybe I dreamed it, but I coulda swore I've seen albums that have 12 >versions of the same song. Louie Louie and LaBamba come to mind. I believe there are at least two Louie Louie websites with all the known versions listed. (I know this because I was with a friend at a Goodwill store the other day and he claimed that the Sounds Orchestral record I found, contained an "unknown" version of Louie Louie.) One of the website owners has been making a film about Louie Louie. And I know of at least one other person who is researching the same subject in order to consider also making a film about the song. Does this surprise me? No more than the fact that I personally own records by Andre Kostelanatz. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Vomit Launch Date: 03 Sep 1998 03:05:50 -0400 At 07:06 AM 02/09/98 -0700, Carl Russo wrote: > >Here's a start for the vomit song set. I don't believe Denny or Lyman ever >recorded one. I can't remember if it was the title of the song or just the chorus but I've never quite gotten the Fugs song out of my head, but just the part where they go "And I feel like homemade puke". Who hasn't felt like that on occasion? Then again, if it isn't homemade, where do you get it? I guess that's poetic license. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) wrong orifice Date: 03 Sep 1998 03:11:04 -0400 Oh geez, I hope I can get this in before too many people reply to my other posting and embarrass the hell out of me. The Fugs don't sing "I feel like homemade puke", they sing "I feel like homemade shit". I don't know what came over me. I must have been in a vomitous mood when I wrote that, rather than the shitty mood I'm usually in. Sorry for getting the orifices wrong. I've done that before but I can't tell you that story. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Luke Vibert for Papa Date: 03 Sep 1998 13:07:58 +0100 I like Luke Vibert much, on which label is that tracks ? Ninja ? I hope it's on vinyl realese =8A Thank you for your understanding >Plug: Maker of All "Drum & Bass for Papa" >- - a great sitar & tabla track from Luke Vibert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 03 Sep 1998 04:54:00 Having created two 90+ minute compilation tapes of "The Third Man Theme" and "Music to Watch Girls By," it should be no secret where my sympathies lie in this debate. Just a couple of tidbits to throw into the fray. The radio station that played 10,000 versions of "Louie, Louie" (actually, I think it was a weekend marathon) was the legendary KFJC, home of Jack Diamond's "House of Games" show, among other things. Rhino Records subsequently put out two "Louie, Louie" compilations following on the success of this event. L.A. radio DJ Robert Q. Lewis brought David Rose's "The Stripper" to fame by playing it over and over, despite all listener requests to stop. And this last weekend, I played about 9 different versions of "Caravan" in a row for my wife. She recently asked me to take some time once in a while to help her understand what the hell it was that drove me to buy some damn many dusty old records. So I picked out a sampling of "Caravan"s, starting with an early Duke Ellington version, and running up through the Three Suns, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Vinnie Bell. She found it difficult to believe they were really all the same song, particularly when I played Ellington's "Money Jungle" version (Ellington on piano with Max Roach and Charles Mingus in the early 60s) right after the early Ellington version. Her favorites from the bunch were Ben Webster's ("Live at the Renaissance") and Ferrante and Teicher's prepared piano version ("Hi-Fireworks"). She said she was surprised how much she enjoyed the experience--and this from a woman whose main appreciation of music is as something to provide a rhythm to work out by. As the epigraph to the Space Age Pop Standards Page states, "Any song worth playing is worth wearing into the ground." Play it again, Sam ... and again and again and again. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dan hill Subject: (exotica) request for help - bbc radio 3's "mixing it" programme goes to Date: 03 Sep 1998 13:13:47 +0100 hi some of you may be aware of the BBC's "Mixing It" programme (on Radio 3) in the UK, presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall ... a weekly show devoted to new music, or non-mainstream sounds ... a very broad range of music. it's going to vienna and has asked us at motion for a few contacts there - we've passed on ours, and said we would post to a few good lists asking for further contacts ... so, if any of you have any contacts or leads for interesting musicmakers in the vienna area, can you drop us a line, and we'll forward them on to Mixing It ... short notice i'm afraid as they're going this weekend! thanks very much dan. (apologies for cross-posts) ---+ dan hill [state51] ---+ new reviews on motion [03.9.98]: < dowe/thaemlitz | new phunk theory | darkroom | mason jones | lambchop > http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/ +--- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dan hill Subject: Re: (exotica) Luke Vibert for Papa Date: 03 Sep 1998 13:31:56 +0100 >I like Luke Vibert much, on which label is that >tracks ? Ninja ? >I hope it's on vinyl realese =8A >Thank you for your understanding >>Plug: Maker of All "Drum & Bass for Papa" >>- - a great sitar & tabla track from Luke Vibert luke vibert has released on lots of different labels (mo wax, rephlex, virgin, rising high, blue angel, astralwerks, etc.), under different names (wagon christ, luke vibert and plug for a start) ... i think this is the Plug release, the "Drum'n'Bass For Papa" LP ... the label(s) for this record, as i understand it, are: originally released on Blue Angel [ANGEL 11LP/CD] (released in japan by sony japan) special edition release on Blue Planet [PLAN1CD] a US release on Nothing Records [INTD2-90148} there's a groovy site all about luke at : http://www.brainwashed.com/vibert/ hope this helps cheers, dan. ---+ dan hill [state51] ---+ new reviews on motion [03.9.98]: < dowe/thaemlitz | new phunk theory | darkroom | mason jones | lambchop > http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/ +--- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) Luke Vibert for Papa Date: 03 Sep 1998 07:54:11 -0400 Regarding: >Plug: Maker of All "Drum & Bass for Papa" >- - a great sitar & tabla track from Luke Vibert Bissia wrote: I like Luke Vibert much, on which label is that tracks ? Ninja ? I hope it's on vinyl realese =8A Thank you for your understanding I don't know if it is available on vinyl, but I can tell you that it's on cd released by Nothing/Interscope INTO2- 90148. This double cd set includ= es the first disc called "Drum & Bass for Papa" with the second disc compili= ng the three Plug ep's. The original eps were almost certainly vinyl release= s, but I think they must be long, long out of print. The only Luke Vibert/Ninja Tunes I am familiar with are contained on the compilations "Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism" & "Ninja Cuts: Funkungfusion"= , both fine collections! Allan ++++Unusual Music+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Mondo Bongos" Wednesdays 9 - 11 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Unusual Music++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) What's this like? Date: 03 Sep 1998 14:18:50 -0400 Okay gang, gimme the two cents worth: Piero Umiliani: "Today's Sounds" VA: "Monstrous Movie Music" (2 vols) - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 03 Sep 1998 21:10:58 +0000 Just a reminder: Trikont (another fine adress from Munich) has put out 3 Volumes of CDs exclusively with versions of "La Paloma". They are absolutely wonderful. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 03 Sep 1998 15:18:44 +0000 First things first: Brad, got the rekkids. Thanks. SUCH A DEAL. > Having created two 90+ minute compilation tapes of "The Third Man Theme" > and "Music to Watch Girls By, TWO words: E-VIL! > > The radio station that played 10,000 versions of "Louie, Louie".... > L.A. radio DJ Robert Q. Lewis brought David Rose's "The Stripper" to fame > by playing it over and over, despite all listener requests to stop.... One radio station in the Santa Rosa area (KVRE around 1987) fired the entire staff on Friday and played "tiny bubbles" repeatedly over the weekend untill they launched the new format the following Monday. Yipes! > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Dick Contino's got a website Date: 03 Sep 1998 19:52:05 -0400 Here 'tis: http://www.jcmproductions.com/dickcontino/ m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 03 Sep 1998 22:03:24 EDT In a message dated 98-09-03 19:39:20 EDT, you write: << One radio station in the Santa Rosa area (KVRE around 1987) fired the entire staff on Friday and played "tiny bubbles" repeatedly over the weekend untill they launched the new format the following Monday. Yipes! >> Was this the Don Ho/Catch Katchamori tune or just variations of the Tiny Bubbles tune? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 03 Sep 1998 22:29:12 -0400 (EDT) At 03:18 PM 9/3/98 +0000, Ron wrote: >One radio station in the Santa Rosa area (KVRE around 1987) fired the entire >staff on Friday and played "tiny bubbles" repeatedly over the weekend until >they launched the new format the following Monday. Yipes! David Garland used to "host" a Hawaiian War Chant Extravaganza on WNYC. Every year he'd produce an all new 3-hour extravaganza shoehorning in as many versions as he could fit. And never any repeats from year to year! The listener-friendly touch was that any listener who survived the entire Extravaganza could write in for a hula-n-tiki flavored certificate attesting to their good taste and great endurance. Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 03 Sep 1998 20:30:24 -0600 On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 07:33:52PM +0100, Hugh Petfield wrote: > Anyone know if the Capitol Collectors Series, which > came out in around 92, included a Les Baxter CD please? As far as I know it did not. Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita volumes, myself... -- ::: 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 08:10:17 EDT In a message dated 98-09-02 14:39:00 EDT, tribute@dircon.co.uk writes: << Anyone know if the Capitol Collectors Series, which came out in around 92, included a Les Baxter CD please >> Definitely not Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 08:13:10 EDT In a message dated 98-09-02 20:42:36 EDT, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: << I am not sure of The Collector series but there is The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter. This was an 2 CD set under the Ultra Lounge guise. I have it and it is very good. The sound reproduction is excellent. >> Yes, despite the monorual tracks having been reprocessed for stereo effect. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark B. Conklin" Subject: (exotica) RE: Different Versions Date: 04 Sep 1998 07:51:05 -0600 >Maybe I dreamed it, but I coulda swore I've seen albums that have 12 >versions of the same song. Louie Louie and LaBamba come to mind. I've definitely seen a full album of Lullaby in Birdland covers. I think it was on Bethlehem Records. I wanted it really bad, but it was insanely expensive. I'm just blabbling on now, but I saw it in Rockford, Illinois at a store called Toad Hall (I think). They had two floors of collectors vinyl, but their prices weren't very good. Overall though, the store was an old jazz and exotica collectors dream. Does anyone know it is still around? MC - ------- Multi-Directions Music Reviews http://www.idcomm.com/personal/mconklin/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jmperl@juno.com (Jonathan M Perl) Subject: (exotica) adios again Date: 04 Sep 1998 10:02:12 -0400 I will off the list for a while as of today. Hope to be back online in mid-October, from which time I will be in Amsterdam (nl list-members - please say hi). In the meantime, my new address is delicado@cheerful.com Keep in touch! 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 09:02:18 -0700 At 08:30 PM 9/3/98 -0600, Lazlo wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 07:33:52PM +0100, Hugh Petfield wrote: > >> Anyone know if the Capitol Collectors Series, which >> came out in around 92, included a Les Baxter CD please? > >As far as I know it did not. Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita >volumes, myself... Me too. Also the Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting volumes... Dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 04 Sep 1998 09:39:42 PDT i'm going to the netherlands next week for a couple of weeks. Anyone know any cool exotica / lounge related places? Also does anyone know any good second hand record shops? thanks rob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: des@anubis23.demon.co.uk (Desmond K. Hill) Subject: (exotica) Customs nightmare Date: 04 Sep 1998 17:16:14 +0000 Like many others on this list I buy many used vinyl LPs from dealers outside of the U.K. I received a card arrived yesterday from 'Parcelforce Worldwide' informing me that they are holding a package of 3 LPs. Apparently Customs are charging me a supplemental $40 - the card does not explain why. The LPs ordered had been paid for in advance, with their airmail costs. Does anyone have any idea what this supplemental tax is for, & to avoid being charged for it? This has never happened before. please advise ASAP. d e s # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re: (exotica) Over and Over and Over Date: 04 Sep 1998 19:47:25 +0200 MO: >Just a reminder: >Trikont (another fine adress from Munich) has put out 3 Volumes of CDs >exclusively with versions of "La Paloma". They are absolutely wonderful. I bought the CD "American Yodeling 1911-1946" yesterday and it's just out on the same label. 26 tracks in all and very good informative booklet. Will there be any yodelers in heaven? Think so. Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) I Hate The Beatles Date: 04 Sep 1998 19:19:46 +0200 (forwarded from another list) >... is a compilation LP with '19 very good reasons from all over the world >to kill yourself if you still love these insects'. >All recordings from the sixties, mostly hilariously bad renditions of Beatles >songs by bands from Yugoslavia, Finland, Spain, Mexico, Jamaica (The Mighty >Fire Steelband), Belgium, UK and USA. Among them is a version of The Night >Before by the wonderful Shaggs, Mae West moaning her way through >Daytripper, Lord Sitar doing I Am The Walrus and a great drunk sounding >Finnish version of >Yellow Submarine ('The story goes that the band recorded this song after >hearing the original only once, on the radio, on their way to the studio', >the liner notes say). >Plus Ich Bin Die Beat Oma by Die Beat Oma (sung horribly out of tune on the >music of A Hard Day's Night) and Baby Beatle Song by Hans Uwe Schneider und >die Beatelchen (about babies who 'singen und schreien wie die Beatles'). >There's also The Ladmo Trio starting Michelle seriously, then cracking up with >laughter 'cause it's such a ridiculously sweet and stupid song. >A must have LP as I'm sure you understand, on Rape Records (rude eh). > >How sad it must be to be Stephen Bailey, manager of the Beatles Shop in >Liverpool, quoted in The Guardian today: ''I have been working here for 16 >years listening to the same songs over and over again. For me, it will be >good to listen to something new.'' He wasn't referring to I Hate The Beatles >by the way, but lost Lennon recordings that will be released soon. Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare Date: 04 Sep 1998 19:15:05 +0100 Des wrote: >Like many others on this list I buy many used vinyl LPs from dealers >outside of the U.K. I received a card arrived yesterday from 'Parcelforce >Worldwide' informing me that they are holding a package of 3 LPs. >Apparently Customs are charging me a supplemental $40 - the card does not >explain why. The LPs ordered had been paid for in advance, with their >airmail costs. > >Does anyone have any idea what this supplemental tax is for, & to avoid >being charged for it? I expect it is simply Value Added Tax (VAT). You don't mention where the records are coming from, but if it is from America (who don't participate in the VAT scheme) then that's the most likely reason. That only accounts for part of the surcharge, though. The other part is the charge Customs make for raising the charge, ie their cut. Prior to the introduction of VAT, I believe you could argue a refund of duty on the grounds that the records were not available in this country. I don't think you can avoid paying the $40, but you can minimise the risk in future by doing your best to get the suppliers of the albums to pack in such a way that it looks like a collector to collector consignment, rather than a company to a collector consignment. Also, if they are 2nd hand records it doesn't hurt to show that on the green customs declaration label. I don't know what guidelines the Customs people use to decide what attracts a surcharge, and what doesn't. It would be a scurrilous accusation to make, that they decide on packages people obviously won't want to lose. Perhaps vinyl now occupies a place along with jewellery in the 'high value' stakes? Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: des@anubis23.demon.co.uk (Desmond K. Hill) Subject: Re: (exotica) Radio broadcasts from hell Date: 04 Sep 1998 19:57:29 +0000 Having considered recent posts on the subject, I can only agree w/ Charles_Moseley, who typed: >an hour and a half radio program that only plays the same song (albeit >>different versions) a little scary. It seems to shout pretension and self >>indulgence I feel the same way about the playlists that appear+appear+appear over+over+over again on this list. [There is one exception that I am genuinely interested in, & motivated to read, because of that person's depth of knowledge]. Lists of CD comps. or reissues seem such an unimaginative & easy option. What purpose do they serve? In recent years I have learned that there are many hidden gems in the treasure chest of the past, if one dig deeps enough. With help from this forum, I hope to continue discovering well into the future. d e s ._p.s.____ Just to add fuel to the fire I inc. my French disko-elektro playlist: JEAN JACQUES PERREY et DAVID CHAZAM - 'Eklectronics' (Basenotic LP, France 1998) P.JACK - 'Interstellar Overmoog' (Kung-Fu Fighting Recording 12", France 1998) COSMODROME - 'Proposition pour une Conclusion Musicale au Vingtieme Siecle' (Groovy Moogy Recordings LP, France 1998) JACKY GIORDANO - 'Pop-in Devil's Train' (Montparnasse 2000 LP, France 197?) RENE COSTY - 'Romantisme d'hier et d'aujord'hui' (Montparnasse 2000 LP, France 197?) KEITH MANSFIELD - 'Contact' (KPM 1304 LP, UK 1983) THIERRY DURBET et LAURENT THIERRY-MIEG - 'High Energy' (KoKa Media 54 LP, France 1987) A. ALESSANDRONI - 'Les Vocalises Modernes' (St. Germain des Pres LP, France 196?) JEAN YVES LABAT - 'M. Frog' (Bearsville BR 2140 promo LP, USA 1973) DICK HYMAN - 'Age of Electronicus' (Command LP, USA 1969) YOSSARIAN - 'Paris Triptych' (Satellite 10", UK 1998) AIR - 'Kelly Watch the Stars' remix par Moog Cookbook (Source 7", France 1998) DAVID BOWIE - 'Low' (RCA LP, UK 1971) LOON - 'Bring Out Your Fear' Audione remix (Bing Bong Recordings DAT, UK 1998) ANDRE PREVIN - 'Rollerball' (United Artists LP, USA 1975) JANKO NILOVICH - 'Pop Shopin' (Montparnasse 2000, France 197?) CECIL WARY ORCHESTRA - 'World Faces' (Montparnasse 2000, France 197?) JANKO NILOVICH & DAVE SUCKY - 'Psyc Impressions' (Montparnasse 2000, France 196?) TOMMY GUERRERO - 'Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues' (Galaxia LP, USA 1998) COMPANY FLOW - 'End to End Burners' (Rawkus 12", USA 1998) HEADHUNTERS - 'Survival of the Fittest' (Arista LP, USA 1975) INDELIBLES - 'Weight/Mucho Stereo' (Official Recordings 12", USA 1998) DR. JOHN - 'Desitively Bonaroo' (Atco LP, USA 1974) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 21:21:36 +0100 Dave wrote: (regarding Capitol Collectors issues he's looking for) >...... and Margaret Whiting volumes... Could we have an educational thread on Margaret Whiting please? eg. info, bio, recommended works etc? When it comes to Margaret W., I'm afraid to admit that I'm in a fact-free environment. Thanks, Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) I Hate The Beatles Date: 04 Sep 1998 22:49:51 +0200 (MET DST) We, Subliminal Sounds, expect this comp. LP in within a week. Anyone interested in that or our e-mail mail order list can contact me privatly. And here's some more info: "V.A. "I Hate The Beatles Volume 1" -- "19 very good reasons from all over the world to kill yourself if you still love these insects" -- incredible collection of horrifically bad Beatles' covers, hilarious and fantastic stuff includes a 1965 German 45 by Die Beat Oma, "The effect of listening to The Beatles cannot be better demonstrated better than by this German 45. It's a well known fact that the Germans haven't got a clue of any kind of music except yodeling, but this song is beyond recognition!" Covers from everywhere, raspberry colored vinyl on Rape Records." Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare Date: 04 Sep 1998 23:10:19 +0200 (MET DST) Here's how it works in the European Union or what ever it's called. The import laws are much strikter since the formation of the EU. If you recive taxable products, new or used makes no differance, from a country that is not part of the EU. The customs will tax (VAT) you for the total value of what you recive including the postage. If there's no customs declaration there'll be problems. Either a custom's officer will contact you demanding such or they will just tax the contents either way they like. There is a minimum value for goods to be taxed but I think that differs from country to country. If it's a small packet it might pass the custom's unnoticed then it is up to you to report it to the customs for declaration, if you know it should have been taxed. How many people do you think would do this? The VAT also differs between the European states so I suggest you talk to your local customs officer. I know all this because I've been importing/exporting records for a long time. I do not work as a record spying customs officer. Good Luck Des! Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour! Date: 04 Sep 1998 16:09:38 +0000 This week on KANU's Retro Cocktail Hour - the Top 40 goes Latin (Percy Faith, Edmundo Ros and Warren Covington), we'll celebrate the 70th anniversary of "Guantanmera" with Mr. Bongo, there's cool crime jazz from "Mike Hammer", plus more Stereo Action, African Jazz and tunes from Denny and Lenny. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web right now, just go to: http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kanufm/public_html/retro.html Requires RealPlayer 5.0 or G2 and at least a 28.8 Internet connection. New episodes added weekly, with a program archive now available. Browse the playlists, tour the cover gallery and enter our weekly giveaway! And if you tune in, please let us know what you think! Thanks for the space! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 dbrogdon@ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kanufm/public_html/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) What this like? Date: 04 Sep 1998 22:23:25 +0100 Nathan Miner wrote : > Okay gang, gimme the two cents worth: > Piero Umiliani: "Today's Sounds" I've only skim-listened to this in a shop but I seem to remember the first track is killer Moogy pop-rock, the rest seemed to be pretty average. Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Russ Garcia's "Fantastica" Date: 04 Sep 1998 22:23:25 +0100 Great story Jack. > I told him that Capitol/EMI supposedly "owned" it and it would be > next to impossible for him to get them to relinquish it to him so > he could reissue it but he said he's going to make it his mission > in life, from this point forward. Well, it must be possible - it's been available on CD as a Japanese import for a year or so!!! Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 04 Sep 1998 23:38:24 +0000 Robert McKenna wrote: > i'm going to the netherlands next week for a couple of weeks. Anyone > know any cool exotica / lounge related places? Also does anyone know any > good second hand record shops? No, bur you've got to visit some of the superb coffee shops where you can buy all kinds of fabulous prize-winner hash and maryjuana and smoke in a relaxed beautiflly styled ambiente. The best in Amsterdam seems to be the "Rokerij". It's near the Amercian Hotel, just a few streets away. It's an experience of its own. You wouldn't believe how cool "legalized" can be! It's definitely "lounge-related"! MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) I Hate The Beatles Date: 04 Sep 1998 23:45:24 +0000 > "V.A. "I Hate The Beatles Volume 1" -- "19 very good reasons from all over > the world to kill yourself if you still love these insects" -- incredible > collection of horrifically bad Beatles' covers, hilarious and fantastic > stuff includes a 1965 German 45 by Die Beat Oma, "The effect of listening to > The Beatles cannot be better demonstrated better than by this German 45. > It's a well known fact that the Germans haven't got a clue of any kind of > music except yodeling, but this song is beyond recognition!" Covers from > everywhere, raspberry colored vinyl on Rape Records." > I hate you all! MoRRRitz "Sauerkraut" RRR # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 14:52:36 -0700 At 09:21 PM 9/4/98 +0100, Hugh Petfield wrote: >Could we have an educational thread on Margaret Whiting please? >eg. info, bio, recommended works etc? >When it comes to Margaret W., I'm afraid to admit that I'm in a >fact-free environment. Margaret Whiting is songwriter Richard Whiting's daughter. She sang in a straight no-nonsense manner and I'd think she'd be of little interest to most people on this list except for the fact that she got "involved" (married?) gay porno star Jack Wrangler years ago and they're still together. She's a fine vocalist in the traditional classic vocalists school. She's not camp, exotic or strange in any way. MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dave & LeAnn Davidson Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors Date: 04 Sep 1998 18:58:08 -0700 At 02:52 PM 9/4/98 -0700, Steve wrote: > >At 09:21 PM 9/4/98 +0100, Hugh Petfield wrote: > >>Could we have an educational thread on Margaret Whiting please? >>eg. info, bio, recommended works etc? >>When it comes to Margaret W., I'm afraid to admit that I'm in a >>fact-free environment. > >Margaret Whiting is songwriter Richard Whiting's daughter. She sang in a >straight no-nonsense manner and I'd think she'd be of little interest to >most people on this list except for the fact that she got "involved" >(married?) gay porno star Jack Wrangler years ago and they're still together. > >She's a fine vocalist in the traditional classic vocalists school. She's >not camp, exotic or strange in any way. Well, I suppose for those who have narrowed their interest strictly to camp, exotic and strange, you're right, Margaret Whiting won't do much for you. My opinion is that she's an under-appreciated, mostly-forgotten, wonderful vocalist. She covered many songs written by legendary songwriters like Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael, and did some wonderful duets, including a 1950 duet with Bob Hope, "Blind Date", which some might consider campy. Some chart hits: A Tree in the Meadow - 1948, #1 Far Away Places - #2, 1949 Baby, it's Cold Outside (with Johnny Mercer) - #3, 1949 Slipping Around (with Jimmy Wakely) - #1, 1949 The Gods were Angry with Me (with Jimmy Wakely) - #3, 1950 Currently, she's on Broadway, starring in "Dream - The Johnny Mercer Musical", singing "Moon River" and "The Days of Wine and Roses", to name a few. And yes, she's still married to the gay porn star. I don't know too much about the bulk of her work, but I sure like what I've heard. Dave # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the curator Subject: (exotica) The Moon of Manakoora Date: 01 Sep 1998 18:39:46 +0000 >Moon over Manakoora is on my list of frequently occuring songs on which I >write down whenever I get a new version. if you really need a complete list then i guess you also need David & Marianne Dalmour from "Strange Enchantment" Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) What this like? Date: 05 Sep 1998 11:34:41 +0200 Robbie Baldock wrote: > > Nathan Miner wrote : > > > Okay gang, gimme the two cents worth: > > Piero Umiliani: "Today's Sounds" > > I've only skim-listened to this in a shop but I seem to remember > the first track is killer Moogy pop-rock, the rest seemed to be > pretty average. I agree: it's a rather disappointing record. Most compositions are rather forgettable. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 05 Sep 1998 11:34:49 +0200 Moritz R wrote: > > Robert McKenna wrote: > > > i'm going to the netherlands next week for a couple of weeks. Anyone > > know any cool exotica / lounge related places? Also does anyone know any > > good second hand record shops? > > No, bur you've got to visit some of the superb coffee shops where you can buy > all kinds of fabulous prize-winner hash and maryjuana and smoke in a relaxed > beautiflly styled ambiente. It's an experience of > its own. You wouldn't believe how cool "legalized" can be! It's definitely > "lounge-related"! Yes, and we all live in wind-mills and we walk on wooden shoes.... Hey, c'mon - there are nicer things to do in the Netherlands than visit those awful coffee-shops. Lots of great museums in Amsterdam and yes, lots of record-shops too. What part of Holland will you be visiting? I can give you addresses of interesting record-shops in any part of the country. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare Date: 05 Sep 1998 04:15:04 -0600 >Like many others on this list I buy many used vinyl LPs from dealers >outside of the U.K. >Apparently Customs are charging me a supplemental $40 - the card does not >explain why. The LPs ordered had been paid for in advance, with their >airmail costs. Customs, baby. Customs and excise tax. And VAT. You can only buy about $30 worth of goods before they slap on the tax. If you're within the EU, you're cool. But if it's Stateside, you're sunk. The problem is that little green slip people must fill in. If people put the value of the records, then you pay excise. Now, a lot of foolish people mailing things - instead of fudging on the value of the records - actually include the cost of the postage into that green slip too, thinking that if it is lost, you'll get value back. WRONG! That is simply for customs, not for postal insurance. The record dealer you bought from is either very honest OR very stupid. You'd be surprised how much weight that little green slip holds. They don't have a copy of record collector sitting by their side. Always check "gift" and not "merchandise" >Does anyone have any idea what this supplemental tax is for, & to avoid >being charged for it? Profit. Lie. >This has never happened before. please advise ASAP. You're stuck paying it, BUT you can get a refund cheque IF you can get a letter from the source saying they overestimated the value of the product due to thinking it might help with insurance if it were lost. I would suggest trying this. I have gotton refunds before. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 05 Sep 1998 17:23:56 +0000 Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek wrote: > > No, bur you've got to visit some of the superb coffee shops where you can buy > > all kinds of fabulous prize-winner hash and maryjuana and smoke in a relaxed > > beautiflly styled ambiente. It's an experience of > > its own. You wouldn't believe how cool "legalized" can be! It's definitely > > "lounge-related"! > > Yes, and we all live in wind-mills and we walk on wooden shoes.... > Hey, c'mon - there are nicer things to do in the Netherlands than visit > those awful coffee-shops. One day when the EU will have closed them all down you'll appreciate what you had. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 05 Sep 1998 18:38:58 +0200 Moritz R wrote: > > One day when the EU will have closed them all down you'll appreciate what you had. I don't smoke. Marco # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Professional: The Best Of Laurie Johnson Date: 05 Sep 1998 14:55:19 +0200 anyone knows how the new Laurie Johnson cd "The Professional: The Best Of Laurie Johnson" on HMV compares with the "...with a vengeance" cd on Sequel? "The Professional" is called "the definitive collection of LJ's best known theme music for tv and film, and contains the themes from "the Avengers", "the professionals" & "Jason King". "...with a vengeance" has 30 Tracks from the 60's, including the original "Avengers" theme, "Dr. Strangelove", his entire "Two Cities Suite" album. About 10 of these tracks are very good, but there are as many average or just plain boring tracks. All are rather lush big band style, TOO lush and mellow at times, not much unconventional things happening here. Some crime jazz influences. Also several humorous pieces, sort of a big band version of Leroy Anderson. Also a couple of Latin tracks, but the Edmundo Ros smooth kind of Latin. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: What's this like? Date: 05 Sep 1998 16:58:57 +0200 Piero Umiliani: "Today's Sounds" As featured on "Easy tempo 3". It's an ambitious and progressive instrumental cocktail of soul, jazz, funk, rock fusion, Latin, and Moog, but not necessarely all together in each and every song. "Open space" is Moog fusion, "Caretera Panamericana" is bright Latin Moog jazz, "Goodmorning sun" is floating Moog pop, "To-day's sound" is slightly eastern influenced rock fusion, "Free dimension" is funky jazz with frantic conga/bongo percussion, "Truck driver" is Moog funk, "Country twon" is odd exotic Hammond 'n marimba instro gospel-like, "Bus stop" is Hammond soul, "Exploration" combines a folky melody with fuzz guitar, "Tropical river" sound very much like the things Pink Floyd was doin' around the same time (1971), "Coast to coast" is blaxploitation crime Moog funk. The title suggests some "now" sound, but it's different from the typical "now sound" combination of big band and rock elements. Instrumentation: Moog, Fender piano, marimba, flute, horn section, Hammond and Lowrey organ, clavichord, vibraphone, electric guitars, bass, double bass, percussion. MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC (MMM-1950) MORE MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC (MMM-1951) Presenting the first two volumes in the acclaimed CD series of music from classic science fiction films! "Monstrous Movie Music" contains an hour of previously-unreleased music from Them!, The Mole People, It Came From Outer Space, and It Came From Beneath The Sea. "More Monstrous Movie Music" contains an hour of previously-unreleased music from Tarantula, The Monolith Monsters, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, and Gorgo. Both CDs are performed by the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cracow and conducted by Masatoshi Mitsumoto. We can be reached at: Phone: (818) 566-7383 (you can order by credit card over the phone or leave a number for us to call you back at) Fax: (818) 566-7373 e-mail: monstrous@earthlink.net Or you can mail payment to: Monstrous Movie Music P. O. Box 7088 Burbank, CA 91510-7088 USA Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) new CD's Date: 05 Sep 1998 15:23:47 EDT While browsing thru Footlight's site of new soundtrack releases, I was pleased to see these RCA reissues: Mancini - Charade Mancini - The Party Buddy Morrow - Impact Buddy Morrow - Double Impact The two Morrows are really great collections of TV themes (circa 1958-60) done in the big, bold and brassy style. Highly recommended! Bonanza Staccato Sea Hunt The Naked City The Twilight Zone Highway Patrol Rawhide Hawaiian Eye (!) ...just a few of the titles. Original artwork, too! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 06 Sep 1998 13:51:52 +0200 A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available. These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced here: - September 5: new (1998) releases & announcements - * Wanda De Sah: "Softly" CD, Capitol, Japan, 1998 * Jose Feliciano: "Tribute To The Beatles" CD, ? SHK290810 , ?, 1998 * Serge Gainsbourg: "Classe X" CD, Mercury 558 429, France, 1998 * Stan Getz: "What The World Needs Now/Plays Burt Bacharach" CD, Verve By Request, USA, Announced For October, 1998 * Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley: "A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness" CD, Verve By Request, USA, Announced For October, 1998 * I Gres: "Exotic Themes For Films, Radio, & TV" CD, Plastic, Italy, 1998 * Laurie Johnson: "Musical Worlds Of Laurie Johnson" (Synthesis/The Wind In The Willows/Ghedda) CD, HMV, UK, 1998 * Laurie Johnson: "The Professional: The Best Of Laurie Johnson" CD, HMV, UK, 1998 * John Keating: "Space Experience/Space Experience 2" Double CD, EMI 7243 4 95619, UK, 1998 * Sergio Mendes: "Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things" CD, Atlantic, France, 1998 * Os Mutantes: "Personalidade" CD, Polygram, Brazil, 1998 * Soundtrack: "Black Caesar" [by James Brown] CD, Polydor 517 135, USA, 1998 * Dave Pike Set: "Got The Feelin'" CD/LP, Desco WGR001, USA, 1998 * Jimmy Smith: "Any Number Can Win" CD, Verve By Request, USA, Announced For October, 1998 * Various Artists: "Wacky Lounge Christmas" CD, Universal, USA, Announced For End September, 1998 - September 5: more or less recent (1997) stuff - * Sergio Mendes: "Dance Moderno" CD, Philips, Brasil, 1997 - September 5: old but interesting finds I stumbled on - * Pablo Beltran & His Orchestra: "Dust On The Moon" CD, RCA, Spain, 199? * The Brady Bunch: "It's A Sunshine Day" (The Best Of The Brady Bunch) CD, MCA, USA, 199? * Serge Gainsbourg: "De Serge Gainsbourg A Gainsbarre" Triple CD Box, Philips 532 130, France, 199? * Serge Gainsbourg: "Anna" (Volume 9) CD, Philips 838 395, France, 19?? * Serge Gainsbourg: "Histoire De Melodie Nelson" CD, Philips 532 073, France, 199? * Serge Gainsbourg: "Je Suis Venu Te Difre Que Je M'En Vais" (Volume 6) CD, Philips 838 392, France, 199? * Serge Gainsbourg: "L'Homme A Tete De Chou" CD, Philips 532 076, France, 19?? * Serge Gainsbourg: "L'Homme A Tete De Chou" (Volume 7: 1975-1981) CD, Philips 838393, France, 19?? * Ella Jenkins: "This Is Rhythm" CD, Smithsonian Folkways SF 45028, USA, 1994 * Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: "Ye-Me-Le" CD, A&M, Japan, 199? * Soundtrack: "Big Night" [by Various Artists] CD, TVT 8040, USA, 1996 * Harry Stoneham: "Hammond Hits The Highway/High, Wide And Hammond" Double CD, EMI 7243 4 95618 * Various Artists: "Dark Shadows: The 30th Anniversary Collection" CD, Varese Sarabande VSD-5702, USA, 199? * Various Artists: "Dimensions In Sound Volume 2" LP, Trip 6202, UK, 199? * Various Artists: "Dimensions In Sound Volume 3" LP, Trip TRIP 6203, UK, 199? * Walter Wanderley: "Batucada" CD, Polydor, Japan, 199? The eXotica Releases Overview is part of "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) I Hate The Beatles Date: 04 Sep 1998 22:47:13 +0200 (MET DST) We, Subliminal Sounds, expect this comp. LP in within a week. Anyone interested in that or our e-mail mail order list can contact me privatly. And here's some more info: "V.A. "I Hate The Beatles Volume 1" -- "19 very good reasons from all over the world to kill yourself if you still love these insects" -- incredible collection of horrifically bad Beatles' covers, hilarious and fantastic stuff includes a 1965 German 45 by Die Beat Oma, "The effect of listening to The Beatles cannot be better demonstrated better than by this German 45. It's a well known fact that the Germans haven't got a clue of any kind of music except yodeling, but this song is beyond recognition!" Covers from everywhere, raspberry colored vinyl on Rape Records." Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) (tekxotica) Luke Vibert for Papa Date: 06 Sep 1998 20:05:01 +0100 Big thankds to Dan and Allan for the Luke Vibert track refs. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Russ Garcia's "Fantastica" Date: 06 Sep 1998 14:14:19 EDT >Well, it must be possible - it's been available on CD as a Japanese >import for a year or so!!! Actually, I tried to order the Japanese import CD of Russ Garcia's Fantastica through Sound City 2000 in July. I received a response 7 weeks later that it was no longer available. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Beach Party 9/11 Date: 06 Sep 1998 21:29:41 EDT Friday, Sept 11 "Clambake" beach party @ Cocodrie, 1024 Kearny, San Francisco, 9866678 starring the Aquamen Jumbo Shrimp featruing Frank Novicki formerly of Shockwave & Sloe Gin Joes The punk ukulele stylings of Pineapple Princess' Santa Cruz' Splashback and special guest appearance by Uke book author and Rhino CD producer Jim Beloff heading the SF ukulele jam which will feature Sonny Whipp, Graham Funke, Frank Novicki, and members of Pineapple Princess joining Jim on a few numbers PLUS Free sunglasses & leis, Hula girls, free S'mores, limbo contest, sand, Del-Fi Beach Party Cd raffle, and Polynesian drinks all for only $7.00 co-sponsored by Rhino and Del-Fi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3 Date: 07 Sep 1998 11:01:29 +0000 Hello Tiki Room Lover! Welcome to Issue #3! I'd like to start out by again thanking each and every one of you for supporting The Save The Enchanted Tiki Room Campaign by signing the Petition, located at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html **********The Tiki News********** - We just this second got our 1300th signer, Kindra E. Groshong! Congrats! - I'll be preparing the Petition #1-1300 to be sent in sometime early this week. - I have been in contact with a source who I feel is the most knowledgable person around when it comes to Disneyland and the Disneyland Management's actions. This source has told me that this Petition and Campaign has made a difference in the minds of Disney Management. We're making a difference! - A visitor to the Save Tiki Site wrote me to relate a story of a recent visit of theirs to the Tiki Room. This person overheard a Disneyland Cast Member speak to another visitor about "some petition on the internet." This just proves that workers in Disneyland know about this campaign! For more info, see the site at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html **********Other Disney News You Should Know About*********** Permit me to stray a bit from the Tiki Room for a moment to tell you of a few things in Disney news you should know. - Mr. Toad will make his Last Wild Ride this Labor Day weekend in Walt Disney World, Florida. The "Save Toad" Campaign leader, "JT Toad" and I have been in close communication and he has been a huge help to me with the Tiki Campaign. Unfortunately, despite all his hard work, Mr. Toad in DisneyWorld is closing. For last minute details, visit http://www.savetoad.html and for an article both JT and I were interviewed for, visit http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/14750.html - DisneyWorld is not the only park to loose a great attraction over this Labor Day Weekend. The Submarine Voyage in Disneyland will be taking its last dive this weekend. This action by Disney Management is met with mixed emotions, especially since the Lagoon is scheduled to sit empty and unused until construction begins on a new attraction in 2002, with the attraction opening in 2003. In this time where Disney feels they can get rid of classic, magical attractions, let us hope for the best for our Tiki Room in Disneyland!!! **********Tiki Requests********** - Again, if any of you have Tiki Memories, please let me know! I have added a new page to the site entitled "Fond Memories of the Tiki Room." It gives the site a very personal twist. I'm looking for stories or memories you experienced in the Tiki Room. To see what others have submitted, please visit the main Save The Tiki Room page at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html **********More Stuff********** - If you would prefer NOT to receive this newsletter, please let me know, and you will be taken off the list right away. - If you received double copies of this newsletter, please let me know, and I'll fix it A.S.A.P. Again, thanks for your support! We couldn't do it without you. As always, the Save The Tiki Room site is the number one place to go for up-to-date info on the situation. Have a Disney Day! Chris "Disneyguy" Wingert ******************************************************************** Disneyguy Proudly Presents...... Disneyland: The Happiest Place on Earth! http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877 Save the Enchanted Tiki Room at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html A.D.D. Code = AA1p0 CCWB0 aAR ED375 FY1 nk0 W1 M6 ******************************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) I want to be seduced Date: 07 Sep 1998 10:07:33 +0100 Does anybody know the male vocalist that sung this song please? (My mother heard it on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the other day and she thought it was wonderful) I hope its reasonably on topic - Thanks Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: Re: (exotica) The Netherlands Date: 07 Sep 1998 14:29:31 +0100 Indeed all thit is right and I've been to the 'Rokerij' as well, not particulary for the legalized stuffs, I've found the sound, the = atmosphere, the service and the kinetic aspect quite good =8A A nice experience. >Yes, and we all live in wind-mills and we walk on wooden shoes.... >Hey, c'mon - there are nicer things to do in the Netherlands than visit >those awful coffee-shops. Lots of great museums in Amsterdam and yes, >lots of record-shops too. >What part of Holland will you be visiting? I can give you addresses of >interesting record-shops in any part of the country. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Peter Wyngarde Date: 07 Sep 1998 13:40:04 +0100 One of my friends bought this last week, and wouldn't play it to me he said it was too bad with a really unpleasant rape track near the end. I've never known such sensitivity in the guy before. Its a great looking cover though. Instead he played me some of the new Studio 2 releases. Two CD sets of two original LPs. unfortunately my titles = are approximate as I was drunk, and I'm now at work. Norrie Paramour The Shadows in a Latin style/ Cliff Richard this is fantastic stuff, especially the shadows side, FBI, Apache, Toe tapper all with a Latin beat and trumpet leads etc. =20 John Keating Space Sounds vol I and II Volume I has Jesus Christ Superstar and 'feel the earth Move' that appeared on the XXXX compilation. I have volume I on Vinyl and the CD has a much better sound (the vinyl was not mastered very well, surprisingly). Some bloke playing the Hammond All the songs in segues of three, this must be the pick of the bunch. I wish I could remember his name. Great Hammond sound, great arrangements, great backing tracks, great song selection (including Quiet Village/Tabu if I remember correctly). Absolutely great, and = not something I usually like. Manuel and the Music of the Mountains He didn't by this, so who = knows. They were all at HMV, one store had them for =A316.00 each, and = another nearby had them all for =A39.99. Sorry its all so vague but I was drunk, it was 4 am. And they were = CDs so I didn't pay much attention. Il Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Piero Umiliani: "Today's Sounds" Date: 07 Sep 1998 13:54:02 +0100 I bought this a blind as I liked the cover and had a few pounds on a token someone had given me. It good, all instrumental Italian soundtrack stuff. Some fast tracks some slow tracks, a bit jazzy, MELODIES oh, yes! he drum parts have a really nice modern sound and would make great breaks, and the bass parts on the faster tracks have that early seventies feel like some Elvis tracks where they start at the bottom of the neck and just run and run to the top (like EPs Polk Salad Annie). I wasn't sure for ages if it was a modern record in a retro sleeve or an old record. Then someone pointed the '71 date out to me, (I'd just gone 'hmmmm, Italian' and not looked too closely). Personally I find it more interesting and listenable than, say, the erotica Italia stuff, its a lot more consistent and coherent. Il Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: misanthropy Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 961 playlist Date: 07 Sep 1998 09:25:29 -0500 MISANTHROPY 961--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223 u.s. e-mail: misant@ic.net CJAM is now online with Real Audio. You can now hear Misanthropy 961 every Sunday night(Monday morning)from midnight -2 am e.s.t. live on your computer. Write yourself a note to stay up late/get up early. Look for us at: http://www.uwindsor.ca/cjam/live.htm Misanthropy 961 presents #A Summer of Plunderphonics# where we feature a different artist most every week for the last 30 minutes of the show. RADIO PLAYLIST (edited for exotica content) ARTIST--TITLE--CD/CASS/LP--LABEL AUGUST 17,1998 SOULFUL STRINGS--lady madonna--another exposure--CADET DAVID SLUSSER--sala--delight at the end of tunnel--TZADIK MAURICIO KAGEL--transicion 2--stockhausen/kagel--MAINSTREAM THE MONKS--monk time--black monk time--INFINITE ZERO SUN RA--message to earthman--the singles--EVIDENCE FRANCIS CANNON--spaceships have landed--v.a. gracious living--QDK BUFFALO BOB--howdy doody theme--t.v. greatest hits--TVT BANANARAMA--cruel summer--greatest hits--LONDON PIERRE HENRY--music w/o a title--panorama of musique conctete--LONDON HEINO--schwarzbrano is die haselhuss--wir lagen vor madagaskar--FIESTA FRANK ZAPPA--remington electric razor--apocrypha--GREAT DANE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE--ribump ba bap dum dum--loves you--BMG JEAN JACQUES PERREY--flight of the bumblebee--moog indigo--VANGUARD GEORGE HARRISON--no time or space--electronic sound--APPLE V. USSACHEVSKY--piece for tape recorder--pioneers electronic music--CRI PIERO PICCIONI--mr. dante fontana--v.a beat at cinecitta 2--CRIPPLED DICK THE J.A.M.S.--1987 AUGUST 24, 1998 KETTY LESTER--love letters--v.a. blue velvet sndk--VARESE CHRIS WATSON--hippopotami--outside the circle of fire--TOUCH ALESSANDRO MORESCHI--domine saluum fac--last castrato--PAVILION VAMPIRE SOUND INC--lions & cucumber--v.a. jackie brown sndk--MAVERICK ARNOLD DREYBLATT--damping influence--sound one string--TABLE ELEMENTS JEAN JACQUES PERREY--e.v.a.--moog indigo--VANGUARD THE TAPE BEATLES--tension creak/hard times/stress--steal this lick--SSS THE TAPE BEATLES--the american adventure--the grand delusion--STAALPLAAT THE TAPE BEATLES--primary delusion--the grand delusion--STAALPLAAT THE TAPE BEATLES--america is confident--the grand delusion--STAALPLAAT THE TAPE BEATLES--lament/frog story--the grand delusion--STAALPLAAT THE TAPE BEATLES--mind problems--the grand delusion--STAALPLAAT PUBLIC WORKS--beautiful state--music w/ sound--STAALPLAAT PUBLIC WORKS--green, blue beautiful place--music w/ sound--STAALPLAAT PUBLIC WORKS--whole new animal--music w/ sound--STAALPLAAT PUBLIC WORKS--different tool--music w/ sound--STAALPLAAT PUBLIC WORKS--please help me--music w/ sound--STAALPLAAT SEPTEMBER 1998- RADIO MARABU VOICES OF ATOLLS--te po haumaru--songs of tahiti--TIARE TAHITI HENRY MANCINI--the breeze & i--driftwood & dreams--LIBERTY ARNOLD DREYBLATT--nodal excitation--sound one string--TABLE ELEMENTS LUSH STRINGS--stormy weather--stormy weather--CUSTOM CHRIS WATSON--spider monkeys--outside the circle of fire--TOUCH RESHMA--shahbaz galandar--punjabi hits--ODEON SEPTEMBER 7, 1998 PETER THOMAS ORCH--space patrol--futuremuzik--SCAMP RUNE LINBLAD--halften av nagonting--objekt 2--POGUS CHRIS WATSON--insect, hidden--outside the circle of fire--TOUCH LES BAXTER--balinese bongos--v.a. bongoland--CAPITOL DON JOYCE--mort aux vaches--mort aux vaches--STAALPLAAT JULEE CRUISE--mysteries of love--v.a blue velvet sndk--VARESE ATTILIO MINEO--men in space w/ sounds--man in space--SUBLIMINAL these are great times to be a misanthropist. Misanthropy 961 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 961 features from easy listening to moments of mayhem. Surrealism in spectra-sonic sound. http://www.uwindsor.ca/cjam/live.htm We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly appreciated. Misanthropy 961 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/ Contact us for info on our sound project, The Hearing Trumpet. David Warmbier & Greg Hallock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" Playlist for 9 Sep 98 Date: 07 Sep 1998 10:31:27 -0400 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday at 9 to 11 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada Jack Costanzo: The Inch Worm "Bongoland" Morton Stevens: Hawaii Five-O "Hawaii Five-O" Morton Stevens: Call to Danger "Hawaii Five-O" - from the original soundtrack lp released by Capitol Records.In the liner notes, Leonard Freeman writes: "No ukeleles or steel guitars or falsetto singers or overused bongos, but a kind of melding of the Polynesian, the classic, the jazz and most of all the pop sound of today." The Blue Hawaiians: Charade (instrumental) "Shots in the Dark" - from the Mancini tribute released by Del-Fi Records Kvantett O Jonson & Grjoni: Karnival i Texas "Karnival i Texas" - a wonderfully atmospheric instrumental release by this Icelandic combo. Available thru Bad Taste Records http://www.saga.is/badtaste/badhome.html Combustible Edison: Theme from "The Tiki Wonder Hour" "I, Swinger" Henry Mancini: Mr Yunioshi "Breakfast at Tiffanys" ost [Unknown]: [Unknown] "Cambodian Rocks" - a collection of "circle dance music" recorded in Cambodia during the 60's & early 70's. It's basically Cambodian version of American soul, rock & pop music. You've never heard anything quite like it. Released on vinyl by Parallel World. The United States of America: The Garden of Earthly Delights "The United States of America" Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan: The Visitor from Inner Space "Song of the Second Moon" - from the lp released by Limelight Records. Gershon Kingsley: Popcorn "First Moog Quartet" Claude Larson & his Computer Controlled Oscillators: Highway E1 "Electronic Toys" Turn On: Young Cherry Trees Secured "Turn On" - a side project by Tim Gane & Andy Ramsey (Stereolab) & Sean O'Hagen (The High Llamas). Mostly instrumental & superior to "Dots & Loops" which was released about the same time. Syrinx: Hollywood Dream Trip "Syrinx" - with moogs, sax & hand percussion by the core members plus orchestration & wordless vocals, the two lps by this early 70's Canadian band are ripe for rediscovery. Improved Sound Ltd: Leave This Lesbian World "Electrick Loosers: the story of Volkslied into Krautrock" - the cd reissue of the first two volumes of "Prae-Kraut Pendaemonium" with a few tracks added & a few dropped. The song itself is firmly in the "what in God's name were they thinking" catagory. Neu!: Negativland "Neu!" - if you're interested, several Neu-related websites can be found by following the links at http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/krautrock/ Plug: Delicious "Drum 'n' Bass for Papa" MR Games: Eggy Toast " Mike & Rich: Expert Knob Twiddlers" - humorous moog 'n' loop tracks by Mike Paradinas (U-Ziq) & Richard James (Aphex Twin). Amon Tobin: Toys "Permutations" MR Games: Reg "Mike & Rich: Expert Knob Twiddlers" Portishead: Wandering Star "Dummy" Angelo Badalamenti: Audrey's Theme "Soundtrack for Twin Peaks" Cujo: Cat People "Trip Hop & Jazz 4" - a pseudonym for Amon Tobin. Krockodil: Odyssey in Om [excerpt] "An Invisible World Revealed" - from this Swiss band's 1971 lp. I plan on playing the first 5 minutes of this epic piece because of the sitar & before it turns into your standard prog-rock monster. Okko: Painted Sails on the Ganges "Sitar & Electronics" Okko: Ganges Delta "Sitar & Electonics" - a fave lp of mine (Released by BASF Records). On it Okko Bekker plays the sitar (of course) & the moog with somewhat minimal rock backing. Even better, it features two Beatle tunes! Shocking Blue: Acka Raga "The Hascisch Party!" Comments & questions welcome. Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) Koffie Verkeerd (Dutch Latte) Date: 07 Sep 1998 17:13:41 +0200 A short comment on The Coffeeshop phenomenon. The gist of it is this. Our lawmakers are all ZEN masters. So, it's legal to take stuff out of The Coffeeshop, but it's illegal to take stuff into The Coffeeshop. Yes, but how can it work then? Here's where you come in. When you've figured out the mechanics, you have just earned yourself a masters degree. Cheers, Ton PS >(nl list-members - please say hi) HI! *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ "We're quite lazy" - Trubshaw ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jackson/trubshaw.htm ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" Subject: (exotica) The Now Sound Collective [RE: Over and Over] Date: 07 Sep 1998 14:11:08 -0500 Back on this "over and over and over" thread, I was thinking about the most interpreted songs from those wonderful "now sound" records and came up with the following titles (in order of frequency): The Look of Love The Shadow of Your Smile A Man and a Woman Call Me Georgy Girl It seems like every "easy jet-set" record from '66 on included at least one of these cuts. Has anyone compiled a tape or done a show with these songs? Bryan =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bryan J. Cuevas Department of Religious Studies University of Virginia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) El Chicano - review Date: 07 Sep 1998 14:27:38 PDT This record has had me intrigued for a little while now: "Viva Tirado" by El Chicano, Kapp Records Recorded around 1970 "after hours in the lounge of the Kabuki Sukiyaki Restaurant, 3840 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles." I had seen this album before but not given it more than a quick glance because the cover makes it look more like the work of an early Latino punk band than anything quasi-lounge. More recently I saw it again and took a look at the songs and liner notes and picked it up after seeing that it contained the songs "Cantaloupe Island," "Quiet Village," "The Look of Love," "Light My Fire," and "Coming Home Baby," among others. Despite a few lukewarm tracks, I overall like this a lot. The version of "Quiet Village" alone makes this worth picking up. It is truly original, completely inverting the usual rhythmic pattern, and played faster and with more energy than one typically hears. The sound is very dynamic and "live" in feel. It occasionally comes a little too close to reminding me of what I think early Santana must have sounded like, but more often has a quite pleasing loungey quality, especially the excellent electronic organ. I'm not knowledgeable enough to identify the precise brand or model, but this one is definitely "the bomb." Other instrumentation is bass, electric guitar, drums, and a variety of percussion devices. Melodies and solos are carried by either the organ or the electric guitar, which sometimes sounds slightly like Friends of Dean Martinez rather than Santana. But again, it's really that wonderful sounding organ and some great songs and the Latin-jazz percussion that elevate this project to something worth seeking out. Great back yard barbeque music. -- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) fwd: more nl news Date: 07 Sep 1998 18:34:13 -0400 (EDT) Following is a news item in the current (Philadelphia) City Paper: "Dutch authorities sentenced Wim de Nijs to four months in jail this summer for singing the theme to THE FLINTSTONES over his small plane's radio. Prosecutors said the pilot's prank tied up a radio frequency for 20 minutes, preventing air traffic controllers at the Groningen airport from communicating with other aircraft." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: (exotica) The Now Sound Collective [RE: Over and Over] Date: 07 Sep 1998 19:02:19 -0400 Let's not forget "These Boots Are Made For Walking," one of the most covered songs ever. Or maybe it's just me paying special attention to it. I once did a show on WFMU where I played a dozen versions of it. And more keep on coming to this day. Elisabeth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Koffie Verkeerd (Dutch Latte) Date: 08 Sep 1998 11:35:25 +0000 Ton Rueckert wrote: > A short comment on The Coffeeshop phenomenon. > > The gist of it is this. > Our lawmakers are all ZEN masters. > So, it's legal to take stuff out of The Coffeeshop, > but it's illegal to take stuff into The Coffeeshop. > Yes, but how can it work then? > Here's where you come in. > When you've figured out the mechanics, > you have just earned yourself a masters degree. > > Cheers, Ton (snigger!) It has always been in there like the matter in the universe. But let me say this seriously: Amsterdam has changed a lot since the 70s, one must admit that. I don't know why Kallie thought, I would suggest that smoking Hasch is the ONLY thing you could expect from the Dutch. I didn't even sound a bit like that. But I strongly believe, that their politics towards drugs is doing very very well and you can see it in the coffee shops, how responsible those people handle things. It's really something the Dutch can be proud of, wether they smoke or not. I only fear that the EC will turn the wheel back in its meaningless attempts to standardize everything. They will rather make Holland like the rest of Europe than vice versa. The thing about Holland is, that many people who don't smoke anymore make it a big deal and a statement, probably because in the past it might have been too much for some years. Come on relax... compare yourself to cities like Hamburg or Rome where you find the rigs in sandboxes of children's playgrounds as a regular phenomenon. Of course it's all illegal. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "Get Carter" soundtrack article Date: 08 Sep 1998 04:50:27 reprinted without permission from the Independent in London: Uneasy listening `Get Carter' is a classic - and the soundtrack isn't bad either. Phil Johnson reports (Independent - London; 09/06/98) Jack Carter smokes Gitanes, takes drugs, and when forced by circumstance to drink a pint of bitter, has the good taste to insist it comes in a straight glass. As played by Michael Caine, he's the English answer to Alain Delon in Le Samourai, only harder. Dressed by designer Dougie Hayward in sober double- breasted suits and iconic black trenchcoat, with his floppy blond hair curling down towards those quizzical baby-blue eyes, Caine as Carter is cooler than cool. In fact, he's so cool that we are more than happy to suspend our disbelief when faced with his trademark cockney accent. Carter is supposed to be a Geordie, returning to Newcastle to avenge the murder of his brother. Made in 1971, Get Carter is a classic revenger's tragedy and probably the best British gangster movie ever. Certainly it's the most stylish, and its cult reputation has grown and grown in the years since its release. Then, it was savaged by the critics for its violence, with a severity that is hard to credit today. Even the normally sane George Melly cautioned, in the Observer, that the cinematic experience was like "a bottle of neat gin swallowed before breakfast"; now, this sounds like a whole- hearted recommendation. The film has remained in currency through television screenings and on video (and a new cinema print is to be released by the BFI at the beginning of next year). But the Get Carter cult has been intensified most of all by the unavailability of its excellent soundtrack, written and performed by the British composer and pianist Roy Budd. While the title theme was put out as a single in Britain in 1971, the soundtrack album was released only in Japan and this rare vinyl artefact has attained such legendary status that a copy recently fetched pounds 1,500 at auction. Tomorrow, the original soundtrack is to be released on CD for the first time, in a deluxe edition which includes sleevenotes by the film's writer and director, Mike Hodges. The brilliant instrumental music is mixed with some extremely naff vocal tracks and a selection of dialogue excerpts, but it remains far more than a historical curiosity. Get Carter is psychopathic lounge music par excellence, with the kind of analogue keyboard voicings that DJs and record producers love to fiddle with. The widespread regard for the soundtrack is mainly a dance-music thing. Film soundtracks have long since become a favourite hunting ground for hip DJs looking for a new rare groove to play in clubs, and for pop groups searching out obscure retro material to sample. Portishead's 1994 album Dummy represented the entry of soundtrack chic into the mainstream, and the group's Adrian Utley is a big Get Carter fan. "All those English cold war and gangster film soundtracks, like The Ipcress File and Get Carter really inspired us," he says. "We were always more interested in offbeat film composers and the minimalism of their work than we were in finding funky American breakbeats. What's inspiring about the music to Get Carter is that it was done quickly and cheaply with only a few instruments, and it had to be intensely creative to disguise its limitations. It made new sounds out of recognised instruments and did tricks in the studio like turning the tape round backwards, or using an old Hammond organ with lots of reverb. It's incredible that the soundtrack is coming out now, because millions of people have been looking for it for ages." The signature-sound of Get Carter is plucked piano strings, electronically distressed with reverb until they shimmer darkly. It first appears in the film in the pre-title sequence. Then it re- surfaces, in slightly different form, for the main theme: as Carter's train travels from King's Cross to Newcastle's Central Station, Roy Budd's harpsichord and electric-piano keyboards are accompanied by Jeff Clyne's bass and Chris Karan's tabla-drumming for a pulsing riff. As the engine puffs to a stop, the tablas echo the train's halting rhythm. The music - only Budd's second commission - was done on a budget of pounds 450 at Olympic Studios. It was recorded almost entirely by Budd himself, with Clyne and Karan drafted in from the jazz trio he used to play with at the Bull's Head in Barnes. Budd, who died in 1993 from a brain haemorrhage, was only 24 when he composed Get Carter. "His manager, Jack Fishman, was a friend of the film's producer, Michael Klinger," says Mike Hodges. "It was my first film and I was influenced by the fact that Budd was young too. It's an extraordinary score. In my films, I tend not to use very much music and even in Get Carter there's not really a lot. With earlier films for TV, I'd tended to take tracks off records and pay the needle time. But overall, a composed soundtrack gives you more control and it's also less costly. Roy's main theme was absolutely terrific; and buried in the introduction was this very simple tune that I asked him to extrapolate into an extra track on the vibes, and which I then used at various points throughout the film." After Michael Caine, who gives perhaps the most effective performance of his career, the film's other principal star is Newcastle itself, which is recorded in all its pre-urban-renewal glory. But when Klinger first sent Hodges a copy of Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis, from which the film was adapted, the location was yet to be sorted. "In the book, Carter changes trains at Doncaster. All we know about where he then goes to is that it's a steel town," says Hodges. "I'd done my national service in the Navy on a minesweeper looking after the fishing fleets and so I'd been round all the northern fishing ports. The producer got his Cadillac out and we went off to scout for locations. But in Hull and Grimsby there was nothing left that was visually interesting, they'd all been destroyed. I persuaded Klinger to go on for one more day and, although I'd been to North Shields before, I'd never driven into it from Newcastle." "Suddenly there was this incredible city, visually amazing. I'd already written the script so I just adjusted it to fit the locations, and the events of the La Dolce Vita murder case {a recent gangland killing in Newcastle}. Because of previously working on World In Action, I'd always tended to research subjects, even for fiction. In the film, the country house of John Osborne (who plays the gang boss) was actually the house where the criminal in the real murder case lived. I insisted on renting it, even though the produce thought it was too expensive. It was very strange and none of us liked working there, but it was a wonderful location." Initially, Hodges had wanted Ian Hendry (who ended up playing Osborne's chauffeur) for the Carter role. "I'd originally seen the world of the film as even seedier," he says. "But I think I was wrong because Michael Caine probably understood the character of Carter better than I did. There was a kind of glamour around criminals like the Krays, who were photographed by David Bailey, and having a hero who was handsome and well turned out made it all the more horrible. The ending of the book was ambiguous and the producer wanted it left open for a sequel, but I knew that Carter had to die." And die he did, on a coal-black beach in Northumberland with Roy Budd's plucked piano strings shimmering in the background. As the dirty waves lap over Michael Caine's beautiful hair, it's enough to make even a DJ weep. ----- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) I want to be seduced Date: 08 Sep 1998 09:30:50 -0500 On Monday, September 07, 1998, Charles Moseley wrote: > Does anybody know the male vocalist that sung this song please? > > (My mother heard it on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the other day and she > thought it was wonderful) I know that Leon Redbone had a version of "Seduced" on one of his albums years ago. Hope this helps... -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 9.1.98 Date: 08 Sep 1998 11:26:59 EDT "Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR, Cambridge on Tuesdays 6-8a.m. -----Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----- Three Suns-Poor Butterfly-LP Warm & Tender Waikikis-Hawaii 5-O-CD Best of The Waikikis Warren Kime Orch-A Man & A Woman-LP Xplosive Brass Impact Al Caiola-Underwater Chase-LP Sounds 4 Spies & Private Eyes Walter Wanderly-Telephone-CD Get Easy (Classic) George Shearing-Lollipops & Roses-LP Touch Me Softly Howard Roberts-Wave-LP Capitol Faves w/a Foreign Accent Armando Trovajoli-Masquerade-CD Easy Tempo Series Corduroy-Something In My Eye-CD Get Easy (Future) -Johnny Scott-Roses Today-CD Music For TV Dinners, 60's -Warren Barker-Theme From Richar Diamond-LP TV Guide Thm -Combustible Edison-Intermission-CD I, Swinger -Billy Strange-Get Smart Theme-CD Fantastic Television -Pizzicato 5-We Love You P-5-CD Get Easy (Future) -Vince Montana-You Know How Good It Is-12" (vibist in MFSB) -Madagascar-Everybody Wants To See The Rainbow-CD Souled Uta Uttup & The Clones-1-2-Cha Cha Cha-CD In Flight Jackie Davis-Love Is Just Around The Corner-CD UltraLounge Bob Crewe-Birds Of Britain-LP Birds Of Britain (request) Ray Martin Orch-Shadrack-LP Dynamica (request) Hugo Montenegro-Lady In Cement-CD Get Easy (Classic) Burt Bacharach-Bond Street-LP Reach Out United Future Organization-United Future Airlines-CD Get EZ Len Boone-Love Won't Be Denied-12" Instro Side w/ wild synth Enoch Light-Theme-Close Encounters-LP Feelings at Movies Hot Butter-Telstar-LP Popcorn -Alan Hackshaw-Girl In A Sportscar-CD Essential Lounge Coll. -Bert Kaempfert-Bert's Bossa Nova-CD-Get Easy (classic) -Valerie LeMercier-Goute Mes Frites-CD Chante (new from..) -Brass Ring-Love Theme From Flight Of The Phoenix-LP Same -Unknown Orchestra-Mambo Italiano-LP Exotic Pr, Brill. Brass -Three Sounds-It Was A Very Good Year-LP Vibrations (go-go) -Sandpipers-Never Can Say Goodbye-CD Get Easy (classic) -----Wayne Newton-Wives & Lovers----- MIX TAPES and promos WELCOME--E-Mail me privately # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3 Date: 07 Sep 1998 14:28:27 +0000 Hi, Jill http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/savetikiroom.html > I'd like to subscribe to that newsletter, but didn't really see the link to > do it. I think when you sign the petition you're automatically in it. > I signed the petition and am deeply distressed about losing the Sub > ride. That was my fave attraction! And I'm going back in December - only to > miss it. I'm very sad.... > > I AM DJing on Oct. 3rd too so I hope I will see you then. Def! I'll be hanging some new paintings and decos! MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Grant" Subject: Re: (exotica) I want to be seduced Date: 07 Sep 1998 11:48:56 -0400 I remember that Leon Redbone did a version of this years ago -- it was used in the film "The Big Fix". Don't know if that's the version you were thinking of... -----Original Message----- > >Does anybody know the male vocalist that sung this song please? > >(My mother heard it on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs the other day and she >thought it was wonderful) > >I hope its reasonably on topic - Thanks > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Coolstrge@aol.com Subject: (exotica) #10 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC IS HERE!! Date: 07 Sep 1998 21:17:22 EDT Hi Kids! THE #10 ISSUE OF COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC IS HERE!! IT'S OUR BIGGEST ISSUE EVER! We've pumped the magazine up to 56 pages, and it's beautifully offset-printed, with a cool color cover, lots of high-quality photos, great articles, tons of new wacky and weird CD reviews and it's more fun than ever! The new issue features: * A cover story/exclusive interview with ESQUIVEL, prepared by close associate Brother Cleve. We promise some new revelations about the brilliant Space Age Bachelor Pop Maestro! * A long-awaited in-depth exclusive interview with JEAN JACQUES PERREY, French pioneer of those wacky Moog synthesizer records with the quirky sense of humor! We have loads of fascinating chat with this genius and we'll preview his new release! * A tour though some of the coolest and strangest record stores in the TORONTO RECORD STORE REPORT. * A toungue-in-cheek look at those BEATLE CASH-IN ALBUMS, produced by sleazy record companies, eager to cash in on the Four Fab's success, and designed to fool naive Beatle fans into buying them! Some of the music on these are (surprise!) really GOOD!! * A short look at the WORST RECORD EVER MADE BY FRANK SINATRA! Humorist Pat Reeder, enlights us with the details in our irreverent tribute/farewell to the Chairman of the Board and one of the STUPIDIST records he ever made! * A spin through some of those MUSIC TO (you fill in the blank here) albums, found in every thrift shop bin all over the world! * An exclusive interview with the SPACE COSSACKS, one of the hottest new surf bands around today. All this, and a whole lot more fun stuff than we dare mention, and you'll find a very Cool Issue #10 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, Borders and other national boodstore chains. 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, you can order by mail. You can purchase a single copy directly from us for a measly $3.95 each 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! Sorry, but all of our back issues (except #7, which is still available) are now SOLD OUT, and won't be reprinted. 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. Sorry, we don't take credit cards. 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 at There, you can enter out latest contest and possibly win a new CD or cassette single from our friends at Rykodisc! 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: Re: (exotica) Customs nightmare Date: 08 Sep 1998 14:37:47 +0200 Jill Mingo wrote: >You'd be >surprised how much weight that little green slip holds. They don't have a >copy of record collector sitting by their side. YES they do, here in Begium, and they learned it from ... the UK! i'm not kidding you, i got this from an inspector working for customs, whom i talked with because they once over-charged me after mis-interpreting the writing on that green sticker. they don't take those green stickies very seriously either; if a box with 10 LPs is declared $10 worth by the sender (which can be the truth!), customs sez: "nah! we think these lp's are worth GBP 7 each, and we'll charge you for that amount!" that's the way things go. Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Customs nightmare Date: 08 Sep 1998 13:57:55 +0200 >From: des@anubis23.demon.co.uk (Desmond K. Hill) >Apparently Customs are charging me a supplemental $40 - the card does not >explain why. The LPs ordered had been paid for in advance, with their >airmail costs. > >Does anyone have any idea what this supplemental tax is for, & to avoid >being charged for it? a NIGHTMARE it is, over here in belgium too. of course, regulations will be different, but this is what i do to escape from them: * never more than 2 lp's in 1 box * use duifferent delivery addresses (of friends) this supplemental tax is import tax + VAT. there's a certain amount you can import without being taxed, so you need to figure out how much that is. hope this helps, Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Capitol Collectors: Jerry Lewis Date: 07 Sep 1998 19:54:52 +0200 Lazlo Nibble wrote: >Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita >volumes, myself... i'm too still lookin for that Jerry Lewis volume, for several years now... Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Capitol Collectors: Esquerita Date: 08 Sep 1998 13:31:07 -0400 > >Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita > >volumes, myself... I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet, but the current Collectors' Choice Music print catalog lists a new Esquerita cd (of vintage Capitol recordings). The text states the title as "Believe Me When I Say Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay", but on the tiny cover illo it seems to be "Rockin' The Joint". Whatever. Leave a copy for me, please! Online at: http://www.ccmusic.com/ m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ New Feature! Sound Of The Week! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Hey Lady!!! (and any other gender) Date: 08 Sep 1998 14:42:46 -0400 >>Still looking for the Jerry Lewis and Esquerita >>volumes, myself... > > i'm too still lookin for that Jerry Lewis volume, > for several years now... http://www.gemm.com/ has the Jerry Lewis, but not the Esquerita. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool $ Strange #10 Date: 08 Sep 1998 18:32:50 EDT << Do you have a favorite album or artist that has never come out on CD? Is there a compilation of a certain recording artist or a comp of a certain genre that still hasn't come out? Send your ideas in! We're listening! >> The first thing that comes to mind for me is there is no pop moog comp. Maybe the people that make these decisons don't think anyone can sit through 70 minutes and 28 tracks of fat, bubbly, juicy electronic madness. They're probably right! As a big fan of the moog sound, putting together a collection of classic moog LP's was one of the first projects I put together with my new CD-R thingy. Here is the playlist. Some of it overlaps previous moog tape lists, so it is mostly for the benefit of new list members. I did my best to exclude anything already on a CD. All vinyl is near mint and I'm very pleased with the results. If anyone would like a copy, it can be arranged for not much more than the price of a blank CD and priority shipping. Email me off the list if interested. HARRY BREUER March Of The Martians "The Happy Moog" HOT BUTTER Song Of The Nairobi Trio "Popcorn" RICK POWELL I Walk The Line "Switched On Country" SID BASS Spanish Flea "Moog Espana" CHRISTOPER SCOTT Wives And Lovers "Switched On Bacharach ELECTRONIC CONCEPT ORCHESTRA "Grazin' In The Grass "Moog Groove" MARTY GOLD Norwegian Wood "Moog Plays The Beatles" MORT GARSON Hair "Electronic Hair Pieces" CLAUDE DENJEAN Sugar, Sugar "Moog!" ENOCH LIGHT Marrakesh Express "Permissive Polyphonics" HUGO MONTENEGRO You Are The Sunshine Of My Life "Hugo In Wonder-land" GIL TRYTHALL Polk Salad Annie "Switched On Moog - Nashville Gold" DICK HYMAN Time Is Tight "The Age Of Electronicus" THE ZEET BAND Moogie Boogie" "Moogie Woogie" RON FRANGIPANE Smile A Little Smile For Me "Rated X For Excitement" CHRISTOPER SCOTT Wishin' And Hopin' "More Switched On Bacharach ELECTRONIC CONCEPT ORCHESTRA Je T'aime…Moi Non Plus "Electric Love" GERHSON KINGSLEY Nowhere Man "Music To Moog By" MORT GARSON The Ride Of Aida (Voodoo) "Black Mass Lucifer" CLAUDE DENJEAN Honky Cat "Open Circuit" ENOCH LIGHT What The World Needs Now Is Love "Spaced Out" HUGO MONTENEGRO Porcupine Pie "Neil's Diamonds" RUTH WHITE Polka From The Age Of Gold "Short Circuits" RICHARD HAYMAN Dansero "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine" GIL TRYTHALL Folsom Prison Blues "Switched On Nashville - Country Moog" THE MOOG MACHINE Spinning Wheel "Switched On Rock" WALTER CARLOS What's New Pussycat? "By Request" WALTER SEAR Hey Jude "The Copper-Plated Integrated Circuit: Plugged-In Pop" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po] Date: 08 Sep 1998 18:53:05 -0400 (EDT) --- CONTENTS / September 4, 1998 >>> Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine 1. field recordings of the week: 'SOUNDS OF NORTH AMERICAN FROGS: THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VOICE IN FROGS' (Smithsonian Folkways, out now) is a charming, quirky, puzzling and, yes, educational disc. One of the original Folkways series, 'FROGS' is a collection of literal field (and pond) recordings by herpetologist Charles Bogert dating from 1953-57. The chirps, croaks, trills, grunts and screams of all types of frogs and toads are the basis of the disc. Bogert delivers a commentary on each of the 92 cuts (most of which are no longer than 40 seconds) in a dry, flat-accented voice that is strangely familiar. If you're in your early 30s you might remember the nature "filmstrips" in school--those now-antiquated reels of slides with a cassette accompaniment complete with a hollow tone to indicate when the strip needed to be flipped forward. That's what this disc is like, without the "bonk" and visuals. That is not to say that this is a sleep-inducer. Some of the sounds are downright creepy. I never knew frogs screamed or clucked like chickens. Kudos to Smithsonian Folkways for honoring Moe Asch's belief that all Folkways recording should always be in print. My only complaint is that it would be nice to have a segment of tracks without any commentary. Then I could crank it up, sit in front of a fan with a glass of lemonade and pretend I was not in scorchingly hot and smoggy Nor. Cal. (Wildfeuer) 4. most creative music of the week: If you can remember playing pots with a wooden spoon or, my personal favorite, rattling the shower door while tapping the bathtub faucet, then you will appreciate the spirit of 'ORBITONES, SPOON HARPS & BELLOWPHONES' (Ellipsis Arts, 9/15). This is a collection of 16 artists playing their self-made instruments, such as the Pongophone and the Kotar. The styles range from Uakti, four conservatory-trained Brazilian musicians who create symphonies from such instruments as the Aqualung and the Trilobyte, to Leonard Solomon and his Majestic Bellowphone, a one-man show that would be at home in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.' There are some famous names on this compilation (Tom Waits, Aphex Twin) and for you HBO fans, Stomp even makes an appearance (Some of us here at the office got to witness a performance by Peter Whitehead, who also contributes to the CD, and his spoon harp, which consists of a 10-gallon can with a stick driven through its side acting as the neck. The best part is that it uses wooden spoons for tuning keys.) With its 96-page book that provides an introduction to experimental instruments and a bio of each of the artists, this CD is as intriguing to look at as it is to hear. (Willis) 6. subgenius return of the week: A nebulous corporate entity called "US Plus," whose tag line is "We own the idea of 'America.'" A digital simulacrum of the late "Princess Goddess" reading fairy tales via satellite to young plague victims, then reappearing as a doll with string-pull-activated vocals a la Chatty Cathy at the big millennial throw-down, the "doll drop," at Homeless Stadium. A blast-from-the-past character, car dealer Ralph Spoilsport, hosting a "going out of body" sale. A disgraced Joe Camel, run out of media-land by a jeering mob of angry addicts and ex-children, bum-rushing the stage at the "doll drop" and delivering a Nixonian farewell address. The whore of Babylon careening around in a sport-utility vehicle, leading authorities on a wild freeway chase, while said authorities are busy monitoring "The Zillion Bug March." A beer for senior citizens containing "natural Alaskan bear urine" and Prozac. An obnoxious bookie/sports announcer who passes over pro ("all cons") and college teams, advising listeners to bet on his kid's junior-high soccer team. A rum-swilling traffic announcer in a helicopter who's being pursued by the four cowboys of the apocalypse in corporate jets. A new-age radio shrink advocating frequent masturbation. A late-night DJ who functions as a lightning rod for weirdness a la Art Bell who, like Bell, is hawking useless merchandise to gullible listeners -- in this case, dead ant farms. And, everywhere, men-in-black-styled cybercops in eyeball hats -- agents of U.S. Plus, perhaps? -- popping up to enforce the tightening of an Orwellian noose around the collective neck of society. It's been quite a while since the FIRESIGN THEATRE checked in with an aural movie as fully realized as 'GIVE ME IMMORTALITY OR GIVE ME DEATH' (Rhino, out now). The L.A.-based comedy foursome, a long-time staple of KPFK-FM, released a skein of classic albums in the late '60s through the mid '70s on Columbia, among them 'Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him,' 'How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All,' 'Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers' (considered by a few subgenii to be the 'Sgt. Pepper' of comedy albums), 'I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus' and 'Everything You Know Is Wrong.' Those records are all out of print (although audiophile label Mobile Fidelity has licensed a few titles for limited-edition reissue), and Columbia's reissue arm, Sony Legacy, has no plans to unearth them. With any good fortune, 'Give Me Immortality' should change all that. Firesign -- aka Phil Austin, Phil Proctor, David Ossman and Peter Bergman -- doesn't make conventional comedy records; they're more like pre-television era radio dramas: imagine a collaboration between Franz Kafka and Groucho Marx. Densely constructed and multi-layered like esoteric literature, riddled with paranoid subtext and at least as funny as buying a beer from your short-term personal savior, a good Firesign record will bend your head like trying to read Whitley Streiber's 'Communion,' Abdul Alhazred's 'Necronomicon' and 'The Book of Mormon' at the same time with a head full of acid. And, like the works of two fellow '60s refugees -- Robert Crumb in his comics or Hunter S. Thompson in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' -- Firesign records function as wild-ass social commentary. 'Immortality' is structured as a December 31, 1999, broadcast on Radio Now, a station that changes format whenever the U.S. Plus focus groups determine it might make sound business sense -- which is every five minutes or so. The station's audience sounds eerily familiar: Unconsciously perceiving that their lives are under the thumb of a dictatorial corporate-run regime despite the thin veneer of "democracy," they opt for denial instead, embracing dead princesses and promotional cartoon characters as religious icons. Camels in the wind, anyone? (Griffith) 7. talking doll of the week: Now that the world economy has gone haywire, your epulse economic advisors have determined that it's time to dump all those blue chip stocks and buy into a proverbial sure bet. True, it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think consumer durables, but rest assured that your H&R Block agent will be heading to Toys R Us with Pavlovian glee at the first toll of the closing bell. It truly is a disturbing sight: Grown men and women in designer suits shouting into cellular phones while climbing all over each other to get at that last TALKING PO TELETUBBY doll, the one that, when you press its little tummy, giggles "faggot, faggot." Not since Talking Barbie declared "math is hard" has a speech-enabled plaything made such a faux pas. Of course, the story got bumped off the front pages because of those stupid bombings, and Teletubby folks were quick to issue a denial, claiming the doll says "fighty, fighty" or some such nonsense. But our own independent investigation of two neighborhood Targets fully supports the indiscretion as initially reported. And while we don't know whether the devilish little creature is advocating homophobia or chain-smoking (Brits did invent the damn things, after all), we do know a sound investment when we hear one. Get 'em before your stockbroker does. (Forman) This week's epulse7 contributors: Mara Wildfeuer, Peter Melton, Ned Hammad, Heather Willis, Marc Weidenbaum, Jackson Griffith and Bill Forman. [!] ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) re: disney Date: 08 Sep 1998 16:45:10 -0700 >From: Moritz R >Subject: (exotica) Save The Tiki Room Newsletter: Issue #3 > >Permit me to stray a bit from the Tiki Room for a moment to tell you of a >few things in Disney news you should know. > >- - Mr. Toad will make his Last Wild Ride this Labor Day weekend in Walt >Disney World, Florida. > >- - DisneyWorld is not the only park to loose a great attraction over this >Labor Day Weekend. The Submarine Voyage in Disneyland will be taking its >last dive this weekend. I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with their heads, I say! Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) re: disney Date: 08 Sep 1998 20:42:32 EDT In a message dated 98-09-08 19:44:49 EDT, you write: << I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with their heads, I say! Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...) >> Jesus Christ ! ! ! ! You trying to start a riot ? ? ? ? Sheez # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques is here!!! Date: 08 Sep 1998 18:19:30 -0700 I'mma happy boy >Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:33:31 -0700 (PDT) >From: Jean Jacques Perrey <> >To: jack@jackdiamond.com > >Hello mon ami Jack ........ >Guess who is here , in california , close to you ????? >Big Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug > > ???????????????????????????? > >== >**************************************************************** >"Les choses serieuses doivent etre prises avec humour, > et les choses humoristiques doivent etre prises au > serieux" - JJP . >**************************************************************** >BOITE POSTALE 2744 , O32O7 VICHY CEDEX - FRANCE . >_________________________________________________________ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Laughing Records Date: 08 Sep 1998 21:33:54 EDT And here is one for you: http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/w34779.ram Description: "El Cornetista Bufo - Disco de la Risa" (= The Buffo Trumpetist - Laughing Record). This is the first laughing record I ever found. I think it cames from Beka original or Odeon from Germany. (?) The recording shows a man playing trumpet and a woman that begins to laugh and makes the trumpetist come into laughing too (inside and outside the trunmpet). The woman's laughter is very funny, specially at the end of the record. Explaination: In the infancy of recorded sound technology, record labels had different ideas about what would be popular. Various attempts at humour (some quite subtle and elegant, some.... were not) were recorded, some of them being 'laughing records'. These were more than likely played at parties or other social occasions as a novelty, and (hopefully) a source of amusement. Whether they were amusing or not is DEFINATELY in the eyes (and ears) of the beholder. And if that is not enough -- try this "Crying Record" http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram Exotica -- not really. Strange -- you bet!!!! Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) re: disney Date: 09 Sep 1998 11:28:11 +0000 > Eb wrote: > > I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki Room > and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with > their heads, I say! > > Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...) Off with YOUR head! Oh, 'xcuse me, you lost it already. Two years working in Disneyland has left its traces... Kekipi Mo "Tiki" R "Wat ham wir jelacht!" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) excerpts: epulse 4.35 [po] Date: 09 Sep 1998 11:28:24 +0000 Hi, Lou, you're really becoming my No.1 news source. Thanks for these ones and all the others! MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P. Date: 09 Sep 1998 07:52:42 -0400 Sorry, but I am broke up about this: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/index.html One of the geniuses of modern cinema dies not long after one of his favorite actors (Toshiro Mifune) passes away. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG NNAD" Subject: RE: (exotica) re: disney Date: 09 Sep 1998 08:26:21 -0400 > << I'm somewhat sorry to hear about Mr. Toad going, but come on, the Tiki > Room > and the Submarine Voyage are thoroughly *archaic* at this point. Off with > their heads, I say! > > Eb (who worked at Disneyland for almost two years in the late '80s...) > >> > > Eb...get a clue, man...Some things NEVER grow old, just in need of some good cleaning and a new stylus. surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Tiki two of these and post me in the morning. Date: 09 Sep 1998 09:08:39 -0400 >Eb...get a clue, man...Some things NEVER grow old, just in need of some good >cleaning and a new stylus. Yeah! *POP* Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*Yeah! *POP*... I have not had the pleasure of the Tiki Room, for when I was there in 1971, it was out of order, to my mother's chagrin. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Drum `n bass in 1958 ? Yes, it`s Raymond Scott !! Date: 08 Sep 1998 15:30:23 +0200 To all interested in Raymond Scott: To be released this year: Manhattan Research, Inc. - A Division of Raymond Scott Enterprises. This album will SHOCK the world. Raymond Scott, already known for Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights (read on !) and his Soothing Sounds for baby series, has made music no-one can imagine. Raymond was way ahead of his time. I am in the absolutely luxorious position to hear all of this material Raymond made at home and it`s so special and beautiful. When listening close, you can hear all kinds of music styles in it, even drum `n bass, rave and so on. We are currently working at Vintage 71(studio) preparing this issue. As there is so much material, this will be a double cd filled with Electronium, jingles and ........... Soothing Sounds is great, MRI will ABSOLUTELY astonish everyone. Issue is being prepared by Gert Jan Blom (re-issue producer of Soothing Sounds, Delirium in Hifi, musician and leader of the Beau Hunks), Irwin Chusid (board director of RS-archives, research), Jeff Winner (www.RaymondScott.com and a great guy), Piet Schreuders (graphical co-ordination, research), Chuck Haddix (carefully preparing all materials at Marr Sound Archive) and Jeroen van der Schaaf (Basta Audio Visuals, central co-ordination point ). Anyone who wants to be informed on MRI, visit the Basta site and send an email. The sound quality is very high because we are working with material directly recorded from Raymonds instruments. The booklet that will come with this album will be app. 80 pages, since we have so much material to publish. Out now: Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights: All tracks familiar to anyone. Besides being used underscoring famous cartoons, this album should be enjoyed at home. Swinging all the way. Scott needs to be discovered by all true music lovers. Great album: completely remastered. The sound of this recording is superior to the 1992 Sony-edition. Worldwide release, ex. US, the 10th of September 1998. As of that date availalbe in the Benelux, Germany, France, Suisse and Japan. Available directly from www.basta.nl. Thanks for reading. Spread the news ! Let`s get Raymond the fame he deserves !!! For more special music visit www.basta.nl . It`s really worth it ! Jeroen van der Schaaf Basta Audio Visuals basta@xs4all.nl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl Date: 09 Sep 1998 15:27:04 +0100 I keep hearing about these reissues but does anybody know if they are available on vinyl? And if so, where from? Thanks Charlie PS Thanks from my mother to all those who pointed her in the direction of Leon Redbone # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl Date: 09 Sep 1998 16:03:15 +0100 Alright, please ignore my last post about these two releases on vinyl. Get Carter is out on vinyl on September 21st in the UK. Blacula is coming out on CD only - no vinyl. Can anyone recommend Blacula? Does anybody have it? Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #204 Date: 08 Sep 1998 19:57:50 +0200 At 09:28 -0600 98/09/08, exotica-digest wrote: >Some bloke playing the Hammond >All the songs in segues of three, this must be the pick of the bunch. >I wish I could remember his name. Harry Stoneham: "Hammond Hits The Highway/High, Wide And Hammond" The "eXotica Releases Overview": # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P. (long) Date: 09 Sep 1998 14:04:02 -0500 At 07:52 AM 9/9/98 -0400, BP wrote: >Sorry, but I am broke up about this: >http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9809/07/kurosawa/index.html >One of the geniuses of modern cinema dies not long after one of his >favorite actors (Toshiro Mifune) passes away. >Brian Phillips TOKYO (AP) -- Akira Kurosawa, whose hauntingly poetic vision, innovative style and stunning technical virtuosity made him Japan's most celebrated film director, died at his home Sunday. He was 88. Kurosawa died of a stroke before he could be taken to a hospital, said Minoru Tabata, an official of Kurosawa Film Production. Filmmakers throughout the world have been influenced by Kurosawa, who fused the pinpoint precision of traditional Japanese theatrical forms with stunning, larger-than-life spectacles in his half-century, 30-film career. The Cannes Film Festival honored Kurosawa with a special trophy for achievement upon the debut of his 28th film, ``Ran,'' in 1985. Among his other movies to gain worldwide acclaim were: ``The Seven Samurai,'' ``Kagemusha'' and ``Rashomon;'' the latter won him the first of three Oscars. Standing nearly 6 feet tall, rarely seen without his trademark sunglasses and beret, Kurosawa cut an imposing figure, with an imperious perfectionism that earned him the nickname ``Emperor Kurosawa.'' He ordered the tearing down of an entire feudal castle built for 1957's ``Throne of Blood'' because builders had used steel nails -- something they could not have done in the 16th century, the time in which the film was set. In France, Steven Spielberg, whose ``Saving Private Ryan'' opened the Deauville film festival Saturday, called the Japanese director ``the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.'' Among others mourning his passing were French President Jacques Chirac, who called him a ``great master of the seventh art,'' and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who said: ``Cinema today has lost one of its giants.'' Though spectacular, Kurosawa's career also was marked by disappointments: He once tried to kill himself after a film flopped, and Japanese studios shunned him for decades. But at the height of his powers, he was the uncontested master. ``His philosophy on directing is part of modern film making,'' said Naoko Kimura, an independent film critic in Tokyo. ``Take myself, subtract films, and the remainder is zero,''Kurosawa once wrote. Kurosawa had a love-hate relationship with his homeland. He drew deeply on classic Japanese themes like the warrior spirit and the beauty of futile self-sacrifice. But he looked elsewhere for financial and artistic support. Several of Kurosawa's films were remade in America into hit Westerns -- ``The Seven Samurai'' was the basis for ``The Magnificent Seven'' and ``Yojimbo'' inspired ``A Fistful of Dollars.'' In the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese studios, focusing on soft porn and cheap romances, gave Kurosawa short shrift even as his reputation grew overseas. In 1980, George Lucas and Spielberg persuaded 20th Century Fox to back ``Kagemusha'' (``Shadow Warrior'') after financiers in Japan balked. Even as late as 1985, Kurosawa's reputation as a hothead and a spendthrift made it hard to find Japanese backing for the film he described as his life's work: ``Ran,'' a loose adaptation of ``King Lear,'' set in 16th-century Japan. French producer Serge Silberman agreed to work with him on the film, a beautifully drawn but brutally pessimistic depiction of three samurai sons battling their father. With a price tag topping $10 million, ``Ran'' was then the most expensive movie in Japanese film history. Born in Tokyo in 1910 to a family that had held samurai rank, Kurosawa was the youngest of eight children of a military school administrator. He turned to the cinema after failing to get into art school and tiring of poverty as a painter. In 1936, he spotted a film studio's advertisement for a director's assistant. He got the job. At 33, he directed his first film, ``Sugata Sanshiro'' (``The Judo Saga''). It was a hit in wartime Japan, but Kurosawa's vision conflicted with some nationalist sentiments, and drew heated attacks from the military. His breakthrough came in 1950, with ``Rashomon,'' the first Japanese film to gain recognition abroad. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1951 and launched him into a decade of landmark films. After some disappointments, Kurosawa made a comeback in 1975 with the bleakly lovely, Siberian-set ``Dersu Uzala,'' which brought him his second Oscar. In 1990, he became the first Japanese to receive the special Oscar for lifetime achievement. Kurosawa stirred controversy with his 1991 film, ``Rhapsody in August,'' whose presentation of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki was called one-sided and simplistic by American critics. The film, which starred Richard Gere, focused on the plight of a family that lost an uncle in the bombing but made no mention of Japan's role in starting the war. ``I don't regret anything. I found the perfect job,'' Kurosawa said in an interview when he was 75. ``All this time I've thought of nothing but movies.'' Kurosawa's wife, actress Yoko Yaguchi, died in 1985 after 35 years of marriage. He is survived by a son, Hisao, and a daughter, Kazuko. Two private family ceremonies have been scheduled at his home: a wake on Monday and a funeral on Tuesday. TOKYO, Sept 6 (AFP) - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who inspired the cinema world with epic samurai dramas such as "Rashomon" and "The Shadow Warrior", died from a stroke at his home Sunday, his family said. He was 88. Known as the "emperor of Japanese cinema," Kurosawa often baffled domestic producers with his costly perfectionist movies, but attracted generations of directors worldwide, including Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He left behind 30 films spanning half a century -- and Japan's golden days of cinema, which all but ended in December last year with the death of Toshiro Mifune at 77. Kurosawa and Mifune worked together in 16 films, including "Rashomon" and "The Seven Samurai", dazzling with clear-cut themes, bold plots and innovative techniques using long lenses and multiple cameras. "Rashomon", a crime story set in medieval Japan, was awarded the Golden Lion grand prize at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, becoming the first Japanese film to win an international accolade. The movie also won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1952. "With that Golden Lion award, Asian cinema excelled cinema in the West for the first time," said Yoshio Shirai, dean of Japanese film critics. "That signalled the beginning of an Asian move boom we see today. His death gives greater impact on the world than the Japanese could imagine." Mifune was also cast in "The Seven Samurai" in 1954, portraying a peasant-turned samurai, leading farmer resistance against bandits. The movie inspired a Hollywood Western remake, "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) starring among others Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. "Yojimbo" (1961), which featured Mifune as a samurai up for hire in town with two warring factions, spawned the entire Clint Eastwood "spagetti western" genre in Italy, including Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964). Kurosawa, whose masterpieces also included "Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)" (1980), "Ran" (1985) and "Dreams" in 1990, received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at the annual Academy Awards in 1990. That capped the career of Kurosawa, a confessed fan of US Western movies directed by the late John Ford. "Ran", a story based on Shakespear's King Lear, was financed by the French producer Serge Silberman, and the capital for "Dreams" was guaranteed by the US group Warner Brothers. "Dreams", recreating eight of Kurosawa's dreams permeated by his nostalgia for childhood and his fear of the destruction of nature owed much to the friendship and respect of two Hollywood greats, Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's company, Amblin Entertainment, marketed the production and Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic cooperated with its special effects. The special Oscar was handed to him by Lucas and Spielberg, representing numerous "Kurosawa's children." The Italian great Federico Fellini was apparently inspired by "Rashomon" to shoot his 1954 classic "La Strada". Asked why Japanese producers were cool to his films at the time of the shooting of "Dreams", Kurosawa replied: "I have the same question. Actually, they just don't seem to understand the content of the screenplay." Kurosawa's last movie, "Madadayo" (1993), which depicted the heart-to-heart relationship between a retired university teacher and his former students, marked his 50th anniversary as a film director. Born into the family of a junior high school director in Tokyo in 1910, Kurosawa abandoned his dreams of becoming a painter and joined PCL Studios, one of the prewar predecessors of Toho Co., in 1936. Kurosawa made his director's debut with "Sugata Sanshiro" in 1943, and "The Throne of Blood" (1957), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and the crime thriller "High and Low" (1963) added to his international fame. However, he suffered setbacks in the mid-1960s, when two movie projects funded with US capital failed to materialize, and his first effort as an independent director and his first full-colour movie -- "Dotesukaden" (1970) -- was a commercial flop. He attempted suicide in 1971. The Soviet-sponsored "Dersu Uzala" marked his international comeback in 1975 and won the gold prize at the Moscow Film Festival and an Oscar as best foreign-language movie. "The Shadow Warrior" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1980. Its foreign version was produced by Coppola and Lucas. "Rhapsody in August" (1991) with Richard Gere as a second-generation American-Japanese who visits his relatives in Hiroshima and apologizes for the US atomic bombing on the city in August 1945 stirred controversy abroad for failing to address Japan's war guilt. He had plans to portray flamboyant 19th-century impressionist Vincent Van Gogh in his future work. TOKYO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Japan's top government spokesman says film director Akira Kurosawa will posthumously receive one of the nation's top accolades, the People's Honor Award, in recognition of his work. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka said today that Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has expressed his intention to give the award to Kurosawa, who died Sunday at the age of 88. While Kurosawa is being mourned globally it seems certain that the cinematic maestro's legacy will live on. At the Venice Film Festival in Italy, participants honored Kurosawa with a standing ovation as Felice Laudadio, director of the festival, announced his death. Nonaka said at a news conference, ``His works are highly valued not only in Japan but also internationally. They heightened ratings in the world of Japanese films and gave confidence to Japan after its defeat in World War II.'' Kurosawa will be the 14th person to receive the award since it was established in 1977. In the field of cinema, two actors --- Kazuo Hasegawa and Kiyoshi Atsumi -- have been recipients of the award. Kurosawa won an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement and Japan's Imperial Prize for cultural merits for his works. Highly acclaimed among his 30 films are ``Rashomon'' (1950), the first Japanese movie to win an international award; ``Ikiru (Living)'' (1952); ``The Seven Samurai'' (1954), often acclaimed as the best-known Japanese movie ever made; and the epic medieval war dramas ``Kagemusha'' (1980); and ``Ran'' (1985). In Venice, Laudadio noted Kurosawa came into the international limelight after receiving the festival's Golden Lion award in 1951, the first time a Japanese film was honored abroad. The festival decided to have a commemorative event Monday, showing ``Rashomon.'' Walter Veltroni, Italy's deputy prime minister and minister of cultural heritage and sport who attended the Venice festival, said many people became fans of Japanese movies through Kurosawa. In Paris, French President Jacques Chirac said Kurosawa was a ``great master in the world of movies'' who was exceptional in scale, sensitivity and observation of social reality. Kurosawa left a great legacy to world cinema, Chirac said in a statement, citing such works as ``Rashomon'' and the 1975 Soviet- sponsored ``Dersu Uzala'' which won the first prize at the Moscow Film Festival and an Academy Award for best foreign-language film. TOKYO, Sept 7 (AFP) - Japan on Monday mourned "Seven Samurai" director Akira Kurosawa as fans rushed for videos of his work and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi planned to bestow on him one of the country's highest civil awards. The master director died of a stroke at home in Tokyo on Sunday, aged 88. The prime minister paid tribute to the director and ordered that immediate consideration should be given to a posthumous bestowing of the People's Honour Award. "Although I did not have the chance to get to know him personally, he was the person who taught me how interesting movies were when I was young," Obuchi told reporters. The premier said he had particularly enjoyed "To Live" (1952) depicting the soul-searching of a man dying of cancer and "The Seven Samurai" (1954) portraying a peasant-turned-samurai leading farmer resistance against bandits. Only 13 people have so far been given the award, set up in 1977. "(Kurosawa) lived through the golden age of the Japanese film industry and continued making films that represented Japan," the chief cabinet secretary said. Nonaka said the director contributed to raising "the status of Japanese films in the world," helping to boost Japan's confidence after its defeat in World War II. Television programs devoted hours of air time to Korosawa, one of the world's greatest directors, rewriting schedules to give special tributes and broadcast his work. Newspapers turned over most of their front pages to Kurosawa's life and work, praising the artist and his films. Video and book shops reported a rush for his films and books of his life and work. Rental video chain Tsutaya said there were very few copies of Kurosawa's 30 films left at its three major stores in central Tokyo. Tokyo's Sanseido bookstore set up a special corner devoted to books on Kurosawa and videos of his films. "We have to order more copies from the publishers because we don't have enough. Our stock has been selling well from this morning," a Sansaido employee said. A plan to build a museum commemorating Kurosawa was unveiled in Imari city on the southern island of Kyushu, where the former director was struck by the sunset while filming "Ran" (1985). The 1.5 billion yen (11 million dollar) museum, planned before the director's death, will display some 4,000 items including Kurosawa's own drawings and copies of scenarios of his works, Jiji Press said. US film maker Steven Spielberg Saturday described Korosawa as the "Shakespeare" of contemporary cinema. "He was a celluloid painter ... as close to an impressionist as you can be on film," said Spielberg during a film festival at Deauville, France. "More than that, I think he was the pictorial Shakespeare of our time." French President Jacques Chirac hailed Kurosawa as a "big master of the movies by the scope of work, his sense of detail, his observation of social reality." Known as the "emperor of Japanese cinema," Kurosawa often baffled domestic producers with his costly perfectionist movies, but attracted the following of generations of directors, including Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. He left behind 30 films spanning half a century -- and Japan's golden days of cinema which all but ended in December last year with the death of Toshiro Mifune at 77. Japanese people often accused Kurosawa of seeing his country through Western eyes. The director said he could live in harmony with both Western and Japanese cultures. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Space Ghost Date: 09 Sep 1998 15:24:53 -0500 Now in the racks: Space Ghost's Surf & Turf With 22 Tiki-Torched Tunes (Rhino). Yeah/Nay, anyone?? -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: grinderman@juno.com (Hess Jeffery) Subject: (exotica) question Date: 09 Sep 1998 15:02:15 -0500 Does anyone know who played the eastern background music to the Butthole Surfers "Kuntz"? A very twisted exotic tune. Did the Surfers lift it?, or did Gibby somehow learn eastern scales for the song? Thanks, Jeff _____________________________________________________________________ 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? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa R.I.P. (long) Date: 09 Sep 1998 16:39:03 EDT In a message dated 98-09-09 14:49:54 EDT, you write: << TOKYO (AP) -- Akira Kurosawa, whose hauntingly poetic vision, innovative style and stunning technical virtuosity made him Japan's most celebrated film director, died at his home Sunday. He was 88. Kurosawa died of a stroke before he could be taken to a hospital, >> It still don't beat a wall of fake lava falling on ya. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Akira Kurosawa and Revisionist History Date: 09 Sep 1998 16:48:42 EDT In a message dated 98-09-09 14:49:54 EDT: << "Rhapsody in August" (1991) with Richard Gere as a second-generation American-Japanese who visits his relatives in Hiroshima and apologizes for the US atomic bombing on the city in August 1945 stirred controversy abroad for failing to address Japan's war guilt. >> This film turned my opinion about Kurosawa because it did seem one sided. Earlier works are more "cutting". It has always bothered me that the Germans (and the term "Nazi') are always so stressed as being the ultimate committers of war crimes and little is said of the Japanese. Their crimes against the Chinese (amongst others) was just as atroucious. "Rapsody in August" marked a bow to the re-visionist history that Japan had created in their history books. Anti-American I don't care about -- recreating history and distributing pity and sorrow at that expense is inappropriate and the worst form of mass media entertainment. Plus I never liked Richard Gere. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Space Ghost Date: 09 Sep 1998 16:50:08 EDT In a message dated 98-09-09 15:30:13 EDT, Lou writes: << Now in the racks: Space Ghost's Surf & Turf With 22 Tiki-Torched Tunes (Rhino). Yeah/Nay, anyone?? -Lou >> And a play list por favor. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Sinatra, Disney Date: 09 Sep 1998 14:15:44 -0700 >* A short look at the WORST RECORD EVER MADE BY FRANK SINATRA! Humorist Pat >Reeder, enlights us with the details in our irreverent tribute/farewell to the >Chairman of the Board and one of the STUPIDIST records he ever made! What record is this? Did Frank record a KISS tribute album? Eb, who would be intrigued to see someone attempt a defense of the Tiki Room or Submarine Voyage that isn't 100% based in drippy sentimental nostalgia PS Every submarine reeks of vestigial kiddie urine. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Blacula and Carter on vinyl Date: 09 Sep 1998 15:23:10 -0700 >Can anyone recommend Blacula? Does anybody have it? As funky as you wanna be! Just wish it had a title song! C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Space Ghost Date: 09 Sep 1998 15:29:54 -0700 > Space Ghost's Surf & Turf With 22 Tiki-Torched Tunes (Rhino). > > Yeah/Nay, anyone?? I'ts not a collection of real Hawaiian or exotica or surf tunes. But it is INSANE! So's their BBQ CD! Someone must know--is one of those cartoon voices the same guy that's in the Frogs? It's gotta be! Also, not having cable: is their cartoon as crazed as these albums? C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Here's a response that "drips" with nostalgia Date: 09 Sep 1998 20:41:50 EDT In a message dated 98-09-09 17:15:44 EDT, Eb wrote: << Eb, who would be intrigued to see someone attempt a defense of the Tiki Room or Submarine Voyage that isn't 100% based in drippy sentimental nostalgia >> OK, I'll bite. I appreciate the Tiki Room and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea the same way I appreciate a Victrola, the advent of the LP, the 8 track or the marvel of the CD. All of these things represent technology at their highest when they debuted. Think about it. Can you imagine what the Tiki Room was like when it first opened in the 1950. Audioanimatronics ! ! ! Wow. And how about the Leagues ride. It was not just adults being dragged onboard because their kids wanted to see it -- the parents wanted to see it to. Now, I might not get the thrill from riding, say, a carousel, that I did when I was younger but I am so impressed with the mechanics. And with age comes knowledge. Carousel means "little war" and the original carousels were created for nobility -- not kids. American carousels go in one direction and European carousels go in another. The animals are carved more elaborately on one side depending on the continental origin. This just serves to demonstrate the complexity of "a simple kiddie ride". As kids we enjoy the experience -- as adults we appreciate the experience. Come on Eb, or any other skeptic out there, there is always some old, nostalgic, antiquated, etc. thing out there that makes you smile because of appreciation. I get it when the needle drops on an LP (and I know there are those of you who cringe), when a player piano roll spins just moments before the music starts or even the simple act of winding a Victrola mid-song because the RPM's start to slow. It has got to be something more than "drippy sentimental nostalgia" because I wasn't around when these things came out and by definition my enjoyment can't be considered nostalgic. I am sure there is some way to debunk all of my observations, but honestly, I really don't want to hear them. Fondly submitted, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) And a separate follow up to the "drip" Date: 09 Sep 1998 20:45:20 EDT In a message dated 98-09-09 17:15:44 EDT, an articulate list member commented: << PS Every submarine reeks of vestigial kiddie urine. >> I'm not sure of urine, but the above statement is a pile of shit. Just plain mean-spiritedly submitted, Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Space Ghost Date: 09 Sep 1998 17:54:34 -0700 >what do you mean by insane--good? bad?.......Jimmy/trying to interpret~ I mean fucking INSANE! Wouldn't you buy a record that's fucking insane? Hmm? Hilarious and weird as hell. 3 twisted guys, some music. Could be filed under COMEDY, I suppose. Speaking of which, thanks to whomever for the review of the new FIRESIGN THEATRE album. Gotta get! C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Scamp Label Date: 09 Sep 1998 23:24:55 -0400 I recently sent an inquiry to a press person at Caroline about future Scamp releases and this is the reply I got: > Hi Peter. The Scamp label is on hiatus. Sorry! thanks for your interest. Say it ain't so Joe! Did I miss a discussion on this already? What does hiatus mean? What's their plans? Does anyone know? Ashley? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki Nike Date: 10 Sep 1998 03:07:08 EDT Anyone know the location/source of the Nike national TV commercial that appears to be shot in a Tiki bar? It shows a guy gagging on a chunk o steak and a girl leaping to his rescue. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sinatra, Disney Date: 10 Sep 1998 03:48:31 -0600 >Eb, who would be intrigued to see someone attempt a defense of the Tiki >Room or Submarine Voyage that isn't 100% based in drippy sentimental >nostalgia HEY! I went to this ride for the FIRST time this spring, and it was my favourite ride in the whole damn park. It blew me away. I'm gutted it's closed. I was looking forward to it again this winter. Different strokes for different folks, man. DIVE! Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Re Harry Stoneham / Date: 10 Sep 1998 12:46:08 +0100 At 09:28 -0600 98/09/08, exotica-digest wrote: >Some bloke playing the Hammond >All the songs in segues of three, this must be the pick of the bunch. >I wish I could remember his name. Harry Stoneham: "Hammond Hits The Highway/High, Wide And Hammond" The "eXotica Releases Overview": Thanks very much Johan. Also does anyone know if the 'Coll and Strange Music magazine' can be found in the UK? It looks interesting. Il Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Scamp Label Date: 10 Sep 1998 07:50:25 EDT In a message dated 9/9/98 11:45:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, risser@goodnews.net writes: > The Scamp label is on hiatus. Sorry! thanks for your interest. > > Say it ain't so Joe! Did I miss a discussion on this already? > What does hiatus mean? In this case it probably means gone for good. That is very unfortunate. Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) 4 obits Date: 10 Sep 1998 10:21:05 -0500 *Lucio Battisti MILAN, Italy (AP) -- Lucio Battisti, known in Italy for his romantic and often sad songs of the late 1960s and 1970s, died Wednesday. He was 55. The hospital and his family did not release the cause of his death, but RAI state television reported that he had liver cancer. Many of Battisti's songs, like the hit ``Emozioni'' (Emotions), were melancholy or sad and often spoke of betrayal in love. His biggest successes were a result of his collaboration with lyricist Mogol. His old songs, including ``Pensieri e Parole'' (Thoughts and Words), ``Fiori rosa, fiori di pesco'' (Rose petals, peach blossoms), and his fast-stepping ``Acqua Azzura, Acqua Chiara''(Blue Water, Clear Water), continued to sell well. *Paul Earls CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Paul Earls, an electronic music composer who worked to combine music and visual arts, died Monday of heart failure. He was 64. Earls, who experimented with laser and electronic effects in his music, was affiliated with MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and taught at the Massachusetts College of Art. He composed ``The Death of King Phillip,'' an opera about an Indian uprising in Colonial days, and another opera based on the legend of Icarus. He also composed ``Mozart and Cosmology'' in collaboration with modern dancer Beth Soll. *MaryAnne Kasica-Scheff LOS ANGELES (AP) -- MaryAnne Kasica-Scheff, a television writer and actress who penned episodes of ``Moonlighting'' and ``Murder, She Wrote,'' died Saturday of a brain tumor. She was 58. Kasica-Scheff, who acted in the television series ``Marcus Welby, M.D.,'' began writing one-act plays when she was an actress with ``Theatre East.'' She earned a UCLA Playwright's Award in 1975. She also co-wrote the top-selling novelty book, ``The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook.'' She shared writing credits with her husband, television writer and executive Michael Scheff, for television movies ``Topper'' and ``Tall, Dark and Deadly.'' Kasica-Scheff also wrote episodes for ``Hart to Hart'' and ``Magnum, P.I.'' *Richard Martin Heard NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Richard Martin ``Dick'' Heard, a country music producer and songwriter who co-wrote Elvis Presley's hit ``Kentucky Rain,'' died of cancer Tuesday. He was 61. A native of Little Rock, Ark., Heard moved to Nashville in 1968 to become president of Royal American Records and later served as general manager of two other record companies. In those capacities, he was instrumental in the careers of Freddy Fender, Jimmy Dean, Ronnie McDowell and Johnny Lee. In addition to helping to write Presley's tune, he also co-wrote ``Abigail Beecher, My History Teacher'' with Eddie Rabbit. Heard's hits as a producer include ``Borrowed Angel,'' and ``Lovin' on Back Streets.'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) new release dates Date: 10 Sep 1998 10:21:03 -0500 Here's a few upcoming releases. Anyone know any others of which we should be aware? -Lou Aug. 11 Varttina: Vihma (Wicklow-BMG) Sept. 8 Kahimi Karie: Kahimi Karie (Minty Fresh) Tom Ze: Com Defeito De Fabricacao (Fabrication Defect) (Luaka Bop) Sept. 14 Philip Glass: Complete Koyaanisquatsi (Nonesuch) Sept. 15 Fantastic Plastic Machine: FPM (Emperor Norton) Sept. 29 Oranj Symphonette: The Oranj Album (Rykodisc) -- Joe, you still here? What's this one like? Oct. 6 Combustible Edison: The Impossible World (Sub Pop) Wagon Christ(aka Luke Vibert): Tally Ho! (Astralwerks) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Kurosawa Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:17:20 -0400 A fine Kurosawa film that is rarely mentioned is "Stray Dog" (1949). A present-day police procedural set in post-war Tokyo, starring Toshiro Mifune as a young detective. To me, it feels like a Sam Fuller film (actually, Fuller & Kurosawa's works feel rather parallel to me -- did anyone else ever notice that, or am I out there in space with Sun Ra?). There's one fascinating sequence where Mifune is out doing "legwork", walking throughout the streets of the city, no dialog -- basically a verite (with jump cuts) walking tour of late-40s Tokyo. Bringing it back to music, "Yojimbo" (1961) has a very interesting score by (I think) Masaru Sato. A mix of Japanese and Western instrumentation -- lots of harpsichord and percussion, with some swaggering saxes thrown in. Cool, nervous music. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) new release dates Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:18:44 EDT In a message dated 98-09-10 10:26:46 EDT, you write: << Oct. 6 Combustible Edison: The Impossible World (Sub Pop) >> Boy, I can't wait for this one. All the talk is that it will be more "progessive" compared to past albums. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) 4 obits Date: 10 Sep 1998 08:49:47 -0700 Thanks for this news. I doubt I would have heard about this for quite awhile. Battisti wasn't exotica, but he was Mina's favorite contemporary during the early 1970s, writing her big comeback hit 'Amor Mio', amonhg others. He's really pretty great in that singer/songwriter vein but fot the last few years the rumour has been he became a facist! His song 'Bella Linda' was a moderate hit for the Grass Roots. How sad with all four of these obits and everyone so young! At 10:21 AM 9/10/98 -0500, Lou Smith wrote: > *Lucio Battisti > MILAN, Italy (AP) -- Lucio Battisti, known in Italy for his romantic and >often sad songs of the late 1960s and 1970s, died Wednesday. He was 55. > The hospital and his family did not release the cause of his death, but RAI >state television reported that he had liver cancer. MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "super k. riot" Subject: (exotica) re: tiki nike Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:49:25 -0700 i don't know the location of the tiki bar but the girl who leaps to his rescue is gabi reese she;s a volleyball player. ken if you find out where that bar is please let us all know # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 10 Sep 1998 21:08:39 +0000 Dear > Eb, who would be intrigued to see someone attempt a defense of the Tiki > Room or Submarine Voyage that isn't 100% based in drippy sentimental > nostalgia, Now you come to the interesting point, that is so closely related to this list. If I'm not mistaken, 87% of the records that are discussed in this list are at least 20 years old, many are from the exact age when Disneyland was built. The interesting point is: Why does this music of the past obviously mean so much to us? Why do we not only privately listen, but publicly discuss this what many regard as "awful music", others as drippy sentimental nostalgia? I don't want to become polemic about this, Eb, but it's so apparent, that the past is not simply the past. I'm rather curious what everybody of this list thinks about this basic question of nostalgia. I'd like to give some suggestions although I don't claim that I already know what it's all about. First I believe that the concepts of the future are always made by taking a look on the past. The past is everything you know anyway. But you judge and tidy up the past. You select elements that you're fascinated with and want to put them together in a new if possible surprising way. So why Exotica and why now? The reason must be that there is something missing in the music and culture of today, something elementary, basic and important. Like melody, multi-melodic arrangements, physically produced sounds, human voices, emotional values that are to important to call them Kitsch, primitive simplicity in a high tech world. Exotic music structures time differently to sequenced electronic music. So for all purposes other than high energetic dancing it might be more appropriate. I guess memory is essential for human beings and history is just systematic memory. The possibility of recording music offers us to take a detailed look into music history. Todays music is already so much composed by elements of all ages that we can hardly discern them. We try to do it though and learn a lot about the artists and their ulterior motives. We are also able to draw a line to our own present and become aware of what's going on now. For many the Enchanted Tiki Room is such a "recorded" art concept of the past. And because it is so unique (you can't just buy a copy in a thrift store) they would feel sorry if it would be closed down forever. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jaaaaaaack Date: 10 Sep 1998 12:37:03 -0700 KFJC play list 8/30/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM The Planets Chunky Latin All Stars; Jazz Heat Bongo Beat Crown Label, 58 W/ Buddy Collette Tommy Tedesco-Gtr Carlos Mejia-Bongos Darias-Conga Drum Tony Reyes-Bass Gabor Szabo; White Rabbit California Dreamers Bill Plummer-Sitar Emil Richards Herbie Hancock Paint Her Mouth Death Wish Ost Boris Karloff The Man in the Raincoat Mercury, 1963 The Music that Runs Underneath the Story By Boris Above Is Tom Dissvelt and Kid Baltan's "Song of the 2ND Moon" Cool, Huh ? Mayfield, Curtis Pusherman Super Fly Fabulous Jokers Song of the Orfeo Negro 1964, Monument Ennio Morricone Shangai Joe Ost Kenyon Hopkins Jungle Fever Shock Music... Acme Rocket Quartet Will Monster Zero Ever Ultra-High-Frequency Die ? Alberto Bembo Io E Mara Side 1 Frank Rosolino Qrt. Rubberneck Savoy Label W/ Barry Harris-Pno Ananda Shankar Orch. Raghaputi 1970 Koray, Erkin Inat Elektronik Turkuler Lalo Schifrin Bullitt Main End Title Lesiman Direzioni Future Sound of Lesiman, the Mort Garson Music for Sensuous Lovers By "Z Side 2 or Climax 2 Whichever You Prefer Umiliani, Piero Le Ragazze' Sweden Heaven and Hell Dell'arcipelago Dean Elliot Raid College Confidential Boogaloo Joe Jones He's/She's So Fine Snake Rhythm Rock Chet Baker Qrt The Lamp Is Low 1ST 10", 1953 Kenneth Patchen Four Blues Poems Folkways, 1959 Armando Travajoli Luna Park March The Raffle Ost Tom Glaser Rock-A-Billy Rock A Face in the Crowd Lincoln Chase Double Take Liberty Les Paul Caravan Fuzz, 1968 Leith Stevens Orch; The Heavens Exploring the Paul Frees-Sp Word Unknown Walter Schumann Choir Cale, John Kiss Movement 01 Eat/Kiss: Music for the Films Victims of Chance Tuesdays Victim Crestview Roy Glenn Big High Song for 1957 Somebody Jeff Beck/Yardbirds Someone to Love Instro 1966 Lucas and Friends Deck the Halls Donuts Jerry Goldsmith The Search Planet of The Apes Barbarella (Sound Fight in Flight Barbarella Hello Pretty Pretty Entrance Into Sogo Pygar's Persecution The Black Queen's Beads Roy Orbison In Dreams Jan, 1963 Last Tango in Par Last Tango...-Jazz Last Tango in Paris Waltz Mary Mayo Desafinado Moon Gassssss La Morte Accarezz Il Viaggio La Morte Accarezza David Chazam and 2 Kilo Chef! Monsieur Gadou Hunter S Thompson White Rabbit Fear and Loathing in LV Jimmie Haskel Orch Asteroid Hop Countdown Pete Rugolo Orch Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights Date: 10 Sep 1998 15:54:44 -0500 Just noticed at the official RaymondScott.com site. -Lou Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights Basta (30-9073-2) 1998 22 tracks. Original 78 rpm recordings (1937-40) by the Raymond Scott Quintette, including those used in CARTOONS, such as "Powerhouse," "The Toy Trumpet," "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," & many, many more! NOW AVAILABLE: Newly remastered edition, featuring fuller sound, updated liner notes, and two tracks replaced with better performances found in the archives. Newly remastered CD is $16 (plus $2 for US shipping) TO ORDER email: CD@RaymondScott.com &/or send check or MO payable to Irwin Chusid to: PO Box 6258 Hoboken NJ 07030 USA (Delivery promised within 1 week of receipt of payment.) - Europe: order newly remastered CD direct from Basta: www.Basta.nl # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Kahimi (Minty Fresh) Date: 10 Sep 1998 11:26:59 -0400 Has anybody gotten this? How is it? I've wanted to get some of her stuff, but don't know where? - Nate # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Hot Babe Date: 10 Sep 1998 13:58:07 -0700 http://www.jackdiamond.com/Franklyn_McCormack.JPG # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 10 Sep 1998 21:16:31 -0500 I think of nostalgia as more of a feeling of wishing that the present was more like the past or some 'golden era'. And so to talk about things as being nostalgic means that they cater to this 'golden era' world view by "reminding" someone of "those days gone by" whether or not he or she actually lived during that time. For instance, I would be nostalgic for the days of the courtly knights if I harboured some glossed over images of how wonderful things were then. So, a thing is only nostalgic in degrees depending on how much it 'harkens back' and how much it 'glosses over' the past (or as Moritz put it, a tidying up of the past). Harkening back happens with the individual, some thing will remind someone of a specific past event. This in itself is not nostalgic but in combination with a glossing over or a soft focus reminiscing of that event, it becomes nostalgic. This is why there are so many ready made nostalgia items. I hate to say it but a present day tiki bar would fall into that category as it tries to capture some limited aspect of the tiki bar of the past. But, even though the contemporary tiki bar itself is nostalgic does'nt mean that your enjoyment of such a thing is nostalgic as long as you dig the way it somehow fits into your present. You would be nostalgic about tiki bars the moment you started believing that this bar is what all those tiki bars of the past "must have been like." >So why Exotica and why now? My on take on this is base upon a demographics of listeners to my radio show. In general: The parents of Boomers like it because they remeber the music when it was popular.(read notalgia) Boomers hate it, primarily because it as the music their parents listened to , which they rebeled against, but also because acknowleding it defies their image of what that time was really like. Post-boomers love it because it's wierd, cool and "new" to their ears, replaces whats lacking in contemporary music and perhaps even more of that parental rebelion if their parent can't understand their interest in it. (Ok, I know I'm generalizing, please no comments!) Why exotica now? It's a generational thing. Thats a short answer. There are many many facets to this question and hence many answers but, I still think it comes down to a generational type thing. Especially if you ask "why now?" because what you're really asking is why is it now a 'recognized' interest with a specific social set. There might very well have been exoticats in 1972 but it took a critical mass for anyone to take notice. It also took time for post boomers to get to positions in the various media where their voices would be heard. I have thoughts on my personal struggle with this nostalgia issue but I think I'll save that for another post. Suffice to say that I think that most Exotica listeners have more of the fanatical cultural anthropoligist in them rather than the romantic wishing for the past. Thank's Moritz for the food for thought. I hope I've given folks more to chew on. Frank, (nothing against tiki rooms) My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 10 Sep 1998 21:22:32 -0400 "Nostalgia" is a very interesting topic. Being brought up in France, where an interest in, and knowledge of the past is considered not only normal but necessary, I'd never heard anybody talk about nostalgia. Well, I mean in the sense we use it here in this discussion (it'd be used by the National Front to talk about a mythical glorious past for instance). But in the US "nostalgia" mainly means a fetishization of a recent past. A few months ago, I ran into an A&R guy for a major label whom I vaguely know. "So what are you listening to these days?" he asked me. "A lot of 1920s musicals" I said. "So you're on a nostalgia trip" was his reply. I was really annoyed. Nostalgia, to me, means that one somehow glorifies the era in question. I don't want the 1920s to be back (and I use a computer, not a quill) but I like all kinds of music. Being aware of history is crucial, that doesn't make you nostalgic. On the other hand, I'm always a little wary of people who listen exclusively to old (defined as anything from the Doors to, say, Bach) music or reject contemporary culture. Sorry for the extended rant! Elisabeth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Surf Lounge Music and Vibes CD Date: 10 Sep 1998 23:53:01 EDT Don't be bashful -- give us a run down on what to expect from this CD. Robert In a message dated 98-09-10 23:43:15 EDT, you write: << housands of friends have shared sunsets and good times with us, either surfing by in real life, or virtually on the internet. We are stoked to offer this digitally re-created ambience of the "Music and Vibes" from Crazy Joe's Surf Lounge. CD available through the http://www.surflounge.com web site or order direct now: >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Action Plus Subject: Re: (exotica) new release dates Date: 10 Sep 1998 22:41:20 -0800 >Here's a few upcoming releases. Anyone know any others of which we should b= e >aware? >-Lou > >Sept. 29 >Oranj Symphonette: The Oranj Album (Rykodisc) -- Joe, you still here? What'= s >this one like? Hi Lou--yeah, still here... Our second album is a mixed bag of film music and standards. It's much better performed and recorded, probably 'cause we've been playing together a couple of years. (The first one was done before we were really a band--one of those "make a record, then learn how to play it" deals.) Like last time, the group features me, Matt Brubeck, and Ralph Carney, but this time with Pat Campbell (also of Action Plus) on drums and an absolutely astounding keyboardist/accordionist named Robbie Burger (you may have heard him on the Tipsy record or with Bill Frisell). I produced and engineered, and Matt arranged most of the tracks. Matt's work is witty and wise-assed, yet always musically credible. There's a Zulu-stomp version of "Magnificent Seven," a noisy, Waits-ian desecration of "Satin Doll," a Sonic Youth-meets-Lalo Schifrin take on "Call Me Mr. Tibbs," plus some very pretty things, like a Salvation Army band version of Andr=E9 Previn's "Valle= y of the Dolls" and a ambient-dreamy "Midnight Cowboy." We hope you like it! --Joe Gore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Splaw! or Shooby, where art thou? Date: 11 Sep 1998 03:26:02 +0000 Does anyone have the tape of Shooby Taylor's "The Human Horn"? I snoozed and lost the opportunity to buy it from WFMU's catalog. Eep doodly blobby, Brian Phillips http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 11 Sep 1998 12:56:13 +0000 > But in the US "nostalgia" mainly means a fetishization of a recent past. (Elisabeth) > > I think of nostalgia as more of a feeling of wishing that the present > was more like the past or some 'golden era'. > > Why exotica now? It's a generational thing. Thats a short answer. (Frank recliner) > English is only my second language, but in German "Nostalgie" means about the same. Still I don't know a better word for what we're actually doing here. I just think the term is overdue for a redefinition. I remember that Pop Art, when it was still new and fresh, produced some pretty old-fashioned images that were immediately commercialized, like these big Grandma-alarmclocks or the ever-present images of red British phone booths and double-decker omnibusses. ...John Steed... That was when Nostalgia became fashionable. It was a form of irony that you could attach to your ambiente in addition to brandnew psychedelic posters or whatever. It WAS a generational thing; the young generation would attack their parents from their backs with symbols of their own parents that they had just gotten rid of. It also became a form of mild rebellion for all those who didn't dare to really drop out. Seeing Nostalgia as a generational thing still needs an explanation: Why pick what exactely from the past? I mean you go for Exotica jazz of the 50s but you certainly don't go for the sexual repression of those days. You are aware of the fact that this Exotic culture in those days was an attempt to break out of the rigid moral laws of the western civilisation without openly attacking it. It was a trick! It became pointless, when sexual freedom was realized. Today we rediscover it for a different reason. I see it more as a piece in an anti-technological movement. You combine it with other elements like Japanese high tech or psychedelic drugs and - voila! - you have something new: A redefinition of the purpose of technology... For instance... (One of the most revolutionary epochs of mankind, the Renaissance ("rebirth"), culturally was a return to the forms of the anchient Greek past of 2000 years ago...) > Suffice to say that I think that > most Exotica listeners have more of the fanatical cultural anthropoligist > in them rather than the romantic wishing for the past. (Frank) > You're free to pick what you like and leave in the shelf what you don't. Besides I don't believe that you unemotionally listen to those Exotica objects of investigation and categorization. You do have your preferences, don't you? Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Nostalgia Date: 11 Sep 1998 08:34:36 -0400 MO said: You're free to pick what you like and leave in the shelf what you don't i think this is critical to the whole discussion about nostalgia. In the 50s and 60s when Denny and our friends were making this music, there was lots of other things going on, like a cold war, that were particularly less "fun". Nostalgia gives people the opportunity to enjoy the "Best of" the past without having to deal with all the other stuff. Why now? Well, the boomer/post boomer point is well taken. I am on the edge of the two. My dad listened to Lyman, and mom likes Aerosmith. I like the scene because it sounds exotic, different that is, from the obnoxious trash that has become rock, like Nirvana/Bush/Matchbox 20. We have come to a point of re-evaluation of our music tastes again. Doesn't everyone here remember the doo-wop flashbacks in the 70s? not to mention the anti-disco punk movement in the 80s and then the anti-glam movement that became grunge in the 90s. This is just another way out of a music scene gone boring. Around the end of disco, we saw a resurgence of all the classic styles. Not just punk, but there was a brief swing flashback, and a pretty soild jazz-fusion resurgence. Exotica is fun because it is back for the first time, it is old enough for nobobdy to really remember, and it is some of the earliest examples of high fidelity and stereo recording, making it easy on the ears of 90s listeners. Older stuff from 78s would never fly as easily. surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Hawaii Five-O question Date: 11 Sep 1998 08:38:51 -0400 Hi Gang, Just got the Hawaii Five-O soundtrack album this weekend, along with Phase 4s "The Return of James Bond" and the project3 "Movie Hits" with Enoch Light doing the theme from "A Clockwork Orange" (very cool) Question: ( and I feel like a clod asking this) What does the "Five-O" stand for? My wife sez that it is because Hawaii is the 50th state, and it sounded catchy, so they use it. Anybody know for sure? surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Hawaii Five-O question Date: 11 Sep 1998 09:25:42 -0400 What does the "Five-O" stand for? My wife sez that it is because Hawaii is the 50th state, and it sounded catchy, so they use it. Anybody know for sure? According to the Hawaii Five-0 FAQ: Why was it called Five-O, anyway? Hawaii was the fiftieth state in the union. (The original title was "The Man," but producer Leonard Freeman changed his mind.) Good thing the locale was there. Delaware Oh-1 doesn't have the same ring. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 11 Sep 1998 10:17:56 +0100 First, I think the discussion on "nostalgia" is an interesting one. I agree with pretty much everything that has been said. I listen to these sounds - often older sounds - because they sound good to my ears. Occasionally if I see a groovy 60s flick, I might think, "Wow! I should have been around then." But on the whole, I am very happy to be living in the 90s, and I don't wish to return to past years. However, people who don't know or understand or perhaps "like" what I play when I DJ often ask if I play "retro" music. I find this term a little offensive. I actually think I like LOTS of modern music that is influenced by exotica. But I strongly feel that this music does not intend to copy exotica. Or is going for a retro feel. We look to the past and reflect on it, and taking the best bits from the past and putting them into a 90s context is a good thing, I think. The dressing up part of the "lounge" scene has always bothered me a bit. Not that I don't own old, groovy clothes, but I always worry that if you dress in them at such events, you are kinda turning the whole thing into a nostalgia event. Making it a silly cliche. It's a difficult thing for me because I like the fashion that I like, but I don't want to cliche a sound that I feel so passionately about. Any thoughts? Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Thom Heileson Subject: (exotica) Re: new FIRESIGN THEATRE album Date: 11 Sep 1998 06:56:20 -0800 > From: "Carl Russo" > > Speaking of which, thanks to whomever for the review of the new FIRESIGN > THEATRE album. Gotta get! > > C. "Ratso" Russo This is prolly fairly annoying of me, but... I haven't been able to follow the list digests lately, until this one - could anyone post or send me the details I missed about the new Firesign Theatre album? Thanks in advance, Thom -- _ _ _ Thom Heileson //)) //^~ heileson@u.washington.edu ((// // http://weber.u.washington.edu/~heileson University of Washington School of Art Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities [CARTAH] 206.543.4218 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Norma Drew, Leonid Kinskey obits Date: 11 Sep 1998 10:13:44 -0500 *Norma Drew LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Norma Drew, an actress who once performed with the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, died Aug. 23. She was 94. She appeared in several movies during the 1930s, including ``Chickens Come Home'' in which she played Stan Laurel's wife. She also played roles opposite Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. Ms. Drew's first husband, screenwriter and producer Ernest Pagano, is the author of the Fred Astaire classic ``Shall We Dance,'' and is credited with discovering the talents of the young Shirley Temple. *Leonid Kinskey FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) -- Leonid Kinskey, a stylish Russian-born actor who played Sascha the bartender in ``Casablanca,'' died Tuesday of complications from a stroke. He was 95. Humphrey Bogart recommended Kinskey for the role of Sascha in the 1942 classic, and he went on to play variations of his Russian character in 68 films. Kinskey, one of the last surviving members of ``Casablanca,'' first performed in opera and theater, sequeing to films in the early 1930s. Kinskey starred in ``The Spot Lite Club,'' television's first situation comedy, on KTLA in Los Angeles in 1948. He also appeared in television's ``Perry Mason,'' ``The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'' and ``Hogan's Heroes.'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Date: 11 Sep 1998 15:44:58 +0100 Did anyone see Beyond the Valley of the Dolls last night on Channel 4? What a fantastic film, with drugs, the Strawberry Alarm Clock, sex, large chests and a collectable soundtrack - Good old Russ Meyer. Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Why Nostalgia?/Tiki room Date: 11 Sep 1998 16:04:17 +0100 Surely the whole point of listening to any music is your emotional response to it? For me, some songs (Nancy Sinatra's Sugartown for example) its definitely the warm feeling of remembering hearing it as a child, But for other things (Yma Sumac) they are 'new' and the pleasure, or not, I get is from the thing itself.. To quote Bobby Gillespie 'I do not make love to my girlfriend in an ironic fashion'. I'm sorry, is an emotional response coloured by nostalgia invalid where a response coloured by anger is not? And back to the Tiki room. I have been to Disney once (the Florida one I don't know or really care if it was World or Land) a couple of years ago. I wasn't really looking forward to it, 3 days stuck in this megalomanic, sickly, oversentimentalised psuedo Amerika. But I quite enjoyed it, some of the rides were fun, my friends were really into it and so got a good response from the staff (I think it was them being young women wearing the ears). Some of it I found strangely disturbing, main street is eerily like Port Meirion where 'the Prisoner was filmed, and with the brass bands and announcements, spooky. Being English, the Polynesia thing had passed me by, I have no cultural baggage whatsoever for Tiki rooms, and so I was going to skip it. It looked faintly tatty. Old, and not really very interesting, but, I thought 'what the hell'. It was a revelation. Genuinely charming. I felt like a child. It was wonderful, the clacking of the mouths and moving parts was quaint I suppose. I think that really the reason that Disney would drop it more than any other is that it doesn't fit into their marketing strategies, it is outside the main film themes that tie up the other rides to the Disney 'Universe' and therefore doesn't further sales of anything from the shops. As someone pointed out a few weeks back, there is only one song available on CD from the tiki room. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Date: 11 Sep 1998 14:40:43 -0400 There's an interesting article about the movie by (co-scripter) Roger Ebert here: http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1997/08/081101.html He talks about the making of the film and his reactions when seeing it ten years later. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 11 Sep 1998 19:58:35 +0100 Elisabeth wrote: >I'm always a little wary of people who listen exclusively to old (defined >as anything from the Doors to, say, Bach) music >or reject contemporary culture. Oh dear. As one of the list's older readers, I don't reject contemporary culture at all. None exists to reject! Nostalgia, like many other things, can be undesirable in excess. But while I am nostalgic for the days of the mid/early 60's, when albums had by default 12 tracks, I too enjoy the convenience of the PC era.... Hugh. PS I'm also nostalgic for Jessica's listings..... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Blazerfan" Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #206 Date: 11 Sep 1998 12:21:24 -0700 Boomers hate it, primarily because it as the music their parents listened to , which they rebeled against, but also because acknowleding it defies their image of what that time was really like. OH REALLY???? from a 50 year old woman who loved it then and loves it now. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: studio@wayno.com (Wayno) Subject: (exotica) Re: Kahimi Karie (Minty Fresh) Date: 11 Sep 1998 15:59:32 -0400 Nathan Miner inquired about the Kahimi Karie disc just released in the US on the Minty Fresh label: >Has anybody gotten this? How is it? > >I've wanted to get some of her stuff, but don't know where? > >- - Nate This domestic disc (available through all the usual on-line record shops) is a "best-of" culled from Kahimi's Japanese releases, and it seems to be a pretty good intro/overview. Most of her stuff features high-pitched, breathy vocals; sort of a souped-up electro-modern Claudine Longet, but with a sinister, decadent edge, which is emphasized by the sweet quality of her voice. The music itself is all over the map, incorporating Latin/Bossa sounds, jazzy interludes, crunchy guitar rock, some sampling, and plenty of fat analog Moog sounds. Many of her best tunes were written by Momus. Additional info on this CD is available at http://mintyfresh/com. I have some of Kahimi's recent Japanese releases and can recommend "Larme de Crocodile" on Crue-l Records (1997). It's wall-to-wall pop confection. Fans of Julee Cruise's collaborations with David Lynch might enjoy Kahimi. Many of her Japanese releases (including the new Polydor CD "K.K.K.K.K.") are available from Other Music in New York . I've also ordered some Japanese imports from Mundo, a dealer based in Japan . The Minty Fresh site also has some US tour dates. -- Wayno # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Disney Date: 11 Sep 1998 13:16:02 -0700 >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com > >I appreciate the Tiki Room and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea the same way I >appreciate a Victrola, the advent of the LP, the 8 track or the marvel of the >CD. >All of these things represent technology at their highest when they debuted. >Think about it. Can you imagine what the Tiki Room was like when it first >opened in the 1950. Audioanimatronics ! ! ! Wow. >Come on Eb, or any other skeptic out there, there is always some old, >nostalgic, antiquated, etc. thing out there that makes you smile because of >appreciation. I guess it comes down to whether you think Disneyland primarily should be a source of entertainment, or a museum. I believe that we stand on opposite sides of that question. ><< PS Every submarine reeks of vestigial kiddie urine. >> > >I'm not sure of urine, but the above statement is a pile of shit. And it's absolutely true. The guys who work there routinely joke about it. Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 11 Sep 1998 17:54:32 -0500 i agree 100% with your statements here... I listen to these sounds - >often older sounds - because they sound good to my ears. Occasionally if I >see a groovy 60s flick, I might think, "Wow! I should have been around >then." But on the whole, I am very happy to be living in the 90s, >However, people who don't know or understand or perhaps "like" what I play >when I DJ often ask if I play "retro" music. I find this term a little >offensive. I actually think I like LOTS of modern music that is influenced >by exotica. But I strongly feel that this music does not intend to copy >exotica. Or is going for a retro feel. We look to the past and reflect on >it, and taking the best bits from the past and putting them into a 90s >context is a good thing, I think. > except for this one... >The dressing up part of the "lounge" scene has always bothered me a bit. Not >that I don't own old, groovy clothes, but I always worry that if you dress >in them at such events, you are kinda turning the whole thing into a >nostalgia event. Making it a silly cliche. It's a difficult thing for me >because I like the fashion that I like, but I don't want to cliche a sound >that I feel so passionately about. "old groovy clothes"? i do not "dress up" for such events, i just go, wearing what i feel comfortable in. (when i am lucky enough not to be the DJ) it just so happens that they are "old and groovy"! and if people go consciously "dressed up", i look at it as paying homage or wearing their "sunday best". anyway i do not take such events that seriously as to worrying about offending their premise. i hope there is a "silly cliche" vibe to it as too defuse all the ultra cool in-the-know hipsters that think it is so special. in the end it is all about enjoying sounds, old or new. and with others is even better. no matter what mental trips it takes to get there... as long as you are there is the most important thing. if you stray from the music, you will get lost. BuMp aka DJ Bumpnstuf Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.welch.jhu.edu/~geh/defective.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) The Nostalgia Pages Date: 11 Sep 1998 19:04:44 -0500 I thought "Nostalgia" was the marketing name (like "grunge" or "exotica" are to some extent labels for marketing convenience) for Pre-War the-old-days-were-the-good-days-bring-back-the-simpler-old-days entertainment. Around NY, the undisputed King of Nostalgia was (and is) Joe Franklin. Here's a site loaded with capital-N Nostalgia. -Lou Title: The Nostalgia Pages URL: http://www.lofcom.com/nostalgia/ Keywords: nostalgia, otr, television, family, entertainment Description: To spend just a little while in the simpler time of the past, visit The Nostalgia Pages! Introducing Old-Time Radio to a generation who's parents barely remember it, The Nostalgia Pages include photos from the Friends of Old-Time Radio Conventions, "Hello's" from the stars of the past, and even complete Old-Time Radio shows! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Ultra Lounge video Date: 11 Sep 1998 18:57:49 -0500 I was just cleaning out my mailbox and re-discovered this note from Hep Cat Records. Now, I have nothing to do with HC or even know if this offer is still valid. My question is about this UL video. Does anyone have it? Anyone know what's on it? And can one get a copy without buying 5 CDs? -Lou Hello! Have you been saving your money? We hope so, because we have a huge amount of new releases for you to buy! Plus, if you purchase 5 or more of the Ultra Lounge CDs (at the same time) you will receive a free Ultra Lounge video while supplies last! Did we mention that it was FREE? Our home page is at # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge video Date: 11 Sep 1998 19:40:33 EDT lousmith@pipeline.com wrote: >>>My question is about this UL video. Does anyone have it? Anyone know what's on it? And can one get a copy without buying 5 CDs?<<< Yep! I posted about this some five or six weeks ago. It's a 30-minute in-store sales loop (with the loop being about five minutes in length). It's safe to call it mini-music vids of UL tunes, maybe in 30-second snippets. The visuals backing the songs are a mix of nostalgia clips and stock footage. While it's not going to blow you away, it's a very cool thing to have, especially if you have everything in the UL collection. Maybe the neatest thing about it is that it comes packaged in an oversized cigarette box, and opens just like one, too. I found mine at a Borders in downtown Chicago (on Michigan Ave). When I originally posted, someone else on this list called them and ordered it (it's free, but you had to buy a UL disc to get it). They didn't have many then, but you could give it a try. --Rod # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 11 Sep 1998 19:55:27 -0500 >Seeing Nostalgia as a generational thing still needs an explanation: Why >pick what exactely from the past? I mean you go for Exotica jazz of the >50s but you certainly don't go for the sexual repression of those days. >You are aware of the fact that this Exotic culture in those days was an >attempt to break out of the rigid moral laws of the western civilisation >without openly attacking it. It was a trick! It became pointless, when >sexual freedom was realized. Today we rediscover it for a different >reason. I think we choose exotica music because its intricasies (by pop music standards) and highly proficient musicians appeal to our search for something other than the bass-drum-guitar thing that any teenager can bang out.(Charles R. makes a similar comment.) Now you may ask, why are we looking for something different? Why not just dig our own contemporary take on things. Well, maybe there's a feeling it does'nt express our emotions or maybe we just find it aesthetically lacking. This is where I think my "anthropology" angle helps explain. (See comment below.) It's interesting that you bring up sexual repression; have we really gotten over it or has it just taken on a new form? > I see it more as a piece in an anti-technological movement. You >combine it with other elements like Japanese high tech or psychedelic >drugs and - voila! - you have something new: A redefinition of the >purpose of technology... What about all the emphasis in High Fidelity? >> Suffice to say that I think that >> most Exotica listeners have more of the fanatical cultural anthropoligist >> in them rather than the romantic wishing for the past. (Frank) >> >You're free to pick what you like and leave in the shelf what you don't. >Besides I don't believe that you unemotionally listen to those Exotica >objects of investigation and categorization. You do have your >preferences, don't you? I thought this might have been interpreted this way. I should have emphasised FANATICAL. This is the point where those objects go beyond the realm of science and precisely into the realm of the emotions. I only meant to use the term anthropoligist in a vague way to try to explain a specific interest in a spacific past. And then there's our late nineties view of the past with all that post-modern, appropration baggage which has filtered down into our everyday thought. Related: Typical three steps in exotica appreciation. 1. This music is wierd, I like it. 2. This music is wierd...and beautiful, I really like it. 3. This music is beautiful, I love it. Another one of my patent generalized statements, I know, but I think it fits. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Spaced Out update - Artist Discographies Date: 12 Sep 1998 02:24:12 +0100 After much tinkering, I've just added what I think is a useful new feature to the Spaced Out website, namely the ability to generate discographies for *any* musician who appeared on an Enoch Light record. Check out the "Discographies by Artist" link at the address below. If anyone tried using the previous Java search program, this goes well beyond that program's capabilities: For one thing it's not in Java but Perl (CGI) or, for the benefit of non- techies, anyone can use it and it runs much faster. For another, the results don't just list records *by* a particular artist but also any that he/she/they are known to have recorded on (and what they played!). And as the discographies are generated dynamically, they are always as up to date as they can be. The results are not as yet guaranteed 100% comprehensive - they are only as complete as the label discographies which in some cases is "not very". However, as the discographical information keeps coming, the quality of results from this new feature will also improve. Try it out! Robbie PS Please forgive the tacky "sales pitch" tone of some of this email! ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) the "Helexotic Sound" Date: 11 Sep 1998 21:57:03 EDT After a very long wait, I just scored: THE HELLERS "Singers, Talkers, Players, Swingers And Doers" Command RS 934 A very unusual and wonderful record this is! Hugh Heller led a group of actors (including McLean Stevenson) and singers into a studio who acted out, talked and sang from scripts and music sheets. They then had Robert Moog construct a helectronic studio laboratory where all kinds of wild electronic sound effects were added. The resulting "helexotic sound" is amazing! Very, very cool record. Thick, laminated pyschedelic gatefold cover done up in bright oranges, reds, yellows and greens - the usual Command high quality. Photos on inside of the players and moog. Music and lyrics by Dick Hamilton. titles include: It's 74 In San Francisco The Elevator The Piano Lesson High Fly Ball The Mechanic The Button Man Go find it! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Live in SF! Date: 11 Sep 1998 19:13:48 -0700 Jean Jacques Perrey will be having a Live In-store Appearance on September 19th at the Groove Merchant on (lower) Haight St in San Francisco at 3pm. Be there! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! Http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm Http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) *Primary* USA Wholesale Distribution: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ alicia@naildistribution.com (Distributor Sales) ingrid@naildistribution.com (Retail Store Sales) OR Retail Store Sales and Wholesale Distribution: Jack Diamond Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Store Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia?/Tiki room Date: 11 Sep 1998 22:16:13 EDT Reader Geoff wrote and I agree (of course I have never been "tatty"): << Being English, the Polynesia thing had passed me by, I have no cultural baggage whatsoever for Tiki rooms, and so I was going to skip it. It looked faintly tatty. Old, and not really very interesting, but, I thought 'what the hell'. It was a revelation. Genuinely charming. I felt like a child. It was wonderful, the clacking of the mouths and moving parts was quaint I suppose >> It is this alure that has many of us loving the Tiki Room. The sort of "ok, let's go see this stupid show." to "MAN!!! let go see that Tiki Room show again." Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) five bucks Date: 11 Sep 1998 21:24:36 EDT Dusty Groove (http://dustygroove.com/) has had this great LP (filed under Now Sounds) on sale for awhile now and I can't believe it's still there - somebody get it! for five bucks, you can't go wrong. Sealed! It is actually "Poiter Meets Plato", but is a second run where they changed the title and cover art. No more pic of Sidney on the front. :( <> Note: i don't work for this place - i'm just passing on some info. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki Room Tunes Date: 11 Sep 1998 22:20:44 EDT In a message dated 98-09-11 11:05:43 EDT, an exoticat writes: << As someone pointed out a few weeks back, there is only one song available on CD from the tiki room. >> I think this is because the Official Music of Walt Disney World/Disney Land can only hold about 75 minutes of music. My CD has about 20 something tracks and I guess to cover everything they could not put multiple cuts from the Tiki Room. Robert P.S I was listening to this CD tonight in my workshop while refinishing a newly aquired Victrola. And yes, my wife is a little pissed. Like I need another one. But this one . . . . oh, well -- more later. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Disney, Disney, Disney and are we tired of this yet??? Date: 11 Sep 1998 22:42:24 EDT Eb wrote: << I guess it comes down to whether you think Disneyland (Disney World - ed) primarily should be a source of entertainment, or a museum. I believe that we stand on opposite sides of that question. >> Yeah, and I am just glad there there are more of us that are on my side of the line than on his. Still liking the Tiki Room, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and (don't even get me started on) the Carosel of Progress. Robert In a message dated 98-09-11 16:16:04 EDT, Eb wrote in full: << >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com > >I appreciate the Tiki Room and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea the same way I >appreciate a Victrola, the advent of the LP, the 8 track or the marvel of the >CD. >All of these things represent technology at their highest when they debuted. >Think about it. Can you imagine what the Tiki Room was like when it first >opened in the 1950. Audioanimatronics ! ! ! Wow. >Come on Eb, or any other skeptic out there, there is always some old, >nostalgic, antiquated, etc. thing out there that makes you smile because of >appreciation. I guess it comes down to whether you think Disneyland primarily should be a source of entertainment, or a museum. I believe that we stand on opposite sides of that question. >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) That Urinating Ride At Disney World I Love So Much Date: 11 Sep 1998 23:00:57 EDT Eb uses the term vestigial in the phrase - "Every submarine reeks of vestigial kiddie urine" What does this term have to do with urine on an amusement park ride? I always thought vestigial to mean "on the evolutionary path out". So Eb is saying that eventually that we will not have to urinate (at least if we are on a submarine and a "kiddie")? I am totally lost. Of course I specialize on the other end (eyes) so I don't really know what is going on with the "plumbing" end. Robert FYI: vestigial Definition: Refers to an organ or part (e.g., the human appendix) which is greatly reduced from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) On nostalgia Date: 11 Sep 1998 23:32:36 EST I think this whole thread started out from a comment about Disney intending to close down the Enchanted Tiki Room. Well, I would have liked to have visited the NY World's fair or for that matter Las Vegas in the days of its neon greatness. Ineviatbly things change and it's almost always a business decision that causes it, for better or worse. My contempt for Disney aside, I must admit that they are simply responding to what our culture seemingly demands, that being the expectation of something different all the time. Yeah sure we could petition them to rethink this but we all know how its going to unfold. I think it would be unrealistic to think they could freeze Disneyland exactly as it was in the 50's. But then again, they are playing on selective nostalgia in their construction of whatever they call their perfect American Town out in Florida. In fact all of these "new towns" are playing the same game and reacting to concerns with pollution, crowding, crime, etc. We all know you can't have it both ways (nothwithstanding Las Vegas' "New York-New York" complex does try to deliver just that, with a model "Paris" I believe now on the way) and this is nostalgia used as an escape and in my opinion the reasons are all wrong. We've seen this happen throughout history and the results are ineviatably never good. But turning to music, it is a combination of generational and attudinal values that seems to dictate taste. I think many would be surprised that generational generalizations are not what they would seem and I know many exceptions on this list, myself included. By all counts I should be squarely into "New Age" right now...hmmm... I won't delve into the socio-economic elements as I don't think this is a discussion anyone would want to take up. We've certainly witnessed on this list how the major record companies have attempted to profit from the interest in Exotica. At the very least, I can say that ReSearch Publications, the unofficial reporter (or should I say creator) of fads for the sub-culture is very much responsible for singlehandedly reviving the relatively widespread interest in this music, certainly this was my starting point. Let's just say that before I read I.S. Nusic, I could never have imaginred I would ever one day listen to one of my parents' Herb Alpert records and think it wasn't half bad! For me, when I begin to worry is if I'm buying nothing but those records I have on a set want list and I'm happy to say that is not at all the case today as I couldn't keep up! I'm now discovering a lot of old things I was simply never exposed to and I find this to be a very enjoyable discovery process at that. In this sense nostalgia viewed as a learning process is to me a good thing. Keep on listening! Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott Date: 12 Sep 1998 05:16:55 -0400 Or course I've heard the stuff Raymond Scott is famous for but what about all this other stuff that's being released? The reason I ask is because I picked up a record the other day: "Amor" by Raymond Scott and his Swinging Strings I searched the liner notes and came to the conclusion that it was indeed THE Raymond Scott I'm not complaining, it was 2 bucks and there's a half-naked blonde on the cover but it's pretty mediocre. It's not the worst record I own but then the worst record I own isn't by THE Raymond Scott. So when I read about these other releases do they sound more like this or more like that other stuff? All my heroes did all kinds of other records so I'm not surprised by this in principle but I liked it better when I thought that Raymond Scott was somehow forever working away on that same crazy shit of his. I'm not sure I've ever seen this label "Everest". Oh and the liner notes say : ... a friend had asked Raymond Scott "What can you do with this rock and roll so that adults don't hate it?" If this is rock and roll, then I'm Raymond Scott. (Oops I was supposed to keep that a secret. I'm really Randolph Scott.) Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Tiki Room Date: 12 Sep 1998 09:06:17 -0400 Lemme tell you, it's all nostalgia, but so fucking what? I really really liked the Tiki Room. It was great, the song was great, = the little birdies and flowers were great. I was a kid and I loved it = and I want to see it again. But then, Disneyland is completely about nostalgia. Right? So is = Boston. And San Francisco and Denver. Yellowstone and Yosemite and = Zion and Brice and Park City and Maine and Seattle. Sure, it's all = about nostalgia. I went there, I liked it, I want to go back. I can't see how you can write something off to nostalgia like it doesn't = matter. Any place or thing I've ever done that I enjoyed and would want = to go back and do again, that's nostalgia. So, yeah. In the meantime, what this means is next year or two years from now when = I take my kids to Disney World, they WON'T see the Tiki Room and they = WON'T see Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (the best ride in the park for God's = sake). Of course, they'll still be able to ride that lame "fly Eastern = Airlines" ride or the Mars Launch. What is that? What's next? Pirates = of the Carribean? Country Bear Jamboree? The Tea Cup rides? Jungle = Cruise? To me, these are more Disney than Mickey's playland or Toon Town, or = Discovery fucking Island. Why do they need to close these, anyway? It's not like people don't = like them, or they don't have the space. Maybe if they were going to put in a newer fangled Tiki room, or an = updated Mr. Toads. So, maybe I'm and oldie and full of nostalgia, but I really wanted to = share those with my kids. And now I'm not going to be able to. On the flip side, my parents used to NEVER take me on the sub ride. Too = dumb, they said. Trust us. But I just wanted to SEE. So one day when I was older, I tried it. Yeah, it was dumb. I couldn't remember anything actually... happening. = Maybe it was broken. Anyway, crushed, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Basta does it again Date: 12 Sep 1998 06:47:37 PDT Something to look forward to from Basta: The Theremin Project back to top As announced, Basta will release three classic theremin-titles: Music out of the Moon, Piece of Mind and Perfume set to Music. The first two titles are ready; we cleaned the masters at Q-Point studios in Hilversum and they sound far superior to the (bootleg) Request Records edition. We are now waiting for the third master to arrive at Basta HQ. When that one is here, it will be cleaned too and artwork will be finished. We will be going after some other Theremin-media, so we can offer the Complete Theremin Release. Any progress on this release will be published in this section. Release to be announced. Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc back to top Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc. - A Division of Raymond Scott Enterprises:This album will SHOCK the world. We are currently working at Vintage 71(studio) preparing this issue. As there is so much material, this will be a double cd filled with Electronium, jingles and ........... Soothing Sounds is great, MRI will ABSOLUTELY astonish everyone. Issue is being prepared by Gert Jan Blom (re-issue producer of Soothing Sounds, Delirium in Hifi, musician and leader of the Beau Hunks), Irwin Chusid (board director of RS-archives, research), Jeff Winner (www.RaymondScott.com and a great guy), Piet Schreuders (graphical co-ordination, research), Chuck Haddix (carefully preparing all materials at Marr Sound Archive) and Jeroen van der Schaaf (Basta Audio Visuals, central co-ordination point ). Anyone who wants to be informed on this release when ready, send an email to basta@xs4all.nl. Planned for release in November. http://www.basta.nl -- Magnus ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Belle Epoque Date: 12 Sep 1998 17:52:15 +0000 I just scored 100 singles from a German militaria-collector from the internet and among them was Bamalama b/w Taste Of Destruction by the disco group Belle Epoque. Super! I already owned their version of Black Is Black, but these two songs (actually two versions of the same song) are even better. A search in the net for the group only brought one little informed Russian(!) homepage. Does anybody know something about Belle Epoque? Like where are they from, what became of them etc. About Belle Epoque (as in that homepage) This group was founded on 1976. Group's staff is: Albert Weyman - keyboards Evelyne Lenton - vocal B.Cantarelli - guitar L.Ceroni - bass-guitar T.De Piscopo - drums G.Aghedo - drums Belle Epoque's manager is Prima Linea. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) The Tenth Victim! Date: 12 Sep 1998 09:55:04 -0700 The insanely rare and equally wonderful soundtrack, by Pierro Piccioni, originally issued on Mainstream, "The Tenth Victim" has just been reissued on both Double Vinyl, Gatefold Cover and CD! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! AS WELL AS PIERO UMILIANI "La Legge dei Gangsters" Unbelieveably great and even more rare than the "Tenth Victim" 1969 soundtrack for the crime movie with KLAUS KINSKY (who is also on the cover)...one of the best works from PIERO UMILIANI, plus the usual great Right Tempo artwork. Now, go find the Hellers, damn it! Disneyland is for entertainment, you....:^) Go Go Mingo! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mark Benton Reed Subject: Re: (exotica) Raymond Scott Date: 12 Sep 1998 14:12:01 -0400 I remember seeing the Everest label a lot in the 60's and 70's. If I correctly recall, it was primarily a reissue label that did classical, jazz, blues, folk, etc. In other words, they specialized in "serious" music. Mail order catalogues from Rose Records in Chicago use to have a lot of their stuff. Mark Reed Phenix City, AL Nat Kone wrote: > I'm not sure I've ever seen this label "Everest". > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Room Date: 12 Sep 1998 14:33:41 -0400 At 09:06 AM 12/09/98 -0400, Risser Family wrote: > >Lemme tell you, it's all nostalgia, but so fucking what? >But then, Disneyland is completely about nostalgia. Right? So is Boston. And San Francisco and Denver. >I can't see how you can write something off to nostalgia like it doesn't matter. Any place or thing I've ever done that I enjoyed and would want to go back and do again, that's nostalgia. I must have missed this Nostalgia thread when it came up but if it was in reference to anything Disney-related I guess I know why. I think the word "nostalgia" has a particular connotation and yeah, frankly I'd resent anyone calling any of my interests "nostalgic" unless they really were. I associate nostalgia with a feeling of "things were better back then". The whole idea of returning to simpler times and how the day before was always inherently simpler than today is. I guess I think that there's a difference between making a connection with the past and being nostalgic. I love old hillbilly music and country blues from the thirties and it's not just the fact that I wasn't alive that makes me think that my interest there isn't nostalgia. Yeah, I have fantasies about being around to hear this music when it was first made but I don't get all misty and hazey when I think about that. I know that things weren't exactly simpler back then especially for the musicians that made this particular music. If I went to Disneyland, I'm sure I'd remember going there with my parents in 1969 but I'd also remember how my friends across the street were heading out for Woodstock when I was getting in the cab with the family and heading for the airport. I'm trying to think of an interest of mine that I would call nostalgic. The kind of music we discuss here, I certainly heard when I was growing up but given how I dismissed and/or hated most of it at the time, I don't know if I could call that interest nostalgic. I bought the second Doors record and the first Blues Magoos album at a garage sale recently and I definitely reconnected with my past when I played them but it wasn't that great a feeling or one I'd actively seek all that often. I almost always want to hear something I've never heard before. Is thinking about your first girlfriend considered nostalgic? Oh let me tell you this story. Maybe it says something about nostalgia. I met this guy who is mostly into late 50's rock n roll, music which came out when he was a baby. He told me that he wished he had been born 15 years earlier - a statement which always makes me laugh - because then he could have bought those early doowop singles at the time they came out, instead of having to pay collector's prices for them now. I told him that was absurd and that if he had been born 15 years earlier he well might not have been into the music he's into now. He argued with me a bit more and then as if to prove his point, proved MY point by telling me that when all his friends in the late sixties were getting into the music of that time, that was when he really got into music of the previous decade. Then he told me that he in fact went to Woodstock - bringing this post full circle - but he was there only to see Sha na na. Did I tell that story already? I love that story, sorry if I have. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Nostalgia, etc. Date: 12 Sep 1998 14:36:15 -0400 Like any word, the meaning of nostalgia can be bent to many uses. As some have noted, it can be used as a snap dismissal of interest in "old" music. To the other extreme there is the idealized "good old days were the best" usage. And then there's more thoughtful, analytical nostalgia. Conversely, there's "blind fan" nostalgia. These two links provide a good comparison of these last two (I think you'll be able to tell which is which pretty easily): http://www.birdhouse.org/words/pagan/partridge.html http://www.ticnet.com/princess/part1.htm I think anyone on here who claims a zero nostalgic aspect to their interest is in denial. But I think we tend towards the more thoughtful variety. And our interest has a lot of other factors besides nostalgia. Forget generations -- natural, individual inclination probably counts for more. Me, I was _always_ drawn towards unusual music. When I was a tyke getting xylophone lessons, I was not excited at all by practicing tunes like "Jimmy Crack Corn". But I did stumble on the three note "Twilight Zone" pattern and would more or less mesmerize myself with it, varying the tempo for variety (faster! faster!). I try to approach music with a "time blind" approach. If I like it, I don't care when it's from. Unfortunately, so much contemporary music is a godawful boring rehash of a rehash of a rehash. And the old rule (to be broken) is that "the originator is always more interesting than the imitators." Sometimes music improves (or at least you get a fresh perception) once you let it age out of its original time. Sigue Sigue Sputnik's album has been sitting on my shelf for about 12 years (!) now, and I think it's almost ripe for a really fun listen. Not that it wasn't amusing originally, but I think it'll really be a hoot this time around. And then there's music that becomes totally uninteresting with age ("what was I thinking?"). Some of it may be a simple matter of technology. MO's remarks about handmade music were pretty apt, I think. I do admit that I am a bit of a pushover for older recordings (circa mid-60s and back) because it's much more likely that you're hearing a live performance in a real room, recorded on tube-based recording equipment. The area where illogical nostalgia can really get a hold on me is when I'm watching old movies. Sometimes, some little thing can really make me pine for the past, even though I know it doesn't add up. Escaping this noisy, mega-marketed, focus-grouped, conglomerate-controlled present is a very appealing thought sometimes. Perhaps some of this music offers such an escape. Hey, time is just another dimension. Just because we can't traverse it doesn't mean we have to let it bully us around. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Re: Lucio Battisti Date: 12 Sep 1998 20:58:34 +0100 Lucio Battisti's 'Ancora Tu' is so cool great soft tune, I play it and I see back again these moments near the coast of Galipoli =8A Nostalgia ! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 12 Sep 1998 20:58:41 +0100 Yes, do as Jack say if you can : Be there ! I've seen him and his new band performing last Mei in Bruxelles and it was so great and fun too =8A Jean Jacques a toujour la p=EAche = ! Have a pizza without tomatoes Jean Jacques '-) >Jean Jacques Perrey will be having a Live In-store Appearance on September >19th at the Groove Merchant on (lower) Haight St in San Francisco at 3pm. > >Be there! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Raymond Scott Date: 12 Sep 1998 15:07:26 -0400 > "Amor" by Raymond Scott and his Swinging Strings www.RaymondScott.com has this information in the discography: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Raymond Scott Orchestra Rock'n'Roll Symphony Everest SDBR-1007 1958 Summertime How High the Moon Orchids in the Moonlight Amor What Is This Thing Called Love Deep Purple Stardust True Love All the Things You Are La Cumparsita Somewhere Over the Rainbow What Is Your Heart (Song from Moulin Rouge) Raymond Scott & His Swinging Strings Amor (reissue of "Rock'n'Roll Symphony" - see above) Everest SDBR-1080 1960 Raymond Scott & His Romantic Strings Warm Rain (reissue of "Rock'n'Roll Symphony" - see above) Sunset SUS-5190 1968 [?] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jill Mingo Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? Date: 12 Sep 1998 15:45:30 -0600 > "old groovy clothes"? >i do not "dress up" for such events, >i just go, wearing what i feel comfortable in. >(when i am lucky enough not to be the DJ) >it just so happens that they are "old and groovy"! This was the point I was trying to make myself. Many people actually see the clothes as part of the whole thing. Which could be seen as a retro-nostalgia trip instead of it being about the music. That's why I have problems with the clothes thing - even though some of my clothes could be seen as being part of the whole "lounge" package, or whatever. >and if people go consciously "dressed up", i look at it as paying homage or wearing their "sunday best". paying homage is kinda like being on a nostalgia trip. >anyway i do not take such events that seriously as to worrying about offending their premise. i hope there is a "silly cliche" vibe to it as too defuse all >the ultra cool in-the-know hipsters that think it is so special. > >in the end it is all about enjoying sounds, old or new. Well, it is for me, but it isn't for lots of other people who consider themselves "into" this exotica thang. I certainly would not want to be a "silly cliche" in the eyes of some because it is the music that I am passionate about. Most of the time when I DJ, I quite often am wearing jeans and a sweatshirt. Only for guest appearances do I make more of an effort with my appearance. But there is a fine-line between showmanship and making a show of yourself. I think I'm on the right side of that line, but I definitely think the fashion side of the scene can make it look like a nostaglia trip on the surface. Jill "Mingo-go" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) What $1.20 buys Date: 12 Sep 1998 15:52:45 +0000 Not only did I find some records I have been searching for in the past year, but I got them for next to nothing. The funny thing is I would have paid a lot more for them if Django's (in Portland) thought better of it. Felix Slatkin Conducts Fantastic Percussion Liberty LST 7150. This is the one with "I Get a Kick Out of You" which is on several compilation CDs. In my view this entire album ought to be on CD. Top performances with arrangements by Bob Thompson and artists such as Shelly Manne and William Kraft. There is also a "hecklephone." Really! Now, I have never even seen this album, let alone at a price like 20 cents...but there you go. And the vinyl was as close to perfect as you can get. Django's puts a hideous stamp on the label which forever marks the record as "cheap" but I was able to remove the big "2" inscribed on the front cover with a felt tip marker. Very colorful cover. More Music from Peter Gunn Henry Mancini RCA LSP 2040 This seems to be one of the more difficult to find Mancini RCA records, but finally I ran across it. A 25 piece orchestra (more or less, changes slightly with each cut) of the top side men in Hollywood from 1959...including Pete Candoli, Paul Horn, Vic Feldman and Shelly Manne (yet again!). Mexican Joe Living Marimbas (Leo Addeo) RCA Camden CAS 2117 Not one of the top albums on my want list, it is nevertheless appreciated. This is not a band of only marimbas, but a stringless orchestra with marimbas playing the lead role. In addition to standards such as My Shawl, Green Eyes and Jungle Drums there are several Addeo originals. Obviously owing something to the Baja Marimba band and The Tijuana Brass genre, it has moments of its own. Beauty and The Beat Peggy Lee and The George Shearing Quintet (live at the 1959 Disc Jockey Convention) Capitol T 1219 This probably deserved to be in some sort of bargain bin because the vinyl looks a bit scratched...however it plays very nicely. I like the Peggy Lee cuts, but they aren't extraordinary. When the Quintet is joined by congaist Armando Peraza for "Mambo in Miami", well that's definitely worth 20 cents. Around the World in Hi-Fi Epic ES 1 This is a sampler from other Epic albums each titled "A Touch of ". Nothing to write home about, but yet another version of El Choclo. Theme Music from Tom Jones, Charade, Pink Panther Wyncote Orchestra Wyncote SW 9009 I didn't expect much, so I was pleased with at least one part: Pink Panther. The arrangement was delightfully spare and great in stereo with wordless vocals. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: the Tiki Room...and the Tinkle Room Date: 12 Sep 1998 18:32:14 -0700 >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com > >Eb wrote: ><< I guess it comes down to whether you think Disneyland (Disney World - ed) >primarily should be a source of entertainment, or a museum. > >Yeah, and I am just glad there there are more of us that are on my side of the >line than on his. On this small, idiosyncratic mailing list? Probably. However, the distribution of votes in the outside world is clearly different, otherwise Disney wouldn't be dumping the attraction. >Eb uses the term vestigial in the phrase - "Every submarine reeks of >vestigial kiddie urine" > >What does this term have to do with urine on an amusement park ride? I always >thought vestigial to mean "on the evolutionary path out". >FYI: vestigial >Definition: >Refers to an organ or part (e.g., the human appendix) which is greatly reduced >from the original ancestral form and is no longer functional. FYI, my unabridged dictionary's #1 definition of vestige: "a mark, trace or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence." Meanwhile, vestigial = "of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a vestige." I see no reason why the above term can't be applied to a lingering odor of kiddie whizz. Was this particular debate really necessary? Let's move on, Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Nostalgia, etc. Date: 12 Sep 1998 23:20:15 -0400 > Hey, time is just another dimension. Just because we can't traverse it doesn't > mean we have to let it bully us around. Clarifying what I meant by this (I hope)... Take whatever you want from WHENever you want and build your own combinations. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) Ferrante and Teicher Date: 13 Sep 1998 03:07:35 -0400 Ferrante and Teicher on my TV! Yahoo! On Bravo here last night, they showed an episode of a 1956 TV show called "Chrysler Festival" presented by Chrysler of Canada. And Ferrante and Teicher played two songs with prepared piano. On the first tune, they also hit the strings with all drumsticks that looked like chopsticks In between numbers, the hostess came in and commented on the unusual sound of their pianos, saying that she saw little bits of "dirty old paper", emory board and other things between the strings. One of them said that it could also be called "doctored piano" or a "gimmick piano" She asked them what they thought their professors at Juilliard would say about all that and one of them said "I think they're all dead". I didn't recognize the first song but the second one was "El Cumbanchero from their latest album Soundproof" (hey I got that one!). On that number, one of them got up partway through the song, came over and started pulling bits of stuff from between the other's piano strings. Then he sat down next to him and they played the same piano. Then they turned around and played another small piano-looking thing together till the end. A celeste? The other thing is that I thought they would be a couple of nerds but even though they were certainly looked a bit strange pulling little bits of paper out of the piano in the middle of the tune, they actually seemed kind of cool. Edith Piaf was also on the show by the way. But F and T on my TV, playing tunes from a record I own. I felt like a kid again seeing Steppenwolf on Ed Sullivan. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Nostalgia Date: 13 Sep 1998 12:28:19 +0000 > At the very least, I can say > that ReSearch Publications, the unofficial reporter (or should I say > creator) of fads for the sub-culture is very much responsible for > singlehandedly reviving the relatively widespread interest in this > music, certainly this was my starting point. > wrote Brian. Where did THEY get it from? When I dig into MY past and ask myself how I made this reinterpretation of the music that was originally just the music of the old generation (not of my parents though), two or three things come to my mind: 1. Listening to Jazz in the Mid 70s shure made me deal with the music of the past for the first time and not just listening to the up to date music of the present. But it was horrible. I didn't like it first. But I was fascinated by it, it seemed attractive to me being into something that would be disgusting for others. Here we have a clearly individual psychological reason. Once I was into Jazz, the motives changed of course, just like Frank had put it brillantly: > 1. This music is weird, I like it. > 2. This music is weird...and beautiful, I really like it. > 3. This music is beautiful, I love it. > 2. The Residents in 1979, i.e. their 3rd Reich'n'Roll album and the "Satisfaction" Single. To me they opened the possibility to hear music totally different in a new context. They shamelessly stated that the music of my childhood that I had totally identified with like everybody else "had brainwashed the youth of the world" etc. Let alone THEIR versions of the Top 40 radio of the 60s... 3. Punk, which was a lot nostalgic despite its rebellious attitude. You would identify with a music culture of the past, the REAL Rock'n'Roll, the 50s, and think it was a step ahead at the same time. When I let these memories pass before my inner eye it seems only natural that I would be able to listen to any kind of music without restrictions of any kind one day, see all music as equal, and not be ashamed of liking or disliking anything. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: Re:(exotica) new release dates Date: 13 Sep 1998 12:41:59 +0200 Lou: Here's a few upcoming releases. Anyone know any others of which we should be aware? >Aug. 11 >Varttina: Vihma (Wicklow-BMG) Finnish vocal female fourpiece. Their first albums from the end of the 80s remind me very much of the Voix Bulgares with musical backing. Good uplifting stuff, when I have their tape on the walkman on the bus to work I would surely turn up in excellent spirits! Their nineties albums are more poppy and less traditional with every album. Still glorious vocals. The release above is the new one with has some Tuvan Singers as special guests. Haven't heard it yet but should be fine. Speaking of Finnish bands, Aavikko (on Bad Vugum records) is also a one to watch in the fringelounge category. They are an instrumental trio consisting of a drummer and two electronic organ players. The s/t mini-album from two years ago was already fine but their recent "Derek!" CD is also excellent. Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, September 13 Date: 13 Sep 1998 09:57:32 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is 1 hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada. Comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #15 - Cowboys And Robots Lars Hollmer: Starlep Signs "Vill du hora mer" Swedish cowboy music - sort of - unlike anything else we've ever heard! Arling, Cameron And Swarte: Cowboy Ska "Sound Shopping" A great CD, all the tracks are quite different in style. They have influences from all over the place, and it's a lot of fun to listen to. Martin Rev: Red Sierra "Cheyenne" Martin Rev evolved from Suicide to western-influenced electronica. Go figure... The Residents: Dear Brother; Pictures Of Life's Other Side; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (The Hank Williams Death And Despair Trilogy In Waltz Time) "Daydream B Liver" Hank Williams as only The Residents can do him! And in waltz time, yet. Friends Of Dean Martinez: The Shadow Of Your Smile "The Shadow Of Your Smile" Better than the original. Joe Meek & The Blue Men: March Of The Dribcots "I Hear A New World" This man was truly a visionary. This album, almost 40 years later, is still waaaay ahead of its time. Perrey & Kingsley: Spooks In Space "The Essential..." What would a show on robot music be without P & K? Stock, Hausen & Walkman: Chocky "Dummy Run" Electronic fun from Stock, Hausen & Walkman. Sukia: Mr. Robot "Contacto Espacial Con El Tercer Sexo" One of our favourite new releases of 1996. 101 Strings: A Disappointed Love With A Desensitized Robot "Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000" The former closing theme from The Single Eye. While 101 Strings did lots of really cheesy stuff, this album stands out as radically different. Kraftwerk: The Robots "The Man Machine" Der Plan: Robot-Bolero "Normalette Surprise" Arling, Cameron And Swarte: Tokyo Taxi Robot "Sound Shopping" Both Kraftwerk & Der Plan have been mentioned as being influences on this Arling, Cameron & Swarte track. It's interesting to listen to all three of them together. And we never miss a chance to play a Der Plan track on the show! cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Jack Hylton etc. Date: 13 Sep 1998 09:39:19 PDT I'm wondering if anybody else appreciate and listens to Rudy Vallee, jack Hylton, Carroll Gibbons and similar 30s and 40s dance/entertainment music. I have periods when i listen to that stuff alot on my 78 rpm player (I'm not interested in getting LPs or CDs with it, cheap 78s is perfect). Some of Jack Hyltons work would I classify as I.S.M. If you want to try him out here's an advice, the stranger the title the better. You cant go wrong with these: "When my little Pommeranian met your little Pekinese", "The wedding of the garden insects", "I lift up my finger and say tweet tweet". Silly lyrics sung in a good mood. I love it! I think he was from England. Maybe a part of my interest in this comes from watching the TV serial "The singing Detective" in the 80s. So... does anyone share my secret love? -- Magnus -- Tiki Island: http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-35644/bellybongo/ Misc Masc: http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-35644/bellybongo/miscmasc/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Blazerfan" Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #207 Date: 12 Sep 1998 19:07:55 -0700 << Being English, the Polynesia thing had passed me by, I have no cultural baggage whatsoever for Tiki rooms, and so I was going to skip it. It looked faintly tatty. Old, and not really very interesting, but, I thought 'what the hell'. It was a revelation. Genuinely charming. I felt like a child. It was wonderful, the clacking of the mouths and moving parts was quaint I suppose >> This is heartbreaking to hear this about one of my favorite,if not top favorite things at Disneyland. I am 50,and was there on opening day at Disneyland.I was wearing my Annie Oakley dress,my Davy Crockett boots,and fell in love with Disneyland that day and it lasted til all the commercialism came in. Listen...English..that was state of the art and an extremely popular spot !! Why do we throw out the good stuff,just cuz it's not the very latest or greatest? This makes me sick to lose this..I can shut my eyes and picture this place,music and those little bobbing heads and the Dole signs..etc.. I will pay any price to anyone who can sell me or make me a copy to the soundtrack... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Danger: Diabolik Date: 13 Sep 1998 14:31:14 -0400 Apparently, the movie "Danger: Diabolik" (1968) is freshly available on Paramount Home Video. Unfortunately, in "pan & scan" format and EP recording speed. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Nostalgia Date: 13 Sep 1998 14:32:15 -0400 > When I let these memories pass before my inner eye it seems only natural > that I would be able to listen to any kind of music without restrictions > of any kind one day, see all music as equal, and not be ashamed of > liking or disliking anything. Yes! Well put. For me, that's the core lesson of this whole exotica / eclectica experience. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: 'Cool and Strange Music magazine' Date: 13 Sep 1998 14:51:13 +0200 >From: Reader Geoff >Also does anyone know if the 'Coll and Strange Music magazine' can be found >in the UK? It looks interesting. just subscribe, it's well worth it! Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bacharach/Costello at Radio City Date: 13 Sep 1998 16:53:00 -0400 (EDT) Full page ad in today's NYTimes: Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach together in concert Performing new songs from "Painted From Memory" and others. Album available Sept. 29 Only area appearance. Radio City Music Hall Oct. 13 8PM On sale Monday at 9 AM Ticketmaster (212) 307-7171 (516) 888-9000 (914) 454-3388 (201) 507-8900 Also, on Oct 17 8PM Tony Bennett w/ Count Basie Orchestra with Squirell Nut Zippers Good luck, ticket hounds! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) What's an x-Coconut to do? Date: 13 Sep 1998 17:05:41 -0400 (EDT) Not long ago we were talking about Kid Creole & The Coconuts. If you care to see what Shelley Michelle, one of the Coconuts, is doing now (and you *do* want to), head over to: Over 18 only, please. -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Touch of Evil (Retouched) Date: 13 Sep 1998 19:43:28 EDT While watching "Sex On South Beach" on E-Channel today I saw a short feature about the re-release of the Orson Welles classic "Touch of Evil" which was Henry Mancini's first foray into the world of the soundtrack. The feature promises that much of the 1958 film's original "intent" has been restored to the picture that Universal Films allegedly sanitized for the time it was released. it wasn't clear if this is "lost" footage or what all was involved except they DID say that technology unavailable back then has given the film "new credibility" They called it the greatest all time "B" movie..........Jimmy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David J. Strauss" Subject: (exotica) Pocket Theremin Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:40:15 -0400 (EDT) The current issue of The Face has a short piece on a new pocket Theremin for 99 pounds. anyone know anything about this? DS djs2852@is.nyu.edu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: Re: (exotica) Bacharach/Costello at Radio City Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:53:39 -0400 I heard the Costello/Bacharach album, and I have to say that I was very disappointed. I love Bacharach, and this felt more like a Costello side-project (he sings) than anything else. It's very dirgey, ponderous. Everything is similar to their first collaboration ("God Give Me Strength," on the Grace of my Heart soundtrack) except not as good. I'll give it another spin, but the first impression was far from positive. Elisabeth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Christmas in September Date: 13 Sep 1998 19:19:03 +0000 Found a pretty good Christmas album today...not as good as the Three Suns' "Ding Dong Daddy Christmas" LP, but way better than most holiday offerings. Winter Wonderland The Mexicali Brass Crown CST 545 This is more an album celebrating the fun part of winter weather and really has nothing to do with Christmas (maybe this is why I like it) other than this music often gets played around the same time: Sleigh Ride, Singing Sleigh Bells, Winter Carnival, etc. There is a little bit of Tijuana Brass sound here, but it is not complete knock off: the music stands on its own. I can't help think there is some signifigance to the cover photograph of an attractive woman with blond hair behind a pair of Head skies. Oh, did I mention The Three Suns? I found yet another of their albums I had not seen yet (which is unusual because I have *a lot* of their LPs...just how many did they do?). Having A Ball With The Three Suns The Three Suns RCA LPM 1734 Six of the 10 cuts are the kind of medleys that The Three Suns are known for: They weave the brightest parts of each of four songs together for about three minutes of fun. Also four singletons including the Walter Winchell Rumba. Nancy Walker I Hate Men RCA Camden CAS 561 This is great fun! If you like the Katie Lee Lps, you'll like this. Also, if you like Sid Bass, this is also for you because he does the music...and not just your standard backing but with percussive and other effects which add to the humor of the tunes. Great cover shot of Nancy Walker with three male dolls...one decapitated, another with a noose around its neck and the third being stuck with pins. All the tunes are Broadway gems where *MEN* are ridiculed (and rightly so). Two Sides of Winterhalter Hugo Winterhalter RCA LSP 1905 I didn't even bother listening to the serious side (the one associated with the picture of Hugo on the left side of the cover where he is holding a conductors baton and wearing a black suit, white shirt and bow tie). However, the side two is much better than the standard Winterhalter. Pretty jazzy and full of swing, even a little percussive stuff going on (especially for All of You and I Still Get A Thrill). 1959. By the way, have you noticed 1959 was a particularly good year for alot of things, including music? :) This following album, then, must *NOT* have been recorded in 1959. Organ Favorites The Dream Dusters featuring "Kenny" at the Hammond Valiant V 4909 Any album by a "Kenny" sounds suspicious to me (exceptions: "Kenny" Ball and "Kenny" Burrell). I really got it for versions of El Choclo and Song of India which are usually good no matter who does it. This album was the not the norm. Stereo Dialogue For Brass The Stereo Brass Choir (Lew Davies) Columbia CS 8290 Not too long ago I found the mono version of this album and liked it, but I wasn't completely into it. It is amazing how different the stereo version sounds! This is definitely a fine album. It is no wonder that Lew Davies name was no where to be found on the mono version...he probably thought a mono mix was as useful as those mono versions of Stereo Action LP's and didn't want his name associated with it. The album proudly proclaims that it is "the most enjoyable musical event in stereo history." Well, it is certainly one of the most enjoyable. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: Re: (exotica) Touch of Evil (Retouched) Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:13:17 -0700 They called it the greatest all time "B" movie...... No doubt about that, man http://www.jackdiamond.to http://www.jackdiamond.to/Touch_of_Evil.jpg http://www.jackdiamond.to/Wild_Side.jpg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kevin William Greenlee Subject: Re: (exotica) Christmas in September Date: 13 Sep 1998 22:42:08 -0500 (EST) Speaking of the Three Suns, at a Goodwill today I came across a two record compilation of their work called "This is the Three Suns." It's a great collection of music, of course, but the real treat for me were the liner notes by Marty Gold. They're full of tidbits like "The diversion of food was always considered necessary to relieve the tensions of a recording session." It is also mentioned that "Artie Dunn, the organist, also sang." Does this mean the vocalist that appears on som eof my Three Suns records is Artie Dunn? Did everyone but me already know this? I also found "The Three Suns:16 Greatest Hits" on the Musicor label. The lineup of the group here is different from that on any of the other many Suns records I have; this group is Morty Nevins, Vinnie Bell and Fred Mendelsohn. The record is entertaining in its own right but it lacks the charm of the work of the original Suns. I also came across today a copy of "Rock 'n' Roll with Scatman Crothers" but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet... Kevin Greenlee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Playlist 8-23-98 Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:58:56 -0700 KFJC play list 8/23/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM The Planets Chunky Gerry Mulligan and Four and 1 Moore 1958 The Sax Section W/ Al Cohn-Bari 1ST Solo G Mulligan-Bari 2ND Bari Solo Zoot Sims-Tenor 2ND Solo Perry & the Harmonics James Goes to Mercury Soulsville Vic Mizzy Madame Lavinia Don't Make Waves Ost Tak Shindo Summer Festival Ennio Morricone Suspance and Murder Lo Squatatore In New York, Ost Rod Mckuen The Yellow Unicorn Phil Upchurch Electrik Head 1969 Wiseblood Grease Nipples Bruno Nicholai Spy Chase Waits, Tom Frank's Wild Years Swordfishtrombones Joe Byrd and the You Can't Come Down Metaphysical Circus Field Hippies Phil Moore Night Bloomin' N.Y. Sweet Trashmen Acme Rocket Quartet The National Anthem Ultra-High-Frequency The Hogs Blues Theme Lesiman Telescrivente Future Sound of Lesiman The Poor Skip to My Mary Jane Lewis, Johnny Quartet Cissy Strut Shuckin' N' Jivin' Pete Rugolo Orch Mister Cleeeeeeean Les Baxter Cult Party Dunwich Horror Perrey, Jean An Elephant on the Jacques/Chazam,D. Roof Eklectronics, 1998 LP Kenneth Patchen Glory, Glory 1959, Folkways Bruce Haack Electric to Me Turn Hush Little Robot Burt Bacharach After the Fox Instrumental Goldsmith, Jerry Lost in Space In Like Flint/Our Man Flint Zoot Sims Qrt Our Pad (A.K.A. Dawn, Mid 50'S Kfjc-Fm) W/ Bob Brookmeyer Gus Johnson John Williams Dick Jacobs Orch. This Island Earth Coral Ken Nordine Bury-It-Yourself Time Capsules Anytime, Anytime Andre' Montero W/ The Red Sands of Mars Music for Paul Tanner; Heavenly Bodies Electro Theremin Klaus Hashagen Mobile Szenen 1 1966 Percussion and Elektronik Cristopher Komeda Expectancy Rosemary's Baby Booker Little and November Afternoon Donald Byrd-Trumpets W/ Addison Farmer-Bass Bill Evans-Piano Earl Zindars-Perc. Jean Jacques Perrey Saturn Ski Jump Machito Afro-Cubans Cancion Antigua Clef Records W/ Flip Phillips-Tnr Early 50'S Charlie Parker-Alto Buddy Rich-Drums Alberto Baldan Bembo Ore 4, Ore 6, Ore Easy Tempo 10... Johnny Spots! Johnny Spots!! Johnny Spots!!! Giorgio Moroder Pop Corn Contour Label, U.K. Electronics Only No Music, Just Electronics From Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space with Sounds! Ennio Morricone La Lucertola Pete Rugolo Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM, Since Jan. 1993 Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RoTone@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Hi-Fis and Hi-Balls book Date: 14 Sep 1998 01:34:55 EDT sorry if this has been discussed and if it's slightly off-topic, BUT- has anyone bought or looked over this book (Hi-Fi's and Hi-Balls)? I saw it being offered on the Rhino website and was curious. It purports to be a guide to the Space Age Bachelor lifestyle. Thanks Jon # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Victrola Date: 14 Sep 1998 08:56:33 +0100 On the 11th September Robert wrote 'P.S I was listening to this CD tonight in my workshop while refinishing a newly acquired Victrola. And yes, my wife is a little pissed. Like I need another one. But this one . . . . oh, well -- more later.' So what the hell is a Victrola anyway? This isn't the first time someone has referred to these. Il Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Pocket Theremin Date: 14 Sep 1998 09:43:20 +0100 I saw Add N to X on stage recently using a handheld Theremin. Its about the size of a CB-style walkie talkie. The sound is not pleasant - instead of a warm, thick, vocal sound, it produces a thin squeal - It definately responds to hand movements but the effect is like turning a pitch control up and down on a smoke alarm - nasty. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Aaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If you need a Theremin, join the Theremin mailing list, buy a kit and build it yourself. I don't think they're expensive and I know that they sound alright. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) Celeste Date: 14 Sep 1998 09:45:52 +0100 Somebody on this list, and my mother and a friend of mine have all mentioned an old, smaller than usual piano called a Celeste. Does anybody know more details? Is this a Fender Rhodes Celeste? or is it something else? Thanks all Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: (exotica) The Italian Job Date: 14 Sep 1998 10:36:00 +0100 I just picked up the reissue of The Italian Job this weekend - It must = be a bootleg because the cover art is woeful and the pressing is bad and the= label looks like shit and there's no record label information. Need I g= o on? Whoever is responsible for this should have done a better job, but = I'm still happy with it. Excellent football inspired nationalist lad-song w= hich seems to dis those hilariously crap Europeans and their amusing antics = as they try to keep up with us Brits. La la la la la la. This is the self preservation society, etc. etc. Get your skates on mate!, etc etc. Please god let Get Carter be a proper reissue when it arrives on the 21= st September. Also I just got 'I got the feeling' by Dave Pike - a European jazz clas= sic reissued on the original label. Not really my cup of tea, but good funk= y, xylophone and vibes jazz. I seem to remember a record dealer offering =A3= 150 for this so its nice to see it out for more of us to enjoy. Charlie = # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Celeste Date: 14 Sep 1998 06:20:16 EDT a celeste is a set of chimes with a keyboard attached. as i recall(i haven't played one in 15 years), it looks much like an upright piano, and works more or less like an electric piano, but it sounds very different. (for one thing, it's acoustic) fender/rhodes might have made one, i wouldn't be surprised you can hear it in a lot of christmas music and '70s soul ballads. it sounds gorgeous. dave g # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Buzzimba pics Date: 14 Sep 1998 03:33:57 PDT I need pictures of a Buzzimba, if someone have any, or know where to find some, please e-mail me. I think i have a half Buzzimba on a picture, but thats not enough, i need to see it in its full beauty. -- Magnus ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) question Date: 14 Sep 1998 06:34:32 EDT In a message dated 9/9/98 8:16:43 PM, Jeff wrote: << Does anyone know who played the eastern background music to the Butthole Surfers "Kuntz"? A very twisted exotic tune. Did the Surfers lift it?, or did Gibby somehow learn eastern scales for the song?>> They lifted it. it sounds Vietnamese or Thai to me. -Dave G # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Jack Hylton and His Ros is my gain! Date: 14 Sep 1998 09:02:43 -0400 >I'm wondering if anybody else appreciate and listens to Rudy Vallee, >jack Hylton, Carroll Gibbons and similar 30s and 40s dance/entertainment >music. Can't EXACTLY say that I am, although being a Goon Show fan, I can say that they used Hylton's "Just Like a Thief" on numerous occasions. I also am a fan of "Butterflies in the Rain" by ? (Ian Whitcomb used this as one of his Desert Island Discs) and from a "My Music" show, I have a snippet of what I am told is a rare thing; Henry Hall, a well-known compere', singing. Brian Phillips P.S. Someone uploaded an Edmundo Ros show on the oldtime radio newsgroup! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) FEMINIST THEORY AND MUSIC 4 Date: 14 Sep 1998 09:49:40 -0500 Web searches are goofy things. There I am searching mamma.com for "buzzimba" and this URL pops towards the top. -Lou FEMINIST THEORY AND MUSIC 4 Session 13 Depictions of Gender 2: the 50s and 60s "Ces nymphes, je les veux perpetuer:" Pastoral Predicaments in Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music Rebecca Leydon, SUNY Stony Brook The music of Juan Garcia Esquivel has become emblematic of a genre recently identified as "space-age bachelor pad music," the "instrumental pop" of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Exotic and futuristic instruments, dazzling stereo effects, textless vocalise, Klangfarbenmelodie, and an array of colorful timbral resources are all prominent characteristics of Esquivel's arrangements. This paper situates Esquivel's music within the venerable tradition of the Pastoral mode, a specialized narrative mode met in certain literary and musical works. After a brief account of the role of this Pastoral mode in instrumental music, I focus on what is perhaps the most famous of Pastoral orchestral works, Debussy's Pre'lude `a l'apres-midi d'un faune. Apart from its association with Mallarme''s explicitly Pastoral poem--one which features the classic Pastoral personae of Faune and Nymphs, there are numerous musical features that identify this work as Pastoral: aspects of timbre and melodic contour, a preponderance of "slithery" sounds such as tremolo, trills, glissandi, chromatic melodies, and, especially, an over-abundance of motivic material. The steady parade of new themes, with little repetition, and the rapidly-changing orchestral colors impart a hedonistic atmosphere, consistent with the "fantasy of plenitude" associated with the literary Pastoral. Esquivel's music, I claim, represents a transposition of this bucolic style, in which Debussy's ephemeral sounds of the flute and harp are transformed into their space-age counterparts: theremin, vibraphone, buzzimba, and the "zu-zu-zu" of the Randy Van Horne Singers. In place of Faune and Nymphs are suave bachelors and their dates. Esquivel's music thus reconstitutes the particular erotic configurations of classic Pastoral. Along with selected musical examples, my presentation includes advertisements and cartoons from the early-1960s issues of Playboy magazine which illustrate contemporary representations of the "leisurely bachelor." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Rebecca Leydon Date: 14 Sep 1998 10:04:20 -0500 Further searches on Rebecca Leydon and her SABP address turned up the following. Is there anyone at McGill or SUNY Stony Brook who can track her down and have her post her address here? Or put it up on the web so we can all read it that way? -Lou > >FEMINIST THEORY AND MUSIC 4=20 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >Session 13 Depictions of Gender 2: the 50s and 60s=20 >Rebecca Leydon, SUNY Stony Brook=20 McGill Symposium The 1997 symposium took place in Montr=E9al February 15-16 with participants from seven universities across North America presenting papers. Topics ranged from theoretical concerns in the music of Morton Feldman and Claude Vivier to Stravinsky and French Copyright Laws and the negotiation of power in Canadian music competitions. The keynote address, "Pastoral Predicaments in Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music," was delivered by McGill alumnus Rebecca Leydon, who is presently teaching at SUNY Stony Brook. A great time was had by all at the ritual potluck soir=E9e which took place on the Saturday= night. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Hylton etc. Date: 14 Sep 1998 15:30:29 +0100 > From: "Magnus Sandberg" > > I'm wondering if anybody else appreciate and listens to Rudy Vallee, > jack Hylton, Carroll Gibbons and similar 30s and 40s dance/entertainment > music. I have periods when i listen to that stuff alot on my 78 rpm > player (I'm not interested in getting LPs or CDs with it, cheap 78s is > perfect). Some of Jack Hyltons work would I classify as I.S.M. If you > want to try him out here's an advice, the stranger the title the better. > You cant go wrong with these: "When my little Pommeranian met your > little Pekinese", "The wedding of the garden insects", "I lift up my > finger and say tweet tweet". Silly lyrics sung in a good mood. I love > it! Yes, I do, and I particularly appreciate the novelty songs of the era. For example, "My Brother Does The Noises For The Talkies" by Jack Payne [I think], is excellent: the majority of the song is a kind of cheesy cinema-cliche story punctuated by inappropriate sound effects. Superb! (and totally different from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band version that some people may be familiar with). I really like tracks like "Keep Young and Beautiful" and "Everything Stops For Tea" by Roy Fox -- I can imagine the singer polishing up his monocle, swilling champagne, and taking a puff via a 7" cigarette holder before firing off his toffee-edged vocals. Mostly I have LP compliations of this kind of music, and I can't always remember the names of the band leaders. It seems that no one else wants it -- I picked up 30-odd albums of this type at a car boot sale for 2 pounds! I really recommend a BBC Records comilation called "Silly Songs" which has UK and US oddities such as "Everything Is Fresh Today" (raspberries galore), "When It's Night Time In Italy, It's Tuesday Over Here", "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes" and "I Do Not Choose To Run". It was issued late 80s on vinyl and CD, I think (and was one of a series issuing music from the era of 78s that was digitally cleaned up to remove crackle). > I think he was from England. Yes, he was. I believe Hylton went on to become a big impresario in the post-War years. Could probably dig more details up from liner notes... > Maybe a part of my interest in this comes from watching the TV serial > "The singing Detective" in the 80s. Yes! Soundtrack to that is great, as is that of "Pennies From Heaven". -- Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) Celeste Date: 14 Sep 1998 15:36:08 +0100 > Somebody on this list, and my mother and a friend of mine have all > mentioned an old, smaller than usual piano called a Celeste. Does anybody > know more details? Is this a Fender Rhodes Celeste? or is it something > else? > It's an acoustic instrument, which has a keyboard. It is much smaller than a piano, and the hammers do not hit strings, but metal bars suspended in a frame; it produces high pitches which have a different timbre to that of a piano. -- Pete. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Rebecca Leydon Pt.2 Date: 14 Sep 1998 10:34:48 -0500 At 10:04 AM 9/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >Further searches on Rebecca Leydon and her SABP address turned up the >following. Is there anyone at McGill or SUNY Stony Brook who can track her >down and have her post her address here? >-Lou McGill/SUNY-SB folks can ignore the above. Further searching has turned up the following: Rebecca Leydon will join the Oberlin faculty beginning in the fall of 1998. A more complete biography will be posted in the near future. So, anyone here from Oberlin want to track her down? -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #207 Date: 14 Sep 1998 12:20:04 +0000 Blazerfan wrote: > I will pay any price to anyone who can sell me or make me a copy to the (Tiki > Room-) soundtrack... 10.000 US $ and it's yours! No! Just kidding... your devotion to the Tiki room requires free treatment. I will send it to you. Just give me your adress! MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Reader Geoff Subject: RE: (exotica) Victrola Date: 14 Sep 1998 17:12:06 +0100 Hmmm, we always called them wind-up gramaphones. Well, they say a shared language can be a great divider. I was just imagining something more....more exotic, I suppose. Il Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm > ---------- > From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com[SMTP:Rcbrooksod@aol.com] > Sent: 14 September 1998 17:05 > To: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk > Subject: Re: (exotica) Victrola > > In a message dated 98-09-14 03:57:49 EDT, you write: > > << So what the hell is a Victrola anyway? This isn't the first time > someone > has referred to these. >> > > A Victrola is a wind up record player from the 19 teens to the 1930's. > Victor > was the company that made "Victrolas" but all wind up are called Victrola. > Later, RCA (Radio Corporation of America) and Victor merged to form RCV- > Victor. > > Surely you have seen these things in antique shops. They play 78 records. > > Let me know if this sounds famaliar. > > Robert > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Pocket Theremin Date: 14 Sep 1998 18:42:01 +0200 (MET DST) Charles Mosley wrote: >I saw Add N to X on stage recently using a handheld Theremin. Its about the >size of a CB-style walkie talkie. The sound is not pleasant - instead of a >warm, thick, vocal sound, it produces a thin squeal - It definately >responds to hand movements but the effect is like turning a pitch control >up and down on a smoke alarm - nasty. I guess they couldn't handle it right. I have a Longwave Pocket Theremin which sounds beautiful. The internal speaker is weak but if you plug it in to a amplifier you got you get a real nice warm, thick sound. It has one antenna for and a pitch control. If you want to adjust the volume you can use a volume pedal. I've just this set up live several times and it works perfect. Didn't use it when I did my Theremin concert for the King & Queen of Sweden though. I used an Etherwave. Unfortunatly Longwave Instruments are now out of business. Stefan Stefan/Subliminal Sounds web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Subliminal Sounds Brannkyrkagatan 112 SE-117 28 STOCKHOLM SWEDEN fax/phone: +46 - 8 84 56 66 "Attilio Mineo Conducts Man in Space With Sounds" Now on CD! http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm European Wholesale Distribution/Retail Sales Stefan Kery/Subliminal Sounds Stefan@subliminal.se Fax/Phone +46 8 694 86 66 web-site: http://home6.swipnet.se/~w-64169/ e-mail: stefan@subliminal.se Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, CA) Wholesale Distribution in the US: NAIL Distribution 1-888-Nail-Inc (Toll Free) http://www.bubblator@naildistribution.com/ OR Wholesale/Retail Sales: Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Fax/Phone (650) 325-2284 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Hylton etc. Date: 14 Sep 1998 09:43:19 PDT -- Yes, I do, and I particularly appreciate the novelty songs of the era. For example, "My Brother Does The Noises For The Talkies" by Jack Payne [I think], is excellent: the majority of the song is a kind of cheesy cinema-cliche story punctuated by inappropriate sound effects. Superb! (and totally different from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band version that some people may be familiar with). I really like tracks like "Keep Young and Beautiful" and "Everything Stops For Tea" by Roy Fox -- I can imagine the singer polishing up his monocle, swilling champagne, and taking a puff via a 7" cigarette holder before firing off his toffee-edged vocals. -- I will look for these. One of the good things about this interest is that when you find something, you wont have to put up a lot of money for it, and thats nice for a change... I have some Roy Fox, but i think those are a little more jazzy in style. -- "When It's Night Time In Italy, It's Tuesday Over Here", "My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes" -- Thats the kind of titles i like! Happy to hear I'm not alone :) Magnus ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: new release dates Date: 13 Sep 1998 20:00:23 +0200 At 04:56 -0600 98/09/11, Lou Smith : >new release dates: >Varttina: Vihma (Wicklow-BMG) >Tom Ze: Com Defeito De Fabricacao (Fabrication Defect) (Luaka Bop) >Wagon Christ(aka Luke Vibert): Tally Ho! (Astralwerks) before adding these to the "eXotica Releases Overview", i'd like to know a bit more about these artists, as i've never heard about them before. can someone - in short - describe them please? is this "world" music? Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) This week on The Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 14 Sep 1998 13:36:10 +0000 This week on The Retro Cocktail Hour - a preview of "MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide to Martini Music and Easy Listening". We'll talk with "MusicHound Lounge" editor Steve Knopper and sample tracks from the Ultra-Lounge sampler which accompanies the book. Also this week, Marty Manning and music from "The Twilight Zone", Les Baxter's "Music Out of the Moon" and more. Plus, listeners to the webcast can enter our weeklong giveaway and win a free copy of "MusicHound Lounge" and the Ultra-Lounge CD. Winners to be announced on September 21. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web, just go to: http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kanufm/public_html/retro.html Requires RealPlayer 5.0 or G2 and at least a 28.8 Internet connection. Enjoy! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 dbrogdon@ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/kanufm/public_html/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" Subject: (exotica) Exotica Auction Date: 14 Sep 1998 12:13:20 +0000 Tomorrow is the last day of my electronica/exotica auction. Features moog lps by Mort Garson, Dick Hyman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Hayman, Don Sebesky. Also Esquivel's first US EP, space records by Leonard Nimoy & Sid Bass (what a cover!), a Petty Girl cover, a Raymond Scott lp, and some other treasures. All covers have been scanned for your viewing pleasure! http://www.worldwidewax.com/ex/ Tim Barron World Wide Wax - Your source for classic vinyl Over 5,000 lps for sale & 600 scanned covers at: http://www.worldwidewax.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott/R&R Symphony Date: 14 Sep 1998 16:31:14 -0500 In reference to recent comments about RS's RnRS, here's Jeff Winner's comments (JW is webmaster of the RS Archives website): Return-Path: I hope IC sends the official RSA opinion on this LP to the list, but for now just lemme say this: The RS LP issued under 3 titles: 'Amore,' 'Rock And Roll Symphony,' & 'Warn Rain,' basically sucks. It is the only RS LP that is this boring. It's very, very easy listening. No, Basta is not going to release it. No one is. Basta is only releasing the good stuff. -Jeff # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen? Date: 14 Sep 1998 18:58:13 -0400 Does anybody know anything about Lorraine Bowen and/or the Lorraine Bowen Experience? A friend taped me a song by them called, I think, "I'm in Love with Julie Christie". Ms. Bowen is also a guest on the new Fantastic Plastic Machine album I believe. Any leads would be appreciated. Elisabeth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" Playlist for 16 Sep 98 Date: 14 Sep 1998 18:59:27 -0400 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday at 9 to 11 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada Arthur Lyman: Watermelon Man "Sonic Sixties" - this cd, along with the compilations "Music for the Jet Set" & "In a Cocktail Mood" have been repackaged as a budget box set called Hifi Daze/Cocktail Nights". Martin Denny: Stranger in Paradise "Quiet Village" Robert Drasnin: Chant of the Moon "Voodoo!" - the exotica classic The Surfmen: Orchid Lagoon "Hawaii" - from the lp released by Somerset Records. "The Surfmen play a program of favorites from our fiftieth and most beautiful State...". The Ensemble of Seven: Taboo "Exotic Fantasies" - from the 10" ep which also features two version of "Quiet Village" & one of "Caravan". Does anyone know if creator Larry Seven ever released anything else? The Gentle People: Tiki Mix "Soundtracks for Living" Neotropic: Vacetious Blooms "Ninja Cuts: Funkungfusion" - another question from me: does anyone know the easy listening source samples for this track? Burt Bacharach: Reach Out for Me "Reach Out" Mono: Disney Town "Formica Blues" - a modern version of sixties girlie-pop...or at least it seems to my ears. Especially after listening to their song "High Life" which reminds of Petula Clark's "Downtown". Dimitri from Paris: Nothing to Lose "Sacrebleu" Bob Crewe: Pygar's Persecution/The Black Queen's Beads "The Hascisch Party!" The Vampires Sound Incorporation: The Lions & the Cucumber "Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party" Black Mighty Wax: Blue Mambo "The Sound of Infinity - trip hop from outer space" - a new comp on Irma America Records. Nice smooth tracks, not particularly out of this world tho'. Massive Attack: Blue Lines "Blue Lines" Soundscape UK: Beatbox "Trip Hop & Jazz 4" Hooverphonic: Cinderella " A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular" Kvantett O Jonson & Grjoni: Howlin'wolfguitargrowl "Karnival i Texas" John Keating: The Unknown Planet "Space Experience" - the best cuts are the Keating originals such as this tune. This "now sound" lp also includes cringe-inducing versions of "Jesus Christ Superstar" & "Rocket Man". Coldcut: Space Journey "Let Us Play" - this release is packaged with a bonus cd-rom which is a real hoot (videos, games, etc). Released by Ninja Tune. Dick Hyman: The Moog & Me "Moog - the electric eclectics of..." Stock, Hausen & Walkman: Gravy "Empty Box" - 10" lp. masters of the cut 'n' paste method of music making. Add N to X: King Wasp "On the Wires of our Nerves" 101 Strings: Trippin' on Lunar 07 "Astro Sounds from beyond the Year 2000" - the record of choice for the new millenium. [uncredited]: Pot Party "Only in America" - contains the classic line "Will drugs pave the road of destruction for the Now Generation?" Xhol: Love Potion 25 "Motherfuckers GMBH & Co Kg" - apparently the singer hasn't tripped for days & is in the need of some Purple Haze. A Krautrock classic. The Herbaliser: Wall Crawling Giant Insect Breaks "Wall Crawling Giant Insect Breaks ep" - Isn't that Martin Denny making an unscheduled appearence towards the end of this song? Martin Denny: Bangkok Cockfight "Primitiva" Comments & Questions welcome Cheers Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: (exotica) Mexicali Brass Date: 14 Sep 1998 19:34:15 -0500 >Byron sez > The Mexicali Brass.... There is a little bit of Tijuana Brass >sound here, but it is not complete knock off: the music stands on its own. I love the sound of the Mexicali Brass! Actually I'm a big fan of the genere that I've dubbed "budget brass". Too often this stuff gets slighted as cheap Herb Alpert imitators but that denys the true listening experience where the music tells the whole story. The truth is that many of these'brass' groups don't sound much like that slick Alpert sound. As Byron has discovered, the music stands on its own. True, the packaging and sales pitch and many of the source songs ride on the coat tails of the phenomenal sales of those TJB albums, but each group has their own identifiable sound. The Mexicali Brass are the kings of the budget brass heap. I am totally anamored by their 'lo-fi' sound that makes you think that most garage bands even had better recording equipment. The arrangement are always frantic and sometimes downright loony, check out there version of the Volga Boatmen which really breaks the mold of that south-of-the-border sound. And what about their guitar player! Check out any guitar breaks or fills in their songs, they can be demented. Their playng is usually right on, however there always seems to be a tension that they are playing right at the max of their capabilities. All this adds up to an exciting overall sound. The couple of drawbacks of their albums are only tangential related. First, may of their albums feature the same somg but with different titles! (This has proven mighty confusing when I featured the Mexicali Brass on a radio show.) The other drawback about collecting these albums is that they seem to be the most trashed of any single group of albums I come across while thrifting. Frank # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Mexicali Brass Date: 14 Sep 1998 19:45:15 -0400 My late father, who was a part-time trumpeter and rode the coattails of the Tijuana Brass boom in the 1960s, always claimed he preferred The Mexicali Brass, and I always thought it was just a way of justifying his unwillingness to pay full price for the real thing. But they're not bad, as you say, and there's something about the multiple versions of the same song that, of course, clearly anticipates today's multiple 12" mixes. (Heh-heh). Will Will Straw Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" Playlist for 16 Sep 98 Date: 14 Sep 1998 21:09:29 EDT In a message dated 9/14/98 11:19:04 PM, Allan wrote: <<[uncredited]: Pot Party "Only in America" - contains the classic line "Will drugs pave the road of destruction for the Now Generation?" >> This is originally from the Teenage Rebellion soundtrack, by Mike Curb (our ex-lieutenant governor) with Davie Allen & the Arrows. Terrific/hilarious album, by the way, well worth looking for. -dave g # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Room/Nostalgia Date: 14 Sep 1998 23:42:08 EDT In a message dated 98-09-12 09:06:18 EDT, risser@goodnews.net writes: << I can't see how you can write something off to nostalgia like it doesn't matter. >> Exactly! Nostalgia is the name of the game here in the U.S.A. in so far as new planned shopping centers, town squares, etc. Some cities/towns like Irvine California are making up an "old town" complete with a fake big water storage tower (ala the early 1900s), that never even existed (since Irvine was just a big land parcel that didn't come under this kind of development til approx. the 1970s). Nostalgia is a very popular theme in redevelopment/development these days (U.S.A.) It's too bad this idea can't be sold to D.land so they will stop tearing down these treasured rides of the past. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki room context Date: 14 Sep 1998 23:42:04 EDT In a message dated 98-09-11 11:05:43 EDT, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk writes: << I think that really the reason that Disney would drop it more than any other is that it doesn't fit into their marketing strategies, it is outside the main film themes that tie up the other rides to the Disney 'Universe' and therefore doesn't further sales of anything from the shops. As someone pointed out a few weeks back, there is only one song available on CD from the tiki room. >> Sorry if you guys are already over this thread - I haven't been able to keep up with the list lately. Anyway, I think the real problem is that as the years pass, the tiki room is loosing its cultural context. There's just fewer and fewer of us out there that know what the tiki room was supposed to be about/why Disney made a tiki room (i.e., the exotica phenomenon). Disney folks realize that and therefore realize there will be less and less of an appreciative audience for it as the years go by. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jay Schwartz Subject: (exotica) SITCOM ROCK at Acme Underground, NYC this Wednesday Date: 15 Sep 1998 00:48:17 The Secret Cinema presents=20 SITCOM ROCK: Rock 'N' Roll Episodes of Classic TV Comedies at Acme Underground Acme Underground, 9 Great Jones Street, NYC =B7 212-677-6963 On Wednesday, September 16, The Secret Cinema will present the latest in its series of offbeat film retrospectives. "Sitcom Rock" showcases special episodes of classic situation comedies from the past -- all featuring rock band guest stars and/or rock 'n' roll storylines. As always with Secret Cinema presentations, the shows will be projected in 16mm film on a giant screen, from rare, original film prints (not video!). The situation comedy, television's equivalent to the "two-reeler" comedy shorts that played movie bills for decades, reached a certain summit by the mid-'60s, the same time that rock music achieved its long-lasting position as the predominant music of its time. It was only natural that these bizarre worlds would collide. There will be one screening at 9:00 pm. Doors open at 8:00 pm. Admission is $6.00. Highlights of "Sitcom Rock" will include: THE MUNSTERS: The Munsters agree to rent out their house to touring rock group The Standells. When they return, they find a way-out beatnik party in progress, but Herman soon gets in the spirit and tries out some impromptu beat poetry (The Standells, in a pre-"Dirty Water" phase, perform "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "Do The Ringo"). THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW: In a special episode of this somewhat-forgotten series about the trials of two pairs of middle-agers coping with their married offspring, the older set have a go at managing wild primitive rockers Sky Saxon and The Seeds! This amazing show was directed by Desi Arnaz, and also features Joe Besser of The Three Stooges (what a meeting of the minds!). THE FLINTSTONES: In "Shinrock-a-Go-Go," then-popular rock showcase Shindig and its host Jimmy O'Neill are caricatured, as are San Francisco's genius folk-rock/beat group The Beau Brummels. Fred inadvertently invents a new dance craze, "The Flintstone Flop," as "The Beau Brummelstones" play their hit "Laugh Laugh." THE BRADY BUNCH: The ever-popular Brady kids perform "It's a Sunshine Day" on a TV talent contest as "The Silver Platters." Other shows to be screened are MY THREE SONS (Chip's rock band gets help from visiting Brit Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy), THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (Opie's garage band play their first gig at a teen party), and THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (When rock star "Elvin Pelvin" gets drafted into Sgt. Bilko's unit, the ever-opportunistic Bilko plots to make a bootleg recording of the teen idol). There will be more surprises, and between reels, an all-TV rock soundtrack will be played, including records by The Monkees, The Archies, and The Yellow Balloon (featuring Don Grady from My Three Sons). The Secret Cinema is a floating repertory film series, based in Philadelphia. In New York, The Secret Cinema has already presented three highly-successful events at the Fez nightclub -- "Exotica Music Films," "Other Peoples Movies: Home Movies of Total Strangers," and most recently, "Stag Movie Night: Vintage Porno From The '20s, '30s and '40s." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Hi-Fis and Hi-Balls book Date: 15 Sep 1998 04:15:38 EDT I personally think it is Bacheor Pad lite Chronicle is obviously fishing for a Lounge pulse and doesn't quite know where to find it so they went for the LCD photo-heavy approach rather than anything with substance that anyone would ahve to think about # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) re: Tiki Room/Nostalgia Date: 15 Sep 1998 06:55:43 -0400 You know, maybe somebody somewhere could Buy the Tiki Room from Disney. And Mr. Toads. Or maybe Disney could actually open a "Disney Museum". Lord knows, I'd pay a little exytra dough for a trip into that park!! Especially as it grew bigger as the cool old rides were replaced with spectacular new rides... Anyone else? Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) SITCOM ROCK at Acme Underground, NYC this Wednesday Date: 15 Sep 1998 07:11:50 -0400 Jay wrote: THE MUNSTERS: The Munsters agree to rent out their house to touring rock group The Standells. When they return, they find a way-out beatnik party in progress, but Herman soon gets in the spirit and tries out some impromptu beat poetry **************** A selection of this can be found as the opening track on the compilation "Beat, Beat, Beatsville!" (Bongo 001cd). Herman's poetry contains such memorable lines like: "Hippety, Bippety Canal Boat" or (my fave) "Life is real, life is earnest, if you're cold turn up the furnace". Allan ++++Unusual Music+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Mondo Bongos" Wednesdays 9 - 11 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Unusual Music++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) NEW Peter Thomas CD Date: 15 Sep 1998 13:39:00 +0000 Peter Thomas' new CD is out. It's called "Moonflowers & Mini-skirts". Nice collection, pretty artwork by Stefan Kassel. Along with the CD comes a Vinyl-Maxi with different versions of "Opium" , one by Maxwell Implosion. http://www.marina.com MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Herman: Scooby do and scooby de Date: 15 Sep 1998 08:25:40 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 07:23:03 EDT, you write: << A selection of this can be found as the opening track on the compilation "Beat, Beat, Beatsville!" (Bongo 001cd). Herman's poetry contains such memorable lines like: "Hippety, Bippety Canal Boat" or (my fave) "Life is real, life is earnest, if you're cold turn up the furnace". Allan >> These are so funny -- I really did laugh out loud. (What does the canal boat reference mean???) Are there any more of these. Please post ! ! ! ! ! ! Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Franken-ghetti Date: 15 Sep 1998 08:44:30 -0400 >These are so funny -- I really did laugh out loud. (What does the canal boat >reference mean???) During the impromptu party that the Standells are giving, the beatniks are wowed by Lily's harp song, "Look Away" and someone shouts out, "And now let's hear from the Jolly Green Giant!", at which point he makes up the aforementioned beat poem. The Munsters also walk in on one of the beatniks, whose poem ends, (I think), "Howdy-Doody's come to town!" As to the meaning of "Canal Boat", I think it means that Paul McCartney is dead. Did you see how distorted his head looked on the Rubber Soul album? Which is to say, it is just the first thing that came to Herman's electrodes. Brian "Snap, snap" Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "belikian" Subject: Re: (exotica) Celeste Date: 15 Sep 1998 02:03:57 -0700 According to the notes from my Buddy Holly boxed set, The flip side of 'Peggy Sue' [1957] was 'Everyday', and, as Norman Petty recalls, was more time consuming than usual: " 'Everyday' took us a long time because I played celeste on it. I would have to go in and set the level, walk back into the studio and hit the recorder, so it made it a little bit time consuming." The recording is also unusual from the point of view of Jerry Allison's performance . . . the only drumming on the recording is Jerry Allison slapping his knees. Les >a celeste is a set of chimes with a keyboard attached. >as i recall(i haven't played one in 15 years), >it looks much like an upright piano, >and works more or less like an electric piano, but >it sounds very different. (for one thing, it's acoustic) >fender/rhodes might have made one, i wouldn't be >surprised you can hear it in a lot of christmas music >and '70s soul ballads. it sounds gorgeous. >dave g # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Johnny Adams, Dane Clark obits Date: 15 Sep 1998 12:00:59 -0500 *Johnny Adams BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Johnny Adams, a New Orleans-born rhythm and blues singer with an international following, died Monday of cancer. He was 66. Adams, dubbed ``the Tan Canary'' by a local disc jockey, began singing with neighborhood gospel quartets in the 1940s. In the 1950s, he met New Orleans songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie who convinced him to record one of her secular compositions (different biographies say it was entitled ``Oh Why'' or ``I Won't Cry''). The song established Adams as a local and regional favorite. After recording with a succession of different companies and hitting R&B charts with ``Release Me'' and ``Reconsider'' in the late 1960s, Adams achieved perhaps his greatest notoriety after signing with Rounder records in 1983. It led him to featured spots in college bars, nightclubs and festivals throughout America and around the world. *Dane Clark LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dane Clark, an actor whose career on stage, film and television spanned over 50 years, died Friday. He was 85. Clark started acting in the 1930s with the Group Theatre in New York. He went to Warner Bros. in the 1940s, and later acted with Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey in ``Action in the North Atlantic.'' Clark joined Cary Grant and John Garfield in ``Destination Tokyo'' and worked with Garfield again in ``Pride of the Marines.'' His other film credits include ``Hollywood Canteen;'' ``A Stolen Life'' with Bette Davis; ``Without Honor'' with Franchot Tone and Agnes Moorehead; and ``Go Man Go'' with Sidney Poitier. After leaving Warner, Clark worked for J. Arthur Rank in London and made several films including ``Highly Dangerous,'' ``The Gambler and the Lady,'' and ``Blackout.'' In France, Clark worked with Simone Signoret in ``The Hunted.'' Clark starred in three television series, ``The Jimmy Dean Story,'' ``Don't Cry for Me Maggie Cole,'' and ``Murder on Flight 502.'' He also was a guest in numerous television shows, including ``Twilight Zone,'' ``The Name of the Game,'' and ``Cannon.'' His last film was ``Last Rites'' with Tom Berenger in 1988. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit Date: 15 Sep 1998 12:00:57 -0500 *Bob Dixon BETHEL, Conn. (AP) -- Bob Dixon, a radio announcer who personified the Wild West as Sheriff Bob Dixon on television shows in the 1950s and was a friend of Edward R. Murrow, died Aug. 22. He was 87. The tall, rangy Connecticut-born Dixon was the host of ``The Chuck Wagon,'' on WCBS-TV in New York and ``The Chuck Wagon Playhouse'' on the CBS network. He initially was hired to introduce the TV Westerns but expanded the role to include show-and-tell segments in which he would display and discuss saddles, harnesses and other cowboy gear. The segments were introduced as time-stretchers after parents' groups complained the Westerns had too much gratuitous violence. The films were trimmed, and Dixon's segments became so popular that, as he later recalled, ``the movies got shorter and shorter and I got longer and longer.'' Dixon's show also included celebrity appearances, including the television broadcast debut of his bird-hunting buddy, broadcasting giant Edward R. Murrow, who came on the show to discuss shotgun safety. The two met in 1947 when Dixon was hired to do a commercial after Murrow's radio program. Dixon went on to become Murrow's announcer and later worked on ``See It Now,'' and other Murrow television programs. Dixon also helped nurse Murrow through the final days of his life, as Murrow succumbed to brain cancer at his Connecticut home. Survivors include two sons, two daughters and a sister. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Marco Rizo obit Date: 15 Sep 1998 12:00:55 -0500 *Marco Rizo NEW YORK -- Marco Rizo, the Cuban-born orchestrator and pianist for the ``I Love Lucy'' television show, died of a heart attack Tuesday. He was 78. Though Rizo was best known for his work on the TV show, he recorded about 30 albums during a career that focused on classical, Afro-Cuban and jazz music. Born in Santiago de Cuba, Rizo was the son of the principal flutist with the Santiago Symphony Orchestra. His father also ran a jazz band. At 16, Rizo was known as Santiago's most important concert pianist. He won a scholarship to Juilliard in 1940. After touring with Desi Arnaz and his orchestra, Rizo took a job in 1951 as the composer and pianist for ``I Love Lucy.'' He left the show in 1959. A year later, Rizo became a staff orchestrator for CBS. He also continued composing and performed in concerts. In 1989, he won the Silver Medal of the French Academy of the Arts, Sciences and Letters in Paris. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) ! WIN A FREE ARTHUR LYMAN CD ! Date: 15 Sep 1998 12:00:53 -0500 Forwarded for Dana Countryman: Hey! You could easily win a new copy of Five different ARTHUR LYMAN CDs from Rykodisc, or a cassette single of the tough surf/instrumental from the film SIX-STRING SAMURAI. How can you win? Just go to the Web Page for Cool And Strange Music! Magazine at: <> Scroll down to the bottom of the page for info on entering the contest. Hurry! Supplies are limited and all good things (especially the FREE ones) don't last FOREVER... - Dana Countryman Publisher/Editor Cool And Strange Music! Magazine: 1101 Colby Ave Everett, WA USA 98201 Web Page: <> coolstrge@aol.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Tiki room context Date: 15 Sep 1998 12:20:22 -0500 At 11:42 PM 9/14/98 EDT, Michele wrote: >Anyway, I think the real problem is that as the years pass, the tiki room is >loosing its cultural context. There's just fewer and fewer of us out there >that know what the tiki room was supposed to be about/why Disney made a tiki >room (i.e., the exotica phenomenon). Disney folks realize that and therefore >realize there will be less and less of an appreciative audience for it as the >years go by. So all Disney's gotta do is a Tiki-flavored movie (animated or not) and the Tiki Room would be back with a vengeance. Has Disney picked up on the Exotica/Lounge vibe yet? But then again what would a Tiki Room 2000 be like? I can see how DisneyLand might need the space for new attractions and have to sacrifice an old attraction, but there's plenty of room in DisneyWorld. They should create a space for all the old attractions to go when they retire. That's what Florida is for, after all! Nothing wrong with them creating a retirement community for elderly attractions, is there? -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Celeste Date: 15 Sep 1998 16:56:50 +0100 Thanks to everyone who has posted information about the Celeste. I wonder if anybody knows a manufacturer's name or brand name? Or does anybody have a picture? I searched the web but could only come across a Rhodes Celeste (which is remarkably similar - the top three octaves of a Rhodes piano - hammers hit tines to make sounds like a xylophone). Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Buddy Holly's work with a Celeste. Thanks again Charlie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Action Plus Subject: Re: (exotica) Touch of Evil (Retouched) Date: 15 Sep 1998 10:10:40 -0800 >While watching "Sex On South Beach" on E-Channel today I saw a short feature >about the re-release of the Orson Welles classic "Touch of Evil" which was >Henry Mancini's first foray into the world of the soundtrack. Perhaps it's the late Hank's first *great* score, but it followed in the wake of such credits as "Abbott & costello Go to Mars," "Creature from the Black Lagoon," "Lost in Alaska," "Tanganyika," and many more. Mancini did tons of schlock at Universal in the early '50s. It's an understandable mistake, though, since young Mancini contributed to many composite scores, and in those days such contributors never got screen credit. (Actually, they still don't--"music by Hans Zimmer," for example, is far from a guarantee that Zimmer wrote the whole thing.) Also, Mancini himself tried to downplay this part of his career, and none of his B films are cited in the "Complete Musical Scores" discography of the posthumous RCA Mancini box set. There CD booklet that accompanies the disc "More Monstrous Movie Music" [Monstrous Movie Music, Box 7088, Burbank, CA 91510] includes a great article on this very subject by David Schecter. He details the stuff you never hear about Mancini's early years and even reproduces several pages of score, including the title page to Mancini's "Amorous Mutant" cue from "This Island Earth." The disc sounds good too, though, for better or worse, it's a relatively hi-fi reconstruction played by an Eastern European orchestra, not the original soundtrack. BTW, does anyone know who the guitarist on the *Touch of Evil* soundtrack is? Since I've played tons of Mancini with the Oranj Symphonette and worked as an editor at a guitar magazine for a decade, you'd think I'd know, but I'm stumped. I'm guessin' Barney Kessell, but... --Joe Gore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Classical surf Date: 15 Sep 1998 19:22:05 +0200 Just like to mention that Get Bach! by the Baronics is a fun album. Hear all-surf versions of the classics! Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and the likes. http://pages.infinit.net/baronics/index.htm Arjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Classical surf Date: 15 Sep 1998 13:43:26 -0500 At 07:22 PM 9/15/98 +0200, Arjan wrote: > >Just like to mention that Get Bach! by the Baronics is a fun album. Hear >all-surf versions of the classics! Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi and the likes. > >http://pages.infinit.net/baronics/index.htm This reminds me (in concept) of an old Nonesuch release called 'Jazz Guitar Bach'. I forget the performers, but I think they were a French trio. Anyone know the LP I'm thinking of? -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit Date: 15 Sep 1998 14:17:41 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 12:06:34 EDT, you write: << Bob Dixon, a radio announcer who personified the Wild West as Sheriff Bob Dixon on television shows in the 1950s >> Was this the guy on the Emmy's??? Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: studio@wayno.com (Wayno) Subject: (exotica) Kahimi Karie - Bio & Tour Dates Date: 15 Sep 1998 16:38:04 -0400 Here's a record-company bio of Kahimi Karie and dates for her current mini-tour, cut and pasted from the Minty Fresh web page. --------------------> Kahimi Karie never thought she would be an international girl-wonder. Beginning her career as a music photographer in Japan, her then boyfriend Keigo Oyamada (now known as the Japanese superstar Cornelius) asked her to sing for a house band on his friend's record label. Her first EP included the track "Mike Alway's Diary" (written about noted British music journalist Mike Alway) and propelled Kahimi's career into stardom mode. Kahimi Karie became a figurehead of Shibuya, the fashionable Tokyo hub that also spawned the careers of Pizzicato Five and Cornelius. Kahimi continued releasing EPs, many reaching gold status in Japan and hosted one of Tokyo's most popular radio programs. She also recorded the theme song for the animated series Chibi Maruko Chan, a sort of Japanese version of The Simpsons. Kahimi caught the attention of Scottish cult figure Momus, and the two began a fruitful series of collaborations together. The Momus penned song "Good Morning World" (heard in demo form on Momus' 20 Vodka Jellies) was commissioned by a cosmetic company and reached top five on the Japanese charts. Not only does the track feature background vocals by Momus himself, it also boasts a sample from The Soft Machine's "So Boot If At All". In addition to collaborating with Momus and Cornelius, Kahimi Karie has also worked with Pizzicato Five's Yasuharu Konishi and French indie pop star Katerine. Beck's signature harmonica sound is even heard on the Momus penned and produced track "Lolitapop Dollhouse". Kahimi sings in English and French in addition to her native Japanese language. Kahimi Karie has since moved out of Shibuya and currently lives in Paris. Touring these shores for the first time this Fall, Kahimi is prepared to overwhelm the sense and sensibility of America and introduce her brand of seductive, breezy pop to The West. --------------------> The long awaiting Minty Fresh debut by Japanese pop sensation Kahimi Karie has been released on Sept. 8th. Guests on the record include Momus, Cornelius and even Beck on harmonica. The track listing is: 1. Good Morning World 2. Candyman 3. Elastic Girl 4. Mike Alway's Diary 5. Le Roi Soleil 6. Take It Easy My Brother Charlie 7. Zoom Up! 8. Serieux Comme Le Plaisir 9. Lolitapop Dollhouse 10. Dis Moi Quelque Chose Avant De Dormir 11. When You Close Your Eyes Kahimi Karie will embark on her first tour of the U.S. starting on October 13 at Fez in New York City. By arrangement with Le Grand Magistery, the tour will start with Frenchman Giles performing a short set, then continuing the show will be Momus who asks, "Please enjoy analogue baroque." "The show will then climax with Kahimi Karie" says Momus in an exclusive interview from his London flat . "Shibuya-ke is dead. Long live Kahimi Karie!" Here are the current tour dates: October 13-14 New York City Fez 15 Cambridge The Middle East 16-17 New York City Fez 20 Philadelphia Khyber 21 D.C. The Black Cat 23-24 Chicago Empty Bottle 29 Los Angeles TBA 31 San Francisco Bottom of the Hill November 1 San Francisco Bottom of the Hill 4 Seattle Aro.space 6 New York City Mercury Lounge # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit and, no, this guy ain't dead Date: 15 Sep 1998 16:35:12 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 15:05:40 EDT, Brian and Robert exchanged: << Bob Dixon, a radio announcer who personified the Wild West as Sheriff Bob Dixon on television shows in the 1950s >> Was this the guy on the Emmy's??? <> No it was not Buffalo Bob either. There was a guy in the audience who was recognized by one of the actors who came out with a "sherrif's" badge on. It was a 40-ish white actor. I must be loosing it because I cannot remember the guys name (the actor that is). << Well that WOULD have been a feat, considering Smith passed!>> Ok -- Let's get this thing straight. I totally messed that up. In the first 30 minutes of the show, one of the host/actors came out and he had a sheriff's badge on. He then showed a clip of this cowboy type kiddies show where the sheriff was singing about the merits of smiling and being polite. Next the host/actor said this guy influenced him alot then introduced the sheriff who was in the audience in the same sheriff outfit and he stood and took a bow. The sheriff-guy was in his eighties now. Does anybody remember what the sheriff's (or shows) name was? What the actor who played the sheriff name was? What the name of the host/actor who recoginzed the sheriff name was? Geez -- sorry this got so involved. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jasmine j jopling Subject: Re: (exotica) Kahimi Karie Date: 15 Sep 1998 13:42:22 -0700 my buck on kahimi: her voice is great, but it's very obvious on her latest release that she's being styled by the boys in her life. Her best songs are the ones that Momus, the international popstar, wrote and co-played on. The other hits are the ones arranged and written by beck or cornelius. kahimi makes a great blank canvas for the works of these other artists, because she, unlike them, has a *very* high, syrupy sweet voice, which i bet they love experimenting with. Perhaps i'm just annoyed that it's not a compilation album or something, with all of the (imo) more-talented artists getting equal billing. that said, i liked it enough buy and listen to repeatedly, as i am now. oh, and in the same sort of frenchie-euro-pop vein, the new st. ettiene album, good humor, has finally been released domestically in the US. --jasmine - -- -- -- -- -- - Weekly live music guide - Updated Every Thursday! http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/music/poptart Join the SF Bay Area Indie Mailing List: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bay/2817 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: (exotica) PLUGOLA: Is Doris Day Exotica? Date: 15 Sep 1998 14:01:14 -0700 Not hardly but all of us with an open mind realize how wild and wonderful she is. Turner/Rhino Soundtracks is holding a contest to win their new CD complilation It's Magic on the MisterLUCKY site (www.mrlucky.com) and exotic people and their friends are invited to enter. Thank you for your very kind attention. MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) Herman Munster Reads Date: 15 Sep 1998 18:11:49 -0400 Robert wrote: > These are so funny -- I really did laugh out loud. (What does the canal boat > reference mean???) > > Are there any more of these. Please post ! ! ! ! ! ! Happy to oblige... "Hippety bippety, zippity zab hippety bippety canal boat. dictionary, sound of ferry [not sure about this one] Mary Mary quite contrary. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy lost his hair. Scooba Doo and scooba di that chicken's not too young to fry. Life is real, life is earnest, if you're cold turn up the furnace. I thank you" & one of the young hipsters comments, "Man, that Cat is deep!" Allan ++++Unusual Music+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Mondo Bongos" Wednesdays 9 - 11 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Unusual Music++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) RadioNow Date: 15 Sep 1998 18:53:15 -0500 There's been some local interest in the Firesign Theatre's new CD 'Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death.' You (and you know who *you* are) will want to know that Doctor Technical just put "The RadioNow Story" on , by "Bebop Loco" aka Phil Austin. See you on the Funway! -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Dane Clark obit Date: 15 Sep 1998 19:43:16 EDT In Go Man Go, Dane Clark stars with the Harlem Globetrotters (as themselves) and the irresistable Slim Gaillard, as well as Sidney Poitier. Pretty interesting little movie, directed by oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe; check it out if it ever surfaces again. -dave g # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 15 Sep 1998 17:05:59 -0700 I can't remember if I told you all BUT............. Jean Jacques Perrey will be having a live in store appearance at the Groove Merchant on (lower) Haight St this Saturday at 3PM 68 and still rockin'! BE THERE ! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Action Plus Subject: Re: (exotica) Touch of Evil (Retouched) Date: 15 Sep 1998 19:18:31 -0800 >>BTW, does anyone know who the guitarist on the *Touch of Evil* soundtrack >>is? Since I've played tons of Mancini with the Oranj Symphonette and worked >>as an editor at a guitar magazine for a decade, you'd think I'd know, but >>I'm stumped. I'm guessin' Barney Kessell, but... > >Joe, you are correct...Barney Kessel > >Barney Kessel, Plas Johnson-Tenor, Dave Pell-Bari Sax, Ray Sherman-Piano, >Red Norvo-Vibes, Jack Costazo-Conga Drum, Mike Pacheco-Bongos, Pete >Candoli-Trumpet Wow--those guys became *the* Mancini crew in later years. (Johnson, of course, is the "Pink Panther" guy.) I didn't know the core players were assmebled so early on. >and I think Shelly Manne-Drums > >Barney IS MY MAIN MAN, guitar wize >Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Irwin Chusid Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott's 'Amor' Date: 15 Sep 1998 22:07:39 -0400 Nat wrote: > I picked up a record the other day: "Amor" by Raymond Scott and > his Swinging Strings I searched the liner notes and came to the > conclusion that it was indeed THE Raymond Scott Indeed it is. Or was. >I'm not complaining, it was 2 bucks You overpaid. > and there's a half-naked blonde on the cover Then you *underpaid.* Half-naked blondes go for upwards of ten bucks. Fully naked ones can fetch twenty. > but it's pretty mediocre. This is a generous assessment. Is the word "dreadful" in your vocabulary? > It's not the worst record I own but then >the worst record I own isn't by THE Raymond Scott. But AMOR is the *worst* record you now own by THIS Raymond Scott. >So when I read about these other releases do they sound more like this or >more like that other stuff? Anything--almost *everything*--else by Raymond Scott is of far greater interest. AMOR was a 1960 reissue of the inaptly named ROCK AND ROLL SYMPHONY (which was neither rock nor symphony; RS surely did not name the record when it was originally released in 1959). It was reissued a second time around 1966 as WARM RAIN, by "Raymond Scott and his Romantic Strings." Imagine that -- within seven years, an album called "Rock and Roll Symphony" could be repackaged as being performed by a group of "Romantic Strings." But whatever you call it, it's still musical blancmange. >All my heroes did all kinds of other records so I'm not surprised by this >in principle but I liked it better when I thought that Raymond Scott was >somehow forever working away on that same crazy shit of his. He was. Crap like AMOR was a rent gig. He took those checks and spent them on developing his electronic instruments. SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY is a good example of where his mind was at while his right arm was conducting the RnR Symphony. And when MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC., a 2-CD set of RS electronica, is released on Basta later this year, the world will be dumbfounded by what Scott sounds like at his 'avant-gardest.' It will more than compensate for any disappointment you endured in your discovery of AMOR. But you can't have your two bucks back. However, you can keep the blonde. >I'm not sure I've ever seen this label "Everest". Raymond was an A&R Director there for a few years. Lord knows what he A&R'ed. >Oh and the liner notes say : ... a friend had asked Raymond Scott "What can >you do with this rock and roll so that adults don't hate it?" I doubt he was consulted on the title, and I doubt they even bothered interviewing him for the liner notes. >If this is rock and roll, then I'm Raymond Scott. I understand there's a website devoted to your legacy, Mr. Scott: http://www.RaymondScott.com Eminently yours, Irwin Chusid Director, Raymond Scott Archives --- Today's quote from Marcel Marceau: [This is a multi-part message in MIME format] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Risser Family Subject: (exotica) Once last Disney question Date: 15 Sep 1998 19:17:57 -0400 Um,=20 This is sort of late, but all these rides closing: Are these in DisneyLAND in California or DisneyWORLD in Orlando? And when? And how does one find out this info anyway? It's sort of an important distinction for me, because my kids and I will = be in driving distance to DisneyWorld and if they are closing, I might = want to sneak over there for a day. If someone could let me know, either on or off the list, or even how to = find the info, i'd appreciate it. Thanks! Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit and, no, this guy ain't dead Date: 16 Sep 1998 00:32:05 -0500 (CDT) On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > > Ok -- Let's get this thing straight. > > I totally messed that up. In the first 30 minutes of the show, one of the > host/actors came out and he had a sheriff's badge on. He then showed a clip > of this cowboy type kiddies show where the sheriff was singing about the > merits of smiling and being polite. Next the host/actor said this guy > influenced him alot then introduced the sheriff who was in the audience in the > same sheriff outfit and he stood and took a bow. The sheriff-guy was in his > eighties now. > > Does anybody remember what the sheriff's (or shows) name was? > What the actor who played the sheriff name was? > What the name of the host/actor who recoginzed the sheriff name was? Shoot! I don't remember the answers to the first two questions, but I believe the actor who introduced Sheriff Whats-his-name was Michael Richards, who played Cosmo Kramer on "Seinfeld". I did have the Emmy Awards on tape, but I taped Monday nights pro-wrestling shows over it... Sorry. -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Nostalgia = Culture Date: 15 Sep 1998 09:55:58 -0400 I think that Nostalgia is more important in the USA than in other countries because we just don't have any real folk culture that is native to the place. Other than the midwest/Native American/Country-Western stuff; if you don't identify with that (which I don't, with no apologies), you kind of fall back into the mix of nostalgia. Lets face it, most of our nostalgia is mired in the economics of the past generations. Capitalism is our culture. Most things cultural in the US are either imported from past generations of immigrants, stolen from the Native Nations, or have a brand name on them. surfing the chaos, Charlieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG NNAD" Subject: (exotica) Budget Brass Date: 15 Sep 1998 09:49:13 -0400 > >Byron sez > > The Mexicali Brass.... There is a little bit of Tijuana Brass > >sound here, but it is not complete knock off: the music stands on its > own. > > I love the sound of the Mexicali Brass! > > Actually I'm a big fan of the genere that I've dubbed "budget brass". > > Would the Mariachi Brass (with Chet Baker?) fit into this category? I have my father's "Double Shot" album with the Mariachi Brass. I like the cover, but NEVER played it, for some reason. Maybe I need to. surfing the chaos, Chalrieman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eb Subject: (exotica) re: Herman Munster's poem Date: 15 Sep 1998 23:52:54 -0700 >From: "telstar" > >that chicken's not too young to fry. I always found that line oddly disturbing, and far more resonant than the rest of the poem. ;) Eb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jay Schwartz Subject: Re: (exotica) SITCOM ROCK at Acme Underground, NYC this Date: 16 Sep 1998 03:27:18 On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:11:50 -0400, "telstar" wrote: >>THE MUNSTERS: The Munsters agree to rent out their house to touring rock group The Standells. When they return, they find a way-out beatnik party in progress, but Herman soon gets in the spirit and tries out some impromptu beat poetry **************** >A selection of this can be found as the opening track on the compilation "Beat, Beat, Beatsville!" (Bongo 001cd). Hermans' poetry was also sampled (or merely copied) for the climax of Death of Samantha's heavy rave-up cover of the Pink Fairie's song "Do It" on the Homestead Records compilation HUMAN MUSIC (possibly only on the CD edition). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) possibly French guys Date: 16 Sep 1998 03:54:56 -0400 Okay before I ask my real question, I just have to say that after all those times I ignored them on Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas when I was a kid, I have to now admit that Sandler and Young absolutely rule. But my question is about Mort Shuman. What's the story with him? I've read his name here I think but I don't remember anything. My first exposure to him was on a soundtrack I bought for an unknown film named "Sex O'Clock U.S.A". Come on, who wouldn't buy that? Anyway, the cuts are almost all mediocre disco or maybe that's redundant. But there is one cut called "Peepshow" which is one of the coolest ambient instrumental pieces I've ever heard. It's pretty surprising for 1976 I think. That cut alone made me interested in Mr.Shuman. (I think I had a Hebrew School teacher named Mr. Shuman.) But recently I picked up this record which is called "Amerika" but the songs are all in French. The liner notes which are also in French, identify him as a boy from Brighton Beach which certainly makes sense with that name. And I see credits for Janis Joplin and Manfred Mann. I don't know how to describe the songs French Pop, I guess. And that's not him singing is it? The name Etienne Roda Gil is also on the record. Is that who's singing? Anyway, what's the story with this guy. And then while I'm on a French roll here, so to speak, last night I bought a record of Michel Legrande singing - in French - called "Serenades de XX siecle" and it is surprisingly good too. He scat sings on one of the best cuts and I didn't wince once. Vive Le France Libre Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) ! WIN A FREE ARTHUR LYMAN CD ! Date: 16 Sep 1998 11:01:32 +0000 Lou Smith wrote: > Forwarded for Dana Countryman: > > Hey! > You could easily win a new copy of Five different ARTHUR LYMAN CDs from > Rykodisc, or a cassette single of the tough surf/instrumental from the film > SIX-STRING SAMURAI. > > How can you win? Just go to the Web Page for Cool And Strange Music! Magazine > at: > <> > I only got a URL error message... (sob!) MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki room context Date: 16 Sep 1998 11:04:39 +0000 Lou Smith wrote: > I can see how DisneyLand might need the space for new attractions and have > to sacrifice an old attraction, but there's plenty of room in DisneyWorld. > They should create a space for all the old attractions to go when they > retire. That's what Florida is for, after all! Nothing wrong with them > creating a retirement community for elderly attractions, is there? For elderly people like us... If nothing else helps we can still fly to Tokyo and visit the Tiki Room there. It is in fact even better than the Anaheim one. MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ton Rueckert Subject: Re: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey Date: 16 Sep 1998 12:39:31 +0200 >I can't remember if I told you all BUT............. > >Jean Jacques Perrey will be having a live in store appearance at the Groove >Merchant on (lower) Haight St this Saturday at 3PM > >68 and still rockin'! > >BE THERE ! Yes, but who's gonna pay my plane ticket??? Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ "We're quite lazy" - Trubshaw ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jackson/trubshaw.htm ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Re: Buzzimba Date: 16 Sep 1998 12:55:00 +0100 Sorry but ... What is a Buzzimba ? >I think i have a half Buzzimba on a picture, but thats not enough, i >need to see it in its full beauty. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Get to me to the site on time! Date: 16 Sep 1998 07:10:51 -0400 > <> > I only got a URL error message... (sob!) Slashes! Gotta have 'em. Try it now! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Not French, but sure sounds like it? Date: 16 Sep 1998 07:32:26 -0400 >But my question is about Mort Shuman. What's the story with him? I've read >his name here I think but I don't remember anything. Along with his partner Doc Pomus, they wrote many classic songs (http://www.bmi.com/repertoire shows 25 pages of them), such as "Can't Get Used to Losing You". Born in New York in 1936 and died in 1991 (Thanks, All Music Guide! http://www.allmusic.com) he had a connection to the late Johnny Adams, who recorded a whole album of their songs. Shuman also seems to have written with a few French collaborators (including Jacques Brel) and there is a 2 CD set called SES PLUS BELLES CHANSONS. I suppose he had an affinity for French culture, much like Gene Pitney had an affinity for Italy as evinced by some of his albums (I don't know if Pitney is Italian by descent or not). Shuman did record several albums on which he sang; All-Music says he sounded akin to John Hiatt. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Not French, but sure sounds like it? Date: 16 Sep 1998 08:18:57 EDT Mort Shulman "wrote" the musical "Jaques Brel is Alive And Well And Living In Paris." The musical is basically just a lot of Jaques Brel songs translated into English. Shulman did the translations. This was a stage musical and later a film, so there are two different versions which were released on LP. Basically this guy is famous for translating Brel into English. Scott Walker used the Shulman translations when he did all of his FANTASTIC Brel recordings in the early 70's. Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Latin and mysterioso Date: 16 Sep 1998 07:58:31 -0500 Goodwill yielded up Latin Dance Party, a Crown 12-inch by Lalo Morales and His Latin Orchestra. Muy, muy caliente in the vein of Machito. I wanna hear more! A quick search through the Tico and Dusty Groove websites revealed nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Anyone out there know who Lalo is/was? Another website hinted he might be Argentine, but that could be a blind alley. Maybe Lalo is an alias used to avoid contract violation. No liner notes, so no clues. Instead there's the usual photo parade of other Crown releases, including Latin A-Go-Go, artists illegible. Is this record worth looking for? Gracias for any info. MimiM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: (exotica) More death of swing Date: 16 Sep 1998 09:06:39 EDT Thank you Regis and Kathie Lee for driving another stake into the credibility of the neo swing movement! This Friday it is "Swing Day" on Regis and Kathie Lee with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Oh-voo-dee-ohh-doh, Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Touch of Evil (Retouched) Date: 16 Sep 1998 08:18:00 -0500 The October Esquire serves up a choice essay on the restored Touch of Evil by opinionated (Brit?) cineaste/novelist David Thomson. Read it for a capsule history of the long take and Welles' visual genius. MimiM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Mexicali Brass Date: 16 Sep 1998 09:35:11 EDT for an informative guide to "budget brass" read Cool & Strange Music from last spring where Brad Bigelow presents his "Herb Alpert & The Tijuanabes" hypothesis..Hilarious and informative..It caused me to seek out the subgenre and my favorite to date is "Brass Impact and "Explosive Brass Impact" by Warren Kime & His Orchestra.....Jimmy/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM Cambridge Tuesdays 6-8am # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? aka Threads thread Date: 16 Sep 1998 08:46:23 -0500 Jill Mingo-go said: >The dressing up part of the "lounge" scene has always bothered me a bit. No= t >that I don't own old, groovy clothes, but I always worry that if you dress >in them at such events, you are kinda turning the whole thing into a >nostalgia event. Making it a silly cliche. It's a difficult thing for me >because I like the fashion that I like, but I don't want to cliche a sound >that I feel so passionately about. > >Any thoughts? I've dressed in vintage clothing for several years and proudly wear cocktail dresses, hats, gloves, spike heels, and carry evening bags while clubbing. I love their cut, design, fabrics, trims, artisanship. I love the attention I get from fashion-conscious men and women. I also love how they make me feel -- quite the glamourpuss. It's a way to exaggerate my gender role, a counterpoint to the neckties and suits I wear occasionally. Sure, such dress panders to stereotypes and clich=E9s but I think it undermines them through exaggeration. This play is a break from daily life and one way I indulge in a bit of fantasy -- and what could be wrong with that? Sure, I cabaret to make a scene, but I go primarily to listen to music. Just because I wear a 60s minidress with a sequined bodice doesn't mean I listen to the music with less intensity or passion or appreciation. Is such dress nostalgic? For me, yes. When I glam up I remember watching my mother, aunties and grandmothers primping for a night out, and I grin. These nostalgic elements aside, it was music that lured me into clubs and keeps me there. I understand why you would dress down when gigging, Jill. You're working. I dress unobtrusively for work because I want people to focus on the stuff I produce, not my outfit or personal style. Women still need to excel to gain the professional credibility that comes more readily to men, and flash threads can get in the way. My attraction to the music not as much a reach for the nostalgic past as a love for its oddity and complexity, as several people have argued. It's still new to my ears after five years of seeking out exotica. It's often vaguely disturbing and dissonant (Denny covering "The Sound of Music" with Chinese blocks and mynah bird cries, orchestration that defies cultural sense), and I dig that. What do other female and male exoticats think about dressing up when stepping out? We touched on the topic while debating the swing frenzy. Any new comments? Enjoying being a grrl, MimiM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) The Fast Track To Web Programming Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:15:35 -0500 Found this reference - maybe it'll be the virtual intern you need to help get up on the web. -Lou Still battling with hypertext markup language for your Web page, or have you mastered that but want to take the next step? Useractive offers a number of online courses that can get you writing basic HTML, CGI programs, DHTML and Javascript and have your first example completed within 10 minutes! World Wide Web: http://www.useractive.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Barrett Deems obit Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:15:33 -0500 *Barrett Deems CHICAGO (AP) -- Barrett Deems, a drummer for Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman among other jazz greats, died Tuesday. He was 83. Deems, known in jazz circles as the great Deemus, was 15 years old when he started drumming professionally. Highlights of his nearly 70-year career included keeping time for the likes of musicians Joe Venuti, Jimmy Dorsey, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Muggsy Spanier, Jack Teagarden, Art Hodes and Benny Carter. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Sorry (was: The Fast Track To Web Programming ) Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:30:17 -0500 At 10:15 AM 9/16/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Found this reference - maybe it'll be the virtual intern you need to help >get up on the web. >-Lou > Ooops, sorry. This message was obviously meant for someone else. --Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Indian music Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:15:31 -0500 Not long ago we had a thread on Indian music. I picked up this description of an Indian music site from the Net Announce Newsletter. FYI. -Lou Title: Indian music, News World Wide Web Address: http://members.xoom.com/chuckde/index.htm Hello guys n gals, I am proud to announce my site - Chuckde. It is an humble begining and I hope you like it. It is an Indian site. with latest bollywood, bhangra and pop music from INDIA. It has pics from India too and I hope you will apprciate it too. Links to MP3 on the Net and International news from India's point of view. Take a look what Clinton wants to say in the Makin' News section. Do mail your comments - good or bad. Love Vikram # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Big Mess Orchestra Date: 16 Sep 1998 11:09:46 -0400 The Big Mess Orchestra website is finally back online with a new address: http://www.bigmess.com/ m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gregg Wolfe Subject: (exotica) New Classic Singers Date: 16 Sep 1998 10:26:50 -0500 (CDT) Hello All, I was wondering if anyone here has ever actually seen a New Classic Singers LP or CD. I like the few songs by them on the Ultra-Lounge CDs but after watching for vinyl, CDs, and searching the Internet, it's like they either never existed or their stuff is just too rare to find. Maybe they went by more than one name? Any info appreciated. -- Gregg Wolfe gwolfe@swanktown.com http://www.swanktown.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Budget Brass Date: 16 Sep 1998 12:55:35 -0500 >> Actually I'm a big fan of the genere that I've dubbed "budget brass". >> >> >Would the Mariachi Brass (with Chet Baker?) fit into this category? I have >my father's "Double Shot" album with the Mariachi Brass. I like the cover, >but NEVER played it, for some reason. Maybe I need to. They certianly do fit into this category. Many dealers will pick up this stuff and ask way too much for it just 'cause it's got Chet's name. I'm a bit suspicious of the phrase "featuring Chet Baker", meaning what? Probably that he only plays one solo one one track. I'm no expert on picking out that Baker trumpet sound from a recording so I can only speculate on the typical tendencies of budget label marketing. I like the Mariachi Brass, they tend ot be a bit more 'jazzy' than the other budget brass outfits. Their tunes usually feature a very jazzy trumpet solo in the middle of an arrangement, (Baker?). This arrangement style is not what I would call smooth, but of course sometimes I find that awkwardness attractive. Frank My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) JJ Perrey Interview on KFJC-FM Date: 16 Sep 1998 11:19:22 -0700 Hello all, I went to a casual gathering last night at the offices/home of V. Vale of RE/Search...VE/Search celebrating and welcoming Jean Jacques Perrey to the US WHOTTA SWEET GUY with THE GROOVIEST SIGNATURE IMAGINABLE! He told me last night that E.V.A has been sampled 20 times by Rappers/Sample guys There really wasn't anyone there last night that had any real conversations with him about his music other than Mickey McGowan (my musical mentor) and me. We drilled him pretty good about what was what and I really learned A LOT and I do mean A LOT A LOT!!! IT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FUN! I had no idea that there were other musicians on the "In Sound" or "Kaleidoscope Vibrations" LP's I thought it was only Kingsley arranging and JJ on ondioline and moog Vinnie Bell-Electric Guitar and Electronic Effects and a guy name of Al Rogers on Drums Those 2 guys played on ALL OF HIS RECORDS...ALL OF THEM, except not Al Rogers on Moog Indigo I NEVER KNEW ANY OF THAT SHIT! Buddy Rich is the drummer on MOOG INDIGO, I found that out just about 6 months ago AND the bees on Flight of The Bumblebee are SWISS bees, as opposed to French bees:) SO! I have a few questions that are more specific than general ones and that is what I am asking you all. WHAT do you want to know, WHAT would you ask and please remember, be specific, no generality What 1 record influenced you JJ to do the voodoo that you did/do ? I actually know that answer to that BUT i wanna get it on tape:) What inspired you as a musician in the 50's ? How did you feel as a young French man in the US being in the Vanguard studios recording your music with these already established professional musicians ? Were you any less scared/nervous the 2nd or 3rd times recording in the Vanguard studios ? I'll have more about the present, like his initial communications with David Chazam and how that happened and about the latest recording of the Eclektronics LP, which is a fuckin' masterpiece IF you don't already know that. Try and tune in this Sunday, if you can, maybe around the 11:30AM or so hour, maybe 11AM, maybe Noon, don't have the specifics yet...more later It's going to be a VERY ELECTRONIC SHOW, though not all Electronic, LOTS of JJ for sure! Later and thanks! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Pierro Piccioni Date: 16 Sep 1998 15:27:23 -0400 I've heard some of his stuff and it sounds great. How is this Tenth Victim CD? Also, what label is it on? Where can I find it? Thanks, Peter # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit and, no, this guy ain't dead Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:42:30 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 01:54:24 EDT, you write: << Shoot! I don't remember the answers to the first two questions, but I believe the actor who introduced Sheriff Whats-his-name was Michael Richards, who played Cosmo Kramer on "Seinfeld". >> Your right -- it was. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) More death of swing Date: 16 Sep 1998 16:46:48 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 09:09:07 EDT, Ashley wrote: << Thank you Regis and Kathie Lee for driving another stake into the credibility of the neo swing movement! This Friday it is "Swing Day" on Regis and Kathie Lee with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. >> Someone needs to drive a stake into Kathie Lee ! ! ! (Especially since Mr. Garrison's shot missed her.) Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Mimi's Threads thread Date: 16 Sep 1998 17:04:24 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 09:48:01 EDT, you write: << What do other female and male exoticats think about dressing up when stepping out? We touched on the topic while debating the swing frenzy. Any new comments? Enjoying being a grrl, MimiM >> I think this is great for those who enjoy. It is when the dressing gets too campy that I get uncomfortable. For instance, Mimi's costuming would be considered period and fashionable in it's time. It the dressing up as belly dancers, gangsters, you know -- all the things more typical for Halloween, that bothers me. Take a look at the Gleason album cover "Music, Martinis, and Memories", Capitol W-509, now it Mimi looks like that gal at the piano -- watch out ! ! ! You do what you like Mimi -- I personally think your aproach is lady like and I appreciate your effort. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Buzzimba Date: 16 Sep 1998 17:06:39 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 06:56:05 EDT, you write: << Sorry but ... What is a Buzzimba ? >> I dunno. I always thought it was a slang term for a girl's thingies. You know -- "she has a nice set of buzzimbas." I guess I was wrong. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Nostalgia Date: 16 Sep 1998 22:21:15 +0100 Someone recently suggested that nostalgia might be different in the USA as it didn't have the depth of history as, say, parts of Europe. It is an interesting concept, but as one from such an historic country, I can say that nostalgia for, say, the medieval times is limited to those who re-enact old battles. I'm sure it would be possible to graph a nostalgia curve, by collating dozens of people's favourite period in history, and then plotting number of votes for each year. Younger/older members will probably go for later/earlier years, respectively, and I'd guess the curve would probably look like a flattish bell curve, with the most popular time in the mid 1950's. Would someone Stateside (e.g. Brian) like to estimate the shape of a US graph? Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hugh Petfield Subject: (exotica) Strange stuff Date: 16 Sep 1998 22:21:13 +0100 Hooked a trio of odd CD's this week. Tower Records in London yielded "Surf Age" - Jerry Cole and his Spacemen -German CD from "Surf, a devision (sic) of Thunder Wave" 31 tracks all Ventures style instrumentals (though not quite as well recorded). Probably just three US budget albums on one CD. "Nights in White Satin" - Moods Orchestral. Surprisingly good for equivalent of $3.95 20 tracks. But a thrift shop near work provided a wonderful CD: "Corporate World" by de wolfe Ltd Music especially written to accompany opening and closing titles on corporate videos. Has titles like "Project launch 1 - dramatic intro, bold optimistic theme" and "Empire builders - stirring fanfares, restrained, important theme" which are quite good: would make excellent web page intros. There are 23 different themes, most of which have also a link, a sting (a 5 second chord) and a 30 second version. In all there are 82 tracks on the CD, and it makes one's CD player display look slightly surreal. Hugh. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Begins with a B Date: 15 Sep 1998 23:20:58 -0700 Just saw a new CD/book release featuring very exotic/strange instruments from around the world. Naturally I forgot the title as soon as I left the record store, but it's on the Ellipsis Arts label, with an intro by Robert Moog. It appears to be a sequel to the very cool "Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones" package. Anyone have this new one yet? C. "Ratso" Russo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? clothing Date: 17 Sep 1998 00:28:38 +0000 I feel like an outfit illiterate when I read your description of refined tricks and subtle implications on clothing, Mimi. Actually I never go out to listen to music in the first place, so I guess I should wear big rubber ears when I'd do that. When I see people dressed in a retro style I tend to think they are in some kind of clique or group or something. Depends a bit on what the others in that certain location wear. To me clothing is having an idea for a moment in time. It's always different. I must admit that I think that this special Individual look that most people want to create sort of has become a uniform of its own. Today people look very much like characters in a (nostalgic) movie. I did go out dressed as a woman for a while and I shure exaggerated my gender role, as you put it. I remember me thinking "wow! girls have it easy!" MO # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? clothing Date: 16 Sep 1998 20:19:06 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 18:32:41 EDT, MO writes: << I did go out dressed as a woman for a while and I shure exaggerated my gender role, as you put it. I remember me thinking "wow! girls have it easy!" MO >> OK MO, let's hear the details on this! Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Nostalgia Date: 16 Sep 1998 20:26:03 EDT In a message dated 98-09-16 17:27:17 EDT, Hugh writes: << I'm sure it would be possible to graph a nostalgia curve, by collating dozens of people's favourite period in history, and then plotting number of votes for each year. Younger/older members will probably go for later/earlier years, respectively, and I'd guess the curve would probably look like a flattish bell curve, with the most popular time in the mid 1950's. Would someone Stateside (e.g. Brian) like to estimate the shape of a US graph? >> The graph would probably be like a set of Dagmar bumpers on a 53 Cadillac. One swell around the 20's and one around the late 40's to 50's. There has been some renewed interest in the 60's and early 70's but I think this is fadish and not really nostalgic. Robert # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Blazerfan" Subject: (exotica) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:13:38 -0700 Date: 16 Sep 1998 22:09:29 -0600 Wow...I just picked up my 8 cd box set of Louie Prima and Keely Smith..everything is on it !!! Plus a release from Esquivel,recorded in Mexico in 1956 called Esquivel and his orchestra '56 Exploring New Sounds in Sonorama. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) "Ti-wannabes" Article Date: 17 Sep 1998 04:45:39 My article on "Herb Alpert and the Ti-wannabes" from "Cool and Strange Music" magazine issue #9 is available online at: http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/tjb.htm Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Lalo Morales and Other Crown Mysteries Date: 17 Sep 1998 05:02:58 Re: the note asking about Lalo Morales: Crown Records almost always give you extra value for your money, because along with the music, you get a puzzle: "Who the heck is this?" An acquaintance of mine once dissected a Crown release titled "Jazz Masquerade" that features a photo of group of musicians in a recording studio wearing little party masks. I don't have the note handy, but he was finally able to attribute the cuts on the album to, as I recall: Outtakes from a "Jazz at the Lighthouse" (Howard Rumsey's ad hoc collection of West Coast jazz greats) session (mid-1950s) A cut from a Gene Norman "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concert (late 1940s) A cut from a minor L.A.-based R&B group from the mid-1950s Crown--like Diplomat, Coronet, and a number of other budget labels--many of them associated with the Bihari brothers, pioneers in the R&B business, often used unlicensed or public domain material and packaged them under the name of fictional groups to capitalize on whatever listening trend was hot at the time. An intrepid researcher could probably track down many of these cuts to their true sources, but for most of us, we have to accept that the likelihood of ever knowing who we're really listening to is pretty slim. Crown did on occasion give accurate credit--like in the case of two great LPs by Buddy Collette, "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat" and "Little Band, Big Jazz." But I doubt Crown EVER gave composition credits on one of their albums. Any time you don't see credits for composition or lyrics to someone and ASCAP or BMI, it's a good clue that what you're hearing is unlicensed material, and consequently, very likely to have originated from someplace other than the label that issued it. Anyway, a long-winded way of saying that Lalo Morales may remain forever hidden in the mists of cheapo recording history. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Why Nostalgia? clothing Date: 17 Sep 1998 07:19:07 -0500 Moritz wrote: >I did go out dressed as a woman for a while and I shure exaggerated my >gender role, as you put it. I remember me thinking "wow! girls have it >easy!" Not always, MO. For instance, you need a training regimen if you're gonna jitterbug in 2-inch spikes. Or maybe you learned this during your crossdressing thang. Grinning, Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Lalo Morales and Other Crown Mysteries Date: 17 Sep 1998 09:20:40 -0500 Brad wrote an exegesis on Crown Records -- Terrific info, Brad. You got me riffling thro my records, where I easily found three Crown releases. Beautiful Hawaii by the Polynesians lists, I dunno, 100 Crown LPs. Some are obviously by musicians working under aliases or those ripped off: The Crazy Guy plays Honky Tonk Piano, for instance. Some are tribute and salute LPs, with no musicians credited: A Tribute to Hank Williams. Then there are borderline examples: A Tribute to Benny Goodman and a Salute to Benny Goodman, both by Members of Goodman Orch. Given comments by you and Jack D, I'm stunned to see six or eight credited BB King records, along with disks by Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Etta James, indicating the Bihari brothers played it legit with blues artists. I have none of these records, so don't know if they credit composers and/or ASCAP and BMI. Maybe the brothers just got the stuff cheap. Or were these records a legacy from the Biharis' R&B career? Anyone know or care to guess? One other clue hints at Crown's skanky practices: the business address changes. I agree, these mysteries add extra value to Crown finds. I'm still wild to figure out the real identity of Lalo Morales -- asked an expert for help. Will let you know what this hunt turns up, if it reveals anything. In the meanwhile, Latin fans, look for Latin Dance Party. It will cure what ails you with a blast of mambo heat. Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Crown Jewels? Date: 17 Sep 1998 10:59:55 -0400 >Brad wrote an exegesis on Crown Records -- >Brian looked up the word exegesis... Given comments by you and Jack D, I'm stunned to see six or eight credited BB King records, along with disks by Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Etta James, indicating the Bihari brothers played it legit with blues artists. I have none of these records, so don't know if they credit composers and/or ASCAP and BMI. Maybe the brothers just got the stuff cheap. Or were these records a legacy from the Biharis' R&B career? Anyone know or care to guess? I know that King and James both recorded for Modern, so that is a definite Bihari connection. Hooker recorded for so many people, I wouldn't be surprised if he recorded for one of the Bihari labels, James recorded for Flair, which was a Bihari. Witherspoon is an odd case, in the sense that I have an album partially by him, with no writing credits on Sutton Records. Another Crown perhaps? This record is distinguished by easily the strangest version (Not by Witherspoon) of "Oh, What a Night". The lyrics should be: Lead: Oh, What a Night Group: To hold you, dear. This version just has the lead singing, "Oh, What a Night". Then some instrumentation. Then he sings "Oh, What a Night". Then some instrumentation. On it goes and then they switch keys! No chorus, no call-and-response. Brian Phillips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) site note of tenuous relevance Date: 17 Sep 1998 11:04:23 -0400 If you read my interview with Joe Jack Talcum regarding kiddie records, you may be interested to know that you can now hear some of his unreleased pop material in the poppin' fresh update of OOK JOOK -- the Pleasant Pop Edition. Site link below. Just to save any misunderstandings, my usage of pop here is in the guitar pop sense, not the pre-rock sense. Thanks for the bandwidth, m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mark D. Head" Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 17 Sep 1998 10:57:37 -0500 Someone posted looking for info on Lorraine Bowen - I too am interested in anything anyone could supply, including how/where to buy her CD. I bought a Various Artists CD, "Music to Watch Comets By," compiled by the Gentle People, as a Japanese import. This has 2 cuts by Bowen, "Space," and "Julie Christie," which the previous poster referenced. Both cuts are great, IMO. The rest of the CD is excellent, too, especially if you like the Gentle People's ambient, electronic, moogy groove (which I have come to really like). I've listened to "Comets" over and over and don't seem to get tired of it. Also includes a killer track called "Magic Fly" by some group called Visit Venus; I found an import CD by them at CDNow and ordered it. There's a great cut by the French artist Valerie LeMercier (who also shows up on a couple of Tricatel compilations I found) called "Bungalow." And 2 fabulous tracks by some band with a female lead singer called Natural Calamity. I also found that as an import at CDNow. Natural Calamity has a dreamy, bluesy, electronic loungy feel, if you can believe that combination. BTW, "Comets" ends with Br. Cleve & His Lush Orchestra's version of Mancini's "Dreamsville," which I also have on Del-Fi's release, "Shots in the Dark." -- Mark D. Head _________________________________________________ TANSTAAFL! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Sando Subject: Re: (exotica) Lalo Morales and Other Crown Mysteries Date: 17 Sep 1998 09:17:08 -0700 >I agree, these mysteries add extra value to Crown finds. I'm still wild to >figure out the real identity of Lalo Morales -- asked an expert for help. >Will let you know what this hunt turns up, if it reveals anything. In the >meanwhile, Latin fans, look for Latin Dance Party. It will cure what ails >you with a blast of mambo heat. I'm pretty up on things Latin and I've never heard of Lalo Morales. Could it be Crown was trying to fool people into thinking it was Noro Morales, using tracks by others as previously described? MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media Visit MisterLUCKY on the web: http://www.mrlucky.com PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107 "Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bissia Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica- JJ Perrey Interview on KFJC-FM Date: 17 Sep 1998 18:54:14 +0100 -------------------- A few more question for Jean Jacques Perrey -----> Can Jean Jacques Perrey tell us a bit more about the curative faculties of sound, as well as about that research sound lab (in Florida I think) ? Now, on the fact that E.V.A was sampled so many times ... Does Jean Jacques Perrey see this as an opportunity for the young 'breaks and beat music' ( to be not too specific ) oriented public to open up or discover his music, do he see this as a sort of homage or to the contrary as sound robbery ? When performing on stage does David Chazam sometimes sample some bits of what Jean Jacques Perrey is actualy playing and forward these pieces back to the audiance ? All in direct ? ... What does Jean Jacques think about positive auto suggestive methods ? Does he still prefer pizzas without tomatoes ? Do he work or plan to work on a next album with the Eclektronics or other musician ? Apart of the Italian restaurant incident with the crew does he keep a good impression and souvenir from his last venue in Bruxelles ? Will he come and play live in Antwerp or Holland in the future ? ( I can help him to reach the right peoples for Antwerp if he want ) What music does he mainly listen to at home or on the road aside of his own productions ? ----------------- ps : I've posted to you privately AND to the list to make sure you receive these questions on time for the broadcast ________________________________________________ Thank you for your understanding # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Crown and Budget Labels Date: 17 Sep 1998 10:12:08 -0700 Brad Bigelow Writes: Crown--like Diplomat, Coronet, and a number of other budget labels--many of them associated with the Bihari brothers, pioneers in the R&B business, often used unlicensed or public domain material and packaged them under the name of fictional groups to capitalize on whatever listening trend was hot at the time. Crown did on occasion give accurate credit--like in the case of two great LPs by Buddy Collette, "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat" and "Little Band, Big Jazz." "Jazz Heat Bongo Beat" by Buddy Collette's Latin All Stars is 1 of the top TOP Latin Beatnik Bongo rekkids of all time I used to have a record a "an artist I've never seen another record by", can't remember the name though, which was in reality "Jazz Heat Bongo Beat" Kinda pissed me off 'cause it was also a shitty pressing which = bad sound. It wouldn't have been so bad if it was a decent pressing WHICH Crown was also well known for, melting and re-melting records and for that matter anything black and plastic to make "newer" pressing, like say black ashtrays:) Some of the horrible and disgusting physically looking records I have seen have been Crown. Like those vinyl "pimples" we sometimes see on budget labels" ALMOST THE ENTIRE RECORD were those pimples VILENESS! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Tune in The House of Games with Jack Diamond Sundays 10AM-1PM Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) KFJC-FM, 89.7 12345 El Monte Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA Since January 1993 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Other Crown Mysteries Date: 17 Sep 1998 10:21:39 -0700 At 09:20 AM 9/17/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Brad wrote an exegesis on Crown Records -- > Then, the hot one, Mimi wrote-- >Given comments by you and Jack D, I'm stunned to see six or eight credited >BB King records, along with disks by Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy >Witherspoon, and Etta James, indicating the Bihari brothers played it legit >with blues artists. True Mimi! BUT, they totally ripped them off as in not paying them nary a dime In fact, BB King left Crown as he got tired of seeing some of his finest recordings for .99 in stores like White Front or other late 60's/early 70's supermarket type stores All the rest of those guys too; Elmore James, John Lee Hooker, Etta James Didn't pay them almost anything AND those BB King rekkids ARE HIS BEST RECORDINGS TO DATE! Early to Mid 50's Also, Pee Wee Craytons best record is on Crown, see it here; http://www.jackdiamond.to/Pee_Wee_Crayton.jpg Another MAJOR RIP-OFF SCUMBAG was Joe Scott of Duke records who recorded the likes of the greats like Bobby Bland Not only did he not pay him hardly anything or for that matter, any other artist on his label, BUT on the label credits, he credits himself as the composer. Forget about ASCAP or BMI Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) Crown/Modern Date: 17 Sep 1998 10:22:49 -0700 There's also another great record that are many of those guys called "Jazz Surprise." Can't remember if it's Crown or Modern Crown was born out of the ashes of Modern. Modern was 1st, then Crown. On the Jazz Masquerade LP, they say on the back liners "WHO COULD THESE GUYS BE ?" Art Pepper, Ben Webster, Stan Getz et al ? Yes, they were:) JD At 05:02 AM 9/17/98, you wrote: > >Re: the note asking about Lalo Morales: > >Crown Records almost always give you extra value for your money, because >along with the music, you get a puzzle: "Who the heck is this?" > >An acquaintance of mine once dissected a Crown release titled "Jazz >Masquerade" that features a photo of group of musicians in a recording >studio wearing little party masks. I don't have the note handy, but he was >finally able to attribute the cuts on the album to, as I recall: > > Outtakes from a "Jazz at the Lighthouse" (Howard Rumsey's ad hoc >collection of West Coast jazz greats) session (mid-1950s) > A cut from a Gene Norman "Jazz at the Philharmonic" concert (late 1940s) > A cut from a minor L.A.-based R&B group from the mid-1950s # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) Jack Hylton etc Date: 17 Sep 1998 19:03:02 +0100 hi all someone was asking whether anyone here ever listened to ye olde dance bands, that's dance bands as in 1920s, 1930s and 1940s strict tempo 78rpm platters designed to be played on a wind-up gramophone ... Jack Hylton, Jack Payne etc ... I've liked some of this music ever since I was given a gramo-phone and a box of 78s when I was about 10 years old - the following quote on the list a few days a go really sums it up well I think: "tracks like "Keep Young and Beautiful" and "Everything Stops For Tea" by Roy Fox -- I can imagine the singer polishing up his monocle, swilling champagne, and taking a puff via a 7" cigarette holder before firing off his toffee-edged vocals. " That's absoutely spot on, old bean. Anyway I have a pile of such 78s, mostly dance band and jazz stuff, and am currently transferring some of them to CD - when this is finished, I'll be happy to maybe do exchanges with list members, email me privately for info. Might even scan some of those great art deco record sleeves ("The Greatest Hits are on His Masters Voice", "Rex - The King of Records" etc) for an inlay. Hey, that'd be cool. Yours, with authentic crackle and pop sounds, phil phil-c@dircon.co.uk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 17 Sep 1998 12:46:04 -0700 (PDT) I've been searching for a year for Lorraine Bowen and theres been some posts about her to the list. She has a web site at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/monte/people/lorraine.htm I sent a check to the canadian address located on the site in July. The check hasd never cleared my account ad I have never heard any thing back. I have not been able to find anything else on her but hope to hear something someday from te list. Chuck ---"Mark D. Head" wrote: > > > Someone posted looking for info on Lorraine Bowen - I too am interested > in anything anyone c _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 17 Sep 1998 16:00:04 -0400 >I've been searching for a year for Lorraine Bowen and theres been some >posts about her to the list. She has a web site at >http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/monte/people/lorraine.htm Nope, that page is gone now. There is a reference to her at http://www.commex.org/jenny/rollclaf.htm#Bowen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Crown and Buddy Collette Date: 17 Sep 1998 17:04:10 -0400 At 10:12 AM 17/09/98 -0700, Jack Diamond wrote: >Crown did on occasion give accurate credit--like in the case of two great >LPs by Buddy Collette, "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat" and "Little Band, Big Jazz." > >"Jazz Heat Bongo Beat" by Buddy Collette's Latin All Stars is 1 of the top >TOP Latin Beatnik Bongo rekkids of all time Well Crown and Buddy Collette must have been good for each other. My one great Crown record is also by Buddy Collette and has the memorable title of: "The Girl from Ipanema, Why do you linger, It never can be and other favourites featuring Buddy Collette". I'd call it a very good bossa nova/jazz record with a small combo and a nice out front rhythm section. The cover on the other hand sucks. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Gentle People / Kerosene Date: 17 Sep 1998 18:57:08 PDT Well, it took a couple of years, but I finally found a reasonably priced used copy of the Gentle People's "Soundtracks for Living" CD (UK-only release for some reason, as far as I know). With the first listen, I was a bit disappointed, but it has grown on me rapidly ever since. Now I've taken to wandering around the house muttering "I *love* the Gentle People" in a zombified Stepford wife manner. Quite pleasant. Wonder why no U.S. label ever licensed it? The CD "Teenage Secret" by German electronics guy Kerosene doesn't fare as well, IMO. Despite attempts at exotica relevance (song titles: Mambo of Terror / Homeboy Hawaii / Nylon Stockings / etc.), this overall seems pretty weak, possibly even exploitative, executed by someone who hasn't really dipped beyond surface textures and hasn't done his homework. Speaking of homework, where in the world is Jennifer? I really thought she'd be back around now, because I believe she was a student at U. Penn. I hope she will be back one of these days. -- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: the curator Subject: (exotica) Alice's Restaurant Cookbook Date: 17 Sep 1998 11:23:35 +0000 Folks While junk-shop browsing the other day when I came accross Alice's Restaurant Cookbook by Alice May Brock ... i probably would have passed it by but for the fact that it has the words "with a recorded introduction by Arlo Guthrie" on the front cover ... this got me interested so i looked inside ... the "recorded introduction" is actually a flexi which i was amazed to find was still in there ... and playable!! ... there's alot of recipes and alot of strange pictures ... as a vegetarian, it kinda gives me the creeps ... lots of meat recipes ... and also an incsription, which reads: " for my favourite apprentice - and looking forward to so many lovely dinners in future, Papa Escoffirer, Aout 1977" ... wonder if he got his dinners? if anyone's interested [and i'm sure one or two of you are :-) ] mail me off the list with anything you'd like to offer as a swap (or money if you're really not interested in doing a swap of some kind) i'll be expecting your mails Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kerry Byrnes Subject: (exotica) When Lyman Performs? Date: 17 Sep 1998 21:19:20 -0400 Our family is planning a trip to Hawaii next year. I recall reading an earlier posting that Arthur Lyman is still performing once a week (possibly on a Friday) at some hotel in Hawaii. If you have any more concrete information about which hotel and which day(s) of the week, please let me hear from you. Thanks, Kerry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) Lyman vibin' Hawaii Date: 17 Sep 1998 16:55:06 -1000 Kerry- You're right... Arthur Lyman performs at the New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel's Hau Tree Terrace on Fridays from 12-1pm. Still handsome and playing great vibes solo for an appreciative crowd! alohaderci, Fluid Floyd/Don Tiki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Diamond Subject: (exotica) WA/OR Rekkid Stores Date: 17 Sep 1998 20:19:01 -0700 Hello, I'm going to be in the Seattle/Tacoma, WA and Portland, OR area soon and NEED to know what rekkid stores that be there:) Thanks! Jack # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) budget brass Date: 18 Sep 1998 11:50:01 PDT The recent talk about budget brass records had me digging through my collection and revisiting records in this genre. I'm sort of partial to the LPs on Somerset by "The Band I Heard in Tijuana." This takes the marketing of generic TJ Brass rip off bands to a new level of anonymity. Not only is the band's name barely mentioned in the packaging, but it's obviously just a fake project name for the studio musicians who needed extra money that week ("Los Norte Americanos"). As if that weren't enough, the cover photos depict musicians in silhouette only, as though their real identity were incidental (which is true, actually), while the caucasian tourists are shown clearly. Finally, marketing these things with the name "The Band I Heard in Tijuana" seems to imply that the tourists can't be bothered making distinctions about individual bands, or remembering a genuine name, but instead just lump them all together as interchangable. Which is sort of the point of these knock-off records. Audacious. There were at least two volumes of this, and I seem to recall seeing a boxed set once or twice. Surprisingly, the music is pretty good. Daniel Miller did put out some quality stuff on this label. -- Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 18 Sep 1998 11:20:59 -0400 At 10:57 AM -0500 9/17/98, Mark D. Head wrote: >BTW, "Comets" ends with Br. Cleve & His Lush Orchestra's version of >Mancini's "Dreamsville," which I also have on Del-Fi's release, "Shots >in the Dark." ....but the "Music To Watch Comets By" CD contains the full 6 minute version, whereas the "Shots In The Dark" CD has an edited version (they chopped it up to save on the mechanical royalty payments, which go up after 5 minutes of song length.) br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MUV96TBD@Student2.lu.se (Michelle Legrand) Subject: (exotica) Thriftstores in London Date: 18 Sep 1998 18:06:41 +0100 I'm going to London next month. What are the best places in central London to pick up used vinyl, thriftstore stuff? I'm particularly interested in Baxter, Bacharach, Legrand, etc, etc. The best recordstores, Amnesties and Salvation Armies....thanks. Michelle Legrand # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 18 Sep 1998 09:59:41 -0700 (PDT) The link for Lorraine Bowen at easynet is gone. I sent a check in July to the Canada address but nothings happened. I did print out a copy of the site in July, it read as follows: "A Song, a Smile and a Memory To Treasure Forever" Yoo Hoo! Wow I'm on the internet! It's SO modern. COMPACT DISK Greatest hits volume One is still available. There's 17 hits including Julie Christie, The Crumble Song, Bicycle Adventure and Interesting Mail with a complete 16 page booklet with all the words in so you cansing along to your heart's content. You can order your CD by post l~ 11 (uk) inc. P&P Cheques to Lorraine Bowen PO Box 112, Dandury, Chelmsford, CM3 4Df If you're one of our beloved American or North American cousins then let not the worry of money transfer bother you. NO! there's a kind lady sitting in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada just waiting for your dosh (that's money in English). Here's the details: Cheques for $20 (Canadian) or $22 (US dollars) Payable to Lorraine Bowen from:- Nicola Schaefer 207 Harvard Avenue, Winnipeg, Mannitoba, R3M OJ9 Canada VIDEO I've done two videos. BICYCLE ADVENTURE- a lovely scenic ride through the Surrey countryide passing bowlers and sheep Plus SPACE- a pop video! ith husband and wife dancing team making guest appearances. Both L~4.50 each (abit expensive but cult value and limited editios) same address ---"Mark D. Head" wrote: Thanks for your update - the link doesn't seem to work for me; it says either I don't have permission to view the page or it's out of date and doesn't exist. Oh, well - maybe something on her will turn up via the list - it's very frustrating to find cool stuff and then not be able to buy more of it! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Tenth Victim + Begins with a B Date: 18 Sep 1998 16:37:44 +0200 >From: Peter Risser >Also, what label is it on? Where can I find it? Piero Piccioni: "La Decima Vittima (The 10th Victim)" cd/2lp, Right Tempo/Easy Tempo, Italy, 1998 with bonus material not found on the original 1965 Mainstream LP in Europe: try Groove Attack IN the USA: Dusty Groove (URL's: "Linquarium": ) Just saw a new CD/book release featuring very exotic/strange instruments from around the world .... on the Ellipsis Arts label "Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones" cd, Ellipsis Arts, USA?, 1998 The "eXotica Releases Overview": # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) exotica Fwd: White Trash Weekend! Date: 18 Sep 1998 14:38:34 EDT This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_906143916_boundary Content-ID: <0_906143916@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII for exoticats and kittens in the boston area who may also be responsive to a touch of garage --part0_906143916_boundary Content-ID: <0_906143916@inet_out.mail.rounder.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (rly-zd01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.225]) by air-zd01.mail.aol.com (v49.1) with SMTP; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:42:23 -0400 Received: from rounder.com (oboe.rounder.com [199.0.71.15]) by rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA24958; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:41:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from georgeh.rounder.com ([199.0.71.151]) by rounder.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA26482; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:39:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from georgeh@rounder.com) Reply-To: George Hall Message-ID: X-X-Sender: georgeh@rounder.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit **************************************************** ***Note: If you wish to be removed from this list*** *just reply with the phrase "This is not funny and** **moreover, I do not like the Cut of your Jib." We** *will do our level best to leave you alone. Promise* **************************************************** Two things; 1) In advance of our February release debut CD, Seks Bomba has released two songs to a couple radio stations around town; "Jet City", an instro by Bomba bassist Matt Silbert and "Bright Lights and You, Girl", a cover that's been in our set from the start, sung with devilish power and accuracy by Mr. Chris Cote. Look for a world premier on the Joan Hathaway show, 4-5 pm this friday on WMBR, followed by airplay on your favorite local show... 2) This Friday & Saturday at the Linwood Grill in Boston, Cheeseball magazine and the Speed Devils present a "White Trash Weekend". The Linwood is located at 69 Kilmarnock St. on the Fenway. Seks Bomba performs friday at 10:30, following ERIC ROYERS' GUITAR MACHINE BAND (amazing...this man must be seen) at 9:00 & some good, clean family fun with the KENNE HIGHLAND CLAN (9:30). "And just what exactly is a team of stylish, sophisticated, skilled entertainers, internationally reknown for their questionable and often groundless habit of slinging around such phrases as 'internationally reknown,' performing (or whatever you call it) in a so-called 'White Trash Weekend?,'" you may ask. Well...viewed cinematically, SEKS BOMBA would represent the Weekend-of- Personal-Degradation-and-Heavy-Losses-at-the-Craps-Table-in-Sunny-Las- Vegas scene, followed by the Drivin'-Home-at-Excessive-Velocity-While- Pursued-By-A-Couple-Dozen-Smokies-in-Eight-Powder-Blue-'65-Fairlanes scene (SPEED DEVILS), itself followed by the Back-Home-to-the-Same-Ol'-9-to-5- Grind-of-Poppin'-40-oz-Malts-&-Holding-Up-Gas-Stations-&-Sacrificin'- Critters-on-th'-Alter-of-The-Prince-of-Darkness/Happy-Ending scene (8 BALL SHIFTER). Fri 9/18 12:30 - 8 Ball Shifter 11:30 - The Speed Devils 10:30 - SEKS BOMBA 9:30 - Kenne Highland & the Kenne Highland Clan, featuring Kenne Highland 9:00 - Eric Royer's Guitar Machine Band Sat 9/19 12:30 - The Strangemen 11:30 - The Bourbonaires 10:30 - The Stumbleweeds 9:30 - The Konk 9:00 - Eric Royer's Guitar Machine Band *************************************************** ***SEKS BOMBA: WE KNOW WHERE YOU LEFT THOSE KEYS*** *************************************************** --part0_906143916_boundary-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Gentle People / Lorraine Bowen Date: 18 Sep 1998 12:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Brad, if you like the Gentle People you might want to listen to Music to Watch Comets By put together by the Gentle People. I like the Comets cd so much I purchased the cds from every artist on it except for Lorraine Bowen which I have not been able to locate after much hard work. Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Experience Date: 18 Sep 1998 12:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Mark: The link for Lorraine Bowen at easynet is gone. I sent a check in July to the Canada address but nothings happened. I did print out a copy of the site in July, it read as follows: "A Song, a Smile and a Memory To Treasure Forever" Yoo Hoo! Wow I'm on the internet! It's SO modern. COMPACT DISK Greatest hits volume One is still available. There's 7 hits including Julie Christie, The Crumble Song, Bicycle Adventure and Interesting Mail with a complete 16 page booklet with all the words in so you cansing along to your heart's content. L~ 11 (uk) inc. P&P Cheques to Lorraine Bowen PO Box 112, Dandury, Chelmsford, CM3 4Df If you're one of our beloved American or North American cousins then let not the worry of money transfer bother you. NO! there's a kind lady sitting in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada just waiting for your dosh (that's money in English). Here's the details: > > Cheques for $20 (Canadian) or $22 (US dollars) Payable to Lorraine Bowen from:- Nicola Schaefer 207 Harvard Avenue, Winnipeg, Mannitoba, R3M OJ9 Canada VIDEO I've done two videos. BICYCLE ADVENTURE- a lovely scenic ride through the Surrey countryide passing bowlers and sheep Plus SPACE- a pop video! ith husband and wife dancing team making guest appearances. Both L~4.50 each (abit expensive but cult value and limited editios) same address. > > ---"Mark D. Head" wrote: > > Thanks for your update - the link doesn't seem to work for me; it says either I don't have permission to view the page or it's out of date and doesn't exist. Oh, well - maybe something on her will turn up via the list - it's very frustrating to find cool stuff and then not be able to buy more of it! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: (exotica) Things to do, see in Baltimore? Date: 18 Sep 1998 15:09:46 -0500 Hey, cats... I'll be on a business trip to Baltimore next month. What are some good bars/eateries/record stores I should check out? -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Biophony Date: 18 Sep 1998 16:14:52 -0500 Krause's name pops up here every now and then. A RealAudio netcast of yesterday's All Things Considered interview with him is available at the following URL: Biophony -- Host Bob Edwards talks to Bernie Krause about the sounds he's recorded in natural habitats around the world over the last 30 years. Krause talks about "biophony," a term he defines as "the combined sound that whole groups of living organisms produce in any given environment." (8:34) [Krause's autobiography, Into a Wild Sanctuary: A Life in Music and Natural Sound, is published by heyday books. His cd's are available this week on the Mirimar label.] Due to Internet rights issues, this segment has been modified from its original broadcast form. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Bob Dixon obit and, no, this guy ain't dead Date: 18 Sep 1998 15:21:28 -0500 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > << Shoot! I don't remember the answers to the first two questions, but I > believe the actor who introduced Sheriff Whats-his-name was Michael > Richards, who played Cosmo Kramer on "Seinfeld". >> > > Your right -- it was. I did some more digging, and found this on the E! website (http://www.eonline.com/Hot/Awards/Emmys98/Blow/index2.html): "Michael Richards in a tux jacket and shorts does a Kramer stumble. Boy that's old. He introduces a clip from the old Sheriff John series: "My first inspiration," Richards says. The real Sheriff John is here, wearing his actual sheriff suit and clutching his own Emmy." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Oops - Biophony Date: 18 Sep 1998 16:26:44 -0500 At 04:14 PM 9/18/98 -0500, I wrote: >Krause's name pops up here every now and then. A RealAudio netcast of >yesterday's All Things Considered interview with him is available at the >following URL: >Biophony -- Host Bob Edwards talks to Bernie Krause about the sounds he's >recorded in natural habitats around the world over the last 30 years. > Ooops, wrong show and URL. The interview was on Morning Edition, and this is the proper URL: -Lou # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Those hard to find cds Date: 18 Sep 1998 14:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Drive In presents Easy tune Vol 1, 2, 3, & 4 on Drive-In /Outland Records, 1996 I was able to find Vols 3 & 4 and now I understand that theres a Japanese Easy Tune Greatest Hits out. Vol 2 is Xmas music! Does any one have any info on how to find Vol 1 & 2 or the Best of Easy Tunes? Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Carousel of Progress Date: 18 Sep 1998 18:54:07 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 08:18:23 EDT, Rcbrooksod writes: << Did they have a Carosel of Progress (sponsored by GE) at Disneyland. I absolutely loved that. The building was round and the outer part rotated. >> I guess you did not see this in Yesterland? So I would assume it didn't exist. But I do remember when I was younger they had this carousel-like building where there was this walkway that rotated around the building as the building seemed to go in the opposite direction. My memory is foggy on this, but I think it was a ".... America" ride. It was over in Tomorrowland I'm pretty sure. Maybe is USED to be a Carousel of Progress? Does anyone remember what it is that I am referring to? - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki room context Date: 18 Sep 1998 18:54:13 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 12:30:27 EDT, lousmith@pipeline.com writes: << So all Disney's gotta do is a Tiki-flavored movie (animated or not) and the Tiki Room would be back with a vengeance. Has Disney picked up on the Exotica/Lounge vibe yet? .... I can see how DisneyLand might need the space for new attractions and have to sacrifice an old attraction, but there's plenty of room in DisneyWorld. They should create a space for all the old attractions to go when they retire. That's what Florida is for, >> I agree! It does seem curious that with all the popular commercials on television using "lounge/exotica" signifiers/references/themes that Disney wouldn't know about the revival - and figuring there's got to be at least SOME hipsters working there - do they or do they not know of this? My guess is they don't, but even if they did, they'd probably say the target audience is too small to warrant keeping the attraction. So why didn't they close it a long time ago? Makes you wonder, since we know that by the mid 70s the exotica thing was an old and tired theme that people wanted to forget about. It would be great if they'd reinstall the rides. I will really miss the tiki room if they tear it down. Last time I was there, I tried to photograph it in 3-D and it was a really gloomy day and the pics came out either too dark or drab. - Michele # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Tiki Room/Nostalgia Date: 18 Sep 1998 18:54:05 EDT In a message dated 98-09-15 06:56:47 EDT, risser@goodnews.net writes: << Or maybe Disney could actually open a "Disney Museum". Lord knows, I'd pay a little exytra dough for a trip into that park!! Especially as it grew bigger as the cool old rides were replaced with spectacular new rides... >> Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. For now we will have to settle for the Yesterland website. Have you been there yet? Its pretty neat - full descriptions of the ride with period photos. Remember that ride at Disneyland involving pack mules? I couldn't find anyone (well, I guess maybe besides my parents) that remember that ride and there is was in all its glory in yesterland. A