From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) FWD> NEW L'ATOME recording for next spring "Soft Stones" Date: 01 Nov 1998 15:54:14 +0100 >It looks like there will be a NEW L'ATOME recording as soon as next >spring...the working title is "Soft Stones". > >We are very excited about new artists contributing to this effort. As ECC >says."it may be a whole new direction...combining structuralist elements of >EXP./ POP and JAZZ to a new mix..." > >Best To You > >Leslie Beers (Queen Of Infrastructure) L'Atome Productions # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Guitarra Armada Date: 01 Nov 1998 22:12:17 +0100 Rounder (www.rounder.com) still has this fascinating stuff in their catalog, cassette-only alas Various Artists Guitarra Armada (Armed Guitar) -- Music of the Sandinista Guerrillas Here are the songs which carried the Nicaraguan revolution forward. Since many revolutionaries were illiterate and in any case could not afford to get caught with printed materials, these songs (with instructions on how to clean an M-1 rifle and other crucial information) carried the word. Recorded in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua. tracklist; 01. El Garand (The Garand) 02. Que Es El Fal (What is a Fal?) 03. Las Municiones (Ammunition) 04. Carabina M-1 (The M-1 Carbine) 05. Los Explosivos (Explosives) 06. Memorandum Militar 1-79 (Military Report 1-79) 07. Un Tiro 22 (A 22 Bullet) 08. El Zenzontle Pregunta Por Arlen (The Mockingbird Asks About Arlen) 09. A Gaspar Garcia (To Gaspar Garcia) 10. Comandante Carlos Fonseca 11. Himno De La Unidad Sandinista (Anthem of Sandinista Unity) 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: Brett Leveridge Subject: (exotica) Exotica tome due in April Date: 01 Nov 1998 17:45:38 -0500 (EST) This title, due in April from St. Martin's Griffin, may be of interest to members of this list. Here's the catalogue copy: EXOTIQUARIUM: Album Art from the Space Age by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz Foreword by Lenny Dee An indispensible guide to the wonderfully bizarre, fantastically retro-hip (and highly collectible) world of space-age pop and exotica albums and cover art. Featuring gorgeous color photographs throughout, EXOTIQUARIUM is a giddy guided tour through the greatest moments of 1950s' and 1960s' space-age pop and exotica. From newly rediscovered and trendy names like Esquivel and Yma Sumac to lesser knowns like The Melachrino Orchestra and the Markko Polo Adventurers, this collection of bizarre and fascinating vintage musical ephemera will enthrall both the serious collector and the neo-Swinger weekend enthusiast. The accompany text supplies information about the artists (both musical and visual), the (mood) music they created, definitions of the odd instruments used to create these strange and beautiful sounds (like the theremin), and much more. Complete with a foreword from Lenny Dee -- Decca recording artist and "Organ Lounge Master" -- EXOTIQUARIUM offers a complete portrait of this surreal time in American musical history. An invaluable resource for a dynamic and continually growing international collectors' market and a must-have for lounge lizards new and old. Brett +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ BRETTnews - The Peppy Zine for Active People! http://www.brettnews.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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica tome due in April Date: 01 Nov 1998 17:31:17 +0000 At 05:45 PM 01-11-98 -0500,Brett wrote: >This title, due in April from St. Martin's Griffin, may be of interest to >members of this list....EXOTIQUARIUM: Album Art from the Space Age >by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz >...An invaluable resource ... Boy, I'll say... if the book lives up to its hype. What kind of money are we talking about here? SOUNDS expensive, but it may be worth it. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) US TV again Date: 01 Nov 1998 23:54:41 -0500 (eastern standard times) I Walk Alone (1948) AMC - Monday afternoon, 4:00pm; Early Tuesday, 4:00am - Fresh out of jail, Burt Lancaster has a grudge for his old bootlegging partner, Kirk Douglas (bootleg alcohol, not rekkids). Force Of Evil (1948) AMC - Tuesday morning, 6:00am - Film noir with John Garfield as a racketeer's lawyer. A Face In The Crowd (1957) AMC - Tuesday morning, 10:45am - Andy Griffith as a TV star megalomaniac. The Mad Magician (1954) AMC - Wednesday afternoon, 1:00pm - Vincent Price as a magician who takes professional competition a wee bit too far. Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) AMC - Wednesday afternoon, 4:15pm - Jack Webb directs and stars as a 1920s Chicago jazz trumpeter, plagued by mobsters. With Janet Leigh, Peggy Lee, Edmund O'Brien, Andy Devine, Jayne Mansfield (tiny role), Ella Fitzgerald and Lee Marvin on clarinet. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) AMC - Thursday afternoon, 1:15pm - Maria Montez and Jon Hall, but no Sabu. Son of Ali Baba (1952) AMC - Thursday afternoon, 2:45pm - Piper Laurie and Tony Curtis. Still no Sabu. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue (1957) AMC - Friday morning, 11:00am - Waterfront racketeers, oft-covered theme tune. Jesus Christ, Superstar (1973) Bravo - Friday afternoon, evening, etc, 12:30pm, 9:00pm, 1:00am - Yeah, scary, Andrew Lloyd Webbbbbber. But it's such a heavy dose of early 70s-ism. And Carl Anderson's performance as Judas is frighteningly intense. Some of the instrumental sequences are kind of interesting too, mainly in the opening. Don't Bother To Knock (1952) AMC - Friday night, 10:35pm - Marilyn Monroe as a psycho-babysitter. With Richard Widmark, Anne Bancroft and Elisha Cook, Jr. Mr. Sardonicus (1961) AMC - Friday night/Saturday morning, Midnight - Another William Castle standard. This is the one where the theater audience got to vote on the ending. The Killers (1946) AMC - Saturday afternoon, 12:05pm - Burt Lancaster as a boxer run afoul of crooks. Score by Miklos Rozsa. Bell, Book and Candle (1958) AMC - Early Sunday, 4:00am - Kim Novak, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs in a romantic comedy of hipster witches in Manhattan. Please, I hope you don't think of these lists as comprehensive. I scrounge through the listings each week for my own benefit, and throw some stuff on here to hopefully be a little helpful. But it's all very haphazard. And for example, I know TCM has lots of good stuff, but I don't check them, because I don't get that channel. So, take it with a grain of salt and consult your local listings. I may be skipping something you might love. 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Michel,belle! Violent Violins hefty pricetag Date: 02 Nov 1998 10:08:30 +0000 Violent Violins by Michel Legrand is =A350 on a dealer's most recent mail-out. Thats put you off, hasn't 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: Subject: (exotica) Command Action Pix,Tikis Date: 02 Nov 1998 08:45:14 -0500 Sad to say, my would-be mother-n-law, would she have lived, was on Command. She was a Ray Charles Singer, and also performed with Perry Como. We have reason to believe, that she might have been on the I LOVE PARIS session that Screamin Jay Hawkins recorded. Command rarely listed its session personell unless they were the star-variety. To Otto, Jimmy Bee, and other Bostonians on the list...I think I've driven by that Tiki place in Newton, but have reason to believe it might be a sports bar now. I'm not sure...do you guys know? Otto, of course you're hip to our Aku-Aku, Weyloos and Kowloon, eh? Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) DK members new band.... Date: 02 Nov 1998 08:51:31 -0500 is Jumbo Shrimp.=20 They have a 7" out called "Thingie." - 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Higgins, Misraki obits Date: 02 Nov 1998 10:54:09 -0600 *Dick Higgins NEW YORK (AP) -- Dick Higgins, an influential figure in the avant-garde movement of the early 1960s, died of a heart attack Oct. 25 while visiting Quebec City. He was 60. The writer, composer, poet and artist who lived in New York City was known for works with such esoteric titles as ``foew&ombwhnw,'' an acronym for ``freaked out electronic wizard and other marvelous bartenders who have no wings.'' The 1969 book of essays, whose pages featured columns of word scores, visual poetry and essays that ran vertically from spread to spread, was bound in leather, like a prayer book with a ribbon bookmark. He also founded, funded and ran several publishing companies, including Something Else Press. Established in 1964, it published works by Gertrude Stein, Richard Hulsenbeck, Merce Cunningham and John Cage and went out of business in 1975. The Cambridge, England native played a key role in the Happenings and concrete poetry movements. He was the co-founder of the Fluxus movement, which accepted any activity as art and played fast and loose with definitions. *Paul Misraki PARIS (AP) -- Composer Paul Misraki, author of more than 160 cinema soundtracks and a major influence behind the growth of swing in France, died late Thursday or early Friday after a long illness. He was 90. Misraki was born in 1908 in Constantinople -- now Istanbul, Turkey -- but spent most of his life in France. During the Nazi occupation, he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and later worked for RKO Pictures in Hollywood. He began playing the piano at age 4, and wrote his first piece three years later. In the 1930s, he teamed up with musician Ray Ventura in France, where they tasted success with their brand of swing. He moved into cinema in the 1940s, composing for Orson Welles, Jacques Becker, Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. Up until his death, Misraki continued to work, compiling a compact disc of his most famous works that is due to be released within weeks, his family said. He also wrote a dozen essays on spirituality. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Coati Mundi live/free Date: 02 Nov 1998 11:25:30 -0600 Brooklyn Museum of Art 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn (718) 638-5000 x372; http://www.brooklynart.org Saturday November 7 7-9pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (as seen in Kutie#4) and musical group Fresh Fish. Juggling, magic, music, fire eating, sword swallowing and more. 9-11pm The Mambophonic Juice Jam featuring Coati Mundi, formerly of Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Dancing to the music of live 7-piece band. 9-11pm The Clowns. Federico Fellini's 1970s film. And more. Admission and parking are free. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Beatsville CD Date: 02 Nov 1998 10:06:07 -0800 Hey kids, Rod McKuen made 3 GREAT rekkids and 2 of them are on the Hi Fi Record label, same label as Arthur Lyman 1 is called Time of Desire and the other and BEST BY LIGHT YEARS is called BEATSVILLE It is totally cool and amazingly wonderful tongue in cheek and straight ahead incredibly enjoyable spoken word beatnik poetry It has SUPER COOL beatnik jazz behind his voice IT IS AMAZING!!! AND HAS JUST BEEN REISSUED ONTO CD "It is truly one of the great lost artifacts of late 50's pop culture, an insider's portrait of a Bohemian community delivered with all the wit, affection and stylistic confidence it deserved" with many extra tracks including "Beat Generation", "Six Songs for the Sun", "Yellow Unicorn", "If I Could Fly", "What Love Means", "Theme From In Search of Eros", "I Always Knew" 24 Tracks, extensive liner notes, original cover $17.99 plus $2 for shipping in the US and $4 shipping overseas Please e-mail direct if interested Too hip, gotta go 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 Subject: (exotica) Fantastica reissue Date: 02 Nov 1998 10:13:42 -0800 Hey kids, Russ Garcia's all time great outer space "exotica" masterpiece "FANTASTICA", is going to be reissued on GNP Crescendo with Extra Tracks bringing it up to around 60 minutes You heard it here, 1st! More later, JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) criswell Date: 02 Nov 1998 08:18:08 -0500 recently a few of you were talking about the Criswell Predicts CD...and where you could get it... a friend of mine who runs a video/music mailorder of psychotronic goodies just got it in.... check it out...tell him Bump sent ya. his name is Brian. TRASH PALACE p.o. box 2565, Silver Spring, MD 20915 phone: 301-681-4625 (don't call too early!) e-mail: trashpal@erols.com website: http://www.erols.com/trashpal =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump DJ of all things groovy Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Dig the Music, Kids" -- JONNY ALUCARD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) moog continued Date: 02 Nov 1998 20:47:52 +0000 bsalter@slip.net typed: >Umm, at his lecture / demo in SF last week, JJP specifically mentioned >having 'sampled' that album! He knew Schaeffer, Henry, et al, at the time.= .. >he had studied musique concrete with Schaeffer, and near the end of >his studies, announced to his teacher that he wanted to use the techniques >to create 'electronic pop' music, to which Schaeffer pompously replied, >"You will NEVER succeed!" ;) In my experience, Jean Jacques Perrey has .__.always.__ cited the work of Pierre Schaeffer and his student Pierre Henry. He retells the tale with a generous, and gentle humour that is lost when it is translated so literally. Perrey 'sampled' the methodology, never the music. If I may again quote from a piece copyrighted and first published in May 199= 6: "Having witnessed Pierre Schaeffer's elaborate artistry at first hand, and hearing huge loops of sound, Perrey chose to edit his repetitions into quirky compilations of rapid rhythms. Utilising the environmental sounds of musique concr=E8te, he created the LP 'Musique Electronique du Cosmos' in 1961, with just two tape machines linked together." Equally as influential as Schaeffer upon Perrey's work, is the Dutch composer of electronic music, Tom Dissevelt. yves@inwpent1.rug.ac.be typed: > To put some more oil on the fire: doesn't the last track on > Moog Indigo : Passport to the future , sound a bit like > Telstar by the Tornados ? Though there are sure to be earlier incidences, I would nominate George Harrison as 'maybe the first to..' How about his 'My Sweet Lord' measured against the Ronettes' 'He's So Fine'? > Maybe it's just all great Music !!! There's no maybe about it :) 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued Date: 02 Nov 1998 13:11:26 -0800 Desmond K. Hill wrote: > = > bsalter@slip.net typed: > = > >Umm, at his lecture / demo in SF last week, JJP specifically mentioned= > >having 'sampled' that album! He knew Schaeffer, Henry, et al, at the = time... > >he had studied musique concrete with Schaeffer, and near the end of > >his studies, announced to his teacher that he wanted to use the techni= ques > >to create 'electronic pop' music, to which Schaeffer pompously replied= , > >"You will NEVER succeed!" ;) I was there and remember the story. I do not recall him specifically mentioning that he sampled Schaeffer. (This does not meant that he did not say that) As a result of the write-up I did for the list, I got some email forwarded to me from Brian Phillips (Thanks again, Brian!) Seems Brian sent my post = to someone who passed it on to JJP. Mr. Perrey sent me a very nice note. I replied, but have not heard back. If I do start a correspondence with him, I will endeavor to settle this once and for all. > = Desmond Writes: > "Having witnessed Pierre Schaeffer's elaborate artistry at first hand, = and > hearing huge loops of sound, Perrey chose to edit his repetitions into > quirky compilations of rapid rhythms. Utilising the environmental soun= ds > of musique concr=E8te, he created the LP 'Musique Electronique du Cosmo= s' in > 1961, with just two tape machines linked together." This the gist I got from Perreys story. Personally, I do not think that = it matters, except as a point of fact. It would just make Perrey responsible for another first: Being the first to sample other artist works and incorporate into his own unique composition a'la the DJ's of the present. (With whom Perrey is quite impressed.) Bsalter writes: > = > > To put some more oil on the fire: doesn't the last track on > > Moog Indigo : Passport to the future , sound a bit like > > Telstar by the Tornados ? HA! I always thought the tune was a bit derivative of Telstar, or maybe the other way around...I neve paid attention to the chronology. To which Desmond replies: = > Though there are sure to be earlier incidences, I would nominate George= > Harrison as 'maybe the first to..' How about his 'My Sweet Lord' measu= red > against the Ronettes' 'He's So Fine'? Maybe not firsty, but definately not leasty - The Banana Splits theme and Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier." Tra la la, wo yo yo yo... Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued Date: 02 Nov 1998 16:51:14 -0500 >Maybe not firsty, but definately not leasty - The Banana Splits theme >and Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier." I always thought Stanley Clarke's "School Days" sounded like a cop of the Banana Splits theme. Remember fusion? I've *tried* to forget. 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued Date: 02 Nov 1998 14:11:44 -0800 Whoopsie! I got my hookups confused... I am indebted o Brian for a different favor. The folks on this list are all so good to me, I can hardly keep y'all straight. Thanks again Lou. Even if I did get confused. That Email was a THRILL for me. I will try the postal address if I can remember how to put pen to paper. > > Ahem, that were me, not our pal Brian. Anyway, Dana Countryman (JJP's > friend) tells me that that e-mail address may only have been "good" during > JJP's US visit. His US manager, who he stayed with, set it up for him. JJP > doesn't have a computer at home in France, and I'm not sure if anyone is > monitoring that e-mail address for him. > > Cheers, > 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Moon Base Alpha #4, 1/11/98 Date: 02 Nov 1998 22:44:41 -0000 Here's the playlist for the fourth and final (for the time being!) Moon Base Alpha radio broadcast which took place yesterday afternoon: INTRO: Korla Pandit - Tales of the Underwater Worshippers (Exotica 2000) MIXED WITH: Squarepusher - Curve 1 (Music is Rotted One Note) Lew Davies - Ghost Riders in the Sky (Strange Interlude) Enoch Light - Swamp Fire (Dimension 3) Bob McFadden & Dor - The Mummy (Incredibly Strange Music #2) The Ebonnettes - Wild Man Walk (Jungle Exotica) Neal Hefti - King Tut's Tomb (Batman) Laika and the Cosmonauts - Experiment in Terror (Instruments of Terror) Bruce Haack - Wooden Bread (Hush Little Robot) John Buzon - Mr Ghost Goes to Town (Organs in Orbit) Squarepusher - Circular Flexing (Music Is Rotted One Note) under "Werewolf" spoken word piece Esquivel - Lazy Bones (Space Age Bachelor Pad Music) Barry Adamson - Jazz Devil (As Above So Below) Jack Malmstein - Satan Takes a Holiday (Space Capades) MBA NEWS FEATURE - Is the Moon Made of Cheese? Enoch Light - Caravan (Future Sound Shock) Helmut Zacharias - Japanese Lantern Dance (Tokyo Melody) The Ventures - Vampcamp (Batman) Super Souds of Bosworth - Hula Rock (Super Sounds of Bosworth) Enoch Light - Gang at Green Grotto (Private Life of a Private Eye) Michel Legrand - Orange Blossom Special (Super Stereo Sound Sampler) Free Design - Ivy on a Windy Day (Raindrops) Ferrante and Teicher - The Moon Was Yellow (Heavenly Sounds in Hi Fi) SRN NEWS FEATURE: Musical Saws(!) The Happy Monsters - Clap Your Tentacles (Happy Monsters) Enoch Light - Marrakesh Express (Permissive Polyphonics) Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny - Up Up and Away (Incredibly Strange Music #1) Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time (Soothing Sounds for Baby #1) under "Captain Flake" spoken word piece Ana D - Mas (Satelite 99) Kenyon Hopkins - Haunted House INTO Squarepusher - Last AP Roach under "Dracula" spoken word piece Edmundo Ros - Hare Krishna (Va Ba Ba Boom) Family of God - Why Gogo Up There? (Family of God) DJ Bongo Boy ** ** ** * 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Command Action Pix,Tikis Date: 02 Nov 1998 21:21:34 -0400 > >Sad to say, my would-be mother-n-law, would she have lived, was on Command. >She was a Ray Charles Singer, and also performed with Perry Como. We have >reason to believe, that she might have been on the I LOVE PARIS session >that Screamin Jay Hawkins recorded. Command rarely listed its session >personell unless they were the star-variety. Is she one of the following Ray Charles Singers? Lillian Clark, Lois Winter, June Magruder, Mary Sue Berry, Elise Bretton, Peggy Powers, Linda Whitney, Louise Stuart. From the truely wonderful album "Take Me Along" (1967). 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Halloween in Los Angeles Date: 03 Nov 1998 11:41:12 +0000 > SHORE LEAVE ON ZOMBIE ISLAND > A Costume Party for Lost Souls > AT BAHOOKA > Halloween, 8pm - 1am > FREE! > So, how was it? Tiki and Halloween, sounds pretty compatible to me! 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Peggy Lee suffers a stroke Date: 03 Nov 1998 10:50:53 -0600 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Peggy Lee, the smoky-voiced singer-composer famous for such songs as ``Is That All There Is?'' and ``Fever,'' has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. Nicki Lee Foster said her 78-year-old mother had the stroke Oct. 27. ``She's conscious and her family has been with her,'' she said Monday, refusing to say where her mother was hospitalized. Ms. Foster said doctors were trying to determine whether the stroke caused permanent damage. Miss Lee is best known for the hit song ``Fever,'' remade by numerous artists, including Madonna. She won a Grammy in 1969 for the song ``Is That All There Is?'' A diabetic, Miss Lee has been troubled by a number of health problems. In 1961, she contracted double pneumonia. In 1976, she had a near-fatal fall in a New York hotel and was seriously injured in a fall in Las Vegas in 1987. In early 1985, she underwent four angioplasties -- balloon surgery to open clogged arteries. While appearing in New Orleans in October 1985, she underwent double-bypass heart surgery. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Belfort, Trow obits Date: 03 Nov 1998 10:50:55 -0600 *Jovelina Faria Belfort RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Jovelina Faria Belfort, a Brazilian samba singer and composer, died Monday of a heart attack. She was 54. Known as Black Pearl, Belfort did not make her first record until the age of 40, but quickly produced seven more. The most successful were ``Jovelina'' in 1985, and ``Sorriso Aberto,'' or ``Big Smile,'' recorded in 1987. *Bob Trow NEW ALEXANDRIA, Pa. (AP) -- Bob Trow, who portrayed Robert Troll, Bob Dog and himself for some 30 years on ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,'' died Monday of a heart attack. He was 72. Trow taped appearances for ``Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' just last week that are to air in February as part of a lesson on noisy and quiet. Before joining the PBS show, he contributed countless sketches before that for morning radio in Pittsburgh. Rege Cordic gave Trow his start in broadcasting after hearing his musical group, which combined song and humor. Cordic brought Trow into Cordic and Company, first on WWSW and then on KDKA, using invented characters to harass the host to the great amusement of morning commuters. Popular characters included Carmen Monoxide, an incorrigible punster; Omicron, a bureaucrat from Venus; and Louie Adamchevitz, a Slav garbageman. Cordic's team even began a Monoxide for president campaign. Trow also wrote and produced television and radio commercials, and painted oil portraits of visitors to his home. Trow is survived by his wife, Lois; son Eric, who is creative director for the Brabender Cox advertising firm; son Rob, who also works in broadcasting as a studio vocalist and voice-over talent in Chicago; and two grandchildren. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) bad news for Southern Culture on the Skids Date: 03 Nov 1998 10:50:50 -0600 SCOTS has come up on the list recently. Here's some news that just came out of their camp today. -Lou ======================================================== Southern Culture has had some bad luck on this tour. Mary hurt her foot and now a thief has made off with their guitars. If you know anything about their instruments, please let their manager, Dave Viecelli, know. He just sent out this bulletin today. We've also got it posted on the website. There's a few new tour dates at the bottom of this message for your perusal as well. ----------------- GUITARS STOLEN IN SAN FRANCISCO, REWARD OFFERED!!! Southern Culture on the Skids played two shows at Slim's in San Francisco on October 20 and 21. Sometime between the end of the first night's show and the beginning of the second night's show, two of the band's guitars were stolen from the stage. A reward of $1,000.00 is being offered for the return of the stolen 1956 Gretsch Country Club hollow-body electric guitar. The instrument is cadillac green, features a Bigsby tailpiece and a Bigsby bridge on a leather base, and was in a grey Gretsch case. While the serial number is not yet available, the guitar is very distinctive in that the model number inside the guitar originally mistakenly had a "0" as its second digit. That "0" was corrected to a "1" by hand at the factory, making this a one-of-a-kind, readily identifiable guitar. Also stolen was a Jerry Jones four-string electric bass guitar. It is a copper-burst longhorn model in a black plastic case. An additional reward of $500.00 is offered for the return of this bass. Both rewards are offered on a "no questions asked" basis and are available to anyone that either returns the guitars safely or provides information leading to their safe recovery. Anyone with information of any kind is asked to contact Dave Viecelli at: THE BILLIONS CORPORATION 833 West Chicago Avenue, suite 101 Chicago, IL 60622-5497 tel: 312-997-9999 fax: 312-997-2287 email: boche@billions.com Any and all help will be greatly appreciated as these guitars are of tremendous sentimental value to Rick and Mary and cannot be replaced. ------------- TOUR DATES TUE 11/3 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK VZD's confirmed* WED 11/4 AUSTIN, TX Liberty Lunch confirmed* THU 11/5 SAN ANTONIO, TX White Rabbit confirmed* FRI 11/6 HOUSTON, TX Fabulous Satellite confirmed* SAT 11/7 NEW ORLEANS, LA Howlin' Wolf confirmed* FRI 11/27 ROANOKE, VA Top Floor confirmed SAT 11/28 RICHMOND, VA Alley Katz confirmed THU 12/31 TAMPA, FL Skipper's Smokehouse confirmed * with Neko Case More to come, but this is all we have now. We'll post 'em when we get 'em. If you've got any clue about the missing guitars, please help. muchos gracias, -mary. +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ southern culture on the skids http://www.scots.com/ rumors@scots.com (not the mary in the band) +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) All mixed up Date: 03 Nov 1998 11:32:24 -0500 >Is she one of the following Ray Charles Singers? Lillian Clark, Lois Winter, June Magruder, Mary Sue Berry, Elise Bretton, Peggy Powers, Linda Whitney, Louise Stuart. From the truely wonderful album "Take Me Along" (1967). Frank Hi Frank and all! First, no, her name was Lila Spaeth (incidentally, aunt to Gordon Spaeth of the Fleshtones:). I call this subject "Mixed up" because I am saddened by the news of Ms. Peggy Lee. One of the greats, shot down again:( As an aside, anyone ever heard the 70s Peggy-promo for Placidyl? Hilarious. Positive, loving, healing vibes to ya', Peg O'our hearts. BUT OH MY GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN AM I HAPPY ABOUT THIS FANTASTICA THING! THANKS, Jack Diamond. There is a planet with your name on it. When does this thing hit the stores!?!?!? Speaking of fine outerspaceexotica, if you've ever wondered whether the TWIGHLIGHT ZONE CD soundtrack is worth it, YES! There's space *and* nervous-beat-jazz. Up, and down, need that placidyl now....Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Shanks Date: 03 Nov 1998 10:50:30 -0600 Does anyone know how many versions there are of MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Cole Porter? Thanks, -tony- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Mad About The Boy Date: 03 Nov 1998 12:15:55 -0600 At 10:50 AM 11/3/98 -0600, Tony wrote: >Does anyone know how many versions there are of MAD ABOUT THE BOY by Cole >Porter? Check out ASCAP's search page: < http://www.ascap.com/ace/title/query.html > This returns the (obviously incomplete) list: Tcode 430001839 Title MAD ABOUT THE BOY Writer(s): COWARD NOEL (27792 ) Publisher(s): CHAPPELL & CO INC Performers(s): CHACKSFIELD F COWARD N W KOSTELANETZ A COWARD N-W FITZGERALD C S MACRAE C MERRILL HELEN LAINE C HEATH T SWINGLE SINGERS NEW SWINGLE SINGERS HORNE L SHEPHERD C PAGE PATTI SHORE D MARCULICCI You may want to order a copy of the Billboard Music Guide CD-ROM, on sale for $14.98 pp. < http://www.billboard.com/store/musicguide.asp > I haven't gotten my copy yet, so I'm not sure it has a database that would be useful for searching and answering this question. -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: bsalter Subject: Re: (exotica) moog continued Date: 03 Nov 1998 10:02:11 -0000 >In my experience, Jean Jacques Perrey has .__.always.__ cited the work of >Pierre Schaeffer and his student Pierre Henry. He retells the tale with a >generous, and gentle humour that is lost when it is translated so >literally. > >Perrey 'sampled' the methodology, never the music. > I repeat: in his lecture, Perrey stated *specifically* that he 'sampled' the *audio recording* of Henry's Messe Pour Le Temps Presents. He said this in English, no translation required. -Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Salter bsalter@slip.net www.slip.net/~bsalter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) ACCESS FORBIDDEN! on The "eXotica Releases Overview" Date: 03 Nov 1998 14:00:51 +0100 the ACCESS FORBIDDEN! error has been fixed, sorry for the inconvenience, people, and please visit again. FTP tinker Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) more Mad About The Boy Date: 03 Nov 1998 13:17:07 -0600 The All-Music Guide site turns up the following re. MATB. -Lou Albums with a song "Mad About the Boy" on Blue for You [76] - Status Quo on New Again [87] - Connor, Chris on Nuf Said [94] - Winding, Kai on Nuf Said [94] - Winding/Johnson on Broadway Showcase [56] - DeFranco, Buddy on Listen to My Music [52] - Heath, Ted on Waiter, Make Mine Blues [60] - ODay, Anita on London by Night [58] - London, Julie on Marcovicci Sings Movies [87] - Marcovicci, Andrea on Status Quo [Hallmark] [78] - Status Quo on Kai and Jay! - Winding, Kai on Golden Hits, Vol. 1 [63] - Washington, Dinah on Cheek to Cheek/Lighter Side of Jazz [93] - Cheek to Cheek/Lighter Side of Jazz on Blue Note 1500 Sampler - Blue Note 1500 Sampler on Stormy Weather [Prime Cuts] [95] - Horne, Lena on Blues Brother Soul Sister [97] - Blues Brother Soul Sister on Heart and Soul [97] - Heart and Soul on Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House, Vol. 1 [56] - Hipp, Jutta on Quartet and the Quintet [54] - Sheldon, Jack on Romance & The Stage [94] - Paige, Elaine on Dream's on Jeri [98] - Southern, Jeri on L'art Vocal, Vol. 11: 1936-1941 [93] - Horne, Lena on 16 Most Requested Songs - Shore, Dinah on Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, V [50] - Washington, Dinah on I Wanna Be Loved [93] - Forrest, Helen on Magic Christian: Film Soundtrack [70] - Badfinger on Provocative Percussion [5Z] - Light, Enoch on Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, V [61] - Washington, Dinah on Wilder N' Wilder... [56] - Wilder, Joe on At Long Last Lena [92] - Horne, Lena on American Legends #19 [96] - Washington, Dinah on Romantic Moods of Jackie Gleason [96] - Gleason, Jackie on Dance Bands Play Noel Coward [91] - Dance Bands Play Noel Coward, The on Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence - Coward, Noel on First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story [93] - Washington, Dinah on Pot Pie, with Jon Eardley [54] - Woods, Phil on Very Thought of You [93] - Noble, Ray on Lady & Her Music [96] - Horne, Lena on American Legends: Armstrong Washington [96] - American Legends: Armstrong Washington on Hits of '32 [96] - Hits of '32 on Some of the Best [96] - McRae, Carmen on Fabulous Lena Horne 1939-1946 [36] - Horne, Lena on Golden Celebration [97] - Page, Patti on Say it With a Kiss - Sullivan, Maxine on At the Hickory House [54] - McPartland, Marian on Free [62] - Golson, Benny on Mad About the Boy: The Very Best of Din [98] - Washington, Dinah on Unique Incomparable [96] - Lillie, Beatrice # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 03 Nov 1998 15:57:47 -0600 by UPI/Ken Franckling A most unusual thing happened in pop music during the winter of 1965. Saxophonist Stan Getz won four Grammy awards, including Record of the Year, for ``The Girl from Ipanema'' with guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer Astrud Gilberto. He had some stiff competition. The other nominations that year were Barbra Streisand for ``People,'' the Beatles for ``A Hard Day's Night,'' Henry Mancini for ``The Pink Panther'' and Louis Armstrong for ``Hello Dolly.'' It was one of those rare instances since the 1940s Swing Era heyday in which a jazz project had enough crossover appeal to dominate the popular radio airwaves for a season. Getz had become fascinated a few years earlier with the bossa nova wave coming out of Brazil. His 1963 recording ``Jazz Samba'' with guitarist Charlie Byrd produced the hit ``Desafinado.'' Then he collaborated with pianist/composer Antonio Carlos-Jobim and the Gilbertos on ``Getz/Gilberto,'' a stunning album which further melded his beautiful and romantic instrumental tone with exotic samba rhythms and included ``The Girl from Ipanema'' crossover hit. The U.S. soon was awash with bossa nova fever -- and introduced to a stream of talented Brazilian composers and performers whose impact continues today. Ironically, Getz's label, Verve, resisted releasing ``Getz/Gilberto'' -- apparently taking the paternalist view that the bossa nova movement was a momentary aberration and that nobody in the U.S. could care about performances by foreign musicians they didn't know. That tidbit emerged last week in Boston when Getz's widow, Monica Getz, spoke at a dedication of the Stan Getz Media Center and Library at the Berklee College of Music. ``Verve didn't want to release 'Getz/Gilberto' at all,'' she said. Getz proved them wrong, but not until after some guerilla tactics to get the music to the public. Monica Getz said she got a demo tape of the recording, researched how to place songs with program directors, and delivered a copy to a top radio station in San Francisco. As the song got airplay and became very popular, ``we embarrassed the record company into releasing it,'' she said. ``They were surprised by the success, and Stan was absolutely flabbergasted.'' Getz, who died of cancer in 1991, had one of the most beautiful and instantly identifiable tones ever heard on the tenor sax. He fell in love with jazz at age 14 and left school a year later to go on the road with trombonist Jack Teagarden's big band. By the time he was 21, Getz had worked with Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. His improvised solo on the Herman band's hit version of ``Early Autumn'' established him as one of the great interpreters of ballads. He sustained and even strengthened that role throughout his career. ``His sound was his gift. He was a true prodigy,'' said vibraphonist Gary Burton, a longtime Berklee faculty member who was a journeyman member of Getz's band from 1964 to 1966. ``To Stan, success was like a great new suit that never fit quite right,'' Burton said. ``He was a natural player with a great sense of melody and interpretation.'' Burton said Getz always sought out the best new players for his band, including Chick Corea, Mose Allison, Steve Swallow and Jim McNeely. ``He felt he was the student and drawn to players who would introduce him to new music,'' Burton said. In spite of his own lack of schooling in jazz or on his horn, Getz's sound and tenacity helped countless players find their own voices. ``He showed us all how to give life to a melody,'' Burton said. The library dedication in Getz's honor was funded by a grant from the Herb Alpert Foundation. The trumpeter became a close friend of Getz in the late 1980s and produced one of his final recordings, ``Apasionado,'' on his A&M label. ``Stan once told me he never played a note that he didn't mean,'' Alpert said. ``That deserves something. It deserves a building -- or a library.'' The Stan Getz Media Center and Library houses the academic world's largest collection of printed popular and jazz music, solo transcriptions and technical materials. Nearly 100,000 separate song titles exist in various editions for full band scores, keyboard, guitar and other specific instruments. The complete works of the standard classical music repertoire is available, along with hundreds of modern composers, and a growing collection of popular and folk music from around the world. ``Stan didn't like ceremony, but this is something he would have liked,'' Monica Getz told the small crowd of musicians and academics gathered at the Berklee dedication. ``He would have been very proud of the purpose of this -- to give young musicians a chance he never had.'' --- Copyright 1998 by United Press International. All rights reserved. --- (release at will) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Dave's Record Collection Date: 03 Nov 1998 16:38:38 -0600 For fans of the Late Show's Dave's Record Collection segment, currated by Steve Young, here's a note from Steve: > Meanwhile, Record Collection will probably be this coming week, Tues or Wed >I'm guessing. Lots of crazy stuff. Set the VCRs. Here's the Record Collection URL: < http://marketing.cbs.com/lateshow/comedy/records/ > -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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas Date: 03 Nov 1998 21:39:58 +0100 again from Forced Exposure : http://www.forcedexposure.com. ____________________________________________ MARINA (GERMANY): THOMAS, PETER: Moon Flowers And Miniskirt CD (MA 39). A collection of tracks from the late 60s/early 70s by Germany's leading film composer, who has been described as "Germany's answer to Burt Backarach, Henry Mancini, Esquivel, Stereolab and Aphex Twin all rolled into one." "It seems like Sir Thomas's previous prolificity is finally starting to pay off. Whatever quality control there was to begin with has yet to collapse; this has to be some of the most dauntingly odd music to find it's recent vogue with the jet-set types... Here's the hippy dippy/dawn of electronics era of Thomas's long career. Everything from Perrey/Kingsley-esque synth simplicity to easy-soul stirrers (the track 'Black Power' is sung by none other than Donna Summer, her 'first ever recorded vocal', pretty amazing) to fuzz-drenched psychedelic-cop-jazz to, well, whatever you'd categorize something called 'Rockin' Computer'... The exotica revival is almost 10 years strong now & we're finally starting to hit paydirt. Hallelujah." -- Hrvatski. $20.00 THOMAS, PETER VS MAXWELL EXPLOSION: Opium 12" (MA 41). "German master of soundtrack and easy listening art brings you here one of his funkiest tracks called 'Opium'. Gets the remix treatment by Bungalow Records artists Maxwell Explosion & Dauerfisch. Comes in a 4-color picture sleeve -- a must for all early 70s soundtrack fans." $11.00 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 03 Nov 1998 17:36:04 -0500 At 03:57 PM 11/3/98 -0600, Lou Smith wrote: > >by UPI/Ken Franckling > > A most unusual thing happened in pop music during the winter of 1965. >Saxophonist Stan Getz won four Grammy awards, including Record of the Year, >for ``The Girl from Ipanema'' with guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer Astrud >Gilberto. > It was one of those rare instances since the 1940s Swing Era heyday in >which a jazz project had enough crossover appeal to dominate the popular >radio airwaves for a season. I hate to be the one to say it but "that wasn't jazz" though I guess you could call it a "jazz project", given that Stan Getz was a jazz musician. I don't know why I bother making this distinction or piping up here. I guess my button will always get pushed by stuff like this though. Yes "jazz" is this huge, deep, wide term which is used to describe some rather distinct genres of music. I say I love jazz but there's a lot of music called "jazz" which I actually kind of hate. So the word "jazz" has pretty well lost its meaning. But it still has some meaning. And the Getz/Gilberto records were not jazz. Someone says "Oh isn't that cool? A jazz project crossed over". And you think "Oh yeah that is cool. Whoever thought that people would make a jazz record into a hit record?" And then you hear the record and realize that in fact, it's not a jazz record they're talking about. At most it's a "jazz flavoured" record. At most it has some chords on it that are associated with jazz. At most it has a solo or two that remind you of jazz. I think some people call a record "jazz" if the solo is taken by the saxophone player instead of the guitar player. I'm sure that you could find some record stores where Clarence Clemons records were in the jazz section. I have records by Stan Getz that I would "legitimately" call jazz and I like them. And I have a few of his Brazilian records. And I think my favorite "jazz flavored" Getz record is the one where he does all Bacharach tunes. That record is almost jazz. Why this rant today? I don't know. I guess I have unresolved issues. Everytime I say "fake jazz" on this list, someone says "hey why do you have to call it fake?" Maybe I should point out that once upon a time the word "fake" when associated with musical genres was a putdown to me but now it's just a descriptive term I use. A lot of the music we discuss here is fake something or other. In fact, isn't exotica, "fake exotic" music? Or I say "fake jazz" and someone says "Hey man why do you have to label the music?" I don't know. I like labelling music. Or someone says "there's two labels only, good and bad." And that's fine except that a lot of "bad" music is among my favorite music. These days anyway. God help me. 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: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Flash Mountain Date: 04 Nov 1998 01:17:54 -0800 All you sad Disneyphiles better check out Flash Mountain, featuring people who expose themselves in the Magic Kingdom: http://www.flashmountain.com/index.html More fun than Discontinued Rides, I'd say! C. "Ratso" Russo http://russo.onza.net/home.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: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 03 Nov 1998 17:47:20 -0400 I agree with Nat: labels are useful gifts, not false pigeonholes. When I first heard the term "fake jazz", in the early 1980s (and probably in a Lounge Lizards review), it sparked a lot of useful thinking. I think most of us like jazz when, with the passage of time, it can start to sound like mood music. That's a scandal for true jazzbos, but even the most avowedly serious 1970s fusion starts to evoke period and lifestyle (rather than virtuosity and ambition) after 25 years. If you told me 20 years ago that I'd be buying the early-to-mid 1970s stuff that's on the Easy Tempo or some of the French jazzadelic compilations, I'd have doubted this stuff could ever be rehabilitated. But now it sounds like the soundtrack to its time. 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: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Thomas Date: 03 Nov 1998 21:51:34 -0500 Arjan Plug wrote: > > again from Forced Exposure : http://www.forcedexposure.com. > THOMAS, PETER: Moon Flowers And Miniskirt CD (MA 39). $20.00 This is also available at Dusty Groove, for $14.99! (http://www.dustygroove.com) 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Peggy Lee recovering Date: 04 Nov 1998 10:43:50 -0600 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Singer Peggy Lee has been taken out of intensive care a week after suffering a stroke at her Los Angeles home. Lee's personal secretary, Jane David, says the 78-year-old singer took a turn for the better today. David tells UPI Lee was able to wiggle her toes and arms, which she says is an indication that Lee might regain movement throughout her body. David says Lee smiled and ``was a little feisty.'' Lee, who has led a relatively private personal life in recent years, is being treated at an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital with a security guard posted outside her room. David says she has received calls ``from around the world'' inquiring about Lee's condition and wishing her well. She says Lee -- who suffers from diabetes and has been using a wheelchair off and on for the past ``four or five years'' -- has been living quietly at her home, entertaining friends occasionally. David says Lee has recently been hosting private screenings of the recently re-released videocasette of ``Lady and the Tramp,'' for which she wrote and sang several songs and voiced four characters. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Com-Ed Philly Date: 04 Nov 1998 10:47:57 -0500 Hi! Anyone on the list going to Combustible in Philadelphia Thanksgiving eve? I *think* I am. And, not to cause confusion, but Friday means one of two things: 1. I will be losing my e-mail, and therefore off the list. 2. That won't happen, but I might get a new address. I'll let y'all know. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) new Tiki News mag Date: 04 Nov 1998 11:17:33 EST tiki News #14 is finally out the Exotica Erotica issue is for adults only! It features cover art by Chip Wass Intelligent articles by professors Sven-Tiki and Bill Osgerby (from the UK) and nudity on every page Available in stores in two weeks or directly via mailorder for $2.00 ppd. from Schwarz Grafiken 2215-R Market Street #177 San Francisco, CA 94114 Subscriber copies will be mailed this 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: EXOTIQUARIUM Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:12:21 +0100 jee, they didn't even ask if they could lend that EXOTIQUARIUM name from me. well, maybe they don't know my site ... anyone has an e-mail or web address of St. Martin's Griffin by any chance? Johan, owner of "Dada'quariums Exotica", which features an "Exotiquarium" page for more than 3 years now... quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ At 08:53 -0700 98/11/03, exotica-digest wrote: >This title, due in April from St. Martin's Griffin, may be of interest to >members of this list. Here's the catalogue copy: > >EXOTIQUARIUM: Album Art from the Space Age >by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz >Foreword by Lenny Dee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Zeus! What Revieus! Date: 04 Nov 1998 13:14:21 -0500 When I came back from California, I had mentioned that I had scored a couple of choice platters. I had heard parts of some of these, but had not had time to digest them. Here are my thoughts on some of what I have found: (Groovy) Living in Space - Ed Gates. This is one GREAT title! Could be the list motto, no? It's a single that I bought for the title, I didn't care how it sounded. It turns out that it is an organ instrumental with vocal interjections. It is actually, um, well, groovy! My Quiet Village - Darla Hood - Anyone expecting a voice reminiscent of her long past "Our Gang" days, will be surprised by the full-throated vocalizing on this version of the Baxter classic. Baxter is still tops, but this has the same Mr. Spock-style eyebrow raise factor that Johnny Mathis' version of "Caravan" does as in, "I didn't know there were lyrics"! Hi Fireworks - Ferrante and Teicher. Finally, finally! I have an all-out string attack F&T LP (at least their third for Columbia) which cost me a whopping 2.50. The highlight is the first track, "Oye Negra", which is played with an unbelievable dexterity. If you see it, buy it. It's that good. Zounds! What Sounds! - Dean Elliott and his Big Band. After hearing so much about this record (next hope to find: Moon Gas by Dick Hyman) I found a mono copy for 13.99. This is one unbelievable outing. There are no bad tracks and the promise those of us having heard "Lonesome Road" will not be let down. This is one amazing, witty and ingenious record. The sounds are used and used well throughout the record (tuned raindrops!). It takes the innovations of Spike Jones and/or John Cage, if you will and you end up with a document that for the time (the year is not on the record. 1960?) is a pop masterpiece. I will join the ranks of the many that say that this album demands reissuing with liners that explain how they coordinated the sounds. Don't go around humming it. Your co-workers will look at you funny. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) EXOTIQUARIUM Date: 04 Nov 1998 13:41:57 -0600 At 03:12 PM 11/4/98 +0100, you wrote: > > jee, they didn't even ask if they could lend that EXOTIQUARIUM > name from me. well, maybe they don't know my site ... > anyone has an e-mail or web address of St. Martin's Griffin > by any chance? > > Johan, owner of "Dada'quariums Exotica", which features > an "Exotiquarium" page for more than 3 years now... St. Martin's URL is (not surprisingly): < http://www.stmartins.com/ > Take a look at their FAQ page: < http://www.stmartins.com/SMPinq/FAQ.htm > The Griffin page is at: < http://www.stmartins.com/SMPtrade/ > G'luck, 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: "Bryan J. Cuevas" Subject: (exotica) Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:22:07 -0500 Today I received this new Peter Thomas collection in the mail, and so far so good. But where are the recording dates? I can figure out the dates for tracks 3, 4, 9, 12, 16, and 19 because these songs come from films or mini-series that are discussed in the liner notes - but what about tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 18? For date junkies like myself, compilations without dates frustrate the hell out of me. Can anyone help out there? bcuevas =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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: des@anubis23.demon.co.uk (Desmond K. Hill) Subject: Re: (exotica) ._mo.og continued Date: 04 Nov 1998 21:04:41 +0000 re. j e a n j a c q u e s p e r r e y..___________.e-m a i l > I'm not sure if anyone is > monitoring that e-mail address for him. i would be glad to convey e-correspondence to monsieur perrey. 'just e-mail me w/ FAO J_JP in the subject line. merci au revoir, d e s d e s m o n d k. h i l l [ m a n a g e r o f J e a n J a c q u e s P e r r e y ] ?(._. ) ( ._.)? ?(._. ) ( ._.)? e: des@anubis23.demon.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bennett Comes Clean About Drugs Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:56:57 -0600 NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco and became the darling of the MTV generation in his 60s. And he picked up a drug problem along the way. ``At every big party I'd go to, people were high on something,'' the 72-year-old crooner wrote in ``The Good Life,'' about the heady Hollywood days of the 1970s. ``Cocaine flowed as freely as champagne, and soon I began joining in the festivities. ... Compounded with my pot smoking, the whole thing started sneaking up on me.'' By the late 1970s, he spiraled into a dangerous drug-filled low as his personal life unraveled -- his mother died, his marriage was faltering and the government was after him for back taxes. ``I found I was using drugs to ease my pain,'' Bennett said. In 1979, when the IRS threatened to seize his home, he went on a binge that nearly killed him. In the two decades since then, the eight-time Grammy winner has risen to new career and personal highs, without drugs. His latest album, ``The Playground,'' is being released this week. -=-=- AP NEWS The Associated Press News Service Copyright 1998 by The Associated Press All Rights Reserved # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeff Phillips Subject: (exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9 Date: 04 Nov 1998 16:29:46 -0800 Good afternoon, Just wanted to know if any listees will be in attendance at the Combustible Edison show at Bimbo's 365 Club on Monday, November 9 at 8:00PM. You'll find me doing it with the "Al Malaikah" fez on. Hope to see you there! EZ does it, Jeff Phillips -- Director of Concert Production |=AF( http://www.philharmonia.org Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | \ jphillips@philharmonia.org 333 Market Street, Plaza Suite | =BA \ phone (415) 495-7445 San Francisco, California 94105 |=86=86=86=86| fax (415) 495-747= 3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) ComEd in SF 11/9 Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:52:28 -0800 Funny you should mention this... Those of you who know me - even a little - have realized that I am a DEADLY combination of Scatterbrained AND way too busy. To hide this fact as best I can, I recently employed the use of a PalmPilot to help me keep track of the things normal people can do in their own heads or on a small scrap of paper.... Anyway, Just as I get into the PalmPilot lifestyle, I crash the little gizmo irretrievably. For DAYS I am utterly lost without my companion. Minutes ago, I managed to breathe partial life back into my Pilot, and to test to see if my calender worked, I searched for my ComEd entry. Now I will have to make a note to look for a guy with a fez. . You'll find me doing it with the "Al Malaikah" fez on. Hope to see you there! Doing WHAT? Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) More about stings (Melachrino) Date: 04 Nov 1998 18:02:57 -0800 > >>I just saw a CD compilation by the Melachrino Strings. Anybody care to >>give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to Melachrino recordings? > Good GOD! really? It always amazes me what gets released and what does not. I am intrigued by the album covers, but it's a bit mushy for my taste. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Playlist for The House of Games Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:47:58 -0800 KFJC play list 10/25/98 for Jack Diamond ARTIST TRACK ALBUM ____________________________________________________________ The Planets Chunky Maynard Ferguson Octet Emarcy Bill Holman Comp. & Yeah Arrangement 101 Strings Orch. Blues Fo' Da Guru Alshire Roy Budd Goodbye Carter! Get Carter Ost Jean Jacques Perrey Inna Happy Moog 1967 Clyde Borley Afro-Mania Atlantic, 1966 Mina Spiral Waltz In Italian Det Moore Orch High Spirits Richard Hayman The Look of Love G-E-L-L-M! Gabor Szabo White Rabbit B Plummer-Sitar Ennio Morricone Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetta Ken Nordine The Junk Man Hugo Montenegro Macarthur Park Moog Power Dave Pell Singers Like Young Jazz Voices in Video Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly Theme Savage 7 Ost Elmer Bernstein Hunsecker's Price Sweet Smell...Ost Ennio Morricone Una Corsa Desperata Jack Costanzo Sextet Sax Con Ritmo Jay Torre'-Tenor Buddy Rich Orch Skinned 45 Rpm Link Wray Please, Please Meeee 1963 Johnny Gregory The Rockford Files Hopewell This Little Light Contact Dizzy Manteca 45 Rpm Jr. and His Soulettes Pimp Psychodelic Sounds Ken Nordine Reads Balzac's 10" Lp Passion in the Desert Version Records Hanged Man, the Road Runner Performed By Bullet Bruce Haack Cherubic Hymm Electric Lucifer LP Budget Crime Jazz T.H.E. Cat Theme Pierro Piccioni La Decima Vittima 10TH Victim, Take 3 Dissvelt, Tom/Kid Baltan Twilight Ozone Song of the Second Moon!!! Robert Cobert Barnabas and Angelique Dark Shadows Richard R. Bennett Kaarna Billion $ Brain Sauter-Finegan Orch Who Dooooo Vooooodooooo??? Quincy Jones Shoot to Kill Mirage Ost Deke Dickerson & the Guitar in Orbit Ecco-Foni PT.37(INSTR) Number One Hit Record! Mundell Lowe Hawaiian Eye Theme 1960 Jay Gordon Orch. Chant of the Amazon Tops Label Vicki Carr The Silencers Jimmie Haskel Orch Blast Off! In Mono!! Pete Rugolo Orch Diamond on the Move KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Http://www.KFJC.org (Internet Broadcast) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Best Moog CD comp EVER Date: 04 Nov 1998 21:37:09 EST Listers, OK i am gushing here, but I have recently gotten what to my ears is the best Moog compilation CD I have ever heard (well, CD-R). It's "Switched-On Moog" and was compiled by list member Basic Hip from his personal LP collection. Every track is a winner and there are so many things here that I have not heard before. It has a track from my all time favortie Switched-On record, Christopher Scott's "Swithced-On Bacharach", and even though I have it already on vinyl it is great to have my favorite tune from the album on this CD. Every track is from a slightly hard to findd to a very hard to find LP, and I have seen none on these titles before on CD anywhere. Some favorites include Harry Breuer's "March Of The Martians" from the LP THe Happy Moog, and Walter/Wendy Carlos doing "What's New Pussycat". Also, lots of great/crazy moog-terpritations of Beatles tunes. I got this disc for a very reasonable price. I am not certain but I believe our esteemed colleague made this disc exclusively available to members of this list. I don't think anyone could be disappointed by this one -- I certainly wasn't. Following the moog thread with much interest, 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: Joe Batutis Subject: (exotica) Exotic DJ for my wedding Date: 04 Nov 1998 23:04:15 -0500 Hi there- I'm looking for a exotica/lounge friendly DJ for my wedding reception here in New York City. It's coming up in March '99. Anyone out there have any leeds? Thanks! Enok Lite (aka Joe Batutis) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) CE plays SF Date: 05 Nov 1998 01:37:59 EST Pardon the redundancy but it seems a few folks didn't know about this Combustible Edison plays Bimbo's Monday, Nov. 9 2 sets starting at 8 (ends at about midnight) with Dj Otto opening the evenings musical treats I highly suggest you get tix via Ticketweb.com there is only a $1.00 service charge # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Davidsons Subject: Re: (exotica) Best Moog CD comp EVER Date: 04 Nov 1998 22:52:26 -0800 >Listers, >OK i am gushing here, but I have recently gotten what to my ears is the best >Moog compilation CD I have ever heard (well, CD-R). It's "Switched-On Moog" >and was compiled by list member Basic Hip from his personal LP collection. I also purchased this moog comp from Sir Hip, and I second your emotion about it being the best moog comp ever. Excruciatingly well done! 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Best Moog CD comp EVER Date: 05 Nov 1998 06:53:41 -0800 (PST) When I saw the post for best Mood Cd comp ever, I knew it had to be wrong because BasicHip sent me a cassette copy of the Very Best Mood Comp ever. Lo and behold we all agree. BasicHip proved to me there is a paralelll universe out there, kinda like Bizzaro Land in Superman comics, where everything is a little different. Th world of moog music is very strange and wonderful indeed and his cd captures the very best of it. ---The Davidsons wrote: > >Listers, > >OK i am gushing here, but I have recently gotten what to my ears is the bestMoog compilation CD I have ever heard (well, CD-R). It's "Switched-On Moog"and was compiled by list member Basic Hip from his personal LP collection. > I also purchased this moog comp from Sir Hip, and I second your emotion about it being the best moog comp ever. Excruciatingly well done! > > Dave == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Best Moog CD comp EVER Date: 05 Nov 1998 10:17:57 EST wow - thank you all very much for the kind words.! Just for the record, this CD-R was sold for not much more than the cost of priority mail and a blank CD. I did not do it to make money and don't want to get bootleg sensitive listees pissed off. Just wanted to share my moog passion with anybody interested, was all... I'm afraid they are all gone now. My CD burner is giving me problems copying home cooked CD to CD. I still have the master and would be happy to send a cassette copy to anyone via tape exchange. thanks again # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Easy Tune DJs at In Hi-Fi tonight Date: 05 Nov 1998 10:32:34 -0500 Hi gang! Here's a happen' happening in NY from your old list pal, Jack Fetterman. Luv, Jane Fondle >Hello everyone. >Just a reminder that Richard and Karin, the easy Tune DJs from Amsterdam (and one half of Arling & Cameron) will be my guest DJs at In Hi-Fi tonight. > >As usual Bar d'O opens at 7:00 pm. Bar d'O is at the corner of Bedford and Downing Streets, near Houston and 6th Avenue. > > >Jack > > >http://www.inhi-fi.com for more information Alright! Sound terrific. I think, btw, that I will still have e-mail for a bit, but I am unsubscribing as of noon. I might be back on tommorow, who knows in this cwazy woild of woik? The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: whitley@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Kirsten Whitley) Subject: (exotica) Moon Ride -- any info?? Date: 05 Nov 1998 10:08:59 -0600 Hi People, Speaking of space music, I heard a wonderful vocal number by Chris Connor called "Moon Ride". In a somewhat unusual twist (ie, having a female action figure), she sings about her rocket trip to the moon... where she is captured and almost eaten by the moon men... she escapes by blasting them with her gun, which is loaded with rays from the sun ;-) Very cool! I would love to find out more about the song. My copy is on tape -- and my initial web research has revealed nothing. Also, does anyone have any other suggestions for vocal space music? --Kirsten # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Exotic DJ for my wedding Date: 05 Nov 1998 11:15:48 -0600 At 11:04 PM 11/4/98 -0500, Enok/Joe wrote: >Hi there- >I'm looking for a exotica/lounge friendly DJ for my wedding reception here >in New York City. It's coming up in March '99. Anyone out there have any >leads? >Thanks! >Enok Lite >(aka Joe Batutis) =20 Why don't you visit Jack Fetterman's In Hi-Fi site? You should be able to get a sense of the working DJs in NYC, and can see when they're working so you can check them out. In Hi-Fi Home Page=A0 =A0In Hi-Fi in New York City, < http://www.inhi-fi.com/ > -Lou =20 =20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Moon Ride -- any info?? Date: 05 Nov 1998 08:28:09 -0800 (PST) Kirsten: My personal very favorite vocal space song is by Lorraine Bowen on the "Music To Watch Comets By" comp cd put together by the Gentle People. I beilieve the name of the song is Space Is the Place" or just Space. Chuck ---Kirsten Whitley wrote: Hi People, Speaking of space music, I heard a wonderful vocal number by Chris Connor called "Moon Ride". In a somewhat unusual twist (ie, having a female action figure), she sings about her rocket trip to the moon... where she is captured and almost eaten by the moon men... she escapes by blasting them with her gun, which is loadedwith rays from the sun ;-) Very cool! I would love to find out more about the song. My copy is > on tape -- and my initial web research has revealed nothing. Also, does anyone have any other suggestions for vocal space music? > --Kirsten == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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: sushi 4004 Date: 05 Nov 1998 14:57:36 +0100 sorry to those who are bored with my "fixation" on this... but i think i've solved the problem with that sushi 4004 track which made my needle stuck. you have to increase the weight of the stylus to no less than 4 grams to play that track! that's 2.5 grams more than i usually use, and i tell you that it is not good for a non-dj stylus! i've never seen such wide and wild horizontal stylus movements, and it wouldn't surprise me that this track could damage a needle... 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: Jack Fetterman Subject: (exotica) Re: Easy Tune DJs at In Hi-Fi tonight Date: 05 Nov 1998 10:37:32 -0500 (EST) laura, many, many thanks for doing that! lucien's number is 212-966-8578. best of luck, 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: sushi 4004 Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:05:50 EST In a message dated 98-11-05 13:27:19 EST, you write: << sorry to those who are bored with my "fixation" on this... but i think i've solved the problem with that sushi 4004 track which made my needle stuck. you have to increase the weight of the stylus to no less than 4 grams to play that track! that's 2.5 grams more than i usually use, and i tell you that it is not good for a non-dj stylus! i've never seen such wide and wild horizontal stylus movements, and it wouldn't surprise me that this track could damage a needle... Johan >> I have had records that skip or hang up from time to time and I would just hold the stylus down really hard at that point and sometimes it would "regroove" the record. Sometime I had to do it a couple of times. This works really good on 78's which I play on Victrolas. For those cringing, please DO NOT respond to me with negative comments about damage to stylus, etc. etc. (on the Victrolas you replace the needles after every few plays anyway) 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) David Carroll rePERCUSSION Date: 21 Feb 1998 01:37:52 -0800 For the fan of goofy percussion, this album is a real treat! Anybody want to sell a clean copy of this'n? I need the "Bells of St Mary's" for Christmas thingy. i got a $1.00 Thrift-store copy that's just too marginal to put on CD. Tons and TONS of percussive sounds! Marimba, bells, and a TUNED LOG fer chrissake. Outstanding tracks: Dizzy Fingers, Bells of St Mary's, Peanut Vendor, Xylo Calypso, Chinatown my Chinatown, The Maria Cha-Cha and Cool from West Side Story. Killer recording, It's all ring and tingle from start to finish. In David Carroll fasion, the stuff that does not work, kinda sux, but what the hell.. As an added bonus, a complete list of all instruments used is included. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Shut up Little man! Date: 21 Feb 1998 02:28:14 -0800 Anybody ever hear of this one? I'd like to get some label info on this. Recorded in the mid 80's in San Francisco (It's a copy, so I don't have liners - could be wrong on some of this info) by some poor students living ina shitty apartment next to a pair of drunken louts named Raymond and Peter. R and P are so obnoxious, the hapless students resort to recording their exploits through the paper-thin walls and play it back to them as retaliation. It does not work, and the recordings continue... It is beyond description what goes on: Fistfights, visits from the cops, they even address the smart alecks who record them. But the way they attack each other ona daily basis is unreal. Considering the whole thing was recorded from an adjacent apartment, the sound quality is quite good at times. This is just the recording to brighten your Thanksgiving Holiday. You may squirm at the thought of your in-laws, but NOBODY's family is F'ed up as as these guys. unfrigganbeeleevable... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Air & Laila France... Date: 06 Nov 1998 02:08:01 PST i went to see air play last night (supported by sean lennon, which is a bit like watching jordi cruyf) ils etaient fantastique with a slightly more 80s sound to a lot of their tunes. 'sexy boy' was pure devo (as were the white boiler suits) and they also had a bit more 'krautrock' (horrible term) about them too. One of the tunes they played is the same one used by Laila France / Momus on the song 'Bilitis' on the bungalow suite 98 compilation. it is, i think an old chanson and could even be debussey, or a segment of a debussey tune. excuse my ignorance but does anyone know it? btw i remember asking about the soundtrack to bilitis by francis lai a couple of years ago, i picked it up for 1/3 of a guilder in holland recently, and that was still too much. 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: "Phil Clark" Subject: (exotica) ? & The Mysterians Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:00:26 -0000 hey all just a quick note to say I caught the original lineup of seminal garagepunkers ? & THE MYSTERIANS here in London last week and they were treeeee-mendous.... ? is truly the greatest. i was knocked out i can tell ya and buzzin for two days afterwards. at a guess i'd say there wuz about 400 people there, possibly more. there wuz sikidelic projections going on the walls, everyone was stompin and screamin ... girls were gettin up on the stage an go-go dancin ... the atmosphere was crackling!! we dug it to the max. at the end the mysterians came out on stage to sign autographs, and yeah i got a set, everyone was shaking them by the hand, they seemed really bowled over by the reaction.... so if they come to your town then go see'em whooooooo yeah baby can you feel it!! alright! we be cookin with gas now! phil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Doctor Goldfoot Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:10:01 -0000 hey gang Been meaning to ask this for a while. Does anyone know if the first DR GOLDFOOT (and the Bikini Machine) soundtrack album was released, and if so, anyone got the details? Even better, anyone got a spare original copy they're happy to sell?!! I think it would be on Tower, although the Supremes did the theme tune. The second one, the "Girl Bombs" album, I already have. And were there two or three Dr Goldfoot films? groovily phil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Lorraine Bowen's web site details Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:21:25 -0000 Groovesters a while back someone was asking about Lorraine Bowen ... I have a web site address for her, and you can email her through it too! She sez she'd be happy to hear from exoticats everyplace. http://www.lorrainebowen.demon.co.uk helpfully Phil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Mysterians Date: 06 Nov 1998 12:12:49 +0000 Phil Clark wrote: > I caught the original lineup of seminal > garagepunkers ? & THE MYSTERIANS here in London last week and they were > treeeee-mendous.... oh no! one of my favorite bands. Was there any talking about a european tour or was it just a singular gig? 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 Halloween in Los Angeles Date: 06 Nov 1998 12:16:06 +0000 > SHORE LEAVE ON ZOMBIE ISLAND > A Costume Party for Lost Souls > AT BAHOOKA > Halloween, 8pm - 1am > FREE! > Hello out there! Has anybody survived the night? Will there be a report about it somewhere sometime? Really curious: 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) Here is a page about Shut Up, Little Man! Date: 06 Nov 1998 07:35:17 -0500 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/jthomas/SurReview/reviews-html/shutup.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: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Shut up Little man! Date: 06 Nov 1998 05:21:39 -0800 A few years ago people were making pilgrimages to the Shut Up Little Man apartment building in SF's Lower Haight district, drinking beers out front. The last I heard, one of the two guys died of alcoholism and the other lives in a Tenderloin SRO. C. "Ratso" Russo http://russo.onza.net/home.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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: (exotica) WFMU Holiday Record Fair Date: 06 Nov 1998 15:14:08 +0100 (MET) Anyone going to show up except me and Tony W? WFMU Holiday Record Fair, 20th - 22nd November at the Manhattan Pavillion, 110 West 19th Street, b/w 6th & 7th Aves., New York City. I'll be there selling and trading records etc from my table listed under Subliminal Sounds. 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 Publicity by Motormouth Media (Hollywood, 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) WFMU Holiday Record Fair Date: 06 Nov 1998 09:57:35 -0600 At 03:14 PM 11/6/98 +0100, Stefan wrote: >Anyone going to show up except me and Tony W? >WFMU Holiday Record Fair, 20th - 22nd November at the Manhattan Pavillion, >110 West 19th Street, b/w 6th & 7th Aves., New York City. >I'll be there selling and trading records etc from my table listed under >Subliminal Sounds. You're coming over for the Fair?!? Cool! I'll see you there. Here's the official Fair info: -Lou WFMU's Holiday 1998 Record Fair WFMU's 1998 Record Fair is a'comin!! It's scheduled for November 20th, 21st and 22nd, 1998 Where: The Metropolitan Pavillion 110 West 19th Street, NYC, (between 6th and 7th Avenues) When: November 20th, 21st and 22nd, 1998 Doors open at 9AM - 6pm, entry $5 on Saturday and Sunday 11/21 & 11/22. Desperate collectors can get in Friday night 11/20 from 7:30 to 10 PM for $20 What: 100 record dealers from around the world will converge on the Manhattan Pavillion for WFMU's Fall Record Fair, the biggest and most diverse music collector's convention on the East Coast, November 20th to 22nd. Over 130 tables will sell sounds ranging from traditional to experimental, as well as rock, soul, international, jazz, R&B, country, psychedelia, and oddities and rarities. WFMU's record fairs are among the best in the country--especially for hunting unusual and esoteric LPs, CDs, and recordings in ANY format. The Metropolitan Pavillion is located at 110 West 19th Street, NYC (bet. 6th & 7th Avenues). Doors open 9 AM to 6 PM on 11/21 and 11/22, and admission is $5. Competitive collectors can begin digging thru bins Friday night 11/20 at 7:30 pm for $20. All proceeds benefit WFMU, the one non-commercial radio station that doesn't get a cent of financing from THE MAN. Confirmed dealers include such stalwarts of the indie scene as Forced Exposure, Norton, Telstar, Vinyl Ink, Parallel World, and other respected labels and distributors. WFMU will broadcast live from the Fair both days. WFMU's Spring 1999 record fair will take place May 7th, 8th and 9th, at the New York State Armory. And here's info on The Off The Air Series: WFMU's Monday Night DJ series at Barmacy Mondays 10pm - 2am at Barmacy 538 East 14th Street (between 1st & 2nd) New York City No Cover November 9th Gaylord Fields and Robin Edgerton Will resurrect the sticky guitar solos, riveting keyboards, pseudo-reggae rhythms and quirky vocals of the late 70s and early 80s hits and less-than-hits. Our own paradisic New Wave sugar-bomb, hardly any razors, thank you. November 16th Doug Schulkind of "Give the Drummer Some" The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs from Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theatre throat singers of the Lower East Side. November 23rd Citizen Kafka of "The Secret Museum of the Air" The sounds of a century...Samples, segments, and selections from over 100 years of recording history. Tribal, cultural, and system stew. 7 continents, 108 years lacquer, beeswax, vinyl, acetate, glass, and aluminum. All mediums, all the time just not all at once. Slambient meets 4'33". Caution: contains octaves! November 30th Ken Freedman Avant garde pop, poppy avant garde, 45's and 12 inches played at the wrong speed, danceable Krautrock and nippophile beats. December 7th Brian Turner Garage girls, spermoid Marshall boogie, pop and scratchy artpunk, raw funk. December 14th Michael Shelley & Jeffrey Cobb Expect some: scratchy soul 45s, 60's garage rave-ups, rock steady floor burners, the Rubinoos and don't forget my man Biz Markee!: AKA: The Butter! December 21st Dave the Spazz Loud, crazy, stoopid chimpified rock and roll. December 27th TBA January 4th Tamar # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Shanks Subject: Re: (exotica) WFMU Holiday Record Fair Date: 06 Nov 1998 09:16:37 -0600 Does anyone know of any GOOD Real Audio or other downloadable music sites? Thanks, Tony Shanks Senior Art Director Jordan Associates tshanks@jordanet.com 1000 W. Wilshire, Suite 428 Oklahoma City, OK 73116-7031 Phone: (405) 840-3201 Fax: (405) 840-4149 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Kane obit Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:27:41 -0600 NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Bob Kane, the comic book artist and writer who created the ``Batman'' character, has died at his Southern California home. He was 83. A spokeswoman for New York-based DC Comics did not reveal the cause of his death or the city where he lived. Kane, a self-described ``doodler,'' once said Leonardo da Vinci's drawings inspired him to create the comic book hero, which has been featured in comic books, newspaper strips, two TV series and four feature films. While still in his teens, Kane created the tale of wealthy young Bruce Wayne, who witnessed his parents' murders and vowed to avenge their deaths by bringing criminals to justice. Wayne used his considerable fortune to study criminology, trained his body to athletic perfection and assembled an assortment of vehicles and weapons DC comics says Batman was an immediate hit, and is the only comic-book character besides Superman and Wonder Woman to remain in continuous publication with monthly episodes since 1940. The character appears in four comic books, including ``Batman,'' ``Detectives Comics,'' ``Batman: Shadow of the Bat,'' and ``Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.'' Kane, also a cartoonist, drew the Dark Knight in an animated TV series in which Robin, the Boy Wonder; the Joker; Catwoman; and the Riddler made their first appearances. Kane also created the TV cartoon characters Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, and Cool McCool. Jenette Kahn, president and editor-in-chief of DC Comics, called Kane a giant in the field of popular culture who helped launch the comic book industry. Kahn said, ``Bob will be greatly missed, but he left a legacy that will keep his memory alive.'' Kane is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Kane, his daughter, Deborah Majeski of New Jersey, his grandson Matthew Alderman and his sister, Doris Atlas of New York. Private services are scheduled Friday at a Burbank, Calif., mortuary. His family has asked that donations be made in his name to agencies providing services to disadvantaged children. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- ``Batman'' creator Bob Kane, who watched the comic book character become an American icon, has died. He was 83. Kane collapsed at his Los Angeles home Tuesday and was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his attorney, Jim Leonard, said Thursday. The cause of death was unclear. Kane always was proud and astonished at the popularity of the hero he created for DC Comics in 1939. ``Bob described himself as a doodler, so he found it absolutely amazing that one of his doodles should live this long and become the symbol that it is,'' Leonard said. ``The day before he died he was sitting there looking at fan mail. They get stacks and stacks every day.'' Kane's ``Dark Knight'' survived 60 years of incarnations. He began as a noirish figure of vengeance, did a buffoonish turn in the kitschy 1960s TV series, turned grim again in an adult graphic novel in the 1980s and became the star of a new series of multimillion-dollar movies, for which Kane was creative consultant. The comic continues to be published and read around the globe. The villains have ranged from the insidious Joker to ration book counterfeiters in World War II and the modern ills of drug addiction and poverty. ``He adapts to each era,'' Kane said of his creation in 1989. ``He fights against all injustices in the world. He fights the battle for the little man.'' ``Bob Kane is a giant in the field of popular culture, one of a handful of people who launched the comic book industry and who gave the world a group of characters so colorful and inventive that they continue to captivate every new generation,'' Jenette Kahn, president and editor-in-chief of New York-based DC Comics, said in a statement. Kane was born in New York City on Oct. 24, 1915, his lawyer said. He broke into comic book work in the mid-1930s. Batman was born a year after the debut of ``Superman'' when DC Comics editor Vincent Sullivan asked him to devise a new superhero. Kane took inspiration from his childhood reading. ``I remember,'' Kane said in an interview, ``when I was 12 or 13 I was an ardent reader of books on how things began -- the automobile, the steam engine, the parachute -- and I came across a book about Leonardo da Vinci. This had a picture of a flying machine with huge bat wings. ... It looked like a bat man to me.'' He also drew on the caped or masked heroes of movies, radio and pulp novels -- Zorro, the Shadow and the Phantom. And there was a somber 1930 movie, ``The Bat Whispers,'' starring Chester Morris as a costumed villain who wore a full-face bat mask. The result, concocted in a single weekend, was the Batman. He lacked the powers of Superman, relying instead on strength, agility, a fortune in high-tech equipment and a fearsome bat mask and cowl to terrorize criminals. The Batman is Bruce Wayne, a rich man who vows vengeance on criminals because, as a boy, he watched a robber gun down his parents. Kane is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Kane; a daughter, a grandson 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) RealAudio Radio Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:46:47 -0600 At 09:16 AM 11/6/98 -0600, Tony Shanks wrote: >Does anyone know of any GOOD Real Audio or other downloadable music sites? >Thanks, >Tony Shanks Try this URL: < http://www.krumbacher.com/ > -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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Here is another source of radio stations that are on the Date: 06 Nov 1998 11:40:28 -0500 http://www.web-radio.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: Pea Hicks Subject: Re: (exotica) Shut up Little man! Date: 06 Nov 1998 09:43:38 -0800 Ron Grandia wrote: > > Anybody ever hear of this one? I'd like to get some label info on this. i don't have time to look right now, but i know that there was an official (as well as a couple unofficial) website for Raymond and Peter. You might want to just do a web search for it..... cheers! pea # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Bob Kane obit Date: 06 Nov 1998 10:27:41 -0600 NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Bob Kane, the comic book artist and writer who created the ``Batman'' character, has died at his Southern California home. He was 83. A spokeswoman for New York-based DC Comics did not reveal the cause of his death or the city where he lived. Kane, a self-described ``doodler,'' once said Leonardo da Vinci's drawings inspired him to create the comic book hero, which has been featured in comic books, newspaper strips, two TV series and four feature films. While still in his teens, Kane created the tale of wealthy young Bruce Wayne, who witnessed his parents' murders and vowed to avenge their deaths by bringing criminals to justice. Wayne used his considerable fortune to study criminology, trained his body to athletic perfection and assembled an assortment of vehicles and weapons DC comics says Batman was an immediate hit, and is the only comic-book character besides Superman and Wonder Woman to remain in continuous publication with monthly episodes since 1940. The character appears in four comic books, including ``Batman,'' ``Detectives Comics,'' ``Batman: Shadow of the Bat,'' and ``Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.'' Kane, also a cartoonist, drew the Dark Knight in an animated TV series in which Robin, the Boy Wonder; the Joker; Catwoman; and the Riddler made their first appearances. Kane also created the TV cartoon characters Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, and Cool McCool. Jenette Kahn, president and editor-in-chief of DC Comics, called Kane a giant in the field of popular culture who helped launch the comic book industry. Kahn said, ``Bob will be greatly missed, but he left a legacy that will keep his memory alive.'' Kane is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Kane, his daughter, Deborah Majeski of New Jersey, his grandson Matthew Alderman and his sister, Doris Atlas of New York. Private services are scheduled Friday at a Burbank, Calif., mortuary. His family has asked that donations be made in his name to agencies providing services to disadvantaged children. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- ``Batman'' creator Bob Kane, who watched the comic book character become an American icon, has died. He was 83. Kane collapsed at his Los Angeles home Tuesday and was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his attorney, Jim Leonard, said Thursday. The cause of death was unclear. Kane always was proud and astonished at the popularity of the hero he created for DC Comics in 1939. ``Bob described himself as a doodler, so he found it absolutely amazing that one of his doodles should live this long and become the symbol that it is,'' Leonard said. ``The day before he died he was sitting there looking at fan mail. They get stacks and stacks every day.'' Kane's ``Dark Knight'' survived 60 years of incarnations. He began as a noirish figure of vengeance, did a buffoonish turn in the kitschy 1960s TV series, turned grim again in an adult graphic novel in the 1980s and became the star of a new series of multimillion-dollar movies, for which Kane was creative consultant. The comic continues to be published and read around the globe. The villains have ranged from the insidious Joker to ration book counterfeiters in World War II and the modern ills of drug addiction and poverty. ``He adapts to each era,'' Kane said of his creation in 1989. ``He fights against all injustices in the world. He fights the battle for the little man.'' ``Bob Kane is a giant in the field of popular culture, one of a handful of people who launched the comic book industry and who gave the world a group of characters so colorful and inventive that they continue to captivate every new generation,'' Jenette Kahn, president and editor-in-chief of New York-based DC Comics, said in a statement. Kane was born in New York City on Oct. 24, 1915, his lawyer said. He broke into comic book work in the mid-1930s. Batman was born a year after the debut of ``Superman'' when DC Comics editor Vincent Sullivan asked him to devise a new superhero. Kane took inspiration from his childhood reading. ``I remember,'' Kane said in an interview, ``when I was 12 or 13 I was an ardent reader of books on how things began -- the automobile, the steam engine, the parachute -- and I came across a book about Leonardo da Vinci. This had a picture of a flying machine with huge bat wings. ... It looked like a bat man to me.'' He also drew on the caped or masked heroes of movies, radio and pulp novels -- Zorro, the Shadow and the Phantom. And there was a somber 1930 movie, ``The Bat Whispers,'' starring Chester Morris as a costumed villain who wore a full-face bat mask. The result, concocted in a single weekend, was the Batman. He lacked the powers of Superman, relying instead on strength, agility, a fortune in high-tech equipment and a fearsome bat mask and cowl to terrorize criminals. The Batman is Bruce Wayne, a rich man who vows vengeance on criminals because, as a boy, he watched a robber gun down his parents. Kane is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Sanders Kane; a daughter, a grandson 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: Bump Subject: Re: (exotica) ? & The Mysterians Date: 06 Nov 1998 06:44:41 -0500 i second Phil's enthusiam!!!! saw them over the summer in DC. THE greatest RnR performer in the World! actually he is from Mars ;) ? get all info and tour dates @ http://www.96tears.com/ alright cheah baby woooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bump >Phil Clark wrote: > >> I caught the original lineup of seminal >> garagepunkers ? & THE MYSTERIANS here in London last week and they were >> treeeee-mendous.... > >oh no! one of my favorite bands. Was there any talking about a european >tour or >was it just a singular gig? =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Dig the Music, Kids" -- JONNY ALUCARD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Doctor Goldfoot Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:50:18 -0500 >And were there two or three Dr Goldfoot films? Two: "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" (1965, dir. Norman Taurog) "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs" (1966, dir. Mario Bava) m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ New: "Forms That Function" updated with a cavalcade of Buick grilles # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Confusion Boats Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:59:30 -0500 Hey, sorry about all this. I'm still here, and will be for a few more weeks?! If not, it will likely be that my address changes. Didn't mean to pollute the list with untruths. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Beats and Feet Date: 06 Nov 1998 14:22:16 -0500 Forgive my random, delusional nature today...but I thought I'd suggest, ask, and inform. RE:Beats, A nice piece of Thanksgiving cheer to play for your family is William S. Burrough's THANKSGIVING PRAYER. It just kinda sums up modern society nicely ;)...And on a self-serving note, who on this list last year taped me something with Ken Nordine and Tom Waits(what the hell is *he* doing these days?*) on FEET: It's to my knowledge, DR GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRLBOMBS (anyone catch the ref to that in AUSTIN POWERS...maybe it was 10th VICTIM, too) and DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE. Terrible, even for me! Jane Fondle...queasy at her "feet" subject line. PS-Hi, Hugh! Where is Patrick Cashin, anyone know!?!? The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Carnival of Souls CD Date: 06 Nov 1998 11:26:24 -0800 Hello all The original soundtrack to "Carnival of Souls" has just been reissued on CD:) Not yet in, soon though. Limited Quantities. Reserve your copies now $17.00 + Shipping O.S.T.: Carnival Of Souls CD "In 1962 an industrial filmmaker named Herk Harvey set out to make a feature length horror movie. With the help of writer John Clifford he made Carnival of Souls -- the story of a girl who survives a car crash only to find herself haunted by ghouls. The movie played a meager run at drive-ins and later wound up as a staple on late night TV. In the late 80s it was re-released as an art house film and won a surprising amount of acclaim -- even People magazine ran a feature on it. George Romero has cited the film as the primary influence on Night Of The Living Dead and its dark eeriness is still unsettling by today's standards. One feature that enhances the film's creepiness to great effect is the pipe organ score of Gene Moore which is simultaneously atmospheric and chilling -- imagine Korla Pandit's never recorded Halloween album and you get the picture. This is the first time ever the soundtrack to this cult classic complete with stand out bits of dialog from the film and music that was recorded for the film which hit the cutting room floor, has ever seen the light of day or the dark of night. This is music that guarantees nightmares. 10 Stars I accept Visa/Mastercard, Money Order and Personal Checks 1st 3 forms of payment get immediate shipment Checks need to wait to clear the bank, about 1 week Jack Diamond 405 El Camino Real # 603 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Thanks for looking JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) the grim reaper x 4 Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:20:39 -0800 Just let me get this straight, Lou...did Bob Kane die? ;) 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:28:35 -0800 (PST) An interesting sidenote to the jazz or not discussion was that a short snippet on Jobim (I believe it was on Bravo a year or two ago), showed him playing the Girl From Ipanema live in Brazil and then it changed directly into Take the A Train by Duke Ellington. Jobim was interviewed and said he took Take the A Train and molded directly into the Girl from Ip. It was truly an eye opener. I'm not very good at clasifying genres of music. Sometimes an adverb or adjective such as the dry sound of the "desert" describe music the best for me. Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---Lou Smith wrote: > > > by UPI/Ken Franckling > > A most unusual thing happened in pop music during the winter of 1965. Saxophonist Stan Getz won four Grammy awards, including Record of the Year, for ``The Girl from Ipanema'' with guitarist Joao Gilberto and singer Astrud He had some stiff competition. The other ominations that year were Barbra Streisand for ``People,'' the Beatles for ``A Hard Day's Night,'' Henry Mancini for ``The Pink Panther'' and Louis Armstrong for ``Hello Dolly.'' > It was one of those rare instances since the 1940s Swing Era heyday in which a jazz project had enough crossover appeal to dominate the popular radio airwaves for a season. == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 06 Nov 1998 13:47:30 -0800 > Jobim was > interviewed and said he took Take the A Train and molded directly > into the Girl from Ip. It was truly an eye opener. Lots of Jazz standards are based on the same "changes." I guess it's a function of having just so many chords to use, and a lot of songs get written from inspiration that come about during improvisation. Play "I got rhythm" and sing the theme to "The Flintsones." They fit PERFECTLY and are interchangeable. I'm sure some musicians out there will know of more examples of this. Neato, huh? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 Date: 06 Nov 1998 18:37:41 -0600 Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 is an addition to the American Memory Collection of digitized historical materials at the Library of Congress. In 1870, the US Congress passed copyright legislation that required the deposit of one copy of any copyrighted work at the Library of Congress. As a result, thousands of pieces of music were sent to the Library of Congress, and in 1896, the Library established its Music Collection with 400,000 items. The online collection currently includes 22,000 musical compositions that were registered for copyright between 1870 and 1879. Both catalog records and digital images of the sheet music are available, allowing users to search or browse by author, title, or subject, and view the complete musical notation. Descriptions of any illustrations on the sheet music are not included in the catalog records, so pictures can only be located by browsing. The Library plans to add an additional 23,000 titles to the online sheet music collection in the fall of 1999. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Stan Getz: Giving Life To A Melody Date: 06 Nov 1998 23:24:40 EST Speaking of songs that sound the same, today's thrift shop score yielded a Ray Conniff LP from 1976 that featured a perfectly blended "Do The Hustle" with "I Only Have Eyes For You"...Who could ax for 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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) DR GOLDFOOT LP Date: 07 Nov 1998 00:18:34 EST TO the lister who has the one DR GOLDFOOT LP and is looking for the other. I don't have either, but would love to. Would you mind posting a review of the one you have. I would very much like to read your opinion of that record. Thanks, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) the loved one Date: 07 Nov 1998 02:50:39 -0800 (PST) say, have you ever seen a craaazy movie called "the loved one"(1965)? totally insane dark satire about the funeral biz in LA. lots of cameos and stars, too many to mention... liberache as a funeral caskett salesman was a highpoint... rod steiger is a crazy embalmer... but the oddest role was from child actor PAUL WILLIAMS! at least i'm pretty sure it's him. if it isn't it's a mutant clone of his. maybe someone can confirm... there's no list for the whole cast at the end. i'm not sure if it's on video, i taped it on TCM. totally insane and great flick! not much soundtrack music. but there's a cool party scene with girls popping out of coffins. kevin leeeee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Voodoo Rhyhtm Date: 06 Nov 1998 17:16:42 +0100 >From: Beat Zeller >Subject: Voodoo Rhyhtm > >Voodoo Rhyhtm the Label for the ultimate Bad Taste Rock'n'Roller and >Incredable Strange Music Lover yust released a new 7" Vinyl Single by >Germanys most Nuts and Crazy Elvis Impersonator > >ELVIS PUMMEL !!!!! >-pressed on wax 8 song EP- VR 705 > >Elvis Pummel is not a Elvis Impersonator in the normal Way,he writes his >own songs of wierdness here on this extremly tastefull looking record >singind along to his guitar,this is the real Rockabilly Bad Taste Elvis >CAT EVER !!!!! it's more like a trip throu the work of Elvis Pummel some >songs could be on a Desperate Rock'n'Roll Combilation and some on >Dr.Dementos Radio Show, this is anothe MUST BUY !!! belive this record is >gonna be a fucking cult thing in a couple of years, yust buy it and your >the hot shot in your neighbourhood yust to remain you: > >ELVIS PUMMEL -pressed on wax- > >side 1 >leavin my baby , jungle , break bop , it hurts >side 2 >one guitar , fame , hick up baby , play it MTV > >Elvis is the unborn king of 50's PUNK Rock > >Voodoo Rhythm >c/oBeat'MAN' Zeller >Laengassstrasse 57 >3012 Bern >Switzerland >tel/Fax ++41(0)31 302 52 86 >http://www.bboxbbs.ch/home/voodoo > >Distribution: Rec Rec,Clear Spot, Subterranian, Abraxas, Rockin'rollin >production, Swamp room >and throu all cool and crazy mail orders and record shops all around the world > > >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="pummel.PCT" > >Attachment converted: Johan:pummel.PCT (PICT/ttxt) (00001A82) > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) the loved one Date: 07 Nov 1998 10:04:41 -0500 >say, have you ever seen a craaazy movie called "the loved one"(1965)? > >from child actor PAUL WILLIAMS! at least i'm pretty sure it's him. if it >isn't it's a mutant clone of his. maybe someone can confirm... Yes, it is indeed young Master Williams. And don't forget Mrs. Joyboy -- an escapee from a John Waters feature before John Waters started making features! Cutting and pasting myself, here's more of the "once in a lifetime" cast: The Loved One (1965) Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, adapted by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood, and directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones), this is one of those movies you must see. Robert Morse plays a British poet/plagiarist, who comes to Hollywood to visit his art director uncle, John Gielgud. Unfortunately, Uncle hangs himself after being fired by the movie studio. Morse is left with the task of handling the funeral arrangements at Whispering Glades cemetery (based on Forest Lawn). Many things branch off from there. Let me just list some of the amazing cast: Jonathan Winters (in two roles), Robert Morley, Lionel Stander, James Coburn, Liberace, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger (as Mr. Joyboy), Tab Hunter, Milton Berle, Dana Andrews, Margaret Leighton, little Paul Williams, Alan Napier, Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Roddy McDowall and the proverbial many more. Originally advertised as the movie with something to offend everyone. Terrific b&w cinematography by Haskell Wexler delineates highly unique situations. If you've never seen it, you don't know what you're missing. 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Aavikko again Date: 07 Nov 1998 16:07:03 +0100 In that same issue of Zone 5300 a raving review of Aavikko's "Derek" CD "I can make it short about "Derek" by Finnish band Aavikko : this is for me absolutely the most festive release of the year! Two organs and a stripped drumset is all the men need to brew up a half hour long mix of ska, house, disco, vaudeville and humppa. You have to be serious stuffed if you don't get your feet from the floor with this. Armed with a enormous dose of humor every instrumental is a direct hit. The ska-song. Kipstadt, deserves to be a big hit, and the tragicomic waltz, Die Wiesen von Krakow, wouldn't be out of place in one of the movies from fellow countryman Aki Kaurismaki. Mouthwatering stuff!" Wholeheartedly recommend! If anyone wants to trade a tape of this drop me a line. In that same issue also positive reviews of Marc 4 - Best of Marc 4 and the Arriva La Bomba comp, both on Irma records 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) the loved one Date: 07 Nov 1998 13:22:46 EST for info on film visit ecam@voicenet.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Germany Sings Date: 07 Nov 1998 13:25:50 EST Found in my local thrifty: A Capitol Records LP called "Germany Sings"---real Capitol Loungey sounding Johnny Mann Singers-like LP containing a German Chorus singing lounge-like material...utterly charming...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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Bizarrr recordcovers Date: 07 Nov 1998 15:54:05 +0100 The recent issue of Zone 5300 ( a Dutch comic and asssorted trash zine I subscribe too) features an article about bizarre recordcovers the guys could unearth from their collections. I'll spare you the Dutch ones... V/A - Lord Knud praesentiert Evergreens a-go-go (man in firearm suit on lame soul comp) Beatles - Yesterday and Today (infamous butchercover) Walter Carlos - Switched on Bach II (cardboars spacesuit) Kool and the Gang - Live at the Sex Machine (ugly models) Secos Y Mojados - Secos Y Mojados (Mexican kiss) NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo (explicit sex with sheep) Don Antonio - La vera storia di Graziana Mesina (comic strip) Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley's Greatest Shit! (fat dead person) bapphi Lahiri - Gun Master G-9 in "Surakksha" (Bollywood crime pulp) Abba - Greates Hits (a stoned Agnetha0 Revolting Cocks - Big Sexy Land (pictures of 3 belgian bankrobbers, far relatives of one of the studiotechnicians, just after they robbed another bank. An hour later they all were killed in a shoot out on the border) V/A - The Rosko Show (DJ kitsch) V/A - Hits und Evergreens (a monkey in lederhosen) Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering (2 decapitated heads kissing) Smersh - The Beat from 20,000 Fathoms (silly monkeysuits even before Intergalactic) Tom Jones - A-Tom-ic Jones (a big atomic mushroom in the back) Kalyanji Anadji - Safar (another Indian movie about the dangers of cigarets. The hero, cig in hand, moodily staring to a skull in front of him) 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: Nat Kone Subject: (exotica) wrong format Date: 07 Nov 1998 18:05:54 -0500 I've never found Hugo Montenegro's "Moog Power" on vinyl but I do have it on eight-track. Too bad I've never bought an eight-track player which didn't break on the first play. I also have a sealed Funkadelic eight-track and a sealed double "Truck Turner" eight track by Isaac Hayes... among others. I just can't throw them out. And they are kind of useful as separators on my CD shelves. They're about the same height as a CD case. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hr This Wk Date: 07 Nov 1998 17:45:06 +0000 This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, hear the Mambo King do "A Hard Days Night"! Also cool crime jazz from "Staccato", "M-Squad" and "The 10th Victim", plus The Avengers do "Kinky Boots", tunes from The Sound Gallery and the DeWolfe production library, Mr. Bongo, the Velvet Fog and a tough babe sings. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web, just go to: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Requires at least a 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2. While you listen, tour the album gallery, peruse playlists from past shows and enter our CD giveaway (this week, "Atomic Cocktail", courtesy Wowsville Music). Thanks for the space! Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://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: "Ben Waugh" Subject: Re: (exotica) the loved one Date: 07 Nov 1998 18:30:52 PST ages ago. a british send up of hollywood in general, based on evelyn waugh novel of the same title. many waugh novels might appeal to any who enjoy acidic satire. don't remember the juvenile dwarf, though. >say, have you ever seen a craaazy movie called "the loved one"(1965)? >totally insane dark satire about the funeral biz in LA. lots of cameos and >stars, too many to mention... liberache as a funeral caskett salesman was a >highpoint... rod steiger is a crazy embalmer... ______________________________________________________ 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: (exotica) us tv selections o' the week Date: 07 Nov 1998 23:15:25 -0500 (eastern standard times) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) AMC - Sunday evening, 6:00pm - 50s satire from Frank Tashlin. Features (of course) Jayne Mansfield. With Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Mickey Hargitay and Groucho Marx. The Third Man (1949) AMC - Tuesday evening, 6:00pm - AMC is working on wearing out their copy. The Horror At 37,000 Feet (1972) TNT - Late Tuesday, early Wednesday, 3:00am - Heavy 70s TV-movie vibes here. Supernatural trouble on an in-flight airliner. With Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, France Nuyen, Russell Johnson, Roy Thinnes, Tammy Grimes, Paul Winfield and (drumroll please) William Shatner. The Steel Helmet (1951) AMC - Wednesday afternoon, 12:30pm - Sam Fuller's unsentimental story of a sometimes lost patrol trying to survive the Korean war. Starring Fuller regular, Gene Evans, with Steve Brodie, Robert Hutton, Richard Loo, James Edwards. The Big Red One (1980) TNT - Late Wednesday/early Thursday, 1:00am - Sam Fuller's autobiographical epic of his squad in WWII Europe. With Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine. Scarlet Street (1945) A&E - Early Thursday, 4:00am - Edward G. Robinson stars as a henpecked husband manipulated by a mistress with a secondary agenda. With Joan Bennet and Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang. The Blue Dahlia (1946) AMC - Friday afternoon, 12:30pm - Southern California noir (script by Raymond Chandler) starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. William Bendix gets to deliver a vigorous flipped lid performance as a vet with a metal plate in his head. Also with Doris Dowling, Howard da Silva and Hugh Beaumont. House On Haunted Hill (1956) AMC - Late Friday night, Midnight - Vincent Price in front of the camera. William Castle behind it. A skeleton on a wire. And oooh, Carol Ohmart. 'Nuff said. High School Hellcats (1958) AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm - AIP J.D. flick, with Yvonne Lime, Brett Halsey, Jana Lund, Suzanne Sydney. In Cold Blood (1967) A&E - (next) Sunday afternoon, 3:00pm - Film version of Truman Capote's docu-novel. Score by Quincy Jones. 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: "Arjan Plug" Subject: (exotica) Supertroopers Date: 08 Nov 1998 12:59:07 +0100 Just released in Holland is "Only in it for the Money" by the Supertroopers, the result of a longtime hobby-project by Dutch rockband Hello Venray. As the Abba's they've been doing infrequent succesfull gigs for a number of years as a funband playing only covers by the Swedish legends when finally a record company asked them to record an album. As the original name of the Abba's might rouse the wrath of Scandinavian lawyers they decided to choose this name. Tracklist: Mamma Mia/ Gimme, gimme, gimme/Money. money, money/ S.O.S./ Name of the Game/ Waterloo/Winner Takes it All/ Honey, honey/ Lay All your Love/ Dancing Queen/ I Do/ Chiquitita/ I Have a Dream Van Records,1998 Nothing overly spectacular here, all covers are done in guitarstyle. Dancing Queen is c&w upbeat, I Do has been slowed down. Chiquitita gets the fuzz grunge workout while Gimme, gimme, gimme gets a twist as it is sung by a man. No The Day Before You Came, my favorite Abba-song, alas. Anyway this brings my my collection of Abbacoveralbums at four: Abbasalutely (a comp. by artists on the New Zealand Flying Nun label), Selma & Sabina sing the hits of Abba in Hindi and The Royal Philharmonic play Abba being the other ones. Any more? 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, November 8 Date: 08 Nov 1998 15:14:15 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada. Comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #22 - Groovy Italian stuff Mirageman: El Paso "Mo'Plen 1000" Franco Micalizzi: Folk & Violence "Beretta 70" Ciato & Ciato's: Also Sprach Zarathustra "Mo'Plen 1000" Giovanni Fenati e la Sua Orchestra: Budapest "Mo'Plen 3000" Luis Enriquez: Lo Scatenato "Mo'Plen 3000" Johnny Dorelli: Arriva La Bomba "Arriva La Bomba" Giovanni Lamberti Orchestra: Sfogliando la Margherita "Mo'Plen 1000" Gak Sato featuring DJ Massive: Mah Na Mah Na - Space Go Go Mix "Mah Na Mah Na - The Complete Remix Project" Capricorn College Brass: Capricorn College "Mo'Plen 1000" Bruno Nicolai: Buon Funerale Amigos... Paga Sartana "My Delicious Spaghetti Western" Francesco De Masi/A. Alessandroni:" Stranger "My Delicious Spaghetti Western" Ennio Morricone: Adonai "Easy Tempo Vol. 5" Luis Bacalov: Summertime Killer "Beretta 70" Guido & Maurizio De Angelis: New Special Squad "Beretta 70" Nora Orlandi: Soho "Beat At Cinecitta Vol. 2" Gak Sato: Mah Na Mah Na Tiki Mix "Mah Na Mah Na - The Complete Remix Project" 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: the curator Subject: (exotica) Tiki bar in Mayfair Date: 08 Nov 1998 21:46:56 +0000 Do any of our London, England exoticats know if the Tiki bar in a Mayfair hotel is still open? If so which hotel is it? I have a thirst. Spitting feathers but still friendly, Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki: very cool Date: 08 Nov 1998 20:39:36 -0400 Can't remember if this has been mentioned here before, but a rather = good album just came my way: The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki. Not = only is *Martin Denny* a guest, but they cover "An Occasional Man" (I = have it by Judy Holliday by am not sure who created it). Congas, = flute, birdcalls, and someone credited as playing "royal poinciana = seed pods": it's all there. Really superior exotic music from = Hawaii=8Bthat's where the label, Taboo, is based, so I assume Don = Tiki's from there as well. 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: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Sir Henry Date: 08 Nov 1998 22:11:47 -0500 I just picked up a CD, "Ums nackte leben, featuring Sir Henry" (whomever that is), which is really great! Does anyone know anything more about this person/group/whatever? I seem to recall reading a posting about him a while back, but I can't find it. Any information would be appreciated! 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: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) peter Wyngarde Date: 09 Nov 1998 09:05:07 -0000 I finally got my friend Steve to play me the Peter Wyngarde LP. Its pretty good. Needless to say that as he was an actor its all spoken word stuff, but its way out on a limb beyond, say, William Shatner. The music varies from a sort of lush orchestral sound like Scott Walker, to the kind of 60's English psychedelic pop that you'd find on the Bam Caruso compilations. Its the vocal content that makes the LP though, there is some poetry, some general chat (Oh yes, come in, have a chair) and some quite bizarre stuff halfway between. Some of it is quite beyond the pale. The reason Steve wouldn't play it in the first place was the track Rape. I guess attitudes have changed considerably, but this is really jaw dropping stuff, managing to be offensive on several levels, and at the same time so cheesy its beyond comprehension. The only response we could come up with was to sit there shaking our heads, mouths open, saying What were they thinking? So after all that, I reckon its a pretty good LP. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jill Mingo" Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki bar in Mayfair Date: 31 Oct 1998 04:24:38 PST ---------- > > Do any of our London, England exoticats know if the Tiki bar in a Mayfa= ir > hotel is still open? If so which hotel is it? > > I have a thirst. You're thinking about Trader Vics in the Hilton at Hyde Park Corner. It = is very much open and very much worth a visit. Expect to spend about =A36= a cocktail, but the drinks are amazing, and you'll feel one. Served with= care and perfection. I never miss a visit whenever I'm in London. Class. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Headphone memories Date: 09 Nov 1998 09:55:26 -0600 < http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/981106.headphones.html > Stereo Headphones (from NPR's All Things Considered): November 6, 1998 ---Forty years ago this month, John Koss began selling his invention...the stereo headphone. In honor of John Koss, we asked listeners to tell us a good headphone story. Tonight we present those stories, complete with sound effects and music. Get out your headphones for this one, or at least plug your speakers into your computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki: very cool Date: 09 Nov 1998 07:27:39 -0800 (PST) Don Tiki is one of the best examples of Exotica in the pure sense of the word. Don Tiki has been mentioned on the list. Its a rather difficult cd to buy. I know that Tower Records in Hawaii sold it and you can get a Tower store near you to order it from them. Vic's Lounge also has a way to contact Don Tiki directly. The Don Tiki people are wonderful to deal with & I especially recieved first class treatment from a person called "Little Laff" Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote: > > > Can't remember if this has been mentioned here before, but a rather good album just came my way: The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki. Not only is *Martin Denny* a guest, but they cover "An Occasional Man" (I have it by Judy Holliday by am not sure who created it). Congas, flute, birdcalls, and someone credited as playing "royal poinciana == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Don Tiki: very cool Date: 09 Nov 1998 08:27:21 -0800 (PST) I ordered my copy through Amazon - $10 or so, got in 3 days after placing the order. Great buy: Augie Colon's son on jungle shrieks. Cool cover art, too. Julie London's cover of An Occasional Man still unsurpassed, in my opinion, though. ---chuck wrote: > > > Don Tiki is one of the best examples of Exotica in the pure sense of > the word. Don Tiki has been mentioned on the list. Its a rather > difficult cd to buy. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Simeon- Silver Apples Date: 08 Nov 1998 20:48:16 -0000 Forwarded from the Stereolab mailing list: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 19:32:39 -0000 Send reply to: peng@kuci.org This very sad news from the droneon list: Some sad news just coming in. Apparently Simeon and Danny of the Silver Apples have had a serious car smash, involving at least 5 rolls of the hired van they were in. Danny fortunately walked away from it relatively unscathed, but Simeon suffered a broken neck. At the moment he's paralysed, and will obviously never play (or paint, or cook - his other two passions) again, but "might" be able to walk eventually according to the doctors in New York. Peg hopes to get him home to Baltimore as soon as possible. It'd be nice to think "we" (as in his fans) might be able to organise some kind of benefit for him, or at least some way of showing we care, in due course - but right now I'm too stunned to think straight to be honest. Anyone wanting to send messages of support should write care of Peg Udall, since she'll be at home (when she can get away from the hospital) at: Whirlybird Records, 28 Decatur Ave., Annapolis MD 21403 USA Terrible huh? Nick # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Hibarger Subject: (exotica) Generation Kitsch... Date: 09 Nov 1998 15:21:35 -0500 Arjan Plug pointed out: >The recent issue of Zone 5300 ( a Dutch comic and asssorted trash zine I >subscribe too) features an article about bizarre recordcovers the guys could >unearth from their collections. I'll spare you the Dutch ones... >NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo (explicit sex with sheep) I single this one out for its Generation X kitsch...irony, etc. I would also compare and contrast it with Minor Threat's _Out of Step_ which features a flock of white sheep nicely done in watercolor with a crayon-like drawing of a black sheep going the other way...one is poetry...both are punk. But what is really punk? And I suppose what does this have to do with exotica? Perhaps nothing...but I just thought I'd offer my 1/2 cents worth on peoples notions of funny...funny is not a lame pun such as "Heavy Petting Zoo" nor is it funny to depict explicit sex with sheep on your album cover...nor is it punk rock...it is however, an example of tomorrow's cheese...today. M. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Jean Marais obit Date: 09 Nov 1998 15:44:23 -0600 CANNES, France, Nov 9 (AFP) - Jean Marais, the French film star of the 1940s and 1950s, has died aged 84, town hall officials said Monday. The actor died Sunday in hospital in this Riviera city shortly after being brought in for treatment from nearby Vallauris, where he had a house. Marais was catapulted to fame by his friend, the poet and film-maker Jean Cocteau. Born Jean Villain in Cherbourg, northern France, on December 11, 1913, Marais was the most popular young male lead in wartime France and the star in Cocteau films from "La Belle et la Bete" in 1945 through to "Le Testament d'Orphee", made in 1960. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Sam Butera Date: 09 Nov 1998 15:27:38 -0500 Strange how these things happen. I was working in a seedy area of Boston this summer, outside the hip(?) Cambridge and Newbury Street areas. I passed by a printer shop, of which the owner is also some kinda VOLARE night-club singer. So, on the window, there was this dual flyer of him and *Sam Butera* at this spagetti-supper-and-entertainment-thing in the Italian-North End Section. Well, I was all primed to go, but my betrothed had torn ligaments days before. AK. That's not the point...I want to know if any North Easterners went to this, and if Sam Butera does this kind of Spagetti Supper-club thing often? I was gonna die if I heard Keely Smith made a surprise appearance(anyone see her recently? Is she in good voice? Gawd, I love her!) You hear about this stuff, I chased a rumour in Tampa for awhile that Julie London had performed in a Ramada Inn Lounge. And, if there is a way to know when Sam comes again(I don't go by that print shop anymore,) I'l like a source. One more question, sorry! Did Julie London ever record NOONE EVER TELLS YOU? Jane Fondle.... The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) A Don Tiki tidbit and some BAD news. Date: 09 Nov 1998 14:44:01 -0800 Don Tiki Just got a plug on Dr. Demento this weekend - He played DT in the background during an announce break and mentioned the music. Neato! I have been tuning in DR Demento on the web and rebroadcasting him on 104.1 - for those of you who don't know, I have been running a pirate radio station for 10 years in the SJ bay area - UNTILL LAST NIGHT. The FCC came by for a visit. I only got a warning, but the jig is UP, and I am in shock. It's been my creative outlet for years. Got some newpaper attention out of it along the way and numerous mentions in the local weekly rag. Now, poof! Gone. Poor me. Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Subject: (exotica) Site Update Date: 09 Nov 1998 15:23:25 -0800 Been here lately ? http://www.jackdiamond.to/houseofgames/ Trade links, perhaps ? Lemmie know Thanks! Jack Jack Diamond Music Http://www.jackdiamond.com Http://www.jackdiamond.com/attilio.htm Attilio Mineo Conducts "Man in Space With Sounds" Now available at Http://www.Amazon.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 94022 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: "telstar" Subject: Re: (exotica) A Don Tiki tidbit and some BAD news. Date: 09 Nov 1998 19:13:22 -0500 Ron wrote: > I have been tuning in DR Demento on the web and rebroadcasting him on > 104.1 - for those of you who don't know, I have been running a pirate radio > station for 10 years in the SJ bay area - UNTILL LAST NIGHT. The FCC > came by for a visit. What clued the FCC in after 10 years? A complaint from a commercial station? 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: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) A Don Tiki tidbit and some BAD news. Date: 09 Nov 1998 16:21:18 -0800 > >What clued the FCC in after 10 years? A complaint from a commercial >station? > >Allan > No way. I ws running clean, clean, CLEAN. No interference here. Some punk kid has been raising hell in the area, so the FCC has been the area a LOT recently. I was on at the wrong time. Phooey! I have redoubled my efforts to get the transmitter off the property and up into the hills somewhere. Finding some kind soul with a piece of property will allow me to continue, but avoid further trouble. If the FCC visits the transmitter site, they can always feign ignorance. The FCC is rather toothless...It takes a lot to get them to do anything nasty. Any takers with a view to the Silicon Valley? ; > Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@ibm.net Subject: (exotica) Court OKs Royalties for 'Louie, Louie' Date: 09 Nov 1998 19:59:16 -0500 By Laurie Asseo Associated Press Writer Monday, November 9, 1998; 11:07 a.m. EST For more than 30 years, the Kingsmen got no royalties from their classic recording of the garage-band standard ``Louie, Louie.'' Today, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling that finally let them collect. The court, without comment, rejected an appeal by two companies that held the rights to the recording and admitted they paid no royalties to the band. The Kingsmen's 1963 version was not the first recording of ``Louie, Louie,'' and it wasn't exactly the most on-key -- but it was a massive hit and has been a party favorite ever since. Federal officials launched an obscenity investigation of the band's recording but finally declared it ``unintelligible at any speed.'' The band signed a contract in 1968 that was supposed to pay its members 9 percent of the profits or licensing fees from the record. But the Kingsmen got nothing, and in 1993 they sued Gusto Records and GML, which owned the rights to the recording. After the companies' lawyer acknowledged they paid ``not a single dime for 30 years,'' a federal judge canceled the 1968 contract and granted the musicians the right to all royalties from the time they sued. The judge also held the companies in contempt when they refused to surrender the master recording. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld those rulings last April. The companies subsequently turned over the master recording and paid overdue royalties of roughly a few hundred thousand dollars, said Kingsmen's lawyer Scott Edelman. The band members, most of whom live in the Seattle area and who still go on tour, ``are delighted to finally have the masters back in their control after not getting any royalties and getting the run-around,'' Edelman said in an interview. In the appeal acted on today, the Nashville-based companies' lawyers argued that the case did not belong in a California court. The fact that the companies signed licensing agreements for ``Louie, Louie'' with California-based firms was not enough to justify having the case heard in that state, the appeal said. ``Louie, Louie'' was written in the 1950s by Richard Berry, who sold it for a small sum. In 1986, an artists' rights group helped Berry collect about $2 million in royalties. The case is Gusto Records vs. Peterson, 98-449. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) A Don Tiki tidbit and some BAD news. Date: 10 Nov 1998 09:02:13 EST while we're on the subject of radio, today was the first day of my participation in WMBR-FM's annual fundraising effort week (for my current show, anyway) . Being in my timeslot since June, I expected little, but was surprised to clock just under $1000 for "Jimmy's Easy" , music that's over the top and underappreciated airing from 6-8am Tuesday mornings! One listener donated $100.00 with the comment, "I don't know if its because of "Jimmy's Easy" or in spite of it. Now THAT'S punk~....Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Court OKs Royalties for 'Louie, Louie' Date: 10 Nov 1998 09:06:33 EST Being one of the resident geezers on this list, allow me to recall the day the Kingsmen bus pulled onto my high school quadrangle in Lexington, MA to play an after school concert one Friday afternoon in autumn, 1965, a full two years after Louie Louie changed the world. Before they were allowed to play they were required to come over the school intercom and denounce all reported dirty lyrics in the song "Louie Louie"..Jimmy/"felt my bone high in her hair" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Court OKs Royalties for ??????? Date: 10 Nov 1998 03:54:39 -0500 >For more than 30 years, the Kingsmen got no royalties from their classic >recording of the garage-band standard ``Louie, Louie.'' Today, the >Supreme Court let stand a ruling that finally let them collect. Question Mark and the Mysterians are having the same kind of trouble... i was talking with the ? backstage after their gig here and he told me the whole sad story of unpaid contracts and forged signatures on bad ones. no royalties on "96 tears"...and most of their releases. he said he has been looking for a lawyer to represent him but no one will. if any of you are music (contract) lawyers please help the man out! and go see them when they come to your town... you will not believe your eyes and ears... =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Dig the Music, Kids" -- JONNY ALUCARD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) the loved one Date: 10 Nov 1998 07:52:31 -0800 (PST) Forget about Rod Steiger's performance in On The Waterfront. His portrayal of joyboy and his singing on the great exotica song "Mama's little joyboy loves piggy, piggy" is one of the great moments in movies and music The whole movie is one amazing experience. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---"m.ace" wrote: >say, have you ever seen a craaazy movie called "the loved one"(1965)? == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) mo' Date: 10 Nov 1998 15:09:42 -0500 Some of you wanted to see mo' of Astroslut. You can do that, and support Michele's column, by checking out the latest issue of FLIPSIDE magazine. There is a picture of us in MICHELE'S MATTERS. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lloyd Kandell Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki calls... Date: 10 Nov 1998 11:01:29 -1000 Muchos mahalos to Elisabeth, Ben, and Chuck for recent posts of praise re our release. It is hard to find, but cdnow.com (with CMJ review) +amazon.com carry it... Other Music in NYC too. BTW, the person playing royal poinciana seed pods is Frank Orrall of Poi Dog Pondering, one of our compadres from Hawaii and then drummer in the Squids. He just did 2 club remixes for us of "Clutch Cargo Cult" and "Polyamor=E9." We have a very limited amount of these cds (sorry, no vinyl yet) if any club djs want one, email me direct. DJs Lucien + Jack Fettereman in NY report spinning these tracks to happy feet. sleeping in the city that never wakes up alohaderci, Fluid Floyd Don Tiki/Taboo Records # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) A night with ComEd (synop) Date: 10 Nov 1998 14:24:16 -0800 If you want the short version: It was a magical evening. Bimbo's is such a singularly wonderful place, I'd go back to watch DOGS FIGHT. Combustible Edison was the perfect mixer... The a synergy not unlike Vermouth and REALLY COLD Gin. If you want the LONG version, read on. It was one of those days after one of those weekends. I was NOT feeling like making the trip into the city, but I had goaded a friend into buying a ticket, so there was no backing out. He was a little late, and I needed a cocktail to get me jumpstarted, so I mixed a couple of smart little planters cocktails (Rum, lemon, grenadine) and got my mojo workin. Finding a parking spot one measly block from Bimbo's was an auspicious beginning. I had never been , and the big sign in front told me I was in for a treat. Walking in, I felt like a bumpkin straight off the bus from Iowa- (Listers in the heartland will please excuse the expression) slackjawed and unprepared for the beauty and oppulence of the club. Alabaster sculpture adorn the forier, a coat-check girl in the lobby graciously accepted my coat and pardoned my wide-eyed disbelief at such a anachronistic convenience. I part the thick velvet curtain and drink-in the main room: a huge, dark candle-lit expanse that will forever serve me as a metaphor for heaven. Big and inviting, and filled with the sound of Combustible Edision in full...uhhh...swank, and populated with the most sexy people in the world all dressed up and as happy to be steeped in the groove as I was. It was like beig in an old "Thin Man" movie, complete with middle-aged bow-tied busboys hustling buckets of ice to the beautifully well-stocked bar, and cocktail waitresses, REAL cocktail waitresses whizzing through the crowd like bees going between the hive and the clover. There were no seats to be had, but I did not really care, It gave me chance to go to the other bar and soak up some more of this fantastic space. The main bar is in a room large enough to easily accommodate 200 standing. Behind the bar were two friendly, efficient, knowlegeble mixologists framed by one helluvan impressive stone wall with recessed lighting and an aquarium that is rumored to be inhabited by a mermaid that comes out for special occasions. (She is a live, partially nude mermaid that somehow gets projected into a dark cave in the rocks...That's what I'm told.) I could have gone to the bar in the main room, but this is where I returned several times for refreshment - even without the prismatic siren. As for the music, well, you could not POSSIBLY find a better band than ComEd for a night/place like this. I am woefully unfamiliar with their recorded efforts, and have untill recently eschewed the neo-retro-cocktail bands, (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) not because I thought less of it, it's just that I am still trying to get a grip on the all the wonderful instro pop that came out of the 50's and 60's. Boy did I learn a trick or two this Monday night! The first complete tune I heard was a thing called "Vertigo," which conjured up images of "Baby Elephant Walk." Upbeat and full of homages to Mancini's SOUND: those light touches of timbral whimsy. Next was "Hot and Bothered" which again brought to mind the texture of another song, this time "Millionaires Holiday, " but with space sounds and Ms. Banquette's scatting. This is when I leaned over to my friend and explained that this is what the inside of my head has sounded like since third grade. He seemed to understand. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) A night with ComEd (Cont'd) Date: 10 Nov 1998 14:29:58 -0800 Continued..... I seemed to have been missing a lot of the music, because my eyes and mind were wandering about, looking...thinking...thinking...looking... In most cases it would be a criticism that the music was unable to capture my attention. But tonight Ms. Banquette was in beautiful voice, and the dreamy "Seduction" was the cloud that carried me away. I don't think I was alone. The next number was introduced by the Millionaire who needed repeat himself to get the proper reaction from the crowd, "I don't think you heard me, I said this next number features THE SOPRANO MELODICA!" We were much more impressed and enthusiastic the second time, having had a chance to emerge from our reverie. I did not catch te name of the song, but judging from the sound it HAD to have the word "Paris" in the title. Here was the turning point as they launched into a song called "Doors Erupt(?)" A decidedly more modern vibe, though ironically it had a very primative jungly-type of edge to it. This got the twirly dancers to the right of the stage into full-trance. I wish I knew the name of the next song, based, according to the Millionaire, on a 60's german sci-fi theme. He counts down in Deutsch, and they are OFF, baby! "Hellraiser" brought Lilly back to the bongos and "Shot in the Dark finally gave Br. Cleve a chance to really dig his heels in and show his MAD SKILLS. The pyrotechnical vibes on this number could not even eclipse Cleve's prowess. Hooboy...I hated to do it, but this called for another drink. Did I hear them say the next tune was called Esperanto, or just completely IN esperanto? A cute little ditty in the percolator style. Bartender? Rusty Nail, please. I get back to a room in a roiling boil over Br. Cleve picking out a funky baroque-y haprpsichord thing with the Millionaire laying ousome serious fuzz guitar. Weird combo, but MAN did it WORK! The next one was another tune that I do not the name of, but do I KNOW it... Fortunate listers will recognize this number as the closing theme for Radio FANTASTICA. They were obviously working up to something big, because next was Miniskirt, and who better to tackle the understatement AND overstatement of Esquivel's trademark sound than you-know-who on the ivories. Though not mentioned yet, the rest of the band was dutifully shovelling the soul-coal on our heads. I've never seen a crowd sing along to ethereal "ba-ba-ba" vocals before. ENCORE! ENCORE! Their hiatus was brief, and "Millionaires Holiday" followed. How these cats can TEAR IT UP and not seem to be breaking a sweat is beyond me, but that's just what they were doing. The final song was prefaced with some kind words for Otto Stroheim, which was greeted by waves of recognition and appreciation from the crowd. The band saluted him for his efforts on their behalf and told a bit of his travels to the Kahiki in Ohio (where he proposed to the lovely Baby Doe.) The Closing tune, a lush, Dennyesque (genuine Denny?) balm for the soul that sugarcoated the sad news that the end was in sight. On my way out I stopped by the restroom and lo and BEHOLD! An attendant! I LOVE THIS! Nice guy too... We chatted briefly. Unfortunately I did not have the presence of mind to check if he had one of those big jars of medicated combs. I looked for Otto, but there were SEVERAL bald guys with tiki shirts.... I did however bump into lister Jeff Phillips, who you may recall said in a recent post, (and this a quote) "You'll find me doing it with the "Al Malaikah" fez on." So he was kinda hard to miss. Again my mind failed me as I forgot to ask him, "Doing WHAT?" I now know what overcame Otto in darkness of the Kahiki that night. Hell, I'm married, and I damn near made a few proposals, so overtaken was I with the mood, atmosphere and the beautiful people. Or maybe I just need to get out 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Court OKs Royalties for ??????? Date: 11 Nov 1998 01:45:41 +0100 Bump wrote: > Question Mark and the Mysterians are having the same kind of trouble... > i was talking with the ? backstage after their gig here and he told me the > whole sad story of unpaid contracts and forged signatures on bad ones. > no royalties on "96 tears"...and most of their releases. > he said he has been looking for a lawyer to represent him but no one will. > if any of you are music (contract) lawyers please help the man out! I know a super-tough guy in Hamburg. If you want to bring the two together I can give you the number. 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: citizen kafka Subject: (exotica) NYC exotica DJ 11-23 Date: 10 Nov 1998 19:25:34 -0500 Hi, all, In the New york city area, guaranteed the most exotic evening imaginable! FREE! Come and visit... Hi, everyone, Announcement! WFMU radio producer ("The Secret Museum of the Air) Citizen Kafka will be DJ'ing on Monday evening, November 23rd, this year, from 10 PM to about 2 AM. It's not too loud, not too soft, just nice! My massive collection of the gems and detritus of the 20th Century (and the end of the 19th) will be presented for your listening pleasure at: Barmacy 538 E. 14th Street Between Avenue A and B New York, NY 10009 (212) 228-2240 Barmacy is an old pharmacy converted to a comfortable and friendly tavern. No admission, no cover, no minimum. This e-mail entitles you to one request (SUBMIT IN ADVANCE BY E-MAIL!). I'll do my best, really I will- There's so much music and audio material, and so much time... This is also an informal birthday party (that's not a hint, except to encourage you to come and enjoy an evening with lots of interesting folks and LOTS of amazing sounds). The official announcement: * * * DJ Citizen "Krunchy" Kafka * * * The sounds of a century... Samples, segments, and selections from over 100 years of recording history. Tribal, cultural, and system stew. 7 continents, 108 years (1890 - 1998), lacquer, beeswax, vinyl, acetate, glass, plastic, and aluminum. All mediums, all the time, just not all at once. Slambient meets 4'33". Caution: contains octaves! PS to collectors: Please don't bring shellac to spin, i'm burning all the 78s onto CDs, since club turntables don't spin that fast! -+I hope you can make it! ck # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) m sks info Date: 10 Nov 1998 21:44:57 EST I am trying to make a connection with some instrumental wordless disco, Sound Gallery-like recordings, now sounds, and exotica. This search has yielded many interesting items. One artist that alludes me is Silvetti (referred to in Peter Thomas' Futurmuzik on Scamp). I can only find the song "Spring Rain" by him/them and only on a Salsoul mix CD that does not isolate the track...Anyone know any LP's by Silvetti? Any for sale? Where I might find anything? Thanks in advance, Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David J. Strauss" Subject: (exotica) I, Brute Force? Date: 11 Nov 1998 11:14:26 -0500 (EST) OK, what's the deal with this guy? One record that I know of called CONFESSIONS OF LOVE on CBS in their late sixties Andy Williams/John Davidson/Robert Goulet/Eddie Albert phase. John Simon production in a studio folk-rock mode. And EXTREMELY campy folk-cabaret songs obsessed with young women having sex with lower class men. O yes, no discernable singing voice, of course (I prefer Eddie Albert). I'm guessing Greenwich Village is somehow involved. Et tu, Brute Force? 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums (was: Supertroopers) Date: 11 Nov 1998 14:45:04 +0100 >From: "Arjan Plug" Anyway this brings my my collection of Abbacoveralbums at four: Abbasalutely (a comp. by artists on the New Zealand Flying Nun label), Selma & Sabina sing the hits of Abba in Hindi and The Royal Philharmonic play Abba being the other ones. Any more? The Band of The Life Guards: On parade with the music of Abba LP, Sunset, UK Just what it says: Military band covers of Abba! 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) Annotated, extended Playlist Fantastica # 60 Date: 11 Nov 1998 15:14:34 +0100 Fantastica runs on: * Radio Scorpio, FM 106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday 15-16 h. * Radio Centraal, FM 103.9, Antwerpen, Belgium, at irregular times in their "Night Machine". Fantastica # 60 title: You only live twice - identification: Kill Bond! 1. LEITMOTIV: John Barry, Sean Connery & Co.: "Music, dialogue & sounds" o home-recording "You Only Live Twice" o Film recorded from TV | not rated 2. Dickie Goodman: "The flying saucer - part 1" o album "Greatest Hits" o LP, Rhino RNLP 811, USA, 1983 | ++++ o info: The first "break-in record" master. Exists on a CD called "Greatest Fables", see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 3. The Ventures: "Reflections" o album "Super psychedelics" o LP, Liberty LST-8052, USA, 196? | +++ o info: The more I listen to this LP, the more I like it. It's not really Super psychedelic, but there's 1 sitar track, lots of great electric guitar work-outs. Mostly originals, but also a couple of covers (Strawberry Fields; Happy Together). Not as far-out as their "The Ventures In Space" album though. 4. Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo: "Bye bye blues" o album "Moon gas" o LP, MGM E/SE 4110, USA, 196? | +++++ o info: Sampled by Tipsy. There are some truely strange and outer space organ sounds happening here! A classic. 5. Julie London: "Fly me to the moon" o compil. "Ultra-Lounge Volume 14: Bossa Novaville" o CD, Capitol CDP 53410, USA, 1997 | ++++ o info: Various Capitol artists pour a tasty bossa nova souce over their music, a sauce prepared by composer Jobim in about half of the tracks. These are a few of my favorite tracks: "Misirlou" (Laurindo Almeida), "Quiet village bossa nova" (by Denny himself), "The look of love" in a bossa version by Billy May, a whistled "Girl from Ipanema", and "Fly me to the moon" by Julie. 6. Rudy Rosa with his custom X66 Hammond: "You only live twice" o album "Computerized Synthesized Organized" o LP, R & R stereo 4112J9, USA | +++ o info: weird Hammond plus Arp plus assorted electronic apparatus. 7. Cal Tjader: "Somewhere in the night" o album "Soul Sauce" o CD, PGD/Verve 31451 21668 2, USA, 1994 | ++++ o info: A mix of soul, jazz and soft vibes. The CD contains 4 bonus tracks. 8. Les Baxter (with 101 Strings): "Tropicando" o album "Que Mango" o CD, Scamp 1727 9718 2, USA, 1996 | ++++ o info: Lush and sophisticated, but never slimey. Recorded in London in 1970. The liners say: "...a masterful blend of European sophistication, African sensuality, South American festivity and neo-anglo contemporary." 9. Korla Pandit: "Perfidia" o album "Exotica 2000" o CD, Sympathy For The Record Industry 9680 387 2, USA, 1996 | +++ o info: New recordings by Korla, that I found as good as any of his earlier works I've heard yet. 10. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66: "Upa, Neguinho" o album "Easy loungin'. Twenty Easy Listening Classics" o CD, Polydor 540 468, Germany, 1995 | ++++ o info: Excellent, highly recommended introduction to Mendes's soulful Brazil sound, with 20 tracks from 1966 to 1970. 11. Syd Dale: "Portobello Market" o compil. "Ready steady boogaloo!" (Amphonic grooves for Carnaby chicks and cool steppers) o CD, Summot SUMCD 4185, UK, 1998 | +++++ o info: This is maybe how volume 3 of "The Sound Gallery" might have sounded like! Eighteen excellent late sixties/early seventies production music from the Amphonic music library, founded by Syd Dale, who worked for KPM during the sixties. Contrary to the title, and though a bit funky at times and with a bit of Latin percusion, there's no real boogaloo here, but - quote - "hard-beating acid-pop and funky Hammond grooves". Some tracks have a touch of Latin, jazz and funk; most are of that typical British combination of sophisticated groovy Hammond + big band horns + strings here and there, with happy melodies and lush arrangements. At only GBP 5-, this must be the best deal of the year! 12. Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra: "Falling free" o album "Easy loungin'. Twenty Easy Listening Classics" o CD, Polydor 529 492-2, Germany, 1995 | ++++ o info: Yet another one in this series of five that is highly recommended, really, believe me. No idea where these cuts come from, but they're really groovy and swinging and beautiful, and NOT cheesy. There's even a version of "Caravan" on it... 13. Jack Webb: "Try a little tenderness" o compil. "Golden throats - The great celebrity sing off" o LP, Rhino R1 70187, USA, 1988 | +++++ o info: The title of this (3 volume) series is used as a genre description these days - a great compliment for Rhino Records. Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview". 14. Astrud Gilberto: "Who can I turn to? (When nobody needs me)" o album "The silver collection. The Astrud Gilberto album" o CD, Verve 823-451-2, USA, 199? | +++++ o info: Essential. It's a combination of tracks from 2 or more LP albums from 1965 and '66, but there no liners at all. 15. Button Down Brass: "Truckin'" o album "Why can't we all get together" o LP, Pye (quad) QUAD1004 | ++ o info: One dynamite funk track (Truckin'), good versions of "Shaft" and "Superstar", and that's about it; the rest is forgettable 16. The Boys: "Polaris" o compil. "Instrumental Diamonds 1: Jumpin'" o CD, Sequel NEXCD 149, UK, 1990 | +++ o info: There are about 6 really killer early 60's Joe Meek style instro's here, the rest is between good and not bad. 17. Mel Torme with the Mel-Tones (interrupted by boisterous Bond): "TNT blues MIX" o album "Back in town" o CD, Verve (Polygram) 511522, USA, 1991 | +++ o info: Beautiful, smooth vocal/vocalese lite jazz, recorded 1959. 18. Sir Julian/Elliott Fisher: "You only live twice/Thunderball" o compil. "Ultra-Lounge Volume 16: Mondo Hollywood" o CD, Capitol CDP 52560, USA, 1997 | ++++ o info: not exactly one of the best volumes, but it has some great moments 19. Perez Prado: "Bond Theme" o album "Lights! Action! Prado!" o LP, United Artists UAL mono 3394, USA | +++++ o info: A hard day's night! James Bond theme! Goldfinger! Topkapi! Killer LP! album ratings: +++++outstanding, ++++very good, +++good, ++not bad, +so-so, -yuk the radio pages + "eXotica Releases Overview" on my web site: 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 11 Nov 1998 14:46:02 +0100 >From: cheryl >I just picked up a CD, "Ums nackte leben, featuring Sir Henry" (whomever >that is), which is really great! what do you mean with "really great"? 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: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) Last Space Bop Playlist Date: 11 Nov 1998 15:24:04 +0000 > Space Bop #22 - Groovy Italian stuff > Mirageman: El Paso "Mo'Plen 1000" > Franco Micalizzi: Folk & Violence "Beretta 70" > Ciato & Ciato's: Also Sprach Zarathustra "Mo'Plen 1000" > Giovanni Fenati e la Sua Orchestra: Budapest "Mo'Plen 3000" > Luis Enriquez: Lo Scatenato "Mo'Plen 3000" > Johnny Dorelli: Arriva La Bomba "Arriva La Bomba" > etc. Thanks from Italy We'll keep on groovin' Ciao Gionni # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Free Design Date: 11 Nov 1998 10:37:31 -0500 I just found the Free Design compilation "Kites are Fun, The Best of Free Design" on Varese Sarabande and I'm intrigued I must admit. I've read about at least two other "best of" compilations including one very recently reviewed called "Bubbles" on Siesta. I don't want to set out to look for them - assuming I can find them if I did - only to find out that essentially the same tracks are on each of the compilations. So what better place to turn than to my Free Design-obsessed pals on this list? I read that four of the actual records were reissued also. Do any of those individual releases feature more tracks NOT on the best-of compilations? There's a pretty good article about them in this compilation - even though it required intense amount of light in order to convince me that I didn't need glasses - but have there been many articles about them? (Has there been one in Cool and Strange?) Apparently Chris Dedrick lives near me and works in the same business. I don't know why that makes me think I should look him up but for some reason that idea has crept into my head. Like a lot of music I've been hearing recently the music here is very very familiar and yet there's something unique about it too. (I feel like a broken record, having said that about Lee Hazelwood recently.) Here's one question I would ask him if I met him? I'd never heard of them before I started hearing about their reissues here on the list. So I kind of wonder whether in the end, they still think it was a good idea to go with the Project 3 label? And am I the only one who thinks of The Association when they hear this? Particularly the first Association album with Along Comes Mary which was in the first batch of records I ever bought, ordered from the Columbia Record Club. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Poomaikelani Kawananakoa obit Date: 11 Nov 1998 10:43:34 -0600 HONOLULU (AP) -- Poomaikelani Kawananakoa, a descendant of Hawaii's royalty and a leader in Honolulu's publishing and theater fields, died Monday. She was 71. Kawananakoa founded Hui Hanai to support the center's activities and help children in need and served as president of the Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu. She also started Mana Publishing Company, which is best known for the publications of ``Ano Ano: The Seed'' and ``Princess Kaiulani: The Last Hope of Hawaii's Monarchy.'' As a theatrical entrepreneur, she formed Angel Inc., which brought to Hawaii such performers as Luciano Pavarotti, The Alvin Ailey Dancers, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Roberta Peters and Four Girls Four group, including Rosemary Clooney and Helen O'Connell. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Free Design Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:59:26 PST ---------- > > I just found the Free Design compilation "Kites are Fun, The Best of = Free > Design" on Varese Sarabande and I'm intrigued I must admit. I've read > about at least two other "best of" compilations including one very rece= ntly > reviewed called "Bubbles" on Siesta. I actually prefer "Bubbles" to "Kites are Fun" as compilations. There = are only 4 different tracks on the "Kites" comp from the "Bubbles" comp. = "Raindrops", the new compilation on Siesta is very different from the oth= er two, but I still think that "Bubbles" is the best LP. Do any of those > individual releases feature more tracks NOT on the best-of compilations= ? The Free Design have 7 LPs, 6 have been reissued in Japan. All have diffe= rent tracks that are not featured on the compilations. But it is getting = to be the case that if you buy the Siesta compilations, you really don't = need to buy the LPs. "Sing for a Very Important People" actually features= tracks from other Free Design LPs. There are only like 3 original tracks= on them, and 2 of those are on "Raindrops", I think. The compilations = are a good overview and much cheaper than the Japanese reissues - if you = can even find them, which is not easy. > There's a pretty good article about them in this compilation - even tho= ugh > it required intense amount of light in order to convince me that I didn= 't > need glasses - but have there been many articles about them? Not that I've seen, and I agree that the liner notes on the Verese comp = are excellent, something sadly missing from the two Siesta comps. Hope this info helps. I am a tragic completist Free Design fan that is = having a hellish time trying to afford the LPs/reissue CDs... Jill "Mingo-go" Mingo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) chasing Keely Date: 11 Nov 1998 15:42:22 -0500 I heard a rumour that there will soon be a Capital release of a record Keely Smith and Billy May recorded two years ago, presumably a (forshadowing) Frank Sinatra tribute. Any skinny on this from anyone on this list? I am sorry I wasn't on the list when Frank died. At least I was among friends and family, but I need *ya'll*, too! :(-Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Bwana-a Date: 11 Nov 1998 15:58:05 -0500 Okay, I've been listening to this album a lot lately - it's really good = except for the damn "march" tune as the final cut on side b - from some = "war film." What was very interesting are the liner notes for one particular song on = side b, a "spooky" tune with two pianos, one of which "echoes" or = "answers" the first one from what sounds like the depths of a lagoon on = the left channel, and is slightly out of tune. The liner notes mention = that this musical style was used on another song (of that era) that = actually had it "banned" (I'm assuming from air play??). =20 Anybody know what the hell I'm talking about? Can anybody read the liner = notes and add to my admittedly sketchy description? (Sorry!) I didn't = quite understand the notes on that one...... But that tune is really cool, and way "spooky." There's a couple of = tracks like that on Bwana-a. - 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 11 Nov 1998 21:10:29 -0000 Nat Kone wrote: >So what better place to turn than to my Free Design-obsessed >pals on this list? Answers to most of your questions can be found on my Free Design site (address below) which a sub-section of my Spaced Out site. > but have there been many articles about them? Don't think so. There will be a lengthy interview with Chris Dedrick appearing on my site eventually which I'm sure you'll find interesting. > Apparently Chris Dedrick lives near me If you're near Toronto then yes he does! > I don't know why that makes me think I should look him up Why not email him: cdedrick@inforamp.net Robbie The Free Design - NOW is the Time! http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/freedesign/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Carl Russo" Subject: Re: (exotica) the loved one Date: 11 Nov 1998 12:14:00 -0800 N'Orleans Chuck wrote: >Forget about Rod Steiger's performance in On The Waterfront. His >portrayal of joyboy and his singing on the great exotica song "Mama's >little joyboy loves piggy, piggy" >is one of the great moments in movies and music Check his psychotic master-of-disguises character in NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. Cool ST album by Stanley Myers, too. C. "Ratso" Russo http://russo.onza.net/home.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: "Jill Mingo" Subject: (exotica) Get Smart Date: 11 Nov 1998 21:02:28 PST New Glasgow weekly cocktail party starting this Friday, Nov. 13th (with = a date like that, are we destined to fail?). Get Smart at Spy, Glasgow's = newest bar, at 153 Hope Street. From 5pm-9pm every Friday, DJ Mingo-go = and Hush Puppy will be providing an eclectic thrilling soundtrack to star= t your weekend right. Half price cocktails. Free entrance. Get there and = Get Smart! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Get Smart Date: 11 Nov 1998 19:01:35 -0600 At 09:02 PM 11/11/98 PST, Jill Mingo wrote: > > Get there and Get Smart! For a blazing rave-up of Get Smart check out the Clee-Shays version, recently reissued on Sundazed. Sounds like Mission of Burma goes Spy/Surf. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.exe?p=amg&sql=A366728 -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: Bump Subject: (exotica) Turkish/Greek 78's Date: 11 Nov 1998 19:17:04 -0500 hi everyone... i have a friend who is looking to start a 78 collection of Turkish and Greek Rembetika records from the 30's and 40's. namely artists like Roza Eskenazi and Rita Abatzi. if anyone here has info on acquiring a Victrola/78 player and the records please email me personally. thanx y'all =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9= =A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9=A9 Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Dig the Music, Kids" -- JONNY ALUCARD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Yo ho ho Date: 11 Nov 1998 19:48:13 -0800 >From: "Ron Grandia" > >I have been tuning in DR Demento on the web and rebroadcasting him on >104.1 - for those of you who don't know, I have been running a pirate radio >station for 10 years in the SJ bay area - UNTILL LAST NIGHT. The FCC >came by for a visit. > >I only got a warning, but the jig is UP, and I am in shock. It's been my >creative >outlet for years. Got some newpaper attention out of it along the way and >numerous >mentions in the local weekly rag. Now, poof! Gone. Poor me. Interesting, because around Halloween, LA's long-established pirate station KBLT (I believe the frequency was 104.3) was *also* busted by the FCC and shut down. Coincidence? 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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 12 Nov 1998 08:41:38 -0500 Nat wrote: >And am I the only one who thinks of The Association when they hear this? >Particularly the first Association album with Along Comes Mary... Free Design calls to mind the Roaches more than the Association. Free Design's harmonies are more contrapuntal and rhythmically complex than the Association's. The overall sound of Kites Are Fun (the only FD lp I own) is purer, cleaner, airier than Along Comes Mary too. But what else would you expect from that god Enoch? Jill, I'm right behind you in the Free Design completist line. Jill and Nat, thanks for comments about the FD compilations. Robbie, looking forward to your Chris Dedrick interview. Please post it soon! Feelin' Groovy, 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: "Mark B. Conklin" Subject: (exotica) Interested? Date: 12 Nov 1998 07:46:13 -0700 Anyone interested in the trading anything for the vinyl below? I'll sell them too, but trading sounds funner, plus I doubt they are worth much. *Funki Porcini vs. Jerry Van Rooyen (Sideburn) *Herbie Hancock - Treasure Chest (Warner Brothers) 2xLPs 1974 *Quincy Jones - Plays Hip Hits (Mercury) Stereo 1964 *Ramsey Lewis - Going Latin (Cadet) Mono *Man Sueto - Otello Happiness (Irma Italy) 2xLP 1996 *Herbie Mann Latin Mann (Columbia) Stereo *Tracy Thorn A Distant Shore (Cherry Red) Thanks. 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: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 12 Nov 1998 10:20:35 -0500 Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > >From: cheryl > > >I just picked up a CD, "Ums nackte leben, featuring Sir Henry" (whomever > >that is), which is really great! > > what do you mean with "really great"? I was hoping someone on this list might know something about this CD, as there is really no information on it. It has no catalogue number or label, all of the liner notes are in German (and are highly amusing, from what I've been able to translate so far), and it's manufactured in the Netherlands. I think the name "Sir Henry" may refer to the horse pictured on the cover, but I'm not sure. It's basically organs and a rhythm machine, doing versions (some instrumental, some with vocals) of Watermelon Man, and the William Tell Rhumba, along with quite a few medleys of all sorts of strange stuff. A lot of the tracks are credited with arrangements by Nijenhuis. Any idea who this is? Anyways, this CD would be a very welcome addition to any collection of those of us on the list who love cheesy organ stuff! 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: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 12 Nov 1998 10:31:30 EST << compilations are a good overview and much cheaper than the Japanese reissues - if you can even find them, which is not easy. >> I happened across two Free Design CD's at the Dusty Groove site the other day... Sing For Very Important People...i just checked the site - this is GONE now :(((( Heaven / Earth ...both were described as Japanese imports...$19.95 each...under the NOW sound... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 12 Nov 1998 14:46:05 EST Along with Free Design and the Association, let us not forget Orpheus and The Sunshine Company. Orpheus has been re-released as part of the Boss-Town Sound series on Big Beat from the UK (I believe). But F.D. is the softest of 'em all...A classic soft-pop comp oughta be designed by listers. Only ground rule: the selections have to have been released before the "Soft Rock Radio" failure of the Late 7T's (Which reminds me of a Boston soft rock station contest calling for slogans to promote the station with on Billboards...I submitted "Steely Dan, without the Heavy Metal"..The winner however was "Linda Rondstadt, without wondering what song just Blue Bayou" ...The slogan had to have the phrase_____ followed by "without" then the phrase completer_____. Does averyone follow??~ ;-) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) POINT OF TERROR Date: 12 Nov 1998 15:24:43 -0500 I gotta ask if anyone has ever seen the soundtrack to this movie. Here's the deal. It's from 1972(I think), written and directed by, and starring Peter Carpenter(whoever he is, he looks like a low-rent Greg Brady or Tom Jones-sings like Tom-but not as well). It is not, as the title suggest, a "horror" movie(though it is truely horrible in a b-movie way)...but the sad saga of a wanna-be "rock" star. It has great-horrible rock numbers that sound like a cross between the Who's "Real Me" and Dudley Moore's "Love Me." I think it's on Motown(!) Has anyone ever seen the movie, if not the soundtrack? It's so bad and After School Special-esque, that it's totally engaging! Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki and JJPerry Date: 12 Nov 1998 16:07:22 -0500 First, Don Tiki rules. And you can get their album at www.cdnow.com, relatively inexpensively. I bought mine directly from them though and they mailed it to me with confetti, which CDNow probably doesn't provide. As for 'sampling' someone else's work, it's been going on for centuries. Everytime you hear a 'rhapsody on a theme of...', so not to knock JJ Perrey, but I don't think we can credit him with pre-inventing sampling. Anyway, that's my four cents. 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 12 Nov 1998 23:04:15 -0000 Mimi wrote: > Free Design calls to mind the Roaches more than the Association. I take it you mean the Roches?! > Free Design's harmonies are more contrapuntal and rhythmically > complex than the Association's. Chris was apparently hugely influenced by Gene Puerling of the Hi- Los and later Singers Unlimited. I've heard very little of the Hi-Los (one very scratched album) and nothing of Singers Unlimited. Can anyone out there compare either of these bands with the Design? I've also still to hear anything by the Star-Scape Singers which was the vocal group Chris went on to form (with the other members of the Design). > Robbie, looking forward to your Chris Dedrick interview. Please > post it soon! Well, I've finally finished the first pass-through transcribing it all! I'm going to parse it once more and send a copy off to Chris for approval. And THEN it should make it into the public domain! Robbie The Free Design - NOW is the Time! http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/freedesign/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Design Date: 12 Nov 1998 23:54:48 -0500 At 11:04 PM 11/12/98 -0000, Robert Baldock wrote: >Chris was apparently hugely influenced by Gene Puerling of the Hi- >Los and later Singers Unlimited. I've heard very little of the Hi-Los >(one very scratched album) and nothing of Singers Unlimited. Can >anyone out there compare either of these bands with the Design? I guess one of the reasons why the Free Design sounded so instantly familiar to me when I heard them a few days ago was that about a month ago I finally broke down and started making myself compilation tapes of all this multi-voiced, choir type of stuff I've picked up - accidentally? - over the last couple of years. Having said that, I think you'd have to talk about more than just vocal arrangement to discuss what's cool about them. You'd have to talk about the material, the tunes. But if you want to talk about vocal arrangements... I can see how Free Design could have been influenced by the Hi-Lo's. (I don't have any Singers Unlimited.) I could also see comparisons to the Kirby Stone Four or the Clef Dwellers. (Maybe even Lambert, Hendricks and Ross?) But even though they chose to record with Enoch Light - a decision which I still find kinda surprising - I don't think it was because they were influenced by the Ray Charles Singers or the Enoch Light Singers. Maybe the Kissin Cousin but that's a stretch too I think. I wouldn't be surprised to hear Free Design cite vocal influences from almost ANY multi-voiced group of the fifties. But I would be very surprised if they cited any influences from the multi-voice things that went on in the sixties. Okay maybe the Association, the Mamas and the Papas, The Fifth Dimension (especially the way they do "Sunshine of your Love"). And if I wanted to stretch it, I'd say that I have cuts by the New Christy Minstrels and The Lettermen that wouldn't embarrass themselves on a compilation tape with the Free Design. But the way that multi-voice thing changed from the fifties to the sixties is pretty striking. Just look at Ray Conniff. Yeah we've been here before on this list. And if you like "Happiness is" by Ray, well okay but it's not for the vocal ARRANGEMENTS I don't think. Ray's wordless vocal records of the fifties are legitimately cool I think. But the sixties stuff just sounds like a choir singing in unison. I can't say that there's NO arrangements or harmonies going on but it certainly got "simpler". I don't know why that change happened. My guess is that those sixties records were designed around covering certain tunes and not so much around "the music". Oh and how about Anita Kerr? I have a sixties record where the Anita Kerr singers do "The Beat Goes On" and it's a classic but as far as the vocal arrangements go, there's not much happening compared to her great "We Dig Mancini" record. All I can think is that she didn't think the audience who were looking for a "softer" version of Sonny and Cher cared all that much about vocal arrangements. Anyway, like I said, I do think that the vocal arrangements are only part of what people must be liking in the Free Design. But it is interesting that they were such "throwbacks" in certain ways. 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: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Preview of NEW Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc. Date: 13 Nov 1998 10:04:21 +0100 Hi you all, today I posted a message into the following newsgroups: alt.music.makers.electronic, rec.music.makers.bass, alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s, alt.exotic.music, rec.music.makers.synth this message contains an 1,3 MB sized MP3 file containing a NEW Raymond Scott track, of the forthcoming album: Manhattan research, Inc. - A Division of Raymond Scott Enterprises to be released early 1999 Hope you like it. Regards Jeroen vd Schaaf Basta Audio Visuals # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) POINT OF TERROR Date: 13 Nov 1998 06:14:21 EST In a message dated 11/12/98 8:30:09 PM, secret agent "Jane Fondle" wrote: <>>> oh god. this one is AWFUL (and I'm a bad-movie fan). There's another Peter Carpenter movie called Blood Mania that's even worse, if that's possible. At least Point of Terror has Dyanne (Ilsa) Thorne, and that vile but catchy song. I actually bought a copy (it was real cheap), and there's a whole reel in the middle that repeats-and nobody noticed! According to Shock X-press, Carpenter also shows up at the beginning of Russ Meyer's Vixen, as well as some other obscure softcore appearences. I kinda doubt that there's a soundtrack lp... geez...now i guess i gotta watch it 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: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 13 Nov 1998 06:14:26 EST > >cheryl wrote: > > >I just picked up a CD, "Ums nackte leben, featuring Sir Henry" (whomever > >that is), which is really great! > (...) Any idea who this is? His name is actually John Henry Nijenhuis. He's a German/Canadian (?) keyboardist who dropped by the studio a few weeks ago, and ended up recording some parts for the next Tipsy album. As far as I know, he plays a lot for theatre in Germany, and occasionally backs up members of Einstuerzende Neubauten. He's a very skillful musician, but he seems to be really into a kind of self-conscious kitsch on his own releases (at least, the ones I heard) that I can't quite relate to. -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: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ? & The Mysterians Date: 13 Nov 1998 06:34:44 EST I, too, managed to catch the miracle that is ? & the Mysterians (with Thee Headcoats- also amazing) in a sweaty basement in NYC at the CMJ conference last week. That show really made the trip worthwhile, even though I missed Don Tiki and couldn't manage to find the Bar d'O. -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: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) PREVIEW - see previous message Date: 13 Nov 1998 15:33:53 +0100 For some reason the MP3 mentioned in my previous posting has not appeared in the newsgroups (yet?). Send me an email at basta@xs4all.nl if you want me to email the file to you. Jeroen vd Schaaf Basta AV # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Cycowski, Perry Jr. obits Date: 13 Nov 1998 10:25:34 -0600 *Roman Cycowski BERLIN (AP) -- Roman Cycowski, the last surviving member of the Comedian Harmonists, a legendary vocal group from the 1920s and 1930s that was forced apart by the Nazis, died Monday. He was 97. The six-member group had a distinctive, mainly a cappella sound that made them an overnight sensation. They made more than a dozen films and sold millions of records from 1927 to 1935 with hits such as ``Mein kleiner gruener Kaktus'' (My Little Green Cactus). They began facing problems after the Nazis came to power in 1933 because three of the Comedian Harmonists, including Cycowski, were Jewish. The group began losing engagements because Jews were increasingly banned from professions, including appearing on stage. The Comedian Harmonists went on a world tour in late 1934, but by the time they returned home, the Nazis no longer allowed them on stage at all, and they decided to disband. *Francis A. Perry Jr. MILLIS, Mass. (AP) -- Francis A. Perry Jr., a one-time trumpet player for the Lawrence Welk Orchestra who became one of the first U.S. paratroopers in World War II, died Sunday. He was 83. During the 1930s, Perry played trumpet in New England and toured nationally with the Dan Murphy Band. In 1939, he filled in with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, but declined Welk's offer for a regular job. He joined the Marines during World War II, and was one of the first to be trained as a paratrooper. He was shot during the Solomon Islands campaign and was unconscious for three weeks. He returned to duty and participated in the assault on Iwo Jima, where nearly 6,000 Marines were killed in 1945. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Las Vegas Blows (up) Date: 13 Nov 1998 10:45:14 -0600 http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/in-depth/packages/onlyinvegas/implode/ " One of the most intriguing sociocultural characteristics of Vegas, this most American of cities, is that not only does it ignore its history (as Atlanta does), it goes to great lengths to destroy its own past with dynamite. Vegas has, in recent years, become the world capital of building implosions, as old 1,000-room hotels have made way for new 4,000-room hotels. Implosions have become Nevada's biggest spectator sport. Want proof? Head for the Web site of Vegas's other paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and check out its awesome video collection of implosions. What fun! Nothing like this exists anywhere else online. Kaboom! There goes the Sands. Kaboom! So long, Landmark. Kaboom! The Aladdin Hotel, the holy spot where Elvis married Priscilla, is reduced to rubble to make way for the New Aladdin. I could watch these clips all day long." And for something completely different: http://www.dianesdolls.com/rsimmons.htm http://www.shoes.com.br/ http://www.mossbrook.com/jolly/ -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) Free Design & Harpers Bizarre=Algebra Date: 13 Nov 1998 07:53:26 -0800 (PST) Free Design's two Siesta compilations, including the new Raindrops are available for a $13 price tag as are all other Siesta releases at Roundabout Records. PO box 76302, Washington DC 20013-6302 PH (202) 543-5465 I know If Dusty Groove is out of it Other Music is carrying Sing For Very Important People. This Japanese cd is wonderful, way way cute pop. I got my Algebra Spaghetti cd from Roundabout, this collection reminds me of Free Design Sing for Very Important People meets the Harpers Bizarre. Easy feeling groovy cutesy vocal pop with a touch of late 60's pop psychedelia. I can't believe this cd, its really off the wall! Its full of surprises Go Siesta Go! Its produced so well by the great great Louis Philippe (Jackie Girl) & Richard Preston. > Harpers Bizarre and Free Design mix well together in my mind. The Siesta lable seems to be carrying on the easy pop traditions very well in these modern times. For modern soft pop I like the Legendary Jim Ruiz, album "Sniff" (Siesta 86) or La Buena Vida's albums on Siesta. These both contain soft melodies, soft vocals and easy modern pop sound. It seems to me now whenever I listen to college radio that Free Design fits right in wit a lot of soft pop bands out there today. I believe that the easy sound is becoming a major influence in modern pop, especially indie pop. Chuck > ---BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > > I happened across two Free Design CD's at the Dusty Groove site the > > other day... Sing For Very Important People...i just checked the site - this is GONE now == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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) Baby Pop, Ultra Chicks Vol 3 Date: 13 Nov 1998 09:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received a few wonderful new releases from Other music. "Baby Pop", Ultra Chicks Vol 3 is my favorite of the series. This album continues the upbeat now sound 60's girl vocal pop music of the previous 2 releases. Besides France we get songs from Quebec, and a song each from Germany (France Gall sings "Merci, Herr Marquis") Peru, Spain, Italy, Uk, and USA(Tuesday Weld does "Are You the Boy") A new compilation "Sexopolis" (1997 Fantomas 002) boot? "Tracks From the French Funky Pop Scene Compiled by DJ BNX" This is a great cd of the now sound form the 70s Its a 62 minute ride of some great songs, now sound instrumentals, some wordless vocals, and lots of upbeat vocals sung in French and a few jazz songs, not too much hard funk, its a soft easy funk feel on a few of the tracks. Its more of a now sound found on Easy Tempo and Irma with a couple of jazz influenced songs. I recognized only 2 songs, one from the haschhisch Party and one by Michel Legrand. The sound quality and song selection remind me of a great Irma release except in French. I especially like Guy Boyer's "Bongo & Sound" its all over the place it even has a sitar. There's another song where a singer speaks desperately in French with a cool exotic now sound background playing under her cries of desperation. On Plastic Records (1998) comes "Spectrum" "Thrilling 60's Film Noir Themes" Another great selection especially for somebody new to the scene. The selections contain a lot of songs on other comps, Mission by Schifrin, or big names : Duke Elington"Octupaca", John Barry,"On Her Majesties Secret Service. Theres enough obscure cuts to please everybody. I know Dusty Groove also carries this. Also got, "Ursula 1000" (1998) no label listed, theres white paper on the cd itself, that says Ursula 1000! This is generally a primitive cd of underproduced sounds on a limited budget. I do not half of the songs on the 75 minute cd but some of the songs are sure to please some listers. It generally has the sound of under produced drum n bass rap songs with applied to samples of exotica, no vocals, some wordless vocals. I do like a few songs a lot, theres a really fun version on ma na ma na, sampling Dimitri. I especially like the last song, It takes a snippet of exotica and repeats it endlessly. The sampling on this cd makes me appreciate the genius and artistry of Tipsy & Dimitri from Paris. Also received the cd "nymphomania" , "A collection of Sexy European Gogo Music from the 60's" made in Germany (1998) on a label? called sexy hexy media berlin, SH 301 CD, Primitive wild soundtracks from b films in Germany? Nothing too extraordinary, the sound is along the lines of the " Betty Page, Jungle Girl" album. From Dustygroove I finally got the "Sesso Matto experience" on Easy Tempo (1997) and I'm blown away by the Karminsky Experiece's remix. The whole album is a remix of the song Sesso Matto Along the same lines I also received the "Easy Tempo Experience" "a new cinematic experience" (1998 Right Tempo) Pushing the boundries of exotica into the electronica club sound, this is a great cd if you enjoy some modern ambient beats mixed with your exotica. My only complaint is its contains Ma na ma na from the Karminsky Experience which is on the Ma Na ma NA Easy Tempo remix cd. Other then that there's the wonderful High LLamas remixing "Lady Mafgnolia" by P Umliani that worth the price of the cd alone. Easy Listening to an awful lot of music in the Big Easy Chuck == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 13 Nov 1998 12:23:53 -0500 At 06:14 AM 11/13/98 EST, Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: > >His name is actually John Henry Nijenhuis. He's a German/Canadian (?) >keyboardist who dropped by the studio a few weeks ago, and ended up recording >some parts for the next Tipsy album. As far as I know, he plays a lot for >theatre in Germany, and occasionally backs up members of Einstuerzende >Neubauten. He's a very skillful musician, but he seems to be really into a >kind of self-conscious kitsch on his own releases (at least, the ones I heard) >that I can't quite relate to. Oh that guy. I haven't seen his name around lately so maybe he is playing more in Germany these days but he used to play around Toronto and I guess I just assumed he was (basically) from here. But if he's in Germany now, that kind of makes sense to me. I have an image of a scene that exists in Germany based on the Torontonians that have ended up there over the years and he certainly fits right in. He used to play a lot at this place called... oh the Alzheimer's is setting in.. but it was basically a hole-in-the-wall experimental film theater cum bicycle repair shop and they would show German silent film classics and this guy would play piano to accompany them. (I saw films there AND got my bike repaired but never at the same time.) He would be dressed formally and yeah, it was clear that here was a guy with blah blah "classical training". I can see the thing about "self conscious kitsch" based on my experience but then again, one man's self-conscious kitsch is another man's... better not finish that sentence on this list. 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: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 13 Nov 1998 12:46:39 -0500 > His name is actually John Henry Nijenhuis. He's a German/Canadian (?) > keyboardist who dropped by the studio a few weeks ago, and ended up recording > some parts for the next Tipsy album. Now I'm really, really, really looking forward to the next Tipsy album!!!! 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 12 Nov 1998 19:50:55 +0100 the only Sir Henry I knew thus far was Bonzo Dog Band member Vivian Stanshall on his CD "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End"... nothing to do with this one, i'm sure. 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: some BAD news. Date: 13 Nov 1998 15:25:28 +0100 caramba! that's BAD news indeed, Ron! i hope you'll find a new and stimulating outlet for your creative mind! best wishes, Johan quiet@village.uunet.be | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ At 13:00 -0700 98/11/11, exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:44:01 -0800 >From: "Ron Grandia" >Subject: (exotica) A Don Tiki tidbit and some BAD news. > >..........I have been running a pirate radio >station for 10 years in the SJ bay area - UNTILL LAST NIGHT. The FCC >came by for a visit. > >I only got a warning, but the jig is UP, and I am in shock. It's been my >creative >outlet for years. Got some newpaper attention out of it along the way and >numerous >mentions in the local weekly rag. Now, poof! Gone. Poor me. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jasmine j jopling Subject: (exotica) good week for sf Date: 13 Nov 1998 10:21:08 -0800 3 good shows coming up in the next week: built to spill (yeah!!!), komeda and cornelius.... if you're so inclined, you could check out previews of said shows... you know, if you wanted to or something: http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/music/poptart/ thanks!! jasmine # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Ledebur Subject: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums Date: 13 Nov 1998 14:32:10 -0500 >>"Only in it for the Money" by the Supertroopers, >snip< >>this brings my my collection of Abbacoveralbums at four:=20 >>Abbasalutely (a comp. by artists on the New Zealand Flying Nun=20 >>label), Selma & Sabina sing the hits of Abba in Hindi and The=20 >>Royal Philharmonic play Abba being the other ones. >>Any more? > >The Band of The Life Guards: On parade with the music of Abba >LP, Sunset, UK >Just what it says: Military band covers of Abba! Don't forget Erasure's "Abba-esque" EP. I saw a video once for one of = the songs. It was pretty much a recreation of the original (with, as I = recall, Andy Bell & Vince Clarke playing all four parts). Very campy & = fun. I also seem to recall seeing a CD called "Abbacadabra" -- a tribute band = perhaps? And what about Bjorn Again, did they ever release anything? Peter ---------- Music for Better Living Wed. 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3 fm Newton/Boston http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) The MAN, and the Carrie Nations Date: 13 Nov 1998 14:46:01 -0500 > >I only got a warning, but the jig is UP, and I am in shock. It's been my >creative >outlet for years. Got some newpaper attention out of it along the way and >numerous >mentions in the local weekly rag. Now, poof! Gone. Poor me. Interesting, because around Halloween, LA's long-established pirate station KBLT (I believe the frequency was 104.3) was *also* busted by the FCC and shut down. Coincidence? I think not! The MAN is always clamping down, brother. A good pirate was shut down in Tampa, 87X, where Santo and Cremora hosted STIMULOUS PROGRESSION...a very list-esque show. In fact, it did happen about a month ago...The truth is out there. All this tawk about the Free Design reminds me of another (fake) group, The Carrie Nations. C'mon, if that ain't the ...man, what's a synonym for "bomb?" "you spend all yours hours, talking to flowers, that never talk back to you...." Happy Friday the 13th-Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) A night with ComEd (PUSHKIN????) Date: 13 Nov 1998 13:23:10 -0800 Gee... Thanks everyone for all the nice replies to the review of the ComEd Show at Bimbo's in SF. I am overwhelmed. I can't seem to turn up any information on "Mr. Pushkin" mentioned in the Combustible Edison instro tune "Mr. Pushkin Comes to Shove." He was described by the Millionaire as a cartoon character conceived by USSR propagandists in the 60's to convince Americans that they had a sense of humor, or something like that.... What's the deal? I can't find any reference to him. Also, anybody know anything about the German scifi show they made reference to? Thanks in advance.... If you'se cats don't know, it probably can't be important. Ron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) web audio skirmishes, easy pop misc. Date: 13 Nov 1998 20:19:02 -0500 Parallel to the pirate radio stuff, here's a recent article on the RIAA vs. webcasting: http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1998/11/09feature.html Well, okay, it's not so much a matter of "versus" as their desire to skim off revenue and control the technology. It's amusing how the age-old practice of giving radio stations records (among other things) for free in hope of getting airplay is now characterized as a mistake, not a precedent. The scary thing is that depending on how everything plays out -- IF digital delivery should eventually replace physical media AND the big guys get to write the rules -- we could wind up having to pay for every individual playback. Hang onto your analog recording hardware, gang. Dove-tailing the Free Design thread and the "photos of Enoch" thread: the Varese Sarabande F.D. comp has a photo of Mr. L in the booklet. And all of this talk of easy pop reminds me of the late 80s (or early 90s) Philly band, Autumn Carousel. Unfortunately I don't think they ever put anything out. I saw them once, and they certainly would have fit into this line. Three or four part harmonies and a fearlessly wimpy attitude. On a number of tunes, the drummer was actually out front with just a tambourine. They had a suitable look too -- everyone in turtlenecks and patterned trousers, I *think* -- the memories are a bit distant. But it was a terrific set. Also, it would be very interesting to hear the demo recordings by the Carpenters' pre-Carpenters band, Spectrum. There was a brief snip of a song or two in one of those recent Carpenters documentaries and it was darned intriguing. More of a jazz influence (in the harmonies and the rhythms) than in the pure pop Carpenters. Reminded me of a Brasil 66 without the Latin element. But heck, it was probably only 10 seconds or so of music, so who can say. 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: Ton Rueckert Subject: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums Date: 14 Nov 1998 08:59:44 +0100 >Don't forget Erasure's "Abba-esque" EP. I saw a video once for one of the songs. It was pretty much a recreation of the original (with, as I recall, Andy Bell & Vince Clarke playing all four parts). Very campy & fun. > >I also seem to recall seeing a CD called "Abbacadabra" -- a tribute band perhaps? And what about Bjorn Again, did they ever release anything? Best Abbacover I've ever heard was earlier this year on the Ben Elton Show (BBC, I'm almost certain there will be a repeat in the not too far future): Chiquitita by Sinead O'Connor Cheers, Ton *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Ton Rueckert Mozartstraat 12 5914 RB Venlo The Netherlands *** *** mojoto@plex.nl http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto Ph 31/0 773545386 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ "Taste Preference for Brussels Sprouts: An Informal Look" ~~~ ~~~ J. Trinkaus & K. Dennis "Psychological Reports" Dec 1991 ~~~ ~~~ http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: Re: (exotica) web audio skirmishes, easy pop misc. Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:46:49 -0800 >>>The scary thing is that depending on how everything plays out -- IF digital delivery should eventually replace physical media AND the big guys get to write the rules -- we could wind up having to pay for every individual playback. Hang onto your analog recording hardware, gang.<<< This is ALREADY happening. DIVX, the "pay per play' version of DVD. I can't believe consumer reporters are not all over this...Waitaminnit, I CAN believe it, considering ALL major media outlets are controlled by the entertainment industry. It's really scary stuff, because when you pay per play, who is keeping track of what you watch? There is also reason to believe that real obscure material would be harder to realease in this type of marketing environment. I PRAY for the market to resist this cocamamie scheme. Ron PS, GOD, I love the word "Cocamamamie." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Grandia" Subject: (exotica) Tonto's Expanding Headband Date: 14 Nov 1998 00:57:17 -0800 Possibly the most self-absorbed music I have ever heard, save for the recent efforts of Sting. I bought the record for a friend and had to copy it to CD. Though I LOVE electronic sounds, especially soopeerr sppaacceeyy type of synth, this was a bit to out there for me. Any fans? I can easily believe there are some who think it's brilliant. I won't disagree. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) A night with ComEd (PUSHKIN????) Date: 14 Nov 1998 09:54:53 EST In a message dated 11/13/98 4:24:37 PM EST, rgrandia@earthlink.net writes: << I can't seem to turn up any information on "Mr. Pushkin" mentioned in the Combustible Edison instro tune "Mr. Pushkin Comes to Shove." He was described by the Millionaire as a cartoon character conceived by USSR propagandists in the 60's to convince Americans that they had a sense of humor, or something like that.... What's the deal? I can't find any reference to him. >> My TV Cartoon Almanac lists this as running for only one season on ABC (Sept '62 - Aug '63 color, half hour, 22 episodes, not renewed). It's described as a "Kennedy, cold war era curio" that would no doubt today be seen as politically incorrect ironically despite it's somewhat Russian apologist stance. The book lists Rolf Steedmann, an ex-Hanna-Barbera artist was the main illustrator. And that's it, not much. I would be curious if any one on the list may have a video or possibly even a coloring book of Mr. Pushkin for trade as I'm a big collector of Cold War era ephemera and Mr. Pushkin stuff at memorabillia conventions/flea markets is somewhat of a rarity due to the short run and the very nature of the show. 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: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) A night with ComEd (PUSHKIN????) Date: 14 Nov 1998 15:26:07 GMT > From: Ron Grandia > > Also, anybody know anything about the German scifi show > they made reference to? > This would surely be the oft-mentioned "Raumpatrouille" by Peter Thomas. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Combustible Edison tickets Date: 14 Nov 1998 14:05:12 EST I just wanted to share my happiness with the list. I got my tickets last night for the upcoming Combustible Edison show in Chapel Hill at the Cat's Cradle on Nov. 24th. I am very excited. I have seen them perform twice before and both shows were excellent. I can heartily recommend them to anyone on the list. I am certain that anyone on this list would enjoy their live shows. Question: I do not have their newest CD yet. (Am I slack, or what?) Any opinions. Would others who have it rate it as highly as the first CD and the Four Rooms soundtrack? Thanks, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stilgloria@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Record Swap Tomorrow? Date: 14 Nov 1998 15:06:59 EST Help, can anyone tell me if KUSF is having a record swap tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 15? Thanks. Gloria # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 15 Date: 14 Nov 1998 17:51:47 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada. Comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #23 Andre Popp: Java "Delirium In Hi-Fi" Ums Nackte Leben featuring Sir Henry: Cabin Fever Party Twist "Das Leben ist kein Wunschkonzert" Tipsy: Grossenhosen "Trip Tease" Ums Nackte Leben featuring Sir Henry: L.O.V.E. "Das Leben ist kein Wunschkonzert" Walter Wanderley: Taste Of Sadness "Boss Of The Bossa Nova" Pizzicato 5: Trailer Music "Happy End Of The World" Gotz Alsmann: Va Ba Ba Boom "Gestatten" Les Rita Mitsouko: Don't Forget The Night "Ceux Qui M'Aiment Prendront Le Train" (o.s.t.) Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart: The Ambushers "Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" Burt Bacharach: Bond Street "Reach Out" (thanks, Allan!!) Pizzicato 5: Porno 3003 "Happy End Of The World" Amon Tobin: Sultan Drops "Permutation" Portishead: Western Eyes "Ceux Qui M'Aiment Prendront Le Train" Perrey & Kingsley: The Unidentified Flying Object "The Essential..." Combustible Edison: Hot & Bothered "The Impossible World" Ann-Margret: The Swinger "Mad, Mad World Of Soundtracks" 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) The Retro Cocktail Hour this week! Date: 14 Nov 1998 17:30:30 +0000 This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, learn how to to do pistol shots, rolls and sliding scales from Jack Costanzo's famous LP "Learn--Play Bongos!". Also, hear one of the great buried treasures of exotica - Axel Stordahl's "Jasmine and Jade", plus the latest by Combustible Edison and the Oranj Symphonette, cha-chas from "The Interns" and "77 Sunset Strip", sleazy listening music, Don Tiki, Les Baxter, Peter Thomas, Frenchy and Peggy Lee! To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the World Wide Web, just go to: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Requires at least a 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2. As always, if you tune us in, we'd love to hear from you!! Thanks for the space. Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://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: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) Phil Kraus Date: 14 Nov 1998 17:33:22 I had the great pleasure of talking with Phil Kraus, the great percussionist who played on most of the Command, Time, Project 3, and Living Jazz/Marimbas/Percussion albums, earlier this week. Phil is living in Houston now and still performs with a small group at a local country club several times a month. Phil worked with most of the New York City-based musicians enjoyed by this list. He was one of the few expert all-around percussionists in the City, and so he was able to work as much as 7 days a week, doing 3-2 recording sessions a day, for over 20 years. He recalls once doing a knock-off album of rock-n-roll tunes for RCA Camden under Sid Bass' direction in under 90 minutes. "Compare that to these rock groups who mess around in a studio for six months these days," he commented. He recorded for anybody and everybody--Muzak, Madison Ave. commercials, radio, television, singer, instrumentalists, soundtracks. He only left NYC twice professionally after the mid-1930s--once with Paul Whiteman and once for a few days with Frank Sinatra. He remembered doing one of the very earliest all-percussion albums with Jimmy Carroll, Mitch Miller's arranger, sitting around some mikes in Carroll's instrument rental shop. The resulting album, "Speed the Parting Guest," came out on Carroll's own label and quickly disappeared from sight. Phil also recorded several albums on his own on the Grand Crest label. He mentioned that he still gets residuals on the two tunes he composed himself--"Jan" and "Dizzy Fingers"--from Belgium (thanks to list member Johan Da Vis!). He had no idea his stuff was popular again, although he said one of his grandkids showed him a Martin Denny CD recently. I've updated my page on Phil (http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/kraus.htm) with a few of his recollections. If you happen to be in Houston, checking the music listings--you may have the great luck to catch him in action. Brad spaceagepop@earthlink.net # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: (exotica) james last Date: 14 Nov 1998 20:43:16 EST i came across a shitload of his records at a local store - all in perfect condition and priced to move. Many had the NOW sound look with groovy chicks on covers and titles like "Hammond A Go-Go", "Trumpets A Go Go", "Voodoo Party" and numerous others with *dance* in the title. I would have popped the five bucks for one of the *cool* looking ones, but i needed to save my money for a pizza across the street at Stefano's and had already committed myself to Rod McKuen's "San Francisco Hippie Trip" and Mancini's "Symphonic Soul". So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop hits in a big band style is what I gather... Thumbs UP ? or DOWN? many 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) Phil Kraus Date: 14 Nov 1998 20:35:21 +0000 At 05:33 PM 14-11-98, Brad wrote: >I had the great pleasure of talking with Phil Kraus Brad, Thanks for the info! I have noticed that pretty much anything he is involved with is great stuff! I have always wanted to know...his album with Bob Rosengarden on RCA: "Percussion--Playful and Pretty"...it sounds like it was one of those RCA did for the Stereo Action but shelved it when the series died. Just my theory. It doesn't list a recording date, but it was released in 1965...which seems a little late for this kind of thing. Did he say much about Bob Rosengarden? He has paired up with him several times. 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 14 Nov 1998 20:39:47 +0000 At 08:43 PM 14-11-98 EST it was written: >So what's up with the music, anyone? One of my first exotica favorites was by James Last. I have it on a Polydor LP somewhere. "Happy Brazilia" features this great rhythm established by drums and a police whistle. That is the only James Last I have ever heard, but I still think it's neat. He has got to have some other cool stuff. 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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) James Last Date: 15 Nov 1998 12:42:54 +0100 Byron wrote: > That is the only James Last I have ever heard, but I still think it's neat. > He has got to have some other cool stuff. Yes, he does. A lot of people probably avoid his records, but a lot of his records have cool/cheesy covers and the music.... well, his arrangements tend to use the same tricks over and over again. Still I think some of his records from the late 60's/early 70's are fun to listen to. Every once in a while a suprising original composition pops up between all the coverversions. So, anyone who likes "instrumental ousic by large orchestras" should own a couple of his records. Don't pay more than 50 cents though.... 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 15 Nov 1998 13:22:00 +0000 You should have picked up that Voodoo Party - Big mistake to leave it. His Hair LP is excellent as well. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jill Mingo" Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 12 Nov 1998 21:08:04 PST > > So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop = hits in > a big band style is what I gather... > > Thumbs UP ? > > or > > DOWN? > Down. Last records often "look" great, but very rarily have anything rede= eming. However, there is an amazing batucuda track on "Beach Party". I = mean, it is full-on. Recently played during a techno-house night, and = prompted Detroit techno legend Derrick May to run over to my friend and = go "MAN! What is this?!" And my pal promptly showed him the cover proudly= and said "James Last". So if you hear Derrick May dropping some Last in = his set, you know it was the Scottish groovecore underground that turned = him on.... 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: "Jill Mingo" Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 12 Nov 1998 21:08:58 PST ---------- > > At 08:43 PM 14-11-98 EST it was written: > >So what's up with the music, anyone? > > One of my first exotica favorites was by James Last. I have it on a Pol= ydor > LP somewhere. > > "Happy Brazilia" features this great rhythm established by drums > and a police whistle. This is the amazing track that I wrote about in the other post... x Jill # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) james last Date: 15 Nov 1998 15:47:01 +0100 BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop hits in > a big band style is what I gather... > > Thumbs UP ? Mostly down. A few records, like e.g. "Voodoo Party" are very good. Early stuff like "Sax a Go-Go" or "Hammond a Go-Go" are ok too, by sixties stereo demo record standards. Considering his enormous output (he made hundreds of records), he scores rather badly - most stuff is beyond hope. However, even on his (overall particularily poor) medley albums, I have found a few good tracks (e.g. on "Non stop dancing 1973" and some of the "Beach Party" series) - at a going rate of one or two DM on German flea markets (next to K-Tel/Arcade samplers, they probably are the most abundant records hereabouts, and particularily unpopular), I can afford to take a chance on them, even if at least 95% are daubs. Sevo -- Sevo Stille 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 15 Nov 1998 09:08:51 PST at a going rate of one or two DM on German flea markets (next to K-Tel/Arcade samplers, they probably are the most abundant records hereabouts, and particularily unpopular), I can afford to take a chance on them, even if at least 95% are daubs. Makes them groovy tracks quite expensive then... 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: HEDCANDY@aol.com Subject: (exotica) FS: EXotiCa - LOunGe - mOOg VINYL Date: 15 Nov 1998 12:20:17 EST Hello to the list, Digging in the cates to assemble a swell listing of delicacies for sale for your ears . http://members.aol.com/HEDCANDY/RAREMUSIC.html Artists represented are: LEO ADDEO, MANNY ALBAM, LES BAXTER, STANLEY BLACK, VIVIAN BLAINE, HAL BOWEN & HIS ORCHESTRA, CHARLIE BYRD, CAMARATA CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, FRANKIE CARLE WALTER CARLOS, JOE "FINGERS" CARR, DAVID CARROLL, GEORGE CATES RAY CHARLES SINGERS, BOBBY CHRISTIAN, CLEBANOFF, FRANK COMSTOCK, RAY CONNIFF, DICK CONTINO, DON DAVIS, ESQUIVEL FERRANTE & TEICHER , ANDY FLOR , JACQUELINE FRANCOIS STEVEN GARRICK, STAN GETZ, JACKIE GLEASON , MORTON GOULD HARMONICATS, HEINO, DUKE KAHANAMOKU, BERT KAEMPFERT JAMES LAST, ENOCH LIGHT, BARRY LIPMAN BAND , LITTLE EGYPT LIVING GUITARS, LIVING STRINGS, HENRY MANCINI, MARIACHI BROTHERS (featuring Chet Baker), BILLY MAY ORCHESTRA , JAMES MICHENER MITCH MILLER , HUGO MONTENEGRO , JANE MORGAN, BUDDY MORROW JOHNNY OAHU & HIS ORCHESTRA , 101 STRINGS , THE OUTRIGGERS JOHNNY PINEAPPLE & HIS ORCHESTRA , LES REED , HENRI RENE LANI ROYAL W/ THE DIAMOND HEAD BAND, PETE RUGOLO SANTO & JOHNNY, SUNG WOO SOHN, AL STEPHANO, THREE SUNS BILLY VAUGHN, HUGO WINTERHALTER, JACQUES YSAYE ... and more! Have a look! Make an offer! Chris # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Nuremberg Dolphin Orchestra Date: 15 Nov 1998 18:37:05 +0100 Anyone heard this? >Still available..the first non esoteric CD feat. Dolphins as Voice >Acrobats. Do a musical journey through Metal, Techno, Folk, Reggae and >Punk(!)...all "sung" by bottelnose dolphins. THE NUREMBERG DOLPHIN >ORCHESTRA (part1)can be orderd at 9PM RECORDS SCHIFFSTRASSE 10 >91054 ERLANGEN GERMANY Fax 49 9131 209453 >mail Neun@compuserve.com price (Europe: 20 $ + 5 Dollar >posting) outside Europe: 20 $ + 10 Dollar 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 15 Nov 1998 14:35:01 -0500 At 03:47 PM 11/15/98 +0100, Sevo Stille wrote: > >BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > >> So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop hits in >> a big band style is what I gather... >> >> Thumbs UP ? > >Mostly down. A few records, like e.g. "Voodoo Party" are very good. "Voodoo Party" is a much sought-after record by sheep-like DJ's and the sheep that follow them here. As a result, it's the one Last record you almost never see here. The track "Giant Man" in particular, was a popular DJ track here. I have the record and I don't think I could say that it's very good. I COULD say that it's excellent compared to every other James Last record that I've heard. After I heard this record, it gave me a bit of hope and I started letting myself buy James Last records, in hopes they would be as non-mediocre as Voodoo Party. But alas they were very hopelessly mediocre. But that's good. It's good that there's at least one kind of record that you see all the time that you can pass up without much fear of missing something. Ever since I bought a Roberto Delgado record with a few pretty hot cuts, I had to suddenly look seriously at those records. (Please don't tell me there's a hot cut on a Nana Mouskouri record somewhere!) James Last and Roberto Delgado were kind of similar and on the same label, weren't they? The best stuff on Voodoo Party is basically like Santana. If you want a Santana clone, I'd recommend El Chicano. By the way, speaking of sheep, I ran into a hip hop-sampling-remix-type DJ pal the other night and I asked whether he and his "type" have started to look for samples in the lounge and easy listening world yet. And he said that it was beginning but that mostly kids were looking for records that had already been sampled rather than making their own discoveries. I found that disappointing. They're all looking for this one particular Boots Randolph record so they can say they have the record that De La Soul sampled. I'm still waiting to hear a hip hop track with an Art Van Damme sample. 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: (exotica) hip hop with exotica samples Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:40:46 +0100 > By the way, speaking of sheep, I ran into a hip hop-sampling-remix-type DJ > pal the other night and I asked whether he and his "type" have started to > look for samples in the lounge and easy listening world yet. And he said > that it was beginning but that mostly kids were looking for records that > had already been sampled rather than making their own discoveries. I found > that disappointing. They're all looking for this one particular Boots > Randolph record so they can say they have the record that De La Soul sampled. > I'm not an expert and I don't look after them in record shops, but just according to what I hear in radio and what friends recorded for me on tapes there are a lot of hip hop products with heavy exotica influences and samples. I'd really like to know more about it, I suspect that it's mostly white artists who do that. Maybe it's more of a European thing. Hip Hop is very big here now. The most famous that I know by name is of course MC Solaar from Paris, but I'm shure there are many more. Toobad my hip hop knowledge all comes from tapes without credit lists. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) us tv troll Date: 15 Nov 1998 16:45:17 -0500 (eastern standard times) Al Capone (1959) AMC - Monday night, 6:00pm, midnight - Rod Steiger portrays Capone's career. How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) AMC - Monday night, 8:00pm, 2:00am - Instructional film for ComEd groupies. With Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable. Second showing is said to be in letterbox format. Murder, Inc. (1960) AMC - Tuesday night, 6:00pm - True-crime story of Louis Lepke's syndicate. Peter Falk is great as head hitman, Abe Reles. With Stuart Whitman, Henry Morgan, May Britt, Morey Amsterdam, Sarah Vaughn. Point Blank (1967) AMC - Tuesday night, 8:00pm - Tough crime flick, starring Lee Marvin as a double-crossee getting even with his back-stabbing partner and cheatin' wife (Angie Dickinson). 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) TCM - Tuesday night, 8:00pm - OooOOOoo oooo ooOOO oooOOOOooooo. Oh, pardon me, I've spilled my Lighetti all over the table. You know all about this one. "Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman" AMC - Tuesday night, 10:00pm - New documentary. Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) AMC - Late Tuesday night, 12:30am - From deadpan auteur, Jack Webb, the story of a 1920s Chicago jazz combo resisting mob control. Jack plays the trumpet, with Lee Marvin on clarinet. Also watch for Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Jayne Mansfield in a small role. St. Louis Blues (1958) AMC - Late Tuesday/early Wednesday, 3:00am - Nat King Cole stars in a Hollywood-ified biography of W.C. Handy. Love Happy (1949) AMC - Wednesday morning, 8:00am - Later, lesser Marx Brothers, but still worth a spin. Harpo gets his usual charming harp segment. With Marilyn Monroe in a walk-on. Robin & The 7 Hoods (1964) AMC - Wednesday night, 10:00pm - Frank, Dino and Sammy star in a merger of Robin Hood and Chicago gangsters. Cobra Woman (1943) AMC - Thursday afternoon, 12:15pm - Hollywood technicolor exotica starring Maria Montez, Sabu and Jon Hall. Kiss Of Death (1947) AMC - Thursday night, 6:00pm, 11:45pm - Victor Mature is trying to go straight (though from the perspective of some other characters, he's a fink), but runs up against giggly sociopath, Richard Widmark. Widmark may be a psycho, but he still takes the time to help a little old lady down the stairs now and then. "Biography" Andy Warhol - A&E - Thursday night, 8:00pm, midnight "Biography" Donna Summer - A&E - Friday night, 8:00pm, midnight "Fishing With John" - Bravo - Friday night/early Saturday, 11:30pm, 3:30am - Fishing show hosted by John Lurie. John and his special guest, Tom Waits, go fishing for red snapper in Jamaica. X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963) AMC - Late Friday night, 12:05am - Bleak little film with Ray Milland as a doctor who develops x-ray vision eyedrops. The expected "he meddled in God's domain" complications develop, but not before we get a silly peep-show party scene. Barbarella (1967) USA - Late Friday night, 1:00am - Jane Fondle, er, Fonda stars as an outer space adventurer who has problems with clothing durability. With Vinnie Bell on guitar. A Shot In The Dark (1964) AMC - Saturday afternoon, Noon - Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards, Henry Mancini. Elke Sommer. Hot Rod Gang (1958) AMC - Saturday night/early Sunday, 10:00pm, 4:30am - AMC seems to be on a kick of J.D. flicks on Saturday nights. This one stars Jon Ashley, Jody Fair, Steve Drexel and "Doodles" Weaver. AND Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps doing four songs (according to Psychotronic), along with Eddie Cochran. Sounds like Jon Ashley maybe joins in on the music, though... m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Hipwell Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:12:54 GMT > At 03:47 PM 11/15/98 +0100, Sevo Stille wrote: > > > >BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > > > >> So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop > >> hits in a big band style is what I gather... > >> > >> Thumbs UP ? > > > >Mostly down. A few records, like e.g. "Voodoo Party" are very good. > > "Voodoo Party" is a much sought-after record by sheep-like DJ's and the > sheep that follow them here. As a result, it's the one Last record you > almost never see here. The track "Giant Man" in particular, was a popular > DJ track here. I've seen it priced at twenty five quid over here, but it's not too hard to pick up copies. > I have the record and I don't think I could say that it's very good. I > COULD say that it's excellent compared to every other James Last record > that I've heard. After I heard this record, it gave me a bit of hope and I > started letting myself buy James Last records, in hopes they would be as > non-mediocre as Voodoo Party. But alas they were very hopelessly mediocre. I agree, it certainly doesn't qualify as very good. It's OK. I mentioned "James Last And The Rolling Trinity" recently. It has one track which is just like Giant Man -- called "(Better Watch Out) The Booman's Coming". This, and the rest, are Lastian rollerdisco versions of children's songs. The version of "Old MacDonald" is fantastic for its utterly stupefying jaw-crashing-into-floor qualities. But I like very silly records. I'm still looking for "Humba Humba A Go Go". > But that's good. It's good that there's at least one kind of record that > you see all the time that you can pass up without much fear of missing > something. Ever since I bought a Roberto Delgado record with a few pretty > hot cuts, I had to suddenly look seriously at those records. (Please don't > tell me there's a hot cut on a Nana Mouskouri record somewhere!) > > James Last and Roberto Delgado were kind of similar and on the same label, > weren't they? They were on Polydor. So were Peter Thomas and Augusto Alguero and Xylos Inc and Ultimate Spinach. And Jimi Hendrix. And Bert Kaempfert. No, I wouldn't say Delgado was similar to Last. Delgado looks like Vic Reeves, while Last looks more like Oliver Reed. More seriously, the main difference is that Delgado actually produced quite a lot of "good", some "excellent", and a few "outstanding" pieces of music, thus far outstripping Mr. Last. The track "Salambo #1" from "Latin Flutes" is possibly the best ever piece of "swinging cheese". And I know my swinging cheese. Kai Warner is James Last's brother. He was on Polydor too. That's enough random facts. -- Pete H. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) Re: ...ComEd (PUSHKIN????) Date: 15 Nov 1998 20:06:02 -0000 >In a message dated 11/13/98 4:24:37 PM EST, rgrandia@earthlink.net writes: > ><< I can't seem to turn up any information on "Mr. Pushkin" > mentioned in the Combustible Edison instro tune "Mr. Pushkin > Comes to Shove." And Ashley Warren wrote: >My TV Cartoon Almanac lists this as running for only one season on ABC (Sept >'62 - Aug '63 color, half hour, 22 episodes, not renewed). It's described ... >I would be curious if any one on the list may have a video or possibly even a >coloring book of Mr. Pushkin for trade as I'm a big collector of Cold War era >ephemera and Mr. Pushkin stuff at memorabillia conventions/flea markets is >somewhat of a rarity due to the short run and the very nature of the show. Some of these tapes turn up at comic/TV/movie memorabilia shows in "unofficial" VHS copies, among rows of tapes of sundry obscure cult TV. I'll start keeping my eyes better peeled. NEVER seen any merchandising though, for sale anywhere or in any character-tie-in/toy price guide. Like Clutch Cargo and many cartoon oddities, my age made me miss it by THAT much in its original run. However, when I was a kid a local station would show this weird hodge podge of cartoons (Terry Toons, Paramount/Fleischer, second-string Warner Bros.) that must have been cheap to obtain in the early 70s, and Pushkin would occasionally make an appearance in the rotation. I've seen a lot of those other studios' cartoons turn up on those public-domain $3 budget videos at drug stores and supermarkets. Perhaps Pushkin is lurking on some of those! >The book >lists Rolf Steedmann, an ex-Hanna-Barbera artist was the main illustrator. >And that's it, not much. REALLY? That's pretty interesting. I don't remember it looking remotely Hanna-Barbera at all. BTW, I think "Mr. Pushkin Came to Shove" is perhaps the most amazing ComEd instrumental, and to me seems to epitomize what Space Age Pop was all about without being too derivative of any specific original artist. A brilliantly complex bunch of composition and arranging. Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song] Date: 15 Nov 1998 18:29:09 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1821229A72C6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I got the following mail from a cartoonist named Edgar Beals. Can anyone help him with his question? Thanks! -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek - weirdomusic@wxs.nl +-------------------------------------------+ visit Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html +-------------------------------------------+ --------------1821229A72C6 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl ([195.121.6.60]) by po01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA9DE for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:44:46 +0100 Received: from jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca ([142.177.1.6]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA3A30 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:45:56 +0100 Received: from edgar ([142.177.26.27]) by jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 607-45892U60000L60000S0) with SMTP id AAA4214 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 05:49:17 -0400 Message-ID: <000001be0eea$932898c0$1b1ab18e@edgar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 This is a long shot, but here goes... I am trying to find out some information about a recording I have.. it's on a cassette and it was recorded by someone else several years ago from a radio show. It is a spoof of "the Night Before Christmas" by "Patsy Ray and the Beatniks" it may have been recorded around 1959. I am a cartoonist and I have made a short animation using this recording as a soundtrack. I would really like to get in touch with the label or the people who recorded it, or who ever has the rights to it. I wish I had more to go on but that is all I know. Any help would be appreciated. Edgar Beals ebeals@ns.sympatico.ca --------------1821229A72C6-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Greenberg" Subject: (exotica) Phil Kraus Date: 15 Nov 1998 21:52:16 -0500 Brad - I have two records by Phil Kraus, however a small correction - they are on Golden Crest, a fascincating label that was based about five minutes away from where I live. I've talked with the late owner's daughter, but never specifically asked about Phil Kraus. It was really interesting to read your post. I knew nothing about him other than much of the music he created. thanks, Michael # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Casino Royale Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:07:40 EST Listers, I just finished watching "Casino Royale" which I had not seen in years. I have always felt the soundtrack was one of the greatest comedy soundtracks ever. In fact just yesterday I spent the afternoon listening to Bacharach comedy soundtracks: Casino Royale, What's New Pussycat, and After The Fox. All three great! My point: I noticed that there are several great music cues in the film that are not on the soundtrack CD. Does anyone know if Ryko or someone else is considering putting out an extended version similar to the other two I mentioned. That would certainly be great! Here's hoping that everyone on the list had a good weekend. Best wishes, Larry # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Will Straw Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Abbacoveralbums Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:37:23 -0500 And let's not forget the "Stars on 45" Abba medley, the most blissfully hooky record ever made. Nothing but the most pleasurable parts of all the Abba hits. Will ------------------------------------------------- Will Straw, PhD Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications McGill University http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nancy novotny Subject: Re: (exotica) [Fwd: Obscure song] Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:59:35 -0600 Someone will probably beat me to this, but this track is called "Beatnik's Wish" by Patsy Raye & The Beatniks, and it is included on Rhino's "The Beat Generation" 3CD box set that came out in 1992. According to the small print liner notes, the track was composed by Willis/Ackerman and was originally released as Roulette single #4208 in November 1959. And according to the even smaller print, this track is actually controlled by Rhino Records these days.. Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following mail from a cartoonist named Edgar Beals. Can anyone > help him with his question? Thanks! > > -- > Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek - weirdomusic@wxs.nl > +-------------------------------------------+ > visit Record Collector's Heaven > http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.html > +-------------------------------------------+ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Obscure song > Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 05:47:06 -0400 > From: "Edgar Beals" > To: > > This is a long shot, but here goes... > > I am trying to find out some information about a recording I have.. it's on > a cassette and it was recorded by someone else several years ago from a > radio show. It is a spoof of "the Night Before Christmas" by "Patsy Ray and > the Beatniks" it may have been recorded around 1959. > > I am a cartoonist and I have made a short animation using this recording as > a soundtrack. I would really like to get in touch with the label or the > people who recorded it, or who ever has the rights to it. > > I wish I had more to go on but that is all I know. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Edgar Beals > ebeals@ns.sympatico.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: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: (exotica) The Yellow Canary - Kenyon Hopkins Date: 16 Nov 1998 00:52:51 EST Just picked up _The Yellow Canary_ sdtrk by list favorite Kenyon Hopkins and it's jumped into the top echelon of my favorite crime/nervous jazz albums. I might even rate it over _Lonelyville/The Nervous Beat_ and _Mr. Buddwing_ among Kenyon's own albums. Just frosty beat jazz side to side. Currently I'm listening to Sam Butera's _The Wildest Clan_ a swinging motherfucker of a record with some truly cool originals. Thank you KUSF record swap. Hey! I wanna see any Beatnik Christmas Cartoons! Tell that animator that I'd gladly trade him a 90 minute tape of Beatnik exploitation x-mas songs ("Bear Rug" by Tony Rodelle, some Ramsey Lewis, "Cool Yule" by Kookie, "Blue X-mas" by Miles & Bob Dorough....) for his clip. --David # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin@astsoft.com (kevin leeeeee) Subject: (exotica) L.A. exoticats??? Date: 15 Nov 1998 22:42:08 -0800 (PST) hey, i met an exotica list member at the cacophony party at bahooka's halloween. michelle? you there? please email me, you mentioned keeping a list of LA exotica people - definitely interested in being added to the list. speaking of LA. at the Garage on Thursday nights in Silverlake (it's on Santa Monica Blvd., look it up in the Weekly) is the mighty return of "SWITCHED ON!" featuring dj's Hypnotique and Lance spinning 60's groove/psych/moog/exploitation/etc. along with modern fare (you know like dimitri from paris, fantastic plastic machine, sterolab, etc....) from what i've been told (haven't gone yet to this incarnation) the format has been a bit heavier on the modern stuff lately. but i'm sure they'll play requests if you got em. this is the same switched on that used to be at goldfingers way back when, of which Jill Mingo-go was a part of... (as well as Claudine) also i saw a flyer for a saturday club at the Burgundy Room in Hollywood that sounded very similar to switched on. 60's euro/exploitation type stuff... anyone go to this? "the purple flashes club" or something like that. peace, kevin leeeeee # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott Date: 16 Nov 1998 14:28:46 +0100 Well, for some reason newsgroups do not accept large MP3 files. So I decided to make the file available for download on my site www.Basta.nl . This will be done by saturday, so sorry to all who tried to look the file up in the newsgroups. Kind regards Jeroen vd Schaaf Basta # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) Pushkin and "hodgepodge" toons Date: 16 Nov 1998 10:55:17 -0800 So I guess I got it a little backwards with the Puskin thing, it was actually a Domestic deal. Thanks for all the info... Brings up a whole 'nother discussion of those weird-ass "hodgepodge" cartoons that we just took for granted as kids. > Like Clutch Cargo and many cartoon oddities, my age made me miss it by > THAT much in its original run. However, when I was a kid a local station > would show this weird hodge podge of cartoons (Terry Toons, > Paramount/Fleischer, second-string Warner Bros.) So does THIS ring a bell with anybody... There were some cartoons out of the late fifties that featured two guys: one short and mouse-y while the other a tall big mouthed know-it-all. I remember one episode where the little guy was trying to setup a HiFi kit(!) and the big guy kept telling him what to do... which invariably created some kind of disater. The short guy got shocked a lot in this one. I remember it as having a beatnik edge to it...angular and minimal, like the artists were smoking pot and digging Calder sculptures in their spare time. Or maybe I'm imagining the whole thing. If I had to guess, I would say that they came out of the same studios as the "Herman and Catnip" cartoons, # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Nov 18,1998 Date: 16 Nov 1998 16:40:05 -0500 Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph, Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome. Billy Strange: Man from UNCLE "Secret Agent File" The Ray McVay Sound: Kinda Kinky "The Easy Project" I Gres: To Ramsey "Mo'Plen 3000" Carrie Nations: Look on up at the bottom "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (ost) G.T.O.'s: I Have a Paintbrush in My Hand to Color a Triangle "Permanent Damage" Mutantes: Magica "Mutantes" Claude Denjean: Kiss This "The Hascisch Party!" Okko: East Indian Traffic "Sitar & Electronics" The Vampires Sound Incorporation: Kamasutra "Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party" Combustible Edison: 20th Century "The Impossible World" Burt Bacharach: The Look of Love "Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits" Edmundo Ros: Summertime "Latin Love-In" Magga Stina: Operation "An Album" Magga Stina: Bikers-Relations "An Album" Neotropic: Under Violent Objects "Mr Brubakers Strawberry Alarm Clock" Irresistible Force: Nepalese Bliss "Bluffer's Guide 2" Martin Denny: My Funny Valentine "The Best of Martin Denny" The Cocktails: Martin Denny's Sake Rock "The Early Hi-Ball Years" Harry Zimmerman: On a Little Street in Singapore "Music for the Jet Set" GusGus: Oh/Gun "Polydistortion" Tipsy: Cinnebar "Trip Tease" Dimitri from Paris: Un World Mysteriouse "Sacrebleu" United Future Organization: Picaresque Eye "3rd Perspective" I Gres: Restless "Stroboscopica" Alberto Baldan Bembo: Mara-Jat's Love "Easy Tempo Vol 1" Lonnie Liston Smith: Expansions "Blaxploitation" Snowboy: The New Avengers "Acid Jazz Movie & TV Themes" Massive Attack: Daydreaming "Blue Lines" Thanks for reading, Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits Date: 16 Nov 1998 16:43:17 -0600 HONOLULU (AP) -- Paul Wilcox, a pioneer in early Hawaii radio, was killed Saturday morning in a traffic accident. He was 79. Wilcox was a passenger in a car driven by his longtime friend, Ellen Hughes, 84, who was also killed in the crash. Her car was broadsided by an oncoming car while Hughes was attempting to make an illegal left turn, Sgt. David Alices Jr. said. Wilcox was one of Hawaii's first disc jockeys following World War II, when there were only two radio stations operating here. ``He was well-known, well-liked, beautiful voice, the kind of voice they wanted in radio in those days,'' said former colleague Eddie Sherman. ``He was really a star of his time.'' Wilcox later worked as sales manager at several Hawaii radio stations before retiring 15 years ago. Survivors include daughter Leslie Wilcox, who anchors the weekday morning news program on Honolulu television station KHON. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie Valladares, who skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has died of cancer in his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62. Known as ``The Guatemalan Flyer,'' Valladares immigrated to the United States with his family at age 12, according to a spokesman for Roller Games International. The 5-foot-2 Valladares began roller skating after he outgrew his dream of being a jockey. He signed his first professional skating contract at age 17. Valladares was a star by the end of his first year as a pro, and rode a boom in roller derby that begin in the 1950s and faded in the 1970s. Valladares and his wife, Honey Sanchez, joined the T-birds at the team's inception in 1960, and quickly became identified as its stars. He skated with the team and coached it for many years, and once said the highlights of his life were performing before 50,000 fans in Chicago's Comiskey Park and working with actress Raquel Welch in ``Kansas City Bomber.'' Valladares is survived by his wife; daughter, Gina; three grandchildren and seven brothers and sisters. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Hawaii is a dangerous place Date: 16 Nov 1998 17:50:14 EST In a message dated 98-11-16 16:47:11 EST, Lou (our resident mortician) writes: << HONOLULU (AP) -- Paul Wilcox, a pioneer in early Hawaii radio, was killed Saturday morning in a traffic accident. He was 79. >> It still don't beat that lava rock story that was posted a few months ago. 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits Date: 16 Nov 1998 23:44:01 -0000 Lou wrote: > LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie >Valladares, who skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has >died of cancer in his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62. Does this have anything to do with this list? Robbie ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Hawaii is a dangerous place Date: 16 Nov 1998 19:01:32 -0600 At 05:50 PM 11/16/98 EST, Robert wrote: >It still don't beat that lava rock story that was posted a few months ago. >Robert You can hear Don Ho discuss that incident and others from his career in this RealAudio interview piece originally broadcast last Saturday on NPR: http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/981114.donho.html Crooning With Don Ho November 14, 1997 -- Last winter, Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon went to a Chicago Bulls basketball game and saw an unlikely guest performer: Hawaiian singer Don Ho. Ho's songs conjured visions of warm beaches and luaus, not the snow and ice prevelant in Chicago at the time. Take a mental journey to the land of pineapples, palm trees and hula dancers, and listen to the story. -Lou (who thinks roller derby is plenty exotic -- or at least it was in the 50s when I was growing up. and, hey, who remembers midget wrestling from washington dc??) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) james last Date: 17 Nov 1998 00:16:46 EST In a message dated 11/15/98 2:38:39 PM EST, bruno@yhammer.com writes: << By the way, speaking of sheep, I ran into a hip hop-sampling-remix-type DJ pal the other night and I asked whether he and his "type" have started to look for samples in the lounge and easy listening world yet. And he said that it was beginning but that mostly kids were looking for records that had already been sampled rather than making their own discoveries. I found that disappointing. They're all looking for this one particular Boots Randolph record so they can say they have the record that De La Soul sampled. >> Your friend is out of it as trip hop producers have been sampling "easy listening" and sou dtrack music for several years now. 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: Realbiglar@aol.com Subject: (exotica) John Ashley rocks, "Hot Rod Gang" rules! Date: 17 Nov 1998 06:29:50 EST Hi there exotica listers, m.ace writes: >Hot Rod Gang (1958) AMC - Saturday night/early Sunday, 10:00pm, 4:30am - AMC seems to be on a kick of J.D. flicks on Saturday nights. This one stars Jon Ashley, Jody Fair, Steve Drexel and "Doodles" Weaver. AND Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps doing four songs (according to Psychotronic), along with Eddie Cochran. Sounds like Jon Ashley maybe joins in on the music, though...< Hot Rod Gang is one of my FAVORITE films (right up there with Girls Town and Wild Guitar). To say that John Ashley joins in on the music is an understatement. He tears it UP! It's a darn swingfest! I need to catch it on AMC, because syndication prints might drop a Blue Caps tune.... The cast also features Dub Taylor and I think Gigi Perreau is the main cutie. The other female lead does a "knockers up" version of "Choo Choo Ch'boochie" (??), which is *covered* in "The Incredibly Strange Creatures etc"... how the hell did that song end up in one movie, not to mention two? (actually, I love it) And, the clubhouse set turns up again in "The Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow". I just can't remember if Norman "Stanley" Grabowski is in this one, the common thread that connects most flicks with 30 year old teenagers. Don't miss "Hot Rod Gang"! 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Paul Wilcox, Ralphie Valladares obits Date: 17 Nov 1998 11:20:49 -0400 > >Lou wrote: > >> LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Roller derby legend Ralphie >>Valladares, who skated and coached for the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, has >>died of cancer in his daughter's Pico Rivera home. He was 62. > >Does this have anything to do with this list? > > >Robbie More than you could imagine! Frank - think visual imagery # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The eXotica Releases Overviews temporary inconveniences Date: 17 Nov 1998 13:50:02 +0100 dear visitor of Dada's "eXotica Releases Overview" When I started the XRO a couple of years ago, it was only 1 page, about 20K small. Today, it is 625 K big, and that's a problem, as its web space is only half a MB... that's why I had to move a couple of pages to my other (much slower) web space, until I've finished the move of my entire site to a much bigger place. Sorry for this (temporary) inconvenience. Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ visit "Zounds in Cyber Space": | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ | ) / \ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: james last "Voodoo Party" Date: 17 Nov 1998 19:09:37 +0100 >From: BasicHip@aol.com >i came across a shitload of his records at a local store - all in perfect >condition and priced to move. Many had the NOW sound look with groovy chicks >on covers and titles like "Hammond A Go-Go", "Trumpets A Go Go", "Voodoo >Party" absolutely 100% Thumbs UP on this one! it's an incredible record, Unlike anything you've heard by James Last. Soulful Hammond, brass, wild afro-Latin percussion, fuzz, and silly chorus chanting. Humbah! Afro-Teutonic boogaloo! Tooo wild! It's also unlike any boogaloo or funk album i've ever heard, it's something truely unique! rated 4/5 by me. 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Date: 17 Nov 1998 10:25:20 -0800 (PST) Its been an amazing last few weeks. Many of those most wanted hard to find cds have made it to my mailbox or are in the mail. Some of them like Lorraine Bowen I've been searching for for a very long time. The Lorraine Bowen Experience, "Greatest Hits Voil 1" finally came in. I purchased it from Nicola Schaefer 207 Harvard Ave, Winnipeg, Mannitoba, R3M OJ9 CANADA, Tel (204)475 1235. The cd is done very well & its a first class package. The music is not overly produced as I was told by L B "don't expect the production of Fantastic Plastic machine on this compilation". Its soft gentle pop exotica. The songs are about off the wall subjects and should appeal to many on the list. Nicola Schaefer is a wonderful lady with a bubbly personality that suits her friend Lorraine Bowen well. Nicola has a very big birhday coming up. Greatest Hits Vol 2 are available from Linda Denning, fax(604)253 6738 Ph(604)253 6728 #106-1638 East 3rd Ave Vancouver B C Canada V5N 1G9. Linda Deniing is the third link in the trio of wonderful Lorraine Bowen personalities. Finally got Sound Shopping by Arling & Cameron (1998, BASTA) It comes in 6 inch by 4 inch litlle booklet, Also received Alling & Cameron's "ALL IN" (Basta 1998) This is a full of suprises club pop cd. New songs generally written by A & C. Mots cuts lean to the very exotic japanese club pop scene some are basic american club tracks. Sure would like to find the Xmas easy Tune vol 2 someday. More club pop exotica compiled by le hammond inferno on "Ro 3003" (Bungalo 021 1997) It says on the front of the cd "A spectacular collection of german clubpop" and it is much more industrial infuenced then japanese club pop I've listened to. Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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: Ottotemp@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Tiki commercial Christmas, SF Date: 17 Nov 1998 13:59:59 EST Visit Otto's Island, an oasis amongst manacing Santas And shop for tiki Christmas gifts 3$ admission fee Dec. 6th 3pm till 12 midnite Somar Gallery 834 Brannan (@9th street,near Trader Joes)(SF's SOMA district) San Francisco info line-(415) 826-3277 Fed up with the commercialization of Christmas? Do you spend too much money at Target, K-Mart, Nordstroms etc?? Shouldnt there be more to the Christmas expierience?? WE HATE CHRISTMAS!! You can support local artists and DISCOVER those hard to find gifts. Enjoy a non-Christmas atmosphere, be entertained by local artist/performers, and shop with a bottle in your hand. For 9 hours on December 6th, the terms (capitalism) (buy gifts) and (Hype) assume new meaning. (we only ask that you not sit in the drunken Santa's lap) This holiday season share the true spirit of giving by participating in the largest, (loudest), most disrespectful of all holiday events *Naughty Santa's Bizarre Bazaar*. With over 40 artists to choose from, Naughty Santa's is guaranteed to provide you with the quirkiest of gifts, and to remind you that Christmas does not have to be spent in Flourescent Lit Retail Establishment Hell. Many gift's priced under $$10. (100% guaranteed *MACRAME FREE*). Have your picture taken with Sister Santa(of the Sister's of Perpetual Indulgence) groove to the Tiki Sounds of Christmas, enjoy the singular slam poetry event of the year "Santa Slam" and once again we close the event with the All Santa Crash Worship Cover Band "Santa Worship!!". (we regret to announce that the all santa 'Slayer' cover band "SLEIGHER" may also appear). We will not be checking your packs or coolers and in fact ask you to bring your own beverages. Admission free to all Santa's(in suit of course) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) That rulin' Ruggolo Date: 17 Nov 1998 13:37:33 -0500 Call me analog, but I don't have cable. I do, however, have friends with cable, and I was THRILLED last night to see and hear the rumblin' and screamin' theme to RICHARD DIAMOND(I think it was on Nick at Nite.) "TV ACTION JAZZ", so to speak(that reminds me, we don't ever talk about Mundell Lowe!?!??!) , the way it was meant to be heard, on tv! It's a cool show, great Saul Bass-like titles for the show opener. The incidental music was quite noir(wonder if Pete did all the music for that show.) Has anyone ever seen MR. LUCKY, btw? I've only heard that it's real hi-life. IM-not-so-HO, the few PETER GUNN episodes I've seen, the great music notwithstanding, were kinda lacking on the excite-o-rama-meter. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update Date: 17 Nov 1998 19:05:29 +0100 A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available. These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced here. (If you would like to receive the unabridged updates by e-mail, just subscribe to my "XRO updater" by sending a messasge to with "subscribe to XRO" as subject) - November 15: new (1998) releases, announcements & corrections - * L'Atome: "Soft Stones" (Working Title) CD, Sheer, USA, Announced For Spring 1999 * Art Blakey: "Africaine" CD, Blue Note, USA, Announced For November 1998 ----> anyone care to comment on this one? * Wanda Sa (Wanda De Sa?): "Vagamente" CD, RGE/Bomba, Japan, 1998 * The Four Freshmen: "Five Trombones & 5 Trumpets" CD, Capitol/Collector's Choice, USA, 1998 * Quincy Jones: "Best Of" CD, Spectrum, ?, 1998 * Peggy Lee: "Miss Peggy Lee" 4 CD Box, Capitol, USA, 1998 * Peggy Lee: "The Best Of Miss Peggy Lee" CD, Capitol, USA, 1998 * April March: "Superbanyair" CD, NickelBag, USA, 1998 * Soundtrack: "Mickey One" [by Stan Getz] CD, Verve, USA, 1998 * Soundtrack: "The Manacod Experience" [by Various Artists] CD, Crippled Dick Hot Wax 040, Germany, 1998 * Harry Partch: "Enclosure Five" Triple CD, Innova INNO 405, USA, 1998 * The Peddlers: "Live At The Pickwick" CD, ?, UK, 1998 * The Peddlers: "Three For All" CD, ?, UK, 1998 * Joe Pesci: "Vincent La Guardia Gambini Sings Just For You" CD, Columbia, USA, 1998 * Mongo Santamaria: "Mongo At Montreux" CD, Atlantic, ?, 1998 * The Spotnicks: "16 Golden World Hits" CD, Koch, Germany 1998 * The Supertroopers: "Only In It For The Money" CD, ?, Netherlands, 1998 * Various Artists: "Beat At Cinecitta Volume 3" CD/LP, Crippled Dick Hot Wax 040, Germany, To Be Released Soon 1998 * Various Artists: "Blue Big Bands" CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998 * Various Artists: "Blue Bossa Volume 2" CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998 ----> anyone care to comment on this one? is it what i guess it is: blue note jazz artists doing bossa nova? the Blue Note web site doesn't have any sound samples... * Various Artists: "Blue Note Salutes Motown" CD, Blue Note, USA, Announced For November 1998 * Various Artists: "Electric Blue" CD, Blue Note, UK, 1998 * Various Artists: "Holding Up Half The Sky: Voices Of Asian Women" CD, Shanachie, USA, 1998 * Various Artists: "Lift Off! With Apollo Sound" CD/Double LP, Apollo Sound APSCD 209, UK, 1998 * Various Artists: "Natty And Nice - A Reggae Christmas" CD, Rhino, USA, 1998 * Various Artists: "Pepperisms Around The Globe" CD/LP, Q.D.K. Media 025, Germany, 1998 * Various Artists: "Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits" 4 CD Box, TVT Soundtrax, USA, Announced For November 1998 * Various Artists: "Swingin' Talkin' Verve" CD, Verve, USA, 1998 * Various Artists: "Tropicalia" 5 CD Box, Polygram 555 609, UK?, 1998 * Various Artists: "Uno Dos Tres: Latin-Jazz Grooves On Talkin' Verve" CD, Verve, USA, 1998 * Various Artists: "Verve Jazz Masters: The Bossa Nova Story" CD, Verve, USA, 1998 * Various Artists: "West Coast Jazz" 4 CD Box, Contemporary, USA, 1998 - November 15: more or less recent (1997) stuff - * The Spotnicks: "Space Party" CD, ? RBCD242, Germany?, 1997 * The Spotnicks: "Tracks" CD, BMG 46528, Germany, 1997 - November 15: other interesting finds I stumbled on - * Rod McKuen, Anita Kerr, The San Sebastian Strings: "Sea" (Mer/The Sea) CD, Wea/Warner Brothers 1670, USA, 1990 CD, Stanyan 109, USA, 1988 * The Spotnicks: "The Very Best Of The Spotnicks" CD, Koch, Germany, 1991? * Various Artists: "Blue Bossa" CD, Blue Note 955902, UK, 1996 >>> Additions & corrections are more than welcome! The eXotica Releases Overview is part of visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/ Johan Dada Vis quiet@village.uunet.be # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) All things THURL Date: 17 Nov 1998 12:32:05 -0800 Dig this page about Thurl Ravenscroft, Voice of Tony the Tiger and LOADS of Disney features AAAAANNND probably best known for his inimitable "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch. Being a big Disney cat, he can also be heard (and seen) in the Haunted Mansion as your one of the singing ghosts... You can even find out which one is him. Your E ticket to Thurl-land: http://hometown.aol.com/bejacob/thurl.htm Here is Thurl singing with Danny Kaye and two other guys in the 1959 film "The five Pennies." http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/allthurl/5pennies.ram And Thurl in the Haunted House: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/bjacob/sounds/thurl.ra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) In Flight Entertainment Date: 17 Nov 1998 16:18:19 -0500 How are these comps? What do they sound like? Where can one find them? I really dig the Sound Galleries and TV Dinners '60s. Is this along the same lines? Someone please let me know. 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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) UL Bonus Tracks II Date: 17 Nov 1998 16:19:24 -0500 Okay, we've established that the guy is The Continental. Does anyone have a track listing? Also, there are other bonus tracks, like on the Christmas one, the Toys for Tots PSA. Does anyone know if there's a listing of all the bonus tracks and what they are? I hate that. 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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Vampyros Lesbos Date: 17 Nov 1998 16:17:32 -0500 I just got this, but I don't get it. It certainly doesn't rock my world like a lot of other new stuff I've gotten. Am I missing something? What should I listen for? What are everyone's high points on the album? Also, what would you label this as? Psychsploitation? 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: Michael Hibarger Subject: (exotica) Casino Royale/After the Fox extra tracks Date: 17 Nov 1998 16:51:22 -0500 From sonya@rykodisc.com: I know that whenever people like us put out soundtracks we always look for extra material to put on them, otherwise people will just buy whatever is cheapest - legal rights and sometimes composer and archival issue are what prevents extra material from being added. In some cases even - the original masters are lost! We don't have the rights to Casino Royale. VS does. > Sonya... > > Any info for this person...? I know Casino Royale is a Varese Sarabande > release...I know you guys put out After the Fox... > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) James Last Date: 17 Nov 1998 19:01:42 -0800 (PST) Here's my two cents....... I've heard a lot of James Last, but never heard one that I liked. Besides that, he wrote two of the most awful songs of all-time: Happy Heart, and Games That Lovers Play. As for the Voodoo LP, it's good only in comparison to the other James Last records...by itself it's pretty crappy. And there's 10 copies of it at the store down the street. Closing thought: James Last was the very first person I heard who made records that sounded like they came from a factory. DH _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin leeeeee Subject: (exotica) Mr. Pushkin Date: 17 Nov 1998 21:51:03 -0700 if you're looking for cartoons, try the Whole Toon Catalog. i'm pretty sure they're on the WWW. not too long ago they got bought by Facets video in chicago. so try looking for Facets, too. but email me if you run into dead ends. i have the physical catalog at home. i highly recommend it by the way. they have maybe not everything but pretty close to it as anyone (legally). kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kevin leeeeee Subject: (exotica) howard stern sucks Date: 17 Nov 1998 21:51:42 -0700 not that that's news to anyone... i heard him (not that i listen to his show) playing a Burt Bachrach live recording of him singing (i can't remember the tune) and basically Stern and that sidekick of his were totally destroying it, making fun of his singing (which isn't that hard i admit). i'm not gonna get in a big huff considering this is howard stern of course... but the fact that he took the time to sit down and play the cd and just totally rail on Bachrach... i felt like saying, look man, why pick on a guy like him? why not someone who is more widely accepted like Sinatra or Bennet or Tom Jones for chrissake? Bachrach isn't exactly a huge megastar idol that needs to be lampooned. ok, i'm done. if anyone here lives in NY and feels like it they should call his show and bug him endlessly about ripping on Bachrach. kevin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) The Love Machine Date: 18 Nov 1998 00:29:26 EST Just picked up an overpriced disc that I simply couldn't pass up, and not just for the name and cover art "Electronic Music to Blow Your Mind By !!!- A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine. On "Design Records" which looks to a Canadian no-name label. This thing keeps good company with the likes of Gert Wilden, Piero Piccione & Peter Thomas but I can't place it. There was another one on the same label also with psychedelic cover but Star - using a sitar in place of where you would a guitar. Not so convincing and I passed it up. Anyone know more about either or about this label? BTW, any news on the release of Jungle Exotica Volume 3? Sure there's been Beat at Cinecitta and Mo'plen since to fill the void, but this stuff is in a league of its own for sheer rawness! 'nuff said 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: cheryl Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 01:14:45 -0500 d th wrote: > I've heard a lot of James Last, but never heard one that I liked. > Besides that, he wrote two of the most awful songs of all-time: Happy > Heart, and Games That Lovers Play. > > As for the Voodoo LP, it's good only in comparison to the other James > Last records...by itself it's pretty crappy. And there's 10 copies of > it at the store down the street. Well, each to his own, but if you'd like to pick me up one of the 10 copies of Voodoo Party, I'd appreciate it, and I'm sure there are 9 others on the list who would like a copy as well! I think every true exotica collection needs at least one James Last record. While he may not rank up there with Esquivel and Denny, his Hammond-A-Gogo recordings can be fun! 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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Keely Smith Date: 18 Nov 1998 02:06:38 EST In a message dated 11/9/98 4:04:33 PM, you wrote: <> When I was in Las Vegas a year or so ago, I called Keely Smith. She's listed in the phone, I think under entertainers in the yellow pages. I got her answering machine with her voice on it and a very funny message. Never did find out where she was performing though . Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Re: a trip to brazil Date: 18 Nov 1998 10:09:43 +0100 New Double-CD out on Motor A Trip to Brazil - 40 years of Bossa Nova Got this sent yesterday... For anybody who wants to get into the music of Brazil this is the perfect= compilation. Great tracklist and phantastic information source. But also for the more advanced listeners of the Bossa it is still amazing. Not only do you find= rare unrereleased tracks but there is also a little description of the origins= , the makers and historic info in general to each and every song. All the who i= s who in Brazilian music plus things that probably nobody in this list knew. Example: (Girl from Ipanema:) "...in all reissues, Tommie Williams (who used to play with Getz but didn= 't play a note on Getz/Gilberto) has been credited as the album bassist, tak= ing the glory that belongs to Sebastiao Neto..." "A Trip to Brazil" is nicely designed by cover artist and Marina label co-owner Stefan Kassel. And don't forget: Martin Denny learned it all in Brazil! ***** 5 stars recommendation! Mo This is what I could get out of Stefan's computer: Take a trip to Brazil with: =95 50 tracks on two CDs, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Bossa Nova, many of them for the first time on CD =95 a 28-page-booklet with rare photographs and extensive annotations by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Brazil=B4s leading jazz journalist =95 historic performances by great musicians such as Jo=E3o Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eumir Deodato, Astrud Gilberto, Elizeth Cardoso, Sergio Mendes, Quincy Jones, Walter Wanderley, Marcos Valle, Wes Montgomery and many more =95 all the hits from the recent soccer advertisements and one soccer legend in person: Pel=E9 sings the Bossa Nova! CD 1 01. Os Namorados: Eu Quero Um Samba 02. Elizeth Cardoso: Chega de Saudade 03. Jo=E3o Donato: Outra Vez 04. Tamba Trio: O Barquinho 05. Sergio Mendes Trio: Batida Diferente 06. Sylvia Telles: Samba de Uma Nota S=F3 07. Roberto Menescal: Balan=E7amba 08. L=FAcio Alves: Rio 09. D= om Um Rom=E3o: Telefone 10. Carlos Lyra: Influ=EAncia do Jazz 11. Os Gatos: Sil= k Stop 12. Edu Lobo: Upa, Neguinho 13. Baden Powell: Canto de Ossanha 14. Quarteto Em Cy: Nan=E3 15. Nara Le=E3o with Tamba Quarteto: Lamento no Mo= rro 16. Os Cariocas: Samba da Pergunta 17. Luiz Carlos Vinhas: Pensativa 18. Tamba Trio: Mas, Que Nada 19. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd: Desafinado 20. Antonio Carlos Jobim: Corcovado 21. M=E1rcia: Dorme Profundo 22. Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova 23. Dick Farney and Lindolpho Gaya: Insensatez 24. Meirelles e Os Copa 5: Tania 25. Luiz Bonf=E1 and Ithamara Koorax: Samba de Orfeu 26. Caetano Veloso: Voc=EA Esteve Com Meu Bem? CD 2 01. Jo=E3o Gilberto & Stan Getz: The Girl from Ipanema 02. Luiz Bonf=E1: Manh=E3 de Carnaval 03. Antonio Carlos Jobim: Triste 04. Eumir Deodato: Surfboard 05. Nara Le=E3o and Antonio Carlos Jobim: Fotografia 06. Jo=E3o Donato: Minha Saudade 07. Sergio Mendes and Bossa Rio: Ela =C9 Carioca 08. Marcos Valle: Crickets Sing for Anamaria 09. Meirelles e Os Copa 5: Preciso Aprender A Ser S=F3 10. Roberto Menescal: S=F3 Dan=E7o Samba 11. Astrud Gilberto: On My Mind 12. Walter Wanderley: Summer Samba 13. Wes Montgomery: Know It All 14. Oscar Peterson: Wave 15. Quincy Jones: Non-Stop to Brazil 16. Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue 17. Astrud Gilberto: The Gentle Rain 18. Tamba 4: Weekend 19. Luiz Henrique: A Trip to Brazil 20. Gary McFarland: I Want to Hold Your Hand 21. Edu Lobo: To Say Goodbye 22. Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim: =C1guas de Mar=E7o 23. Pel=E9: Meu Mundo =C9 Uma Bola 24. Jo=E3o Gilberto: Eu Sambo Mesmo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 10:12:36 +0100 d th wrote: > Here's my two cents....... > > I've heard a lot of James Last, but never heard one that I liked. > Besides that, he wrote two of the most awful songs of all-time: Happy > Heart, and Games That Lovers Play. > > As for the Voodoo LP, it's good only in comparison to the other James > Last records...by itself it's pretty crappy. And there's 10 copies of > it at the store down the street. > > Closing thought: James Last was the very first person I heard who made > records that sounded like they came from a factory. 100% agree. Makes 4 cent altogether. 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) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 10:19:19 +0100 cheryl wrote: > I think every true exotica collection needs at least one James Last > record. While he may not rank up there with Esquivel and Denny, his > Hammond-A-Gogo recordings can be fun! I prefer Klaus Wunderlich who turned the hammond into an experience of it's own. But even he is not top. My favorite hammond record is by this obscure American Bill Kehr who called himself "the Candyman". (1977 Sunnyvale Records) 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: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 04:20:13 -0500 At 07:01 PM 11/17/98 -0800, d th wrote: >As for the Voodoo LP, it's good only in comparison to the other James >Last records...by itself it's pretty crappy. And there's 10 copies of >it at the store down the street. I said pretty well the same thing about that record but if there really are 10 copies and they're cheap, depending on where you are, go buy them and drive them up to Toronto. You might just pay for your trip. But it might take you a couple of weeks to find the people who have been looking for that record ever since some DJ showed it to them and said "Yeah it's James Last. Really!" By the way, are there also a few copies of the soundtrack to "The Party" up the street where you are? It's funny how certain records become "identified" and then suddenly become scarce and expensive. And I always hate it when I find myself wanting a record that is, unbenownst to me, one of those identified. In the case of Voodoo Party however, I acquired it "accidentally". I found it at the Goodwill and thought the characters on the cover of the record were a bit unusual and had to buy it for that reason alone. I guess the list of "identified" records would be too long to compile I've never even seen a Kenyon Hopkins record but I found "The Corporation" record at a Goodwill too. Oh by the way, there's probably almost no one on the list who will appreciate this but today I found a copy of the soundtrack for "Face Off", the only movie I know which featured the captain of theToronto Maple Leafs, George "The Chief" Armstrong, in a speaking role. It was about a hockey player who falls in love with a hippy. Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) The Love Machine Date: 18 Nov 1998 04:32:29 -0500 At 12:29 AM 11/18/98 EST, Brian Karasick wrote: > >Just picked up an overpriced disc that I simply couldn't pass up, >and not just for the name and cover art "Electronic Music to Blow >Your Mind By !!!- A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine. >On "Design Records" which looks to a Canadian no-name label. That's so weird. Or maybe it isn't... if indeed it's Canadian. I just found that record myself a couple of weeks ago; except mine was at a Goodwill. It's not in the greatest of shape so don't feel too bad. It's also weird because I thought of Brian here as soon as I got it home and played it. I thought "If you ever make those guys ANOTHER tape..." I love records like this simply for the fact that it exists. It's so cheap and generic and yet there is something quite unique about it. I'm not sure I'd put it in the same Gert Wilden and Peter Thomas category that Brian does - then again that's his territory more than mine - but for something so "throwaway", it's not far I guess. It suddenly occurs to me "Why would anyone here want to hear about a record that they'll probably never hear?" I probably should have just sent this to Brian but what the hell... 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 03:25:06 PST ----Original Message Follows---- cheryl wrote: > I think every true exotica collection needs at least one James Last > record. While he may not rank up there with Esquivel and Denny, his > Hammond-A-Gogo recordings can be fun! I prefer Klaus Wunderlich who turned the hammond into an experience of it's own. But even he is not top. My favorite hammond record is by this obscure American Bill Kehr who called himself "the Candyman". (1977 Sunnyvale Records) Mo I couldnt possibly invite James Last to my apartment. The LPs are plain ugly, and so is he. And its not funny ugly, but ugly ugly. The recordbins in Stockholm fleas are overfilled with his CRAP! Urrk! For hammond LPs I recommend Sunnyvale Records. My fave is Bob Kames' -"Loves greatest songs" (1977) where he not only plays but also sings on 50% of the tracks, One of which is "Help me make it trough the night". He is also responsible for the Happy Organ series. Now I will search for the Candyman. 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: "Giovanni Berti" Subject: (exotica) Sam Butera & Keely Smith Date: 18 Nov 1998 14:51:58 +0000 Jane Fodle wrote: > That's not the point...I want to know if any North Easterners went > to this, and if Sam Butera does this kind of Spagetti Supper-club thing > often? I was gonna die if I heard Keely Smith made a surprise > appearance (anyone see her recently? Is she in good voice? Gawd, I love her!) I think the event would be very unlikely, as I read in V-Search/Re-Search "Swing! A New Retro Renaissance" book: Q: "I missed you when you were playing with Keely Smith. Do you have anything to say about that?" A: "No. I don't even want to fuckin' talk about it. Okay babe? Louis I loved". (V.Vale interwiewing Sam Butera, page 63) Was she the Yoko Ono of Jump'n'Jive? I'm a great fan of Louis, Keely and Sam, BTW. Ciao Gionni Paludi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Re: Sam Butera & Keely SmithTV? Date: 18 Nov 1998 09:04:04 -0500 >Was she the Yoko Ono of Jump'n'Jive? I'm a great fan of Louis, Keely and Sam, BTW. Ciao Gionni Paludi Alright...let's not be dissin' the sistahs, ok? And I'm not gonna get in a Beatle-battle-royale, but it's not like Paul is an angel...at least Yoko did a lot of interesting visual art, and, um, *unusual* records. But let's not do this. I'm more curious as to whether anyone ever filmed Louis, Keely and/or Sam live, and how does one see this dream-come-true? Jane"NOW-sound" Fondle p-s: I love men, so I'm not a'bashin you/them! ;^<> The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG" Subject: (exotica) Julie London Date: 18 Nov 1998 09:04:50 -0500 While we are talking female vocals... Is Julie London still around? I cant find any of her rekkids, I went to collegs with a woman who sang just like her, if I only knew that then...we could have made beautiful music together (ahem) But seriously....any news? surfing the chaos, (and totally digging my freebie Arthur Lyman CD, THANX!) 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: "Sevo Stille" Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 15:40:57 +0100 Nat Kone wrote: > But it might take you a couple of weeks to find the people who have been > looking for that record ever since some DJ showed it to them and said "Yeah > it's James Last. Really!" Strangely enough, I've had that happen quite a few times. Certainly more often than for any other record. Which has at any rate convinced me that I am prejudiced by his overall poor output, awful image and general abundance, and only dare to play James Last tracks that really are more outstanding than I'd like to admit. > It's funny how certain records become "identified" and then suddenly become > scarce and expensive. At least hereabouts, Voodoo Party hardly qualifies as identified - it is so abundant, and JL has so poor credibility that I doubt that it will ever become seriously collectible. Sevo -- Sevo Stille 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: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sam Butera & Keely Smith Date: 18 Nov 1998 09:44:37 EST I saw Sam Butera in Las Vegas back in January at New York, New York. Someone came up to him and asked him about Keely Smith and Sam Butera gave a similar evasive answer. He put on a great show! I stayed for all three sets in the lounge. It was fantastic and free, but next time will try to get a better seat so I can hear all his jokes. 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Robbie: don't read (Helen Herrick Malsed obit) Date: 18 Nov 1998 10:45:46 -0600 *Helen Herrick Malsed SEATTLE (AP) -- Helen Herrick Malsed, an inventor who turned the Slinky into a pull toy, died Friday after suffering a series of strokes. She was 88. Several of her toys were built around the Slinky toy spring. Among her inventions were the Slinky Train, Slinky Dog, Buzz-Around Bee, and Mr. Zip pull toys, and Fisher-Price Snap Lock Beads. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Bob Kames Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:06:38 -0500 At 03:25 AM 11/18/98 PST, Magnus Sandberg wrote: >For hammond LPs I recommend Sunnyvale Records. My fave is Bob Kames' >-"Loves greatest songs" (1977) where he not only plays but also sings on >50% of the tracks, One of which is "Help me make it trough the night". >He is also responsible for the Happy Organ series. Wow. That is the greatest testament to individual taste I think I've yet seen on this list. Someone's favorite cheesy organist is Bob Kames!. That's not a flame honestly. When it comes to cheesy organ, it's kind of hard to stand on your high horse of good taste. But still... Bob Kames! I have a friend who now owns at least fifty Ken Griffin records and it was because one day he told me he liked Ken Griffin and I thought it would be fun to see just how many I could find him at the Goodwill store. Forget about the fifty plus Ken albums. I think I've found him at least ten Ken Griffin TRIBUTE records, including one by the aforementioned Mr.Kames. I guess I figured anyone who would stoop to paying tribute to Ken Griffin couldn't be anyone's favourite organist. But how wrong I was. I guess there are probably more generic and/or obscure organ records in the dusty bins I search through than any other "category" of records. And it's pretty well impossible to judge them by their cover... as anyone who owns "The Groovy Organ Goes Romantic" can probably attest. I won't try to start another obscure organist thread but one of my most pleasant surprises recently has been "Hammond Goes Tijuana" by Wim Moens. But if Bob Kames is really The Happy Organ then he's one of my favorites too. His version of "Snowbird" is definitely the one to beat. Nat 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: Subject: Re: (exotica)slinky, Robbie: don't read (Helen Herrick Malsed obit) Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:06:32 -0500 Hey, I just wanted to endorse these obits and pieces of news, Lou! And as a person of the now-generation with a swingin' space/tiki pad, I just wanted to say the Slinky is indeed in the casa de Jane Fondle, and is considered a valuable space-aged toy. Heck, think how much fun it is to play with the Slinky as you listen to those stereo-action rekkids! *Helen Herrick Malsed SEATTLE (AP) -- Helen Herrick Malsed, an inventor who turned the Slinky into a pull toy, died Friday after suffering a series of strokes. She was 88. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) J-Pop article by Momus [Glasgow Herald] Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:14:13 -0600 Thanks to Wayno for this tip! > > http://www.demon.co.uk./momus/jpop.html Very long, very good article on Shibuya-kei. Fans of Cornelius, Kahimi Karie, Pizzicato 5, etc. should check it out. -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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) Combustible Edison Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:38:56 -0500 Oh, I get it now! Breakfast at *Denny's*! I am so dense. 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: Peter Risser Subject: (exotica) No Exotica Content Date: 18 Nov 1998 11:42:36 -0500 But I figured if anyone would know, the musicophiles on this list would. Anyone know where to find 3" recordable CDs? Do they even exist? 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview: "can you buy any of this from me?" Date: 18 Nov 1998 19:15:53 +0100 hello, someone asked me, after receiving the latest eXotica Releases Overview update: >can one actually buy any of this from you? No, sorry. the XRO is not a sale catalog, just a discography. 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: dan hill Subject: (exotica) hal willner (long-ish) Date: 18 Nov 1998 19:07:21 +0000 with recent talk of "exotica" being sampled, can't believe no-one's mentioned the new hal willner album (unless i've missed it - soz if so) ... lots of incredible samples (perhaps the widest-ranging i've ever heard), including a perceptible raymond scott and carl stalling influence (hardly surprising given willner's CV) ... definitely of interest to many on the list i suspect (also, on the quirky (occasionally exotic, occasionally prosaic) samples front, watch out for the black helicopters! and i think the new lamb album samples 'quiet village' - not sure - we've heard a promo here at motion, and m'colleague hopkins spotted it ...) here's my recent review of hal willner ... for motion - sound samples + art online: Hal Willner Whoops, I'm An Indian Pussyfoot A truly inspired record. Hal Willner, as many readers will be aware, is something of a legend in production circles, working with luminaries such as Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Sun Ra, Henry Rollins, Gil Evans, Sonic Youth, William Burroughs, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, etc., and overseeing a stunning series of tribute albums. This however is his debut release. Howie B is an extraordinarily lucky chap to have this gem on his Pussyfoot label, after he encouraged Willner to lay down a couple of tracks a chance meeting. Willner, plus cohorts (Martin Brumbach and Adam Dorn on studio and beats/loops respectively, with Ralph Carney on occasional sax) returned with a whole album of the finest quality sampladelia you'll ever hear. Willner's record collection, from which this music emerges, must be truly extraordinary, the breadth of sound sources running from the earliest available popular recordings to all manner of found sounds, spoken word and nature recordings, through to contemporary classical, via American folk music of all flavours and the finest jazz, rock and funk references. Just about every other sample-based record pales into insignificance compared to this. The only things that might come close are Timet Lorenzo Brusci for the range of source material, and John Wall or DJ Shadow for the construction skills. A forerunner of this release would seem to be Willner's earlier work producing tributes to classic cartoon composers Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott. The maniacal humour, fast cuts, unpredictable pacing, riotous dance and brooding drama, the ability to veer from darkness to light swiftly and subtly. It's all here in a tour-de-force of arrangement. Willner's musical sensibilities are such that the mix is often impossibly dense yet never seems muddled or clumsy, despite incorporating what sounds like the outtakes of psychiatric hospital tests, beautifully haunting klezmer music, groovy Quincy Jones samples, religious speeches, drum 'n' bass, Jacques Arel, drill instructors, Rimsky Korsakov, free jazz, 'Home On The Range', big bands, avant-garde electronics, barber shop trios, tawny owls, and numerous isolated instrumental and vocal fragments used intelligently, funkily, dryly. A particularly smart aspect of this record is that Willner's constructed an essentially instrumental record, but using lashings of vocals. Often the world of sample-based music can be an arid, soulless place, and one is left yearning for the touchstone of the human voice. This music is built around voices - lovely looped samples of voices old and new, warm, funny, unsettling, dramatic, used as texture, melody, rhythm, harmony. I can't recommend this enough really, as you've probably guessed. review by dan hill for motion ---+ dan hill [state51] ---+ new reviews on motion [18.11.98]: < miles davis | fushitsusha | ben goldberg | julius hemphill | schneider tm | merzbow | the high llamas | ns comfusion > 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: Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last Date: 18 Nov 1998 08:35:31 -0500 cc: >Well, each to his own, but if you'd like to pick me up one of the 10 copies of Voodoo Party, I'd appreciate it, and I'm sure there are 9 others on the list who would like a copy as well! I think every true exotica collection needs at least one James Last record. While he may not rank up there with Esquivel and Denny, his Hammond-A-Gogo recordings can be fun! Sounds like great stuff to me, too. Pick me up a copy, there will be 8 left! How much,anyway? Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Julie London Date: 18 Nov 1998 15:13:34 EST In a message dated 11/18/98 6:15:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, crajnai@att.com writes: << Is Julie London still around? I cant find any of her rekkids, I went to collegs with a woman who sang just like her, if I only knew that then...we could have made beautiful music together (ahem) But seriously....any news? >> She is still alive but her retirement is complete. I don't think she will ever peform again. Her very last recording was in 1981 for the Sharky's Machine soundtrack. Her last studio album was in 1969 and it was filled with late 60s contemporary songs. It was Julie's attempt at trying to "get with it". She is curently living in Encino, CA. which is a half hour from my house. Last I heard she was happy just sitting around the house smoking cigarettes and doing crossword puzzles. I'll bet that voice of her's is pretty husky these days. Some of her recorded work can be found on two for one CDs or "twofers" from EMI. That is they take two of her old albums and put them on one CD. They are imported from England and can only be found at stores that deal with imports such as Tower Records or Borders. That is how I have some of her recordings, the rest I have found on LP. Jason # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: Re: (exotica) No Exotica Content Date: 18 Nov 1998 13:17:54 -0800 Peter Risser wrote: > > But I figured if anyone would know, the musicophiles on this list would. > > Anyone know where to find 3" recordable CDs? > Do they even exist? Man, I DOUBT it... I can't even find the CD3 adapters anywhere. I would hve to say that at a buck-a-throw, go ahead and waste the extra space on the standard disk since CD3's are not universally playable anyway. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Love Machine/Design records Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:04:44 EST Design Records was a subsidiary of Pickwick records. I have a couple of really good records from that label. One is a "Batman" ripoff record by The Batboys. 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: Re: (exotica) Re: Sam Butera & Keely SmithTV? Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:10:04 EST Louis, Keely & Sam made a film together titled "Hey Boy Hey Girl". However, this film has never made it to video or any of the other home medias. I haven't even been able to turn up a copy of the film through an extensive search of "fan" circles. When/if it does come out I will be the first in line to buy one. I do have a video of Louis, Keely and Sam from the Ed Sullivan show & IT RULES!!! 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: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: sucks Date: 18 Nov 1998 16:37:13 -0800 >From: kevin leeeeee > >i heard him (not that i listen to his show) Ahh, the paradoxical theme song of every Howard Stern hater. Heh heh. >playing a Burt Bachrach [sic] live >recording of him singing (i can't remember the tune) and basically Stern and >that sidekick of his were totally destroying it, making fun of his singing >(which isn't that hard i admit). Right. So why resent them so much for doing so? And I don't know how the subject came up, but perhaps the Costello/Bacharach tour is passing through New York, in which case the issue of Bacharach's mediocre singing would be entirely topical...? Anyway, if you think Stern playing Bacharach during his nationally syndicated radio show won't put any money in Burt's pocket, think again. "Any publicity is good publicity," and all that. John Tesh LOVES it when Stern attacks his music -- he understands how the game works.... >i felt like saying, look man, why pick on a >guy like him? why not someone who is more widely accepted like Sinatra or >Bennet [sic] or Tom Jones for chrissake? Is Tom Jones really any more famous than Burt Bacharach? Anyway, it seems to me that there's a lot more snickering about Jones than Bacharach, generally speaking. Jones is "infamous" as much as "famous" -- known for having wadded-up panties thrown at him...whoopee. He's taken a lot less seriously as an artist than Bacharach. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) The Love Machine/Design records Date: 18 Nov 1998 19:50:22 EST Pickwick even had a subsidiary?? I thought Pickwick was the ultimate lowlife label! Now I can fall asleep laughing......This music has found its home some 30 to 40 years after it came out..Alvin Toffler was right! (So was Curtis) Pacem, Jimmy/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdaze from 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: Michael D. Toth Subject: (exotica) 3" CDs (was: No Exotica Content) Date: 18 Nov 1998 22:10:40 -0000 >From: Peter Risser wrote: >Anyone know where to find 3" recordable CDs? >Do they even exist? They DO exist -- I personally have one. TDK, at least, manufactured them 3-4 years ago briefly, when CD burners still cost $6,000+. They came in really nifty 3" jewel cases too. Your only chances of finding them today would be some oddball/remaindered computer supply outfit that ended up with a case of them and has been trying to get rid of them ever since. And I dunno -- I think 3" CDs are sort of "exotic" music-related items myself. :-) Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Bennet" Subject: (exotica) Freakout at the Facsimile Factory Date: 18 Nov 1998 22:49:10 -0500 The latest Detour catalog lists an LP titled Freakout at the Facsimile Factory, which it describes as a compilation of psych experiments used in Swingin' London films of the 60s, from the vaults of De Wolfe Music Library. Does anyone know anything about this? mb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Combustible Edison Tour Date: 18 Nov 1998 22:47:13 -0500 When I saw them they did at least these covers: Rampatrouille - Peter Thomas (This is the German space thing.) Shot in the Dark - Henry Mancini Miniskirt - Esquivel I seem to remember a few more, but I can't recall off the top of my head. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Priscilla Wright/Julie London/Gogi Grant Date: 18 Nov 1998 20:58:02 -0800 (PST) Hello again.... Some time ago on this list somebody asked about Priscilla Wright, the teen aged girl who sang "The Man InThe Raincoat"...... Last night on Pamela Wallin the guests were: Priscilla Wright, Gogi Grant, and Frank Busseri of the Four Lads. Priscilla looked pretty good (she's still relatively young) and has not one but two new discs. You know, I was in Vegas in 1995, and Keely Smith was there, with Sam Butera and The Witnesses. Alas, I couldn't go. But evidently, she's been releasing new material on the Jasmine label, as well as re-issuing old stuff. As for what happened to Julie London, that's a dam good question....anybody know? Jack London gave her the boot, but I sure wouldn't..... 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: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sam Butera & Keely SmithTV? Date: 19 Nov 1998 00:16:23 EST In a message dated 98-11-18 17:12:36 EST, SLarry3595@aol.com writes: << Louis, Keely & Sam made a film together titled "Hey Boy Hey Girl". However, this film has never made it to video or any of the other home medias. I haven't even been able to turn up a copy of the film through an extensive search of "fan" circles. When/if it does come out I will be the first in line to buy one. I do have a video of Louis, Keely and Sam from the Ed Sullivan show & IT RULES!!! Larry >> Louis Prima credits listed on the Internet Movie Database: Filmography as: Actor, Composer Actor filmography (1960s) (1950s) (1930s) 1.Jungle Book, The (1967) (voice) .... "King Louie" of the Apes 2. Continental Twist, The (1961) .... Louis Evans... aka Twist All Night (1961) 3.Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959) 4.Senior Prom (1958) .... Himself 5.Rose of Washington Square (1939) .... Bandleader 6.Start Cheering (1938) .... Conductor of His Band 7.Swing Cat's Jamboree (1938) ....Himself 8.You Can't Have Everything (1937) .... Orchestra leader 9.Rhythm on the Range (1936) .... Trumpet Player Prima and Butera are both in a 1961 quickie, "The Continental Twist" and Prima and Smith and most likely Butera are musical guest stars in Senior Prom (the only film that Moe Howard served as an associate producer) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Julie London Date: 19 Nov 1998 00:19:37 EST In a message dated 98-11-18 09:15:18 EST, crajnai@att.com writes: << Is Julie London still around? I cant find any of her rekkids, I went to collegs with a woman who sang just like her, if I only knew that then...we could have made beautiful music together (ahem) But seriously....any news? >> I heard Julie London had the opportunity to save her singing voice with an operation several years ago but she declined to have the operation. I saw her husband Bobby Troup perform a few years back with Asleep at the Wheel on their Route 66 tour (of which the song was penned by Troup). # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Carl Orff /Badlands Soundtrack Date: 19 Nov 1998 00:27:10 EST My friend is looking for a selection from The Badlands" soundtrack entitled a selection entitled "Gaf Gassenhauer." This is from Music Poetica and written by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman Is there a soundtrack recording of this song or a recording anywhere?? 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: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Freakout at the Facsimile Factory Date: 19 Nov 1998 01:03:31 EST In a message dated 11/18/98 10:47:09 PM EST, mbennet@bennetlaw.com writes: << The latest Detour catalog lists an LP titled Freakout at the Facsimile Factory, which it describes as a compilation of psych experiments used in Swingin' London films of the 60s, from the vaults of De Wolfe Music Library. Does anyone know anything about this? >> It is primarily psychedellic rock with vocals. If you are into obscure psycehellia it is a very interesting record although there are few real stand outs. If you are looking for music along the lines of The Sound Galley or In- Flight you will be very much disappointed. 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: Fred Spek Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sir Henry Date: 18 Nov 1998 18:31:19 -0400 Yes his name is John Henry Nijenhuis, a keyboardist who has lived in Toronto and did indeed play piano along with silent films over at a place called CineCycle (run by Martin Heath), were they did bike repairs and showed arty/experimental/silent films in the evenings. Sir Henry was also in a trio called The Pleasure Seekers (now defunct), based in Toronto. They did the Hammond a GoGo thing and other fun instrumentals. Fred Spek -- Paper mail - Box 141 Stn. C, Toronto ON Canada M6J 3M9 THe MooD SWiNgeRS website - http://www.gncom.com/mswinger Nat Kone wrote: > > At 06:14 AM 11/13/98 EST, Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: > > > >His name is actually John Henry Nijenhuis. He's a German/Canadian (?) > >keyboardist who dropped by the studio a few weeks ago, and ended up recording > >some parts for the next Tipsy album. As far as I know, he plays a lot for > >theatre in Germany, and occasionally backs up members of Einstuerzende > >Neubauten. He's a very skillful musician, but he seems to be really into a > >kind of self-conscious kitsch on his own releases (at least, the ones I > heard) > >that I can't quite relate to. > > Oh that guy. I haven't seen his name around lately so maybe he is playing > more in Germany these days but he used to play around Toronto and I guess I > just assumed he was (basically) from here. But if he's in Germany now, > that kind of makes sense to me. I have an image of a scene that exists in > Germany based on the Torontonians that have ended up there over the years > and he certainly fits right in. He used to play a lot at this place > called... oh the Alzheimer's is setting in.. but it was basically a > hole-in-the-wall experimental film theater cum bicycle repair shop and they > would show German silent film classics and this guy would play piano to > accompany them. (I saw films there AND got my bike repaired but never at > the same time.) He would be dressed formally and yeah, it was clear that > here was a guy with blah blah "classical training". > I can see the thing about "self conscious kitsch" based on my experience > but then again, one man's self-conscious kitsch is another man's... better > not finish that sentence on this list. > > 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: Fred Spek Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 18 Nov 1998 18:40:52 -0400 BasicHip@aol.com wrote: > > i came across a shitload of his records at a local store - all in perfect > condition and priced to move. Many had the NOW sound look with groovy chicks > on covers and titles like "Hammond A Go-Go", "Trumpets A Go Go", "Voodoo > Party" and numerous others with *dance* in the title. > > I would have popped the five bucks for one of the *cool* looking ones, but i > needed to save my money for a pizza across the street at Stefano's and had > already committed myself to Rod McKuen's "San Francisco Hippie Trip" and > Mancini's "Symphonic Soul". > > So what's up with the music, anyone? German band leader arranging pop hits in > a big band style is what I gather... > > Thumbs UP ? > > or > > DOWN? > > many thanks The "Hammond a GoGo" is really cool; kitschy & cheesy organs. Medleys of pop hits (some European?) in different rythms ie; foxtrot, rumbha... Some of the other James Last records I have are quite dull. Probably worth checking out if you can find 'em cheap enough. Fred Spek THe MooD SWiNgeRS website - http://www.gncom.com/mswinger # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins Date: 19 Nov 1998 07:28:32 EST At 04:20 AM 11/18/98 Nat Kone wrote: >I've never even seen a Kenyon Hopkins record Or maybe you have and didn't realize it. I've never seen an artist whose great work was more downplayed. On Verve's Sound Tour series, Hopkins arranged all of the music and composed much of it, yet Hopkins' name is in small letters (much smaller than Creed Taylor's autograph) on the inside gatefold. The Shock, Nightmare, and Panic series as well as Lonelyville are also credited to the "Creed Taylor Orchestra" even though Hopkins was the mastermind behind those recordings. On "Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat", Hopkins' name is mistakenly printed as "Bob Kenyon"!!! I found out from reading the liner notes to "The Sound of New York" that Hopkins is behind the LP "The Day of the Bullfight" on ABC. I have seen this record many times but never looked twice at it. Had I known Hopkins was behind it, I would have snapped it up immediately. 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: LTepedino@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) james last Date: 19 Nov 1998 08:13:18 EST Regarding "Hammond A Go Go", it has a distinct roller rink or 7th inning stretch quality to it. Ashley # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Julie London Date: 19 Nov 1998 09:03:26 EST In a message dated 98-11-18 15:15:35 EST, JayMan writes: << Last I heard she was happy just sitting around the house smoking cigarettes and doing crossword puzzles. I'll bet that voice of her's is pretty husky these days. >> I just shed a little tear. 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) 3 inch recordable cd's Date: 19 Nov 1998 09:05:25 EST << > Anyone know where to find 3" recordable CDs? > Do they even exist? >> Someone on the list said they drilled a 3/8 inch hole in a CD once and it still played. If you want a 3 inch disc just get out your jig-saw. 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: Subject: (exotica) Keely Krazed Date: 19 Nov 1998 09:58:44 -0500 > You know, I was in Vegas in 1995, and Keely Smith was there, with Sam Butera and The Witnesses. Alas, I couldn't go. But evidently, she's been releasing new material on the Jasmine label, as well as re-issuing old stuff. Here I go again, on a Keely Kwest...Anyone know about the Sinatra tribute with Billy May, recorded a few years ago, supposedly for Capital? Come on, ova here! Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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Was that intentional? I thought I heard that, because of some contractual thang. What a great record, one of my favorite crime jazz of all time, and the definitive nervous beat. I know Darrell Brogdon(who has not written me to say hi, hint, hint:)...knows the score...Darell? Jane "love that Ken" Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: Hammond & The Love Machine Date: 19 Nov 1998 10:38:18 EST Moritz wrote: > I prefer Klaus Wunderlich who turned the hammond into an experience of it's > own. But even he is not top. My favorite hammond record is by this obscure > American Bill Kehr who called himself "the Candyman". (1977 Sunnyvale Records) My own favourite is the Klaus Wanderlich moog 2000 record though I'm now thinking I should have overruled Cheryl when we saw that KL hammond record in a store a few months back. We will definitely will look into Bill Kehr as any recommendation by Moritz is IMHO, to be taken seriously! Nat wrote: > >Just picked up an overpriced disc that I simply couldn't pass up, > >and not just for the name and cover art "Electronic Music to Blow > >Your Mind By !!!- A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine. > >On "Design Records" which looks to a Canadian no-name label. > That's so weird. Or maybe it isn't... if indeed it's Canadian. I just > found that record myself a couple of weeks ago; except mine was at a > Goodwill. It's not in the greatest of shape so don't feel too bad. > It's also weird because I thought of Brian here as soon as I got it home > and played it. I thought "If you ever make those guys ANOTHER tape..." Oh stop tellling me about finding these things at thrift stores! You know I can't find the time to go (even if I wanted to). But unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), the two guys that run the store I frequent most, happen to have an excellent eye for what is worthwhile. Being one of few stores here that actively deal in vinyl, and off the wall stuff at that, I'm happy they find such good stuff which may otherwise never appear. The downside is that the good stuff is going to cost. I look at it this way... If the record is really good, in OK condition, never likely to see a reissue, and still less than a comparable domestic Cd reissue, I'll usually buy it. Problem is, these things may never appear again so you don't always get a second chance if you pass it up the first time and I say this from experience! > I love records like this simply for the fact that it exists. It's so cheap > and generic and yet there is something quite unique about it. I'm not sure > I'd put it in the same Gert Wilden and Peter Thomas category that Brian > does - then again that's his territory more than mine - but for something > so "throwaway", it's not far I guess. OK, I probably exaggerated somewhat. I should maybe have said it made me very much think of the big guns I mentioned. It struck me this strongly as it was so good yet appeared to be exactly what you say, a generic record in that the entire back cover is given over to the marvels of the label and nothing said at all about the artists. > It suddenly occurs to me "Why would anyone here want to hear about a record > that they'll probably never hear?" I probably should have just sent this > to Brian but what the hell... Not a problem for me though there may be those on the list that disagree. I'm not sure if this record was a Canadian only thing or if it was licenced in other countries. Usually the parent is in the US. BTW, that Sitar record I passed up was also on the same label so... 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Find Alert! Date: 19 Nov 1998 12:01:50 EST I am not one to usually report my most recent finds but I felt this worth mentioning. On a flea market safari to Atlanta GA last weekend I found the Yma Sumac Xtabay LP and for a dollar!!! For those in the Southeastern US, the Lakewood Fairground Flea Market is the weekend of the second Saturday each month. The November show is their extravaganza and goes Thur-Sun. Usually they are just Sat-Sun. Anyway, it is a great flea market with things from the very expensive to just junk. Good for at least a 6 hour adventure. Anyone in the area might consider making the trip. I usually top off the trip with a visit to Trader Vic's but a horrible cold cut our excursion short. There are a few record dealers that are routinely there but the prices are higher. Lots of folks load the old LP's in a van and haul them there to happily get a $1.00 for each record. It's worth a look. Robert P.S. Last year at the same November extravaganza I found a mint Esquivel "Other Worlds Other Sounds" in stereo (is there any other way to listen to the E man???) forrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - - - - - - you guessed it. A dollar. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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:Vampyros Lesbos Date: 19 Nov 1998 09:44:18 -0000 I just got this, but I don't get it. It certainly doesn't rock my world like a lot of other new stuff I've gotten. Am I missing something? Absolutely, Its a fine groovy album. A great addition to any collection. What should I listen for? What are everyone's high points on the album? The high point s for me are the first and third tracks on side one, CX9(?) and Not Satisfied, which is heavily based on the rolling stones Satisfaction. I can't understand why so many people seem to have picked up on the Lion And The Cucumber, apart from it being in the Jackie Brown soundtrack. Both these tracks have a great bassline and just swing, providing a great bridge between say, Pierro Umiliani or Gert Wilden and Tom Jones more swinging stuff like Not Responsible. Bye the way, thanks to whoever it was that unreservedly recommended the Gert Wilden Schulmadchen (?) soundtrack a few weeks back (Johan or Nat I think) what a brilliant LP. Totally wonderful. Also, what would you label this as? Psychsploitation? Italian Soft Porn Art Horror soundtracks, of course. 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Various Artists: "Lift Off! With Apollo Sound" Date: 19 Nov 1998 15:20:52 +0100 about: >> * Various Artists: "Lift Off! With Apollo Sound" >> CD/Double LP, Apollo Sound APSCD 209, UK, 1998 Apollo Sound also issued library music, and this compilation features funky EZ production music from the late 60's to early 70's, by Harry Stoneham, Judd Proctor, The Novi Singers. The "Record Collector" of november 1998 (issue 231, page 151) gives it thumbs up: PD of The "Record Collector": ...has the melodic unorthodoxy and bliss of Jimmy Webb, the tunefulness of the best EZ, and the floor-filling power of funk -- making this another essential addition to the catalogue of Lost Treasures froim the library. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: In Flight Entertainment Date: 19 Nov 1998 08:31:36 -0700 >How are these comps? What do they sound like? Review from Multi-Directions (http://www.idcomm.com/personal/mconklin/ Compiled by the seemingly unstoppable Kaliminsky Experience, the In Flight Entertainment series concentrates on giving the listener relaxing music for an entire trip - Music for airline departure, music for airplane travel, music for airport lounges, etc. More than that, it's music for the jet set. This is music from a time when airline travel was all about luxury and swank. Beyond the concept though, this music is about grooving to some retro, hip, and kitsch tunes. The music really covers the gamut of cheese - Swinging big band numbers, funky easy listening music, organ quartets, French pop tunes, jazzy Latin pieces, mood music, vocal covers, and a few wacky Moog cuts. There's even a couple of novelty tunes, like Usha Uthup & Chorus', "One, Two, Cha Cha Cha", which is a samba based on Indian music. It's complete with sitar and tabulas. Additional tracks like Blossom Dearie singing, "London In The Rain", or Brigitte Bardot's rendition of, "Tu Veux, Tu Veux Pas" are probably novelty too, but even the novelty tunes aren't just for novelty sake. They're good, and fit perfectly in the mix. Most of the tracks come from smaller European labels that folded years ago. The tracks that do come from well-known labels like Verve, Phillips, and A&M, aren't bands that would show up on your average compilation - The Peter Covent Band, Tony Osbourne, Edmundo Ros, The Button Down Brass - you get the idea. Both compilations are outstanding and it's remarkable that all the music even fits together, especially considering the various styles and how awful some of these songs could be. What's more, is that you would never be able to find all of these tracks on vinyl. Surely, they would be hard to locate, but more importantly, without a reference point, it would be hard as hell to know what to look for. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd probably go with Further In Flight Entertainment. It's got more of a funky easy-listening groove to it. Either way though, 19 tracks on one and 20 tracks on another, you absolutely can't lose. >I really dig the Sound Galleries and TV Dinners '60s. >Is this along the same lines? Yes, but much better! MC # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Hammond & KLAUS! Date: 19 Nov 1998 11:26:32 -0800 So nice to see the name Klaus Wunderlich on the list... I discovered a record of his at a thrift-store and was FLOORED by the insanity of his bombastic, over-the-top style. The moment I saw him mugging for the camera's fisheye lens seated at the WERSI and ready to party, I knew this record was going to be worth the .99 I paid for it.This was a demo record for the WERSI organ, and who better to wring every drop of sound out of the WERSI than our good friend Klaus? I never heard of him before or since...untill today. > I prefer Klaus Wunderlich who turned the hammond into an experience of it's > own. But even he is not top. My favorite hammond record is by this obscure > American Bill Kehr who called himself "the Candyman". (1977 Sunnyvale Records) My own favourite is the Klaus Wanderlich moog 2000 record though I'm now thinking I should have overruled Cheryl when we saw that KL hammond record in a store a few months back. We will definitely will look into Bill Kehr as any recommendation by Moritz is IMHO, to be taken seriously! Nat wrote: > >Just picked up an overpriced disc that I simply couldn't pass up, > >and not just for the name and cover art "Electronic Music to Blow > >Your Mind By !!!- A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine. > >On "Design Records" which looks to a Canadian no-name label. > That's so weird. Or maybe it isn't... if indeed it's Canadian. I just > found that record myself a couple of weeks ago; except mine was at a > Goodwill. It's not in the greatest of shape so don't feel too bad. > It's also weird because I thought of Brian here as soon as I got it home > and played it. I thought "If you ever make those guys ANOTHER tape..." Oh stop tellling me about finding these things at thrift stores! You know I can't find the time to go (even if I wanted to). But unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), the two guys that run the store I frequent most, happen to have an excellent eye for what is worthwhile. Being one of few stores here that actively deal in vinyl, and off the wall stuff at that, I'm happy they find such good stuff which may otherwise never appear. The downside is that the good stuff is going to cost. I look at it this way... If the record is really good, in OK condition, never likely to see a reissue, and still less than a comparable domestic Cd reissue, I'll usually buy it. Problem is, these things may never appear again so you don't always get a second chance if you pass it up the first time and I say this from experience! > I love records like this simply for the fact that it exists. It's so cheap > and generic and yet there is something quite unique about it. I'm not sure > I'd put it in the same Gert Wilden and Peter Thomas category that Brian > does - then again that's his territory more than mine - but for something > so "throwaway", it's not far I guess. OK, I probably exaggerated somewhat. I should maybe have said it made me very much think of the big guns I mentioned. It struck me this strongly as it was so good yet appeared to be exactly what you say, a generic record in that the entire back cover is given over to the marvels of the label and nothing said at all about the artists. > It suddenly occurs to me "Why would anyone here want to hear about a record > that they'll probably never hear?" I probably should have just sent this > to Brian but what the hell... Not a problem for me though there may be those on the list that disagree. I'm not sure if this record was a Canadian only thing or if it was licenced in other countries. Usually the parent is in the US. BTW, that Sitar record I passed up was also on the same label so... 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. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins Date: 19 Nov 1998 17:07:51 -0600 > > On "Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat", > Hopkins' name is mistakenly printed as "Bob Kenyon"!!! > Was that intentional? I thought I heard that, because of some contractual > thang. What a great record, one of my favorite crime jazz of all time, > and the definitive nervous beat. I know Darrell Brogdon(who has not > written me to say hi, hint, hint:)...knows the score...Darell? I'm not sure I know the real score, either. What I heard was Kenyon Hopkins simply adopted a couple of names for "Lonelyville" so it wouldn't seem like one guy did all the work. Maybe since the album was credited to the Creed Taylor Orchestra, the label or somebody didn't want it to look like a Kenyon Hopkins album. As somebody on this list said once, Creed Taylor was just the money for this album. Kenyon Hopkins did the music. Since he worked a lot for ABC- Paramount, I doubt it was a contractual thing. Another cool Kenyon Hopkins album that I don't see mentioned very often is "Ping, Pang, Pong! The Swinging Ball", also on ABC- Paramount. It's his obligatory percussion show-off album, featuring mostly standards but a couple of great originals by KH. The drum beaters include such old reliables as Phil Kraus, Joe Venuto, Don Lamond and Panama Francis. Also wordless vocals by Flo Handy. Still another swell Hopkins LP is "Rooms", a moody, crime jazz-esque ballet suite from the '50s. A couple of tunes from the "Rooms" suite are featured on "Swinging Ball", too. Hard to find but well worth the effort! Also, in addition to the soundtracks, look out for a couple of '50s Capitol albums by a singer named Susan Barrett. Guess who did the arrangements and conducted? And don't forget "Nightsounds" and others with pianist Joe Bushkin on Capitol--KH again! Enough already. Thanks for the space. Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU Radio Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Alan Pakula obit Date: 19 Nov 1998 18:39:59 -0600 NEW YORK (AP) -- Film director Alan Pakula, who directed ``Klute'' and ``All The President's Men,'' died Thursday in a car accident. He was 70.=20 Pakula was driving on the Long Island Expressway when a metal pipe crashed through the windshield, striking Pakula in the head, said Suffolk County Police spokesman Officer Santo DiStefano.=20 Pakula lost control of his 1995 Volvo, veered off the road and crashed into a fence, the officer said.=20 He was taken to North Shore Hospital in Plainview, where he was pronounced dead, DiStefano said.=20 Upon graduating from the Yale Drama School, Pakula began working as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warners in 1949. Pakula began his career as a production assistant at Paramount at the age of 22 after moving from New York to Hollywood. He wanted to be a director but got his first chance at a movie by working as a producer.=20 The film, ``Fear Strikes Out,'' told the story of Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall and his bouts of manic depression. It gave a young Tony Perkins his first shot and stardom and launched Pakula's career.=20 ``I think when you do a film, there's a part of you in each character, or vice-versa,'' he once said in an interview.=20 1997 The Devil's Own Director =A0=20 1993 The Pelican Brief Director / Producer / Screenwriter =A0=20 1992 Consenting Adults Director / Producer =A0=20 1990 Presumed Innocent Screenwriter / Director =A0=20 1989 See You in the Morning Screenwriter / Producer / Director =A0=20 1987 Orphans Producer / Director =A0=20 1985 Dream Lover Producer / Director =A0=20 1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey [doc] Actor =A0=20 1982 Sophie's Choice Director / Producer / Screenwriter =A0=20 1981 Rollover Director =A0=20 1979 Starting Over Director / Producer =A0=20 1978 Comes a Horseman Director =A0=20 1976 All the President's Men Director =A0=20 1974 The Parallax View Director / Producer =A0=20 1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing Producer / Director =A0=20 1971 Klute Producer / Director =A0=20 1969 The Sterile Cuckoo aka Pookie Director / Producer =A0=20 1968 The Stalking Moon Producer =A0=20 1967 Up the Down Staircase Producer =A0=20 1965 Inside Daisy Clover Producer =A0=20 1964 Baby the Rain Must Fall Producer =A0=20 1963 Love with the Proper Stranger Producer =A0=20 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird Producer =A0=20 1957 Fear Strikes Out Producer =A0=20 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jody, Ruth and Michael Rosen" Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach Date: 19 Nov 1998 18:51:42 -0500 not that that's news to anyone... i heard him (not that i listen to his show) playing a Burt Bachrach live recording of him singing (i can't remember the tune) and basically Stern and that sidekick of his were totally destroying it, making fun of his singing (which isn't that hard i admit).> Kevin, I couldn't agree with your subject line more. Unlike Linda McCartney, who recorded "vocals" on several albums with her husband Paul and his group Wings, and then unplugged her vocal mic in performance, Burt Bacharach was never aiming for a career as a vocalist. It's well known how poor his singing is; why does Stern think he's uncovering one of life's greater secrets? Bacharach is and has been a worthy resource for excellent vocalists like Dionne, Dusty, and Barbra, who have limitless vocal ability but are clearly not interested in writing songs. Why "out" Burt? At least he can play the piano well, and that's more than can be said for Linda McCartney... --Jody in Brooklyn # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Clockwatchers Date: 19 Nov 1998 19:11:35 -0500 I don't think I've seen mention of it here so I have to recommend the film, "Clockwatchers", just out on video, to everyone on this list. It's not just the actual music - the soundtrack - but especially how the music is used in the film. Most, if not all of the music is of the "easy listening" or "exotica" type. It's credited to "Mader" with additional music credit going to Joey Altruda. The main location for the film is the insurance office where the temp workers - the protagonists of the film - work. One of the protagonists points out the music which is being piped into the office, saying that "they did a study" and found that the music increases productivity. The music you hear at that moment is a lot more "zippy" and energetic than any Muzak you're ever likely to hear. After that, you become aware that there's a semi-cool mix of lounge music constantly playing at a very low level in the film. And it's not just eerie, it's actually disturbing. "They took our music and turned it against us, man!" Nat # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) hal willner Date: 19 Nov 1998 19:25:20 -0600 At 07:07 PM 11/18/98 +0000, Dan Hill wrote: > >with recent talk of "exotica" being sampled, can't believe no-one's >mentioned the new hal willner album (unless i've missed it - soz if so) ... Well, I just got my copy, listened through it once and couldn't hear *any* samples of Fanny Brice (or Betty Boop) performing Whoops, I'm An Indian, one of my favorite songs of all time. But then again, the disc is so dense with samples, etc. that it may be in there somewhere. Anybody who has been tempted to take their odd-ball record collection, toss it in a blender, and see what came out should hear Willner's experiment. And you can dance to it. sorta. But I still wanna hear W,IAI. -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: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Priscilla Wright/Julie London/Gogi Grant Date: 19 Nov 1998 20:05:10 EST In a message dated 11/18/98 8:56:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, dth98@yahoo.com writes: << As for what happened to Julie London, that's a dam good question....anybody know? Jack London gave her the boot, but I sure wouldn't... >> Actually it was Jack Webb the popular 1950s to 1970s Dragnet TV show. He was pretty dumb to give up Julie London!! Jason # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sam Butera & Keely SmithTV? Date: 19 Nov 1998 20:10:00 EST In a message dated 11/18/98 9:18:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, PrimoChuck@aol.com writes: << < Louis, Keely & Sam made a film together titled "Hey Boy Hey Girl". However, this film has never made it to video or any of the other home medias. I haven't even been able to turn up a copy of the film through an extensive search of "fan" circles. >> Here are Keely's movie credits: Actress filmography Hey Boy! Hey Girl! (1959) Senior Prom (1958) .... Herself Thunder Road (1958) .... Francie Wymore # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Keely Krazed Date: 19 Nov 1998 20:14:52 EST In a message dated 11/19/98 7:02:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com writes: << Here I go again, on a Keely Kwest...Anyone know about the Sinatra tribute with Billy May, recorded a few years ago, supposedly for Capital? >> I heard about that. I don't think it has been released. Jason # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: The Davidsons Subject: (exotica) Linda McCartney (was Burt Bacharach) Date: 19 Nov 1998 19:00:45 -0800 >Kevin, I couldn't agree with your subject line more. Unlike Linda McCartney, >who recorded "vocals" on several albums with her husband Paul and his group >Wings, and then unplugged her vocal mic in performance I saw that Linda McCartney has a solo cd that just came out. I recognized one of the song titles from a mid-70's Wings album. Yes, not exotica, but weird nonetheless. Linda solo? Wow. 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: PrimoChuck@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Priscilla Wright/Julie London/Gogi Grant Date: 19 Nov 1998 22:51:04 EST In a message dated 98-11-19 20:12:52 EST, JayMan282@aol.com writes: << Actually it was Jack Webb the popular 1950s to 1970s Dragnet TV show. He was pretty dumb to give up Julie London!! Jason >> Did he really give her up? Julie London starred with her husband, Bobby Troup in Emergency that was produced by Jack Webb. 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Linda McCartney (was Burt Bacharach) Date: 19 Nov 1998 22:50:52 EST I had the opportunity to hear a bootleg WINGS LP back in the day that had Linda's mic upped and all the other vocal mics down...it was sad...burt bacharach may be no songster, but Linda's presence in the band appears to be purely political based solely upon her vocal intrusions (isolated by the stage mic), to say nothing of her connection by marriage # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Kenyon Hopkins / Sandra Warner Date: 19 Nov 1998 23:30:48 -0500 >And don't forget "Nightsounds" and >others with pianist Joe Bushkin on Capitol--KH again! This sounds kind of lame, but I get to say it so rarely... I've got that! Slightly unusual (maybe?), this copy says "Sample Album for Radio-TV Program Use" on the label. This is not stamped on after the fact, but is an integral part of the label design (which is yellow with black print). Changing subjects... Tonight I watched "Point Blank" (1967) and discovered that a "Sandra Warner" has a small role as a waitress in a nightclub who gives Lee Marvin some information. Might this be exotica cover queen Sandy Warner, or just a name-a-like? I really have no idea if it was her based solely on looks. Partly because Ms. Warner was a woman of many faces. But also, the woman in the film is mainly in profile, and the album covers are (almost?) all face front. So, I'm no help here. Anyone have the word? Thanks. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan Pakula obit Date: 19 Nov 1998 23:55:55 -0500 At 06:39 PM 11/19/98 -0600, Lou Smith wrote: > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Film director Alan Pakula, who directed ``Klute'' and >``All The President's Men,'' died Thursday in a car accident. He was 70. Maybe this is inappropriate but all I can say is "finally an obit that I care about". It's funny. I always thought I loved his films but when I read his filmography here, it turned out that I only really liked three of them. Klute, The Parallax View and See You in the Morning, which may be more of a guilty pleasure. Anyway, a tip of the hat to our resident obit-meister. You finally gave Nat a melancholy moment. 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: JayMan282@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Priscilla Wright/Julie London/Gogi Grant Date: 20 Nov 1998 01:07:46 EST In a message dated 11/19/98 7:51:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, PrimoChuck writes: << Did he really give her up? Julie London starred with her husband, Bobby Troup in Emergency that was produced by Jack Webb. Charlie >> Yep, they divorced in the early to mid-50s and its when she met Bobby that she actually started her singing career. Jason # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hammond & KLAUS! (and Moog & sideburns) Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:15:45 +0100 Ron Grandia wrote: > > So nice to see the name Klaus Wunderlich on the list... > and who better to wring every drop of sound out of the WERSI than our > good friend Klaus? You should hear what he does with a Moog!! There are 3 or 4 albums from the early/mid '70's on which he uses the Moog-synthesizer (in combination with the Hammond). The first and best (and hardest to find?) is 'Sound 2000 - moog, organ, rhythm'. It has a great picture of Klaus on the cover. He has HUGE sideburns (is that the correct word for these stripes of hair growing into your face?) and he sits next to this impressive looking "thing" with hundreds of knobs on it. The music is great too. Tracks like 'Cherokee' and 'Raindrops keep falling on my hand' are 'Moog-ified' with all kinds of weird bleeps and funny sounds. It also features 'Corn-flakes', a great rip-off of 'Popcorn'. Other highlights are two of Wunderlich's own compositions: 'Lotto-Zahlen' and the suprisingly heavy 'Krimoogulus'. Volume 3 of 'Sound 2000' is a little less impressive. Most tracks sound more like a 'normal' organ, but it still has it's moments. The fourth part of this trilogy (erm...) is called 'Uralterschnulzensynthesizergags'. I've never seen or heard it, but judgung from the title it should be even better than 'Sound 2000'! Marco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek - weirdomusic@wxs.nl +-------------------------------------------+ visit Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Hammond & KLAUS! (and Moog & sideburns) Date: 20 Nov 1998 11:51:17 +0000 Its true that Sound 2000 by Klaus is a good (ish) Moog LP and I seem to remember that somebody on this list was raving about Uralterschnulzensynthesizergags as another quality LP but I would have to disagree. Uralterschnulzensynthesizergags is a comedy Moog LP with Klaus dressed as a clown on the cover. It falls way short of proper Moog records - its not inventive, fascinating or wierd. Its just stupid in a boring way. Compared to Perry/Kingsley/Whats New Pussycat (big comparisons, I know) it doesn't even measure up. I'd like to find the LP with his version of Baby Elephant Walk on it though. 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: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Wout Steenhuis and the Kontikis Date: 20 Nov 1998 14:01:25 +0100 Picked this compilation from a local shop for only 1 Euro. It's a double-LP called "S=FCdseemelodien" ("Southsea Melodies"), appeare= d on an obscure never heard of label named Sonocord, Germany 1980. Mostly Hawaiian but some misplaced Carribean numbers recorded in the sound standard of the 80s, which at first hearing sounds too clean and lifeless in a way, but after you got used to it, it's OK, like a different flavor. Now, one of these bands like "The Daikikis" or "The Fifty Guitars" is slightly better than the others: "Wout Steenhuis and the Kontikis" and contribute a groovy version of "Bali Ha'i" and a rfeshing piece called "Tuki-Tuki". They not only sound like the 80s but have developed the "Hawaiian Style" to a more modern level. Anybody ever heard of them? The question obviously rather goes to the Dutch members of this list. But who knows? Maybe they are emigrated Hollanders living in ... Indonesia? 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 Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Re: The Inflight Entertainment series Date: 20 Nov 1998 10:06:47 EST A bit more to add on the recent discussions about this series. I haven't heard the first volume but have heard the second one: Further Inflight Entertainment, and the posted review is very accurate. I've seen the contents of volume 1 but volume 2 seems to be more interesting and after listening to it, I wasn't disappointed. It has 2 tracks from the German Motor Get Easy compilations, one by Brigit Bardot and another by Max Gregor. I would have bougt it in a second save for the CDN$46.95 (+15.5% tax) price tag it carried! Thats what happens when a CD doesn't have a domestic distributor and comes from the UK! I lobbied the store I saw it in to speak to their main distibutor to PLEASE pick up this label along wih the fine Motor label which is near impossible to find here. The irony on Motor is that Polygram, the company behind the label, is based in Canada, Montreal to be specific, but somehow the internal policies of this multinational corporation seem to have excluded its own products from proper distribution. It's completely beyond my comprehension. Maybe if they had Celine Dion on Motor it would have had made things move a bit faster... Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) delete unless joek or Bumpy Date: 20 Nov 1998 11:01:03 -0500 Guys! Write me, I've lost your e-mail address.... Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:02:37 EST <---- movie scores by Kenyon Hopkins ----> Columbia CL-958 Baby Doll Columbia CS-8923 East Side/West Side RCA LPM-1618 Eleven Against the Ice UA UAS-5065 Fugitive Kind, The Kapp KS-3264 Hustler, The Colpix SCP-520 Lilith Verve V6-8638 Mister Buddwing Columbia CS-9069 Reporter, The Coral CRL-57132 Strange One, The Verve V6-8664 This Property is Condemned Verve V6-8548 Yellow Canary, The <...not likely you will find 10 copies of each at your local store tho.... > From my experience, the Sound Tour albums are not that hard to find. Neither are the Bushkin records or the aforementioned Bullfight record. The soundtracks get tough, though. It appears that Baby Doll is in print on vinyl! I got a sealed copy from LPNow for $12. I suspect it's a reissue, but it's hard to tell. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) (no subject) Date: 20 Nov 1998 11:57:17 EST BasicHip et al, Anyone heard The Strange One, The Fugitive Kind (saw the movie but the soundtrack is pretty subdued), Eleven Against the Ice? I can vouch for Baby Doll, East Side/West Side, The Hustler, Mister Buddwing, The Reporter, and The Yellow Canary. I'm not wild about Lilith or This Property is Condemned. The hip factor seems to be absent in these. Sean <---- movie scores by Kenyon Hopkins ----> Columbia CL-958 Baby Doll Columbia CS-8923 East Side/West Side RCA LPM-1618 Eleven Against the Ice UA UAS-5065 Fugitive Kind, The Kapp KS-3264 Hustler, The Colpix SCP-520 Lilith Verve V6-8638 Mister Buddwing Columbia CS-9069 Reporter, The Coral CRL-57132 Strange One, The Verve V6-8664 This Property is Condemned Verve V6-8548 Yellow Canary, The # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) RE: Karminsky and Julie London Date: 20 Nov 1998 08:09:38 -0800 (PST) Here's an excellent Julie London site sent to me by lister Johnny Pearl. ---Jonny Perl wrote: I found out from this great site http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~agard/ == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: (exotica) (no subject) Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:31:06 -0500 > Eleven Against the Ice? Boring...mostly repetitive, orchestral kinda stuff, as I can recall, done for a television special. I only heard it once, and was underwhelmed. As a Kenyon-curio, it might be worth .50 at a thirft store. Stick to the classics, kid. Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron Grandia Subject: (exotica) test...please ignore Date: 20 Nov 1998 11:48:57 -0800 Hey... I said ignore this. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Sex kitten in dog fight Date: 20 Nov 1998 15:30:11 -0500 Sorry, Lou, I beat you to this one! Jane NOVEMBER 20, 14:42 EST Bardot Wins Reprieve for Dog EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) ? Woofie, a dog under a death sentence for cha= sing and barking at a postman, won a reprieve Friday with help from Brigitt= e Bardot. The French actress was among the dog's supporters at a brief hearing be= fore an appeals court. ``I think that this is the right justice. I was here to give support an= d would come back again if it was for another Woofie,'' Miss Bardot said.= The 3-year-old collie-boxer mix got into trouble for chasing and barkin= g at a postman in Peterhead, 30 miles north of Aberdeen. The court ruled owner Terry Swankie didn't understand his rights when pleading guilty to violating the Dangerous Dogs Act. Swankie expected t= o pay a fine but was told the law left no alternative but death for the d= og. Copyright 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribut= ed. Send comments and questions about The WIRE to The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity t= o which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, o= r taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you rece= ived this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from = any computer. = # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) Linda McCartney (was Burt Bacharach) Date: 20 Nov 1998 12:25:42 -0800 (PST) There was a bootleg cassette of Linda singing by herself in concert with Wings. Her mike was center loud and everything else was mixed down low. In concert you supposably couldn't hear her sing, but with her mike mixed high, it is a thrilling ride. You should hear her sing : "Baaa Daaa Daaa Daaa Daaaa Daaaa, Daaa Daaa Daa Daa Daa Heyyy JUde!" Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck ---The Davidsons wrote: I saw that Linda McCartney has a solo cd that just came out. I recognized one of the song titles from a mid-70's Wings album. Yes, not exotica, but weird nonetheless. Linda solo? Wow. == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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: RLott@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Rhino's "Music Futurists" CD Date: 20 Nov 1998 18:15:08 EST Press release from Rhino. Sounds like a cool project... --Rod -------------------------- Wired Magazine and Rhino Set February 16 for Release of WIRED MAGAZINE PRESENTS: MUSIC FUTURISTS Los Angeles -Rhino Records goes back to the future with WIRED MAGAZINE PRESENTS: MUSIC FUTURISTS, a comprehensive music collection chronicling the beginnings of the electronic music scene. This first-ever audio release from Wired hits stores on February 16. MUSIC FUTURISTS traces the music of those who have, since the beginning of the recording era, pushed the envelope of musical technology. The compilation will be released in CD exclusively for a suggested retail list price of $16.98 and will also be available through RhinoDirect at 1-800-432-0020 and via the Rhino website . Two years in the making, MUSIC FUTURISTS represents Wired's commitment to the forward-thinking composers of the first generation of electronica. Roughly chronological, the 15 track collection begins with early rebels, misfits, and trend-setters (Esquivel, Todd Rundgren), through musicians who heralded the arrival of the digital age (Brian Eno, Devo), and ends with artists steering the course of today's music (Beck, DJ Spooky). As this century comes to an end, MUSIC FUTURISTS demonstrates the path music has traveled in the last four decades - and where it might be headed during the next four. This collection features such sonic explorations as "Plutonian Nights" by Sun Ra, "Beautiful World" by Devo, "Total Soul Future (Eat It)" by Beck, "O Superman (For Massenet)" by Laurie Anderson, "2/1" by Brian Eno, and "Schizophrenia" by Sonic Youth. Other artists featured include Bill Laswell, Ben Neill, Steve Reich, Can, Godley & Creme, and Thomas Dolby. Wired is the premier publication for smart consumers who want, and demand, a jump on the future. It focuses on our relationship with technology and how our lives are being redefined by the digital age. The monthly magazine is innovative in both content and design, and speaks to those who see the future as a welcome opportunity. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Sex kitten in dog fight Date: 20 Nov 1998 18:43:39 EST In ref. to Laura and the dog story, she apologizes to Lou for posting this. Well the dog didn't die so it really was not in Lou's domain anyway! Robert In a message dated 98-11-20 15:58:02 EST, you write: << Sorry, Lou, I beat you to this one! Jane NOVEMBER 20, 14:42 EST Bardot Wins Reprieve for Dog EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) ? Woofie, a dog under a death sentence for chasing and barking at a postman, won a reprieve Friday with help from Brigitte Bardot. >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Sex kitten in dog fight Date: 20 Nov 1998 16:05:14 PST But if the dog didnt die, how come Lou was mentioned in the post? Are you sure the dog didnt die? Somethings wrong here, there must be some secret information that our governments doesnt wants us to know about. Magnus ... Am I dead??? Hey! Wait a minute! In ref. to Laura and the dog story, she apologizes to Lou for posting this. Well the dog didn't die so it really was not in Lou's domain anyway! Robert In a message dated 98-11-20 15:58:02 EST, you write: << Sorry, Lou, I beat you to this one! Jane NOVEMBER 20, 14:42 EST Bardot Wins Reprieve for Dog EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) ? Woofie, a dog under a death sentence for chasing and barking at a postman, won a reprieve Friday with help from Brigitte Bardot. >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ______________________________________________________ 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) The Strange One Date: 20 Nov 1998 20:30:29 -0600 > Anyone heard The Strange One, The Fugitive Kind (saw the movie but the > soundtrack is pretty subdued), Eleven Against the Ice? I'll second the thumbs down on Eleven Against the Ice, unless you're into '50s documentary music. The Strange One (Coral CRL-57132), however, is vintage Kenyon Hopkins to my ears. Great edgy, moody crime jazz for a terrific, if seldom seen film (Ben Gazzara's film debut, if I remember right, playing a creepy no-good at a Southern military academy). Here's a track listing: Main Title Ace of Spades Georgie Runs for Major Avery Military Band The Fight Jocko's Theme The Book Country Juke I Call You Nightboy Jockie's Theme 2 You're Under Arrest Boogie On the Strange One Roger Knocks Strange One End Title Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU Radio Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Incredibly strange pix Date: 21 Nov 1998 13:39:37 +0100 laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com wrote: > For those of you disappointed by the last round of Astroslut pix, this > time, you won't be! These are great...e-mail me if you want > some...pictures,that is ;) > Jane Fondle > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any > computer. What a strange AND interesting message. Now I'm really curious and want to see those pix! 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Popp! Date: 21 Nov 1998 08:32:54 +0000 Ever listen to Presenting Popp! by Andre Popp (Columbia WL 130)? I just did. It doesn't SOUND like the kind of music I get into normally for my radio program, however it is definitely a keeper. First of all, it is definitely French...with elements of all of the music you would expect from Paris: the street musicians, the cafe ensembles, the saxophone quartet, the military bands, the jazz. You hear a lot of George Gershwin type things. This is all packaged together with the 1950's era pop mentality (strings, liberal use of other instruments such as the ondioline). Les Lavandieres due Portugal is in there...known in the States as The Portugese Washerwoman. La Bardinette sounds like the ideal 1950's "shopping" music. "French Dondon" could have easily been a Carl Stalling composition for a Warner Brothers cartoon. This is refreshing, entertaining, energetic music...and is the perfect companion while looking outdoors to a rainy, windy day. 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: grinderman@juno.com (Jeffery Hess) Subject: Re: (exotica) Linda McCartney (was Burt Bacharach) Date: 21 Nov 1998 11:54:46 -0600 Chuck: >There was a bootleg cassette of Linda singing by herself in concert >with Wings. Her mike was center loud and everything else was mixed >down low. In concert you supposably couldn't hear her sing, but with >her mike mixed high, it is a thrilling ride. You should hear her >sing : "Baaa Daaa Daaa Daaa Daaaa Daaaa, Daaa Daaa Daa Daa >Daa Heyyy JUde!" I heard the soundman who made that tape was fired, and maybe sued? 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/getjuno.html 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: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Freakout at the Facsimile Factory Date: 21 Nov 1998 14:21:16 +0100 Ashley wrote: >If you are looking for music along the lines of The Sound Galley or In- >Flight you will be very much disappointed. especially with such a high price tag! ($31) 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: the curator Subject: (exotica) Lorraine Bowen Date: 21 Nov 1998 12:06:42 +0000 Tought some of you would be interested to know I sighted Lorraine Bowen's Greatest Hits Vol 2 CD in Virgin Oxford St, London, UK yesterday. friendly Sem Sinatra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Linda McCartney (was Burt Bacharach) Date: 21 Nov 1998 14:15:15 EST I once had the pleasure of hearing the Linda McCartney miked up vocal track at one of my favorite used record strores in Boston (of which there are several many). I can't recall the wordless vocal part refereed to in the previous post, but I do remember her being way out of tune and everyone in the store laughing at it......Jimmy/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdays from 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: stefan@subliminal.se (Subliminal Sounds) Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Freakout at the Facsimile Factory Date: 21 Nov 1998 22:33:03 +0100 (MET) >>If you are looking for music along the lines of The Sound Galley or In- >>Flight you will be very much disappointed. > especially with such a high price tag! ($31) I'm selling it for $24 to USA/Japan. $29.50 to Europeans including Euro tax.= =20 Pretty damn good exploitation psych on that record.=20 You wont find it at my web-page as it hasn't been updated for oh so long. It will be soon though=B4. For the moment, please e-mail me privatly for a= =20 catalog.=20 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 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ChuckTFrog@aol.com Subject: re: (exotica) Burt Bacharach/howard stern sucks Date: 21 Nov 1998 17:18:21 EST >Dionne, Dusty, and Barbra, who have limitless vocal ability "Limitless"??? C'mon now. Sutherland, Callas, Pavarotti maybe. But those 3??? Gimmee a break! Perplexedly Chuck # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ChuckTFrog@aol.com Subject: (exotica) A modest request Date: 21 Nov 1998 17:24:47 EST Hello fellow lounge-niks & exoticafreaks: I would appreciate and be interested in hearing from any musicians on the list that are doing gigs in the Southern California area. Please respond off-list Thanks Chuck ChuckTFrog@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: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, November 22 Date: 21 Nov 1998 18:05:42 -0500 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada. Comments and questions welcome. Space Bop #24 The Glam Rock Show Based on the new-found popularity of glam-rock, as a result of Todd Haynes' movie "Velvet Goldmine", and quite a few articles I've read on the subject over the past few weeks, I decided to dig through our vinyl collection and do a show based on glam rock. There is an exotica connection, of course - the N.Y. Dolls featured David Johansen, who became Buster Pointdexter in a later incarnation; and Bryan Ferry, the ultimate smooth lounge singer of the glam-rock movement. David Bowie: Space Oddity "Space Oddity" Lou Reed: Walk On The Wild Side "Transformer" David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" T.Rex: Get It On "Electric Warrior" Eno: Baby's On Fire "Here Come The Warm Jets" Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes "All The Young Dudes" Lou Reed: Vicious "Transformer" N.Y. Dolls: Personality Crisis "N.Y. Dolls" Sweet: Ballroom Blitz "Desolation Boulevard" Slade: Cum On Feel The Noize "Sladest" Sparks: This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us "Kimono My House" Bryan Ferry: The In Crowd "Another Time, Another Place" 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) This week's Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 21 Nov 1998 17:56:48 +0000 This week on the Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, it's an archive show (hey, even us DJs need a break occasionally!) featuring passionate percussion from Dick Schory's "Music To Break Any Mood" and Frank Barber's "Precisely Percussion"; jungle jazz by Les Baxter, Chaino, the Markko Polo Adventurers, Mandingo and others; cool crime jazz from Kenyon Hopkins ("The Yellow Canary") and Johnny Mandel ("I Want to Live"); plus mambo with the King, swinging bells and Stereo Action. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to: http://www.ukans.edu/~kanu-fm/retro.html Requires at least a 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2. As always, if you tune in, let us hear from you! We'll return next week with a brand-new show. Thanks for the space. Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://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: SLarry3595@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Batman LP Date: 21 Nov 1998 22:24:42 EST Hello. I was corresponding off-list with someone about trading Batman LP tapes, and accidentally deleted the most recent e-mail. I have started on your tape. Cold you please e-mail me again. Apologies to all. 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: grinderman@juno.com (Jeffery Hess) Subject: (exotica) The Wozard Of Iz Date: 22 Nov 1998 13:17:15 -0600 Just picked up this ultra-trippy moogedelic gem for $2 at the flea market in the midst of embarrassingly over-priced and shoddy looking Grand Funk and J.D. Blackfoot records. I usually don't brag about record finds, but this is wonderful. Set up like a rock-opera, we have Dorothy, the Scared Crow, the In-Man, and the Lyin' Coward following the yellow-green road to help Dorothy find out where it's at. The moogariffic inklings come courtesy of Mort Garson and a goofy, but amusing beat-narrative is provided by Jacques Wilson throughout. I love it. 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/getjuno.html 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: The Davidsons Subject: Re: (exotica) The Wozard Of Iz Date: 22 Nov 1998 12:40:51 -0800 >The moogariffic inklings come >courtesy of Mort Garson and a goofy, but amusing beat-narrative is >provided by Jacques Wilson throughout. Ah, the dynamic duo behind "The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds". Anyone know any other collaborations that these two conspired on? 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: BasicHip@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Wozard Of Iz Date: 22 Nov 1998 16:28:26 EST The Wozard Of Iz [A & M] - one of those records I never listen to but would never part with....... << Ah, the dynamic duo behind "The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds" [Elektra]. Anyone know any other collaborations that these two (mort garson and jacques wilson) conspired on? >> You might try the twelve individual Zodiac sign records [A & M] than are along the lines of Cosmic Sounds, with more spoken word. Also, see the names Jac Holzman and Cyrus Faryar on the back of Cosmic Sounds? they also appear on "A Child's Garden of Grass" [Elektra], the spoken / comedy LP based on the book. Psychological effects, aquiring grass, listening to music, eating food, and making love are just a few of the covered topics. Funny what turns up as you dig for more info on these names. I did a CYRUS FARYAR search, who narrates on Cosmic Sounds and discovered he is credited with guitar and bouzouki on a 1967 Stone Poneys / Linda Ronstadt LP [Capitol]. In the mood for a soulful alternative to Cosmic Sounds? LA radio personality Rick Holmes delivers the goods in a big, black voice, on Soul Zodiac [Capitol]. Backed by the Nat Adderley Sextet. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) US Tee Vee Date: 22 Nov 1998 16:54:11 -0500 (eastern standard times) The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) AMC - Monday afternoon, 4:30pm - Variety acts collated with a thin sea cruise plot. Starring W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, numerous musical acts. They Won't Believe Me (1947) AMC - Wednesday morning, 11:00am - Noir with Robert Young as a philanderer in a murder-laced fix. With Jane Greer, Susan Hayward, Rita Johnson. Angel Face (1952) AMC - Wednesday afternoon, 12:30pm - More murder, directed by Otto Preminger. Starring Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Mona Freeman, Jim Backus. A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) TBS - Friday morning, 6:00am - Leone, Morricone, Eastwood; episode #1. For A Few Dollars More (1965) TBS - Friday morning, 8:05am - Leone, Morricone, Eastwood; episode #2. Plus Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967) TBS - Friday morning, 10:50am - Leone, Morricone, Eastwood; episode #3. Plus Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. Dark City (1950) AMC - Friday afternoon, 4:15pm - Gamblers and guns. With Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors (what a great pair of names), Dean Jagger. Not to mention Jack Webb & Harry Morgan *not* as their Dragnet characters. This Woman Is Dangerous (1952) AMC - Friday evening, 6:00pm - Tough dame and guns. Starring Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian and more people whose first names could be last names and vice versa. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) AMC - Friday evening, 8:00pm; Early Saturday, 4:30am - Frank Tashlin satire of ad biz, fame and all that. Featuring Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Joan Blondell, Betsy Drake. Ultra-50s. Beginning Of The End (1957) AMC - Late Friday night, 12:15am - Giant grasshoppers from Bert I. Gordon's process-shot sweatshop menace Chicago. Barbarella (1968) SCI-FI - Saturday evening, 7:00pm; Early Sunday, 3:00am - The wardrobe-challenged space gal continues her tour of assorted cable channels. 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Marlboro Date: 22 Nov 1998 15:24:32 +0000 I don't smoke, but I am fascinated by marketing even if the product promotes early death. So, I was intrigued by one of those special products releases, this one on United Artists presumably for Marlboro cigarettes. "The Music From Marlboro Country" is occupied mostly by Elmer Bernstein's original music for the movie "Return of the Seven." However, mixed in with Bernstein's Copland-esque music are variations of the theme from "The Magnificent Seven." The Bossa Nova version is wonderful... wordless vocals with a bossa beat. There also is a version called "Border Town" which is sort of like a Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass take off. "Swingin' Through" is a really big band approach. I don't know who did the "variations" but I like many of them. Byron /- / '\ / ___> ; ; ; _ ;__ / \ [ | /"- / () | ) <}-___/_/(_|/ \_(__/\/| (_______ ___< -_/ Byron Caloz Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way http://www.hubris.net/zolac The Mr. Smooth site: http://www.hubris.net/zolac/smooth # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: recliner Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach's singing Date: 22 Nov 1998 20:38:38 -0400 I feel like I'm sticking my neck out on this one but here goes.... I'm kind of surprised to hear from this group comments about = Bacharach's "bad" singing. I for one prefer his version of his songs = to many of the "professional" versions. I would love to have a = collection of his songs sung by him, this would be fantastic! I really mean this. I'm not proclaiming the so-bad-it's-good = mentality which is just as sophomoric as H. Stern's previously = mentioned comments on Bacharach's singing.(Well what about H. Stern = isn't adolescent and sophomoric.) I very much enjoy the absolutely sincere recordings of The Shaggs, = Daniel Johnston and early Shonen Knife, and wish others could see = through to the sheer beauty of such things. I think Bacharach's = vocalizing fits right in with this group. As a matter of fact I think = that there are a few parallels between Bacharach and Johnston, both = being songwriters who were to capture absolutely the overall feeling, = or zeitgeist of their eras. I used to call this kind of music = "painfully sincere" which was kind of true until I realized that I = was making concessions to the general public's conception of this = music as "painful". It wasn't and isn't painful to me. The other = descriptive phrase I've coined for this kind of heartfelt singing is = "A for effort=B2. I just love it when performers gives it their all = regardless of any societal standards as to what's good or bad. I've been listening to the new recording of Elvis Costello singing = the new Bacharach songs. Practically all of the songs are pure 60's = Bacharach right down to the Alpert styled trumpet that crops up here = and there. But let me tell you, Costello=B9s voice pretty much = decimates any integrity these tunes may hold. All the sincerity of = these melodies are destroyed by Costello's vocal histrionics. Only a = few where he tempers his irritating nasal whine are worth = considering, "Toledo" being one. This truely is an example of *bad* = singing if only because Costello should know better, but no, he has = his style to maintain, it is in his best market interests after all. = And it is this very "style" that corrupts the songs. Bacharach = doesn't have a vocal style, there is nothing to get in the way of the = overall feeling of the song. This and the fact that he wrote it = should make people realize that perhaps his singing of his songs will = be the most meaningful rendition and if that can't deal with that, = well that's just their loss. On the other hand I can't imagine a vocal version of "What's New = Pussycat" coming close to topping Jones' version let alone wondering = what Bacharach=B9s version may hold in store. Now, I suppose the same = case I made against Costello could be made against Jones. All I can = say to this is that Jones' vocalizing and Bacharach's songwriting are = both of the same era and support each other in this way. Because = Bacharach=B9s writing on the new recording sound so very sixties, the = hear Costello=B9s voice just kind o makes me shake my head and say = "Nope this ain't working." Thank you for surviving this semi-tirade. 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: "paul m." Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach's singing/E.C. Date: 22 Nov 1998 19:25:30 -0800 >integrity these tunes may hold. All the sincerity of these melodies are destroyed by Costello's vocal histrionics. Only a few where he tempers his irritating nasal whine are worth considering... ============================================================ imho, there is no greater example of an artist entirely losing a "grip" on a hard-boiled "less is more" sensibility than EC. the first four albums (especially the neo-stax Get Happy) are still stellar in my book. after that, he seemed to be trying to get in the Guiness Record book for 'more lyrics per measure of music' than anyone in history. torturous passages with lyrics so densely packed. as if he were trying to offer a 'better entertainment' value (ala Steve Martins' "banjo music is your best entertainment value...more notes per measure :) not to mention EC's meandering focus-less, near melodies... so when i learned of the BB/EC collaboration i was momentarily excited, but then recalled it ain't EC of '82 we're talking about. too bad. paul "get happy" moshay # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Micheleflp@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: The Inflight Entertainment series Date: 22 Nov 1998 22:47:54 EST I own both of the Inflight CDs and bought them over the internet for about $23. Try going to the Gemm website; I think that is where I got them - no, actually, now I remember - I got the Vol. 2 thru Medium Rare records out of San Francisco. telephone: 415/255-7273. But I went thru the website at: wwwl.neucast.com/mediumrare/ They also listed some of those other obscure comps the Get Easy series and I believe the Motor label. I would order more but 2 CDs cost me $50! Good luck, 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Burt Bacharach's singing Date: 22 Nov 1998 23:27:13 -0500 >I feel like I'm sticking my neck out on this one but here goes.... You have my support. Of course, unlike Daniel Johnston, Burt has never shoved a woman out of a window. To the best of my knowledge. 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: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Preview Raymond Scott Date: 23 Nov 1998 09:59:39 +0100 As announced, the preview in MP3 format is NOW available for download from www.Basta.nl . It is a 1,50 minute track of the forthcoming album Manhattan research, Inc., by Raymond Scott. On this album we will give quite an impression of Raymonds musical pionering in the electronic field between 1950 - 1979. In fact, we think it is one of the best albums we will ever release. > Jeroen@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: Reader Geoff Subject: (exotica) Wout Steenhuis and the Kontikis Date: 23 Nov 1998 12:12:15 -0000 >>. Now, one of these bands like "The Daikikis" or "The Fifty Guitars" is slightly better than the others: "Wout Steenhuis and the Kontikis" and contribute a groovy version of "Bali Ha'i" and a rfeshing piece called "Tuki-Tuki". They not only sound like the 80s but have developed the "Hawaiian Style" to a more modern level. Anybody ever heard of them? The question obviously rather goes to the Dutch members of this list. But who knows? Maybe they are emigrated Hollanders living in ... Indonesia? I don't know if Wout Steenhuis is Dutch or not but tracks by him are on several of the Studio 2 comps that were released in England in the mid 60's, I think theres one on Impact, which is in nearly every charity shop in Brighton. But as usual Im at work and can't check the details. I don't remember his tracks so I guess they didn't make much of an impression. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.sgillitt.dircon.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: (exotica) Holiday Gloom Date: 23 Nov 1998 11:46:26 -0500 First of all, Charles Ranja, I just accidentally deleted your msg, please rexmit! OK...here we go...I remembered last night, as we began pulling out the holiday music, a now-sad argument posted on the list in 1996. It was a battle-royale over whether we were happy with the Esquivel Christmas rekkid. That aside, there seems to be little to argue over this year. In recent years, we've had those lovely Ultra Lounges, some good re-issues, and nice new records by folks like the Blue Hawaiians. What about this year, any new list-appropriate holiday releases on the horizon!? PLEASE!? Failing that...any recommendations of your favorites for the season would be greatly appreciated! fa-la-la-jane-fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Holiday Gloom Date: 23 Nov 1998 16:34:02 -0600 At 11:46 AM 11/23/98 -0500, Jane Fondle wrote: > >What about this year, any new list-appropriate holiday releases on the >horizon!? Most (all?) of these aren't list appropriate, but a look at the Billboard/ICE pages turns up: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan 'N Sync - Home For Christmas Babyface - Christmas with Cyndie Lauper - Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life VA - A Christmas To Remember (Smithereens, etc.) VA - Merry Axemas Vol.2 (Al DiMeola, Ted Nugent, etc.) Celine Dion - These Are Special Times Gypsy Soul - Sacred VA - Celebrate The Season (Amy Grant, John Tesh, Shirley Horn, etc.) VA - To Life! Songs of Hanukkah and Other Jewish Celebrations Diana Krall - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas And (non-Xmas), Monica (Henry's daughter) Mancini released a CD last week. Anyone know what it sounds like?? -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) Sex kitten in dog fight Date: 23 Nov 1998 16:36:27 -0600 That's it! From now on I post only exotica birth announcements!! -Lou (If I were still posting obits, I would have mentioned: -Elmer H. Wavering, 91, former president of Motorola, who developed the first commercially successful car radio; -William Githens, 92, who opened the first all-newsreel movie theater; -Milton Kutsher, 82, owner of the Catskills resort, Kutsher's Country Club; -John C. Grimek, 88, the only man to win the Mr. America bodybuilding competition twice; -Rolando Laserie, 75, one of the greatest vocalists in Cuban music; and -Lonnie Pitchford, 43, master of the Delta blues style one-stringed diddley bow. He was taught by Robert Johnson's stepfather, Robert Junior Lockwood, and by Eugene Powell aka Sunny Boy Nelson of the Mississippi Sheiks (who died not long ago himself). ) At 04:05 PM 11/20/98 PST, Magnus wrote: >But if the dog didnt die, how come Lou was mentioned in the post? Are >you sure the dog didnt die? Somethings wrong here, there must be some >secret information that our governments doesnt wants us to know about. >Magnus ... Am I dead??? Hey! Wait a minute! >In ref. to Laura and the dog story, she apologizes to Lou for posting >this. >Well the dog didn't die so it really was not in Lou's domain anyway! >Robert >In a message dated 98-11-20 15:58:02 EST, you write: ><< Sorry, Lou, I beat you to this one! > Jane > NOVEMBER 20, 14:42 EST > Bardot Wins Reprieve for Dog # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) epulse 4.46 [fistful] PT.1 Date: 23 Nov 1998 16:39:43 -0600 epulse 4.46 [fistful] --- CONTENTS / November 20, 1998 >>> Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine --- THE EPULSE8 >>> A peek at the notebooks of your favorite editors, featuring reviews and news on new and imminent music and other media (tentative release dates in parentheses, all info subject to change). 1. classical review of the week: On paper, the idea of Ennio Morricone's evocative, tuneful film themes stripped of their familiar orchestral garb and limited to three string instruments seems far-fetched, if not out-and-out bizarre. Leave it to cellist/arranger Tristan Schulze's ingenuity for concocting 12 arrangements that somehow capture the music's cinematic subtext while letting Morricone's tart lyric gift step out to the fore. In turn, the performances by Schulze and his fellow members of the Austrian-based ensemble Trilogy leap with idiomatic fervor, stylish ferocity, and one thousand percent conviction. 'TRILOGY PLAYS ENNIO MORRICONE' (BMG/Reverso 54857-2, out now) is an unusual and engaging disc, way too short at 45 minutes. (Distler) 2. Manilow blow of the week: At first, I forgave BARRY MANILOW's shortcomings as a singer because, after all, didn't he write the songs that make the whole world sing? But no, it turned out that "I Write the Songs" was actually written by the Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston. Years later, in a foolish attempt to get on good terms with the in-laws, I reluctantly took them to see Manilow's "Showstoppers" Tribute to Broadway tour. But no, it turned out that Manilow was ill and, rather than disappoint all his fans (or refund their money), he proceeded to rasp out a few lines of each song before turning it over to his young understudies. OK, so first Manilow doesn't write the songs, then he doesn't sing them. Now comes 'MANILOW SINGS SINATRA' (Arista, out now), a concept seemingly calculated to draw critical derision as much as it was to capitalize on the Chairman's legacy. Arrangements by Johnny Mandel, piano by Michael Melvoin, production by Phil Ramone--all fairly tasteful and all really unnecessary. Because, really, why would we need Barry Manilow to do this? Still, he croons them all: Mercer's "Summer Wind," a fistful of Sammy Cahn, "Strangers in the Night." And just when you're thinking it doesn't get any better than this, he strays from the standards to accommodate a pair of his own self-penned tributes to Sinatra. The only thing that makes this project more forgivable than Sinatra's 'Duets' albums, which Ramone also produced, is that Frank didn't have to participate. Let's just pray that Frank Jr. doesn't pull a Natalie Cole on us anytime soon. (Forman) 5. follow-up record of the week: Fans of L.A.'s club scene have known about the "twisted jungle music" of CHUCK E. WEISS for years. His debut--and only--release, 'The Other Side of Town' (Select) came out way back in 1981, when he, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones formed the nucleus of a West Hollywood music scene (Weiss is also immortalized in Jones' biggest hit, "Chuck E.'s in Love".) While Waits and Jones went on to successful recording careers, gritty vocalist/percussionist Weiss kept busy playing West Hollywood's Central club, even helping friend Johnny Depp to convert the space into the Viper Room a few years ago. Now, nearly two decades later, Weiss has recorded his sophomore effort, the Waits-produced 'EXTREMELY COOL' (Slow River/Rykodisc, due 2/2/99). After a blindfolded listen, one might presume that Waits lorded over the sessions, dictating textures, tones and the heady, layered mix of country blues and turn-of-the-century jazz. But Waits' own quote on the album's liner notes describes how particular Weiss was about each instrument's sound. Among the albums highlights are the sordid "Deeply Sorry" -- about a loser whose girlfriend cheats on him with his own mother -- and the rap/chant/rhythm Weiss & Waits duet "Do You Know What I Idi Amin." Extremely cool, indeed. (Hammad) This week's epulse8 contributors: Jed Distler, Bill Forman, Ned Hammad. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) epulse 4.46 [omnivox] PT.2 Date: 23 Nov 1998 16:48:36 -0600 --- CONTENTS / November 20, 1998 >>> Welcome back to epulse, the musically omnivorous weekly ezine of Pulse! magazine --- SLOUCHING TOWARD OMNIVOX >>> As the record business turns... A few years ago, we used to joke about what might happen if all the major labels merged together to form one monstrous entity, which we figured might be named something like "Omnivox Aktiengesellschaft." It was good for a few laughs. Unfortunately, what seemed like a cynical joke back in 1991 or '92 seems a lot closer to reality today. SOME BACKGROUND By the beginning of the decade, the music business, largely, had consolidated under six major corporate umbrellas: Bertelsmann AG, Electric and Musical Industries, Music Corporation of America, PolyGram, Sony and Warner/Elektra/Atlantic, only one of which (Time Warner's WEA group) was American-owned. Of course, not all the music biz was major-controlled; some 20 percent of labels still went through independent (i.e., non-major) distribution. However, this year's biggest music-biz development takes us one huge step closer to Omnivox. After stalking British-owned major EMI (which is now being pursued by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.), Canadian distiller Seagram (which bought most of MCA from Japanese electronics giant Matsushita a few years back, then changed the company name to Universal) opted to buy PolyGram, the world's largest music company, from Dutch electronics company Royal Philips BV. Now Universal and PolyGram are in the process of being mashed into one company, to be called Universal Music Group. What this means is that two distribution companies (Universal Music & Video Distribution, PolyGram Group Distribution) now become one entity, which will throw a lot of people out of work. More importantly, it means that UMG will crunch its portfolio of labels (many of which were free-standing under PolyGram and the old Universal) into four record companies, with the old imprints serving as "A&R sources" -- a nice way of saying that they'll be brand names and nothing more. Also, plenty more folks will lose jobs: Universal/PolyGram's combined employee count, worldwide, is around 15,000, of which 3,000 will reportedly see their positions eliminated right off the bat; if the price of Seagram's stock stays depressed, expect to see even more -- and deeper -- cuts. THE LOWDOWN Here's how things may shake down, according to a recent Los Angeles Times piece by Chuck Phillips, augmented with information I've gleaned from other sources: First, some good news: MCA Records doesn't get mashed into anything; it retains its autonomy. And with Seagram acquiring PolyGram, Universal now has worldwide rights to MCA's former trademark, Decca; it wouldn't be a big surprise to see MCA undergo a name change. (An MCA Nashville subsidiary already uses the Decca name.) And UMG, whose erstwhile involvement with classical music dates back to MCA's precursor Decca with its Gold Label series (along with the Westminster catalog MCA acquired in 1978 when it bought ABC Records), gets a classical division - a "prestige" line that each of the other four major-label leviathans possess. Deutsche Grammophon (which turns 100 next year), Philips and Decca (known as London in the U.S.) are three highly respected classical-music labels with deep history. Those companies fared reasonably well under the European aegis of Philips/PolyGram; that Universal's management -- whose roots appear to be in the shark-tank milieu of 1960s Brill Building pop music -- may not understand the nuances of running its new classical division is a frightening thought. Classical music hasn't been a "profit center" for quite a while, if ever, and most companies market it because they have an historical commitment to the genre, or because someone high up in the company understands the cultural importance of recording and marketing the classics. THE NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS Universal Records, a '90s startup originally known as Rising Tide, which has found its greatest successes in urban pop (read: r&b, hip-hop), acquires two venerable urban trademarks: Def Jam and Motown. Def Jam was 60-percent owned by PolyGram; Universal is said to be buying the 40 percent it doesn't own and absorbing some of Def Jam's management. But Motown, whose post-independent fortunes have bounced from MCA to PolyGram, now loses whatever vestigial connection it had with its past, becoming what's essentially a renamed incarnation of Universal's Kedar Entertainment label, helmed by that label's head, Universal executive Kedar Massenburg. Oh, well: At least Universal Records now can claim to have "deep catalog." And in one of the more ironic twists in Seagram's new music cocktail, Polydor -- the onetime Deutsche Grammophon-owned pop label that grew to be a powerhouse in the U.K., the label that provided the "Poly" in PolyGram -- becomes a catalog imprint of Universal Records. (Polydor's most recent station on its downhill slide was as a division of A&M.) Speaking of A&M Records, the future doesn't look so bright for that label -- or for Geffen Records, either. Both those companies have been "cold," in record-industry parlance, for quite some time -- A&M, most likely because every big label goes through hot and cold cycles over the years; Geffen, because it concentrated too much of its emphasis, following its huge success with Nirvana, on "alternative"-rock acts. Which means that Interscope Records, a '90s startup that has been decidedly "hot" in recent years -- due largely to distribution deals with Death Row (rap) and Trent Reznor's Nothing (industrial rock, electronica) labels -- gets to absorb A&M and Geffen along with their portfolio of distributed labels. Interscope's chief, erstwhile record producer Jimmy Iovine -- who has longtime ties to A&M through its recording studios -- will run the combined company. The logic here seems to be that A&M, Geffen and Interscope are all headquartered in L.A. One wonders what will become of Geffen's distribution deal with DreamWorks, one of the more interesting label startups in recent memory, and one also wonders if A&M will abandon its La Brea Avenue headquarters, originally home to Charlie Chaplin's film studio. And, most importantly, will Courtney be happy? (For historical perspective on what can happen when you crunch three good-sized labels into one entity, look no further than the early '90s, when Chrysalis, EMI-Manhattan and SBK were mashed into one company, EMI Records Group North America. EMIRGNA, essentially, was a repackaged version of shlockmeister Charlie Koppelman's SBK, and it's no longer around; what was left of its artist roster was transferred to sister labels Capitol and Virgin. More irony: one of SBK's biggest foists, Vanilla Ice, just released a comeback album -- on Republic/Universal.) MERCURY RISING The fourth new UMG record company is Mercury, which absorbs Island Records, until recently one of the more adventurous major labels. Mercury was an industry joke until two years ago. Then, its new chief (former Atlantic and, briefly, Warner/Reprise topper Danny Goldberg, who doesn't look like he'll make the cut at UMG) pulled the label out of hair-metal quicksand with a series of smart distribution deals (Capricorn, Mouth Almighty, Pure, Scratchie, Tim/Kerr, Triloka) and interesting signings. Unfortunately, Island hasn't fared as well these last few years -- it was ahead of the curve with its early commitment to electronica, and its portfolio of left-of-center artists seem to be of little interest in a post-Puff Daddy music industry. The new company's reins are being handed to former PolyGram Group Distribution topper Jim Caparro. (And Goldberg is rumored to be heading to Capitol.) The fate of two PolyGram-distributed companies is a big question mark. London Records, the pop, urban and electronica division that also includes the Slash, ffrr, Phase 4 and MoWax! Labels, was half-owned by PolyGram and marketed by Island Records; it's said that Roger Ames -- who owns the other half -- isn't happy with the new Universal arrangement, and he'll likely take London to another major, with two majors most often mentioned as London's likely destination. And Buena Vista Music Group, the Disney-owned umbrella for the Hollywood, Lyric Street and Mammoth labels, isn't happy either. Scuttlebutt has Disney either making a run on EMI or starting its own distribution company -- possibly staffed with PolyGram employees cast off by Universal. Up in the air: Universal and PolyGram both have strong Nashville divisions -- Decca and MCA with the former and Mercury with the latter. Will they remain separate, or will they merge? Smart money says there'll be some kind of "synergy"; Mercury Nashville chief Luke Lewis' previous gig was running Universal's distribution arm, so he already knows the MCA/Decca crew pretty well. DEEP IMPACT Catalog is the backbone of any major distributor, and its raison d'etre in the emerging era of digital distribution. (If new artists opt for the direct-to-consumer route via downloadable albums, at least the majors will own huge chunks of musical history they can exploit.) Both PolyGram and Universal have amassed huge master catalogs through acquisitions, but PolyGram's PolyMedia division is clearly superior to Universal's various reissue divisions when it comes to mining catalog. Why, then, is PolyMedia being folded into Universal Special Markets, whose centerpiece is a label with a graphically less-than-stellar logo and an even less-stellar name -- Hip-O, an obvious and sophomoric) swipe from Rhino Records, Warner Music's reissue division. PolyGram's Chronicles division has done a good job in marketing a mix of high-quality boxed sets, interesting (and often midline) catalog titles and theme-oriented best-of packages. And, while MCA Records has done a nice job with the Chess Records catalog it acquired from legitimate businessman Salvatore "Sal the Swindler" Pisello, overall, Universal has a history of acquiring a catalog, then sitting on it for a long time. While that approach may work for wine connoisseurs, it doesn't bode quite as well for serious music fans. Also to be decided is the fate of the two companies' respective jazz divisions. Word on the street has Universal's GRP label group absorbing PolyGram's Verve Records. If true, this is a real shame: GRP's only real claim in recent years is that it reissued much of the Impulse! Records catalog and broke one new artist (singer Diana Krall). Verve, on the other hand, is the dominant player of major-owned jazz labels: It's issued a wide variety of new and reissued records, and -- more importantly -- it consistently breaks new artists. CHEERS--IT'S SEAGRAM TIME Which brings up an important point. Seagram claimed that it was hiring an independent consultant firm to manage the combining of PolyGram and Universal. From the looks of the purported denouement, if whatever consultant Seagram hired was "independent," then the U.S. Government's so-called independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, acted in a wholly non-partisan manner in going after President Clinton hammer-and-tong. But then, this is business, and whoever pays the band gets to call the tune. And the tune is this: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., the scion of the House of Seagram who engineered his family's entree into the entertainment business, has his work cut out for him. He's got to smooth the ruffled feathers of Seagram's stockholders -- a group already disgruntled by the dumping of a huge stake in DuPont to finance the purchase of MCA, followed by the sale of Seagram's profitable juice division, Tropicana, to PepsiCo. The smart money says that Bronfman won't want to piss off Wall Street any more than he already has -- good news for stockholders, but not-so-good news for anyone passionate about music. On the bright side, however, Universal Music's top man, Doug Morris, is reputed to be a real "music" guy: He was an Ahmet Ertegun protege at Atlantic, and he penned the '60s Chiffons hit "Sweet Talking Guy." (He was also responsible for Lobo's "Me and You and a Dog named Boo," not to mention England Dan & John Ford Coley, but we won't talk about that.) Universal's management is laced with more than a few former Warner Music executives, and Universal's corporate culture seems like it may chance to borrow a page or two from old-school WEA, the dominant force in the North American music business from the early '70s until recently. PolyGram, on the other hand, has a reputation for being a place dominated by suits, and departed PolyGram chief Alain Levy managed to run off not only Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, but A&M Records founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss -- all, unquestionably, record guys. The latter duo soon launched a new label, Almo Sounds, through Universal distribution.--JACKSON GRIFFITH [!] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: (exotica) Holiday Gloom Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:14:54 -0500 Blah! One of the one-million Chucks on this list(nawlins') and I were bemoaning the fact that we can't find this now out-of-print: Xmas Easy Tune Vol 2. 1. Is it available through any source? 2. What's it like? Gonna go-go crazy now, Jane Fondle The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Holiday Gloom Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:34:24 EST In a message dated 98-11-23 16:38:36 EST, Lou writes: << Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan >> I saw this in the stores. Any good??? I have to admit -- I love the Christmas Cocktails by UL (Vol. 1 a little better than 2). 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: "Indy Rutks" Subject: (exotica) Who's dead? (was: Sex kitten in dog fight) Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:00:13 -0600 On Monday, November 23, 1998, Lou "The Undertaker" Smith wrote > That's it! From now on I post only exotica birth announcements!! I, for one, enjoy reading about who has shuffled off this mortal coil, joined the Choir Invisible, etc. Please, Lou, keep it up! Or maybe start an obituaries-only e-mail list... -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: Eb Subject: (exotica) Re: Burt/Costello Date: 23 Nov 1998 15:22:48 -0800 >From: recliner >Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach's singing > >I very much enjoy the absolutely sincere recordings of The Shaggs, >Daniel Johnston and early Shonen Knife, and wish others could see >through to the sheer beauty of such things. I think Bacharach's >vocalizing fits right in with this group. The big difference is that the appeal of Johnston/Shaggs/Knife (and yes, I own records by those groups!) is based in an overall amateurish, garage-pop charm, whereas Bacharach's records are otherwise the peak of technical expertise and sophistication. Thus, Bacharach's poor singing is dissonant against his music in a way that doesn't happen with the above three. >I've been listening to the new recording of Elvis Costello singing >the new Bacharach songs. >But let me tell you, Costello's voice pretty much >decimates any integrity these tunes may hold. All the sincerity of >these melodies are destroyed by Costello's vocal histrionics. Only a >few where he tempers his irritating nasal whine are worth >considering, "Toledo" being one. This truely is an example of *bad* >singing if only because Costello should know better, but no, he has >his style to maintain, it is in his best market interests after all. That's Costello voice, and he presents it sincerely. Are you saying it would be MORE sincere if he attempted to sing light, feminine and casual like Dionne or Dusty? I can certainly grant your complaint about Costello's overblown singing, but I'd call that just a "minus," not an ferocious instrument of "decimation" and "destruction." Whew! And...uh...if Costello were really so preoccupied with "his best market interests," he certainly wouldn't be recording a record of mellow love ballads with an older pop songwriter who's mostly unknown to folks under 25. That seems fairly obvious. (Personally, my favorite track is "Tears at the Birthday Party," though "Toledo" is a good one too.) >From: "paul m." > >imho, there is no greater example of an artist entirely losing a "grip" >on a hard-boiled "less is more" sensibility than [Costello]. >the first four albums (especially the neo-stax Get Happy) are >still stellar in my book. >after that, he seemed to be trying to get in the Guiness Record >book for 'more lyrics per measure of music' than anyone in history. >torturous passages with lyrics so densely packed. I don't think anyone can challenge Lou Reed in this category. Not to mention any rap artist. ;) And, you know, the less-is-more sensibility isn't exactly a cornerstone of the exotica ideology either.... >not to mention EC's meandering focus-less, near melodies... I don't agree with that criticism, in any way. 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: chuck Subject: (exotica) Com Ed Invades New Oerleans Date: 23 Nov 1998 15:26:43 -0800 (PST) Combustible Edison really played a super tight set of their exotica on Saturday night at the Howling Wolf. The Howling Wolf is a small club in an old warehouse near the Mississippi river bridge. There's a great sound system with excellent separation inside. I got there an hour early and was impressed at the amount of well dressed people in a N O club. I mean this is generally a get down sort of club. I met Br. Cleve right off and was able to speak to him for a long time while a cassette from the In Hi Fi club NYNY played over the speaker system. I asked Br Cleve what one song was that I was totally impressed with and he said he found it down in Mexico & bought it for the cover. The band started playing at 10:30 an ungodly early hour for music in N O! The Sat night before Dick Dale started playing at 12:45. It was amazing how well rehearsed the band was. I forgot how well the millionaire can announce a song. He drank out of a cocktail glass the whole set. He toasted the audience and said "When in Rome" He's also is one great guitar player. The selection of songs was perfect, the band did a bang up version of "Shot in the Dark" and they ended the first set with "Miniskirt" They had the whole crowd moving and swaying and dancing to their music. The second set was even more upbeat. For an encore the did "Cry Me a River" and "Millionairs Holiday" I brought a friend with who had never heard of C Ed and being a musician he was so impressed they weren't reading music. He couldn't get over their musicianship. Needless to say our own Br Cleve looked oh so suave and played with inspired fingers! I was most impressed with the stereophonic extravaganza put out by his synth, I mean the music bounced back and forth enough to impress Esquivel himself. Br Cleve says Esquivel is not doing well at all. Its a shame that it will be a long time before theres a new C Ed album or they play again in NOLA. You're so lucky if they're still coming to your town. Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuck == Easy Listening in the Big Easy Chuc _________________________________________________________ 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) Holiday Gloom Date: 23 Nov 1998 18:41:39 -0500 Well, there's always "Christmas With Chippy the Chipmunk", an early 60s Chipmunk-sploitation album (on Silver Seal, a production of Premier Albums Inc). I like the liner notes: "Oops! Here we go again. That mischievous, lovable Chipmunk is here for Christmas. 'Chippy' and the gang (Woody & Chuck) are all here to help you celebrate the Christmas Season. Leading off with 'Jingle Bells,' they sing ten of the most popular Christmas songs -- songs for each and every one of the family. The children love to sing along with Chippy Chipmunk, and you grown-ups will be caught in the fun singing along and enjoying the merriment of the children. Make your home a happier home this Christmas. Join in some good wholesome fun and sing along with Chippy The Chipmunk." Funniest part is that although they changed the characters' names on the cover, on "Chipmunk Song" they actually use the Alvin, Simon and Theodore names! Maybe they figured Bagdasarian's lawyers wouldn't actually bother listening to the vinyl?!? 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: "Robert Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Who's dead? (was: Sex kitten in dog fight) Date: 24 Nov 1998 00:24:21 -0000 Indy Rutks wrote: > Please, Lou, keep it up! Or maybe start an obituaries-only e-mail > list... As I grumbled earlier this year, I for one would much prefer not to read screeds of largely irrelevant obits on this list. And given that *anyone* can set up a mailing list now for free at such places as http://www.listbot.com/ it would be very easy to set up an "obituaries list". Of course, I'd like to know when one of the "legends" passes on but I don't need to know about the demise of every last ukelele player. Having said all that, I gather I am in the minority and since I am now receiving posts separately, I might try to construct a cunning email filter... 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: recliner Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Burt/Costello Date: 23 Nov 1998 19:58:01 -0400 >>This truely is an example of *bad* >>singing if only because Costello should know better, but no, he has >>his style to maintain, it is in his best market interests after all. Eb replied: >That's Costello voice, and he presents it sincerely. Are you saying it >would be MORE sincere if he attempted to sing light, feminine and casual >like Dionne or Dusty? I was more or less refering to the fact that any singer chooses the way in which they sing. Sound,inflection, phrasing, etc. it all starts as a conscious decision of the vocalist, I didn't mean to single out Costello on this point. If he wanted to sing in a falsetto whats stopping him? Listeners expect singers to sound like they have always sounded, i.e. their trademark sound. If a singer re-vamps his or her style they are taking a risk from a sales point of view. This is all I meant by "market interests". As far as sincerity goes...maybe I was wrong, maybe this is Costello's truely uninhibited voice. It's difficult to tell when a professional performer in being sincere since some carry their "actors persona" into their personal life. >I can certainly grant your complaint about Costello's >overblown singing, but I'd call that just a "minus," not an ferocious >instrument of "decimation" and "destruction." Whew! Your're right I did get a little carried away. I was on a roll, couldn't help it. 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: "Carl Russo" Subject: (exotica) Ratso's KUSF Playlist--11/23/98 Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:17:30 -0800 NEW STUFF OF INTEREST HERE: Bombay the Hard Way (Bollywood soundtrack comp.), Stereolab double CD of unreleased tracks, Phantom Surfers with Davie Allan, Momus, DJ Spooky 10", (AND OLD:) Lisa Carver with Combustible Edison 7", Lance Kaufman 7" (Denny parody)... ================================== SOUL -- Tell it Like It Is BUFFALO DAUGHTER -- Socks, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll WAGONCHRIST -- Juicy Luke Vibert MILLA JOVOVICH -- DJ Puppy Talk DECEPTICONZ -- You Must Fight to Live on the Planet of the Apes THE EXOTIC SOUNDS OF LANCE KAUFMAN -- Peaceful Amazon Village TOO MUCH JOY -- Thanksgiving in Reno JOHN HARTFORD -- Category Stomp BLOOD ON THE SADDLE -- Please Quit Calling Me from Jail PHANTOM SURFERS & DAVIE ALLAN -- You Meet the Nicest People on a Harley ERIC MINGUS & JIM DVORAK -- How I Miss My Gun EXUDE -- If You See Kay BUDD NAF -- Synchro BISK -- Massive Flow ILLUSION OF SAFETY -- Quick Fix DJ SPOOKY VS. DJ SPECTRE -- Turntables Laughing at the Sky MOMUS -- MC Escher FRENCHMEN -- Satana DELEGATES -- Pigmy FOOM -- Foon GRANDADDY -- Everything Beautiful is Far Away AUTECHRE -- (#7) NUOC MAM -- Do You Really Know Mr. Quark? RAIDERS -- The Turkey ADAM SANDLER -- The Thanksgiving Song WELLWATER CONSPIRACY -- My Own Personal Ladder to the Moon (Ptolemic Terrascope comp.) UP BUSTLE AND OUT -- Hand of Contraband (Untouchable Outcaste Beats, vol. 1, comp.) KALYANJI & ANANDJI -- Ganges a Go Go (Bombay the Hard Way comp.) BROTHER JT -- Muff, Va. (It's Only 4 Dollars Every 5 Minutes comp.) STEREO TOTAL -- Get Down Tonight BERTIE HIGGINS -- White Line Fever ALISTAIR GALBRAITH -- Rivulets (Seratonin Ronin comp.) FLOSSIE & THE UNICORNS -- Foxy Face NME -- Skawful CROSSTOPS -- I'm an Accident BOB RIVERS -- Three Inch Tool DUB NARCOTIC & MIRANDA JULY-- Out of Your Mind TINO'S BREAKS -- H-Bomb (How to Play Latin Beats, vol. 2) BILLY NAYER SHOW -- The Closer She Gets HANK LEVINE & GEORGE ATKINS -- The Ask Not Waltz (Hollywood Hi-Fi comp.) WHITE TRASH DEBUTANTES -- Kennedy WORKDOGS -- Robert Kennedy Blues PSYCLONE RANGERS -- I Wanna Be Jack Kennedy LITTLE ROGER & THE GOSSEBUMPS -- Kennedy Girls NORM BURNS & THE FIVE STARS -- JFK Was Called Away (Beat of the Traps, vol. 1 comp.) ANGEL CORPUS CHRISTI -- The Day John Kennedy Died STEINSKI & MASS MEDIA -- The Motorcade Sped On THE FALL -- Oswald Defense Lawyer STEREOLAB -- Seeper Bold KRUDER & DORFMEISTER -- Lexicon LISA CARVER & COMBUSTIBLE EDISON -- Monopoly Queen -- C. "Ratso" Russo vvv\\\\/////vvvv\\\\\vvvvv/////\\\\\vvvvv/////vvvv\\\\\////vvv RATSO'S PAD http://russo.onza.net/home.html vvv\\\\/////vvvv\\\\\vvvvv/////\\\\\vvvvv/////vvvv\\\\\////vvv # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Sex kitten in dog fight Date: 23 Nov 1998 20:02:21 PST The big question remains, did all these people die before, or after your posting? Just need to feel secure, Magnus That's it! From now on I post only exotica birth announcements!! -Lou (If I were still posting obits, I would have mentioned: -Elmer H. Wavering, 91, former president of Motorola, who developed the first commercially successful car radio; -William Githens, 92, who opened the first all-newsreel movie theater; -Milton Kutsher, 82, owner of the Catskills resort, Kutsher's Country Club; -John C. Grimek, 88, the only man to win the Mr. America bodybuilding competition twice; -Rolando Laserie, 75, one of the greatest vocalists in Cuban music; and -Lonnie Pitchford, 43, master of the Delta blues style one-stringed diddley bow. He was taught by Robert Johnson's stepfather, Robert Junior Lockwood, and by Eugene Powell aka Sunny Boy Nelson of the Mississippi Sheiks (who died not long ago himself). ) ______________________________________________________ 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: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott Date: 24 Nov 1998 17:25:48 +0100 I strongly advise everyone to download the MP3 file of Raymond Scott of the Basta site www.Basta.nl Just click on the title Manhattan Research, Inc. on the startpage and download will start. Only 34 people so far downloaded the file but most of them gave me a very enthusiastic reaction. And what have you got to lose ? I believe it is thanksgiving in the US, so that gives you enough time to explore the complete Basta site. Ever listened to Roger Roger? If you love Andre Popp you will love Roger Roger too. Kind regards Jeroen vd Schaaf @ Basta BTW: The Theremin Project (Perfume set to Music, Music out of the Moon, Music for Piece of Mind) is almost coming to an end. Hope someone buys 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: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Tiki turkey Date: 24 Nov 1998 10:41:04 -0500 Wondering how to make those holiday gatherings more festive? Try these two tips from "How You Can Give Hawaiian Parties," an early 60s booklet by Patricia Collier, Chief Home Economist for Dole Foods. Hawaiian Suggestions for Miscellaneous Affairs There are times of course when a few Hawaiian touches rather than a complete Hawaiian theme are what is needed to add sparkle to a supper or celebration dinner or other special occasion. Let's say it's Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner you are serving. You, or one of your guests, have recently returned from the Islands. And so, just for fun, you drape a lei of raw cranberries or red radishes (or parsley or parsley-and-cranberries or radishes) around the neck and over the breast of the turkey, before bringing it to the table. For a Cocktail Party An amusing edible decoration for a large open-house gathering: a "pineapple" -- any size -- made of liverwurst shaped around an inverted jelly glass, with sliced stuffed olives for "eyes," and iris leaves for the top. Skin and mash the liverwurst, adding just enough mayonnaise so you can shape it by hand. Mark the surface with diagonal lines, centering each square with an olive slice. Serve with crackers or toast, and butterspreaders. Mrs. Collier primly avoids recipes for demon alcohol. Here's a classic, US measurements, from Ted Saucier's "Bottoms Up," 1951. Trader Vic by Trader Vic, Trader Vic's Trading Post, Oakland, California 1 1/2 oz. Siegert's Bouquet Juice of 1/2 lime 1 teaspoon sugar Squeeze lime into shaker. Add ice, rum, and sugar. Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Remember Ted's advice: Don't let a cocktail stand too long. Drink it as soon as possible, while it is "alive." Okole Maluna or Cheers! 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: "Charles Moseley" Subject: Re: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott Date: 24 Nov 1998 17:01:27 +0000 Whats this about Roger Roger? I have a moog record by him called Chatta Mooga Wooga (honestly!). Is he still working? 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) Stu "The Kid" Ungar obit Date: 24 Nov 1998 12:09:04 -0600 LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Professional poker player Stu ``The Kid'' Ungar, who won major tournaments and millions of dollars, was found dead Sunday in a motel on the Las Vegas Strip. He was 45. An autopsy was planned. Police said there was no sign of foul play. Friends and colleagues told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the frail, thin Ungar had been hooked on illegal drugs. He also suffered from numerous health problems, sometimes winning poker tourneys while in agony from stomach ailments and colitis. Ungar won the World Series of Poker tournament at Binion's Horseshoe casino in 1980, 1981 and 1997, the year he defeated more than 300 competitors to take home a $1.1 million pot. He once lost $1 million in a single craps session and dropped hundreds of thousands in no-limit poker games. Ungar became a top gin rummy player while growing up in New York City, where his father ran a bar. He learned to play poker after moving to Las Vegas in the 1970s. ------ My e-mail is running universally in the direction of me continuing to forward these obits, so I will. I'll identify them as such in the Subject: line so anyone who doesn't want to read them can delete them unread. I hope that'll make everyone happy. Here's 4 bonus URLs I think y'all'll enjoy: http://www.roadsideamerica.com http://www.toymuseum.com http://www.hotrodsworldwide.com http://members.tripod.com/~Al_Hoff -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: Q Subject: (exotica) Launch of Space Age Radio! Date: 24 Nov 1998 15:35:34 -0000 Hello, I'm pleased to announce that I have just gotten my own radio show with my city college/community radio station. It's called Space Age Radio and can be heard on CHSR 97.9 FM here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I've created a website to promote it (and my art) which is at: http://www.ri-studios.com/spaceage Any feedback on the website or its contents is greatly appreciated. Also, for all you radio programmers out there (I know there are a few) - any advice or words of wisdom would be great. I'm particularly interested in getting music for the show (I can only afford so much myself and the station doesn't have money to go out and buy whatever I want). Message ends, Q P.S. I'll post the timeslot for the show on my website when it is confirmed. -- Quentin Matheson 506-458-8254 tel Multimedia Designer q@ri-studios.com Renaissance Interactive Studios www.ri-studios.com **Check out Space Age Planet: www.ri-studios.com/spaceage # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Ryan Carter Subject: (exotica) combustible edison Date: 24 Nov 1998 15:57:29 -0500 (EST) Anyone want my extra ticket for the Combustible Edison show at the Bowery Ballroom on the 28th? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott Date: 24 Nov 1998 16:02:01 -0500 >I strongly advise everyone to download the MP3 file of Raymond Scott of the >Basta site www.Basta.nl Just click on the title Manhattan Research, Inc. on >the startpage and download will start. Only 34 people so far downloaded the >file but most of them gave me a very enthusiastic reaction. And what have >you got to lose? Busted. I'm one of the 34. And then I had to find an mp3 player to download so I could listen to it (the one here seems to work pretty well, is free and looks like very space age). The music is indeed very surprising stuff. Please give us more information on this piece. Thanks. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Re: Burt/Costello Date: 24 Nov 1998 18:15:01 EST If you listen to "God Give Me Strength" on the Costello/Bachrach recording you will see that EC does sing with falsetto for a few notes, and, not to fan the flames, but I think EC was the best rocksploitation/style-copying artist ever and can sing like a motherfucker to boot...He HARDLY chases market interests, he does what he wants to do musically regardless of trends or criticism. He is an artist--how many of his critics here can say the same??...Jimmy/longtime EC fan since Welcome to the Working 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Older or Newer Jack? Date: 24 Nov 1998 22:21:33 +0000 Just back from Django's in Portland with an armload of LPs. "Byron, you have got to be a record nut to carry all those records for 15 blocks in the rain!" I plead guilty. Found a great Jack Costanzo record, but wonder whether it is a reissue of an earlier album. This one is called "Themes Go Latin" Liberty LN 10202, released in 1983. It was produced by Felix Slatkin (who did that great percussion orchestra record for Liberty) with most arrangements and all piano solos by Eddie Cano. On this record are Naked City, Third Man Theme, Peter Gunn and Route 66 in very clear, well separated stereo. The personell make it seem like late 1950's...but the sound is so good and there is no indication this is a reissue, so I don't know. Many of the cuts on this album are now part of the Ultra Lounge CDs, although on clean vinyl they sound better and more alive! 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: bag@hubris.net Subject: (exotica) Laurie Johnson Date: 24 Nov 1998 22:21:48 +0000 One of the great things about this list is how it can inspire. Not so long ago someone mentioned the Laurie Johnson. Rummaging through the stacks today I found a 1964 record that has the elements so familiar to those familiar with The Avengers... agressive bongos, strings, percussive highlights and brass dynamics. "Introducing England's New Big Band Sound" Colpix CP 471. While normally I am not into strings, Mr. Johnson knows how to balance everything quite nicely. Thanks for suggesting it. 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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: Re: (exotica) Roger Roger (was: MP3 Raymond Scott) Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:42:06 +0100 Charles Moseley wrote: > > Whats this about Roger Roger? I have a moog record by him called Chatta > Mooga Wooga (honestly!). > Is he still working? No, the man died in '95. Check out the cd 'Grand Travaux' for a great introduction to his work. Roger Roger also worked for production music libraries. I would be very interested in tapes of some of his records. Anyone? Marco -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek - weirdomusic@wxs.nl +-------------------------------------------+ visit Record Collector's Heaven http://members.xoom.com/Kallie/index.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: "Basta Audio Visuals" Subject: (exotica) Roger Roger Date: 25 Nov 1998 11:42:16 +0100 >>From: "Charles Moseley" >>To: exotica@xmission.com >>Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:01:27 +0000 >>Subject: Re: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott >> >>Whats this about Roger Roger? I have a moog record by him called Chatta >>Mooga Wooga (honestly!). >> >>Is he still working? >> >>Charlie Well Charlie, It just is a strange thing that Delirium in Hifi by Andre Popp sells very well and the Grands Travaux by Roger Roger does not. And that is strange since Popp was very influenced by Roger Roger and this album is so much fun to listen too. Dont think of my posting as a true ad: of course we want to sell discs but only to keep Basta going and trying to make more records like Popp, Scott, Roger Roger & the Beau Hunks. Believe me or not: I only work at Basta as of Februar this year and I did not listen closely enough to Roger Roger untill a month ago. And after listening close to it I thought: WOW, What a great record!!! And it was so close to me all the time ! Keeping Basta going takes so much of my time that I really must make time for these listening sessions. And then I was confused why so many people bought Delirium in Hifi and so less people Grands Travaux. I just thought I mention that in a small posting. I am sure there are some exotica - people from this list that know the record. Maybe they can give their opinion in this matter. I gave mine for what it is worth it. Regards Jeroen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) MP3 Preview Date: 25 Nov 1998 12:32:29 +0100 X-Sender: ecam@popmail.voicenet.com >Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:02:01 -0500 >To: exotica@lists.xmission.com >From: "m.ace" >Subject: Re: (exotica) Preview MP3 Raymond Scott > >>I strongly advise everyone to download the MP3 file of Raymond Scott of the >>Basta site www.Basta.nl Just click on the title Manhattan Research, Inc. on >>the startpage and download will start. Only 34 people so far downloaded the >>file but most of them gave me a very enthusiastic reaction. And what have >>you got to lose? > >Busted. I'm one of the 34. And then I had to find an mp3 player to download >so I could listen to it (the one here seems to >work pretty well, is free and looks like very space age). > >The music is indeed very surprising stuff. Please give us more information >on this piece. Thanks. This piece is from an upcoming album that is currently being prepared for release. The album will be titled Manhattan Research, Inc. and contain musical compositions by Raymond Scott. As described on www.RaymondScott.com: ***** This collection, produced by Gert-Jan Blom (leader of the Beau Hunks), will feature first-time-ever releases of archival Scott recordings (1950s-70s) including such RS inventions as The Electronium, The Clavivox (Keyboard Theremin), The Circle Machine (early sequencer), The Rhythm Modulator, tone-generators, & other home-built equipment. ***** You could roughly devide the recordings into two sections: commercials & electronic experiments. My personal opinion is that Raymond made the most strange & beautiful compositions in his 'cockpit of dreams'(that is how he called his studio, beautiful expression, isnt it?). The track provided comes from one of the discs I have with material Gert Jan selected for this release. But it is not even sure this track will be on it. There is really so much material to choose from. Together with the two discs in this album will be a 96 page booklet co