From: "William" Subject: (exotica) ukelele Date: 01 Apr 2001 15:10:07 +0800 >. American G.I.'s >brought >back souvenirs from their tour of duty (tour of booty) in the Pacific, like >ukeleles, this is a question i have been wondering for awhile, how does the yukelele fit into exotica? i mean did it really become popular after WW II or was it just re-popularlized by that? the reason i ask is i have this dvd for some old silent film called "the crowd" i haven't checked what year it was made but it seems to be from the 20s or 30s and in that film the star often plays a yukelele. so was its popularity a resurgence or genuinely new after WWII? willliam in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Hodge" Subject: (exotica) Luxuria Date: 01 Apr 2001 10:02:48 +0100 Has anyone read the excellent Luxuria article on 'Qui etes vous, Polly Maggoo?' Sounds one hell of a groovy movie Anyone seen it? Does anyone know where I could get a PAL copy? Thanks Paul # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) poutine Date: 02 Apr 2001 09:21:48 -0500 > From: alan zweig > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:28:44 -0500 > To: kendoll@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, exotica > Subject: Re: (exotica) poutine > > Enjoy your curds and weigh too while you're at it. > > (wey? way? wee?) I believe it's "whey" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) ukulele Date: 01 Apr 2001 11:36:28 -0400 >this is a question i have been wondering for awhile, how does the >yukelele fit into exotica? i mean did it really become popular after WW II >or was it just re-popularlized by that? the reason i ask is i have this dvd >for some old silent film called "the crowd" i haven't checked what year it >was made but it seems to be from the 20s or 30s and in that film the star >often plays a yukelele. so was its popularity a resurgence or genuinely new >after WWII? The ukulele's real breakthrough into "the mainland" occurred in 1915 at Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. There was an intense ukulele/Hawaiian music fad that lasted for many years. The 50s wave an echo of the original. Decent historical summary here: http://64.33.34.112/.WWW/ukehist.html m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) ukulele Date: 01 Apr 2001 11:44:50 -0400 >Decent historical summary here: >http://64.33.34.112/.WWW/ukehist.html A more detailed history here: http://www.geocities.com/~ukulele/history.html http://www.geocities.com/~ukulele/history2.html --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) ukelele & jazz Date: 01 Apr 2001 18:09:01 +0100 I guess that would be a resurgence. George Formby springs to mind, the actor, singer and ukelele player who performed songs like "I'm the husband of the wife of Mr. Wu". Of course postwar Exotica didn't evolve out of nothing. One could argue that Jazz in itself is exotic. You can't talk about Exotica without mentioning Duke Ellington with his Jungle Band. And Josephine Baker and her "Le Revue Negre" in Paris, 1925. But that goes back to the question wether Jazz musicians going back to their roots should be considered exotic or not. There always seems to be an element of (self)exploitation involved. I assume that when Josephine Baker was dancing in her banana skirt, she was parodying the image that whiteys had of black culture. William wrote: > >. American G.I.'s > >brought > >back souvenirs from their tour of duty (tour of booty) in the Pacific, like > >ukeleles, > > this is a question i have been wondering for awhile, how does the > yukelele fit into exotica? i mean did it really become popular after WW II > or was it just re-popularlized by that? the reason i ask is i have this dvd > for some old silent film called "the crowd" i haven't checked what year it > was made but it seems to be from the 20s or 30s and in that film the star > often plays a yukelele. so was its popularity a resurgence or genuinely new > after WWII? > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) Listening to ALL your music Date: 01 Apr 2001 14:05:21 -0400 (EDT) >i actually thought about doing this, with over 5000 >records i do not know how long it would take but it would help me log tracks and get rid of less than good stuff. One lazy but still partly effective way to do this with CDs is to buy a CD player which will hold tons of CDs. It took me some time to warm up to the idea, but a couple of years ago I bought a pioneer CD player which holds 101 CDs, 100 of which I often simply listen to on random play, track by track. I keep a list of what discs are in there. It embarrasses me to say it, but I've discovered a lot of great stuff in my own collection this way which I might never have paid attention to before. cheers, Jonny http://www.psychedelicado.com Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.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: edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Listening to ALL your music Date: 01 Apr 2001 19:18:47 +0100 wow! I want one. how much did it cost? delicado@cheerful.com wrote: > > One lazy but still partly effective way to do this with CDs is to buy a CD player which will hold tons of CDs. > > It took me some time to warm up to the idea, but a couple of years ago I bought a pioneer CD player which holds 101 CDs, 100 of which I often simply listen to on random play, track by track. > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ashleywarren1@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) re: jose padilla Date: 01 Apr 2001 14:20:41 EDT In a message dated 4/1/01 0:01:35 AM EST, king8egg@ms60.url.com.tw writes: << thanks for the answer but i am wondering if this is the same jose padilla? the one i was asking about or rather the track is from 1960. the track i believe is really called "la violetera". not that someone in their 60s can't be a downtempo d.j. but just wondering if it is the same one or a someone else with the same name? >> Definitely someone with the same name...both Jose and Padilla are very common Spanish names. 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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) Luxuria Date: 01 Apr 2001 13:21:26 -0500 no i have not seen it but i just read Bro Cleves article about it yesterday and i must say he thoroughly wet my appetite. in fact, i am drooling. if you find a copy, i can transfer it to PAL for you!!! hint hint groovily yours bump >Has anyone read the excellent Luxuria article on 'Qui etes vous, Polly >Maggoo?' > >Sounds one hell of a groovy movie > >Anyone seen it? Does anyone know where I could get a PAL copy? ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ buMp "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rockwilson909 Subject: (exotica) Glassy Eyed.. Date: 01 Apr 2001 19:56:10 +0100 Was someone asking about recordings of music played on wineglasses? The following review is from the February issue of The Wire: Angus Maclaurin – Glass Music (Bubble Core BC032 CD) ‘Glass Music’ presents a series of compositions by the American sound manipulator Angus Maclaurin, all of which, with the exception of two tracks which add trimmings of kalimba, theremin and bass guitar, are realised using nothing but finely tuned wineglasses. The ghost of Harry Partch is inevitably close by whenever esoteric sound sources are involved, and while some of the tracks bear a superficial resemblance to his tuned percussive symphonies, Glass Music is much more eerily lunar and elemental than that. The circular drones that buzz and hum around the wet mouths of the glasses form a spectral anchor around which darkly sonorous melodies clank and boom, and at times the landscape becomes so alien that it almost sounds electronic, bringing to mind the elegiac moon musick of Coil. Hope this helps, Rock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rockwilson909 Subject: (exotica) Magnetic cocktails.. Date: 01 Apr 2001 20:06:34 +0100 Apologies if this is old news but if you go to: http://store.yahoo.com/fridgefun/magrec.html you’ll find two sets of fridge magnets, ‘Tropical Drinks’ and ‘Classic Cocktails’, each magnet having a recipe and illustration – Classics have okay-ish art deco pics, Tropical have rather nice Tikis. Bottoms Up! Rock # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 01 Apr 2001 14:03:56 -0700 (PDT) > > Here in Wisconsin we like to bread dem curds 'n > deep fry 'em. > > The natives of Wisconsin eat funny prey. > Indeed dey do, don't you know. Cheese curds were actually better than I expected them to be - but they put dairy products on everything. I found out that in some diners (in Green Bay, at least), if you do not request "no butter", your cheeseburger will be served with a slab of butter on it. ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Gnutella Date: 02 Apr 2001 10:13:23 +0100 Has anybody on this list come across Limewire from Gnutella.co.uk? Oh My God! What a piece of software. It works like Napster but instead of just searching for MP3s, you can search for video, audio, images, software, etc. Thanks to my office's recent connection to a DSL line (at last), I have downloaded the fantastic UNKLE video, Rabbit in your Headlights and a few Radiohead videos. I keep searching for sixties music clips but haven't found any yet. Of course, the more users, the more stuff we can all find. Log on Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) poutine again Date: 02 Apr 2001 10:47:15 +0100 And when you say Gravy do you mean the brown meat drippings stuff, or that funny sauce that they have in the US? El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: (exotica) Free Satpal Ram Date: 02 Apr 2001 13:58:37 +0200 sorry for the non Exotica-related post but it is still partially musically related info... maybe some you have heard the track "Free Satpal Ram" by Asian Dub Foundation. I have got this forwarded email from my sister (she got it from the official list that supports Satpal); this guy is imprisoned in England (he already spent 4 years more than he was sentenced to). This is the text of a letter that can be faxed or mailed to info@paroleboard.gov.uk (do not forget to add your signature) :) DjB The Parole Board Prison Services Headquarters Abell House John Islip Street London SW1P 4LH Fax no: 0207 217 5793 / 5677 e.mail: info@paroleboard.gov.uk Tel no: 020 7217 5690 / 5266 / 5045 / 5260 / 5136 Dear Parole Board Re Mr Satpal Ram (E94 164) I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the ongoing Parole Review of the case of Mr Satpal Ram. I understand that the review of Mr Ram’s case began in December 1999 and that nine months later Mr Ram himself was interviewed by the Parole Board (September 2000). In previous correspondence with yourself and with various Government officials, including the Prison Minister, Mr Paul Boateng MP, assurances were given that the ‘overall process would take between six and nine months’. To date, fifteen months after the Parole Review began, I am astonished that no decision has yet been communicated to Mr Satpal Ram’s regarding his continued imprisonment. You are, I am sure, well aware of the disturbing facts in this case and of the immense public interest from Parliamentarians, Religious and Community leaders as well as members of the public both from here in the UK and abroad in seeing Mr Ram’s continued imprisonment come to an end. May I re-iterate my view that Mr Ram having served his original recommended tariff of eleven years, and now in his fifteenth year of imprisonment, should be immediately released. You are also aware that Mr Ram continues to enjoy the strong support of family and friends and has both accommodation and employment awaiting him on his release. In addition to the many positive reports you have received regarding Mr Ram, I understand that a professional psychotherapeutic counsellor who has worked intensely with many ex-offenders has stated ‘that were Satpal Ram to be released tomorrow he would be of no risk to the public.’ In the light of increased public concern about the Prison Service and in particular institutionalised racism and its adverse effect on black prisoners within the criminal justice system, I am concerned at the apparent lethargy within the Parole Review Board in being able to communicate any decision on Mr Ram’s case. I hope that you are able to allay my concerns on this regard and announce that the Parole Review Board has recommended to the Home Office that Mr Satpal Ram should be immediately released. Yours sincerely, [signature] # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Horror themed liquer Date: 02 Apr 2001 05:37:08 -0700 (PDT) --- edjunkita wrote: I know beer & wine > isn't strong enough for > you > vikings, but in Belgium there are a couple of > microbreweries, usually run by > monks, > that issue beer with a Satanic theme and is twice as > strong as regular lager > beer. I used to see an English "barley wine" called Old Nick, which had a grinning image of the prince of darkness on it (and there's always Bacardi rum with its bat). Some company in Italy has a wine series with > dictators. I have their > bottle > of Führerwein with a picture of Adolf on it, there's > also one with Mussolini. I love the idea. Or at least the mind that came up with it. Do they list a vintage year on the bottles? Riesling? Pinot Gris? Rocket Fuel? I can imagine the fun of serving it at a dinner party... a little horst wessel lieder on the stereo... ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Up with People Date: 02 Apr 2001 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Sad to say in the 6th grade I probably actually enjoyed these cult rallies. My record collection at home consisted, if I can recall correctly, of the Best of Donny Osmond and CCR's brand spankin' new "Mardi Gras" lp. And then my head shorn like a sheep at the .25 barber shop and my snap-on polyester tie. Compared with me, Up With People might have been Alice Cooper or Lord Buckley. --- Colleen Pyles wrote: > Ah yes, I remember the mandantory "assemblies" at > school in > the '60's, when Up With People would perform. I > think this was to > quash our fondness for paisley bell-bottoms and the > fuzzy fur vests > like Sonny Bono wore. Publicly, I denounced them, > as did my peers, > but privately, (I was into exotica, even then) I > admired > their "spunk", and their ability to tour the country > and do this. > And their costumes were so..."wholesome". ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Up with People Date: 02 Apr 2001 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Sad to say in the 6th grade I probably actually enjoyed these cult rallies. My record collection at home consisted, if I can recall correctly, of the Best of Donny Osmond and CCR's brand spankin' new "Mardi Gras" lp. And then my head shorn like a sheep at the .25 barber shop and my snap-on polyester tie. Compared with me, Up With People might have been Alice Cooper or Lord Buckley. --- Colleen Pyles wrote: > Ah yes, I remember the mandantory "assemblies" at > school in > the '60's, when Up With People would perform. I > think this was to > quash our fondness for paisley bell-bottoms and the > fuzzy fur vests > like Sonny Bono wore. Publicly, I denounced them, > as did my peers, > but privately, (I was into exotica, even then) I > admired > their "spunk", and their ability to tour the country > and do this. > And their costumes were so..."wholesome". ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) poutine again Date: 02 Apr 2001 10:01:54 -0400 That would be the funny sauce they have in the US - we have it in Canada, too, unfortunately... cheryl > And when you say Gravy do you mean the brown meat drippings stuff, or that > funny sauce that they have in the US? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Thrifting blues....... Date: 02 Apr 2001 16:15:40 -0400 Decided to tackle the rows of plastic bins at a nearby GoodWill this past = rainy Saturday and didn't turn up much at all. (Aside from the 100's of = copies of "Going Places" and "Whipped Cream".....). Found a series of LP's sans the box labeled "Happiness Is....." and was = wondering if that's where Alan got the title of a recent ExoticaRing = contribution?? It's put out by Reader's Digest - instincts told me to = pass these up....... I did buy "Tough Guitar" by Al Caiola and another copy of Mancini's music = to Peter Gunn. Why I'm buying multiples of stuff I already have I can't = explain..........besides that "Miracle Surface" on the RCA records should = last me ages right?? ;-) Ran across a comedian's LP that rips off the Whipped Cream cover. A guy = covered in spaghetti and tomato sauce holding a few bread sticks. Exact = same pose, etc. Title is something like Spaghetti and other Delights......= ....almost bought it for the cover but didn't. =20 - 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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: Re: (exotica) Glassy Eyed.. Date: 02 Apr 2001 23:20:52 +0200 Another wineglass CD is Missa Umbrarum by Daniel Lentz. Most tracks are with wineglasses and voices and one track with only wineglasses. Very spiritually oriented music. And let's not forget "Glass world of Anna Lockwood" from 1970 which explores every possible way to make sound out of glass (including wineglasses). rockwilson909 wrote: > Was someone asking about recordings of music played on wineglasses? The > following review is from the February issue of The Wire: > Angus Maclaurin ? Glass Music (Bubble Core BC032 CD) > =91Glass Music=92 presents a series of compositions by the American sou= nd > manipulator Angus Maclaurin, all of which, with the exception of two > tracks which add trimmings of kalimba, theremin and bass guitar, are > realised using nothing but finely tuned wineglasses. The ghost of Harry > Partch is inevitably close by whenever esoteric sound sources are > involved, and while some of the tracks bear a superficial resemblance t= o > his tuned percussive symphonies, Glass Music is much more eerily lunar > and elemental than that. The circular drones that buzz and hum around > the wet mouths of the glasses form a spectral anchor around which darkl= y > sonorous melodies clank and boom, and at times the landscape becomes so > alien that it almost sounds electronic, bringing to mind the elegiac > moon musick of Coil # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting blues....... Date: 02 Apr 2001 21:58:24 -0000 nathan wrote >Found a series of LP's sans the box labeled "Happiness Is....." and >was >wondering if that's where Alan got the title of a recent >ExoticaRing >contribution?? It's put out by Reader's Digest - >instincts told me to >pass these up....... There's a great version of "Grazin' In The Grass" by Joe Reisman in that set. But I think that's about it from the whole box. You might want to get it if it's only 50 cents or a buck. "grazin' in the grass" is a pretty good tune as it is. there are soooo many covers of it. what's the best one? jb _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: Re: (exotica) Horror themed liquer Date: 03 Apr 2001 01:07:39 +0200 Ben Waugh wrote: > Some company in Italy has a wine series with > > dictators. I have their > > bottle > > of Fuehrerwein with a picture of Adolf on it, there's > > also one with Mussolini. > > I love the idea. Or at least the mind that came up > with it. I don't know wether they actually endorse the ideology or not. > Do they list a vintage year on the bottles? nope, no info at all > Riesling? Pinot Gris? Rocket Fuel? I can imagine the > fun of serving it at a dinner party... a little horst > wessel lieder on the stereo... ahem, that may take the joke a bit too far.. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting blues....... Date: 02 Apr 2001 19:16:28 -0400 At 04:15 PM 4/2/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: . >Found a series of LP's sans the box labeled "Happiness Is....." and was wondering if that's where Alan got the title of a recent ExoticaRing contribution?? It's put out by Reader's Digest - instincts told me to pass these up....... There's more than one song out there called "Happiness is". There's the almost unbearable one by the Ray Conniff singers which some members of this list apparently enjoy. My exoticaring contribution was based on another song of that name. As far as passing up things put out by Reader's Digest, you should definitely check out the artists first. I used to pass up all such "box sets" until I discovered Terry Baxter and those Columbia Record Club exclusives that he did. If you see his stuff and you like classic Now Sound, you shouldn't pass it up. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting blues....... Date: 02 Apr 2001 19:24:39 -0400 At 09:58 PM 4/2/01 -0000, james brouwer wrote: > >"grazin' in the grass" is a pretty good tune as it is. there are soooo many >covers of it. > >what's the best one? I'd never say THE best but there's a good moog version by the Electronic Concept Orchestra. (if you don't have it, PLEASE tell me) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:16:16 -0400 Just noticed the 2 DVD box sets of Thunderbirds shows. But I'm confused here... What exactly is the differeence between Thunderbirds, Stingrays, and the one I best remember from when I was young, Fireball XL5? I do like all the the music I've heard and assume all three were done by Barry Gray? Any recommendations on the DVD's? Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 02 Apr 2001 21:42:35 -0400 > Here in Wisconsin we like to bread dem curds 'n deep fry 'em. Ja, dere hey. > Dem curds are mighty tasty, doncha know. mike wrote: > i know you folks from quebec will gasp at the gaucheness, but here in > western canada poutine is usually made with shredded mozzarella instead > of cheddar curds. laugh at my lamentably inauthentic revisionist tastes= , > but i actually prefer mozzarella to curds because it's melty-er and > doesn't squeek when you chew it. i hope this doesn't start east/west > tensions. You American fry everything! I'm from western Canada myself but real fres= h cheddar curds don't exist in western Canada so it wouldn't be worth tryin= g to replicate anyway. Funny how this recipe has made its way across the country. But, not to worry... we have a few variations ourselves here in Quebec, thanks to our multitude of ethnic influences... There's Poutine "Italienne" (that's with tomato - meat sauce instead of gravy - and I thi= nk mozzerella?) and Poutine "viande fum=E9" (that's with tomato - smoked mea= t sauce - cheese may even be optional?) for those that want to go all the w= ay. For the uninitiated, smoked meat is kind of like pastrami but its really = a pickled brisket that's slow smoked. Rumour has it its better than anythin= g even New York has to offer and its another thing they don't have in in western Canada (I know this for a fact because if it were available my father would be eating it regularly instead of complaining about having t= o wait until he comes here!) It's sliced thick and served hot and it has ab= out the same effect on your stomach as the poutine. If anyone still has an appetite left, ask me about "cretons"! Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:16:02 -0500 Brian wrote: > If anyone still has an appetite left, ask me about "cretons"! Would that be a combination of croutons and cretins? -- Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:27:00 -0500 Brian wrote: > Just noticed the 2 DVD box sets of Thunderbirds shows. But I'm confused > here... What exactly is the differeence between Thunderbirds, Stingrays, and > the one I best remember from when I was young, Fireball XL5? Too bad you missed all the posts about Garry Anderson that were flying around here last week. Here's the briefest possible synopsis of the three shows that I can think of: Thunderbirds: puppets rescuing other puppets Stingray: puppets under the sea Fireball XL5: Puppets...In...SPAAAAACE!!! > I do like all the the music I've heard and assume all three were done by Barry > Gray? Yes. > Any recommendations on the DVD's? If you have an extreme fetish for cool gadgetry, creepy marionettes who smoke, high adventure, and great music, then you can't possibly go wrong by snapping these up. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Re: What is exotica, anywqy! Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:37:23 -0500 Thanks for the great description of exotica, especially about the surf part. I might be figuring this all out...but when I do...some new genre pops up on the list and I get confused all over again. I'm just going with the flow here..... Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Linds" Subject: (exotica) Cannibal King Date: 02 Apr 2001 20:40:27 -0700 Has anyone heard the song Cannibal King? The words are: Oh That cannibal King With The Big Nose Ring Fell In Love With The Dusty Maid And Every night in the pale moonlight This Is what she'd say. Ah,rump, Ah, rump, Ah, rump Da-De-Ya-De-Day Ah, rump, Ah, rump, Ah, rump Da-De-Ya-De-Day Thanks. Any info greatly appreciated. Brian Linds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) poutine Date: 02 Apr 2001 22:46:25 -0500 Alan wrote: Enjoy your curds and weigh too while you're at it. (wey? way? wee?) ^^ It's whey, Alan. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) exotica at the movies Date: 03 Apr 2001 00:33:32 -0400 I just saw a very strange movie that was chock full of recognizable tunes by our exotica heroes. Les Baxter, Chico O'Farrill, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente and Robert Maxwell. It's a bit of film noir and a bit of a movie about making movies but all in all, it's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. It's called "The Woman Chaser" and yes indeed it was based on the Charles Willeford novel. But somehow I think it was "loosely adapted". It stars the guy who played "Putty" on Seinfeld. But that tells you nothing. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Crossman Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny - Enchanted Isle talk Date: 02 Apr 2001 21:53:03 -0700 Many thanks to the list member who sent me a CD-R of Martin Denny's Enchanted Isle (and Exotic Love). Some questions and discussion for Denny fans: Enchanted Isle originally was issued in 1961, I believe. 1) Denny starts the album with "Coronation", which he already recorded for the Quiet Village LP. This arrangement actually is closer to the Les Baxter original and sounds a lot more like "Quiet Village". Seems strange to have re-recorded it though. 2) This album is really, really good. Compared to later works such as A Taste of Honey, Enchanted Isle finds Denny still pretty much in classic-exotica mode, though there are drums present (as they were on all albums after 1958). I'm wondering if perhaps this was the last great Denny album of "classic" style music (e.g. the moog album would be excepted). What do you think? Issues of the album can be discussed here... issues of the CD-R can be sent to me offline, please. :-) BTW- Exotic Love is also quite good, though it is clearly much closer to the Easy Listening sound of the 60's than any sort of "exotica" of the 50s. -Kevin -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Luxuria Music's Limited Days Date: 03 Apr 2001 02:48:52 EDT Sad news for many of us. At 6 PM on Monday evening it was announced that Luxuria Music would be on the air for only two more weeks. This cutting edge Internet radio station / web site has become very important to many as a source of great music and discussion. I hope that all here will visit the site and send regards to those appropriate in the remaining days. Regards, Tiki Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Luxuria Music's Limited Days Date: 03 Apr 2001 09:41:00 +0200 >Sad news for many of us. At 6 PM on Monday evening it was announced that >Luxuria Music would be on the air for only two more weeks. huh?!?! what is the reason for this, and is there anything we can do to "save" it??? I'll have to check the site... DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 03 Apr 2001 09:15:36 +0100 Fireball XL5 was a 50's rocket show, I don't really remember it. Stingray think early 60's space age submarines, the stingray itself a great streamlined underwater rocket. Thunderbirds was mid 60's, they had it all, rockets, space stations, submarines, the mole (a tunneller), it was less 'Space age' in design. A lot of great aging effects on the craft. The Thunderbirds were used by International Rescue, who surprisingly, spent their time rescuing trapped people (in space, underground, under water etc etc). The puppet design got better as time moved on, the heads slowly got more into proportion and the wires became less visible, but for me the best design was for Stingray. Great baddies too, underwater gurgling monsters in submarines that looked like enormous saltfish. The music for Stingray and Thunderbirds was by Barry Gray, Don't know about Fireball XL-5, thats never repeated in the UK. Not that I've seen anyway. Theres also supposed to be a Pre-Fireball series called Rocket Boy (I think) also by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. There was a fantastic band in one of the episodes shown here about a month ago, a sort of space/surf song with overtones of Joe Meek, they had 3 versions of it (including one with lady Penelope singing), I've never seen that on a soundtrack. Also I loved the effort they put into the domestic settings the lounge on Tracy Island (Thunderbirds) is a wonderful piece of mid sixties kitsch, Lady Penelope's stately home is very nicely observed too. Anything can happen in the next half hour. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare Just noticed the 2 DVD box sets of Thunderbirds shows. But I'm confused here... What exactly is the differeence between Thunderbirds, Stingrays, and the one I best remember from when I was young, Fireball XL5? I do like all the the music I've heard and assume all three were done by Barry Gray? Any recommendations on the DVD's? Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nicola Battista Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 03 Apr 2001 11:13:21 +0200 >The music for Stingray and Thunderbirds was by Barry Gray, Don't know about >Fireball XL-5, thats never repeated in the UK. Not that I've seen anyway. >Theres also supposed to be a Pre-Fireball series called Rocket Boy (I think) >also by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. I'd like to add that somewhere around 1990 in UK some "house" dj or producer sampled the original themes and music to make some crappy Stingray megamix/dance track. By the way the legendary line "5-4-3-2-1 Thunderbirds are go" was first sampled at the beginning of one of the tracks that started the sample craze back in 1988 in UK... "Beat Dis" by Bomb The Bass, aka Tim Simenon (and on the same bit you hear Shaft wah-wah guitar samples...) DjB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Horror themed liquer Date: 03 Apr 2001 05:52:55 -0700 (PDT) --- Edward Milhuisen wrote: > > Ben Waugh wrote: > > I love the idea. Or at least the mind that came up > > with it. > > I don't know wether they actually endorse the > ideology > or not. It's the idea of "anything is product" that I was referring to. The last symbol of transcendental evil used to market cheap wine. I'd be at a loss to say what it is that they endorse. > > Do they list a vintage year on the bottles? > > nope, no info at all Really? Odd. > > Riesling? Pinot Gris? Rocket Fuel? I can imagine > the > > fun of serving it at a dinner party... a little > horst > > wessel lieder on the stereo... > > ahem, that may take the joke a bit too far.. You may be right. I still wonder what "the joke" is. Or how far anyone might go with it. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Luxuria Date: 03 Apr 2001 09:05:03 EDT In a message dated 4/1/1 4:38:33 AM, paul.hodge@virgin.net wrote: >Has anyone read the excellent Luxuria article on 'Qui etes vous, Polly > >Maggoo?' That was written by list member Brother Cleve.. I asked him about it, but he'll probably weigh in because his route to this story was rather circuitous...JB/hope it hasn't already been posted, I've been flat out for 3 days with flu # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting blues....... Date: 03 Apr 2001 09:13:26 -0400 > > I did buy "Tough Guitar" by Al Caiola and another copy of Mancini's music to > Peter Gunn. Why I'm buying multiples of stuff I already have I can't > explain..........besides that "Miracle Surface" on the RCA records should last > me ages right?? ;-) I have to confess that I have felt the urge to buy copies of things I already have as well. I almost always check to see if the condition is better than what I have, which is rational, but sometimes it's just that I hate to see a good album remain in the bins. I bought a second copy of Sir Julian's Love Is Blue for a dollar when my first copy had cost me fifteen (in a kind of bizarre rationalization that that way I had paid $8.00 for each--not that I needed two anyway). Speaking of Mancini, in a two-day period I managed to find Living Stereo versions of More Music from Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky, and The Mancini Touch to replace the mono versions I had. There's tons of Mancini out there, but he's still probably my favorite. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Taub Subject: (exotica) Luxuriamusic Date: 03 Apr 2001 09:55:35 -0400 This really is sad. There finally was a station that played music I wanted to listen to and = had articles that I found interesting. Since it had often contained = stories or postings from people I know, Luxuria had a local feel. Thank = you to all involved. I will sincerely miss it. Eric # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Moe Koffman Date: 03 Apr 2001 10:36:34 -0400 April 3, 2001 Moe Koffman, Canadian Musician Who Applied Flute to Jazz, Dies at 72 ORONTO, April 2 (Reuters) — Moe Koffman, a celebrated Canadian jazz musician best known for his breezy 1957 flute hit, "Swinging Shepherd Blues," died on Wednesday. He was 72. The cause was cancer, his publicist said. Mr. Koffman, a flutist and saxophonist, was one of Canada's jazz institutions. During a five-decade career, he recorded dozens of albums and performed with many of the genre's greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Dorsey and Doc Severinsen. His music ranged from cool-toned bop to jazz interpretations of pop and classical material. Born Morris Koffman in Toronto in 1928, he began playing violin at 9 and alto saxophone, clarinet and flute at 13. He studied theory at the Toronto Conservatory of Music before moving to the United States for further study in the 1940's. Before the release of his signature "Swinging Shepherd Blues," one of the few flute hits in jazz, Mr. Koffman worked on the road with big bands, including those led by Dorsey and Charlie Barnet. He returned to Toronto in 1955 and divided his career between his own jazz group and session work. In the mid-1960's he appeared several times as a soloist on NBC's "Tonight" show. He released more than 30 albums, the latest, "The Moe Koffman Project" (Universal) just last year. Mr. Koffman received the Order of Canada in 1992 in recognition of his outstanding work and service to the arts industry. He is survived by his wife, Gisele; three sons, Herbie, Larry and Elie; and a stepdaughter, Ilya. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Luxuria Music's Limited Days Date: 03 Apr 2001 10:37:04 -0400 I'm not getting anything when I log on to the site now! Gee, that's really too bad - I liked Luxuria. Is there anything any of us can do about keeping it around? Mil, are you out there? cheryl > Sad news for many of us. At 6 PM on Monday evening it was announced that > Luxuria Music would be on the air for only two more weeks. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: (exotica) scriptwriters wanted Date: 03 Apr 2001 08:44:15 -0600 i've decided that this is the year i'm going to buy myself an imac & a dv camera & start making digital movies. for my first project i thought i'd make a short film (maximum length 5 min.) for an amateur video contest that's held in edmonton every march. i'm not sure exactly what it's going to be about, but i have an idea that it's going to have something to do with characters who are obsessive thrift shoppers. i see one character collecting nothing but copies of "whipped cream and other delights" (to paper a wall, of course). i'm not much of a scriptwriter, so i'm throwing the authorship open to anyone who wants to contribute. the deal is: suggest a scene, a line of dialogue, a character, a situation, an image or whatever & everyone who contributes will be given a screenwriting credit. thanks in advance, mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Sesso Matto Date: 03 Apr 2001 16:01:44 +0100 Does anybody know this Italian soundtrack? by Armando Travaijoli I think. Any recommendations? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: Re: (exotica) Luxuria Music's Limited Days Date: 03 Apr 2001 10:00:52 -0500 DjB wrote: >> Sad news for many of us. At 6 PM on Monday evening it was announced that >> Luxuria Music would be on the air for only two more weeks. > > huh?!?! > what is the reason for this, and is there anything we can do to "save" it??? Probably because of the bottom-line fixations of the bean-counters at Clear Channel (the new owners). May they all spend eternity in the middle-of-the-road Hell they're trying to create! Read more about Clear Channel here: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/03/14/payola/index.html (Thanks for the reminder, Carl!) -Indy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrifting blues....... Date: 03 Apr 2001 12:45:05 -0400 At 09:13 AM 4/3/01 -0400, Clayton Black wrote: .>. Speaking of Mancini, in a two-day >period I managed to find Living Stereo versions of More Music from Peter >Gunn, Mr. Lucky, and The Mancini Touch to replace the mono versions I had. >There's tons of Mancini out there, but he's still probably my favorite. . There's tons of Mancini records in mediocre to bad shape. I finally got a good copy of Peter Gunn (but with the checkerboard cover) but except for his seventies records, I almost never find any of his things in good shape. I guess that's because people not only bought his records but played them too. And I think he may be my favorite "lounge" composer too. AND I don't think his "exotica" record gets enough respect from exoticats. I think it's right up there in the top ten with Les and Martin and George Cates and Robert Drasnin and whoever else. It's the quiet exotica record. That particular record "The Versatile..." I do have an okay copy of finally AZ AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Cannibal King Date: 03 Apr 2001 12:58:51 -0700 (PDT) It seems to be part of an ancient oral legacy related to boyscouts and campfire singers... wards off the wendigo: Cannibal King Written By: Unknown Copyright Unknown The Cannibal King with the big nose ring Fell in love with the dusting maid And every night by the pale moonlight It sounded like this to me... Ah-rump (kiss kiss), Ah-rump (kiss kiss) Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a Ah-rump (kiss kiss), Ah-rump (kiss kiss) Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a As the years went by like one, two, three Soon there was a family And every night by the pale moonlight It sounded like this to me... Ah-rump ma-ma, Ah-rump, ma-ma Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a Ah-rump ma-ma, Ah-rump, ma-ma Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a As the years went by like one, two, three Soon there was a family. And every night by the pale moonlight It sounded like this to me... Ah-rump gran-ma, Ah-rump gran-ma Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a Ah-rump gran-ma, Ah-rump gran-ma Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a As the years went by like one, two, three Soon there was no family And every night by the pale moonlight It sounded like this to me... Ah-rump (silent pause), Ah-rump (silent pause) Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a Ah-rump (silent pause), Ah-rump (silent pause) Ah-rump, Ditty-aye-dee-a-a-a __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: (exotica) National Libraries/Recorded Music Date: 03 Apr 2001 13:54:51 -0700 (PDT) In checking up on Brian's song request I came across the following that might be of interest to some. Both the US Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada have recorded music online and other information relevant to our hobbyhorse for free download: http://www2.nlc-bnc.ca/gramophone/src/home.htm http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/record/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] links to articles Date: 03 Apr 2001 18:19:19 -0400 http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/03/03445154.shtml Bluegrass songwriter Randall Hylton dies at 55 ----------------- http://www.nationalpost.com/news/updates/story.html?f=/news/updates/stories/20010328/entertainment-420020.html Friends fondly recall Moe Koffman, 72, as jazz player who set high standards ----------------------- http://cdnow.com/allstararticle/fid=258525 Pianist John Lewis, Modern Jazz Quartet Founder, Dies At 80 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: (exotica) The Fight for Luxuria 2 Starts Now Date: 03 Apr 2001 21:51:38 -0400 We have a Luxuria mailing list up: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic Thanks Corey 3rd! Some of us are trying to make some noise. Were going to send press releases to magazines and newspapers. I got “Worcester Magazine” on board and they are waiting for an article. I need an article. And some are busy doing it right now. Anybody want to whip up an article? Post it here and to the new Yahoo Luxuria list if you want. I’ll pass it on and you should try in your local area. Luxuria is going to our help. Some day they will rise up again. But as a wise Chatter and as Babs Gonzales also said: “Luxuria needs people with ‘Dem Connections’”. We have people here who know people? Anybody have any ideas? I was ready to start buying stuff in the Luxuria Boutique! It looks like it got revamped a few days ago! With more than just James Bond DVD’s. Luxuria made a deal with some reseller? So I was hoping to find something I wanted and didn’t already have. Why should I give some Public Radio station $100 and get a stupid CD that cost them $5 when I can support Luxuria just by buying CD’s at their site? I have to ask: Is it too late to start? Is a massive “buying” campaign enough to convince The Suits that they got something here? Rumors abound about Clear Channel and there motives. My wife asks me: “Now that Luxuria is going out what are you going to with your evenings?” Answer: “Watch TV with you again!” Lets all try do to something. Domenic Ciccone "Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday’s 6-9AM EST http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/ http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny - Enchanted Isle talk Date: 03 Apr 2001 20:08:15 -0700 (PDT) It's Martin Denny's Birthday on April 10. The Maestro will be 90! Please email any positive wishes to me and I will forward them along. As in the past few years, he really appreciates the lovefest... Mahalo, Fluid Floyd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 04 Apr 2001 11:23:01 -0400 That would be the Shadows no doubt! - 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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 04 Apr 2001 16:43:36 +0100 Well, they weren't doing the walk, and they looked cool in a way the shadows never could. I've never seen a picture of Barry Gray, of course the hope is that he was a cool looking fellow in nice suit and shades. I know the Anderson's were fond of modelling their figures on real people, Cary Grant and Peter Lorre spring to mind, so maybe it was Bazza. I think the guitars looked like nice Burns ones rather than the strat that Hank Marvin used. But maybe that was just wishful thinking too. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare > That would be the Shadows no doubt! > > - Nate > > < month > ago, a sort of space/surf song with overtones of Joe Meek, they had 3 > versions of it (including one with lady Penelope singing), I've never > seen > that on a soundtrack.>> > > > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Theodore McCarty,Henry Brown Date: 04 Apr 2001 12:03:38 -0400 Theodore M. McCarty TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Theodore M. ``Ted'' McCarty, a key figure in the development of the electric guitar and former president of Gibson Guitar Co., died Sunday. He was 91. In his 18 years as president at Gibson, McCarty transformed the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based maker of acoustic musical instruments into the purveyor of guitars to the stars. The solid-body electric guitar was considered something of a gimmick when McCarty left the Wurlitzer Co. to join Gibson in 1948. He had a degree in commercial engineering and had been an engineering designer for the military during World War II. Despite not being musically inclined, McCarty saw possibilities in the electric guitar. At Gibson, he helped bring to life the Les Paul series, named for the blues guitarist who endorsed it, the Explorer series, widely used by both rock and country guitarists, and the radical Flying V. McCarty later bought the Bigsby Co., which manufactures vibratos for guitars. He sold the company and retired in 1999. April 4, 2001 Henry Brown, a Chemist Who Made the Metal Shine, Dies at 93 By PAUL LEWIS ,NYTimes Henry Brown, a chemist who helped make the American Dream a gleaming reality by finding new ways of keeping chromium plate bright and shiny, died on March 15 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93. In the years just after World War II, Mr. Brown's discoveries made bathroom fixtures and kitchen utensils silvery and put the gloss on the bumpers of the finny automotive monsters Detroit turned out in the 1950's and early 60's. But there had been other earlier and less obvious beneficiaries of his skill at making dull metals shiny. In the austere war years, he showed the United States Treasury how to make steel pennies gleam and invented a high-speed process for brass-plating shell cases so they did not stick in artillery guns. To prevent chromium plate from losing its shine, said Edwin Hoover, a metallurgist who worked with him, Dr. Brown used sulfur-bearing organic compounds, like saccharin, to brighten the underlying layer of nickel plate placed on the metal before a thin covering of chrome was added. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Millionaire Subject: (exotica) R.I.P. LuxuriaMusic Date: 04 Apr 2001 14:23:36 -0700 Hi Exotic Types, I just sent this message to the LuxuriaMusic mailing list, but if you'll allow me, I'd like to communicate these sentiments to you all as well...especially since the members of the Exotica list have been a PARTICULARLY useful resource and source of help to us! (BTW, all y'alls who helped us with the Beatles thing: we REALLY ARE working on sending you some cool stuff by way of thanks..hang in there!) You can reach me personally at rkriviera@earthlink.net ...OR..rkriviera@yahoo.com The message is: Ladies and gentlemen, It is my sad duty to inform you all that as of April 14, LuxuriaMusic will cease to exist. In the past year it has been our honor and privilege to Share the WUV with you, the people. We were thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet many of our artistic inspirations; and to have had the chance to discover new music and experiences, and to share them with you. Most especially, it has been our great pleasure to have made the acquaintance of the beautiful people who make up the LuxuriaMusic community; because you have been the living heart of the experiment that was Luxuria. We are looking into moving LuxuriaMusic to another host, or keeping the concept alive in some other form. Please address any suggestions, comments, greetings or large credit card payments to: LuxuriaMusic@aol.com All that remains to be said is that we would like to express our very sincere thanks for your support, encouragement and love. Sincerely, The Staff of LuxuriaMusic www.luxuriamusic.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) R.I.P. LuxuriaMusic Date: 04 Apr 2001 17:33:18 EDT In a message dated 04/04/01 5:25:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, millionaire@luxuriamusic.com writes: << It is my sad duty to inform you all that as of April 14, LuxuriaMusic will cease to exist. In the past year it has been our honor and privilege to Share the WUV with you, the people. >> I have to say that I signed on the first day Luxuria Music came on. It was the best thing that had happened in my musical life in the last couple of years. It was a great outlet for fantastic tunes, great friendship and simple understanding of the love of this type of music. I wish nothing but the best of luck to the fine folks of LM in the aftermath of this sad event. Balmy regards, Tiki Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) Cannibal King Date: 04 Apr 2001 14:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Hi Brian or any exoticat Who does this song? What kind of music is it? I might want to include this in our next Mardis Gras march. In Mondo Kayo, our Carnival club, we play a song called "Congo Man" by the Mighty Sparrow. The words are: He cooked one up He eat one raw It taste so good He Holler more....more more more more MORE I envy the Congo Man I wish I was he I want to shake his hand He eat until his stomach upset but I never eat white meat yet Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Brian Linds wrote: > > Has anyone heard the song Cannibal King? The words are: > Oh That cannibal King With The Big Nose Ring > Fell In Love With The Dusty Maid > And Every night in the pale moonlight > This Is what she'd say. > Ah,rump, Ah, rump, Ah, rump Da-De-Ya-De-Day > Ah, rump, Ah, rump, Ah, rump Da-De-Ya-De-Day > > Thanks. Any info greatly appreciated. > Brian Linds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) new releases Date: 04 Apr 2001 23:25:22 -0400 Here's a bunch of new releases announced in the latest Aquarius Records e-letter. Lou ---------------- ZORN, JOHN "Gift, The" (Tzadik) cd 16.98 A nice and pleasant record from the notorious John Zorn? Yes, and one that, in keeping with its title, could be the Zorn you might give to your mother, only perhaps not since the booklet has artwork by Trevor Brown (best known for the infamous Whitehouse album covers)! From Tzadik's obi blurb: "A beautiful and lyrical exploration of surf, exotica, easy listening and world beat, The Gift is an honest and heartfelt offering to music lovers the world over: an invitation to forget about the worries and cares of the world; to sit back and relax. Featuring Marc Ribot (Postizos), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle), Cyro Baptista (Herbie Hancock), Jamie Soft (Bobby Previte), Joey Baron (Masada) and many special guests, this is the album Naked City fans have been waiting for. A side of John Zorn you've rarely heard, the music of The Gift is both relaxing and stimulating, like feeling perfectly at home in a place you've never been before. John Zorn 'for lovers only.'" Hmm. ----* ----* Serge Gainsbourg Reissues : ----* The entire output of French pop sex symbol Serge Gainsbourg for the Mercury / Philips labels has now been reissued in a newly remastered / repackaged series of 18 CDs. 24-bit remastering from original analogue tapes, with extended booklets of liner notes (French text only) and photos. Many of these albums have been long unavailable as single CD reissues with original graphics. We can special order any of these, for those interested. Many are available in limited edition LPs (the first four are packaged as 10"s) and stay true to the design and packaging of the originals. If anyone purchased the three CD compilations released domestically years back by Philips / Mercury (Du Jazz Dans le Ravin, Couleur Cafe, and Comic Strip), and want to venture further into the genius of Gainsbourg, you might want to try the following CDs we've decided to stock. GAINSBOURG, SERGE "Confidentiele" (Philips) lp/cd 16.98/16.98 Originally issued in 1964, Confidentiel takes on a new sound for Gainsbourg, stripping down the musical backing to simply electric guitar and upright bass (Eleck Bacsik and Michel Gaudry, respectively). Wonderful and relaxed jazz sounds here. GAINSBOURG, SERGE "du Chant a la Une!" (Philips) cd 16.98 The first Gainsbourg album, originally issued in Sept. of 1958. Vocal jazz-pop, many tracks here were featured on the Du Jazz Dans le Ravin compilation (the bulk of said comp were actually culled largely from his first and fourth albums as well as the Confidentiele LP, some of which spilled over onto the Couleur Cafe compilation, which in turn was mostly taken from his second album and the Percussions LP!) Orchestrated by Alain Goraguer, also known for his brilliant score of La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)! GAINSBOURG, SERGE "Gainsbourg Percussions" (Philips) cd 16.98 The sixth Gainsbourg album, originally released by Philips in 1964. A return to Alain Goraguer's orchestration and the wonderful sounds produced on his second LP. Extremely lively and playful, this record definitely lives up to its title, as drums and percussion are the driving force behind the music here. Taking the Mambo influence of No2 and bringing forth other worldly influences from African and Latin cultures, Gainsbourg Percussions is a beautiful record, rich in sounds! GAINSBOURG, SERGE "Initials B.B." (Philips) cd 16.98 This is a collection of non-LP singles released between 1965-1968. Featuring many of the tracks which make up the Comic Strip collection released here in the states. Classics include: "Bonnie and Clyde" & "Comic Strip" (both with Brigitte Bardot), "Ford Mustang", "Qui est In' Qui est Out'", "Bloody Jack" and "Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde", among others. Not necessary for those who already own the Comic Strip collection, but definitely essential Gainsbourg! GAINSBOURG, SERGE "L'etonnant" (Philips) cd 16.98 Third album, again orchestrated by Goraguer. Originally issued in April of 1961. Strangely enough, barely any of these tracks made it onto any of the American comps, save for "Les Amours Perdues", which made an appearance onto Couleur Cafe. Another Gainsbourg classic, "La Chanson de Prevert" appears here alongside many other whimsically beautiful songs perfect for Spring. GAINSBOURG, SERGE "No. 2" (Philips) cd 16.98 The second, untitled Gainsbourg album, originally issued in June of 1959. Brilliantly orchestrated by Alain Goraguer, with playful Mambo flair which dominated the style found on the Couleur Cafe compilation! Features a hilarious take on the American Western musical (think Oklahoma), "Jeunes Femmes et Vieux Messieurs"! Wonderful and lively. GAINSBOURG, SERGE "No. 4" (Philips) cd 16.98 The fourth Gainsbourg album, originally issued by Philips in May, 1962. Orchestrated once again by Alain Goraguer. No4 is a bit slicker in production and slightly darker in tone than Gainsbourg's previous efforts -- just a taste of what's to come. Many tracks here were featured on the Jazz and Couleur Cafe collections. ----* ----* Printed Matter : ----* MCSWEENEY'S #6 literary journal+cd 25.00 The experimental literary journal this time gives top billing to its "very intense heated passionate battle/embrace with They Might Be Giants." Also comes with a 44 track cd featuring Philip Glass, They Might be Gs, M Doughty and SE Willis, etc. Just got this in yesterday, haven't had a real chance to peruse. The writing includes paly, postcards, stories and some sketched from ACME Novelty Library's Chris Ware. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: (exotica) RE: Gerry Anderson Date: 05 Apr 2001 13:13:14 +0100 Here is as full a list of Gerry Anderson stuff as i can manage; Super car - never seen it, never repeated. rubbish i am told. Fireball XL5 - Puppets in space , Black and white, features a space monkey as i recall. Theme tune is cool, Joe Meekesque, a little reminiscent of 'Just like eddie' By Heinz. ( Blond german rocker from the early 60's.) Stingray - great intro and outro music. brilliant titles. each episode usually featured a cool underwater exotic villains den. Quite sophisticated for a kids programme the hero 'Troy Tempest' is the Boyf. of the boss'daughter. However he also seems to have a thing goin' on with the Beautiful mute submariner 'Marina'. She usually saves the day, the outro music is about her. Its a loungey sorta love song. ( lyrics -'Marina, aqua marina why won't you say that you will stay close to my heart .etc.' ) Thunderbirds - all i will add is a - live action film version is threatened every year. THE BEST TITLES EVER. Gerry invented 'Supermarionation' as the moniker for his puppetry/ film animation style. ( cool huh?) The Tracey island interior is way cool - Wallpaper magazine readers would kill to live in such a stylish abode. The series also featured the gorgeous Tintin, a half japanese beauty who all the boys lusted after. The shadows actually WERE the band in one of the films.( albeit in life like puppet guise ) Joe 90- great music. Synopsis.- Mad inventor working for the government( UK )creates a way of transferring masses of knowledge to his 9 year old son Joe. As an act of paternel devotion he fills him up in each episode by sitting Joe in a huge spherical rotating cage. ( called the big rat ) He then packs him off to work for his secretagent american uncle. ( named Sam no less!!!) Joe doesn't mind too much as he gets to kill people and fly planes and stuff. They did great merchandise to tie in with all the Anderson stuff -for Joe 90 you got his flying car and his secret agent suitcase. F.A.B! Captain Scarlet - really scary intro titles ( i was 6!) The mysterons ( who are from Mars )are not very happy with the planet earth, as we have destroyed some oversize testubes and lavalamps, which they called their city. ( if you've seen the pilot you'll know what i mean. ) They set about trying to destroy us - in true 60's villain style they left huge clues for the world protection agency - 'Spectrum' which, manned by captain scarlet and others would foil their plans on a weekly basis. Each male member of the team had a colour. ...unfortunately for captain ochre you could end up with a rubbish name. ( see reservoir dogs!) If you were female you were an Angel. (Haaallo...) In return you got to wear cool skin tight white leather pierre cardin style jumpsuits....and flew fighter planes and blew things up. You would usually be french. Your name would be harmony, destiny, melody or villany. ( made the last on up to make sure you are still awake ) The mysterons could copy a person once they had been killed( like the bodysnatchers )they would arbitrarily replace innocent people each episode to help them kill us all. their main agent 'Captain Black' was the one would blew up their city in the first place. poetic justice. They killed captain scarlet in episode one and turned him against the earthmen, somehow he then became indestrucible, and worked for us again. After that it gets a bit predictable - Earth in peril, big clues, usually something is about to explode, 'Let me go in' says the mortal captain blue. 'No, let me Paul' says Scarlet. big dope. I always hoped that one day Scarlet would say 'Actually i'm abit nauseous today,... could you Paul?' ( hehheh ) There were a few versions of the theme tune released as i recall, i think some of them charted pretty much worldwide. At some point the Andersons did something about a Vicar ( Clergyman ) who could shrink but i know naff all about that. Apparently Sylvia Anderson( his wife ) was the Brains behind a lot if it. She designed the costumes and is rumored to have come up with the concepts for most of the programmes. Next UFO - a CLASSIC - his first and best live action venture. Had a much more american feel to it although it was set in the UK. If you have never seen an episode of this - you must. Synopsis - Aliens keep visiting earth to steal our organs. ( i'm not talking Hammonds) Very dark. very scary. the military have a base on the moon where Nick Drake's sister - i kid you not, and other beatiful women wear purple wigs and Barbarellaesque attire. Here they look out for the weekly Alien invasion. Filmed in 67 (i think ) each prog would give us a dark picture of our future and then Hilariously inform us that the year is 1980. This never fails to crack me up. Brilliant 60 s beat theme tune. The male Lead played By Ed Bishop looks amazing in it. Everybody does. Great vehicles - flying , ground and submarine, the modelling on this show was incredible.Such Great cars. I always lusted after a Gullwing after seeing the Delorean's in this. Space 1999 Featured Martin Landau in the lead role. Great theme music. very typical of Tv mystery programme tunes of the 70's. This was intended to be the sequel to UFO - the moon ( and the base on it ) has broken away from the Earths orbit. It is Basically 'Lost in space', its not dated well. Quite cheesy. Like a very bad Star Trek episode. Cute though. Terrahawks - Puppets again, Mid 80's. Evereything was rubbish about this programme. The puppetry looks worse than Fireball XL5. The last thing he did was launched in the states first as far as i know. I can't remember what is was called. 'space cops' or something like that. I saw one episode - absolutely awful. One of the Carradines was in it i think. Sorry to those who would think this 'off topic' - If you track down just one episode of Thunderbirds /Stingray / UFO / or Captain Scarlet ( you can get 'em on Video) i KNOW you will find something there to love. ...anyway at least its not another - sample? yes or no posting. Jamie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: (exotica) RE Thunderbirds Date: 05 Apr 2001 14:02:51 +0100 Hope this doesn't post twice. Apologies if it does. Here is as full a list of Gerry Anderson stuff as i can manage; Super car - never seen it, never repeated. rubbish i am told. Fireball XL5 - Puppets in space , Black and white, features a space monkey as i recall. Theme tune is cool, Joe Meekesque, a little reminiscent of 'Just like eddie' By Heinz. ( Blond german rocker from the early 60's.) Stingray - great intro and outro music. brilliant titles. each episode usually featured a cool underwater exotic villains den. Quite sophisticated for a kids programme the hero 'Troy Tempest' is the Boyf. of the boss'daughter. However he also seems to have a thing goin' on with the Beautiful mute submariner 'Marina'. She usually saves the day, the outro music is about her. Its a loungey sorta love song. ( lyrics -'Marina, aqua marina why won't you say that you will stay close to my heart .etc.' ) Thunderbirds - all i will add is a - live action film version is threatened every year. THE BEST TITLES EVER. Gerry invented 'Supermarionation' as the moniker for his puppetry/ film animation style. ( cool huh?) The Tracey island interior is way cool - Wallpaper magazine readers would kill to live in such a stylish abode. The series also featured the gorgeous Tintin, a half japanese beauty who all the boys lusted after. The shadows actually WERE the band in one of the films.( albeit in life like puppet guise ) Joe 90- great music. Synopsis.- Mad inventor working for the government( UK )creates a way of transferring masses of knowledge to his 9 year old son Joe. As an act of paternel devotion he fills him up in each episode by sitting Joe in a huge spherical rotating cage. ( called the big rat ) He then packs him off to work for his secretagent american uncle. ( named Sam no less!!!) Joe doesn't mind too much as he gets to kill people and fly planes and stuff. They did great merchandise to tie in with all the Anderson stuff -for Joe 90 you got his flying car and his secret agent suitcase. F.A.B! Captain Scarlet - really scary intro titles ( i was 6!) The mysterons ( who are from Mars )are not very happy with the planet earth, as we have destroyed some oversize testubes and lavalamps, which they called their city. ( if you've seen the pilot you'll know what i mean. ) They set about trying to destroy us - in true 60's villain style they left huge clues for the world protection agency - 'Spectrum' which, manned by captain scarlet and others would foil their plans on a weekly basis. Each male member of the team had a colour. ...unfortunately for captain ochre you could end up with a rubbish name. ( see reservoir dogs!) If you were female you were an Angel. (Haaallo...) In return you got to wear cool skin tight white leather pierre cardin style jumpsuits....and flew fighter planes and blew things up. You would usually be french. Your name would be harmony, destiny, melody or villany. ( made the last on up to make sure you are still awake ) The mysterons could copy a person once they had been killed( like the bodysnatchers )they would arbitrarily replace innocent people each episode to help them kill us all. their main agent 'Captain Black' was the one would blew up their city in the first place. poetic justice. They killed captain scarlet in episode one and turned him against the earthmen, somehow he then became indestrucible, and worked for us again. After that it gets a bit predictable - Earth in peril, big clues, usually something is about to explode, 'Let me go in' says the mortal captain blue. 'No, let me Paul' says Scarlet. big dope. I always hoped that one day Scarlet would say 'Actually i'm abit nauseous today,... could you Paul?' ( hehheh ) There were a few versions of the theme tune released as i recall, i think some of them charted pretty much worldwide. At some point the Andersons did something about a Vicar ( Clergyman ) who could shrink but i know naff all about that. Apparently Sylvia Anderson( his wife ) was the Brains behind a lot if it. She designed the costumes and is rumored to have come up with the concepts for most of the programmes. Next UFO - a CLASSIC - his first and best live action venture. Had a much more american feel to it although it was set in the UK. If you have never seen an episode of this - you must. Synopsis - Aliens keep visiting earth to steal our organs. ( i'm not talking Hammonds) Very dark. very scary. the military have a base on the moon where Nick Drake's sister - i kid you not, and other beatiful women wear purple wigs and Barbarellaesque attire. Here they look out for the weekly Alien invasion. Filmed in 67 (i think ) each prog would give us a dark picture of our future and then Hilariously inform us that the year is 1980. This never fails to crack me up. Brilliant 60 s beat theme tune. The male Lead played By Ed Bishop looks amazing in it. Everybody does. Great vehicles - flying , ground and submarine, the modelling on this show was incredible.Such Great cars. I always lusted after a Gullwing after seeing the Delorean's in this. Space 1999 Featured Martin Landau in the lead role. Great theme music. very typical of Tv mystery programme tunes of the 70's. This was intended to be the sequel to UFO - the moon ( and the base on it ) has broken away from the Earths orbit. It is Basically 'Lost in space', its not dated well. Quite cheesy. Like a very bad Star Trek episode. Cute though. Terrahawks - Puppets again, Mid 80's. Evereything was rubbish about this programme. The puppetry looks worse than Fireball XL5. The last thing he did was launched in the states first as far as i know. I can't remember what is was called. 'space cops' or something like that. I saw one episode - absolutely awful. One of the Carradines was in it i think. Sorry to those who would think this 'off topic' - If you track down just one episode of Thunderbirds /Stingray / UFO / or Captain Scarlet ( you can get 'em on Video) i KNOW you will find something there to love. ...anyway at least its not another - sample? yes or no posting. Jamie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:05:15 +0200 (CEST) Anyone remembers "Danger Man"? Secret agent yarn. What about "the Champions" from 1968? Superheroes. What about "Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased" A ghost detective? These are out on dvd in britain, and looks appealing judging on the covers, any opinions about these serials? Cool music? Thrills and chills? Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Gerry Anderson Date: 05 Apr 2001 09:14:11 -0400 > From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:13:14 +0100 > To: exotica@lists.xmission.com > Subject: (exotica) RE: Gerry Anderson > > The mysterons could copy a person once they had been killed( like the > bodysnatchers )they would arbitrarily replace innocent people each episode to > help them kill us all. > their main agent 'Captain Black' was the one would blew up their city in the > first place. poetic justice. I've found my new moniker. >Aliens keep visiting earth to steal >our organs. ( i'm not talking Hammonds) >Very dark. very scary. I like the idea of them stealing our Hammonds. In fact, I think that did happen for about twenty years, didn't it? >Sorry to those who would think this 'off topic' It seems to me that the list is really about the pop aesthetic of the late 50s to mid-70s, so it seems plenty on topic to me. On a different matter, Tuesday I picked up a strange soundtrack to the film "Scent of Mystery." The music is by Mario Nascimene (or something like that, I know I'm confusing it with Milton Nascimento, but I can't quite recall and I'm not at home . . .) and the album's a snooze (with the possible exception of two funny tunes that Eddie Fisher sings). But what's interesting is the description of the film--"Smell-O-Vision," which I had thought was John Waters's invention (being completely uneducated about films--I've slept through most of the film discussions held here, I'm afraid). Apparently 35 different "aromas" were released into the theater (along with, I presume, those that the audience was responsible for) as kind of "clues" to help the audience decide who was the culprit trying to murder the beautiful young American in Spain. Perfume, pipe tobacco, and others were supposedly among the clues. Does anybody know anything about this film or any other experiments with "Smell-O-Vision"? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) RE: Gerry Anderson Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:26:10 +0200 (CEST) > Stingray - great intro and outro music. brilliant titles. each episode > usually > featured a cool underwater exotic villains den. Quite sophisticated for a > kids > Complete Stingray box set will be relaesed on dvd in britain in the end of this month. Not very expensive at all. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 05 Apr 2001 09:38:22 -0400 Matt wrote: > > If anyone still has an appetite left, ask me about "cretons"! >Would that be a combination of croutons and cretins? You're a bit close.. but its a spread made of lard, spices, and I believe bread crumbs or some filler... like you really need any filler! Course I find the concept of blood pudding sickening but if you can handle one, then the other probably won't faze you! 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 05 Apr 2001 16:23:08 +0200 (CEST) citerar Brian Karasick : > You're a bit close.. but its a spread made of lard, spices, and I > believe bread crumbs or some filler... like you really need any > filler! Course I find the concept of blood pudding sickening but if > you can handle one, then the other probably won't faze you! Blood pudding? We have that here too, Mmm yummy! Strange that this dish is still around, now that we really not need to use all ingridients from the animals we slaughter. People must just lust after blood. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Chedder curds? Date: 05 Apr 2001 07:47:23 -0700 (PDT) There's nothing more vile than Scrapple, the gray cubed meat once (still?) popular in the southern states. Texas Chainsaw massacre cuisine. My Dad fried this up for us all through the 60s and 70s. Then in my teens I chanced to read the ingredients. A friend from Alberta, responding to this, told me he had a similar epiphany with regard to "head cheese". May not be as horrible as its name... I have no idea, I did not ask. > > Blood pudding? We have that here too, Mmm yummy! > Strange that this dish > is still around, now that we really not need to use > all ingridients > from the animals we slaughter. People must just lust > after blood. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Jimmy Miller, Trinh Cong Son Date: 05 Apr 2001 10:53:27 -0400 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=004697791836624&rtmo=qxeXext9&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/4/3/db02.html JIMMY MILLER, who has died aged 84, was the wartime leader of No 1 Royal Air Force Dance Orchestra, better known as The Squadronaires. -------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010404/re/vietnam_funeral_dc_1.html Thousands Pay Tribute to 'Vietnam's Bob Dylan' HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners packed the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to pay tribute at the funeral of anti-war musician Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam's most beloved singer songwriter. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/world/05SON.html Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam-era Antiwar Singer, Dies at 62 By SETH MYDANS BANGKOK, April 4 — Trinh Cong Son, an antiwar singer and songwriter whose melancholy music stirred Vietnamese on both sides of the war, died on Sunday and was buried today at a Buddhist temple near Ho Chi Minh City. He was 62. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Date: 05 Apr 2001 11:00:55 -0400 Omigod! I just learned that Big Daddy Roth died yesterday. Apparently a heart attack. I'm sure Lou will have more to post. http://www.ratfink.org/ratfink3.htm --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 05 Apr 2001 11:55:29 -0400 >Anyone remembers "Danger Man"? Secret agent yarn. By the time we saw it in the USA, it was called "Secret Agent" and Johnny Rivers had a hit with the American theme song. The British version has a cool harpsichord lead. Patrick McGoohan played an agent called "Drake" and it was lightly hinted at that Number 6 in McGoohan's subsequent series, "The Prisoner" may have been Drake trying to leave the service. 1780932-0972 (They took away my name) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Gerry Anderson Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:10:33 -0400 >The last thing he did was launched in the states first as far as i know. I >can't remember what is was called. 'space cops' or something like that. I saw >one episode - absolutely awful. One of the Carradines was in it i think. Space Precinct. Yes, it was plenty stupid. No Carradines in the regular cast, but it did have "Knot's Landing"'s Ted Shackelford. It also starred Jamie Willis. JAmie Willis. JaMIE WillIS. No, I don't know who that is, either. The show was about an earth policeman reassigned to an intergalactic force. It's a pity, because it had an excellent theme song! The TV buff from...France, 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Lester ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey,Ed Winter Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:16:37 -0400 Filed at 6:20 a.m. ET http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Baifpxq95ld0e GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Lester ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey, a blues singer-guitarist known for his croaky voice, died Tuesday of prostate cancer. He was 74. Kinsey and his sons Kenneth, Donald and Ralph became known as ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey and His Fabulous Sons. The sons now form the Kinsey Report and record for Alligator Records, a Chicago blues label. The Kinsey Report has toured with musical groups including the Allman Brothers Band. In the early 1990s, the elder Kinsey released the album ``I Am the Blues.'' Among the blues standouts backing him up were Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Sugar Blue and Pinetop Perkins. Ed Wint http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B76993er http://us.imdb.com/Name?Winter,+Edward LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed Winter, an actor who played paranoid CIA officer Col. Flagg on the television series ``MASH,'' died March 8 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 63. Winter's career spanned more than 30 years, and included appearances in hundreds of television shows and dozens of films. He made his Broadway debut in 1966, playing Ernest in the musical ``Cabaret.'' He was nominated for a Tony Award for the role. He also appeared in such movies as ``A Change of Seasons,'' ``The Buddy System'' and ``Porky's II.'' # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth / Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey Date: 05 Apr 2001 18:44:30 +0200 Who was the real "Big Daddy"? -Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.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: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth / Lester "Big Daddy" Kin Date: 05 Apr 2001 17:53:49 +0100 Who was the real "Big Daddy"? And is Big Daddy Kane dead as well? What about Big Daddy himself (the wrestler)? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: kendoll Subject: Re: (exotica) Curdxotica Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:09:23 -0600 i loved head cheese as a kid & still do. for the uninitiated, it's tasty chunks of pork in aspic. my mom uses only pork hocks but some people use the head -- hence "head cheese." mike Ben Waugh wrote: > > There's nothing more vile than Scrapple, the gray > cubed meat once (still?) popular in the southern > states. Texas Chainsaw massacre cuisine. My Dad fried > this up for us all through the 60s and 70s. Then in my > teens I chanced to read the ingredients. A friend from > Alberta, responding to this, told me he had a similar > epiphany with regard to "head cheese". May not be as > horrible as its name... I have no idea, I did not ask. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] John Lucas Date: 05 Apr 2001 14:19:45 -0400 http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bm1fqoatabijb http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22john+lucas%22+trumpet John Lucas; Accomplished Jazz Musician By SHAV GLICK, Times Staff Writer John Lucas, who overcame physical disabilities inflicted by rheumatoid arthritis to become an active member of Southern California's jazz community for decades, has died. He was 84. Lucas died of complications from pneumonia March 17 at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, two days after his birthday. Stricken with rheumatoid arthritis as a boy, Lucas was unable to bend his arms or legs, unable to get his hands within a foot of his face, unable to wiggle his fingers, unable to walk. Refusing to view himself as disabled, Lucas became an accomplished professional musician, artist, writer and jazz historian. Playing a trumpet that was stretched out so that his hands could reach the valves, Lucas started his own band called the Blueblowers and became a popular performer during the 1950s and 1960s at Los Angeles-area nightclubs such as the Beverly Cavern, St. Francis Room, Radar Room and the Track in Pasadena. John C.V. Lucas was born March 15, 1917, in Minneapolis. His family moved to Southern California in 1920 and settled in Pasadena in the 1930s. After graduating from what was then Pasadena Junior College, Lucas enrolled at Stanford. But when many of his friends went into the service in World War II, Lucas quit to work in the military defense industry in Pasadena. He also worked as a reporter for the East Pasadena Herald and began a lifelong hobby of drawing pen and ink sketches that he made into Christmas cards. While a student in Pasadena, Lucas formed the Blueblowers, playing for student dances, usually in the school's open-air gymnasium. The Blueblowers continued to perform until Lucas was 75. Lucas started out playing the drums, a notable feat considering he could not bend his elbows. Then he switched to the marimba, and by his 20s he had developed his stretched-out trumpet and began to sit in with many noted musicians. Firehouse Five Plus Two Firehouse Five Plus Two Story... (1949) Trumpet # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth / Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:27:11 EDT In a message dated 4/5/01 8:43:29 AM, moritz@derplan.com writes: << Who was the real "Big Daddy"? >> Eric "Big Daddy" Nord. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:48:51 -0400 http://www.juxtapoz.com/jux25/tiki/tiki.html lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) Date: 05 Apr 2001 16:23:58 -0400 Looking at the tikis, I started to wonder what tiki fanatics think about totem poles and gargoyles. I'm no tiki fanatic myself but I can certainly see their appeal. However I find it much more fascinating when I'm walking down some street in my hometown and I look up at some building I've passed a thousand times and for the first time I notice gargoyles everywhere. I know there are gargoyle fanatics and they're still studied. A new library down the street has two very prominent gargoyles on the ground, guarding the entrance. I don't know anything about them. I always assumed they were like "evil spirits" who guarded against even more evil spirits. Like making friends with the school bully and getting him to fend off the other bullies. But that's utter speculation. Can anyone compare and contrast tikis, gargoyles, totem poles? How does this compare to Ganesh the elephant god? I used to smoke his beedees. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Irwin Chusid/Raymond Scott Archives Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott Orchestrette @ Fez 4/14 Date: 05 Apr 2001 16:30:55 -0700 The RAYMOND SCOTT Orchestrette at FEZ - Saturday, APRIL 14 The Raymond Scott Orchestrette, which performs modernistic arrangements of Raymond Scott tunes, wraps up its four-month residency at Fez in Manhattan on Saturday, April 14. In addition to well-known works from Scott's legendary Quintette period, the seven-piece Orchestrette performs acoustic arrangements of Scott's electronic works. NOTE - EARLY SHOW TIME: Doors open 7:00 pm / showtime 7:30 pm FEZ, 380 Lafayette Street (under Time Cafe), NYC reservations: 212-533-2680 admission: $12.00 The Raymond Scott Orchestrette: Brian Dewan (electric zither, accordion, vocal) Michael Hashim (sax) Will Holshouser (accordion) Deidre Rodman (piano, melodica) George Rush (bass, tuba) Rob Thomas (violin) Clem Waldmann (drums) Special guest: WAYNE BARKER The RSO's original pianist unpacks his suitcase long enough to guest on piano for an as-yet undisclosed new arrangement Calendar note: The Raymond Scott Orchestrette will also perform at the Brooklyn Children's Museum on Friday June 15, at 6:30 pm. ------- The Raymond Scott Archives: http://RaymondScott.com Created and operated by Jeff Winner The RSO info page: http://RaymondScott.com/orchette.html includes two audio files Fez info: http://www.feznyc.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Gargoyles Date: 05 Apr 2001 16:34:53 -0400 Gargoyles are actually "storm drains" or "down spouts" with decorative = ornamentation build around them. Of course, there are also simply = decorative beasties on various buildings - but those long-necked beasts = just under a churches bell-tower or wherever actually spit out plumes of = rain water from their mouths (or one I've seen is a guy holding a jug that = literally runneth over). This keeps the rain water from simply washing = down the sides of the building and eventually, over time, wearing away the = mortal from around the stones/brick whatever. - 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Gargoyles Date: 05 Apr 2001 16:34:53 -0400 Gargoyles are actually "storm drains" or "down spouts" with decorative = ornamentation build around them. Of course, there are also simply = decorative beasties on various buildings - but those long-necked beasts = just under a churches bell-tower or wherever actually spit out plumes of = rain water from their mouths (or one I've seen is a guy holding a jug that = literally runneth over). This keeps the rain water from simply washing = down the sides of the building and eventually, over time, wearing away the = mortal from around the stones/brick whatever. - 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Record Labels, MTV Launch Paid Music Download Service Date: 05 Apr 2001 17:38:29 -0400 THURSDAY NEWS: Record Labels, MTV Launch Paid Music Download Service By Ryan Naraine The music television network that made it hip to wear tongue-jewelry has jumped on the digital-music bandwagon in a big way, announcing a deal with five major record labels and application service provider RioPort to launch a paid download service. New York-based MTVi, the online arm of Viacom's music entertainment network, plans to sell some 10,000 digital music files from its newest online radio stations -- RadioMTV and VH1AtWork. The landmark deal potentially makes MTVi the front-runner in the lucrative digital-download market. With a ready-made television audience and a network of Web sites to market the new service, it comes as no surprise that five of the biggest record labels have signed on as partners. The labels -- Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, BMG Entertainment, EMI and Warner Music Group -- bring a stable of the biggest names in popular music to the service as it looks to create the anti-Napster, a place where musicians can be compensated from legal downloads from the Internet. Prices for the downloads have been fixed by the labels -- between 99 cents and $1.99 for singles and between $11.98 and $18.98 for albums - not far from the prices for CDs at traditional music stories. The San Jose, CA-based RioPort, which negotiated the deals with the labels, would split a portion of the download money with MTVi, the companies explained in a teleconference with reporters. "We'll get a cut of the download revenue," said MTVi chief executive Nick Butterworth, who explained that Rio's revenue agreements were negotiated separately with each label and vary in their financial terms. Butterworth said the paid downloads would eventually be available off links from its 46 radio stations which stream music on the Web. It is the first time that technology has been set up to integrate digital download e-commerce links with streaming media, he said. For the major labels, it is the second big jump into a space they have largely been avoiding for many years. Last week, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann AG and EMI inked a deal with Seattle-based RealNetworks to license music catalogs to the newly-created MusicNet subsidiary. Under that deal, MusicNet would run the technology to allow third-party Web sites to offer subscription-based music services. RealNetworks and AOL already have specific plans to launch such a service. Just yesterday, even Microsoft got into the act, launching a beta version of MSN Music, touting the service as a "free, easy way for music consumers to search for, listen to and discover music they like." To land five of the biggest names in the business for its e-commerce foray is certainly a coup for MTVi, which has a rabid, almost cult-like following for TV shows such as Total Request Live (TRL). The company, which initiated two rounds of staff cuts to cut down on costs, recently announced ambitious plans to launch MTV360, meshing the company's two main television channels with the Web site. The plan for MTV360 is to schedule programming on MTV and MTV2 and the MTV.com Site and direct viewers and Web surfers from one location to another. The company believes it can package the three platforms and provide leverage when negotiating advertising deals. This newsletter is published by internet.com Corporation http://internet.com - The Internet & IT Network Copyright (c) 2001 internet.com Corporation. 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: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth / Lester "Big Daddy" Date: 05 Apr 2001 18:43:08 -0400 >Who was the real "Big Daddy"? I don't know, but if you go here: http://www.google.com/search?q=big%2Bdaddy&btnG=Google+Search you'll get 542,000 returns. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 05 Apr 2001 17:40:03 -0500 Brian Phillips wrote: > >Anyone remembers "Danger Man"? Secret agent yarn. > > By the time we saw it in the USA, it was called "Secret Agent" and Johnny > Rivers had a hit with the American theme song. The British version has a > cool harpsichord lead. Ah, thanks for making the connection there. I have the "Dangerman" theme on a comp called "Thunderthemes Are Go" and often wondered where it was from. The comp also contains The Champions theme which is pretty doovy as well. > Patrick McGoohan played an agent called "Drake" and it was lightly hinted at > that Number 6 in McGoohan's subsequent series, "The Prisoner" may have been > Drake trying to leave the service. Or McGoohan trying to ditch the character of Drake. Be seeing you! -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Record Labels, MTV Launch Paid Music Download Date: 05 Apr 2001 18:52:57 -0400 Another, slightly less press-releasey, story here: http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/04/04/mtv/print.html Have to admit, they sure have cojones or something, setting the same price as a packaged CD, minus the package. And the CD. - - - Another industry story: Universal sues Image Entertainment for setting DVD prices too low: http://dvd.ign.com/news/33158.html --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obits] Theodore McCarty Date: 05 Apr 2001 19:38:50 -0400 Some garbled information here. >TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Theodore M. "Ted" McCarty, a >key figure in the development of the electric guitar and former >president of Gibson Guitar Co., died Sunday. He was 91. >In his 18 years as president at Gibson, McCarty transformed the >Kalamazoo, Mich.-based maker of acoustic musical instruments >into the purveyor of guitars to the stars. Players like Charlie Christian not ranking as stars? But seriously, Ted McCarty's tenure (1948 to 1966) was perhaps Gibson's finest run. >At Gibson, he helped bring to life the Les Paul series, named >for the blues guitarist who endorsed it, Huh?!? Les certainly used elements from blues, but I'd put him more in a pop/jazz bag. The issue of how much of the Les Paul guitar design came from the Gibson staff and how much came from Les will probably always remain murky. As time goes on, Les takes more and more credit in interviews (kind of like Dick Dale (they both have "yeah, I gave Jimi Hendrix some tips" stories)). In an earlier interview, it sounded like Les signed off on their design, while stipulating some detail changes. It does seem pretty certain that the stop tailpiece and tune-o-matic bridge design are McCarty's. >the Explorer series, widely used by both rock and >country guitarists, and the radical Flying V. Country?!? On what planet? Actually, when the Explorer & Flying V were originally produced in 1958, they flopped. With the occasional exception (Lonnie Mack), it was the metal boys who made them a hit a decade or so later. An immediately (and long-term) successful design was the thin-body semi-hollow guitar -- the ES-335 and relatives (like Chuck Berry was playing in the 60s). And there was the SG series, the googie-look Firebird series (just the thing for Thunderbirds to play) and the bass guitars. A whole lot of good designs came out of Gibson during McCarty's stint, and to be honest, they've been living off of those designs ever since. Sorry to go on so... my guitar train-spotting syndrome got set off, I guess. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 06 Apr 2001 00:35:48 +0100 In article <200104051305.f35D5Fx07166@d1o858.telia.com>, Magnus Sandberg writes > > > >Anyone remembers "Danger Man"? Secret agent yarn. >What about "the Champions" from 1968? Superheroes. >What about "Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased" A ghost detective? > >These are out on dvd in britain, and looks appealing judging on the >covers, any opinions about these serials? Cool music? Thrills and >chills? > >Magnus > There were many superb British TV thriller and drama series (and a couple of SF ones) from the late 50s up to the mid 60s (after which they deteriorated rapidly). Patrick McGoohan's "Danger Man" (re-titled "Secret Agent" in the USA, and with an inferior Johnny Rivers theme song replacing the superb UK instrumental theme) was certainly one of the best. The first Danger Man theme, a superb rock 'n' roll/jazz instrumental was a top ten (number one if I recall correctly) hit in the UK. The second theme (introduced, again if I remember correctly, when the series changed from a 30 minutes to one hour running time) was also a fine instrumental track, utilising a harpsichord. Most of the other British thriller series were never sold to the USA, probably because they were too quirky, noirish, unsentimental and idiosyncratic for the US market. It is one of the artistic tragedies of our time that most of these series were poorly recorded on video tape (many were recorded live) with rather low production values -albeit great plots, acting, atmosphere and style. Most of the tapes appear to have been recorded over, lost or destroyed. Occasionally copies that were sold to ex-Empire countries turn up. Unfortunately, it is largely the poorer later material that is now available on video or DVD. "The Champions" and "Randall and Hopkirk Deceased", which were properly filmed, were the best of the worst. They're not a patch on the earlier material, but better viewing than most of the formulaic dross on TV now. -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.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: Philip Jackson Subject: Re: (exotica) Curdxotica Date: 06 Apr 2001 11:21:49 +1000 on 4/6/01 4:09 AM, kendoll at kendoll@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > i loved head cheese as a kid & still do. for the uninitiated, it's tasty > chunks of pork in aspic. my mom uses only pork hocks but some people use > the head -- hence "head cheese." Here you go! BRAWN (England) Brawn, or headcheese, is made from the meat and skin of a pig's head (or indeed a calfs head or sheep's head), sometimes salted first, sometimes not. It can include any other trimmings: heart, trotters and tail, or even a piece of shin of beef. Whatever the ingredients, they must be well boiled with aromatics until all is soft and gelatinous. It is a most excellent dish. SERVES: 6 TIME: Start 3 days before; 30 minutes plus 4 hours cooking 1 pig's head, complete with ears and tongue 1 bunch of sage 1 teaspoon peppercorns 3 to 4 bay leaves 1 teaspoon salt Onion skins (the papery brown outside only) You will need a large stewpan and a pudding basin or earthenware mold. If you want the brawn to be a pretty pink, put it to pickle rubbed with 1/4pound salt and 1/2 ounce saltpeter (from the drugstore) for 48 hours before cooking. Have the butcher split the head in two. Put it in a heavy saucepan just large enough to accommodate the meat, with the aromatics, salt, and onion skins (these serve to tint the jelly a pale gold-the onion itself is not used, as it encourages the jelly to ferment). Cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, and then turn down the heat and skim the froth off the liquid. Simmer steadily for 4 hours, until the meat virtually drops off the bones. Take out all the solids and strain the stock back into the pan. Leave the stock to boil and reduce uncovered while you pick the meat off the bones. Chop all the pieces and pack them neatly into a pudding basin or earthenware mold. When the stock is well reduced to about 2 cups, taste and adjust its seasoning and pour it over the meats. Allow it to cool, and then put it in the refrigerator for 24 hours for the jelly to set solid. When you are ready to eat it unmold by pouring hot water swiftly over the outside. It will unmold instantly and elegantly. Serve on a bed of watercress or parsley. Brawn will keep in the refrigerator for 2 weeks, but don't store it in the freezer or the jelly is likely to liquefy when you defrost it. Serve plenty of strong English mustard with the cold brawn, or a jug of white sauce vigorously flavored with strong mustard. Baked potatoes are good with brawn. Bon appetite I made this a few years back when I got a pig's head at the supermarket for 20 cents!!! Philip -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 06 Apr 2001 09:20:41 +0100 The original randall and hopkirk was pretty cool. Excellent theme tune. sorta john Barry esque, dunno who it actually was though. Does anyone remember a similar show to this which aired in the UK in the early 70's. As i recall there were two guys and a Gorilla ( well, someone in a Gorilla suit ) which wore one of those little hats with a propeller on. It was also a bit Scooby doo. I think it was an American import. I would love to know what this show was as all my friends think i have imagined it. I could never get into 'Danger man' although 'the Prisoner' is a different matter. Best episode 'The girl who was death'. If you like this also check out 'The new Avengers' TV series. The Prisoner had a great theme tune also. If you like this programme it may interest you to know that it was filmed in a real village in Wales. You can still visit the village. It has not changed......( you may never leave though) be seeing you. Jamie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) re: Randall and Hopkirk deceased Date: 06 Apr 2001 09:24:00 +0100 R&H are a private detective agency, in episode 1 Hopkirk gets killed and spends the rest of the 2(?) series as a ghost (in a white suit), mostly blowing things and trying to get Randall out of locked rooms. A sub-plot of romantic interest between Randall and the widow of Hopkirk. Don't remember the music to this. Its mostly stuck in my mind for The drink driving and the shots of empty London streets (Trafalgar square with no cars!). El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) The Champions Date: 06 Apr 2001 09:33:58 +0100 Ahhh Alexandra Bastedo. and William Gaunt and that other fellow, but, ahhh, Alexandra..... Spys go the Himalayas and get into a plane crash, they are rescued by Buddhist mystics and return to the world with enhanced strength and senses. They continue to do spy things in very cheap studio sets. Mostly this involves whispering to each other over vast distances and throwing people a long way. I love it. Great shots of the fountain in Geneva (they work for the UN) in the opening credits. Don't remember the music, even though I've seen re-runs fairly recently). This was obviously on telly during a formative stage of my life. I think she lives in Hove these days.... El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 06 Apr 2001 05:57:42 -0500 > The original randall and hopkirk was pretty cool. Excellent theme tune. sorta > john Barry esque, dunno who it actually was though. Stumbled across a a soundtrack CD from this series at CDNow. It's a little pricey -- is the music worth it? > Does anyone remember a similar show to this which aired in the UK in the early > 70's. As i recall there were two guys and a Gorilla Sounds like "Ghost Busters" (yes, before the movie appropriated the title), with Forrest Tucker, Bob Denver and an ape. Never seen it myself so don't know much about it except I think the ape was named Kong. Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) niiiice Date: 06 Apr 2001 13:36:02 +0100 nice shag T-Shirts http://www.chasershirts.com/shag.html El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Brother Theodore Date: 06 Apr 2001 08:36:47 -0400 Rat Fink Creator Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth Dies SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Ed "Big Daddy'' Roth, whose fantastic car creations= and anti-hero "Rat Fink" character helped define the California hotrod culture= of the 1950s and '60s, has died. He was 69.=20 Roth died Wednesday at his studio in Manti, Utah, said Joe Bennett, a dispatcher with the Sanpete County Sheriff's Department. The cause of death wasn't immediately given.=20 A generation of teen-age rebels across the country found a hero in Roth,= whose chrome-and-fiberglass vehicle creations stirred awe at car shows. Many= adopted his airbrushed anti-hero, the bug-eyed, menacing Rat Fink, who became a cultural counterpoint to Mickey Mouse.=20 While Roth worked on custom cars in his garage-studio near Los Angeles, youngsters across the country broke out the airplane glue to work on= intricate scale plastic models of his "Outlaw'' roadster, bubble-topped "Beatnik Bandit,'' or futuristic "Mysterion.'' Many of these car creations were also adapted for Mattel's miniature "Hot Wheels" collections. As a designer, Roth was considered a genius and visionary, not only for his radical designs, but also for his pioneering use of fiberglass in car= bodies.=20 He was described by author Tom Wolfe in his 1964 essay "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" as the "most colorful, the most= intellectual and the most capricious'' of the car customizers.=20 "He's the Salvador Dali of the movement -- a surrealist in his designs, a showman by temperament, a prankster,'' Wolfe wrote.=20 Roth created Rat Fink and a host of wild characters to help finance his car design work.=20 In 1974, he converted to the Mormon church and abandoned his rebel= lifestyle, however he continued to work on car designs.=20 "My fanaticism with cars has just destroyed my personal life,'' he told The Associated Press in a 1997 interview. "It's an obsession, an addiction. = Every day I pray to God, 'Release me from my calling!'''=20 David Chodosh, a friend and business associate, said Roth was still working= at the time of his death and was hoping to tour a new car in 2002.=20 "The guy over the years has epitomized cool,'' Chodosh said. "Even now, in= so many ways, he is still the Boss Fink.''=20 On the Net:=20 http://www.ratfink.org/=20 AP-NY / 04-06-01 06:40 EDT Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, comic Big Daddy Graham cowers under his bed... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Brother Theodore Date: 06 Apr 2001 08:41:09 -0400 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) [obit] Brother Theodore Date: 06 Apr 2001 08:44:06 -0400 At 08:41 AM 4/6/01 -0400, I wrote: Now this is truely odd! I've tried to post Brother Theodore's obit twice - and nothing comes through but blank space. Spooky!!! I might try one more time and then give up. 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) [obit] Brother Theodore Date: 06 Apr 2001 08:46:59 -0400 James J. McManus Sr., the proprietor of the Peter McManus Cafe, a venerable family-owned bar in the Chelsea section of Manhattan that often doubled as a set for movies and television episodes, died on Monday, March 25, 2001, in Philadelphia. He was 81 and had moved from Manhattan to Brigantine, N.J., not long ago. He was in declining health and suffered renal failure, his family said. A confident, voluble figure, Mr. McManus started working at the bar in 1936, when it opened on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 19th Street. He became its sole owner when his brother, Peter, died in 1972. He was still there in 1992 when Bryan Miller, then the restaurant critic for The New York Times, dropped by and learned Mr. McManus's secret to a good Rob Roy: "You don't want to bruise the vermouth," Mr. McManus said. "It's delicate. Like wine." Mr. Miller called the bar "an inviting place in a rough-and-tumble sort of way, with a well-worn tile floor, lead-paned windows and a splendid carved mahogany bar." By that time, the tile floor had been trod by film actors and crews making the movies "Highlander" (1986), starring Sean Connery, and "Radio Days" (1987), directed by Woody Allen and starring Mia Farrow. The film "Keeping the Faith" (2000), directed by Edward Norton, also used the bar. Filming for the television programs "Seinfeld," "Law and Order" and "Saturday Night Live" has been done there, too. Jamie McManus succeeded his father as the bar's manager three years ago. The senior Mr. McManus was born in Guttenberg, N.J. He graduated from high school in the Bronx and won two Purple Hearts as an infantryman in the Philippines in World War II. (Peter McManus was my local when I lived in Chelsea during the 80s - great place.--Lou) April 6, 2001=20 Theodore Gottlieb, Dark Comedian, Dies at 94 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Theodore Gottlieb, who as Brother Theodore performed apocalyptic one-man shows about life, death and broccoli in Greenwich Village nightclubs to dazzling and disturbing effect, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 94. Mr. Gottlieb, with his wild white hair shining under the lights and with a demonic glint in his eye, was in his element at the 13th Street Theater, where he performed for nearly two decades, until a few years ago. His only prop was a table, behind which he would sit when he wasn't stalking around it or plopping on top of it. In his sonorous, German-accented voice he flirted with the meaning of life - or, just as likely, with the woman in the audience he considered most attractive. He called his act stand-up tragedy. Brother Theodore, who flaunted a sophistication learned in the Berlin of the 1920's, told audiences, "I've gazed into the abyss and the abyss gazed into me, and neither of us liked what we saw." Or: "It's my sincere wish that after my death, my head be severed and replaced with a bunch of broccoli. It's the artist in me." His life flowed like a novel, although few publishers would have bought the outlandish plot. Born to great wealth in Germany, he ended up in Dachau, only to be released when he signed over the family's great fortune for a single mark. Einstein, said by some of Mr. Gottlieb's friends to have been his mother's lover, helped him get to the United States. Always an aristocrat, he suddenly found himself working as a janitor at Stanford University, where he managed to defeat 30 professors at chess =97 simultaneously. Later he was a dockworker in San Francisco, where he put on his first one-man show, featuring his reading of Poe poems.=20 "In the two weeks I had one person in the audience," he said in an interview with The New York Mirror in 1958. "My wife. And if I didn't give her a complimentary ticket, she wouldn't have come." Next came a stint in Hollywood, where he won a bit part in the 1946 Orson Welles film, "The Stranger." He moved to New York after Welles showed a distressing romantic interest in his young wife. He worked at Schrafft's restaurant while beginning to perfect his monologue at small Bohemian clubs in the Village. With the arrival of television, he made regular appearances on talk shows, including three dozen with Merv Griffin, as well as many with the comedian Steve Allen. After fading to cult popularity in the 1970's, he emerged as one of David Letterman's regular guests in the 1980's.=20 Brother Theodore had six sellout performances at Town Hall in the 1950's. He received good and bad reviews over the years, but few neutral ones, according to Jewish Week in August 1995. The Village Voice described him as "a rabble-rouser without a cause - unless his cause is to promote the power of negative thinking and the glorification of anguish and despair." Theodore Gottlieb was born in Dusseldorf on Nov. 11, 1906. His father published 52 fashion magazines and might have been worth $80 million, he told friends. His life was easy and luxurious, and he attended the University of Cologne. When Hitler came to power, he fled with his family to Vienna. He was taken to Dachau on his 32nd birthday. In the death camp, he said he saw men eaten alive by dogs while Nazi guards laughed, according to Who's Who in Comedy. When he agreed to relinquish the family fortune to win freedom, he was told the deal did not guarantee his family's freedom, but made it more feasible. Eight members of his family died in the Holocaust, including his parents and grandmother. Some had thought their personal danger was gone after the agreement and had returned to Germany, said Lorca Morello, a lawyer, who was Mr. Gottlieb's girlfriend. Mr. Gottlieb went from Dachau to Switzerland, where he supported himself as a chess hustler. This violated Swiss law, and he was deported to Austria. Einstein helped him get to California, Ms. Morello said. After later settling in New York, Ms. Morello said, his wife fell in love with another refugee, his best friend, and left with his son. The son, Thomas Lonner of Olympia, Wash., is his only survivor.=20 He developed his deadpan technique by copying others, said Sidney Mason, his longtime publicist. "He was a creative plagiarist, really," said Mr. Mason, who met him in Columbus Circle as both men heckled a speaker trying to refute Einstein's theory of relativity. Mr. Gottlieb also became talented at peddling wild notions to reporters. The Mirror article described his campaign to get people to give up two-legged locomotion in favor of using all four limbs. "Down, I say, down on all fours, and you'll have everything you want, be everything you want to be," he said. "Quadrupedism is the key to every lock, the power that heals, the real McCoy." In 1990 Mr. Gottlieb had an operation to correct breathing problems caused by having his nose broken in Dachau. As always, he saw the best and worst sides.=20 "If I die, best wishes for the rest of your life," he told friends. "If I don't - I'll phone you." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Blahut, Jr." Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) Date: 06 Apr 2001 10:33:30 -0500 i don't know about the actual purpose of gargoyles. there are some that are rain spouts on the cathederal of notre dame in paris. i did just notice that there are two of them on the federal court house in milwaukee. it is a building that i have always liked because of the stone work - - there are many faces carved in the stone. but yesterday or the day before, i noticed a couple of gargoyles on the side of the building. totem poles, are, in my mind, very similar to tikis. although it is my understanding that totem poles are, in the pacific northwest anyway, a way of transmitting a family history. with the main clan's totem on the top or bottom and various other branches of the family tree represented by the other figures. i have always loved the designs of the pacific northwest natives. i have seen native american tikis from california in what i think was called ku or k'u style. i don't know much more about it than that. i can't say whether the indigenous (hope i spelled that correctly) people of southern california are pacific, i.e. polynesian, people or not, nor if there totems are honest to gosh real "tikis" or totems that resemble tikis - - these are questions for the anthropologists, not for me. sorry to have rambled on for so long about a totally off topic subject, tablah # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Praise be to Ebay Date: 06 Apr 2001 17:03:28 +0100 Yes. Ebay can do one's pocket a world of good without one feeling like = a capitalist pig. My vocoder just sold for around 6 times what it was worth in a last = minute bidding frenzy. My reserve of =A3200 got beaten by more than =A3650. = Why are people so stupid? And where can I find more analogue garbage at = reasonable prices to flog to demented collectors? And I don't even want to mention the price of the records that have = just sold. So I wont. One thing I did get recently that hasn't yet arrived is a classic (so = I'm told) Hammond LP - Wynder K Frog - Out of the Frying Pan. Does anybody = have any comment on this one or other Hammond recommendations? And I just found the How to Speak Hip website - www.howtospeakhip.com = with all of the separate bits of the LP online. Class Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Gingerich Subject: (exotica)Creating a Linklist.... Date: 06 Apr 2001 15:26:37 -0400 Hey all I'm going through a year or so worth of exotica posts to cull any interesting links (you know: exotica-sites, radio shows, labels, stores, morphing michael jacksons....) which I can then post as a linklist. So I may be mailing some of you inquiring.... better yet, e-mail me off-list if you have or found anything useful, new and exciting, updated, etc.etc.etc. thanx! pg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 06 Apr 2001 16:05:56 -0400 At 09:20 AM 4/6/01 +0100, jamie_james@lineone.net wrote: >Does anyone remember a similar show to this which aired in the UK in the early >70's. As i recall there were two guys and a Gorilla No but I seem to remember a show about a group of spies called The Thunderbirds who were led by a guy they called "Head Cheese". The original title was "A Dandy in Aspic" but it turned out that was already taken. I do remember that the arch villainess on the show was called Calista Rall. She was one greasy foe. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 01:44:05 -0700 Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday. It was called Corporate Anthems: http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2 I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the people who sold them. A guy named Steve Young has collected more than 150 LPs of industrial musicals and I can't say I have seen even one! Some of the songs sounded like they could be quite campy today. In 1969 The American Standard Company, the folks who make toilet seats, bathroom fixtures, did a show called "The Bathrooms Coming" and one of the songs featured a woman rhapsodizing over her most private of rooms: "My Bathroom." The music was actually really good as performed, although the lyrics had a very narrow focus and thus appeared a bit hackneyed. Big Corporate dollars attracted good talent. Anyone out there collect these recordings? Tell us about your favorites! ___...--''''***^^^^^^""""""^^^^^***''''---___ "In the 50's the average human laughed 18 ||| minutes a day. In 2001 each human laughs only 6 minutes a day. Its time to return to our | 1950's laugh prosperity!" ||| ||| ---B. V. "Chuckles" Caloz ||| |||bag AT hubris DOT net Portland, OR, USA||| """^^^'''***----...__________...----'''^^^""" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica)Creating a Linklist.... Date: 07 Apr 2001 11:02:23 +0200 that's a great idea. I hope everybody contributes. I propose to update the Exotica FAQ with the results. Ross, what do you think? Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Wages Subject: (exotica) glass music (dj food) Date: 07 Apr 2001 10:43:03 -0500 In the recent discussion of glass-related music, did anyone mention the new DJ Food EP "Quadraplex" ? I haven't heard it yet, but I'm going to have to -- "Kaleidoscope" was one of those rare albums that absolutely blew me away. Here's the write-up from CDNow: February 9, 2001 Often, when faced with the sweaty haze of dancefloor euphoria, we forget how electronic music can be more than just an energizing, unifying force, but also an exquisite art form. Quadraplex, the second release by Strictly Kev and PC under the DJ Food banner, finds the duo utilizing not vinyl but glass -- that's right, glass -- as the EP's central musical instrument. Appropriately, the limited-edition CD and its packaging are transparent. Sounds of glass being blown, tapped, and rubbed are interwoven into a cohesive arrangement that builds through the beatless opener, "Hour Glass"; then tribal rhythms rise to support the stark and minimal glass tones on "Looking Glass." Things begin to dissolve into chaos from there, as "Monocle" begins to sound like a Jewish wedding: Glass shatters everywhere, and beats scatter. "Shattered Glass," the final track, features a quiet symphony of shards. While never intensely riveting, Quadraplex certainly expands the limitations of electronic music, at least for 15 minutes or so. It's a well-crafted novelty, late-night mood music, but nothing more substantial or groundbreaking. Peter Gaston CDNOW Editorial Staff # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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, April 8 Date: 07 Apr 2001 11:38:55 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #137 A Howlin' Good Show This week, we're featuring Freddy Fresh's Howlin' Records label. It releases 7"s, and while the catalogue is small, it's very good! They're a mix of funky and smooth sounds, all suitable for non-stop grooving. Special thanks go out to Sandra at Howlin' for her help. Captain Funk: Remix Of Co-Fusions' Torn Open Freddy Fresh: La Chunga Boricua All Stars: Boricua House Party Not Just Gigalos: Take Me To The Disco Stereo de Luxe: Sexuality In The Eighties Ursula 1000: Mucho Tequila Boricua All Stars: Corillo Mack The Knife: World's Best B-Boy Beats Vol. 1 (aka Why I Wanna Be A Latin Rascal) Krafty Kuts: Stop The Nonsense Younger Youth: Boombastic Wicked Lestor: Fire In Yer Soul MPC Genius: Dig This! Freddie Fresh: We Badd! Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 09:06:00 -0700 A great CD with a bunch of these albums came out a few years ago - it was called "Product Music" and was on a label called Honest Abe :) Even though it was marked as Volume 1, I never did see a Volume 2, which made me sad. I've looked all over for records of this type ever since - probably six years now - and have had very little luck finding anything like them. All but given up on the top dog, "The Bathrooms Coming!" Anybody here have it? I feel like writing to that Steve Young and asking him how he did it - I guess anything is possible. I'd like to collect them, but I can't. I can't find them. Not only are they highly collectible by the types that will pay whatever they have to pay to get them (and they do), but even more discouraging are that opportunities to find them come along once in a blue moon. Better not think about it! I saw "The Eight Seasons of Chromalox" on ebay once, that is probably the best place to begin your search for a needle in a haystack.... Here are three one minute MP3 samples from that Product Music disc JC PENNEY Penney Proud - He's A Penney Man http://www.basichip.com/sounds/penneys.mp3 AMERICAN STANDARDS The Bathrooms Are Coming! - My Bathroom Is A Private Kind Of Place http://www.basichip.com/sounds/bath.mp3 FORD MOTOR COMPANY The Wide New World With Ford - Tractor Drivin' Man http://www.basichip.com/sounds/tractor.mp3 > I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which > extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the > people who sold them. > > A guy named Steve Young has collected more than 150 LPs of industrial > musicals and I can't say I have seen even one! > > Some of the songs sounded like they could be quite campy today. In 1969 > The American Standard Company, the folks who make toilet seats, bathroom > fixtures, did a show called "The Bathrooms Coming" and one of the songs > featured a woman rhapsodizing over her most private of rooms: "My Bathroom." > > The music was actually really good as performed, although the lyrics had a > very narrow focus and thus appeared a bit hackneyed. Big Corporate dollars > attracted good talent. > > Anyone out there collect these recordings? Tell us about your favorites! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 12:54:49 -0400 At 01:44 AM 4/7/01 -0700, bag wrote: > >Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday. > >It was called Corporate Anthems: > >http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2 > >I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which >extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the >people who sold them. > >A guy named Steve Young has collected more than 150 LPs of industrial >musicals and I can't say I have seen even one! > Corporate Anthems -- Rex Doane of NPR's On the Media has the story of corporate anthems -- elaborate songs and even shows that were geared not to the customer, but to the employees. The songs -- like a school fight song or a national anthem -- were meant to elevate morale. (7:30) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20010406.atc.09.rmm This is one of those "small world" kind of things. The Corporate Anthems piece was put together by Rex Doane who has a must-hear show on WFMU. http://www.wfmu.org/FPWR/ He lives down the other end of Prospect Park from me, not far from Tony Wilds. Steve Young used to be on this list. He produces the Dave's Record Collection segment on Letterman's show, and did the similar section on the official Letterman web site. He also had an article in one of the early issues of Cool and Strange, about this Industrial music. One of my proudest bits of meddling was to remind Steve Young and David Garland of each other, which led to this radio meeting on Spinning on Air: Industrial Shows Here are some Broadway-style musicals never meant for Broadway. Instead, they were intended for corporate pep-rallies and trade shows, to praise the product and motivate the work-force. Comedy writer Steve Young (David Letterman, The Simpsons) shares his unique collection of musicals containing such show-stoppers as "My Bathroom," "My Insurance Man," and a song about new trucks. First broadcast 12/14/97 5/15/98 http://www.wnyc.org/new/music/spinning/ram/soayoung.ram Extra Credit: who can name Garland's theme song at the top of his show? Steve's a great guy, based on the very few times I've met him. He only collects these Industrial shows and he's completely sincere about them. If you're in NY you can find some Industrial LPs at Footlights. Don't worry - Steve will have already seen them. 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: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) Date: 07 Apr 2001 13:10:57 -0500 Art deco theatres from the 20s-40s seem ripe for tiki designs. For instance, the Fox Theatre in Detroit has fabulous plasterwork depicting scowling sheiks, palms--a gilded fantasy desert in downtown Motown. Does anyone know of art deco theatres with tiki themes? How about any books on the subject? Thanks for any info, 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: "warren beath" Subject: (exotica) shelving cd's Date: 07 Apr 2001 10:51:41 -0700

I hope I may ask a question:  I'm running out of space for all my cd's and want to inquire if there is any good reason for not stacking them flat. I've read it's recommended to shelve them upright, but I'd buy some time before I have to get new shelving if I could stack some flat to take up the rest of the shelf space. I'd be interested if any of the experts have an opinion.  Thanks,

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# Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kendoll Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 11:57:43 -0600 i bought one of these industrial records once -- i can't remember the corporation but the song that caught my attention was about nuclear energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. it was done as a skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the bad old gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town that was going to clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum. i didn't keep it because it was badly recorded, like they only had one microphone, and i thought it was boring. had i only known... mike basic hip wrote: > I'd like to collect them, but I can't. I can't find them. Not only are > they highly collectible by the types that will pay whatever they have to pay > to get them (and they do), but even more discouraging are that opportunities > to find them come along once in a blue moon. Better not think about 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: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 13:32:47 -0500 At 1:44 AM -0700 4/7/01, bag@hubris.net wrote: >I had no idea, no idea that big companies would put on musicals which >extolled the virtues of everything from sparkplugs to toilets...and the >people who sold them. Can't talk about records but a longtime pal of mine makes a lush living writing and producing these extravaganzas, mostly for auto companies. The corporados jet in their dealers and suppliers to a resort then pamper them with sumptuous dining and drink as well as R&R often entailing golf. The climax is a sophisticated show where celebrities and spokesmodels extol the virtues of the new product lines in skit and song based on topical themes and current hits or standards--all to get a sales force geeked. Capitalism. Ain't it grand? 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 14:45:48 -0400 At 09:06 AM 4/7/01 -0700, basic hip wrote: .> >I've looked all over for records of this type ever since - probably six >years now - and have had very little luck finding anything like them.. I think I have two or three. It depends on how loosely you describe the category. I think this is the kind of thing you can only get two places. Thrift stores or ebay. I guess if you concentrated on this kind of thing, you could get a few. Anyway here's what I have: There's one on Capitol Custom "Music from Bach to Rock -a salute to the 150th Anniversary of Gas" by Harry Fields his piano and quartet I love this sentence in the liner notes "Seldom has an artist been as intimately identified with an entire industry as Harry Fields is with the natural gas industry". The music is okay. It's basically a mostly original lounge/exotica record but not very good. No singing. Then there's "Impressions" put out by Bergstrom Paper. This also has no singing but it's probably the most interesting on a "musical" level. The record is by a guy named Bill Walker and it's a musical salute to the printing press. It's kind of like "Zounds What Sounds" except all the sounds are from printing presses. The tune starts off with the particular rhythm of a press and then the music comes in. It's slightly above average lounge music. This record could possibly make it on its own. The third one, I'm not sure it counts but it's the closest to the Bathroom one: Chevrolet Sings of Safe Driving and You There are eight songs. Each one of them starts off with a spoken word bit to explain the concept and then the song continues from there. The style of music is kind of in the Up With People style. A bit like a rock musical I guess. I think everyone here would recognize the style and be singing along in no time. The song titles are followed by the theme: 1. "An Exciting Thing" (Driving a car) 2) Grown up Baby (Driving psychology) 3. Cities and Towns (Driving in city and heavy traffic) 4. Nowhere Fast (Observance and Enforcement) 5. Gentle Things (Adverse Driving Conditions) 6. When the Wrong thing happens (Stopping distances) 7. The Natural Laws (Laws of Motion) 8. Man-Made laws (Common sense driving) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) Date: 07 Apr 2001 14:57:19 EDT Hey Mimi, This is a whole sub-genre of Art Deco often called Tropical Deco. You see it a lot in Miami Beach, but it was also popular after the Pan Pacific Exposition. I've got one book titled, what else, Tropical Deco. Also, there's a gorgeous book on The San Francisco Fair - Treasure Island 1939-40, when Treasure Island was turned into a Deco Wonderland for a couple years. Several of the exhibits there had a strong Pacific vibe. -David << Art deco theatres from the 20s-40s seem ripe for tiki designs. For instance, the Fox Theatre in Detroit has fabulous plasterwork depicting scowling sheiks, palms--a gilded fantasy desert in downtown Motown. Does anyone know of art deco theatres with tiki themes? How about any books on the subject? Thanks for any info, 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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: (exotica) [Fwd: [popnouveau] Re:exotica] Date: 07 Apr 2001 21:48:34 +0200 Kevin Lee wrote: > if you've not heard of the exotica list... well, where you been?? i've been a > member off and on for some 9 years now. yikes. anyway it's not just > exotica exotica. it runs the gaumt: space age, lounge, moog, novelty, > spoken word... pretty much anything that's exotic in the general sense of > the word. dare i say they're much bigger and much more active than our > little forum. so don't say i didn't warn you when you get a flood of email. > even the digests add up. i can't keep up with it but there's a lot of > knowledgable folks there. too knowledgable if you ask 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: "Brian Linds" Subject: (exotica) Brazilian wierdness Date: 07 Apr 2001 13:18:27 -0700 Hi. What can folks tell me about a self titled record by Lulu Cortez and Ze Ramhalo? It's twisted Brazilian semi psych sounds with lots of animal sounds in the background. Brian Linds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Francis Grasso Date: 07 Apr 2001 16:26:33 -0400 April 7, 2001 Francis Grasso, 60's D.J. and Master of the Club Mix, Dies at 52 By NEIL STRAUSS,NYTimes Francis Grasso, a pioneering club disc jockey credited with first mixing records together in the late 1960's by matching their rhythms, was found dead on March 23 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 52. The cause is unknown, pending results of an autopsy. Mr. Grasso was born in Brooklyn and, at an early age, discovered a talent for music, playing drums, guitar and saxophone. After he was injured in a motorcycle accident, a doctor told him that dancing would be a good form of physical therapy and soon he was a fixture on the Manhattan club scene. In 1968 at a Central Park club called Salvation 2, Mr. Grasso went behind the turntables for the first time when the club manager asked him to fill in for the house D.J., who was ill. Soon, Mr. Grasso had the job. With an understanding of the psychology of the dance floor, he slowly began to retool the job of the D.J. As he saw it, his job wasn't simply to play records, it was to keep the crowd on the dance floor. The best way to do that was to make one song seem to stretch on forever, without a break. This helped create the notion of the disc jockey as artist and live remixer. Working with two seven- inch singles, at first he would start a new song on the same beat that ended the previous song (by holding the record still as the turntable spun below it, a technique known as slip- cueing). Later, he began matching the beats of records, trying to keep two songs playing simultaneously for as long as possible, which was an extremely difficult task since most turntables then lacked conveniences like pitch control. One of his best-known tactics was his simultaneous playing of percussion-heavy songs, like Chicago Transit Authority's "I'm a Man," with sexually charged vocals, like Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," anticipating the rise of disco. Mr. Grasso developed and refined many of these techniques when he moved his headquarters to Sanctuary, a hedonistic club in Hell's Kitchen, and presided over the dance floor there until it was closed by city authorities in 1972. In 1971 the movie "Klute" featured a scene with Mr. Grasso working at the Sanctuary. When the club closed, he worked as a D.J. off and on until 1981, when he left the profession for good and found a job working in construction. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dean Keasey Subject: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 07 Apr 2001 13:57:32 -0800 I have a few of these, "Impressions in color" put out by Bergstrom Paper. It's compositions inspired by the sounds made by the printing press at different speeds. pretty jazzy. It includes actual sounds of the press as well. Another one I have was put out by Valvoline in 1969, "Swinging sights and sounds" and it's classic now sound stuff. Still another is called Dimension 70, motorola's insight to creativity, has great moog instrumentals...the opener "dimension 70" sounds like it could be used for a Gerry Anderson TV show theme. >I saw "The Eight Seasons of Chromalox" on ebay once, that is probably the best place to begin your search for a needle in a haystack.... I have heard this, and it's pretty amazing in my opinion. At times it sounds like Free Design and even Stereolab.. Dean ************************ www.ezaction.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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 08 Apr 2001 00:09:29 +0200 I have a whole bunch of corporate records, but I've never made the distinction between made for consumers / made for employees. I guess on a lot of of the ones I have, the distinction would be very blury. What I like most about these records is that so many of them have religious overtones. It's almost like they took a gospel song and substituted the word Jesus or Lord for their brand name. A tip for thrift store scavengers: there seems to be a lot more of these on 7" than on LP, and a lot of collectors don't bother going through the 7"s.I have two excellent 7's from Ford ("Ford leads the way"), a couple by KLM ("Come fly on my Golden Wings"). And a great spoken word 7" by Philips with suave 7T's cocktailmusic in the background called "For the love of Mike": a woman with a sexy voice declares her desire for Mike (meaning Philips microphones) and is misunderstood by a dorky character called Mike. And a 1979 Volkswagen instrumental LP which is boring except for one track with a groovy Moog that encaptures that conveyer belt feeling. I have vocal one by Fokker, a former Dutch aircraft builder. Everytime they sing Fokker, it sounds like they sing Fucker: "Fucker on the wing, on our way to new horizons Fucker on the wing Together we're strong Fucker on the wing The sky is our destination Fucker on the wing Come fly along! Fucker on the wing And spread your wings to our song!" I thought this genre died out in the late 7T's / early 8T's until I recently found this site: http://corporateanthems.raettig.org/ there's even one by Netscape! bag@hubris.net wrote: Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday. It was called Corporate Anthems: http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2 Anyone out there collect these recordings? Tell us about your favorites! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Fwd: Woweee! Date: 07 Apr 2001 18:55:01 -0400 Hey there: Someone just sent me this monumentally amazing link that I felt obligated to pass along. (Requires Flash plug-in:) http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/hatten.swf From context in the song's lyrics and the visual imagery, "hatt" translates as "hat" in English??? Any idea what country a ".se" domain is? I'm trying to figure out its origin. You're so very welcome, Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com mtoth@neo.rr.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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: Re: (exotica) Fwd: Woweee! Date: 08 Apr 2001 01:35:10 +0200 "Michael D. Toth" wrote: > Any idea what country a ".se" domain is? I'm trying to figure out its > origin. that would be Sweden # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 08 Apr 2001 19:38:22 -0500 > There's one on Capitol Custom > "Music from Bach to Rock -a salute to the 150th Anniversary of Gas" by > Harry Fields his piano and quartet > > I love this sentence in the liner notes "Seldom has an artist been as > intimately identified with an entire industry as Harry Fields is with the > natural gas industry". > > The music is okay. It's basically a mostly original lounge/exotica record > but not very good. No singing. I've got another one of Harry Fields's albums, "Music for Cooking with Gas," hawking the "Caloric" line of gas kitchen products. But once again my tastes don't align with Alan's. The version of "Green Dolphin Street" on this album is terrific. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 08 Apr 2001 01:12:47 EDT In a message dated 4/7/1 12:55:55 PM, kendoll@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: >i bought one of these industrial records once -- i can't remember the >corporation....... Shame on you Ken Doll! What kind of corporate weenie are you, anyway? The whole idea of this LP ( called "Perspective of the 70's", by Westinghouse at their Sixth Future Power Forum-February, 1969 ) was to familiarize you with them..Apparently they failed royally...congratulations are in order, but to whom remains uncertain, but with U on the exotica list I cast my vote your way. ;-) >but the song that caught my attention was about nuclear >energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. it was done as a >skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the bad old >gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town that was going to >clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum. The track to which you refer--so irreverently I might add!-- is "The Nuclear Kid" which is according to the liner notes "...a saga of a stranger who came to town one day--nuclear power. He was neat, clean, and friendly, but the stories of his unruly youth made a lot of the townfolk afraid. Then one day he outgunned the fossil bad men and became everyone's hero." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ashleywarren1@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) shelving cd's Date: 08 Apr 2001 01:40:28 EDT In a message dated 4/7/01 12:52:14 PM EST, warrenbeath@hotmail.com writes: << I'm running out of space for all my cd's and want to inquire if there is any good reason for not stacking them flat. I've read it's recommended to shelve them upright, but I'd buy some time before I have to get new shelving if I could stack some flat to take up the rest of the shelf space. I'd be interested if any of the experts have an opinion. Thanks, >> It really makes no difference stcking them flat or upright. The only concern you have with a flat stacking is that you may do damage to the CD case (especially the ones on the bottom). Unlike albums which should be kept upright as excessive weight can cause warping or other damage, a CD sits firmly nestled in it's "jewel-box" tray housing so even if there is a tall stack, the weight is distributed around the box and does not rest on the CD itself. 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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: (exotica) [exotica]flexi-disc bites the dust Date: 08 Apr 2001 11:58:18 +0200 Don Joyce wrote: > Forwarded by Negativland. > > > > >Waiting for Eva-Tone to blame this on Napster. > > > >-- Mara Schwartz > > >&ck=&userid=330736652&userpw=.&uh=330736652,2,&ver=2.5> > > > > > >Novelty Discs Spin To Halt > >By DAVID DALEY > >The Hartford Courant > >March 10, 2001 > > > >This is the way a once-proud technology ends: not with a snap and crackle of > >low-fidelity static, not with the incessant clicking of a needle stuck in a > >groove, but with absolute radio silence.Once upon a time the flexi-disc - > >those novelty records stapled into magazines, tucked under cereal-box tops > >and mass-mailed to millions by presidential candidates - was a kitschy yet > >honored way of distributing sound recordings. > > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pm.carey@utoronto.ca (Patrick Carey) Subject: (exotica) FS: Stereolab/Monade Date: 08 Apr 2001 10:25:33 +0100 Hi all, I have a mint copy of the following for sale: # Stereolab & Brigitte Fontaine/Monade - "Calim=E9ro/Cache Cache" UK CD (Duophonic Super 45s: ds45-cd25) 1999 [Fontaine: words and vocals, Stereolab/O'Hagan: music. Monade track is Laetitia with help from Mary & Tim. Mint.] Please email if interested. Thanks -Patrick pm.carey@utoronto.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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout" Date: 08 Apr 2001 14:08:21 -0400 Or as the cover puts it in full: "Organ Freakout! A Happening -- With The Mustang" "The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia" (Somerset SF-28600) A decent batch of organ-dominated soul-a-gogo tracks from circa 1967. Sort of a budget substitute for when you can't get Booker T. & The MGs. Track titles like "Golden Gate Freakout", "Tennessee Waltz Frug", "Old Time Religion Gone New", "The Acid Test". Follows the budget label habit of deriving the tunes from public domain sources such as spirituals ("Joshua Got Busted") or slightly altered lifts from hits ("Wild Flowers '67" = "I Walk the Line"; "California Time" = "Shotgun"). Cover features five frugging women surrounding an organist with his back to the camera. I think this one was discussed on the list not very long ago, but I can't recall if we ever established The Mustang's true identity. Anyone? And are there other Mustang albums out there? thanks, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) Curdxotica Date: 08 Apr 2001 14:26:24 -0400 Here are some scrapple recipes using less outre cuts of meat: http://www.berksweb.com/pam/scrapple.html And here's a rather angry version that gets into skull-splitting and tooth bashing: http://www.chickenhead.com/scrapple/recipe.html I sense some childhood trauma there. And here's a Florida band called Scrapple: http://www.mindspring.com/~kconnell/scrapple/ Quote: "Take the 'k' out of 'funk' and you have 'fun' music...the true essence of our sound." "Last update -- 7-22-98." --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Doggie Down Date: 08 Apr 2001 14:33:07 -0400 Speaking of San Francisco landmarks, Shock! Terror! "Doggie" went down in high winds last Sunday night. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/02/MN197235.DTL --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) The Mustang "Organ Freakout" Date: 08 Apr 2001 16:08:18 -0400 At 02:08 PM 4/8/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: >"Organ Freakout! >A Happening -- With The Mustang" > >"The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia" >I think this one was discussed on the list not very long ago, but I can't recall if we ever established The Mustang's true identity. Anyone? And are there other Mustang albums out there? What am I? The local Paul Griffin expert? The Mustang was Paul Griffin. There are other Mustang records One is "Dance to Swing Organ" also on Somerset. Another is an all-Beatles record. That's the better one by far. Paul Griffin also has records on Somerset. One is called "Sock it to me!! The Sounds and voices of the Now Generation". It's not as good as the title. (There are also vocal R&B tunes on the record by Donnie Burks and Little Joe Curtis.) Then there's "Paul Griffin pours on some Soul Sauce". And finally in my former collection - now only on CDR - there is/was "101 Strings with Hammond Organ featuring Paul Griffin". The thing about these records is that Paul/the Mustang plays this very heavy handed, ham-fisted style of organ. Big chords held for a long time. He's not the only organ player who favors that style but I find it gets tiresome after a while. I LOVE ORGAN but there are some good organ players whose style leaves me pretty bored. Like Sir Charles Thompson for instance. Too polite. Too pianistic. He's not my favorite but the Mustang Beatles LP is worth finding. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001 Date: 09 Apr 2001 03:12:36 There are exotic riches to be found among many jazz artists' legacies; this week I began my show with a focus on African-themed recordings. Also, whistling. I realize now that I truly hadn't lived before hearing the theremin line from "Good Vibrations" being whistled. -Dan OLIVER NELSON Message Afro/American Sketches LP Prestige SHELLY MANNE Wameru Daktari LP Atlantic COUNT BASIE Kilimanjaro Afrique LP Philips THE HERBIE MANN AFRO-JAZZ SEXTET Uhuru The Common Ground LP Atlantic CANNONBALL ADDERLEY Lehadima Accent on Africa LP Capitol RAMSEY LEWIS Afro-Boogaloo Twist Maiden Voyage LP Cadet FREDDIE RODRIGUEZ Lu-Lu Boogaloo La Versatilidad de Freddie Rodriguez LP UA Latino PEPE DOMINGUIN Bongo Bash !Wild! Stereo Drums LP Capitol TITO PUENTE Cha-Cha-Son Mucho Cha-Cha LP RCA MIGUELITO VALDES Guaguanco Africano Inolvidables LP MGM Latino Series TINO LA TINO Canto Misterio La Tino Cha Cha Cha LP Crown CAL TJADER Wachi Wara Tjader Plays Mambo 10" LP Fantasy RAMON MARQUEZ Y SU ORCHESTRA Mambo Negro Mambo! 10" LP Columbia ESQUIVEL AND HIS ORCHESTRA Sentimental Journey Infinity in Sound vol. 2 LP RCA FRED LOWERY Sunrise Serenade Walking Along Kicking the Leaves LP Decca FRED LOWERY Abide With Me Abide With Me LP Word LES BAXTER The Lonely Whistler Confetti LP Capitol PROVOL'S GOLDEN BIRDS Ciribiribin Golden Voiced Canaries LP Decca HUGO MONTENEGRO Good Vibrations Good Vibrations LP RCA HUGO PERETTI Whistling at Dawn ...And So to Sleep LP Mercury MUZZY MARCELLINO Beyond the Reef Whistling on the Beach at Waikiki LP Coral ROBERTO DELGADO Albatross Blue Hawaii vol. 2 LP Polydor THE ISLANDERS City Under the Sea The Enchanted Sound of The Islanders LP Mayflower SANTO AND JOHNNY Reflections Hawaii LP Canadian-American THE GENE RAINS GROUP Tiki Rains in the Tropics LP Decca Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001 Date: 08 Apr 2001 21:03:19 -0700 > FRED LOWERY Sunrise Serenade Walking Along Kicking the Leaves LP Decca > FRED LOWERY Abide With Me Abide With Me LP Word > PROVOL'S GOLDEN BIRDS Ciribiribin Golden Voiced Canaries LP Decca > MUZZY MARCELLINO Beyond the Reef Whistling on the Beach at Waikiki LP Coral Anybody that puts Fred Lowery and canary songsters in their playlists is OK in my book. No foolin', Dan - I love the stuff :) I've never seen the Golden Birds on LP - mine is a three 78 set - just six titles in all. If you like that, you'll love The Artal Orchestra's "The Canaries" http://www.basichip.com/covers/artal.jpg or Johan Dalgas Frisch's "Symphony Of the Birds". Not to be confused with Jim Fassett's masterpiece of the same title. And one of my all time favorites would be the AMERCIAN RADIO WARBLERS, a series of 4 records which came on 78s and 45s, I believe. Absolutely stunning paper sleeves, which are harder to get than the records. View those covers here, front: http://www.basichip.com/covers/warblers.jpg and back: http://www.basichip.com/covers/warblersR.jpg In this day and age, it is hard to imagine an organ player, surrounded by cages of canaries, broadcasting live radio shows. To find these, try ebay, they come up everynow and then. nobody cares about this stuff, which makes it good for people that do :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001 Date: 09 Apr 2001 09:29:44 +0200 (CEST) citerar Daniel Shiman : > THE ISLANDERS City Under the Sea The Enchanted Sound of The > Islanders LP Mayflower What is this Daniel? Looks interesting. Everything that has the word "enchanted" in it is usually good. Underwater themes the same. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Wynder K Frog Date: 09 Apr 2001 11:15:06 +0100 Someone gave me a copy of this (re-issue on CD) after I played them Ananda Shankars Jumping jack Flash, I think just because it also has a version of the song. Its a bit more serious than I generally like, I don't recall it being particularly groovy or even as psychy as, say Brian Auger. I mentally filed it as late 60's blues/rock, and haven't touched it since I'm afraid. Theres the Shake Sauvage comp from last year has some good Brian Auger stuff, not too Jazzy, good groovy continental settings. Harry Stoneham can be good, but is often not. usually on the same LP, swinging wildly between the wildly swinging and TV sitcom themes. The Ed Lincoln LP 'Orgao and Piano Electrico' is much more funk led than the Ed Lincoln LP I recorded for you. Rough Trade had it in their Convent garden Shop a couple of weeks ago. Some of the Italian Soundtracky stuff is pretty good, (Alessandro Alessondri is it?) plays on some of Piero Umiliani's tracks and has some bits of his own. good tracks on the ep's that came with Il Giaguaro. And theres a couple of stormers on the Italia Erotica comp. The Happy Hammond and its ilk tend to be a bit plodding, I've found. thats enough disinformation from me. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare One thing I did get recently that hasn't yet arrived is a classic (so = I'm told) Hammond LP - Wynder K Frog - Out of the Frying Pan. Does anybody = have any comment on this one or other Hammond recommendations? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: Re: (exotica) British TV serials from the 60s Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:36:23 +0100 > The original randall and hopkirk was pretty cool. Excellent theme tune. sorta > john Barry esque, dunno who it actually was though. >Stumbled across a a soundtrack CD from this series at CDNow. It's a little >pricey -- is the music worth it? I only know the main theme, which is good, as for the incidental music i couldn't say. I would think you could get the theme tune on a TV themes compilation though, i'll keep my eyes peeled. Thanks for the ghostbusters tip- i think you might have it there. Jamie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) StereoLab Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:37:47 +0100 I heard a great StereoLab record yesterday - Simple Headphone Mind. Does anybody have any other recommendations for further similar listening? Thanks all. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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) Josie & the PussyCats Rhino Handmade Early Warning 31 Date: 09 Apr 2001 06:55:23 -0700 (PDT) Nice to see this get the official Rhino treatment! --- "Webmaster (Rhino)" wrote: > Greetings Earthling! > It has been a uniquely hectic week at The Institute. > So, it is with great glee that I am pleased to be able to > tell you about our first release from the fabled Archives of > Hanna-Barbera. > > +++++ > > PRE-ORDER DATE: > Monday 9 April 2001 at Noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time > [1900 UTC] > > ARTIST: > JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS > TITLE: > The Capitol Recordings > INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION: > 5,000 (five thousand copies) > > First there was the Archie comic book. > Then there was the animated series from Hanna-Barbera > Then there was the album and singles from Capitol Records > which featured the singers who performed the songs in the > animated series. > This is a single disc collection of all of the Capitol JOSIE > AND THE PUSSYCAT masters. It comes with a 20-page booklet > that tells the story of the band and features quite a bit of > really cool Hanna-Barbera artwork and ephemera. > > PLEASE NOTE: > Rhino Records, Our Corporate Benefactor, Will Be Releasing A > Modified Version Of This JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS Album For > Traditional Retail Sale In Late Summer 2001. This Modified > Retail Version Will Have A Different Package And A Different > Title, Will Have Fewer Tracks, Will Have A Booklet With > Fewer Pages And Will, Of Course, Not Be Individually > Numbered. > Please Keep This In Mind As You Contemplate Your Order Of > This From Rhino Handmade. > Thank You. > > RHINO HANDMADE WEBPAGE LINK FOR COMPLETE DETAILS: > The complete track listing for JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS 'The > Capitol Recordings' and sound samples for every track will > be available on the Rhino Handmade Website this coming > Monday at: > http://www.rhinohandmade.com/RHIP/7783/index.html > PLEASE NOTE: This webpage will not be active until Monday 9 > April 2001 at Noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time [1900 UTC] > > Netizens may always find helpful Questions And Answers about > how Rhino Handmade works on the Rhino Handmade Frequently > Asked Questions Page at: > http://www.rhinohandmade.com/FAQ.html > We have no secrets. > Well, ahhh, at least, not very many. > > +++++ > > AN UPDATE ABOUT THE DAVE CLARK FIVE TITLE ANNOUNCED LAST > WEEK: > The Archivists At The Rhino Handmade Institute Of > Petromusicology Regret To Inform You That THE DAVE CLARK > FIVE > 'The History Of The Dave Clark Five' Has Been Withdrawn From > Sale. > > All Pre-Orders Which Were Placed For This Title Will Be > Automatically Cancelled By The Time Warner Order Center And > Will Not Be Fulfilled. > > If You Placed A Pre-Order For This Title Combined With An > Order For Another, Different Rhino Handmade Title, Only The > Portion Of Your Order For THE DAVE CLARK FIVE Will Be > Cancelled. > > The Title Is Being Withdrawn From Sale By The Rhino Handmade > Institute Of Petromusicology To Honour Mr Clark's Requests > That No 30-Second Audio Samples Be Used In Its Sale Or > Promotion, That It Not Be Stickered As An Individually > Numbered Limited Edition Found Objectô And That Its Sales Be > Limited Only To Netizens In The USA. > > The Archivists Remain As Surprised As Any Netizen By This > Unexpected Turn Of Events And Apologize To Each And Every > Netizen Who Placed A Pre-Order For This Title That We Will > Be Unable To Provide This Title To You. > > Now For The Good News: > If You Reside In The United States, You Will Soon Be Able To > Order THE DAVE CLARK FIVE 'The History Of The Dave Clark > Five' (The Very Same Original 1993 Hollywood Records Package > As Was Being Offered By The Archivists) From The Website Of > Our Corporate Benefactor, Rhino Records. > > For Information On How To Do This, And When You Will Be Able > To Do So, Please Go To: > http://www.rhino.com/features/61482p.html > - For The Rhino Records Webpage Which Will Soon Have New > Ordering Details. > > The Archivists Thank You For Your Patience While An > Alternative Method Of Making This Title Available To You Is > Sorted Out And Implemented. > > +++++ > > When I again write I will tell you about the next > installment in the Bright Midnight series of releases from > THE DOORS archive. > > Always Stereophonically Yours, > R W Hand > Curator > Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology > > e-mail: mr.hand@rhino.com > [Mr Hand does indeed read each and every e-mail you send > but, regretfully, cannot always personally answer each one.] > To subscribe to this Rhino Handmade Early Warning E-mail > List, just go to: http://www.rhinohandmade.com/subscribe.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: "Michael D. Toth" Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 09 Apr 2001 10:28:01 -0400 Whew, I've got an intimidating pile of Exotica digests I haven't gotten around to reading, let alone responding to. Look for commentary on threads that have been dead for weeks in future days. In the meantime, something current... bag@hubris.net wrote: >Caught a cool story on NPR's All Things Considered on Friday. > >It was called Corporate Anthems: > >http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=04/06/2001&PrgID=2 ... >A guy named Steve Young has collected more than 150 LPs of industrial >musicals and I can't say I have seen even one! Steve and I joined this list around the same time around 1994 or 1995 and began exchanging off-list e-mails. (He hasn't been on here for a while though) I finally got to meet him a couple of years back. Steve's a mighty swell guy. If you've never checked out Steve's extensive Real Audio "Dave's Record Collection" archive of bizarre record samples, hoo-ee, you're missing out. A lot of this stuff is insanely rare and obscure, even by our usual collecting standards: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/clubhouse/records.shtml Michael David Toth mtoth@neo.lrun.com mtoth@neo.rr.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: jmhuber@mindspring.com Subject: (exotica) Cool '60s organists Date: 09 Apr 2001 10:29:44 -0400 I saw the post about Paul Griffin and '60s organ music and just wanted to post some info on an organist I feel is the quintessential '60s rock organist: spanish keyboard magician Pablo Herrero, organist with the '60s Spanish instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos - Go to www.losrelampagos.com to download one of the band's exotic numbers from about 1965, "La Leyenda del Beso" - "Nit de Llampecs," also available for download at the site, has a clavioline playing the melody # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) World On Moog III Date: 09 Apr 2001 07:41:56 -0700 hey thanks for the heads up on that Josie and the Pussycats CD, Chuck - that's a triple digit LP! Say, I've been meaning to ask my fellow listees about this moog record I've never seen (except for a pic) It's called The Beatles / Get Back - World On Moog III, on DAN records. Cover has a side view of a plane with beatles faces in the windows.. Anybody have this and would you care to do a CD-R swap? Thanks # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool '60s organists Date: 09 Apr 2001 07:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Don't forget organist Jimmy Smith whose groovy spy/lounge jazz lp "The Cat" (Verve)was directed by Lalo Schifrin. --- jmhuber@mindspring.com wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: Edward Milhuisen Subject: Re: (exotica) Cool '60s organists Date: 09 Apr 2001 18:34:54 +0200 jmhuber@mindspring.com wrote: > I saw the post about Paul Griffin and '60s organ music and just wanted to post some info on an organist I feel is the quintessential '60s rock organist: spanish keyboard magician Pablo Herrero, organist with the '60s Spanish instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos - > > Go to www.losrelampagos.com to download one of the band's exotic numbers from about 1965, "Nit de Llampecs," also available for download at the site, has a clavioline playing the melody How come nobody told me Joe Meek had a side-line while he was in Benidorm? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) song recommendations website - psychedelicado.com Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:50:49 -0400 (EDT) I did some more work on my songs website, and would be very grateful if people could check it out. The URL is www.psychedelicado.com The idea is to have a repository for recommendations about individual songs/tracks. These are categorized not by 'genre', but simply by the person who recommended them. Anyone can register and recommend any song of any genre. Kind of like a way to post an annotated playlist, even if you don't have a radio show. You can register and post song recommendations, which are then immediately searchable. You can also post comments on songs which others have recommended. Any feedback would be enormously appreciated; I think this could be quite useful, but I have done it completely on my own (only 15 or so users so far), so it could definitely be improved based on comments. Please let me know what you think, thanks, Jonny Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.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: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils - April 7, 2001 Date: 09 Apr 2001 17:51:45 >citerar Daniel Shiman : > > > > THE ISLANDERS City Under the Sea The Enchanted Sound of The > > Islanders LP Mayflower > >What is this Daniel? Looks interesting. Everything that has the >word "enchanted" in it is usually good. Underwater themes the same. > >Magnus > > This is a gem. The Islanders had a semi-hit in 1959 (?) with their take on "The Enchanted Sea", replete with whistling, tremelo-guitar effects, and ethereal male voices, supplied by, I imagine, the group itself. I see the "Enchanted Sea" on 45 fairly frequently. And if I recall (I'm writing from "work" right now), most of the songs on the LP are maritime-themed, rather than the usual Polynesian/Hawaiian fare. Overall the album has a consistent low-rent (in a good way) instrumental feel, with some very fine originals; i.e. "City Under the Sea". Anyone know any particulars about The Islanders? -Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Theaters Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:16:41 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:10:57 -0500 >From: Mimi Mayer >Subject: Re: (exotica) juxtapoz on tiki art (ish #25) > >Art deco theatres from the 20s-40s seem ripe for tiki designs. For >instance, the Fox Theatre in Detroit has fabulous plasterwork depicting >scowling sheiks, palms--a gilded fantasy desert in downtown Motown. Does >anyone know of art deco theatres with tiki themes? How about any books on >the subject? Thanks for any info, Mimi The Mayan theater in downtown Los Angeles is the closest I can think of. It has a huge Mayan calendar on the ceiling, and weird South American gargoyles everywhere. Yma Sumac should play there! See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) My Daily Screed Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:26:44 -0700 >Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 06:55:23 -0700 (PDT) >From: chuck >Subject: (exotica) Josie & the PussyCats Rhino Handmade Early Warning 31 > >Nice to see this get the official Rhino treatment! > >- --- "Webmaster (Rhino)" wrote: >> First there was the Archie comic book. >> Then there was the animated series from Hanna-Barbera I really despise Time Warner. Hanna-Barbera was a great studio, and all they do is promote the absolute dreck. It's typical of their blatant disregard for the history of animation that they attribute the Archie series to Hanna Barbera. (It was Filmation.) Fuck Scooby Doo and Josie and the Pussycats. That stuff sucks big time. Everything good gets bought by Time Warner and turned into something bad. Hanna Barbera and Rhino included. See ya Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:34:52 -0700 >Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 11:57:43 -0600 >From: kendoll > >i bought one of these industrial records once -- i >can't remember the >corporation but the song that caught my attention was >about nuclear >energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. >it was done as a >skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the >bad old >gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town >that was going to >clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum. i didn't >keep it because it >was badly recorded, like they only had one >microphone, and i thought it >was boring. had i only known... > >mike This is Perspective for the 70s, from the Westinghouse Sixth Future Power Forum. The Nuclear Kid is the cowboy who represents nuclear power, that everyone is afraid of because of his "unruly youth". It is pretty silly, though the Nuclear Kid song is one of the better ones on it. This musical had such songs like "Urbanopolstein", "Urbanopolis: Oratorio", and "Power Flower". Overall there's a strong notion of a utopia that is going to arise due to nuclear energy. Very silly. I think the best thing about it though is the cover, an odd tree-like structure of a rainbow of colors on a black background. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_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: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) Brazilian wierdness Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:40:25 -0700 >From: "Brian Linds" > >Hi. What can folks tell me about a self titled record >by Lulu Cortez and Ze >Ramhalo? It's twisted Brazilian >semi psych sounds with lots of animal sounds in the >background. > >Brian Linds Ze Ramalho is from Northeastern Brazil. His recordings from the 70s remind me of Blood on the Tracks era Bob Dylan. He still has a great voice, but my friend Jorginho says that hes become too spiritual, whatever that means, which may account for the psych elements. I don't know too much about him though. I could ask around if you'd like. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) A rare Brother Theodore book cover Date: 09 Apr 2001 17:31:51 -0400 Perhaps mentioned before, but... http://www.angelfire.com/ny/nyuk/images/brotherbook.jpg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) ...and another thing about Brother Theodore... Date: 09 Apr 2001 17:34:44 -0400 Does anyone have any recordings of him? I have yet to hear him. Br(other)ian 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) ...and another thing about Brother Theodore... Date: 09 Apr 2001 18:04:53 -0400 Brian Phillips wrote: > Does anyone have any recordings of him? I have yet to hear him. Br(other)ian Phillips There's a short clip here: http://www.essron.com/ lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Theaters Date: 10 Apr 2001 00:20:21 +0200 bigshot schrieb: > The Mayan theater in downtown Los Angeles is the closest I > can think of. It has a huge Mayan calendar on the ceiling, > and weird South American gargoyles everywhere. Yma Sumac > should play there! That would fit perfectly. The Mayan imho is a major cultural milestone of the 20th century, but it's not tiki. It has carved wooden doors, reliefs on the floor, painted relief colums etc. etc. It's unbelieveable that it is a sleazy porn theater today. Someone should buy it the sooner the better. BTW: It appears in this Ramones film Rock'n'Roll Highschool or so. Actually I have seen it in many films. The only tiki film theater that I know is really the one of the Kontiki museum in Oslo, Norway. But I guess that doesn't count. And it isn't embedded in any kind of art deco style. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Industrial Musicals/Corporate Anthems Date: 09 Apr 2001 18:28:05 -0400 "Michael D. Toth" wrote: > If you've never checked out Steve's extensive Real Audio "Dave's Record Collection" archive of bizarre record samples, hoo-ee, you're missing out. A lot of this stuff is insanely rare and obscure, even by our usual collecting standards: http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/clubhouse/records.shtml ----------------- Yeah, I've been hoping that the next LateNight CD would be a selection of stuff from the "Record Collection." Can't see it happening anytime soon, though... lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: Re: (exotica) Theaters Date: 09 Apr 2001 18:35:35 -0500 At 12:16 PM -0700 4/9/01, bigshot wrote: >exotica-digest wrote: >The Mayan theater in downtown Los Angeles is the closest I >can think of. It has a huge Mayan calendar on the ceiling, >and weird South American gargoyles everywhere. Yma Sumac >should play there! Hee! And risk her rattling the gilding off a Quezalcoatl figure when she hits a high F? It really does surprise me that, at least according to the fairly exclusive sample of the eXotica list, no one knows of a tiki-themed Deco showplace. It just seems probable that one highly stylized design approach or aesthetic (tikis) fed another (Deco). Plus both styles go in for strong verticals, vegatative motifs, fantastical human figures, yadda yad. Thanks, y'all, for info. 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: tikiman Subject: (exotica) Denny's 90th Date: 09 Apr 2001 16:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Mahalo to all exoticans who sent loverly messages to Martin Denny for his 90th birthday (4/10/11). I will print them out and present them to him tomorrow. He really does appreciate the love + sentiments... best, Fluid Floyd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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) song recommendations website - psychedelicado.com Date: 09 Apr 2001 21:55:20 -0400 >I did some more work on my songs website, and would be very grateful if >people could check it out. >The URL is www.psychedelicado.com > >The idea is to have a repository for recommendations about individual >songs/tracks. These are categorized not by 'genre', but simply by the >person who recommended them. Anyone can register and recommend any song >of any genre. A fine job! A sharp, clean, unique design, and I didn't hit any bugs in the programming. Swing by there and post some songs, gang. Jonny's built an excellent environment. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Rod Mckuen Birthday Date: 10 Apr 2001 04:54:54 -0400 Rod McKuen fans in the L.A. area will not want to miss this event. (p.s. the scramarama/archive link is very good, and if you scroll down a little bit pasteven further, you'll see an article about a 7-11 Corporate musical). Vern Rod McKuen Birthday Tribute, April 29 2001 Rod McKuen is not only the best selling American poet of all time, he’s also the least respected. Always keen to back an underdog, the Cacophony Society is hosting a special 68th birthday party for Rod, where else but atop his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Before an unwary audience of tourists, hookers and street crazies (perhaps Rod’s ideal audience), we’ll offer straight and cocked interpretations of the man’s various creative works, and original pieces loosely inspired by them. Poet ("Listen to the Warm"), translator ("Seasons in the Sun"), songwriter ("Jean"), cultural critic "Beatsville"), autobiographer ("Finding My Father"), the possibilities are limitless. The thrift shops are full of source material, so get crackin’. Beatnik attire (and Rod’s trademark sneakers) suggested. Visit http://www.rodmckuen.com for inspiration, or ttp://www.geocities.com/scramarama/archive.html to explore Rod’s take on the beats. We might visit the Hollywood Wax Museum after, so bring some cash. Where: 6743 Hollywood Blvd., near McCadden (opposite the Scientology personality test site) When: Sunday, April 29 2001, 2pm Contact: Kim Cooper, scram@bubblegum.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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 10 Apr 2001 08:06:25 -0500 Check out this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast for some tropic tunes by Martin Denny, Ethel Azama, Don Tiki and Big Kahuna's Copa Cat Pack. Also, you'll find cool '50s flutes, bongos and hip talk from Jack "Bongo" Burger, Herbie Mann and Del Close and John Brent's classic LP "How to Talk Hip"; TV crime jazz from "The D.A.'s Man" and "Staccato"; Sammy D sings in "Ocean's 11"; Don Elliott's "Jamaica Jazz" (featuring Candido); bossa by Piero Piccioni and Joe Harnell; and music for...seduction. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html While you're there, tour the album gallery, sign up for our playlist mailing service and enter the CD giveaway (this week: Phil the Tremolo King's "A Man...A Mood...A Guitar"). As always, your comments and requests are welcome. Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) correct link Date: 10 Apr 2001 09:40:42 -0400 Here is the correct link to the great Rod Mckuen article "Tiptoe through the Beatniks with Rod Mckuen" Scroll down a little farther for the 7-11 corporate musical story. http://www.geocities.com/scramarama/archive.html Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re (exotica) Wynder K Frog Date: 10 Apr 2001 15:52:53 +0200 (MEST) The Album has an oustanding funk/soul/rnb/jazz GROOVE instro called *Harpsichord Shuffle* and a nice version of Green Door, if you like that tune. Hmm, More Organ ? There is so much organ stuff, so I don’t know where to start. I think you have already a lot ? Can you name some favorites, that I know more what kind of style you are looking for ? Maybe you would like: Johnny Pate *You re Starting Too Fast* from LP Outrageous (with Pretty Purdie on Drums) Jay Jay Bailey *Walk Proud* Larry Ellis and The Black Hammer *Funky Thing* both from VA Deep Funk (Soul Patrol) Ed Lincoln *Eu Quero Levar Voce Pra Casa (I want to walk you home) from LP Organo E Piáno Elétrico Lou Donaldson *Who’s Making Love* from LP Hot Dog (Blue Note) still obtainable Bill Doggett *The Worm* from LP Fingertips (still cheap to find) And so on.... Martin Charles Moseley wrote: >>>One thing I did get recently that hasn't yet arrived is a classic (so = I'm told) Hammond LP - Wynder K Frog - Out of the Frying Pan. Does anybody = have any comment on this one or other Hammond recommendations?<<< and djcheesemaster wrote: >>>Someone gave me a copy of this (re-issue on CD) after I played them Ananda Shankars Jumping jack Flash, I think just because it also has a version of the song. Its a bit more serious than I generally like, I don't recall it being particularly groovy or even as psychy as, say Brian Auger. I mentally filed it as late 60's blues/rock, and haven't touched it since I'm afraid.<<< -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Burlesque event Date: 10 Apr 2001 10:53:15 -0400 I'm not sure if this has been mentioned on this list yet, but here is an event that should be of interest to you fans of exotica. Tease-O-Rama 2001 - A sultry, sizzlin' celebration of burlesque and dance! May 18-20 in New Orleans http://www.teaseorama.com I've seen several of the performers for this event at the past Vegas Grind events, and I can vouch that they do a great job at trying to recreate the old days of burlesque. This event should definitely have an 'exotica' feel to it, and should be quite different than what passes now for entertainment in today's modern adult strip clubs. Dixie Evans from the 'Exotic World' burlesque museum in California will be there - throw in a few great exotica DJs and you end up with an event I just couldn't resist. I'll be attending ..... anyone else?? Vern --------------------------- "Journey with us back to a time when women had moxie and men were as smooth and cool as dry martini. A time when wild and bawdy burlesque dancers were viewed through the smoky haze of cigars and lipstick-kissed cigarettes. They shocked. They titillated. They teased. Draped in boas and swimming in sequins, the bold and bodacious beauties of yesteryear shimmied their way into the hearts of audiences everywhere. And they're about to do it again. Welcome to Tease-O-Rama 2001 - a unique dance extravaganza celebrating the glamor of days gone by! We've assembled some of the best and most dynamic young performers of burlesque, cabaret, go-go, and the classic show girl. Add the raw energy of live bands, a cool venue and smokin' hot DJ's from across the country and you have the ingredients for an explosive event like no other! For more information, go to http://www.teaseorama.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: itsvern@attglobal.net Subject: (exotica) Shatner article Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:07:13 -0400 Here's a pretty entertaining article about William Shatner, who will be the host of this year's Miss USA beauty pageant. A good portion of the write-up is devoted to his phrasing and his LP 'The Transformed Man' http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62461-2001Apr9.html Vern # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Burlesque event Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:35:32 -0400 on 4/10/01 10:53 AM, itsvern@attglobal.net at itsvern@attglobal.net wrote: > Tease-O-Rama 2001 - A sultry, sizzlin' celebration of burlesque and > dance! > May 18-20 in New Orleans > http://www.teaseorama.com > > I've seen several of the performers for this event at the past Vegas > Grind events, and I can vouch that they do a great job at trying to > recreate the old days of burlesque. This event should definitely have > an 'exotica' feel to it, and should be quite different than what passes > now for entertainment in today's modern adult strip clubs. Dixie Evans > from the 'Exotic World' burlesque museum in California will be there - > throw in a few great exotica DJs and you end up with an event I just > couldn't resist. > > I'll be attending ..... anyone else?? I'll be DJ'ing the gala ball on Sunday night (5/20) at the Shim Sham Club, then again on Monday night, along with New York City's incredible World Famous Pontani Sisters go-go dancers, at the Circle Bar (at Lee Circle at the beginning of St. Charles Ave). I'm spinning Go-Go, shake, ye-ye, Now Sound, breakbeat and clubpop. check out www.pontanisisters.com br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) More Hammond Grooves Date: 10 Apr 2001 12:31:17 -0400 Bzzz - Jimmy Gordon Gonzo - James Booker Take 1 - Golden Pot Shhhh...For a Little While - James Brown (Yes, it's him on the "oggin" (They Might Be Giants pronunciation). Also, try Odell Brown and the Organ-izers. Eggs (see subject line), 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Grooves Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:03:39 -0700 (PDT) And there's The James Taylor Quartet: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000OIF/qid=986925704/sr=1-2/ref=sc_m_3/104-5452492-2161562 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: tikiman Subject: (exotica) Mahalo! Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Mahalo to all who sent along birthday wishes for Martin Denny... rest assured that all will be presented to him at a small dinner party tonight. Magnus, JB, et al were not too late as today's the day and with the time difference here, it's still only 9am... dinner's @ 7pm, so keep it coming luv if you feel it. Aloha, FF __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: (exotica) Exotica Slacking Date: 10 Apr 2001 13:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Tiki Pinball: http://www.flipside.com/games/arcade/pinball/tiki/index.cfm ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Burlesque event Date: 10 Apr 2001 21:04:59 EDT Cool! I saw the Shim-Shamettes in NOLA for Valentine's Day. Great mix of burlesque and the sultry song stylings of Ingrid Lucia (8 mo.s pregnant and wearing a leather gown). > Tease-O-Rama 2001 - A sultry, sizzlin' celebration of burlesque and > dance! > May 18-20 in New Orleans > http://www.teaseorama.com > > I've seen several of the performers for this event at the past Vegas > Grind events, and I can vouch that they do a great job at trying to > recreate the old days of burlesque. This event should definitely have > an 'exotica' feel to it, and should be quite different than what passes > now for entertainment in today's modern adult strip clubs. Dixie Evans > from the 'Exotic World' burlesque museum in California will be there - > throw in a few great exotica DJs and you end up with an event I just > couldn't resist. > > I'll be attending ..... anyone else?? I'll be DJ'ing the gala ball on Sunday night (5/20) at the Shim Sham Club, then again on Monday night, along with New York City's incredible World Famous Pontani Sisters go-go dancers, at the Circle Bar (at Lee Circle at the beginning of St. Charles Ave). I'm spinning Go-Go, shake, ye-ye, Now Sound, breakbeat and clubpop. check out www.pontanisisters.com br cleve >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) [obits] Pedro Depestre, Myra English Date: 10 Apr 2001 23:03:37 -0400 BBC online reports -- April 9, 2001 Violinist Pedro Depestre Gonzalez, who plays with the Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club, has died after collapsing on stage in Basel, Switzerland. Depestre, 55, collapsed after performing a solo at Sunday's concert and could not be revived. Following his death, the group cancelled a planned concert Monday in Cologne, Germany. Depestre was due to play with Cachaito Lopez at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the La Linea festival this weekend. That concert will go ahead as planned. The Buena Vista Social Club are a group of Cuban musicians gathered together by Ry Cooder in 1997 for one last album of music that had long since gone out of fashion in Cuba. Now the musicians - some of whom are in their seventies and eighties - have sold at least four million copies of their album. They were also featured in a 1999 film by the German director Wim Wenders. As well as playing with the Buena Vistas, Depestre plays solo violin on the track Mariposita de Primavera, on singer Omara Portuondo's last album. Portuondo is due to play in London on 12 April. He is one of the stars of the Buena Vista show along with singer Ibrahim Ferrer and virtuoso pianist Ruben Gonzalez. But there are usually about 18 musicians onstage at a concert, each applying an individual touch to the collective. --------------- Posted on: Tuesday, April 3, 2001 Myra English, 'Hawai'i's champagne lady,' dead at 68 By Wayne Harada Advertiser Entertainment Editor They called her "Hawai'i's Champagne Lady," because of her signature hit, "Drinking Champagne." And, indeed, singer Myra English, who died Thursday at age 68, is being recalled as one who was always as effervescent as the bottled bubbly of which she sang. English, whose formal name was Myra English Gibbs, was "totally unique, a one-of-a-kind," said singer-composer Jay Larrin. "She sang exactly what she loved and she rattled the chandeliers whenever she performed. She just knew how to have fun." "Her 'Drinking Champagne' will live on forever," said Cha Thompson, vice president of Tihati Productions, who occasionally hired English to perform at functions. "She was one entertainer who got along with everybody ... and everybody loved Myra and her sexy, gravelly voice." Melveen Leed, her longtime buddy, said she made frequent visits to the Queen's Medical Center to see English, who had been ailing for months. "Music was her life and she put the sparkle in 'Drinking Champagne,' " Leed said. "I will really miss her; she was always happy-go-lucky and I've never seen her sad. She would always be the one to make other people happy and we often talked about doing a concert together. She came to visit me a couple of months ago at Chai's Island Bistro, and she just lit up when she got up to sing." Said veteran entertainer Don Ho: "Myra was one of the free spirits; she just loved to sing for people.Whenever you got her on a stage, she wanted to stay forever because she loved working before an audience. She just had that Gabby (Pahinui), Sonny (Chillingworth) spirit; always sharing. And I thought her voice was just beautiful; she always brought down the house whenever I called her on stage to sing." English was an old-school vocalist who endeared herself to audiences at the old Blue Dolphin Room of the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel in the '60s and '70s, when Hawaiian music was undergoing an identity crisis, swayed by altering influences. English, however, maintained her traditional Hawaiian approach, often adding her kolohe (rascally) nature into her music. Besides club and recording work, English also was a regular guest on the "Hawai'i Calls" radio show, made appearances at Club Polynesia and the 'Ilikai Hotel, and worked at the State Legislature. English was born on Feb. 22, 1933, in Makawao, Maui, and graduated from Maui High School. She attended Honolulu Business College and Peterson's School of Business in Seattle. Services will be held in Honolulu and on Maui. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Diamond Head Mortuary, where a prayer service will be at 7 p.m. On Maui, visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Holy Rosary Church in Pa'ia, at 954 Baldwin Ave., where Mass will be celebrated at noon; burial will follow at Maui Memorial Park. Casual attire; no flowers. Survived by husband, Chelliot Gibbs; daughter, Pat Cabrera; sons, Chelliot Jr., Kenneth and John; 11 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, Ralph English; sister, Winona Gulick. For story and photo: # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Burlesque event Date: 10 Apr 2001 21:04:59 EDT Cool! I saw the Shim-Shamettes in NOLA for Valentine's Day. Great mix of burlesque and the sultry song stylings of Ingrid Lucia (8 mo.s pregnant and wearing a leather gown). > Tease-O-Rama 2001 - A sultry, sizzlin' celebration of burlesque and > dance! > May 18-20 in New Orleans > http://www.teaseorama.com > > I've seen several of the performers for this event at the past Vegas > Grind events, and I can vouch that they do a great job at trying to > recreate the old days of burlesque. This event should definitely have > an 'exotica' feel to it, and should be quite different than what passes > now for entertainment in today's modern adult strip clubs. Dixie Evans > from the 'Exotic World' burlesque museum in California will be there - > throw in a few great exotica DJs and you end up with an event I just > couldn't resist. > > I'll be attending ..... anyone else?? I'll be DJ'ing the gala ball on Sunday night (5/20) at the Shim Sham Club, then again on Monday night, along with New York City's incredible World Famous Pontani Sisters go-go dancers, at the Circle Bar (at Lee Circle at the beginning of St. Charles Ave). I'm spinning Go-Go, shake, ye-ye, Now Sound, breakbeat and clubpop. check out www.pontanisisters.com br cleve >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: leslie gilotti Subject: (exotica) Re: Mute Date: 11 Apr 2001 12:03:33 +0100 (Sorry, a bit behind on digests here) Maybe I'm a bit biased cos I used to work there (it was my favourite label _long_ before that tho), but Mute gets a bit of an unfair deal by music journos who lazily tag the label as Krautrock-fixated. Okay, Daniel Miller does have a fondness for German-esque bleepy-bloopy (Kreidler, Can re-issues, Echoboy, Appliance and To Rococco Rot, but all brilliant IMHO), but the label has put out some fantastic stuff recently that is decidedly un-'noisy neo-teutonic concept art'. Goldfrapp's 'Felt Mountain' debut album is absolutely beautiful cinematic stuff - Morricone and John Barry (um, and Portishead) fans would probably like. It wouldn't be too unfair to call Add N to (X) artsy, but the recent 'Add Insult to Injury' album has much more of an increased fun factor over the first three. And of course there's Moby, Nick Cave, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Mute UK has also owned Blast First for quite some time now, and that encompasses all of the early Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers albums, plus new stuff like Labradford and Pan American (though Pan Sonic will definitely fuel Mo's argument). But Erasure and Depeche Mode are still going strong... I think Mute has one of the most diverse and exciting rosters out there, without Miller ever having compromised his principles or sold out to anyone - and I'm no longer paid to say so ;). back to lurking... Leslie ============ Moritz wrote: > > For me part of the problem remained not knowing where the label fit > > in after the new wave ended. > that's true. they have gone a bit too far into this noisy neo teutonic > concept art scene for my taste. Where's the silly pop fun of Silicon Teens > today? Or gay disco like the Communards? It has all become so dead > serious. That reminds me that on this same subject, that the other pioneering label of the industrial/new wave era, Rough Trade, also suffered from the same identity problem. Is it a coincidence that both Mute and RT still exist today in spite of the all that's happened since the late 70's? Both have gone through a similar kind of transformation/reflection period and, at least I think, have been able to remain independent. I went through a period where I really detested RT, probably because to me they seemed to abandon the sound they helped pioneer, but I've since come to respect the label again, much the same way as Mute. Brian -- ::: leslie gilotti : label manager. writes stuff. plays records. ::: features : the sea and cake. leila. jah wobble. cousteau. ::: reviews : south. stereophonics. thighpaulsandra. gorillaz. nick cave. ::: radio : avalanches. wire. esg. hopeton lewis. treva whateva. spanky. ::: http://www.playlouder.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: (exotica) Occult Art Date: 11 Apr 2001 05:48:06 -0700 (PDT) This was sent to me by a Mr Fernee. Exotic or campy? For those amused by the grimly humorless, this might be interest. "The Austin Osman Spare Collection": http://www.occultartgallery.com ===== "Cold stars watch us, chum. Cold stars and the whores." - Kenneth Patchen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) More Hammond Grooves - James Taylor Quartet Date: 11 Apr 2001 13:52:21 +0100 JTQ are interesting because they play real Hammond driven funk tunes and they sound the business - but not on record. The only way you can sound like a proper funk band now is by recording on early 70s equipment in an early 70s studio and making records with an early 70s engineer. I've always found their records lack something compared to the real thing. The classic track is the Theme From Starsky and Hutch - originally by Tom Scott - which is much better by JTQ. On stage though, with the drummer going mad and the Hammond screaming - nothing else compares. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mute Date: 11 Apr 2001 10:10:56 EDT In a message dated 4/11/2001 6:59:06 AM, leslie.gilotti@playlouder.com writes: << Goldfrapp's 'Felt Mountain' debut album is absolutely beautiful cinematic stuff >> I second that opinion. What a great album. 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Re: goldfrapp Date: 11 Apr 2001 10:24:11 -0400 HOUSEOBOB@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/11/2001 6:59:06 AM, leslie.gilotti@playlouder.com writes: >I second that opinion. What a great album. Bob ------------- You guys may enjoy listening to this episode of Spinning On Air: November 10 Listen http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/wnyc/soa/fall00/soa111000.ra Goldfrapp is the name of a new British band which consists of singer/composer Alison Goldfrapp and arranger/composer Will Gregory. They've created an album of songs that are intimate and panoramic, somewhat electronic and very human. Complexities and ambiguities enrich these finely crafted songs. Goldfrapp and Gregory are interviewed by phone from London. More info at their website. lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: RE: (exotica) More Hammond Grooves - James Taylor Quartet Date: 11 Apr 2001 13:01:02 -0400 At 01:52 PM 4/11/01 +0100, Charles Moseley wrote: > >JTQ are interesting because they play real Hammond driven funk tunes and >they sound the business - but not on record. I think I've said before that I love the organ. (How many okay tunes are elevated by a little organ phrase coming out of nowhere? I'm thinking of a certain Xavier Cugat cut. I think it was "Night Train" but I'm not sure.) As an organ lover (if anyone is looking for a chat identity, it's yours), I would never recommend against today's modern musician employing the organ or even trying to pay tribute to those great 50's/60's/70's organ groovemeisters. But most of the time when I hear the modern organ purveyors, there's something almost too perfect about the sound. It feels like an imitation or a tribute. But it doesn't feel genuine. That's probably some kind of prejudice but I can't shake it. The JTQ are both great and kind of boring at the same time. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) Mahalo! Date: 11 Apr 2001 14:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Dateline Honolulu-- This one's for Tiki Bob and all who sent their heartfelt birthday wishes along to Martin Denny. There was a small, swank dinner party for 14 people at the Kahala Mandarin last night graciously hosted by Marty. Although she wasn't able to attend, the best present for Martin was that he brought June, his wife of 43 years, home from the hospital the day before. He renewed his driver's license at 90 (!) so he could visit her without being dependent on friends and neighbors to take him there. It was a swellegant night, and I read your messages aloud to the guests. He was very moved and proud to hear from his fans around the country and from around the world including Canada, England, Sweden... you know who you are. The big treat happened after dinner when we went upstairs to the hotel's jazz lounge where the Betty Loo Taylor trio acknowledged Martin's birthday to the standing ovation of the crowd and turned over the piano to him for 3 tunes... Our Day Will Come, Taste of Honey, and Quiet Village (audience supplied the bird calls). He played beautifully, gently swinging, on time, and in command. In a message to me --- Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > he sounded more thoughtfull than > jubilent about his birthday. Tis true... at 90 he sat and discussed current events like the Ehime Maru sub incident, the China jet stand-off, middle east situation, a Woody Guthrie special he saw on PBS, and more in a very lucid, philosophical way. He is an amazing man and an inspiration to all of us facing the aging thang. Music must be the key! Alohaderci, Fluid Floyd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 11 Apr 2001 19:35:36 -0400 So I was at the counter asking the record store guy about this sealed record. The band was called something like the Nitelighters It's a Harvey Fuqua record. He showed me a blurb that compared them to the Meters. The reason I was interested was that they did a version of McArthur's Park, albeit a medley with "What's going on?" and some original tune by Harvey. Anyway this woman walks up to the counter holding Martin Denny's "Exotica" and that Surfmen record with the woman emerging from a flower. And she asks "Which one is cheesier?" The clerk was stumped for an answer. But I took her at word and told her that if she wanted "cheese", the bird and animal calls on the Surfmen record were way cheesier (and funnier) than the Martin Denny bird calls on which they were undoubtedly based. But she didn't seem to understand my answer. So she asked "Which one is better if you want background Hawaiian music?" Which you'll all agree is a quite different question. I said "In that case, take the Denny. It's a classic". The clerk agreed but said they were both good records. I agreed with that. She took both of them. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:16:42 -0400 > > The clerk agreed but said they were both good records. I agreed with that. > She took both of them. Care to say what the cost was? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 11 Apr 2001 20:45:57 -0500 Hey guys, Here's a question for you: Back in the 60's, in almost all of the sit coms, like Patty Duke Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, whenever they'd show a party scene, with people dancing, they played this sort of generic music (usually surf-type)no real tune or artist. Who usually did this stuff. I remember as a teen, I thought it was so stupid they never played "real" artists. Although, I do remember a couple of episodes of Dick Van Dyke where Chad and Jeremy...or was it Peter and Gordon, were on. Thanks for letting me ramble...on and on and on...... Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Mahalo! Date: 11 Apr 2001 22:01:52 EDT In a message dated 4/11/01 2:49:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, taboorecords@yahoo.com writes: << In a message to me --- Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > he sounded more thoughtful than > jubilant about his birthday. Tis true... at 90 he sat and discussed current events like the Ehime Maru sub incident, the China jet stand-off, middle east situation, a Woody Guthrie special he saw on PBS, and more in a very lucid, philosophical way. He is an amazing man and an inspiration to all of us facing the aging thang. Music must be the key! Alohaderci, Fluid Floyd >> Thanks for the details of the evening Fluid. Yes, Marty was very happy, and almost bewildered, to turn 90. I have been so fortunate to get to know this gentleman over the last few years. Our discussion are usually not about music, believe it or not, but about life stories, achievements and failures, loves and loves lost, the strong will of man and his so many failings, and other similar discussions, more fitting of a grandfather and son as opposed to an entertainer and fan. He and I have talked about his 90th birthday a lot over the last year, and he always says the same thing, "I never really thought I would live this long." And no matter how fond you are of an individual, no matter how familiar, one never knows how to respond to such a comment. And saying, "Well you have and best wishes for many more," almost sounds like an admission that there probably won't be "many" more. Don't get me wrong. I have never perceived him to be preoccupied with death and I have seen no signs of depression often associated with the last decade of one's life. Eveb if the last year of his life was tortuous enough to send anybody into depression. Marty's wife, June, has suffered numerous setbacks related to osteoporosis. So bad that when I talked with him in December he assured me that she would probably not be around when I was to visit a month later in January (2001). Life support had been removed and the waiting game had begun. But as often happens, the will to live took over and June had a partial recovery. Still, her mobility is very limited and pain management is a big part of her life now and will be from here on out. 43 years. A long time to be married. So long that I see both of them not really existing without the other. I think they know that too. Marty was a different man when I visited him in January. June had had the near death experience and was destined to be in a full service nursing facility for at least another 3 months. I could really sense that Marty really disliked the late afternoons and evenings when he was at home alone. He had stopped driving because of some neuralgia in his legs and he was depending on friends and neighbors to drive him back and forth to the nursing home, and anywhere for that matter. He had indicated to me that he missed driving so but was so afraid of causing an accident, or often times worse, the lawyers feeding frenzy. The fact that June had taken over the driving for the last few years had not helped the situation. He really debated if he should drive again. I indicated with a little practice that he should be able to drive just fine during day light hours. And so he is. He talks about the feeling of independence he has with much jubilation. All just because he can get behind the wheel and drive to the market for himself. I quess we take stuff like that for granted. Still, on his birthday, when most of us "youngsters" think he should be exuberant, he was pensive. Amazed and grateful to be 90 but cautious not to be boisterous as it could all end tomorrow. And so as Floyd said, the greeting flowed in from around the globe. Each greeting, though many from unfamiliar fans, were appreciated nonetheless. 90 years old. And yes the clock is still ticking but will eventually wind down, more sooner than later. So we celebrate the life of Martin Denny in our own little ways. We remember fondly the man who, in all essence, start our whole little Exotica existence -- 40 some odd years ago by a pond at an outside tourist bar. Thanks again to those, as Floyd mentioned, that sent notes for Marty's birthday. Don't doubt for a minute that those greetings were appreciated. They were. Happy birthday again Marty. Thanks for your contributions that have made our lives that much more enjoyable. Somebody cue the frogs. Tiki Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 11 Apr 2001 22:06:35 EDT In a message dated 4/11/01 4:33:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, azed@pathcom.com writes: << Anyway this woman walks up to the counter holding Martin Denny's "Exotica" and that Surfmen record with the woman emerging from a flower. And she asks "Which one is cheesier?" The clerk was stumped for an answer. But I took her at word and told her that if she wanted "cheese", the bird and animal calls on the Surfmen record were way cheesier (and funnier) than the Martin Denny bird calls on which they were undoubtedly based. But she didn't seem to understand my answer. So she asked "Which one is better if you want background Hawaiian music?" Which you'll all agree is a quite different question. I said "In that case, take the Denny. It's a classic". The clerk agreed but said they were both good records. I agreed with that. She took both of them. >> What one often times starts out thinking of as cheesy, often turns into a greatly admired musical (art if you will streatch this) form. Alan, just think if, because of your insights, this woman becomes a big Denny (OK and maybe Surfmen) fan. I discovered Denny on my own, but I can assure you, if someone had "turned me on" to him I would be grateful to that individual for life. Balmy thoughts, TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 11 Apr 2001 22:07:29 EDT In a message dated 4/11/1 8:47:00 PM, colleen7@ireland.com wrote: >Back in the 60's, in almost all of the sit coms, like Patty Duke >Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, whenever they'd show a party >scene, with people dancing, they played this sort of generic music >(usually surf-type)no real tune or artist. Who usually did this >stuff. I remember as a teen, I thought it was so stupid they never >played "real" artists. That is the very exploitation that endears us to this music...it generally falls into the go-go genre, but of course no hard and fast rules exist. Whoever put it into the movie (often American International pix, but others typify your topic I'm sure) usually missed the mark. That's the key...Missing the Mark! Otherwise what fun could it possibly be 35 years hence? JB/nostalgia sux # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Sir Harry Secombe, LUCIANA GIUSSANI Date: 11 Apr 2001 22:15:06 -0400 British Goon Sir Harry Secombe Dies Aged 79 =20 LONDON (Reuters) - Sir Harry Secombe, the comedian, singer and entertainer famous for his role in the Goon Show, has died of prostate cancer at 79, his lifelong employer the BBC said on Wednesday.=20 Sir Harry, who had also suffered from diabetes and had had a stroke, died in Guildford Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, the BBC said.=20 The Secombe family said in a statement: "We are grieving for a wonderful= man, and a much loved husband, father and grandfather."=20 Sir Harry's most recent work was as a presenter for Songs of Praise on BBC= 1.=20 ------- Wednesday, 11 April, 2001, 19:46 GMT 20:46 UK=20 Sir Harry Secombe dies Sir Harry Secombe, the entertainer from Swansea famed for his work with The Goon Show, has died aged 79.=20 He died on Wednesday afternoon in the Guildford Hospital from prostate cancer with his wife, Myra, at his bedside.=20 The Secombe family said in a statement: "We are grieving for a wonderful man, and a much loved husband, father and grandfather."=20 And a statement from Prince Charles, a long-established fan of the Goons, said: "I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Harry Secombe, to whom I spoke only recently in hospital.=20 "He was one of the great life enhancers of our age and gave pleasure and constant happy laughter to so many of us throughout his life."=20 Fellow Goon Spike Milligan paid tribute by saying: "I grieve for an unbelievable friend."=20 A funeral is planned for next week and a memorial service will be held later in the year.=20 Sir Harry had suffered from health problems, including diabetes and a stroke, and he announced his retirement from showbusiness in 1999.=20 During his last few months Sir Harry found his eyesight failing and he had suffered some paralysis down his left side.=20 During a BBC One tribute screened last year he pointed out that he should have been in a wheelchair but wanted to remain as active as possible.=20 Sir Harry was delighted with his knighthood =20 "When I did the This Is Your Life special earlier this year I was determined to walk on to the stage rather than be wheeled on," he said at the time.=20 "I'm also having hormone injections, which have a very strange effect on your body," he said in a mock camp lisp.=20 Sir Harry said he learned how to make people laugh as a child.=20 "Because I had poor eyesight I had to wear glasses and was worried about getting bullied," he said. "To make sure this didn't happen I started being the fool - and it worked."=20 He went on to become one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.=20 Charity work The veteran comic rose to prominence on BBC radio with his work on the Goons, and was knighted in 1981.=20 The Goon Show, which also starred Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, was first broadcast in 1949, and enjoyed a nine-year run.=20 As well as counting Prince Charles among its fans, Beatle John Lennon was also known to tune in to enjoy the show.=20 Sir Harry later became known as a singer and frequently appeared at the London Palladium between 1956 to 1966.=20 He appeared in several films during the 70s, including the musical Oliver! in which he played Mr Bumble.=20 More recently, Sir Harry, a committed Christian, presented the Sunday night religious programme Highway on ITV as well as Songs of Praise on BBC One.=20 He had also been involved in charity work for organisations including the Army Benevolent Fund and the Stars Organisation for Spastics.=20 The Harry Secombe golf classic was first held at Ifield in 1967, and has since raised =A3250,000 for the physically and mentally disabled.=20 The worlds of royalty, arts and showbusiness have paid tribute to Sir Harry Secombe, who has died aged 79.=20 They remembered a great all-round entertainer who was full of joy and loved by the public and members of his profession.=20 Sir Spike Milligan, his Goon Show co-star and long-time friend said: "I grieve for an unbelievable friend."=20 And Dame Thora Hird, who also knew Sir Harry for more than 40 years, said she had lost a very great friend.=20 Spike Milligan has lost an "unbelievable" friend=20 "I will remember him with love and devotion. He was a great fellow, a great comic, a dear man and a very great friend."=20 The Prince of Wales, who was a great admirer of Sir Harry and in particular his works on The Goons, also paid tribute.=20 "I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Harry Secombe to whom I spoke only recently in hospital," he said.=20 "He was one of the great life enhancers of our age and gave pleasure and constant happy laughter to so many of us throughout his life.=20 =20 And the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, spoke of his admiration for Sir Harry, who was also a committed Christian.=20 "From first seeing him on stage in the 1960s in Pickwick, then later meeting him in person, I grew to know Harry as a magnificent entertainer, a good friend and a man of shining Christian faith.=20 "He drew deep on his faith - it was the source of his joy, warmth and humour, undimmed even during illness. It was his source of courage and strength too."=20 Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC also paid tribute. "It is hard to believe that it is 50 years since The Goons were first broadcast on BBC Radio," he said.=20 "The Goons transformed comedy and their humour has transcended the= generations.=20 "That humour, his magnificent voice which brought pleasure to millions, and a deep compassion, made Sir Harry special. We will miss him."=20 Jenny Abramsky, Director BBC Radio and Music said Sir Harry and the Goons played "a huge part in my falling in love with radio".=20 "He was a brilliant comedian and a great communicator. He will be sorely missed," she added.=20 Television presenter Michael Parkinson, who was a close friend of Sir Harry's for many years, said he was deeply saddened by the news of his= death.=20 "He was one of my boyhood heroes, I used to see him on the theatre during his variety act and I was fortunate enough to get to know him personally= later.=20 "He was a lovely, wonderful man who had the great gift of laughter and he shared it with everyone. It was impossible to be miserable when you were around him."=20 The BBC's media correspondent Nick Higham said Sir Harry had boundless energy and interests.=20 John Major said Sir Harry was a "comic genius" "He was a doer of good works. He was a very religious man. He will be remembered as a thoroughly good egg.=20 "He slimmed down in later life because of diabetes, but for much of his career he was a jolly fat man with a wonderful singing voice."=20 Broadcaster Denis Norden, who was Sir Harry's close friend for more than 50 years, said the world would be a sadder place without him.=20 "I never met anyone who did not have the warmest of feelings for him - he was exceptional in that way.=20 Jenny Abramsky was inspired by Sir Harry=20 "He was not one of those comedians who was gloomy off-stage and he always cheered up the occasion wherever he was.=20 "He was mightily talented and one hesitates to say they don't make them like that anymore but in those days you had to have more than one skill.=20 "He had his singing and his own gift for comedy - he was much more than just an interpreter of lines. It is that multi-skill that we are missing badly.= =20 And former Tory prime minister John Major, who had a great affection for Sir Harry, said: "He was one of the loveliest of men and a comic genius who gave pleasure to millions."=20 Singer and chat show host Des O'Connor added: "He was just so special in every way you can think.=20 "He was so very special he will never be replaced."=20 Broadcaster Terry Wogan also voiced his sorrow, saying: "I am so very sorry, it is a great loss, he was a very lovely person."=20 Sir Harry Secombe was one of the outstanding British entertainers of his time, equally popular on stage and screen, television and radio.=20 He was also greatly admired within his own profession.=20 And at a lunch given to him by the Variety Club of Great Britain to celebrate 25 years in showbusiness, he said: "Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get".=20 The son of a commercial traveller, Sir Harry was born in 1921 in Swansea, and at an early age, appeared with one of his sisters in a double comedy act at local charity concerts.=20 He joined the Territorial Army six months before the outbreak of World War II and remained in the Army for seven years, including service in Tunisia and Italy.=20 While he was in Italy he developed his talent as a comedian in army concert party shows.=20 In London, after demobilisation, he got his first professional engagement at the Windmill Theatre. He made his first broadcast in 1948 and later became "resident comedian" in Variety Bandbox.=20 It was in 1951 that he and Spike Milligan, whom he had met in the Army, together with two other ex-servicemen, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, launched the radio series that was to become The Goon Show.=20 Sir Harry's main contribution was Neddy Seagoon, the boisterous character famous for his raspberry blowing.=20 The Goon Show continued for nine years after which the team members went their separate ways.=20 Although Sir Harry had sung in the church choir as a boy and was used to including songs in his musical acts, it was not until 1952 that he took steps to have his voice trained.=20 He joked that his voice was not so much "belcanto" as "can belto". His first opportunity to combine his comic and singing gifts to any extent was in the stage musical Pickwick in 1963.=20 One of its songs If I Ruled The World became something of a Secombe signature tune.=20 He had since taken singing roles in the stage musical The Four Musketeers and in the film musicals Oliver and Song of Norway.=20 He appeared in several Royal Command performances and was made a CBE in 1963. This is my Song reached number two in the British charts in 1967. The Harry Secombe Show was a popular feature on television.=20 When his semi-autobiographical novel Twice Brightly was published in 1974, it was reviewed in Punch by Prince Charles, a Goon and Secombe admirer.=20 His first novel Welsh Fargo was published in 1981, the year in which he was knighted for services to entertainment and charity.=20 His friends dubbed him Sir Cumference! But he slimmed down rapidly after collapsing with diabetes.=20 He was a religious man, presenting ITV's Highway programme during the 80s followed by a stint on the BBC's Songs of Praise.=20 In 1998 he announced that he was undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Sir Harry Secombe announced his retirement in September 1999 following a stroke.=20 -------- LUCIANA GIUSSANI DIES=20 'DIABOLIK' CREATOR WAS 72=20 Special to the SPLASH by Pedro Mota April 5: Luciana Giussani, who along with her sister, Angela, created the famous comic character Diabolik, died March 31, in Milan at the age of 72. Diabolik first appeared in 1962, and sold more than 150 million albums. Its success led the series to radio shows, television and even cinema. Luciana's sister and Diabolik's co-creator Angela Giussani passed away in 1987. In a recently published article Luciana said: "We =AD =AD and all those who have worked with us in all these years, always thought of Diabolik, Eva, Ginko and Altea as real persons, alive, with a personality and a continuous growing, with ups and downs of humour, of wich, in fact, we felt more like a biographer than like an inventor". # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More Hammond Grooves - James Taylor Quartet Date: 12 Apr 2001 10:24:36 +0100 The JTQ are both great and kind of boring at the same time. Exactly!. Crap on record, great on stage. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 Magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Mahalo! Date: 12 Apr 2001 11:25:50 +0200 (CEST) Thanks so much for the birthday report. I only wished I could have written something more substancial or rather poetic to honour him with. But I am really happy he got to hear my greetings, I wrote it not only from me, but from all of us swedes appreciating him. Think about it, 90 years! How fantastic it must be to see ones art become adored once again by a whole new generation! Despite the wars and all the trouble of the 20th century, how rich it was in unique artistic expression. That is the thing to remember. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 09:17:08 -0400 Now, wait-a-minute. This gal at the store asked "Which one is cheesier??" = That's a hell of a question. I would've asked her if she's looking for cheese than how come she has two = wonderful LP's in her hand? - and that if she wants cheese to go pick-up = the latest "Mr Spanish Hunk of Muscle sings the Hawaiian hits" CD that = just won an award at the MTV Music Awards at Best Buy!!! Sheeesh. - 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 09:20:44 -0400 Colleen: There is a HUGE and VAST library of "stock music" that was provided by = session musicians who were given phrases like "peppy," "patriotic," or = "dance party" to clue them in as to what the hell they should be playing. This stuff can probably never be "labeled and classified" - but I'm just = making assumptions. I talked to a guy that helped make the drive-in movie theater food = trailers and he mentioned this stock music. He also said, although there = were 100's of things to choose from, the guys grinding out this stuff = really weren't striving for artistic perfection and usually just settled = for whatever the hell was easily reachable in bins #1 to 10 - forget about = climbing in the back to get to bin #62!!! - 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: Sem Sinatra Subject: (exotica) le passager de la pluie - by SEVERINE Date: 12 Apr 2001 22:09:37 +0900 anyone know anything about SEVERINE who sang "le passager de la pluie" (co-composed by francis lai)? what a great song ... if you want to have a listen http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/asp/audio.asp?audio=%2F5%2F2%2F8%2F3596971500825A24%2Era track 24 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: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:32:27 +0200 Nathan Miner schrieb: > if she wants cheese to go pick-up if she wants cheese... well, no, I don't say it. Just this: America has passed a new law defining the size and number of holes that cheese must have to get the permission to be imported. Now, if there is just one hole in the cheese plus the cheese is black.... No seriously, Alan, you were way to friendly to that woman, but you certainly had your reasons. Mo -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 10:39:38 -0400 <> Wasn't there a Zippy cartoon about this??? - 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 McKenna" Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:49:51 >know the Anderson's were fond of modelling their figures on real people, Lady Penelope was based on Sylvia Anderson. Sylvia also owned a lot of the puppets from their divorce settlement and Gerry was pissed (in the american sense) when she sold them at the height of Supermarionation retro fever in Britain a few years ago. rob 'always on time' mckenna _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:47:22 -0400 At 09:16 PM 4/12/01 -0400, clayton black wrote: >> The clerk agreed but said they were both good records. I agreed with that. >> She took both of them. > >Care to say what the cost was? I think they were around 12 bucks each. (Canadian) On a completely different off-topic note, I got a call yesterday about a possible appearance on.... (exotic drum roll..........) The Jenny Jones show. They said that Jenny is suddenly really into documentary films but I think I've got a secret admirer. (Homosexual of course.) I'll let you know if it actually happens. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:48:15 -0400 Hey AZ - when will your documentary be available for purchase?!?! - 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:57:14 -0400 At 08:45 PM 4/11/01 -0500, Colleen Pyles wrote: > >Hey guys, >Here's a question for you: >Back in the 60's, in almost all of the sit coms, like Patty Duke >Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, whenever they'd show a party >scene, with people dancing, they played this sort of generic music >(usually surf-type)no real tune or artist. Who usually did this >stuff. I remember as a teen, I thought it was so stupid they never >played "real" artists. Oh Colleen, I had the exact same experience. But now that's my favorite music in the world. I assume that the music was probably made by the same person who wrote the other music for the show. And that's what made the music so interesting although that's only true in retrospect, I agree. At the time I had the same reaction as you. For instance, Frank DeVol (also known as Happy Kyne) wrote the music for such shows as My Three Sons but also made quasi-groovy music when required. The best example of that is his soundtrack to "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" which is basically orchestral and kind of sappy. But there is one "groovy" cut called, as it happens, "Groovy Delivery Boy". To the degree I have any kind of focus in my record accumulating, it is now on the very kind of music that we're talking about here. Fake rock music by guys who shouldn't have been trying to make rock music but actually did a nice job of it, in retrospect. Although, I do remember a couple of episodes >of Dick Van Dyke where Chad and Jeremy...or was it Peter and Gordon, >were on. Chad and Jeremy I think. Which is kind of ironic since at the time, I thought Chad and Jeremy were a pale version of Peter and Gordon but as it turns out, they were much much more interesting. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 15:12:02 -0400 At 04:32 PM 4/12/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote: > >No seriously, Alan, you were way to friendly to that woman, but you certainly had your reasons. If you're implying what I think you're implying, she wasn't my type. The thing is... I'm always happy when I see people in used record stores actually digging through the stuff and making somewhat more interesting, offbeat choices. At that same store, I was standing next to some kid who kept pulling out records I actually had. Enoch Light, Ramsey Lewis, Mancini. This woman did not look like a musical adventurer but still, you get so tired of hearing those women ask for the same thing - Macy Gray, Nelly Furtado, whatever was on Saturday Night Live last week - that it's disarming and refreshing to see them holding two classic old records. It's even refreshing that they're holding vinyl and not CD's. I don't know if she wanted "cheese" or "cheese". I think cheese can be a good thing. In fact, when I asked the clerk about the sealed record I was interested in, I told him that this was the kind of thing that needed a bit of cheese to make it work. It was a sixties instrumental record by a black group. I don't want to go into a big treatise but I find the more black records from this period to be often a bit too "turgid". Well played but soul-less. No fun. They need to be a little "greasy". Which is like the black form of cheesy. Anyway I'm not sure that the woman wanted a record to laugh at. Something to make fun of. She was obviously having a dinner party and she wanted to surprise everyone with the right kind of music. She wasn't my type but maybe she'd like some of my records. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) In the Heat of the Night Date: 12 Apr 2001 22:11:43 +0000 I'm pretty much enjoying this soundtrack lp. I see there are 4 sung tracks on it: the title track (by Ray Charles), "Bowlegged Dolly" (by Glenn Campbell), "It Sure Is Groovy" and "Foul Owl". Is anyone familiar with this Lp, or actually has it, and can say who's singing on the last 2 mentioned tracks? Thanks for your help. 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: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:21:40 -0400 . > The best example of that is his soundtrack to "Guess Who's Coming to > Dinner" which is basically orchestral and kind of sappy. But there is one > "groovy" cut called, as it happens, "Groovy Delivery Boy". Speaking of which, this Friday, Bravo (in Canada, at least) is running "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" - it should be worth watching to catch this piece! (it's on after "Sex & The City") 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) more 60s dance music -Shanty Tramp Date: 12 Apr 2001 22:58:21 +0200 (CEST) Has anyone seen the film "Shanty Tramp"? Directed by Joseph G. Prieto 1966. Its a lowbudget sleazy drive-in picture. There are some songs/tracks in it that sound so unique and lively, I have it on tape but not here so I cant remember the artists name. A real pretty beat that sets the movie on fire for a while. The young delinquents comments during the music is great, cmon lets dance! Maybe the sound of a local scene in the south of USA at that time? I for one has not heard anything quite like it before. An exotica track or two is featured in the film too. I could recommend this film for the unique beat, but if you are a sensitive soul you better stay away, because it is very dark and gruesome. Cant find any info on the performers at IMDB Available at: Sinister Cinema [us] (video) Something Weird Video [us] (video) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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)Jenny Jones Meets "Nat" Date: 12 Apr 2001 17:15:54 EDT In a message dated 4/12/1 1:45:51 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >I got a call yesterday about a >possible appearance on.... (exotic drum roll..........) >The Jenny Jones show. It just doesn't get any better than 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: Jenna Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 17:36:50 -0400 I love that stuff. Like in "The Producers" when they hire the bikini clad secretary and she just dances to the generic "groovy" go-go music. The closest I have found to it is on the Beat at Cinecitta collection, which is similar sounding but more interesting. Never have seen an American comp of old go-go stuff. jk > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:45:57 -0500 > From: "Colleen Pyles" > Subject: (exotica) 60's "dance" music > > Hey guys, > Here's a question for you: > Back in the 60's, in almost all of the sit coms, like Patty Duke > Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, whenever they'd show a party > scene, with people dancing, they played this sort of generic music > (usually surf-type)no real tune or artist. Who usually did this > stuff. I remember as a teen, I thought it was so stupid they never > played "real" artists. Although, I do remember a couple of episodes > of Dick Van Dyke where Chad and Jeremy...or was it Peter and Gordon, > were on. > Thanks for letting me ramble...on and on and on...... > > Colleen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Sandy Bull Date: 12 Apr 2001 20:41:33 -0400 http://www.sandybull.com http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bjxkcikp6bbc9 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22SANDY+BULL%22 Thursday, 04/12/01 Eclectic musician Sandy Bull mixed cultures The Nashville resident died yesterday. By PETER COOPER Staff Writer, Nashville Tennessean Genre-melding musical visionary Sandy Bull, whose integration of eclectic sounds and styles delighted fans such as Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Joan Baez and Steve Winwood, died in Nashville yesterday after a long illness. He was 60 years old and considered a master of stringed instruments exotic (the sarod, the oud) and familiar (the banjo, the acoustic guitar). ''Only Sandy Bull would play an oud through a phase shifter or perform on the Indian sarod a soul ballad composed by the Isley Brothers,'' asserted one New York Times reviewer after a Bull show at Carnegie Recital Hall. Musician, painter and Folk Boom-era compadre Bob Neuwirth said yesterday that ''Sandy crossed all the barriers. He was one of the first advocates of what they now call world music.'' Mr. Bull's first two Vanguard Records albums, 1963's Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo and 1964's Inventions for Guitar and Banjo, made him a guru to scores of broad-minded musicians. ''When I was in high school in Long Beach, Calif., all my finger-picking, wannabe folkie buddies would listen to his early Vanguard records nonstop,'' said Jeff Hanna, a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member who called Mr. Bull a ''legendary multi-instrumentalist'' and ''a seminal influence on the Dirt Band.'' By 1970, however, Mr. Bull had disappeared from the spotlight. That year, Rolling Stone magazine ran a profile on Mr. Bull titled ''Hey, I Thought You Were Dead.'' He ultimately re-emerged and released a series of albums that concluded with 1996's Steel Tears. He spent the final decade of his life as a Middle Tennessee resident. Yesterday, friends told stories of Mr. Bull's musical exploits and remarkable life. Kevin Welch, a Nashville musician who utilized Mr. Bull's sarod solo on his 1998 album, Beneath My Wheels, spent 10 minutes talking about Mr. Bull and ended up describing scenes that name-checked Mr. Bull's connections with friends that included flamboyant Latin jazz man Tito Puente, outrageous country songwriter/mystery novelist Kinky Friedman and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Neuwirth detailed Mr. Bull's first meeting with Bob Dylan (in the early 1960s at the Indian Neck Folk Festival), and he remembered that Mr. Bull was interested enough in traditional American music to take banjo lessons as a teen-ager yet musically malleable enough to saw new fret positions on a Martin guitar neck to better emulate the quarter-tone melodies of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Nashville guitarist Gary Nicholson noted that Mr. Bull's admirers ranged in musical sensibility from country players and folkies to rockabilly/swing revivalist Brian Setzer. ''He was a genius,'' Setzer said. ''He turned me on to a lot of instruments I'd never heard of before, and he incorporated that into organic-sounding music.'' Said Welch, ''He loved the good things in life, and he made a wonderful life for himself. He was quietly but profoundly influential.'' Mr. Bull is survived by his wife, Candy, his daughter, K.C., and his two sons, Jesse and Jackson. No public memorial service is planned. The family requests that donations be made in lieu of flowers. Donations may be sent to the Alexander Sandy Bull Fund For Neurosurgery, c/o Anderson Cancer Center at P.O. Box 297153, Houston, TX 77297. Those sending donations will wish to quote account number 8-0011804. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 blahut Subject: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 12 Apr 2001 20:14:32 -0500 i don't know how on topic this is, but is it me or has anyone else ever noticed how many variations on the theme music, in numerous styles, there were on Hawaii 5-0. Some examples, if shu and dan-o (or more likely, kono - - there was a sort of quiet racism on that show that i have also noticed) have to go to the beach and talk to some "hippies" on the beach, the "hippies" are playing the 5-0 theme on bongoes and acoustic guitars, if they have to a strip club, there is a sort of "bump and grind" version playing during that scene. but as far as really groovy music, 5-0 has to win hands down because the "drug crazed perpetrator" was listening to that devil's rock and roll on his transistor radio while washing down his pills with large swallows of booze straight out of the bottle while holding off the uniforms and the hard assed mcgarret and his 5-0 forces with a high powered rifle. but the music coming out of the transistor radio was really nothing like popular rock and roll music, but it was groovy (to me it was groovy) or at least the composer's idea of groovy i rambled on long enough tablah # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 blahut Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 20:27:28 -0500 >I love that stuff. Like in "The Producers" when they hire the bikini >clad secretary and she just dances to the generic "groovy" go-go music. >The closest I have found to it is on the Beat at Cinecitta collection, >which is similar sounding but more interesting. Never have seen an >American comp of old go-go stuff. >jk > and speaking of the producers, is there a soundtrack of that one available? it would be worth it just to be able to listen to "springtime for hitler" whenever i wanted to, not to mention being able to learn all the words to the song that dick shawn sings for his "audition" actually, there is a theater company in milwaukee named bialystock and blum and i have, since they first formed, wanted to do an audition for them that was, dick shawn's audition from that movie - - i am fairly certain that the vast majority of their subscribers don't even know why the theatre company is named such, but to go in and do that as an audition would probably be a little too much. besides, i am not an actor and i get terrible stage fright. (like the vomiting and hive producing kind) tablah # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 12 Apr 2001 18:47:24 -0700 > > The best example of that is his soundtrack to "Guess Who's Coming to > > Dinner" which is basically orchestral and kind of sappy. But there is one > > "groovy" cut called, as it happens, "Groovy Delivery Boy". > > Speaking of which, this Friday, Bravo (in Canada, at least) is running > "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" - it should be worth watching to catch this > piece! Even without the piece, it is well worth watching. Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, wonderful location shots of San Francisco and for 1967, a pretty daring story. A girl (Joey) falls in love with a black Doctor and brings him home to meet her very wealthy (and very white, of course) parents. I've always assumed everybody on this list has seen classic films from this period many times over. Midnight Cowboy, In Cold Blood, Bonnie and Clyde, To Sir With Love, you have, haven't you?? And there is one more pretty groovy number on that soundtrack, called "Drive In". Not quite as good as the killer sitar track mentioned, but still good. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) music/tech news link Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:43:33 -0400 http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyWSJ/wsj2-dow.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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:04:48 -0500 Hey Alan, Could the secret admirer from the Jenny Jones show be the girl in the record store????? Also, for some reason, the post from Clayton asking how much the cost of the records are keeps coming back, no matter how many times I delete it...is this happening to anyone else or does Clayton just keep posting it? Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:20:06 -0500 "i don't know how on topic this is, but is it me or has anyone else ever noticed how many variations on the theme music, in numerous styles, there were on Hawaii 5-0. Some examples, if shu and dan-o (or more likely, kono - - there was a sort of quiet racism on that show that i have also noticed) have to go to the beach and talk to some "hippies" on the beach, the "hippies" are playing the 5-0 theme on bongoes and acoustic guitars, if they have to a strip club, there is a sort of "bump and grind" version playing during that scene. but as far as really groovy music, 5-0 has to win hands down because the "drug crazed perpetrator" was listening to that devil's rock and roll on his transistor radio while washing down his pills with large swallows of booze straight out of the bottle while holding off the uniforms and the hard assed mcgarret and his 5-0 forces with a high powered rifle. but the music coming out of the transistor radio was really nothing like popular rock and roll music, but it was groovy (to me it was groovy) or at least the composer's idea of groovy i rambled on long enough tablah ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, I noticed that too...I love that about 5-0...I think Nash Bridges sometimes does that. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen Date: 13 Apr 2001 23:57:56 -0400 > Also, for some reason, the post from Clayton asking how much the cost > of the records are keeps coming back, no matter how many times I > delete it...is this happening to anyone else or does Clayton just > keep posting it? I wish I could say I have the technical know-how to cripple the world's computer systems in such a diabolical fashion, but it must just be some snafu in the system. Sorry. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 14 Apr 2001 00:08:16 -0400 > but > as far as really groovy music, 5-0 has to win hands down because the > "drug crazed perpetrator" was listening to that devil's rock and roll > on his transistor radio while washing down his pills with large > swallows of booze straight out of the bottle while holding off the > uniforms and the hard assed mcgarret and his 5-0 forces with a high > powered rifle. Now I really feel like I've missed out on something. The closest I came to seeing this kind of thing (our TV drew its signal from an antenna--in hilly eastern Kentucky no less, and now that I'm an adult I'm relying on rabbit ears) was one of those classic after-school specials called "Death of Richie," about a kid who wastes his life on drugs and ends up shot to death by his hyper-masculine father who can't cope. There were scenes of the wayward youth in the "den" that he built behind his closet with the black light on and a psychedelic guitar solo accompanying his descent into barbituate bliss. It took me a few years to figure out why my brothers laughed so hysterically at this tragic tale. "Reds" were Richie's drug of choice. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) bad cowboy, good indian Date: 13 Apr 2001 10:26:39 +0200 (CEST) East German "Indian movies" =20 Between 1966 and 1983, the East German state movie production company=20 DEFA produced 12 "Indianerfilme" ("Indian movies"). The common theme is=20 the life, culture and struggle of Native Americans during the 18th and=20 19th century, and the general history of the United States during that=20 period of time. Some of the movies are based on figures in Native=20 American history ("Tecumseh", "Osceola"), and one of them is based on=20 Cooper=92s "The Last Of The Mohicans". East German "Indian movies" are adventure movies, with "good" and "bad"=20 guys, heroes and villains. The movies generally portray Native=20 Americans as proud, spiritual and cultured heroes, and white Americans=20 as greedy, power-hungry and insidious invaders. But they also feature=20 Native American traitors, half-castes, as well as honest and=20 sympathetic white Americans. Most of the movies were filmed in the mountains of former Yugoslavia,=20 some in Romania, Cuba, Mongolia, and in the former Soviet Union. All of=20 them are 35mm and in color. The leading actor in all of the 12 movies=20 is Gojko Mitic, a Yugoslavian native. Because of these movies, he=20 became an East German superstar. Every summer, the=20 annual "Sommerfilmtage" (outdoor movie festivals all over East Germany)=20 were opened with a new "Indian movie". The movies had an immense impact on how East Germans perceived Native=20 Americans. Several generations grew up with these images. This=20 contributed to the fact that when East German children played "Cowboys=20 and Indians", nobody wanted to be a "bad cowboy". Everybody wanted to=20 be the "good Indian". Mothers even named their children after the=20 leading actor. And the daughter of the actor who usually played=20 the "bad guy" had a hard time with her classmates, since her=20 dad "killed Gojko". The first movie in the series was produced four years after the Berlin=20 Wall was erected. At this time, the East German Communist party gave=20 out new guidelines for the development of socialist culture. "Socialist=20 Realism" portraying working people building socialism was the slogan of=20 the day. Non-conformist movies were banned, and their makers=20 discredited. The production of "Indian movies" can be seen as an=20 attempt to calm down the frustrated East German populace, and to=20 satisfy their desire for western-style entertainment. Nevertheless, the=20 movies were not very well liked by East German Communist party=20 officials, who even wanted to discontinue their production after the=20 first three movies. Only a widespread wave of support allowed the=20 continuation of the series. The movies can also be interpreted as an answer to popular West German=20 Karl May westerns. In contrast to the West German productions, which=20 were often historically inaccurate and full of clich=E9s, East German=20 filmmakers did extensive research in an attempt to be true to the=20 historical events in general, and the Native American culture in=20 particular. The Hero: Gojko Mitic=20 http://216.254.0.2/~jensw/bagojko.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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Kriminalfilmmusik vol 1-4 Date: 13 Apr 2001 11:08:00 +0200 (CEST) Guten morgen, depending on where on earth you live. I just saw some german cds with music from german "krimi" films. Anyone have these series? I am specially interested in volume 4 with music from the 60s Dr Mabuse films: Kriminalfilmmusik Vol. 4 (Edgar Wallace & Dr. Mabuse) Various Label: Bsc Music (ZOMBA) See coverscan here: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S60D.03.LZZZZZZZ.gif # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 blahut Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 13 Apr 2001 06:22:40 -0500 >There were scenes of the >wayward youth in the "den" that he built behind his closet with the black >light on and a psychedelic guitar solo accompanying his descent into >barbituate bliss. It took me a few years to figure out why my brothers >laughed so hysterically at this tragic tale. "Reds" were Richie's drug of >choice. > i should have mentioned that the color episodes of "dragnet" frequently had radios playing that groovy kind of music that would work los angeles' drug crazed youth into a orgiastic frenzy. - - there, too, were plenty of episodes of "way too many reds" one of my favorite "after school specials" had a very young helen hunt in a story about 'ludes, and that demon angel dust (pcp) produced in a high school chem lab that caused poor helen to run out of the second or third story window (a la dianne linkletter) just seconds after smoking it. one of the most amazing things about these types of films, coupled with the ones that the police man would show you in your health class unit on drugs is that i found that after seeing these films, especially when i was really young (say 9 or 10) i wanted to try drugs more than i was put off of drugs. i think that it may have had something to do with the fact that the over thirty set was telling me that this was bad so, in my own rebellious way, i figured that it had to be good. and there was the fact that in these types of films, the drugs removed the user from "reality" in such a profound way. i saw LSD trips portrayed as these horrific scary cartoon times for the user, coupled with the threat of a "flashback" and said to myself "that is definitely for me" further, there is the absolutely ridiculous portrayal of drugs and users. during the reagan administration, they used to say that marijuana was "10 to 20 times stronger that it was even 10 years ago" i just can not believe that based on the effect that smoking a joint has on the piano player in "reefer madness" - - at least not the marijuana i could get during the reagan administration, never once did i smoke half a joint and think that killing and raping were good ideas, nor did i ever see any one get the kind of crazed look on their face that the piano player got from smoking a little bit behind the door. okay, enough, i could go on about this all day, 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 13 Apr 2001 13:43:02 +0200 (CEST) citerar robert blahut : > one of the most amazing things about these types of films, coupled > with the ones that the police man would show you in your health class > unit on drugs is that i found that after seeing these films, > especially when i was really young (say 9 or 10) i wanted to try > drugs more than i was put off of drugs. I cant be the only one who have had deep religious experiences with marijuana, I wouldnt like to live without those experiences, it has given my life a meaning, when I am happy I'm spreading that on the world in love missiles. Love is the greatest weapon you can have. I think there are so many depressed people who could get help from marijuana. Just to find their childhood laughter again. If their childhood included laughter that is, not all were as fortunate as me. Magnus heaven and hell # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brad Bigelow Subject: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 06:53:50 -0500 While we're talking about mysterious organists, does anyone have any idea who played organ on Sammy Kaye's 60s LPs? These are the ones arranged by Charles Albertine. Whoever it is, he/she single-handedly takes the band to another level, with some smoking solos and an overall terrific smoky, rockin' style. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 14:00:46 +0200 (CEST) citerar Brad Bigelow : > > While we're talking about mysterious organists, does anyone have any idea > who played organ on Sammy Kaye's 60s LPs? These are the ones arranged by > Charles Albertine. Whoever it is, he/she single-handedly takes the band to > > another level, with some smoking solos and an overall terrific smoky, > rockin' style. Cant help you Brad, but you made me interested in Sammy Kaye, I loved his films when I was little. I recently bought "Sounds in the night" by Big Sam Marowitz, arr by Charles Albertine, and I like it alot. When looking at your excellent site spaceagepop.com I see a Albertine arranged Sammy Kaye album that naturally caught my interest: Swing and Sway in Hawaii, Decca DL-74862, do you have that one? Are there any other Sammy Kaye album you can recommend especially? Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 08:13:54 -0400 >> While we're talking about mysterious organists, does anyone have any > idea >> who played organ on Sammy Kaye's 60s LPs? These are the ones > arranged by >> Charles Albertine. Whoever it is, he/she single-handedly takes the > band to >> >> another level, with some smoking solos and an overall terrific smoky, >> rockin' style. > > > Cant help you Brad, but you made me interested in Sammy Kaye, I loved > his films when I was little. I recently bought "Sounds in the night" by > Big Sam Marowitz, arr by Charles Albertine, and I like it alot. > When looking at your excellent site spaceagepop.com I see a Albertine > arranged Sammy Kaye album that naturally caught my interest: Swing and > Sway in Hawaii, Decca DL-74862, do you have that one? Are there any > other Sammy Kaye album you can recommend especially? I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time. I bought one Sammy Kaye album and swore I'd never have another. That saxophone chorus just does not do it for me. Billy Vaughn's in the same category (although I kinda like the "Pearly Shells" album). But maybe Sammy too has a few gems that are worth finding? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 14:20:15 +0200 (CEST) citerar Clayton Black : Billy Vaughn's I've tried him three times but always more or less hated the 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) CD Recommendation..... Date: 13 Apr 2001 09:27:56 -0400 Well, summertime is just around the corner so I'll recommend this cool = "patio music." Was listening to Killer Surf: Best of the Challengers last night while = working out - it's great!! Not only do you get that vintage surf sound, = you also get GREAT covers of pop standards like A Taste of Honey, The Work = Song, and The Lonely Bull. Lots of instrumentation on these tracks, and the "standard" surf tunes = like Kami-Kazi (usually introduced to the pounding 1-2 1-2 beat on a tom = to mimic the pom pom guns on a Naval ship) are ingeniously turned and = twisted into almost totally new creations at certain points throughout the = song. Check it out. - 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: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) Re: Mute Date: 13 Apr 2001 11:05:51 -0400 leslie gilotti wrote: > Maybe I'm a bit biased cos I used to work there (it was my favourite > label _long_ before that tho), but Mute gets a bit of an unfair deal > by music journos who lazily tag the label as Krautrock-fixated. One last comment though.. Mute was very much a cutting edge label when it began and it shared a similar sense of humour that existed at that time in music. It's this last trait that I find lacking today, and in this sense I find labels like A-Musik, Monika, Gagarin, etc. following a lot more in the this tradition. I have to say that other than Holger Hiller, who I've followed from the days he was on AtaTak, I can't rememebr the last thing I've bought on the label by a new act. The early releases by Kreidler & To Rococo Rot are some of my favourites but I don't see them as Mute related... were they? I listened to Goldfarab and its good, but to me Portishead has perfected this sound so well its tough to make a fair comparison. AddN to (X) were around a long time ago, I remember them from the new wave days if it is indeed the same group? Depeche Mode.... well I lost interest there even before the new wave ended! Anyway Mute has certainly earned respect over the tears but to me anyway, it isn't the same kind of label it once was. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) In the Heat of the Night Date: 13 Apr 2001 19:25:26 +0100 Giovanni Berti wrote: > > I'm pretty much enjoying this soundtrack lp. > I see there are 4 sung tracks on it: the title track (by Ray > Charles), "Bowlegged Dolly" (by Glenn Campbell), "It Sure Is Groovy" > and "Foul Owl". > Is anyone familiar with this Lp, or actually has it, and can say > who's singing on the last 2 mentioned tracks? > Thanks for your help. (from the sleeve) It Sure Is Groovy - vocal by Gil Bernal Foul Owl - vocal by Boomer and Travis (what a fantastic track!) It's on an MGM cd with 'They Call Me Mister Tibbs', and both are available separately on vinyl. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dave Van Allen" Subject: (exotica) 50's POP with Steel Guitar Date: 13 Apr 2001 14:53:10 -0400 for those of you interested in the subject line... "Hot Club of America in Hi-Fi featuring the guitars of Johnny Cucci and Jody Carver" Coral Records 1957 Johnny Cucci-Stratocaster Jody Carve-Fender Custom Steel Fantastic POP /Lounge stuff from '57 - instrumental classics including "Brazil", "Miserlou", "Autumn Leaves"... My website tribute to this remarkable recording including facts about the recording, and links to audio is at http://www.voicenet.com/~vanallen/hcoahome.html enjoy Dave Van Allen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 16:33:04 -0400 At 08:13 AM 4/13/01 -0400, Clayton Black wrote: But maybe Sammy too has a few gems >that are worth finding? Clayton, Clayton, I don't know if I'm more surprised or disappointed in you. Sammy Kaye, Billy Vaughn, you name it. They all made records "late" in their career trying to cash in on the various rock n roll trends. Some of the greatest records of all time were made in this spirit. You must know this. Records by people like Les and Larry Elgart. (Elgart au Go-Go) Billy May (Today) Les Brown (The Young Beat). Even Ray Anthony (Swim, Swim, C'mon and Swim) Billy Vaughn's "The Windmills of Your mind" is a pretty good record. His "A Current Set of Standards" has the most wacked-out moogy version of "The theme for Rosemary's Baby" you could ever want to hear. And Sammy Kaye made "Swing and Sway Au Go Go" which is probably my favorite record of the "genre". But now I'll be looking for the ones Brad referred to. This is the centre of my taste we're talking about here Clayton. I'm sure you were just kidding. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 13 Apr 2001 16:33:02 -0400 At 06:22 AM 4/13/01 -0500, robert blahut wrote: >> >i should have mentioned that the color episodes of "dragnet" >frequently had radios playing that groovy kind of music that would >work los angeles' drug crazed youth into a orgiastic frenzy. - - There were always sitars. Sitars and beaded curtains. I think that's the reason I like sitars so much though I don't feel the same for beaded curtains. (I think the sitars were acoustic not electric but I think I still prefer electric.) It's too bad you can't get ALL the incidental music for shows like Hawaii Five Oh and Dragnet. Too bad you can't do a search for words like "LSD" and "weed" and get the music playing everytime those words were uttered. I always remember this particular episode of Dragnet where the guy jumped out the window thinking he could fly. I think he was actually on grass rather than the more appropriate acid or mushrooms. (Smoking never made me think I could fly.) The Dragnet boys go to tell the dead man's best friend. The sitars come on as they part the beaded curtain and find the friend sitting on the floor (or is it a beanbag chair) nodding off, his head hanging down and his hair hanging in his face the way hair hangs when you do lots of drugs. They call his name. He doesn't look up. They tell him his friend is dead. He still doesn't look up but he does manage to mumble "What a bummer!" Something about his drug-hazed reaction makes Friday and his partner look at each other with that pursed lip look of disapproval. What did they want him to do? His friend died. That IS a bummer. What else should he do? Give up drugs? Jump out the window himself? When I talk about this go-go Now Sound generic rock instrumental stuff I'm obsessed with these days, I always refer to the go-go sequences on "Laugh In" but they happened all over TV. It's so curious that this music which so offended me - and colleen - when I was a kid, is so interesting to me now. I don't even know if it's actually interesting to me or if I just want it because it's fun to find it. In my continuing CDR project, this past week I've been revisiting (and decimating) that part of my collection which I listened to and collected in the seventies and eighties. The folk, folk rock, reggae etc. Right now it's Toots and "Funky Kingston". It's good stuff but I don't want it anymore. Someday virtually the only records left will be the kind of records they could have played during a hippie episode on Dragnet. What does that say? I guess the drugs did have an effect on me. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Austin record stores Date: 13 Apr 2001 15:40:23 -0500 Is there somebody on the list from Austin, Texas? I'll be there in a couple of weeks and just curious about the best stores for used vinyl. I read the piece in Cool and Strange Music about Austin record stores but no way I can hit 'em all in the limited time I have. Any recommendations? Thanks! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 17:10:30 -0400 > This is the centre of my taste we're talking about here Clayton. I'm sure > you were just kidding. Naturally! Ahem-m-m! Sorry, I have to admit it. I don't know a damn thing about that genre, so I guess that makes me the worst sort of philistine. I once picked up one of those Time albums with 20 songs that was sort of a "go-go" "now sound" album that did nothing for me, so after giving it several shots, into the throwaway pile it went. Like Magnus, I gave Billy Vaughn several attempts, but couldn't reconcile myself to that sound. Not thinking about *when* the albums were made, I have henceforth skipped past every Sammy Kaye or Billy Vaughn album I've come across--and that's a heckuva lot of them. In fact, the center of your taste sounds like the albums I skip past without fail. Whenever I see that the songs are remakes of "rock" tunes (with a few notable exceptions) I lose my interest, mainly because I don't care for the melodies of most of them, and good melody is essential for me. I don't need to be convinced to buy a Billy May album, and if I ever saw Les and Larry Elgart's "Au Go Go" album I'd buy it. I'll consider giving myself an education in this, but I'm not promising I'll share your enthusiasm (but if Swing and Sway au Go Go has some good Hammond on it, I'll put it on my want list). I have the sense that this is a horse of a different color, but what's your opinion of the Enoch Light "Discoteque" (sp?) albums? I don't much care for them, but then again I haven't listened to them in a long time, and a re-acquaintance might be in order. By the way, I can at least agree with your enthusiasm for sitar. It makes every song better. I don't seek sitar albums out, because I don't need another record obsession, but I do love the sound. One more thing (sorry to go on like this), we've discussed opinions on trombone, sitar, harpsichord, hammond organs, but I've got to put in two cents on flute--it's one of the key elements of a really groovy tune. Someone asked a while back for songs we want associated with us--for me it's Astrud Gilberto's "Stay" from the album "Beach Samba"--perfect in every way, and the flute helps make it that way. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: George Hall Subject: (exotica) (promotional crap-o-la) Seks Bomba on tour! Date: 13 Apr 2001 17:33:48 -0400 I'd call it careerism if we ever made a dime on these things... But; my band Seks Bomba are playing a few shows in NY State next week; Buffalo, Clifton Park (Albany) & NYC, info below. I'd also totally recommend the NYC show, on the 107th Floor of the World Trade Ctr. If you're unfamiliar with the band, we're a sort of eclectic quasi- spy jazz / surf / rock / etc combo, vocal & instro, with a record due out next month called "Somewhere in this Town" - mainly originals, with a few covers that may be famiiar to this list... themes from "Casino Royale" & "Charade," Dudley Moore's "Love Me" (from "Bedazzled") (the good one), and the Jobim / De Moraes bossa "Agua De Beber." More info at www.bomba.com Wed 4/18 Buffalo, NY - The Backstage Pub http://www.backstagepub.com > 9-9:40; 27 Dozen > 10-10:40 Stray Bullets > 11:00 SEKS BOMBA _________________________________________________ Thu 4/19 Clifton Park, NY (near Albany) - Northern Lights http://www.northernlights-live.com/first.htm 9:00 Pour Jayce 10:00 SEKS BOMBA _________________________________________________ Fri 4/20 NYC, World Trade Center (107th floor) - Windows on the World 2 sets, 9:30 & 11:00; The World Famous Pontani Sisters will go-go dance between sets. Thanks for bearing with this... gh p.s. Cheryl, I haven't forgotten! just crazed n' busy, please forgive... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dave Van Allen" Subject: Re: (exotica) 50's POP with Steel Guitar Date: 13 Apr 2001 21:48:17 -0400 HI magnus I have had the good fortune to become acquainted on line with Mr Carver, some 15 years after I discovered and fell in love with the album... the historical details are all due to his generous reminiscences. there is another artist I am seeking info on- Joe Maize, a steeler who had several albums on Decca back in the same period- kind of a lounge act with comedy and the like... I just wish Louis and Keely and Sam had had a steel guitar picker :) I want a time machine so bad I can taste it.. > I see Caravan is on it too, which makes it desirable for me. I love > that you have made a webpage devoted to an album you like, I have some > too that I could make a webpage off, but I know too little about the > performers and the history behind them. > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:47:18 -0400 At 05:10 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Clayton Black wrote: >Whenever I see that the songs are remakes of "rock" tunes (with a few >notable exceptions) I lose my interest, mainly because I don't care for the >melodies of most of them, and good melody is essential for me. Well then we have nothing to talk about. Those are exactly the records I look for. I never knew that was because I didn't need a good melody. But I guess I don't. These records have a certain attitude, energy and arrangement style. That's what I'm interested in (and if I get another version of some tune-less thing like "Up up and away" or "Groovin", so be it). > I have the sense that this is a horse of a different color, but what's >your opinion of the Enoch Light "Discoteque" (sp?) albums? I don't much >care for them, but then again I haven't listened to them in a long time, and >a re-acquaintance might be in order. If you listen to the version of "Love Potion No.9" which leads off side one on "Discotheque Vol.2" and you don't like it, well then we have different tastes and you can disregard anything I say about "Now Sound" or "go-go" or maybe even anything to do with music at all. > By the way, I can at least agree with your enthusiasm for sitar. Phew. > One more thing (sorry to go on like this), we've discussed opinions on >trombone, sitar, harpsichord, hammond organs, but I've got to put in two >cents on flute--it's one of the key elements of a really groovy tune. Hmm... I like flute but not all the time. Sometimes it can be too weak, too airy, too anemic, too insubstantial. Even Herbie Mann can sometimes be feeble with the flute. Flute can be the perfect thing but I can't give it the unqualified recommendation I can give say the organ or electric sitar. Flutes aren't as annoying as trombone but they can suck the air out of a tune that was cooking along. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) (promotional crap-o-la) Seks Bomba on tour! Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:47:19 -0400 At 05:33 PM 4/13/01 -0400, George Hall wrote: > >I'd call it careerism if we ever made a dime on these things... But; my band >Seks Bomba are playing a few shows in NY State next week; Buffalo, You're coming to Buffalo and not to Toronto? Too bad. If my car didn't have a hole in the floor I could almost come to Buffalo to see you but the last time I was in Buffalo (to see the Fat Possum Review) I accidentally threw my wallet at a phalanx of crack whores and I'm still shaken up by the incident. It's tempting I must say. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 13 Apr 2001 21:51:15 -0500 AZ said: I don't even know if it's actually interesting to me or if I just want it because it's fun to find it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's exactly how I feel about it. I am so intrigued with it, but I don't know why. Boy, do I ever remember the pinched up faces of McGarrett and Friday when they came across the "drug induced hippies". I always wanted to say..."Dude...just take a hit, it'll change your life". But, of course, I never said it out loud. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.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: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 15 Apr 2001 00:30:06 -0400 > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3070139406_1448773_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >> I lose my interest, mainly because I don't care for the >> melodies of most of them, and good melody is essential for me. > > Well then we have nothing to talk about. Those are exactly the records I > look for. I never knew that was because I didn't need a good melody. But > I guess I don't. > These records have a certain attitude, energy and arrangement style. > That's what I'm interested in (and if I get another version of some > tune-less thing like "Up up and away" or "Groovin", so be it). Okay, bad phrasing on my part. I didn't mean to imply that I am the ultimate arbiter of what a good melody is (and I like both the tunes you mention). What's usually "good" for me are the older tunes (but generally not going back earlier than the thirties). I'll take another listen to Love Potion No. 9, but I don't hold out much hope, because I don't even like the original. Like on other occasions, I got to thinking about what I said in the original post about melody and I realized the silliness of the assertion. I had to remind myself that for several years I was completely under the spell of a-melodic minimalism like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, as well as Eno's ambient stuff. I still like it, but I don't listen to it too often and I know it's not for everybody. For now, however, I'm just more captivated by the show-tuney melodies redone by the likes of Marty Gold or Vic Schoen. If an album has "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" or "A Summer Place," I'll buy it almost every time. Well, once again my tastes have earned a "hmmm" from Alan, so, as much as I hate to admit that "we have nothing to talk about," I'll return to lurking philistinism for a while. Clayton --MS_Mac_OE_3070139406_1448773_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers
>> I lose my interest, mainly because I don't care for the
>> melodies of most of them, and good melody is essential for me.
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> Well then we have nothing to talk about.  Those are exactly the r= ecords I
> look for.  I never knew that was because I didn't need a good mel= ody.  But
> I guess I don't.  
> These records have a certain attitude, energy and arrangement style. > That's what I'm interested in (and if I get another version of some > tune-less thing like "Up up and away" or "Groovin"= , so be it).

Okay, bad phrasing on my part.  I didn't mean to imply that I am the u= ltimate arbiter of what a good melody is (and I like both the tunes you ment= ion).  What's usually "good" for me are the older tunes (but = generally not going back earlier than the thirties).  I'll take another= listen to Love Potion No. 9, but I don't hold out much hope, because I don'= t even like the original.  
   Like on other occasions, I got to thinking about what I = said in the original post about melody and I realized the silliness of the a= ssertion.  I had to remind myself that for several years I was complete= ly under the spell of a-melodic minimalism like Steve Reich and Philip Glass= , as well as Eno's ambient stuff.  I still like it, but I don't listen = to it too often and I know it's not for everybody.  For now, however, I= 'm just more captivated by the show-tuney melodies redone by the likes of Ma= rty Gold or Vic Schoen.  If an album has "Baubles, Bangles, and Be= ads" or "A Summer Place," I'll buy it almost every time.
   Well, once again my tastes have earned a "hmmm"= ; from Alan, so, as much as I hate to admit that "we have nothing to ta= lk about," I'll return to lurking philistinism for a while.

Clayton
 --MS_Mac_OE_3070139406_1448773_MIME_Part-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "dance" music Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:35:03 -0400 Jenna wrote: > I love that stuff. Like in "The Producers" when they hire the bikini > clad secretary and she just dances to the generic "groovy" go-go music. > The closest I have found to it is on the Beat at Cinecitta collection, > which is similar sounding but more interesting. Never have seen an > American comp of old go-go stuff. I can't get enough of this sound either! I've found the best place to look is in the soundtrack section wherin you will usually find a sub-section of TV series music. A number of labels come to mind, including Playtime (France) and Sequel (UK) which feature not just French and British but also American series. Playtime is a bit more obscure although here in Quebec we can find them easier than most places in North America. The Sequel comps are also very reasonably priced and mostly of the right vintage. Rhino is alsdo big into this stuff and there are a number of other labels featuring TV music although a lot of it isn't worth listening to. While I don't think they are TV music, the Beat at Cinecitta comps are superb examples of this sound. Also great are the three "Nymphomania" compilations although as they are bootlegs I suspect they are not easy to find. Speaking of bootlegs, does anyone know how I could get a set of this "Groovy Soundtracks" 3 volume bootleg series that was mentioned on the list a while back? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Re: (exotica) bad cowboy, good indian - Kriminalfilmmusik vol 1-4 Date: 13 Apr 2001 22:23:09 -0400 Magnus wrote: > Between 1966 and 1983, the East German state movie production > company DEFA produced 12 "Indianerfilme" ("Indian movies"). There is a CD collection of music from these very films. I can't remember the exact label, but I was led to believe the music wasn't too interesting. I still find the concept totally bizarre... particularly coming from East Germany! > I just saw some german cds with music from german "krimi" films. > Anyone have these series? I am specially interested in volume 4 with > music from the 60s Dr Mabuse films: > Kriminalfilmmusik Vol. 4 (Edgar Wallace & Dr. Mabuse) Yes, I have this set, although I was never sure the four volumes were intended as a set given the variety of titles and themes. Volume 4 features Gert Wilden among others and it is good but nowhere near as beat heavy as "I Told You not to Cry" which is among the most played CDs in my collection! Volumes 1 & 2 are Martin Boettcher, and Volume 3 is Peter Thomas. For fans of crime jazz these are all essential collections, but if its the beat/exploitation sound you're after, there are better choices. All are on the Prudence label. I know some of these (Wallace) films are on video but I've never come across anything in NTSC format or even subtitled for that matter. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) bad cowboy, good indian - Kriminalfilmmusik vol 1-4 Date: 14 Apr 2001 17:47:41 +0200 (CEST) citerar Brian : > > Magnus wrote: > > > Between 1966 and 1983, the East German state movie production > > company DEFA produced 12 "Indianerfilme" ("Indian movies"). > There is a CD collection of music from these very films. I can't remember > the exact label, but I was led to believe the music wasn't too interesting. > I still find the concept totally bizarre... particularly coming from East > Germany! Maybe I saw them as a kid on television, there were a lot of strange things from the eastern block on TV. Did the cartoon "Dr Baltazar" screen in your countries? That was Checkoslovakian I think... Balt! Baltazar... Balt! Baltazar... Baltazaaar... We played cowboys and indians too when I was a kid, but I cant remember if I wanted to be a cowboy or an indian, I thought indians were cooler but the cowboy had a gun. volume 4 features > Gert Wilden among others and it is good but nowhere near as beat heavy as > "I Told You not to Cry" which is among the most played CDs in my collection! Yes that is indeed a nice record, I bought the LP reissue. Thanks Brian, I was interested in some "new" crime/spy jazz sounds, but I think I skip the Kriminal filmmusik cds after your short review. I recently saw two 60s Dr Mabuse films (one of them Fritz Lang's last film) but as usual I "forgot" to listen to the soundtrack. Must be good music if it merge with the pictures though. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 14 Apr 2001 12:07:07 -0400 At 12:28 AM 4/15/01 -0400, clayton black wrote: > What's usually "good" for me are the older tunes (but generally >not going back earlier than the thirties). I'll take another listen to Love >Potion No. 9, but I don't hold out much hope, because I don't even like the >original. > ... For now, however, I'm just more captivated by >the show-tuney melodies redone by the likes of Marty Gold or Vic Schoen. If >an album has "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" or "A Summer Place," I'll buy it >almost every time. . No big deal. We have different taste. When I started down this exotica/lounge trail seven or eight years ago, I mostly bought the stuff from the fifties and early sixties. Marty Gold, Enoch Light, David Carroll. And the endless versions of Baugles and Bangles, El Cumbanchero, In a little Spanish town, the breeze and I, taboo, in a persian market, Oye negra, I love Paris, cumana, under Paris skies, cumana, poor people of Paris... And eventually I got sick of it. I like some of those tunes but some of them I actually dislike. I often enjoy the arrangements or the attitude that went into them. And I still do. I still occasionally buy this stuff. The best of it is great. But I found that overall, I could - and did - get sick of it. Whereas that almost never happens with the sixties "rock" instrumental covers. A bad organ player doing hits of the Monkees. Fine. (In fact that record exists.) Bob Dylan songs redone by a string orchestra. Bring it on. I can't say that I love all the sixties tunes. But as it turns out, I like a surprising number of them. And a bunch of them, I REALLY like. A bunch of them, apparently, I can't get enough of. And I get more from the whole attitude of the these records. The over-the-hill gang trying to cash in on this newfangled rock music. The happy accidents. I may "hmmm" your taste but I'm not judging. I actually kind of wish that I liked the stuff you like rather than the stuff I like. I think it would be kind of more interesting of me to enjoy the tunes from before my birth to the tunes that I grew up with. It's kind of boring on some level that I'm still listening to "Light my fire" and "McArthur's Park", albeit in quite different versions than the originals. We have way different taste. I liked "Love Potion number 9" when it came out and then I forgot about it and didn't hear it for a couple of decades until I heard the Enoch Light version. Now I love it again in a whole new way. Great guitar sound. Great organ sound. It's groovy as all hell. If you don't like that, more power to you but it's going to be hard for me to recommend anything or comment on anything you like. But that's no reason to get divorced, is it? AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "James" Subject: Sv: (exotica) bad cowboy, good indian - Kriminalfilmmusik vol 1-4 Date: 14 Apr 2001 18:57:57 +0200 I remember Professor Balthazar great cartoon, great inventions and great = signature tune. Does anyone remember SuperVip =E9 MiniVip, an italian = cartoon that made fun of superheroes. It had great music. Or the Czech series = Pan Tau about a little doll in a pinstripe suit and a bowlerhat who = turned human when he touched his hat ? The Winnetou films were quite biq on the matin=E9e scene here in Denmark = in the early 70=B4s. I believe that Karl May the author of the books wrote most of them while doing time in an East-German prison. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) More Hammond Groovers Date: 14 Apr 2001 15:48:56 -0400 >I have the sense that this is a horse of a different color, but what's >your opinion of the Enoch Light "Discoteque" (sp?) albums? I don't much >care for them, but then again I haven't listened to them in a long time, and >a re-acquaintance might be in order. I only have the first Light "Discotheque" album, but I'm fond of it. It has an atmosphere of industrial functionalism that I get a kick out of. (And I don't mean industrial in the recently mentioned "industrial album" sense, or in the Throbbing Gristle sense. Geeze, that word has acquired a lot of baggage.) Plus, you get that nifty Killer Joe Piro dance instruction book! --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Robert Maxwell "Peg O' My Heart" Date: 14 Apr 2001 15:49:51 -0400 Robert Maxwell, His Harp and Orchestra "Peg O' My Heart" (Decca) No tracks to stand up with "Solfeggio", but I find it a nice album anyway. Not really an orchestra, but a smallish combo: organ, polite rhythm guitar, electric bass, drums/percussion, sax, flute (on "Adios") and Maxwell on harp. He's pretty low-key -- no prepared harp, he barely even plays on a couple of tracks. Interesting little arrangements. Tracks that strike me offhand are "Adios", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Manha de Carnaval", "Sophisticated Lady", "What Is This Thing Called Love". I do have unfortunate "issues" with the organist. He or she is very prominent in the mix and sticks with very 'skating rink' voicings, making the proceedings awfully soupy sometimes. To reference a current thread, he or she is a Hammond Anti-Groover. If a Hammond is what it is. (that's almost like a Popeye line) m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Robert Maxwell "Peg O' My Heart" Date: 14 Apr 2001 22:15:39 +0200 (CEST) citerar "m.ace" : > > Robert Maxwell, His Harp and Orchestra > "Peg O' My Heart" I only have Robert Maxwell's Shangri-La, includes a version of Nature boy. I love that one, besides Peg O' my heart, what else is there to look for? 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) College Confidential Date: 14 Apr 2001 15:55:19 -0500 Get your VCRs ready -- AMC is running "College Confidential" next month, part of their American Pop series. Features a great, crime jazz-y score by Dean Elliott, played by some stellar West Coast-ers. And wotta cast! Here's the synopsis, from the AMC site: "Steve Allen plays a sociology professor styddying the mating rituals of students. The eclectic cast includes Mamie Van Doren, Rocky Marciano, Conway Twitty and Walter Winchell." 10pm Eastern/9pm Central time on Saturday, May 5. Catch the repeat at 4am Eastern/3am Central and follow it up with "The Thing from Another World", featuring Dimitri Tiomkin's classic outer space score, complete with theremin! I luv TV. Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Robert Maxwell "Peg O' My Heart" Date: 14 Apr 2001 16:07:52 -0500 > I only have Robert Maxwell's Shangri-La, includes a version of Nature boy. > I love that one, besides Peg O' my heart, what else is there to look for? I like him, too, though I'm partial to his earlier stuff for MGM, which tends to include more original tunes. Hi-Fi Harp, Red Hot Harp and The Harp in Hi-Fi come to mind. On these and others you'll find Maxwell originals like "Bing Bang Boomerang", "Injury Music for Football Games", "Accidental Slip On an Oriental Rug" (included on one of the Rhino comps), "Stompin' at the Stork Club" and the blazing "Tarantula", my favorite. As the titles suggest, they're a little bit Raymond Scott-like. Two posts in one day?! Gotta go take a nap. Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Louis Prima tv Date: 14 Apr 2001 18:49:23 -0400 The documentary, "Louis Prima: The Wildest!" gets another airing on AMC this coming Wednesday at 6:30pm (eastern). --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Paul Conrad -Exotic Paradise Date: 15 Apr 2001 12:54:16 +0200 (CEST) I think it's on the hawaiian label "Mahalo" Doea anyone have a copy of this for trade? CDr or LP. Email me. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "James" Subject: (exotica) Radiojingles Date: 15 Apr 2001 14:05:19 +0200 Would just like to mention, if anyones into the newsgroup thing, that=20 there are lots of radiojingles to be found at: = alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s ranging from the 50s til present day. As it it is the nature of jingles=20 to be a part of a certain zeitgeist they cover a broad range of styles=20 defining the times and the particular radiostations they were made for. = So we get=20 it all ! Tiki, Gogo, Acid and a lot of these vocoderized jingles that = were to be found on The Who For Sale Album. I especially admire the vocal work on many of these jingles when they=20 sing out the stations name, like: W K R B Cincinaaatee. Anyway just wanted to pass on the info. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 15 Date: 15 Apr 2001 12:00:23 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #138 More Of...Those Wacky Germans This week, we're featuring recent releases from Germany. Not exactly wacky, but...more along the lines of ranging from interesting to quirky. Quite a diverse bunch of things, but all are (as usual) quite good. Blutsiphon: The Finest Of "Tammus" Schlammpeitziger: Quietschquarklaute "Augenwischwaldmoppgeflote" L@N: Tibtan "Twoinone" Sack Und Blumm: Tony One "Shy Noon" A Certain Frank: Nothing "Nothing" (thanks, Frank!) Holger Hiller: Once I Made A Snowman "Holger Hiller" Quarks: Konigin "Konigin" Blutsiphon: Wrong Beat "Tammus" Sack Und Blumm: Greg B. Roy "Shy Noon" A Certain Frank: We Belong To Someone "Nothing" Blutsiphon: Die Nachricht "Tammus" Schlammpeitziger: Karbidboybeule "Augenwischwaldmoppgeflote" Holger Hiller: Pulver "Holger Hiller" Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening 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: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers Date: 15 Apr 2001 13:38:01 -0400 > > But that's no reason to get divorced, is it? Well, maybe not until the kids have grown. The evolution of my tastes may eventually take me in the direction you've gone. I've often wondered about that, whether my musical journey will, given enough time, eventually take me back to the Sex Pistols, Dead Boys, Ramones, etc. that I listened to when I was in high school. I can say that one of the things that appeals to me about the late fifties, early sixties stuff is that it suits my energy level at this point in life. If I have short bursts of adrenaline, I can count on Warren Kime's Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow!) or Ted Heath's version of Wives and Lovers, but most of the time, I'll settle for something about the speed of Robert Maxwell (to segue into the current thread). Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) 60's "groovy music Date: 15 Apr 2001 14:07:41 -0400 > >In my continuing CDR project, this past week I've been revisiting (and >decimating) that part of my collection which I listened to and collected in >the seventies and eighties. The folk, folk rock, reggae etc. Right now >it's Toots and "Funky Kingston". It's good stuff but I don't want it >anymore. Someday virtually the only records left will be the kind of >records they could have played during a hippie episode on Dragnet. >What does that say? >I guess the drugs did have an effect on me. > >AZ > What you're doing, Alan, is erasing any evidence that you lived into the 1970s and beyond. And when all your 1970s and 1980s records are gone, Sergeant Friday will knock at your door and find you nodding off behind the beaded curtain, with some fuzztone groovy guitar record playing. The thirty years you thought happened afterward were all a hallucination, and nobody will believe your description of them. I'm part of that hallucination, Alan. Will Will Straw, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Communications Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street W. Montreal, QC H3A 2T6 Canada Phone: (514) 398 7667 Fax: (514) 398 7247 Co-Investigator, Culture of Cities Project, http://www.yorku.ca/culture_of_cities/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obits] Joey Ramone, etc. Date: 15 Apr 2001 21:23:54 -0400 WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Harvey R. Ball, inventor of the Smiley Face, died Thursday after a short illness. He was 79. Ball, who co-owned an advertising and public relations firm in Worcester, designed the Smiley Face in 1963 to boost the morale of workers in two recently merged insurance companies. Ball was paid $45 for his artwork by State Mutual Life Assurance Cos. of America -- now Allamerica -- in 1963. He never applied for a trademark or copyright. At its peak of popularity in 1971, more than 50 million Smiley Face buttons were sold. In 1999, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Smiley Face stamp. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/14/obituaries/14BALL.html ------- Richard Evans Schultes, a swashbuckling scientist and influential Harvard University educator who was widely considered the preeminent authority on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants, died on Tuesday, April 10, 2001, in Boston. He was 86 and lived in Waltham, a Boston suburb. Dr. Schultes (pronounced SHULL- tees) was often called the father of ethnobotany, the field that studies the relationship between native cultures and their use of plants. Over decades of research, mainly in Colombia's Amazon region, he documented the use of more than 2,000 medicinal plants among Indians of a dozen tribes, many of whom had never seen a white man before. "I do not believe in hostile Indians," Dr. Schultes was quoted as saying in a 1992 article about him in The New Yorker by E. J. Kahn Jr. "All that is required to bring out their gentlemanliness is reciprocal gentlemanliness." -------- Robert Moon, the man who came up with the zip code number system in 1963, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 83. Moon, whose exact date of death was not given, was known as "Mister Zip" after his invention. He'd begun his postal career in the 1940s and began work on the system he termed "Zoning Improvement Plan". He retired in 1965, but went to Washington in 1970 for a seven-year stint as director of delivery services for the U.S Postal Service. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/14/obituaries/14MOON.html -------- Sully Boyar, a character actor who worked in films, on television and in theater, died on March 23 while waiting for a bus in Whitestone, Queens, where he lived. He was 77. Reared as one of seven children in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Mr. Boyar was an established lawyer when he started thinking about giving it all up and enrolling in acting classes. He eventually became a member of the Actors Studio. His career progressed from small parts in summer stock productions to Off Broadway, often in experimental works at places like Judson Poets Theater. Soon, movie parts began to come his way. He appeared in more than a score of films, including "The Panic in Needle Park," "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," "The King of Marvin Gardens," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Car Wash," "Fort Apache, the Bronx" and "Prizzi's Honor." He appeared on Broadway in the 1977 revival of David Rabe's "Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel," which starred Al Pacino. His television credits included roles in "Barney Miller," "Kojak," "Charlie's Angels," "Law and Order" and, most recently, "The Sopranos." --------- Joey Ramone, lead singer of seminal punk act the Ramones, has died from lymphoma. Ramone, born Jeffrey Hyman, formed the punk rock band in his hometown of Queens, New York, in 1974, along with John Cummings (Johnny Ramone) and Douglas Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone). The group's boiled-down, sped-up pop-rock style reinvigorated the rock scene and influenced the sound of punk acts such as the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks. The band was one of the first punk acts to sign a record contract, in 1975. Though the band's most well-known songs - including "Rock and Roll High School," "I Wanna Be Sedated," and "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" - were recorded in the 1970s and early '80s, the act continued, with several lineup shuffles, until 1995's Adios Amigos. Joey Ramone, lead singer of legendary punk band the Ramones, passed away at 2:40 p.m. Sunday at the age of 49. The towering front man, born Jeffrey Hyman, did not respond to treatment for lymphatic cancer, a disease that attacks the body's ability to fight= infection. Along with his cohorts Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee =97 all of whom adopted Ramone as a surname =97 Joey was credited with helping found the modern punk movement. In mixing the griminess of the New York streets with a love of bubblegum pop, '60s girl groups and the Stooges, the Ramones inspired everyone from the Sex Pistols and the Clash to Green Day and Blink-182 to stake their turf on four dirty chords and an (often) inane hook. With his trademark rose-colored shades, black leather jacket, shoulder-length hair, ripped jeans and alternately snarling and crooning, hiccoughing vocals, Joey was the iconic godfather of punk. He gave voice to some of the most revered songs in the punk canon: "Blitzkrieg Bop," "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment," "Rock 'n' Roll High School," "I Wanna Be Sedated," "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker." His profile was indelible. The image of Joey's body, left foot forward, right foot back, left hand strangling the microphone, fist pumping in the air as he shouted one of the band's unofficial mantras, "Gabba Gabba Hey!," is forever imprinted in the minds of any fan who attended one of the band's 2,263 shows. Born in the Forest Hills section of Queens, New York, on May 19, 1952, Joey founded the Ramones in 1974 with Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy. Originally the drummer, Joey switched to vocals two months after the band played it first show in March 1974 at New York's Performance Studio.=20 The group soon became a staple at the dingy New York punk club CBGB, home to fellow downtown bands Talking Heads, Patti Smith and Blondie. In 1975 the Ramones became the first punk band to sign a record contract. Their self-titled debut, recorded for $6,000, was released in 1976 and featured such rock landmarks as "Judy Is a Punk," "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" and "Beat on the Brat."=20 Destroying the '70s prog-rock idea that rock had to be played by learned musicians in full command of their instruments, the Ramones pioneered the do-it-yourself ideal that inspired thousands of punk bands with lots of energy but dicey chops to pick up instruments and rock. Their 1977 album Ramones Leave Home featured a quintessential mix of gutter-punk anthems and homages to classic pop songs ("I Remember You," "Oh Oh I Love Her So"). It also featured the unofficial Ramones anthem "Pinhead," in which Joey sang, "I don't want to be a Pinhead no more/ I just found a nurse that I could go for." The Ramones not only prodded bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash and X-Ray Spex to take up their instruments and take on the world, but they also laid the path for the next generation of new wave and punk bands to rock maximally with minimal flourish.=20 Inspired by the Ramones' wide-open subject matter =97 which ranged from sniffing glue to male prostitution to lobotomies =97 as well as by the= music, '80s bands such as Husker Du, the Replacements and Devo further exploded the notion of how rock could sound. The Ramones released what is arguably their best album, Rocket to Russia, in 1977. Featuring such concert staples as "Cretin Hop," "Rockaway Beach" and "We're a Happy Family," the album not only summed up the glum outlook of the punk generation, it was a shrill counterpoint to the disco music that was sweeping the nation in the wake of "Saturday Night Fever." After trying their hands at the movies, starring in 1979's "Rock 'n' Roll High School," the group entered the studio with one of their idols, '60s' "wall of sound" producer Phil Spector. The resulting 1980 album, End of the Century, included a cover of "Baby I Love You" by the Ronettes, who were fronted by one of Joey's favorite singers, Ronnie Spector (Phil's ex-wife). The group followed with 10 more studio albums of speedy, anti-social punk and a relentless touring schedule, and enjoyed Beatlemania-style fame in Argentina and Japan. Although the band rarely cracked the album charts and achieved marginal album sales during a 22-year career, its influence continues to this day. With most of his contemporaries faded, dead or inactive, Joey became the embodiment of first-wave punk, with a shy, soft-spoken manner that belied his band's twisted songs about social misfits too bored, disconnected or disaffected to play by the rules. Joey may have shared a last name with his bandmates, but familial love couldn't keep them from their constant bickering, leading to the Ramones' dissolution in 1996. After the group played its final show on August 9, 1996 =97 such fans as Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell jammed with the Ramones that night =97 Joey continued to carry the torch for the music he loved. In addition to producing an EP and an album by horror-ska rockers the Independents =97 whom he tirelessly championed and managed for much of the late '90s =97 Joey co-produced a 1999 EP by his idol Ronnie Spector. The EP featured one of Joey's most poignant tunes, "She Talks to Rainbows," a ballad he wrote for the Ramones' 1995 studio swan song, Adios Amigos!. It was about a girl Joey would often see in his neighborhood, who he said looked like she was in her own world. "She's a little lost girl in her own little world/ She looks so happy, but seems so sad/ Oh yeah/ I'd like to help her/ I'd like to try/ Oh yeah," Spector sang in her trademark yearning voice on the EP.=20 In addition to trying to help resurrect the career of his hero Spector, Joey was working on his debut solo album over the past three years.=20 Collaborating with long-time Ramones producer Daniel Rey, Ramone had written nearly 20 new tunes that he planned to record with a band that included Andy Shernoff of the punk group the Dictators, Cracker drummer Frank Funaro and Rey on guitar. Joey kept a low profile over the past few years, jumping onstage to belt out occasional Ramones songs at birthday parties in his honor thrown by his punk-rocker friends in New York. In February 2000, he buried the hatchet with former Ramones drummer Marky Ramone, recruiting Marky to play on a handful of his solo songs. =97Gil Kaufman # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "Swing and Sway in Hawaii" Date: 16 Apr 2001 07:01:38 -0500 I give this LP two thumbs up, although every Sammy Kaye album does have a few "syruppy saxes" cuts amongst the great "shuffle rock" numbers. "Tiny Bubbles" is great, and the "Hawaiian War Chant" won out as the "HWC" version to make my Hawaiian music compilation CD. Brad # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) So this Everett says to this Yamaha... Date: 16 Apr 2001 08:32:37 -0400 Yes, that's right! From my growing-ever-more-obscure subject lines you may have guessed that I have indeed picked up some new records! 1. Inferno! - John Buzon Trio 2. Bill Doggett - Fingertips. I thought I would list this one, because of all the organ talk of late. Slower than I thought it would be but rather nice. 3. Discotheque, Vol. 2 - Enoch Light (Haven't listened to it yet) 4. Sparky's Magic Piano. Yes, indeed! Very happy to have this one after hearing bits of it on Fantastica. By the way, there is a CD copy advertised of SMP http://www.wecollect2.com/Sparky's%20Magic%20Piano.htm which also plays a sound clip of "Sparky and the Talking Train.", although they also say that they have the song "Surfin' Bird" by the "Trashmemn" and I may not necessarily know themn. And now I will play two Goldberg Variations at the same time, Brian Phillips and unbilled "helper" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) The Smiley Face Controversy continues! Date: 16 Apr 2001 08:52:28 -0400 http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/funnyco.htm Also, in Japan, 60 Minutes reported that there were several stores that sold "Smilley Badges". Keep smilling, Brian Philips # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) 60's "groovy music Date: 16 Apr 2001 09:11:41 -0400 >When I talk about this go-go Now Sound generic rock instrumental stuff I'm >obsessed with these days, I always refer to the go-go sequences on "Laugh >In" but they happened all over TV. >It's so curious that this music which so offended me - and colleen - when I >was a kid, is so interesting to me now. >I don't even know if it's actually interesting to me or if I just want it >because it's fun to find it. Odd that you mention that. It used to bug me, too, but I know why. It smacked to me of cheapness or unhipness, as in, "couldn't they get a REAL rock band"? Now, having been able to collect a great deal of what I want, I can now go back to the "Batman" music (that's the show I associate with Go-Go music) and find that some of it is rather good. If any of you see Lord Rockingham's XI's Hoots Mon!/Oh Boy single, buy it and quick. Strange vocal drop-ins (Hoots mon, that's a braw brecht moonlecht necht!) and screechy women (one who wasn't screeching was the woman on the organ) it's a classic! Today's now au-go-go woman (Firesign Theatre ref), 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: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 16 Apr 2001 08:18:05 -0500 You'll find lots of Latin and bossa-flavored tunes on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast. From classics by Esquivel, Billy May and Bert Kaempfert to new stuff by Bebel Gilberto, Les Hommes and Ursula 1000; Morricone's "Danger: Diabolik"; percussion ace Rolley Polley's "Mad Drums"; the Now Sound of Mel Torme and Nelson Riddle; smokin' Latin jazz by Bobby Montez (his "Jungle Fantastique" has just been reissued by CuBop); and assorted tunes from Les Baxter, Jackie Davis, Piero Umiliani and Berry Lipman. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome. Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) So this Everett says to this Yamaha... Date: 16 Apr 2001 08:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Recent finds. I have not done this in some while but these might be worth a mention: Cal Tjader: Several Shades of Jade. Great jazz, exotica style - Tjader's Latin sounds with middle eastern flourishes. Most of the compositions are Lalo Schifrin's. He conducted and played piano on the lp. Great record, probably my favorite of CT's Verve stuff. Jack Marshall: The Marshall Swings. Great music and great cover. Marshall, in his cap, is on the scaffold with a rope around his neck and an abundantly healthy yet starkly clad young lady sheriff is about to pull the lever. All the songs have wild west/wagon trail titles, but as the jacket notes say, roughly: they demonstrate closest this marshall ever got to the wide open planes was speeding past them in his car. Harpsichord, bongos, Mr Marshall on guitar... fun stuff indeed. Ferrante & Teicher: Sound Proof. Wow. Esquivel: Four Corners. Not as full blown as his orchestral lps, but very nice nonetheless. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.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: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: (exotica) new Beau Hunks CD Date: 16 Apr 2001 21:45:27 +0200 From www.bastamusic.com: AVAILABLE NOW: Basta has released the complete OUR RELATIONS SUITE by Leroy Shield, performed by the Beau Hunks and the Metropole Orchestra. The first edit of the 1936 Laurel & Hardy film, titled "Our Relations," was considered too slow, and not very funny. It was re-edited to a much shorter and faster version. The editing obviously effected the soundtrack composed by Shield. Even we weren't sure what to expect when we started recording, but rest assured: the final result is fantastic! The CD will come in a beautifully Piet Schreuders-designed slipcase, which holds a seperate booklet (with loads of info and a lot of never before published photographs!) and a jewelcase that comes with an overview of the Beau Hunks recordings from the past eight years... - 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: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) new Beau Hunks CD Date: 16 Apr 2001 15:59:45 -0400 And better yet, there is finally a decent North American distributor for Basta releases, so it's easy to find them now! cheryl > AVAILABLE NOW: Basta has released the complete OUR RELATIONS SUITE by Leroy > Shield, performed by the Beau Hunks and the Metropole Orchestra # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) The Sims have a Tiki Party Date: 16 Apr 2001 16:47:36 -0400 http://www.gamespot.co.uk/stories/screens/0,2160,2044127-2,00.html lousmith@pipeline.com (PS - I've heard that Bowie is recording Nature Boy for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers / Caravan Billy Vaughn Date: 16 Apr 2001 23:11:18 +0200 (MEST) I don't know much of his stuff, but he made that fantastic DANCEABLE version of CARAVAN that is on the Exotic Trilogy Vol 1 Anybody know where this came from ? an album? a comp? a single?? I would love to have it on vinyl Thanks a lot for help Martin "Magnus Sandberg" m.sandberg@telia.com Wrote: citerar Clayton Black : Billy Vaughn's I've tried him three times but always more or less hated the records. -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Subject: RE: (exotica) More Hammond Grooves - James Taylor Quartet / Big Boss Man Date: 16 Apr 2001 23:13:49 +0200 (MEST) I total agree. It is the same with the new Big Boss Man Lp on blow up. It is not a bad record but it has the wrong production. The Desco Label makes this much better http://www.descorecords.com/ when I did buy there singles first, I thought they where reissues from original late 60s early 70s rare tracks Charles Moseley charlesm@contentrepublic.com wrote: JTQ are interesting because they play real Hammond driven funk tunes and they sound the business - but not on record. The only way you can sound like a proper funk band now is by recording on early 70s equipment in an early 70s studio and making records with an early 70s engineer. I've always found their records lack something compared to the real thing. The classic track is the Theme From Starsky and Hutch - originally by Tom Scott - which is much better by JTQ. On stage though, with the drummer going mad and the Hammond screaming - nothing else compares. -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) StereoLab Date: 16 Apr 2001 14:58:45 -0700 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Charles Moseley > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:38 AM > I heard a great StereoLab record yesterday - Simple Headphone Mind. Does > anybody have any other recommendations for further similar listening? That would be a little difficult, since "Simple Headphone Mind" is a collaboration with Nurse With Wound and thus sounds quite different from their other records (except "Crumb Duck," which is also a NWW collaboration). Maybe mid-period Stereolab (circa "Mars Audiac Quintet") or NWW's "Rock 'n' Roll Station" (which utilizes some of the same sound/rhythm elements from "Simple Headphone Mind") would do the trick. Bear in mind, though, that NWW's output is widely varied in terms of sound (surrealist collage, drone, exotica mishmash, death ambient, industrial, etc.). So is Stereolab, branching out to jazz and funk, but they still employ the same basic Can-like rhythm all throughout. =) Later, Ben np: kings of convenience, "quiet is the new loud" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Kriminalfilmmusik vol 1-4 Date: 16 Apr 2001 19:24:26 EDT In a message dated 4/14/01 7:16:55 AM, brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca writes: << > . ...I know some of these (Wallace) films are on video but I've never come across anything in NTSC format or even subtitled for that matter.>>> There's a bunch of them available from Something Weird and Sinister Cinema... a really cool one I just saw is called Hand of Power (Im Banne des Unheimlichen/Spell of the Sinister One), with a Peter Thomas score featured on Futuremusic (with a hot nightclub singer) and a scene where two characters take time out to drink a couple zombies out of shrunken-head glasses... ultra entertaining!!! -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: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) More Hammond Groovers / Caravan Billy Vaughn Date: 17 Apr 2001 23:42:25 -0400 > I don't know much of his stuff, but he made that fantastic DANCEABLE version > of CARAVAN that is on the Exotic Trilogy Vol 1 > > Anybody know where this came from ? an album? a comp? a single?? I would > love to have it on vinyl > > Thanks a lot for help > > Martin > This discussion prompted me to get out the one remaining Billy Vaughn album in my collection, "Pearly Shells," and, sure enough, there it is--Caravan. And you're right, it's a great version, as is his take on Girl From Ipanema (always a favorite of mine). I knew there was a reason I kept this one. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Go Go music Date: 17 Apr 2001 14:54:52 +0100 Some of the best go-go music I've found turns up on the Italian Soundtracks. Allegretto por signora from Ennio Morricone's 'Foto Proibite....' About half of the tracks on the EP's that come with Il Giaguaro (second plug in a month, but they're good and theres a new one due soon). The rest are good, just slower. Some of the Erotica Italia compilation. A couple of the tracks on Vampyros Lesbos (OK so German Italian then) CX9 and Not Satisfied Others I like in the same vein The Black Queen's beads from the Barbarella OST. Eleanor Rigby from Spaced Out by Enoch Light. Wild stuff, theres a couple more on here as great. The Schudelmadchen Report LP by Gert Wilden, i can't remember titles for these tunes, but theres 3 or 4 uptempo tracks that are just great. Some tracks from the Shake Sauvage compilation. Miniskirt Blues by the Flower Children off 'Pebbles Highs of the Mid Sixties vol 5(?) Mondo Hollywood a go-go' The rest is 66/67 folk/rock /psych, quite fun if you like that sort of thing. Nice set of cross-overs to my Organ loves there. One I've never figured out was the music from the Pigeon toed Orange Peel section from a Clint Eastwood film (Dirty Harry? Presumably Lalo Schiffrin then?). El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Go Go music Date: 17 Apr 2001 10:37:44 -0500 > One I've never figured out was the music from the Pigeon toed Orange Peel > section from a Clint Eastwood film (Dirty Harry? Presumably Lalo > Schiffrin then?). It's Schifrin, all right, but it's from "Coogan's Bluff". I don't think this one's ever been issued on LP or CD, except as a private pressing that's been floating around for the last few years (backed with another, unrelated movie score, if I'm remembering this right). Anybody got a copy? Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Blackula! Date: 17 Apr 2001 12:35:27 -0400 Yahoo's "CD Jukebox" site currently has the Razor and Tie re-issue of = Blackula up for your listening pleasure!!! Groovy - 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: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils: April 14, 2001 Date: 17 Apr 2001 17:52:47 On this week's show I mostly concentrated on sounds, ersatz and authentic, of the Mediterranean and North Africa. And did a half-satisfactory/half-forced job of sequeing into a set of straight-up organ soul jazz with a selection from Paul Gonsalves' excellent "Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy" LP. Which features some exquisite, slinky organ courtesy of Dick Hyman. How obscene does that sound? -Dan Artist -- Song -- Album -- Format -- Label Roland Kirk -- Three for the Festival -- We Free Kings -- LP -- Mercury Quincy Jones w/Roland Kirk -- Cotton Curtain -- In the Heat of the Night -- LP -- United Artists Harry Betts and his Orchestra -- Theme from "Moment of Fear" -- The Jazz Soul of Doctor Kildare and Other Great Television Themes -- LP -- Choreo Heinie Beau and His Hollywood Jazz Stars -- Scotland Yardbird -- Moviesville Jazz -- LP -- Coral The Agents -- A Man Called Dagger -- Themes for Secret Agents -- LP -- Sunset Neal Hefti -- Scene of the Crime -- How to Murder Your Wife -- LP -- United Artists Pete King -- The Place -- The Last of the Secret Agents -- LP -- Dot Neal Hefti -- Turkish Delight -- Hefti in Gotham City -- LP -- RCA Zoitsa Kouroukli -- Athina -- Athena: The New Sound of Greece -- LP -- Columbia John Scott Trotter -- Tunisian Interlude -- Escape to the Magic Mediterranean -- LP -- Warner Brothers Rena Dalia -- O Zontanos O Horismos -- Rena Dalia, Queen of Song -- LP -- Nina unknown Greek artist --???? -- 78 -- Victor The Feenjon -- Zorba -- The Feenjon Goes Greek -- LP -- Monitor unknown Greek artist --???? -- 78 -- Kaliphon Mohamed Taha -- Habebi E Lasmar -- Hits From Egypt -- LP -- Request Records, Inc. unknown Greek artist --???? -- 78 -- Liberty Georges Delerue -- (excerpt from) Side 2 Part 2 -- Here History Began -- LP -- Ministry of Culture and Information - Arab Republic of Egypt Chris Vardakis and His Bouzoukias Orchestra -- Pantheon Party -- Greek Fire -- LP -- Colpix Lacura -- The Five Ways -- Greece Today -- LP -- Philips Henry Mancini -- The Zoo Chase: Part II, Aquarium Scene -- Arabesque -- LP -- RCA Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra -- Cyprus -- The Lure of the Blue Mediterranean -- LP -- Decca Paul Gonsalves -- Antony and Cleopatra Theme -- Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy -- LP -- Impulse! Jimmy McGriff -- M.G. Blues -- I've Got a Woman -- LP -- Sue Richard "Groove" Holmes -- Dahoud -- Soul Message -- LP -- Prestige Wild Bill Davis -- At Dawn with Davis -- Wild Bill Davis in Hollywood -- LP -- Imperial Jack McDuff and Gene Ammons -- Watch Out -- Brother Jack Meets the Boss -- LP -- Prestige Bo Rhambo Combo -- Blues for the Doll -- Enchanted Melodies -- LP -- Imperial Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Tomorrow's "Back-Ward" Playlist, April 18 Date: 17 Apr 2001 17:53:46 -0000 "The Back-Ward" is a show featuring cool soundtracks from the 60's and 70's; exotica; lounge; now-sounds; incredibly-strange; tropicalia;forgotten country and western; obscure garage & psychedelia; funk/70's instro'; moog; early high-brow electronic; industrial and/or post-punk from the late 70's/early 80's. More recent material may creep in from time to time. The show can now be heard Wednesday mornings from 10:00 am to 11:00 am EST on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. The show is also available in RealAudio. Click on "Listen to us live via the net" at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/ TOMORROW'S RAW DEAL: - John Cameron - Swamp Fever - Charles Wilp - Nanci For Soft-Ice - Jacques Louissa - Ballet Photo Rouge, "You Only Live Once" OST - Coaty De Olivera - One Note Samba - Os Mutantes - O Relegio - The Freakscene - Million Grains of Sand - Nirvana Sitar and String Group - You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Cyrkle - Nicole, "Minx" OST - Les Baxter - Psychedelic Senate, "Wild in The Streets" OST - Ennio Morricone - Black Glove Underground II, "Crystal Plumage" OST - Pink Floyd - Paint Box - Faust - Party 2 - Stooges - Down on the Street, from "Funhouse" - The Sleepers - Step Back, from "Painless Nights" - The Sleepers - Forever, from "Painless Nights" - Joy Division - These Days hope it fits... jb _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: (exotica) identifying Greek 78's Date: 17 Apr 2001 17:53:51 I picked up a chronologically wide-ranging (I think) batch of American pressed Greek 78's from a thrift store a while ago (apparently San Antonio had a small Greek population), and played 3 of them on my show last weekend. I've posted a scan of them, so if any of you 78 folks can tell me anything about these labels, or their approximate year, or if anyone knows Greek and can translate the song titles for me, I and my playlists would much obliged. http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/dialatedpupils/Greek78s.htm thanks! Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) identifying Greek 78's Date: 17 Apr 2001 14:00:59 -0400 Check http://www.diodinos.com/rebetes2.htm for a Manabaki reference. Great labels! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: (exotica) Kahiki update Date: 17 Apr 2001 13:58:06 -0500 Don't think this has shown up here: The Kahiki has a new (?) website at http://www.kahiki.com/. Apparently Michael Tsao's plans to market Kahiki brand frozen entrees nationwide lifted off, with lines of frozen entrees carried in the States by Sam's Club and Costco as well as some regional chains. Details at http://www.kahiki.com/news.cfm. A photo of the restaurant adorns the packaging as does the logo from the sign. Those of you who partook of the farewell party can reminisce with a few more photos from the restaurant http://www.kahiki.com/aloha.cfm. Damn, I never realized how many awards the place won. Prowl through the site--there's good info here, including a bittersweet shot of the four-ton tiki hoisted by crane for storage. "The management of Kahiki Foods plans to open a larger, grander Kahiki restaurant in downtown Columbus by the end of 2002. All of the Polynesian artifacts are stored in a special warehouse and will be used again in the new Kahiki." Yippee, the Kahiki will rise again! 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Greek 45's..... Date: 17 Apr 2001 15:04:34 -0400 Speaking of Greek music, I picked up a couple of 45's. One has a wild = "psychedelic" cover with a submarine on it and that endearingly aged = "balloon lettering" type font. Can't recall what it sounds like, should spin it again soon. It's not = unlike a Donovan rip-off kinda thing....... - 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) What the Kahiki? Date: 17 Apr 2001 15:05:46 -0400 When I am in San Diego, I sometimes eat at the Bali Hai, a favorite of my Aunt and Uncle's: http://www.samchoysbalihai.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: jmhuber@mindspring.com Subject: (exotica) Farfisa/Vox Continetal groovers Date: 17 Apr 2001 15:12:44 -0400 Hey - how about some Farfisa/Vox Continental organ groovers? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) What the Kahiki? Date: 17 Apr 2001 15:26:39 -0400 Brian: Isn't that "Mr. Bali Hi" ontop of the roof?? It looks from the website that they are trying to "upscale" (I use that = term in a bad sense) the restaurant and downplay it's crazy polynesian = influences. =20 I was disappointed that there were no close-up shots of Mr. Bali Hi. Can = you still drink out of his cranium?? - I guess those mugs are long gone = and sitting on shelves all across America!! Any tikis left inside? - 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: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: (exotica) Enoch Light - Beatles Classics Date: 17 Apr 2001 20:55:51 +0100 You might be interested to know that Varese have just reissued Enoch Light's 1974 Project 3 album "Beatle Classics" alongwith loads of Beatle-flavoured bonus tracks from "Spaced Out" and other Project 3 LPs: http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=302%2D066%2D 218%2D2 And I wrote the liner notes! Yours smugly... Robbie Spaced Out - the Enoch Light website http://www.enochlight.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) What the Kahiki? Date: 17 Apr 2001 16:06:39 -0400 >It looks from the website that they are trying to "upscale" (I use that >term in a bad sense) the restaurant and downplay it's crazy polynesian >influences. > >I was disappointed that there were no close-up shots of Mr. Bali Hi. Can >you still drink out of his cranium?? - I guess those mugs are long gone >and sitting on shelves all across America!! > >Any tikis left inside? Not being a drinker (Uh oh! Am I off the list!?), I don't recall seeing anyone's head I could drink out of. As far as the decor is concerned, there are still tikis and while it has changed, I don't think that they have completely de-Polynesianed the place. The old decor was looking worn down before it became Sam Choy's. Food's still pretty good, though. Fortunately, I can still go to Trader Vic's here in Atlanta. Polynesian up, Mother Brown, 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: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Sam Choi's Date: 17 Apr 2001 16:23:07 -0400 So, is that a huge "Mr. Bali Hi" head on top of the roof still?!?!? (Last dumb inquiry I promise) -=20 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: "Brian" Subject: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 18 Apr 2001 00:11:57 -0400 A good day at the record store! last visit I listened to four expensive library records and none of them were interesting enough to even consider. Today was much better: The Three Suns - Fever & Smoke - Been looking for a good copy of this one a long time. All I ever came across before were beat up copies. Werner Mueller - Tanz Party 68 - The cover caught my eye, plus of course the name. None of the big beat numbers but a medium beat version of Fiddler on the Roof which is quite the thing, along with some powerhouse latin sounds sold me. At CDN$2.98 how could I refuse? Rick Powell - Switched on Country - Passed on this one before as it was too expensive but at CDN$2.98 and reasonably clean, I decided to go for it. The best version of "I Walk the Line" I ever heard, ie Moog.. Even outdoes Johnny Cash's version sung in German! Did someone once mention he did "The Plasic Cow Goes Moog? But the big find was some new product: Two compilation volumes, vinyl only, and serious stuff!!! The tites are "Ouh la la!!..." (Volumes 1 & 2) and the label is "Cosmogol". They come from France, obviously, as there is no language other than French on them and I've never seen them before let alone heard of the label. Not a bad track on either one in fact not any one less than amazing at that! These things are in the vein of the first Nymphomania and Inflight Entertainment series comps and they blow Ultra Chicks right out of the water! These records have it all for you groovy now sound fans so if you see them offered do not hesitate! Legitimacy is, as always questionable given the lack of notes, but the good news is the sound quality is superb! Many of these names I don't recognize but I suspect these are originals you ain't never going to see anywhere too soon... Sure I have a few tracks off of volume 1 but... They sold here for CDN$20 each but that's no more than a domestic CD sells at. The store only got in two copies of each. Here's a list of tracks: Volume 1 Syd Dale: Disco-Tek Michael Viner's Bongo band - Bongolia Peter Beasson - Top Signal Two Werner Mueller - Bodybuilding Armando Troviaioli - Sesso matto Peter Beasson - Choro Belingo David Whitaker - Strip Poker at Caesar's Palace L. Muller - Steve Says Gary Burton - Vibrafinger Steve Gray - Soft Soled Shoes Jacques Hendrix - Haunted House The Barigozzi Group - Silver Legs Les Baxter - Psychedelic Senate Volume 2 Peter Laine et les nanas - Keep Movin' Jean Cournoyer et son orchestre - Venus Andre Brasseur , son orgue et ses rythmes - Cathedral Travelling Orchestra - Depart de nuit Soundsational Birds & Brass - Mexican Fiesta The Juergen Franke Sextet - Brother Michael Don Diego et son orchestre - L'amour qui tourne autour de nous Ambiente erotico - The Party Luc Harvey et les requins - Nothing To Do Ray Martin and his Orchestra - Flash! There Goes Gordon! The Golden Pot - Motive Xaba - Emavungwini Ju Ju Sound - Voodou The Living Seafood - Gravy Samnolence Its not the first series of vinyl only comps to come from France. Two others worth looking out for are the three volumes of "Ils sont fous ces gauloises" and two volumes of "Swingin' mademoiselles", all vinyl only and all limited pressings. I'm not sure if all of them are even available anymore as I couldn't find a copy of "Ils sont fous... - vol"1 even in Paris. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Lord Rockingham's XI Date: 18 Apr 2001 09:18:59 +0100 Strange vocal drop ins? Thats Scottish! It means its a very cold moonlight night. The other one (Theres a moose loose aboot this hoos) is a reference to a rodent rather than an elk. I'd say it was more wild early sixties rock'n'roll than go-go music. The saxophone (which, massively overblown leads the whole track) was played by Bennie Green, who typically thought very little of it. It was quite a big band of session musicians who thought the whole 'pop' and 'rock and roll' thing quite beneath them. BTW the (XI) Eleven is probably a reference to Cricket. Its a blast, and one of my dad's favourite records. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare If any of you see Lord Rockingham's XI's Hoots Mon!/Oh Boy single, buy it and quick. Strange vocal drop-ins (Hoots mon, that's a braw brecht moonlecht necht!) and screechy women (one who wasn't screeching was the woman on the organ) it's a classic! Today's now au-go-go woman (Firesign Theatre ref), 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: Charles Moseley Subject: (exotica) Folkswingers - Raga Rock Date: 18 Apr 2001 10:27:40 +0100 Does anybody have this LP and care to comment? Is it simply generic instrumental sitar pop or is there an edge of quality lurking underneath? Charlie Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) re: kahiki site Date: 18 Apr 2001 12:43:45 +0100 http://www.kahiki.com Thanks to whoever posted the link, what a place, i can certainly see what the fuss was about it closing down. I do hope that a replacement will be built, I may even have to cross the pond to check it out. That fireplace - incredible. Absolutely incredible. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 18 Apr 2001 08:02:57 -0400 > None of the big beat numbers but a medium beat version of Fiddler on > the Roof which is quite the thing I love the unexpected combinations that come up in these albums. Edmundo Ros doing Sound of Music (or, for that matter, Hair, which I've never heard) or, better yet, Jose Quijano's "Fiddler on the Roof Goes Latin." It's a surprisingly good album, in my opinion, and the mix of latin rhythm and East European melody manages to work. I suppose you can "Latinize" just about anything, but does anybody know of other bizarre combinations like this? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) Folkswingers - Raga Rock (click N play) Date: 18 Apr 2001 06:51:39 -0700 Charlie asked about this one: Does anybody have this LP (Folkswingers - Raga Rock) and care to comment? Is it simply generic instrumental sitar pop or is there an edge of quality lurking underneath? I've got this one and have uploaded 4 one minute MP3's for you to check out as well as the cover: http://www.basichip.com/covers/folkswingers.jpg Since there are only a handful of instrumental sitar pop albums that I know of, I'm not sure where you draw the line between generic and having that edge of quality. Rajput and the Sepoy vs Big Jim Sullivan or Lord Sitar, I assume.. I'd recommend this Folkswingers LP - it's on World Pacific (WPS-21846). Personal includes: Sitar - Harihar Rao Dennis Budmir - Electric 12 string (did a record called The Creeper on Mainstream) Tommy Tedesco, Howard Roberts, Herb Ellis - Guitar Hal Blaine - Drums Tracks include the usual commonly covered Paint It Black, Eight Miles High and Norwegian Wood. I like how they have versions of hits you don't often see: Kicks http://www.basichip.com/sounds/kicks.mp3 Hey Joe http://www.basichip.com/sounds/joe.mp3 Along Comes Mary http://www.basichip.com/sounds/mary.mp3 Time Won't Let Me http://www.basichip.com/sounds/time.mp3 Sizes on these files are just under 600kb and with a DSL or Cable connection, you'll have em in less than half a minute. After a listen, tell us what you think. By the way, Al Caiola's "Let The Sunshine In" has two nice sitar cuts on it, Windmills of Your Mind and Stiletto! Look for it - here's the cover: http://www.basichip.com/covers/al_caiola.jpg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Third Wave, sweet pop Date: 18 Apr 2001 07:41:43 -0700 hi - Sorry if I was not paying attention and missed any discussion on these discs, spotted at dusty groove: Third Wave -- Here & Now -- Arranged & Conducted By George Duke MPS/Crippled Dick (Germany), 1970 Incredibly groovy! This rare MPS recording features the totally obscure vocal group The Third Wave -- five Philippino sisters from California who were discovered and produced by George Duke. The band has this amazing breathy vocal style -- similar to work by 60s groups like the Swingle Singers, Anita Kerr Singers, or Les Double Six -- but a lot more hip! Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends -- Complete Works Of Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends . . . A&M (Japan), Late 60s Some of the grooviest LA pop you'll ever find! If you're a fan of late 60s LA sweet pop -- artists like Harper's Bizarre, The Sandpipers, or post-Pet Sounds Beach Boys -- you'll really dig Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends. The style is sweet A&M vocal pop -- with an emphasis on groovy harmonies in a male/female style that reminds us of We Five or The Free Design, but hipper Thanks for any comments on these Also while there, I saw the Sweden's answer to Sergio Mendes, The Gimmicks, usually pretty hard to find. I have this one, but if you were looking for them (they are on Espresso Espresso) now is your chance. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: Lord Rockingham's XI Date: 18 Apr 2001 10:47:55 -0400 >Strange vocal drop ins? Thats Scottish! It means its a very cold moonlight >night. The other one (Theres a moose loose aboot this hoos) is a reference >to a rodent rather than an elk. Thank you for the information on the record! I wouldn't have picked up on the Cricket reference (nor would I have known that the flip, "Oh, Boy" was a theme to a TV show). I still don't think it very common to have a Rock 'n' Roll record to have a Robert Burns quote stuck in the middle of it, for which the music comes to a complete stop for. It reminds me of a version of "Not Me" by Gary "U.S." Bonds, which has similar pauses (someone badly imitating a woman, as if they couldn't find one near the studio, saying, "Come on over baby, let's do the Madison", followed by another voice saying, "What about your boyfriend called Battlin' Jim?"). That is what I found odd, not the fact that the vocals were in Scottish. I am a teetotaler, but NOT a Scot-basher. I even watched part of "The 39 Steps" this morning, and...and...yeah. Please Deoch my pay, Brian Phillips P.S. In "A Civl Tongue" by Edwin Newman about the use of doublespeak, giving way to his penchant for puns, he heard a newscast mention shopping "...for all the giftees on your holiday list", so he imagined this exchange: "What hae ye there, lass?" "'Tis a wee giftie for the giftee." "Ay, would some power the giftee gie us..." # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations Date: 18 Apr 2001 12:42:58 -0400 (EDT) According to this ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423725467 , Martin Denny's orchestrations are 'experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations'. Amazing what people will say to try and sell a beat up record. Jonny post/view song recommendations: www.musicaltaste.net Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style Date: 18 Apr 2001 12:48:17 -0400 >, Martin Denny's orchestrations are 'experimental lounge tiki torch >Esquivel style orchestrations'. Amazing what people will say to try and >sell a beat up record. I know what you mean! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423516795 At least a quarter will buy it. But "rare"? 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: "William" Subject: (exotica) mp3 bust Date: 19 Apr 2001 00:52:21 +0800 hi all, sorry for this off topic post but i thought some of you would be interested in this mp3 bust in taiwan that happened recently. the story link is to the second part where the students respond but there's a link to the original story as well. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18292.html william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) mp3 bust Date: 18 Apr 2001 14:22:50 -0400 >sorry for this off topic post but i thought some of you would be >interested in this mp3 bust in taiwan that happened recently. the story link >is to the second part where the students respond but there's a link to the >original story as well. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18292.html The latest report on the storyline: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18320.html m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 18 Apr 2001 15:25:46 -0400 At 12:11 AM 4/18/01 -0400, Brian wrote: ! These records have it all for you groovy now sound fans so if you >see them offered do not hesitate! Well at least I have one of the cuts: >Ray Martin and his Orchestra - Flash! There Goes Gordon! AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations Date: 18 Apr 2001 16:27:10 EDT In a message dated 04/18/01 12:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, delicado@cheerful.com writes: << According to this ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423725467 , Martin Denny's orchestrations are 'experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations'. Amazing what people will say to try and sell a beat up record. Jonny >> this also gets the seller more hits on searches. tb # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) Lord Rockingham's XI Date: 19 Apr 2001 01:10:28 +0100 In article <08C89600D966D4119C7800105AF0CB6B0236589E@moulsecoomb.bton.ac .uk>, G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk writes > >I'd say it was more wild early sixties rock'n'roll than go-go music. 1950s, actually. The band plaid on the first British TV rock 'n' roll show, Six Five Special, produced by the brilliant Jack Goode (who also produced Lord Rockingham's XI). > The >saxophone (which, massively overblown leads the whole track) was played by >Bennie Green, who typically thought very little of it. Bennie Green hated rock 'n' roll, and wore dark glasses when the band performed to disguise his identity from his jazzer colleagues. Ironically, it drew more attention to him as the kids thought he looked cool! -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.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: "Dr Chris R. Tame" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Lord Rockingham's XI Date: 19 Apr 2001 01:08:28 +0100 In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010418102304.0296b378@172.16.0.1>, Brian Phillips writes > > > I still don't think it very common to have a Rock >'n' Roll record to have a Robert Burns quote stuck in the middle of it, for >which the music comes to a complete stop for. The Robert Burns' phrase ("Its a braw brecht moonlecht necht") was a very common and well known one at the time, used by anyone wanting to signify/parody Scottish identity. Actually, lots of rock 'n' instrumentals have similar breaks for vocal exclamations/phrases (admittedly not usually drawn from Scottish poets). -- Dr. Chris R. Tame, Director Libertarian Alliance | "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, | 25 Chapter Chambers | and the secret of Freedom is Courage" | Esterbrooke Street | Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | London SW1P 4NN England Tel: 020 7821 5502 Fax: 020 7834 2031 Email: chris@rand.demon.co.uk LA Web Site: http://www.libertarian-alliance.com/ Free Life Web Site: http://www.whig.org.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: Dlsmay@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Third Wave, sweet pop Date: 18 Apr 2001 21:07:59 EDT More hip than Les Double Six doing an acapella version of Coltrane's "Naima" in French? << similar to work by 60s groups like the Swingle Singers, Anita Kerr Singers, or Les Double Six -- but a lot more hip! >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) Napster/AOL Date: 18 Apr 2001 21:27:52 EDT Is anyone else having problems using napster through AOL ? Everytime I try to download something I get cut off. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Re: Third Wave, sweet pop Date: 19 Apr 2001 05:50:44 -0700 I wrote: how's this? > Third Wave -- Here & Now -- Arranged & Conducted By George Duke > MPS/Crippled Dick (Germany), 1970 > Incredibly groovy! This rare MPS recording features the totally obscure > vocal group The Third Wave -- five Philippino sisters from California who > were discovered and produced by George Duke. The band has this amazing > breathy vocal style -- similar to work by 60s groups like the Swingle > Singers, Anita Kerr Singers, or Les Double Six -- but a lot more hip! Dusty Groove is a great place and I have to hand it to them for their enthusiastic descriptions, even if they are a bit misleading sometimes. I found samples of the above to listen to last night. Nothing like Anita Kerr and definitely not as hip as Double Six doing that Coltrane tune or any others... Rare schmere. I'll pass ! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) steve fisk Date: 19 Apr 2001 12:47:11 -0400 The new Steve Fisk record "999 Levels of Undo" If you like the second Tipsy record more than the first one, I think you'll like this one. I didn't say that in my review because it's... well... you know, I try not to make those comparisons in a review. But for you guys, I don't have such rules. (It's cool when you get a review copy of something you'd actually like to buy. In the past, I've gotten these new age "jazz" records that were just painful.) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "RARE" Whipped Cream (was: experimental lounge Date: 19 Apr 2001 13:40:38 -0400 >>Martin Denny's orchestrations are 'experimental lounge tiki torch >>Esquivel style orchestrations'. Amazing what people will say to try and >>sell a beat up record. > >I know what you mean! > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423516795 > >At least a quarter will buy it. But "rare"? Holy cow, that's mad! Mad, I say! Note that the cover is "FAIR WITH MILDEW AND WATER DAMAGE ON THE BACK." And there's a mandatory additional $5 for shipping. At first I thought it might be a prank auction, to see how silly eBay buyers can be, but then I checked the seller's 36 other auctions. http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=kenman32&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25 EVERY record is described as "RARE" (to be fair, there is a Bacharach Baroque (with more water/mildew damage)) and all that I checked were in similarly shabby condition. It's like a box of abused garage sale records, but at a minimum of $5.25 each! So far, sanity is prevailling with no bids on anything. Except... a 1 dollar bid on The Monkees first album, condition described thus: "RECORD IS FAIR WITH MUCH SCRATCHING. COVER IS GOOD, BUT IS SEPERATED ON TWO SIDES." Yeah, now there's a buy at $6. I'll leave it to Nat to figure the additional costs for Canadian buyers. sheesh, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) "RARE" Whipped Cream (was: experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations) Date: 19 Apr 2001 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Is it the case that there are some people who are neither very bright nor very scrupulous on E-Bay? I implore you, say it ain't so.... speaking of canada. got my several slabs of 60s quebecois garage & "surf" from up dare just yesterday. c'est super-cool! --- "m.ace" wrote: > Holy cow, that's mad! Mad, I say! > Note that the cover is "FAIR WITH MILDEW AND WATER > DAMAGE ON THE BACK." ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: tikiman Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Third Wave, sweet pop Date: 19 Apr 2001 13:17:56 -0700 (PDT) agreed... being an ad copywriter by day, i find myself vulnerable to a well written review, and dusty's are masters of "must have" copy. i bought the third wave, burned the 1st track, "waves lament" (which i love) and dumped the cd... rather limpid/insipid and deserving of being "totally obscure." alohaderci, fluid floyd --- basic hip wrote: > > Third Wave -- Here & Now -- Arranged & Conducted > By George Duke > > MPS/Crippled Dick (Germany), 1970 > > Incredibly groovy! This rare MPS recording > features the totally obscure > > vocal group The Third Wave -- five Philippino > sisters from California who > > were discovered and produced by George Duke. The > band has this amazing > > breathy vocal style -- similar to work by 60s > groups like the Swingle > > Singers, Anita Kerr Singers, or Les Double Six -- > but a lot more hip! > > Dusty Groove is a great place and I have to hand it > to them for their > enthusiastic descriptions, even if they are a bit > misleading sometimes. > > I found samples of the above to listen to last > night. Nothing like Anita > Kerr and definitely not as hip as Double Six doing > that Coltrane tune or any > others... > > Rare schmere. I'll pass ! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Larry Subject: Re: (exotica) "RARE" Whipped Cream (was: experimental lounge Date: 19 Apr 2001 17:12:46 -0400 This clown has discovered a clever little trick...offer up a piece of crap for a minimal price and hope that the rubes don't read the fine print and see what the shipping charges are. I can almost guarantee he'll ship it Media Mail for $1.50 or so and pocket the additional $3.50 as his profit. The one flaw in this clever scheme is nobody in their right mind is going to bid on this garbage, even if it was free! Looks like this guy is going to be out his 30 cent listing fee per album, his time, and whatever pittance he paid for that box of trash. He's not rocket scientist material, for sure.... Larry At 01:40 PM 4/19/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: >>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1423516795 >> >>At least a quarter will buy it. But "rare"? > >Holy cow, that's mad! Mad, I say! > >Note that the cover is "FAIR WITH MILDEW AND WATER DAMAGE ON THE BACK." > >And there's a mandatory additional $5 for shipping. > >At first I thought it might be a prank auction, to see how silly eBay >buyers can be, but then I checked the seller's 36 other auctions. > >http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=kenman32&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25 > >EVERY record is described as "RARE" (to be fair, there is a Bacharach >Baroque (with more water/mildew damage)) and all that I checked were in >similarly shabby condition. It's like a box of abused garage sale records, >but at a minimum of $5.25 each! So far, sanity is prevailling with no bids >on anything. Except... a 1 dollar bid on The Monkees first album, >condition described thus: "RECORD IS FAIR WITH MUCH SCRATCHING. COVER IS >GOOD, BUT IS SEPERATED ON TWO SIDES." Yeah, now there's a buy at $6. I'll >leave it to Nat to figure the additional costs for Canadian buyers. > >sheesh, # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "RARE" Whipped Cream (was: experimental lounge Date: 19 Apr 2001 21:23:23 -0400 >Is it the case that there are some people who are >neither very bright nor very scrupulous on E-Bay? I >implore you, say it ain't so.... Well, I wouldn't call it unscrupulous (being charitable and leaving aside the overuse of "RARE") -- the seller is detrimentally honest about the condition of the records and covers. And the shipping charge is there in big ol' CAPITAL LETTERS along with everything else. It's just a remarkably, er, optimistic batch of postings. I still half wonder if it isn't an experiment in buyer behavior. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obits] Jeanette Salvant Kimball, Alfred Moen, Giacomo Date: 19 Apr 2001 22:14:56 -0400 Jeanette Salvant Kimball http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=3Damg&sql=3DBxc7uak8kgm3k http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&q=3D%22Jeanette+Salvan= t%22 New Orleans pianist who played Dixieland jazz with key bands for 70 years Peter Vacher Friday April 20, 2001 The Guardian Early jazz bands in New Orleans would often select women pianists to play for them during the music's formative years. A skilled reader who could provide the correct harmonic foundation for the other (male) instrumentalists, yet still be clearly heard, was a definite asset. Jeanette Kimball, who has died aged 94, fitted this description perfectly, her excellent musicianship and solo capability kick-starting a remarkable career, which spanned 70 years and took in some of the formative names of the New Orleans circuit. Jeanette Salvant was born in Pass Christian, a small town near New Orleans, into a family with strong French Creole ties. She took piano lessons at the age of seven, and played in church and at school events. She said later that she "lived at the piano - my teacher couldn't keep me in lessons". Classically trained yet adept at improvisation, when she was only 11 she was teaching other children and adults. She went on to perform professionally at weekends with a local string band, but was drawn to jazz when she heard visiting groups from New Orleans in the streets of her home town. In 1926, she joined Celestin's Tuxedo Orchestra (so-called because its members always wore evening dress), travelling throughout the Southern states, playing prestigious white dance jobs and carnival balls. The orchestra's style secured it a position as a "society" orchestra suited to "polite" occasions - worlds away from the rough-and-ready jazz bands who performed in the Crescent City's dives and clubs. Celestin specialised in well-structured arrangements, clean execution and a danceable beat, with room for "hot" solo extemporisations. Commended for her "ladylike presence", the demure Salvant thought it all "wonderful". She stayed on when Celestin turned his nine-piece into a touring big band, participating effectively in the band's recordings. In 1929, she met and married the banjoist and guitarist Narvin Kimball while both were playing with Celestin, and in 1935 came off the road to raise her daughters. When the marriage foundered, she retained her married name, devoting herself to her family and to her continuing musical career. At home in New Orleans, she began to teach again and then moved into local club work in the mid-1940s, playing at the Dew Drop Inn with the Buddy Charles band, which often included trumpeter Dave Bartholomew, best known as the musical mentor of bluesman Fats Domino. She was also hired to play with the city's best big bands, run by trumpeters Herb Leary and Sidney Desvignes, and commenced a long association with the Holy Ghost Catholic Church as organist and choir director. When the traditional jazz revival got under way in the 1950s, Papa Celestin re-emerged to head a popular jazz group (still called the Tuxedo Band although the dress code had changed) and Jeanette Kimball was reunited with her old leader. She continued to play Dixieland jazz throughout the ensuing decades, staying with Celestin's unit and its successor, run by Papa French, before playing for the tourists with the famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band. In her latter years, she was a member of expatriate British trumpeter Clive Wilson's Original Camellia Jazz Band, and recorded reward ingly for his New Orleans label. "Her style of syncopation would really drive the band," Wilson said. In 1998, she was given the Black Men of Labor Jazz Legacy Award. Prompted by her daughters, she left New Orleans for good in the late 1990s, sharing her time with them in Ohio and South Carolina. She is survived by her former husband, her daughters and their extended families. =95 Jeanette Salvant Kimball, jazz pianist, born December 18 1906; died= March 29 2001 ----------- CLEVELAND (AP) - Alfred Moen, whose invention of a single-handle faucet led to the creation of Moen Inc., one of the world's largest producers of plumbing products, has died. He was 86. Moen came up with the idea for a single-handle faucet in 1937 after he turned on a two-handle faucet and burned his hands. Moen sold the first single-handle faucets in 1947. Today more than 70 percent of kitchen faucets sold in the United States are single-handle, according to the company. Moen held more than 75 patents and headed the company's research and development group until his retirement in 1982. "Al Moen was a giant in the plumbing industry. The conveniences many of us enjoy in our homes today came from the ideas of this gentle, inventive man," said Bruce Carbonari, Moen's chairman and chief executive officer. --- http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Giacomo+Gentilomo%22 http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=3Davg&sql=3DB91278 Tuesday, April 17, 2001 From today's L.A. Times -- Director Giacomo Gentilomo Dies ROME--Italian director Giacomo Gentilomo, who made a series of popular=20 sword-and-sandal movies in the 1950s and 1960s, has died in Rome at age 92. He died Monday, his family said. His movies include the 1961 "Goliath and the Island of Vampires," and the= =20 1964 "Hercules Against the Moon Men," featuring the lead character in a=20 fight=20 against lunar monsters holding human captives. Born in the northeastern city of Trieste, Gentilomo was a movie critic,=20 screenwriter and assistant director before making his first feature film,=20 "Rome Symphonies," in 1937. Ten years later, he directed an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The=20 Brothers Karamazov." He also made "Young Caruso," starring Gina Lollobrigida= =20 and "The Accusation" with Marcello Mastroianni. In 1964, he quit cinema to= =20 devote himself to painting. A funeral was held Tuesday. =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: "F. Cobalt" Subject: Re: (exotica) "RARE" Whipped Cream Date: 19 Apr 2001 21:22:35 -0700 I like when people try to sell dime-a-dozen thrift store records on eBay as though they had discovered something utterly precious that thousands of people are looking for. I think more than anything the people that do this, the people that offer up "rare" dime-a-dozen copies of Sound of Music or Around the World in 80 Days or A Star is Born, simply haven't done any sort of homework and have no clue. How could anyone who has spent any time in thrifts or flea markets or garage sales NOT know that Whipped Cream and Other Delights could probably be found in 9 out of 10 thrifts? That it's one of the more hated albums just because of its omnipresence (though it's certainly not a bad album) in used bins? That even in stellar mint condition it's still not going to be worth more than say, what, a few dollars? Every time I run across an eBay seller offering up a "rare" copy of the dread Sound of Music soundtrack, I want to send an email to them and say, Look, this isn't rare by any stret ch of the imagination! Sometimes, for entirely personal reasons, when "browsing" through soundtracks on eBay, I wish there was a way for certain LPs to be banned from sale, simply to save time for both the buyers and sellers. I'm talking the top level dime-a-dozen old LPs that people can't send to the trash heaps fast enough. Okay, rant finished. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Roger Nichols, Gimmicks (was Third Wave, sweet pop) Date: 20 Apr 2001 00:48:06 -0400 (EDT) >Thanks for any comments on these Hi, happy to weigh in on these: -Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends -- Complete I think this is excellent; I picked it up recently after someone mentioned it in passing on this list a very long time ago. It's a lovely mix of late 60s pop vocals with something subtley magical about them. Some people might recognize the opener 'Don't take your time' from the 'a new light' album by The Match, also mentioned on this list. There are some really glorious and uplifting summer pop songs here - 'love so fine' and 'just beyond your smile' are the stompingly great standouts. Also great are the covers of the beatles 'I'll be back', bacharach's 'don't go breaking my heart' and Carole King's 'Snow Queen'. My only complaints are 1) There are 19 tracks, and 4 or 5 of these are alternate versions. I want more! (alas I don't think there is any more) and 2) some of the material they chose isn't really to my taste - I guess I've just heard 'with a little help with my friends' and 'cocoanut grove' too many times. basichip, from what I know of your taste, this may not be for you. I say this just because the appeal is quite subtle, and if you're not generally into sunshine pop/A&M this might sound rather ordinary. But I'd highly recommend it to fans of spanky & our gang, mamas and papas; even free design. The Gimmicks - I have this one too compilation CD. It's pretty good, but I think I know what Brad meant when he described them as a Brasil 66 ripoff group. On this CD, their best songs are the brasil 66 ripoffs; the other ones tend to be later 70s funky things which appeal to me less. I heard a track from a mojo club compliation by them - 'california soul' which was very cool though. I bought this and a few other Swedish CDs from www.skivhugget.se, which I highly recommend. They were friendly, the 3 CDs came in about 5 days, and cost around 20 USD altogether, including shipping. I'm slowly compiling a list of reliable international CD sellers, and would welcome any input on this. So far the loser for me was amazon.de, who took 2 months to send me something. Dustygroove are pretty cool - they will stock stuff just because you ask them to, it seems, which is nice. cheers, Jonny post/view song recommendations: http://www.musicaltaste.net Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: Re: (exotica) Napster/AOL Date: 20 Apr 2001 09:58:42 -0400 HOUSEOBOB@aol.com > Is anyone else having problems using napster through AOL ? > Everytime I try to download something I get cut off. I could say serves you right for using AOL, a service I have next to no use for, but I suppose people must use this service or it wouldn't be out there. But I discovered something myself this week on a very much related subject. Our own University backbone system was recently ugraded to T3 speed using a new type of high speed "intelligent"switch, instead of the old router/hub system. We were told these swithches were "intelligent" but had no idea just how intelligent... As of very recently, they have been programmed to impede the download of certain file types (Mp3 is at the top of the list) and rather than stop them completely, it slows down the transfer to near 56K modem speed so as to make it slow enough to discourage anyone from using it. With the already congested Napater servers, this results in almost certain time outs and makes it almost impossible to download anything. Anyone running though a business or institutional connection should be aware that this may happen to you too! I wouldn't put it at all past AOL to do the same in order to keep their own system from congesting. Granted its a bit harder with non-fixed IP adresses but how would you ever know this was happening? Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada Ph: (514) 398-4411 Fax: (514) 398-7358 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 20 Apr 2001 07:19:04 -0700 (PDT) I believe I have enough Whipped Creams to cover a wall in the guest bedroom. I really plan on doing this. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to attach the covers to the wall? Tacks? Tape? I kind hate to tack through a cover. Thanks for any help Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- "F. Cobalt" wrote: > > and have no clue. How could anyone who has spent any time in > > thrifts or flea markets or garage sales NOT know that Whipped > > Cream and Other Delights could probably be found in 9 out of 10 > > thrifts? That it's one of the more hated albums just because of __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 20 Apr 2001 15:28:39 +0100 I believe I have enough Whipped Creams to cover a wall in the guest bedroom. I really plan on doing this. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to attach the covers to the wall? Tacks? Tape? I kind hate to tack through a cover. Cut off the fronts and paste them up as you would with wallpaper. There is a massive supply of covers so you don't even need to worry about destroying them. Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hiroshi Teshigahara Date: 20 Apr 2001 11:13:58 -0400 April 20, 2001 http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B113890 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hiroshi+Teshigahara%22 Hiroshi Teshigahara, Avant-Garde Japanese Film Director, Dies at 74 By CALVIN SIMS TOKYO -- Hiroshi Teshigahara, a celebrated Japanese filmmaker and grand master of the Sogetsu School for flower arrangement, died on Saturday at a hospital here. He was 74. The cause was leukemia, his family said. Mr. Teshigahara, who gained international acclaim for his avant- garde films and artwork, sent shock waves through the world of cinema in 1964 with the release of "Suna no Onna" ("Woman in the Dunes"), a haunting, poetic and timeless metaphor made in Japan. The film, written by Kobo Abe and based on a novel by him, won a special award at the Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for best director and best picture. Noted for its technical brilliance, originality and power, the film featured a city-bred entomologist who is tricked into living with a widow whose shack rests at the bottom of a deep, inescapable sand pit, where he is forced to shovel sand endlessly. The detainee finds entrapment and escape into his ultimate destiny. Mr. Teshigahara became interested in Surrealism and the avant-garde as an art student in the 1940's. In 1962 he made his first feature film, "Otoshiana" ("Pitfall"), also written by Abe. The director established his own production company and went on to make a series of films, often with Abe. In addition to "Woman in the Dunes," his films included "Tanin no Kao" ("The Face of Another") in 1966 and "Moetsukita Chizu" ("The Ruined Map") in 1968. In the late 1960's Mr. Teshigahara was the toast of the international film community, appearing at festivals, collecting awards and promoting Japanese film. After releasing "Natsu no Heitai" ("Summer Soldiers") in 1972, Mr. Teshigahara withdrew from feature filmmaking and turned his attention to ceramics and experimental cinema. The director was the son of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, who was a leading figure in the movement that transformed traditional flower arrangement into a highly expressive art form. In 1980, after the death of his father and his sister, Mr. Teshigahara became the third head of the school, which reports 50,000 licensed followers and 450,000 students. After a 17-year hiatus, Mr. Teshigahara returned to films in 1989 with "Rikyu," about the subtle conflict between a petty warlord and a distinguished master of the ancient art of the tea ceremony. It won the award for best artistic contribution at the Montreal World Film Festival. His last film was "Goh-hime" ("Basara: The Princess Goh") in 1992. He is survived by his wife, Toshiko Kobayashi, a former actress, and two daughters. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) 6tz Quebec Date: 20 Apr 2001 08:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Here are a couple of links with photos and information a few on this list might appreciate. Great and, in the States at least, sadly neglected bands: http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy/jaguars.htm http://www.oricom.ca/jgagne/index.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: susanna Subject: (exotica) new motion reviews 20/04/01 Date: 20 Apr 2001 18:03:08 +0100 hi all latest reviews up on motion and a couple of plugs ----+ new reviews ---+ http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/ Songs:Ohia - Ghost Tropic, Secretly Canadian Christina Rosenvinge - FrozenPool, Smells Like Records Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus, Domino Various Artists - Soul Ecstasy (OST), Emperor Norton Lolita Storm - Sick Slits, Digital Hardcore Recordings T Power - Long Time Dead, Botchit and Scarper Future Pilot AKA - tiny waves, mighty sea, geographic Pulseprogramming - Pulseprogramming, Aesthetics Various Artists - Plastic Surgery 2, Hospital Records ----+ couple of plugs ---+ motion is supporting an event with 4ad and domino recordings featuring live performances by magnetophone and fizzarum. more info here: http://motion.state51.co.uk/features/spitznight/ also, we have a pair of tickets to give away to see arto lindsay and vinicius cantuaria at the barbican, london, on 6 may as part of their urban beats series. more info here: http://motion.state51.co.uk/features/urbanbeats/ thanks, and apologies for cross-postings susanna glaser -----+ motion http://motion.state51.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: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) "Hawaiianette" Date: 20 Apr 2001 14:17:34 -0400 Annette Funicello "Hawaiianette" (Buena Vista Records) I know there are at least a couple of parties on the list that like this one. Hawaiian-themed lightweight pop from the early 60s (or thereabouts?). Endearingly silly lyrics, and overall a pleasurably benign warmth. Songs that struck me: "Hawaiianette", "Pineapple Princess", "Hukilau", "(Every Night Is) Date Night In Hawaii", "Blue Muu Muu", "Luau Cha Cha Cha" (amusing Prado swipes), a nifty version of "My Little Grass Shack" (a couple of years ago, a clueless cd reviewer would have called it a swing version). With The Afterbeats plus Four, music directed by CAMARATA, several songs by the Sherman brothers. Any educated guesses on who the session players might have been? Plenty of steel guitar. The inner sleeve includes a coupon to order "3 Annette Records only $1.00 (reg. $2.94 value)". An earlier owner checked off "Lonely Guitar"/"Love Me Forever", "First Name Initial"/"My Heart Became Of Age" and "Tall Paul"/"Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me". But they never sent it in. I'd like to order "That Crazy Place From Outer Space"! Did Sun Ra cop "Space Is The Place" from Annette?!? But seriously, anyone heard that one? thanks, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) Napster/AOL Date: 20 Apr 2001 15:12:43 -0400 >Our own University backbone system >was recently ugraded to T3 speed using a new type of high speed >"intelligent"switch, instead of the old router/hub system. We were >told these swithches were "intelligent" but had no idea just how >intelligent... As of very recently, they have been programmed to >impede the download of certain file types (Mp3 is at the top of the >list) and rather than stop them completely, it slows down the >transfer to near 56K modem speed so as to make it slow enough to >discourage anyone from using it. And that's how net censorship will probably be implemented... upstream filtering. --x.xxx # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: (exotica) paul mauriat question Date: 20 Apr 2001 15:40:13 EDT Does anyone know which Paul Mauriat album has his version of Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez? -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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) "RARE" Whipped Cream Date: 20 Apr 2001 16:07:36 -0400 At 09:22 PM 4/19/01 -0700, F. Cobalt wrote: > >I like when people try to sell dime-a-dozen thrift store records on eBay as though they had discovered something utterly precious that thousands of people are looking for. This really shouldn't surprise anyone. If you weren't on this list or really making an effort to keep in touch with other "collectors", you could easily believe that you were the only person in the world who owned this record or still liked that one. I know I've had the experience of finding a record and feeling like that was the only copy in town and now I had it. I still think with certain artists who I must be their only fan and that's simply because I've never heard anyone else mention them. I recently joined and then quit a mailing list. I won't mention it because I know at least one person here who is also on it. This is one of those lists dedicated to a single artist. I joined because I assumed it was more like this list. I thought it was sort of about that artist but also about that kind of music in general. Wrong. Anyway I couldn't believe how many people knew and cared so much about one artist. I obviously like this particular artist but I couldn't believe anyone could like them that much. I think this was an analogous kind of ignorance on my part. I certainly never thought I was the world's expert on this artist just because I have ten or twelve of their records. But on the other hand, when you have ten or twelve records by the same artist, you do tend to think that you're up there. Wrong! Ten is nothing. I've met a lot of "isolated" people who have no idea there are other people who know something about the records they collect. It's a fantasy but it's an understandable one. As we speak I'm making a CDR with all these long cuts on Sandy Nelson records.where he would feature his surprisingly mediocre drumming. I like his records in spite of these cuts but it's kind of fun to string them all together like this. I think I'm the only person in the world who owns a CDR like this. It's an understandable assumption I think. But the folks on Sandy Nelson mailing list right now are laughing their heads off. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 20 Apr 2001 16:22:40 -0400 At 07:19 AM 4/20/01 -0700, chuck wrote: > >I believe I have enough Whipped Creams to cover a wall in the >guest bedroom. I really plan on doing this. Does anyone have a >suggestion on how to attach the covers to the wall? Tacks? Tape? >I kind hate to tack through a cover. What do you mean you BELIEVE you have enough covers? Come on Chuck, you've been threatening to do this for years. I have to admit I think it would be somewhat more interesting to have a few of those Whipped Cream ripoff covers mixed in with the real thing. If you own the house you live in, I would suggest you put them up with wallpaper paste or some other industrial strength adherent. If not here's an alternative. There are these newfangled paper clip alternatives. What do you call them? Damn Alzheimers! You pinch them together and put them around the thing you want and then you let them go and they hold on tight to your nipples... I mean your papers. Anyway, if you put one on a record cover and put a tiny nail in the wall, then you can hang the cover on the the part of the clip you hold when you pinch it together. Is that technical enough for you? AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 20 Apr 2001 13:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Alan My thrifted records that don't rank a must here now are all over the place in 2 rooms in my house and some book shelfs. The whipped creams are mixed in randomly. I believe I have enough since I have thrifted more over the last year. Beleive it or not Whipped Cream got kinda scarce down here, you only saw one a month. Its the invasion of the 80s music in the thrifts down here these days. Have other exoticats experienced less whipped creams this year? Are these clips you are describing black metal with silver handles? --- alan zweig wrote: > What do you mean you BELIEVE you have enough covers? > Is that technical enough for you? > > AZ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) cartoon (was Whipped Creaming a Wall) Date: 20 Apr 2001 17:51:44 -0400 At 01:40 PM 04/20/2001, you wrote: >Alan Argh! Speaking of filtering, Xmission is locking a post out again. Running out of timeliness on the first half of it. I'll try sneaking that info in like this. Kinda fun new cartoon on Nickelodeon, Friday nights at 9:00pm (eastern): "Invader Zim" -- pipsqueak alien prepares earth for mass invasion. Angular designs, overblown 50s sci-fi style music. First set-up episode was a hoot, haven't caught enough following episodes to know if they're maintaining standard. Give it a try. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) fwd: Aneurysm Brings on Musical Hallucinations Date: 20 Apr 2001 17:53:46 -0400 April 20, 2001 Aneurysm Brings on Musical Hallucinations By REUTERS Filed at 5:25 p.m. ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bulging blood vessels in the brain of a 61-year-old woman caused seizures that in turn brought on complex musical hallucinations, including Christmas songs during December and tunes with religious overtones at other times. Fixing the two bulges, or aneurysms, ended the woman's hallucinations, Dr. Daniel L. Roberts and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, report in the April issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The woman had an isolated seizure of an unknown cause 27 years previously. She had been suffering dizzy spells for two years, and the musical hallucinations for one year, when she sought medical attention. While in the hospital with pneumonia, the woman began having ringing in her ears; the ringing progressed into persistent episodes of music that she recognized but could not control. The researchers emphasize that the sounds the woman reported hearing were not merely disjointed tones, ringing or even rhythmically complex repetitions of noises but rather fully composed songs. The doctors ran repeated tests using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment to identify the source of the hallucinations. They found two aneurysms on the right side of the woman's brain. Neither had yet burst, a potentially life-threatening situation in which uncontrolled bleeding occurs in the brain. The patient underwent surgery to clip and remove the aneurysms, after which the hallucinations stopped completely. Roberts and his team concluded that the patient was a very rare example of someone who had experienced ``psychic seizures''--seizures that strongly involve a person's memory and emotions and tend to occur almost exclusively in the temporal lobes of the brain. The researchers noted that the woman was a prime example of this psychic interplay, in that she had specifically hallucinated music she had learned at a very young age that had either religious or seasonal connotations. These seizures occur frequently, and can be extremely difficult to diagnose, they note. They cautioned that auditory hallucinations in general can be attributed to a wide range of sources, including inner ear disease or psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia. SOURCE: Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2001;76:423-426. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) cartoon, two (was Whipped Creaming a Wall) Date: 20 Apr 2001 18:16:06 -0400 At 01:40 PM 04/20/2001, you wrote: >Alan Monkees movie Head Monkees movie Head Monkees movie Head This half of the message is being more troublesome. "Sheep In The Big City" airs irregularly on Cartoon Network. This Sunday night at 7:00pm (eastern) they are running a 3 hour block of six episodes. Reminds me a bit of Rocky & Bullwinkle, with casual looking art and more wordplay than a message from Brian Phillips. Plus, some rather now sound music in the soundtrack. I find the whole thing has a bit of a late sixties feel to it. Now if only someone would animate Gary Panter's "Jimbo" epics. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Rupert Nurse, John Stoneman Date: 20 Apr 2001 18:22:23 -0400 Rupert Nurse The first musician to write big band arrangements of calypso Wednesday April 18, 2001 The Guardian Many British jazz fans in the 1950s had their first introduction to world music through the calypsos of Lord Kitchener, which appeared on the distinctive mauve-and-yellow Melodisc record label. These slice-of-life snapshots provided witty commentary on the circumstances of the new Caribbean arrivants, and through his inventive musical arrangements for these songs, Rupert Nurse, who has died aged 90, lifted them from their traditional community function and transplanted them into the modern world. Full obit at http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,474375,00.html --------- Stoneman Family band member dies John Stoneman, 77, had traded his full-time singing vocation for farming in recent years. John Stoneman, 77, one of the original members of the old-time band formed by country music pioneer Ernest ''Pop'' Stoneman, died yesterday morning at his home in Jonesville, Va. Full obit at http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04344307.shtml?Element_ID=4344307 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Whip It! Date: 20 Apr 2001 19:02:15 -0400 As long as we're talking about Whipped Cream and Other Delights being used for, um, "nontraditional" purposes, be sure to check out the Whip It! car. http://www.deuceofclubs.com/art_car/0_intro/main.htm Dave aka Gannet # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kiliki@mindspring.com Subject: (exotica) new orleans fun Date: 20 Apr 2001 20:02:43 -0400 Hey everyone!! Just got my tickets to Teaseorama 2001 in New Orleans and I need some help! I'm trying to find some hair salons in New Orleans that could do some 40's and 50's hairstyles. I want to look extra special for the event so help me out!!!! Email me directly! Kiliki # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) "RARE" Whipped Cream Date: 20 Apr 2001 20:11:37 EDT In a message dated 4/20/1 3:05:50 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >But the folks on Sandy Nelson mailing list right now are laughing their >heads off. all three of 'em # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 20 Apr 2001 17:48:41 -0700 on 4/20/01 13:22, alan zweig at azed@pathcom.com wrote: > > At 07:19 AM 4/20/01 -0700, chuck wrote: >> >> I believe I have enough Whipped Creams to cover a wall in the >> guest bedroom. I really plan on doing this. Does anyone have a >> suggestion on how to attach the covers to the wall? Tacks? Tape? >> I kind hate to tack through a cover. hell, I'd just get out the ol' staple gun. It works and its fun. christine # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: Re (exotica) A good day at the record store! more French and Mambo Date: 21 Apr 2001 03:00:46 +0200 (MEST) Brian wrote: >Its not the first series of vinyl only comps to come from France. Two others >worth looking out for are the three volumes of "Ils sont fous ces gauloises" >and two volumes of "Swingin' mademoiselles", all vinyl only and all limited >pressings. I'm not sure if all of them are even available anymore as I >couldn't find a copy of "Ils sont fous... - vol"1 even in Paris. "Ils sont fous ces gauloises" was the first comp with obscure french 60s stuff that came out about ca. 6 or 8 years ago (I can't remember exactly) and is long gone. Vol 3 is still available. About vol 2 I don't know. Wasn't the "Sexopolis" (Fantomas Rec. 1997) Comp also a Vinyl only ? Anyway, there is another great French Comp out (CD and Vinyl ) called: "WIZZZ" on Musiques Hybrides, France 2001 Just 3 track where before on other comps, and two of em where before on Ultra Chicks 1 have here a MUCH BETTER sound. Especially Christie Laume's Rouge Rouge sounds like a different and better recording (imo a fantastic beat fuzz orchestra pop a go go tune). It has a great big booklet that I can't read. There is a note on the booklet, that there is an english translation under www.musiques-hybrides.com but at my last visit I could not find it. Maybe it is now there. Another great re that just came out: Bobby Montez Quintet "Jungle Fantasique" re on Cubop, note (from CuBop): Jungle Fantastique is one of the greatest Latin jazz records ever recorded. Originally rel. In 1958, the orig. pressings were of poor sound quality, nonetheless it has become a highly sought after record by collectors, club DJs and rare groove fans alike. CuBop has lovingly remastered the album for the first time from the original master tapes. My (short) comment is: great Vibe and Piano loaded Mambo, with some good Up Tempo as well as good Moody cuts on it (with names like African Fantasy or Kon-Tiki). The Up Tempo Tracks reminds me on Bobby Matos "Mambo Maxims" (that is on a comp. called "Rare Essence, a funky fusion of jazz, latin & soul, vol 1" on rare essence records US 1994) that maybe was recorded in the 60s (???) and has a better production and is still a hot dancefloor club track. Definitly *Jungle Mambo*. I did buy "Jungle Fantasique" mostly because I do want have more stuff like "Mambo Maxims" but I am still not sure if the tracks from "Jungle Fantasique" will also explode in a club like "Mambo Maxims" (but I will check it out) Anyway, can someone who knows "Mambo Maxims" recommend me more Mambo like that ? (with lot's of flutes, vibes and groovy percussions) Martin -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: "cheryl" Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 22 Date: 20 Apr 2001 23:55:24 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #139 Spring Songs Well, spring is finally here, and we were in the mood to play some light-hearted music to celebrate. Tipsy: Hey! "Uh-Oh" (thanks, BR) Fantastic Plastic Machine: One Minute Of Love "Beautiful" De Phazz: Nu Chic "Death By Chocolate" Fantastic Plastic Machine: Lupin The Third (FPM Reconstruction Mix) "Punch The Monkey! Lupin The Third Remixes And Covers 3" (thanks, William) Arling And Cameron: Fun Shopping "Sound Shopping" (thanks again, BR) Stereo de Luxe: Initials BB Tipsy: Moisture Seekers "Uh-Oh" Minus 8: Elysian Fields "Glucklich 4" (thanks, Chuck) Ken Nordine: Hello "A Transparent Mask" (and thanks yet again, BR!!) Exoteric: Sabotage "Disorientation" (a brief note about this one - it's Exotica's very own m.ace, and it's highly impressive! Thanks, Mike!) Ready Made: Transcontinental "Glucklich 4" Fantastic Plastic Machine: Paragon "Beautiful" Yasuharu Konishi: Lupin The Third (Readymade Oh!Oh! Mix) "Lupin The Third - 30th Anniversary Remixes" Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening 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: Sem Sinatra Subject: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 21 Apr 2001 13:15:00 +0900 Folks If you're able to I implore you to listen to what I think will be the last week of Luxuria http://www.luxuriamusic.com. I've only been listening for the last couple of days and I've heard some fantastic fantastic music. I hooked up my MD to my computer at work and recorded a few hours and got a pretty good signal. Very sad it's having to close. Any news on that? And if any lister has playlists for the last few days, I'd love a copy. I've heard some great music but not had time to keep track of titles. Whose was that lunatic version of Purple Haze in Japanese? Whatever you do this week, remember to listen!! 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: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 21 Apr 2001 04:33:23 EDT K-Mart has a few commercials our touting the return of the Blue Light Special. One has helicopters circling the Statue of Liberty (which is now holding a blue torch) and some cool music is played in the background. It is very similar to the Popcorn song. Can anybody identify the song? Thanks, Tiki Bob # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ashleywarren1@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 21 Apr 2001 10:57:26 EDT The reason why the whipped cream covers are now scarce are because you guys are buying them all for your walls!!! 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) "RARE" Whipped Cream Date: 21 Apr 2001 15:04:14 -0400 At 06:12 AM 4/21/01 -0500, robert blahut wrote: .> >oh alan, i guess you have never driven cross country with a bunch of >dead-heads - - or for that matter been in a dead show parking lot, or >over to some of my dead-head friends' houses for "taper" parties > >>Ten is nothing. . I guess the point is that you can be familiar with the principle and still be shocked to find out how far it extends. I knew about the Dead; I knew about the Allman Brothers; I've interviewed people dedicated to everyone from Marc Bolan to Jack Teagarden. But I was still surprised to find a high volume active list dedicated to the Ventures and nothing but the Ventures. . I suppose everytime you pick up any record, you could assume that this organ player or that warbler has a bunch of dedicated fans. But that would just be perverse. Short of doing that, eventually you would dismiss an artist who someone somewhere collected. I was surprised to find out that people collect bird whistle records. There's one on this list. Don't look at him! I sold a ten inch record to a guy for $130 US. I have a feeling I'll never make more money on a record. And this was a record that I could take to every single record store in this city and I'd still have to pay them to take it. I'm sure a couple of people on this list would have given me five bucks for it. But who knew it was "collectible"? At some point, it's human nature to question or deny that which you can't see. Even us worldly collectors have blind spots. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Walter O. Stanton Date: 21 Apr 2001 15:54:47 -0400 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) [obit] Walter O. Stanton (2nd try) Date: 21 Apr 2001 15:59:07 -0400 Walter O. Stanton, the inventor of an easily replaceable phonograph stylus that was crucial to creating a consumer market for audio equipment, died on Monday, April 16, 2001, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 86. In the late 1940's Mr. Stanton's slide-in stylus made it possible for users to replace a needle assembly when it wore out, instead of having to send it back to the factory. Audiophiles snapped them up for home use, and the invention became one of the basics in phonograph cartridge design. But Mr. Stanton was as much a salesman as he was an engineer. In 1950, he bought Pickering & Company, the audio component manufacturer that first sold his patented stylus. A decade later he founded another company, Stanton Magnetics, which was one of the first American companies to make and sell magnetic cartridges that improved sound quality and allowed for a less-expensive product in the 1970's. Both companies had operations in Plainview, N.Y., and West Palm Beach, Fla. Rather than selling the phonograph as one big console, Mr. Stanton was one of the first to separate the electronics, the turntable and the cartridges and sell them separately to consumers. To do that effectively, he prodded the major manufacturers to arrive at standards for the mounting systems for cartridges and the type of recording on vinyl records. He served as president of the Audio Engineering Society and was inducted into the Audio Hall of Fame, family members said. In his effort to broaden the market for audio components, Mr. Stanton helped found the Institute of High Fidelity, whose annual trade shows in Manhattan attracted crowds of gadget lovers. In 1967, complaining that too many homeowners still thought of audio equipment as "assorted pieces of gear lying about connected by all kinds of wires," he set up five rooms at the New York National Design Center to illustrate how music could be integrated into home d=E9cor. Mr. Stanton was born in Canton, Ohio, and graduated from Wayne State University's School of Electrical Engineering in 1939. While there, he set up one of the first student radio stations in the country. During World War II, Mr. Stanton was involved in the design and creation of mechanisms for aerospace applications. Mr. Stanton was known for holding outings on his boat near his longtime home in Laurel Hollow, N.Y., and playing jokes on employees. He ran both of his companies until retiring in 1998, having forged new business in the compact disc era by selling headphones and speakers and having fostered the resurgence of the disc jockey market for his cartridges. ---------- http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/music/music-mcevoy042101.shtml ------------ GoodBye!, the Journal of Contemporary Obituaries, has been updated to reflect the deaths of January to March of 2001. Among the obits you can savor at Goodbye's website are: Morris Lapidus - Architect of the American Dream Glenn Hughes of the Village People - Who Warbled a Merry Lay Sir Donald Bradman - Greatest Cricket Batsman Xenakis - Modern Composer O. Winston Lin - Photographer of Trains Plus all the mayhem and animnal deaths, as usual To view GoodBye! on the web, point your browser to: http://www.goodbyemag.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: Nacar cd-r's Date: 21 Apr 2001 19:13:30 +0200 >Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:45:09 EST >From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com > >i use >some that are great then a batch is bad (rarely)...... >Anyone had similar experiences??? yes, with Lead Data. i don't buy them anymore. j # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Craig Carlson Subject: Re: (exotica) Napster/AOL Date: 22 Apr 2001 23:28:57 -0400 Brian Karasick Physical Planner wrote: *snip* >"intelligent"switch, instead of the old router/hub system. We were >told these swithches were "intelligent" but had no idea just how >intelligent... As of very recently, they have been programmed to >impede the download of certain file types (Mp3 is at the top of the >list) and rather than stop them completely, it slows down the >transfer to near 56K modem speed so as to make it slow enough to >discourage anyone from using it. Damn! Does that mean I should give up on my pathetic 45,333 bps (at best) connection? What about the hundreds of songs I've dl'ed from usenet in the past three years? And I thought patience was a virtue...! Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Big Eyed people on London Records Date: 23 Apr 2001 11:46:29 -0700 Anyone ever run into one of those big eyed people album covers on London (or Richmond) records? Edmundo Ros, Stanley Black, Mantovani and maybe others had their album art done by someone called demilis or demilio. They were quite colorful and every person depicted had disproportionately big eyes. I have several of these now and wish to learn more about the artist and just how many and which covers the artist did. London LL 1094 Mantovani Waltz Time London LL 1100 Stanley Black Carnival in the Sun London LL 1093 Edmundo Ros Latin Melodies London LL 1117 Edmundo Ros Ros Album of Sambas Richmond B 20021 Edmundo Ros Calypso Mania (probably from LL 1091) Richmond B 20032 Edmundo Ros Samba! (all cuts & art repeated from LL 1117) Byron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Colleen Pyles" Subject: Re: (exotica) Whipped Creaming a Wall Date: 23 Apr 2001 13:48:33 -0500 chuck wrote: I believe I have enough Whipped Creams to cover a wall in the guest bedroom. I really plan on doing this ******* Please, oh please, after you do this, take a picture and post it somewhere where we can see it. If not, when I come to N'awlins, Iam coming to your place as one of the "tours". It's gotta be right up there with the Haunted Woodoo Nighttime Cemetary Tours. Colleen _____________________________________ Get your free E-mail at http://www.ireland.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 23 Apr 2001 15:13:40 -0400 Okay, a few cool albums were located and rescued over the weekend. =20 A friend's boyfriend made the find of the month for me. He always checks = on tiki stuff and "bizarro" whatevers for me during his thrift forays. He = came back this time with a few records. The Kostelantz album with that = naked wahine next to the waterfall (Lure of Paradise I think is the = title?), Arthur Lymans' Hawaii album, Denny's A Taste of Honey (I have = these but it's cool he even bothered) and a "surprise LP" of Martin = Denny's Exotica II *Personalized and signed by Denny himself!!!* with the = year noted afterwards. Pretty cool. I also found a copy of More Peter Gunn in great shape the following day. - 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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 23 Apr 2001 16:27:05 -0400 now THAT is a find! just like me roommate finding a signed John Coltrane lp! congrats makes me wanna start rummaging again! a "surprise LP" of Martin Denny's Exotica II *Personalized and signed by Denny himself!!!* with the year noted afterwards. Pretty cool. >- Nate ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ buMp "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer "Electronic Mutations from Beyond" http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) So who does this sound like? Date: 23 Apr 2001 17:58:14 EDT A friend in an ad agency has posed this question to me regarding a client looking for some music to possibly use in a TV spot they're producing. His description of what he wants: "sort of acid-loungeish, like a Portishead-type sound with more of a 50s feel. Unusual, tinny, ambient, a little cynical with a slightly deranged twist. The music will be chosen for its weirdness and its suitability to play backwards and forwards throughout the spot with little discernable difference." So any ideas? Personally, I think the "Portishead" reference runs counter to "50s," but that's just me. Thanks! --Rod www.hitchmagazine.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 23 Apr 2001 16:43:51 -0700 <> There is a theremin track on that one! Skip around and listen for it. Am I not getting all my exotica messages? Or is it just a happenstance that everybody stops writing at once? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP finds..... Date: 23 Apr 2001 19:57:46 EDT In a message dated 4/23/1 3:32:07 PM, bump@defectiverecords.com wrote: >now THAT is a find! >just like me roommate finding a signed John Coltrane lp! >congrats >makes me wanna start rummaging again! > >> a "surprise LP" of Martin Denny's Exotica II *Personalized and signed by >>Denny himself!!!* with the year noted afterwards. Pretty cool. That reminds me of the need to now publicly thank Tiki Bob, my pal from here and from the Kahiki Klosing, who was kind enough to snag me a copy of "Quiet Village" autographed by Mr. Denny when Bob visited him in '99. Thanks Tiki Bob. It serves as a guardian for my Tiki salvaged from the Aku Aku, originally from the Boston Polynesian Village circa 1948. JB/thumpin' the chest a bit # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) So who does this sound like? Date: 23 Apr 2001 20:01:30 EDT In a message dated 4/23/1 4:59:17 PM, RLott@aol.com wrote: >A friend in an ad agency has posed this question to me regarding a client >looking for some music to possibly use in a TV spot they're producing. > >His description of what he wants: >"sort of acid-loungeish, like a Portishead-type sound with more of a 50s >feel. Unusual, tinny, ambient, a little cynical with a slightly deranged >twist. I would suggest Seksu Roba's "Cha Cha On The Moon"...I think it fits the bill nicely, but musical cynicism is only in the ear of the behearer...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: clayton black Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Eyed people on London Records Date: 24 Apr 2001 21:11:14 -0400 > > Richmond B 20021 Edmundo Ros Calypso Mania (probably from LL 1091) Yes, it looks like de milio, and LL 1091 has the art. I've always liked the art on this one myself. But the LL 1091 is entitled just "Calypsos," unless you go by the spine, which says "Ros Album of Calypsos." And, of course, a whole album of Edmundo singing. Until I saw this title on your list, however, I wasn't sure you were talking about art. I imagined photographs of big-eyed people trapped in giant number 4's. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Domenic Ciccone" Subject: Re: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 23 Apr 2001 21:45:46 -0400 > Folks > > If you're able to I implore you to listen to what I think will be the > last week of Luxuria http://www.luxuriamusic.com. > I've only been listening for the last couple of days and I've heard > some fantastic fantastic music. > I hooked up my MD to my computer at work and recorded a few hours and > got a pretty good signal. > Very sad it's having to close. > Any news on that? > And if any lister has playlists for the last few days, I'd love a > copy. I've heard some great music but not had time to keep track of > titles. Whose was that lunatic version of Purple Haze in Japanese? > Whatever you do this week, remember to listen!! > Sem Sinatra Luxuria is fantastic... Another thing about it is it's so *convenient* You can have it on all the time. Like any radio station. Unlike real audio files you don't have to go back and figure out where your left off. And the Chat room! Damm I'm going to miss it and all the wonderful people I've associated with there. We have our own mailing list now at: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic so we can keep in touch. Were going to have a lot of people going thru Luxuria withdrawal next week Anybody got a nice list of audio sites on the net? Maybe organized by days.. Mondays..Tuesdays... a list of audio on demand...so we can all jump around? Darrell's program and Mr. Odis are the obvious archived ones. The Linkquarium got lots of things mentioned but not by day. .Any decent 365 sites? I have heard a lot of great music. Good Luck Mill, Chuck and Eric on setting up Lux 2. And everyone! Jump on the bandwagon when it does. Domenic # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) So who does this sound like? Date: 23 Apr 2001 22:52:12 EDT Goldfrapp maybe ? I like them (her) better than Portishead. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 23 Apr 2001 20:52:51 -0700 <> Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to let my fellow listees that I've been running "broadcasts" on Live365 for a good six months now. My idea was to combine the music with a website that would allow the listener to view covers and other information, reviews, trivia, related pop culture, etc, etc. Once done, I was going to make my grand announcement. Then I found out what an incredible amount of work it is, especially when most of my material comes from vinyl or is the audio snatched from a video. On top of that, I am always struggling with starting one project before completing another, so all my "shows" are up in the air. I'm already reworking one before it ever was finished! I'm a basket case... here's what's up so far: THE TIME TUNNEL - Movie and TV soundtracks, trailers, radio spots, snack bar announcements, commecials This is the show being reworked, my pet project, my pride and joy. You'll hear everything from The Little Fugitive to Tom Terrific to a commercials for Hai Karate and Creepy Crawlers. Over five hours long - whew. Listen now by clicking here: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=basichip See the playlist and some covers here: http://www.basichip.com/live365/timetunnel/time_tunnel_playlist.htm CRIME TIME! Just like it sounds - the sounds of spies and private eyes. pretty familiar material to most of you, good stuff Listen now by clicking here: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=oddiotroniks See the playlist and some covers here: http://www.basichip.com/live365/crimetime/crime.htm Besides these, which are currently running there are: THE FAT MOOG - Thick, artery clogging chunks of vintage moog and electronics an all moog show (75 tracks from almost 75 different recordings) THE SOUND OF SITAR - Curried Pop and Raga Rock - an all pop sitar show ...and of course, more whistling and songs from our feathered friends than you could possibly stand. Now, here is the thing. Unless you have a DSL or Cable connection, the listening experience ain't too good. For Crime Time and The Time Tunnel, it's mandatory. You also can't jump around from track to track. Miss that Barbarella movie trailer? Stick around for five hours, it will loop around. Out of over 30,000 Live365 stations, it's hard to get noticed. So I don't get many listeners. Ya gotta advertise, or else nobody pays any attention. Even after I advertise, nobody may care. From what I've seen, soundtrack types would rather hear the great John Williams' score from Superman III ripped from a CD than to hear his score to "Checkmate" when he was Johnny Williams. But the people that have tuned in have been very generous with their praise. Have a listen if you can and please share your comments. Once I'm satisfied with the final product suggestions and / or advice to spread the word would be most appreciated. I'm pooped - over N out # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Rare groove reissues? Date: 24 Apr 2001 07:59:39 Anyone know the story with these? Are they well known rare groove? rob * Imaginary Visions - Drop your load b/w Imaginary Visions 7" ( Deep Funk/ UK ) £3.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - It's alright now ( inst ) b/w It's alright now 7"( Deep Funk / UK ) £3.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - Hot Dog b/w Drop it down 7" ( Deep Funk / UK ) £3.99 / e5.07 Each limited to 500 copies worldwide, these three 45's are the brainstorm of the legendary Mr. Deep Funk himself ; Keb Darge, and are the 2nd / 3rd & 4th vinyl releases on BBE's new sister label ( following on from a limited 12" that we could never get ). Definite dancefloor hipshakers if ever there were; loads of hard breaks and hammond organs to get those booties bangin' !! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: Charles Moseley Subject: RE: (exotica) Rare groove reissues? Date: 24 Apr 2001 09:59:12 +0100 * Imaginary Visions - Drop your load b/w Imaginary Visions 7" ( Deep Funk/ UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - It's alright now ( inst ) b/w It's alright now = 7"(=20 Deep Funk / UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - Hot Dog b/w Drop it down 7" ( Deep Funk / UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 These sound like new releases rather than reissues. And I for one don't = do new rare groove. So nyah! :-) Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 24 Apr 2001 08:17:24 EDT I am trying this one again. In a message dated 4/21/01 5:34:03 AM Atlantic Daylight Time, Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: << K-Mart has a few commercials our touting the return of the Blue Light Special. One has helicopters circling the Statue of Liberty (which is now holding a blue torch) and some cool music is played in the background. It is very similar to the Popcorn song. Can anybody identify the song? Thanks, Tiki Bob >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 24 Apr 2001 08:33:26 -0400 Theremin?? Whoa - I'll have to listen to that LP again and try to fight = my way through that dense jungle of stringed instruments....... >>> basic hip 04/23/01 07:43PM >>> <> There is a theremin track on that one! Skip around and listen for 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: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 24 Apr 2001 06:19:24 -0700 Nate: > < Paradise I think is the title>> > > There is a theremin track on that one! Skip around and listen for it. Well, I THINK it's a theremin - does not say so on the album, which is "Lure Of The Tropics" The track is Kashmiri Song. Here is a 719KB downloadable MP3 clip: http://www.basichip.com/sounds/tropics.mp3 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 24 Apr 2001 09:36:17 -0400 The tunes are great, but I can't get the search engine to come up with The Sound of Sitar. Any chance you could post the URL for that one as well? Clayton > > THE TIME TUNNEL - Movie and TV soundtracks, trailers, radio spots, snack bar > announcements, commecials > This is the show being reworked, my pet project, my pride and joy. You'll > hear everything from The Little Fugitive to Tom Terrific to a commercials > for Hai Karate and Creepy Crawlers. Over five hours long - whew. > > Listen now by clicking here: > http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=basichip > > See the playlist and some covers here: > http://www.basichip.com/live365/timetunnel/time_tunnel_playlist.htm > > CRIME TIME! Just like it sounds - the sounds of spies and private eyes. > pretty familiar material to most of you, good stuff > > Listen now by clicking here: > http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=oddiotroniks > > See the playlist and some covers here: > http://www.basichip.com/live365/crimetime/crime.htm > > Besides these, which are currently running there are: > > THE FAT MOOG - Thick, artery clogging chunks of vintage moog and electronics > an all moog show (75 tracks from almost 75 different recordings) > > THE SOUND OF SITAR - Curried Pop and Raga Rock - an all pop sitar show > > ...and of course, more whistling and songs from our feathered friends than > you could possibly stand. > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 24 Apr 2001 07:14:40 -0700 > The tunes are great, but I can't get the search engine to come up with The > Sound of Sitar. Any chance you could post the URL for that one as well? > > Clayton hey thanks! Becasue of the way Live365 is set up, one broadcaster can run only one show at a time. i have two accounts, so the maximum number of shows I can run is two. Running now are the two I mentioned last night. To switch, one has to be stopped, and the other started. I'll make the change in a couple of days and let you know. The Sound Of Sitar is a coded as 32kb files, so a DSL / Cable is not required. Of course, the sound quality drops. :( # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Quicksilver Arguments Date: 24 Apr 2001 07:58:51 -0700 (PDT) the eternal recurrence of the obsessed. --- bigshot wrote: > > exotica-digest wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 01:22:38 +0200 > >From: Moritz R > >Subject: Re: (exotica) Mo Misquote > > > >I actually believe, this was, what you > quintessentially said. > >If you see things in a more differentiated > >light now, the better. ......... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: (exotica) Howard Roberts Reissues Date: 24 Apr 2001 11:57:21 -0400 (EDT) Has anyone else seen these new Howard Roberts 2-on-1 reissues on Sundazed? They seem very cool. I bought one - 'jaunty/jolly'/'Guilty!', and it seems excellent - nice upbeat pop/bossa jazzguitar instros. There are a few great HR tracks in the Ultra Lounge series, and 2 or 3 or them seem to be taken from these albums. Are there any other particularly cool Howard Roberts albums I should hear? cheers, Jonny post/view song recommendations: http://www.musicaltaste.net Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.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: "William" Subject: (exotica) recent buys Date: 25 Apr 2001 00:21:56 +0800 hi all, well, some recent purchases. heaven/earth - the free design one by one - the free design ever since buying that first free design disc i feel somewhat compelled to buy up all their discs before they disappear here(only one shop carries a good selection of their releases here). i have yet to fully take in these two. but i was a bit surprised by one by one in that i am not sure i like it that much. i think it sounds different somehow than i was expecting it to. heaven/earth had the sound i was expecting. is one by one a later release? i love you alice b. toklas/kaleidoscope osts. chuck was raving about these awhile back and i have to agree with his raves. i am really enjoying these(got mine from jack diamond too). whenever i hear the alice b. toklas theme it really makes me want to see the movie again. melodies and mischeif(space age pop vol. 1) - v.a. my first post to the exoticalist was about this series of compialtions and now i finally have all three. i think these three rca comps are actually better than the ultralounge series. i don't seem to pull out the few ultralounge comps i have very often, but i pull these out quite a bit more often. great to hear the markko polo adventurers. something i really want more of. volume two in this series(mallets in wonderland) has "jungle drums" by esquivel. this isn't on any of my other esquivel cds. where does it come from? harry up hosono -haruoumi hosono best selection hosono was one of the founding members of ymo(and i think responsible for their martin denny cover of "firecracker"). this selection is from his days before ymo. maybe not heavily EXOTICA but nice and jazzy and mellow. included here is a cover of "chattanooga choo choo". who is hoagy carmichael? there is a song here sung in english written by him. i think the title is "hong kong blues". ring a bell with anyone? sun - ling chou hsuan two comps of old chinese music i picked up recently. chou hsuan sounds like it was recorded in the 30s and 40s and is quite good though i am still taking it in. some songs have a certain chinese opera influence in them. that mixed with more pop/jazz influences. sun-ling sounds like it was recorded later but i am not exaclty sure when. there's a small page about shou hsuan here: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bai-dai/tokyo/zoume.htm and another here http://cet.middlebury.edu/Smitheram/ZhouXuan/ZX.html that looks like you might be able to download some samples from. but i haven't tried myself. and one last thing, i am really surprised more people from this list have not been to jonny's musical taste site and written up reviews of songs for it. if enough people write song reviews for it it could be an excellent companion to johan's exotiquarium. so far no one's even written about the exotica heavyweights - martin denny, les baxter, esquivel, yma sumac, xavier cugat, perez prado. i highly reccomend that people check out his site: http://www.psychedelicado.com/indexmt.html william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Shaggs & other threads Date: 24 Apr 2001 19:11:49 +0200 >From: "m.ace" >Some of you may recall that I don't buy the good/bad dichotomy... > >As for the "so bad it's good" philosophy, well, obviously I disagree with >the very premise. i completely agree with what you said, yet i use the "so bad it's good" tag myself sometimes for sheer simplicity: everyone knows what kind of music i'm talking about. what "politically correct" alternative can you suggest for the "so bad it's good" tag, for artists like Mrs. Miller? "incorrect" music is just a euphemism, i think. 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: wlt4@mindspring.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Shaggs & other threads Date: 24 Apr 2001 13:29:16 -0400 >"incorrect" music is just a euphemism, i think. Irwin & Michelle (who coined the term) mean a bit more by this. They include music from industrials and training films, propaganda, music that's polished/professional ("good") but otherwise a bit off. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP finds..... Date: 24 Apr 2001 10:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Found this gem the other day. Absolutely the sickest thing I have ever heard. Makes Little Marcy seem like Billie Holiday. http://www.metroactive.com/thrift/thrift1.html More on the TV series: "The most hideously bizarre Christian thing on television is 'Captain Hook’s Christian Pirate Puppets', a trully demented cable program hosted by a real multiple-amputee; he’s missing an arm and a leg. This show is obviously aimed at the 6 and under crowd, but they choose some of the most bizarre subject matter to be talking to little kids about. In one segment, "Mrs. Hook" (the Captain’s wife) talks about how "God is not a child molester", with a big zombie-smile on her face. Another time, The captain performed an autopsy on a puppet, pulling out beer cans, cigarettes, and eventually realistic rubber prop-organs. In one episode, they found a bunch of stowaways on the ship, and they started throwing them overboard, making them walk the plank. The captain commented "Those who don’t walk with Jesus will have to walk the plank!" -- quite a good message to send to kids! The Creme de la Creme was when the captain broadcast a segment where he explained how he lost his arm and leg in a motorcycle accident. The segment was full of gorey, full-color drawings depicting the whole incident. Remember -- this show is for children under 6! It must have really warped quite a few young minds. " __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 24 Apr 2001 13:53:18 -0400 >K-Mart has a few commercials our touting the return of the Blue Light > Special. One has helicopters circling the Statue of Liberty (which is now > holding a blue torch) and some cool music is played in the background. It >is > very similar to the Popcorn song. > > Can anybody identify the song? I thought it *was* Popcorn. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) headline: "Ringtones cost music industry $1m a day" Date: 24 Apr 2001 13:56:52 -0400 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18441.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: "Donna and Eric Taub" Subject: Re: (exotica) luxuriamusic.com Date: 24 Apr 2001 14:05:34 -0400 Did I hear on their netcast something about it being available for $10 US a month? (not referring to the survey question). Re: Live365. I did searches for "lounge" "Exotica" etc and came up with a bunch of stations. Also, I was able to set up my own station on radio.netsonic where I can choose my own artists (you need a lot to get it going). However, I prefer luxuria. The fact that its live, really makes it feel much more personal than the others I have listed above. Eric _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: buMp Subject: Re: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 24 Apr 2001 14:08:42 -0400 sorry, can't help out on the tv questions. don't watch it anymore. not since QUARK went off the air. since i am a tv editor, i only watch when i am working! no commercials! (tiki) bump >I am trying this one again. > >In a message dated 4/21/01 5:34:03 AM Atlantic Daylight Time, >Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes: > ><< K-Mart has a few commercials our touting the return of the Blue Light > Special. One has helicopters circling the Statue of Liberty (which is now > holding a blue torch) and some cool music is played in the background. It >is > very similar to the Popcorn song. > > Can anybody identify the song? > > Thanks, > > Tiki Bob >> # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 24 Apr 2001 11:35:53 -0700 (PDT) If I remember correctly, there is the same album, same cover, without the woman. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck > Nate: > > > <> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) So who does this sound like? Date: 24 Apr 2001 11:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Try Alpha's "Come From Heaven" Chuck > --- RLott@aol.com wrote: > > > A friend in an ad agency has posed this question to me > regarding a client > > looking for some music to possibly use in a TV spot they're> producing. > > > > > > His description of what he wants: > "sort of acid-loungeish, like a Portishead-type sound with more of a 50s > feel. Unusual, tinny, ambient, a little cynical with a slightly deranged twist. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "cheryl" Subject: Re: (exotica) headline: "Ringtones cost music industry $1m a day" Date: 24 Apr 2001 14:42:58 -0400 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18441.html Funny, I just read an article about those ring tones yesterday! And I was excited to see that "Mission Impossible" was one of the songs you could download, so I went to the relevant websites to see what else there was - however, none of them work on my North American phone... But if anyone wants to see what you can get if you have a European mobile phone, the sites are: http://www.IconaPhone.com http://www.Mobiletones.com If anyone can figure out how to get my phone to play "Caravan", please let me know... ciao, 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 24 Apr 2001 15:05:58 -0400 Ben Waugh wrote: > "The most hideously bizarre Christian thing on television is 'Captain Hook’s Christian Pirate Puppets', a trully demented cable program hosted by a real multiple-amputee; he’s missing an arm and a leg. The Creme de la Creme was when the captain broadcast a segment where he explained how he lost his arm and leg in a motorcycle accident. The segment was full of gorey, full-color drawings depicting the whole incident ------------ Chusid showed this segment at one of his Incorrect Music Video Shows - truly a mind-altering experience! It took many martinis to wash away those images. lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) The Januaries Date: 24 Apr 2001 12:41:42 -0700 (PDT) The Januaries(st) Foodchain Records (2000) Modern soft pop doesn't get much more sophisticated than this. Debbie Diamond (a Dianne Kral lookalike) sings with one of the most beautiful sensual voices around these days. She possesses a Dusty Springfield ala the Look of Love voice. This is 60s pop! The whole lp is full of well written catchy melodies that stick in your head. Mitch Maker sounds a lot like Miles Davis on the Kinda Blue lp and his horn blends perfectly with Ms Diamonds voice. For more info sound clips videos pictures go to http://www.foodchainrecords.com Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: (exotica) The Januaries EP Date: 24 Apr 2001 12:52:08 -0700 (PDT) The Januaries also have an ep out. Three of the songs are on their self titled lp. The four song is Paranoid from Black Sabbath. What a remake of this song its hard to recognize it. Its been remade as a dreamy sensual song that oozes ever so slow. If you like modern soft pop I can't recomend this song enough! Its so much better than the Cardigans remake of Iron Man. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:24:23 EDT In a message dated 4/24/01 2:52:12 PM Atlantic Daylight Time, mace@ookworld.com writes: << >K-Mart has a few commercials our touting the return of the Blue Light > Special. One has helicopters circling the Statue of Liberty (which is now > holding a blue torch) and some cool music is played in the background. It >is > very similar to the Popcorn song. > > Can anybody identify the song? I thought it *was* Popcorn. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.com >> they have been playing Popcorn on Luxuria Music and I did not recognize the 30 sec snip. who played Popcorn? anybody else heard the commercial? TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) music in commercials Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:39:13 -0400 If you're ever trying to figure out what music is playing behind a commercial, there are 2 URLs to check out: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Opera/8227/Commercials/Commercials1.html and http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1320134463/pagename=/MN/PROMO/promo_in_the_media.html/promoid=823 (or search for Seen and Heard in Commercials at http://cdnow.com) For more on Popcorn, see: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=HPOPCORN lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Indulis R Rutks Subject: Re: (exotica) K-Mart commercial Date: 24 Apr 2001 15:41:49 -0500 (CDT) On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 Rcbrooksod@aol.com wrote: > they have been playing Popcorn on Luxuria Music and I did not recognize the > 30 sec snip. > > who played Popcorn? anybody else heard the commercial? Hot Butter (or Hot Buttah) had the smash hit with it. -Indy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RLott@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) The Januaries EP Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:43:38 EDT I really like this band. Their debut album is great, with a handful of songs that you cannot get out of your head. I haven't seen the EP you talked about, but there's a promotional-only EP that carries a great remix of "The Girl's Insanem" done by Thievery Corporation. I heartily recommend. --Rod hitchmagazine.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Howard Roberts Reissues Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:25:50 -0400 At 11:57 AM 4/24/01 -0400, delicado@cheerful.com wrote: .> >Are there any other particularly cool Howard Roberts albums I should hear? . He made nine records in the sorta mid-sixties Out of Sight Goodies All time great instrumental hits Guilty Jaunty Jolly Color him funky Something's cookin Whatever's fair HR is a dirty guitar player I think that's all of them. After that he gets into fusion and it's a whole other thing. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys Date: 25 Apr 2001 06:24:05 +0200 William wrote: >melodies and mischeif(space age pop vol. 1) - v.a. > >i think these three rca comps are actually better than the ultralounge >series. i don't seem to pull out the few ultralounge comps i have very >often, but i pull these out quite a bit more often. apart from the Mrs. Miller one, I agree. >...great to hear the markko polo adventurers. something i >really want more of. I am willing to trade you a Markko Polo Adventurers CD-R for some cool Chinese 50's/60's (I'm dying to hear more from the Quests!) >...volume two in this series(mallets in wonderland) has >"jungle drums" by esquivel. this isn't on any of my other esquivel cds. > where does it come from? It's on Esquivel's Latin-esque (1962). It also featured on numerous Hi-Fi testing albums, like RCA Victor's "Hor Zu - Stereo Extrem" ("The acoustic stoneage is over at last, Stereophonie is made for people with at least 2 ears! Rhythms jump elastically to and fro like freshly bought tennis balls" etc) >harry up hosono -haruoumi hosono best selection > >...hosono was one of the founding members of ymo(and i think >responsible for their martin denny cover of "firecracker"). this selection >is from his days before ymo. maybe not heavily EXOTICA but nice and jazzy >and mellow. included here is a cover of "chattanooga choo choo". ... Harry "the Crown" Hosono worked with Van Dyke Parks before making three pre-YMO "exotica" albums: Tropical Dandy 1975 Bon Voyage Co. 1976 Paraiso 1978 Covering American songs with an oriental theme like "Japanese rhumba", "Fujiyama mama", "Sayonara, the Japanese farewell song", he plays with the image that the West have of of Japan, thus seen through the eyes of the East. Like two (distorted) mirrors opposite eachother. Apparently his grandfather was the only Asian person on the Titanic (the ship, not the movie) and survived. >...http://cet.middlebury.edu/Smitheram/ZhouXuan/ZX.html >that looks like you might be able to download some samples from. but i >haven't tried myself. just one or two, nothing special though. Do you know any other chinese sites to DL from? >...jonny's musical taste site... >...i highly reccomend that people check out >his site: http://www.psychedelicado.com/indexmt.html I always miss audio examples on sites like this. edward in amsterdam. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 25 Apr 2001 09:08:33 +0200 (sorry for this late reply, I'm doing my best to catch up...) Clayton Black wrote: > ...I love the unexpected combinations that come up in these albums. Edmundo > Ros doing Sound of Music (or, for that matter, Hair, which I've never heard) > or, better yet, Jose Quijano's "Fiddler on the Roof Goes Latin." It's a > surprisingly good album, in my opinion, and the mix of latin rhythm and East > European melody manages to work. I suppose you can "Latinize" just about > anything, but does anybody know of other bizarre combinations like this? As the Exotica genre is all about combining non-related cultural elements, making a combination of two such elements pretty much standard, I'm always on the look out for a combination of triple, quadruple or even more cultural elements. An orchestra from one continent, taking a song from another continent, and arranging them in a style from a third continent, using instruments from a fourth, etc. My most favourite Latin crossover album is "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine, Persuasive Electronics By Richard Hayman". The electronics is extremely wild proto-techno but with happy bouncy Latin rhythms. All your favourites are there: "Girl from Ipanema", "Windmills of your Mind", "Hare Krishna", but "The Peanut Vendor" is by far the best track. The German Werner Muller & Orchester did many LPs of "Latinized" traditional Japanese folksongs on the Polydor label. Latin music was and still is very big in Japan (but then, what isn't ?) I have a double CD called Rhythms from South America". It's Japanese Latin music from 1931-1957, and features a Latinized Japanese propaganda song about Japan's superiority over China during the invasion in the thirties. The lyrics are half Japanese/Chinese, the "Chinese" melody sounds just as fake as Hollywood "Chinese" music. "Jingle Bells" seems to be a popular song for Asians to Latinize. The Japanese Mambo singer Tony Tani did a version, and I have a Chinese Latin "Jingle Bells" sung by either Deng Bai Ying and/or Yeh Ming on a 10" called "Calender Girl", from a musical of the same name. This has also a great song which translates as "I love Cha Cha". One half of the lyrics I don't understand, the other half goes: "CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHA-AH-AH, CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHAAAA!" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys Date: 25 Apr 2001 08:52:38 +0100 Hoagy Carmichael (1899 - 1981) was one of THE songwriters from the Golden Age of songwriting. You'll know lots of his songs, and possibly be familiar with his face, as he's been in several films (he played a piano player in a Bogart film I think). His life story was filmed in the 40's or 50's , played by James Stewart I think. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/hoagy/index.html http://redhotjazz.com/hoagy.html From one of them it looks like Hong Kong Blues is a film. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare for a start harry up hosono -haruoumi hosono best selection . who is hoagy carmichael? there is a song here sung in english written by him. i think the title is "hong kong blues". ring a bell with anyone? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jamie_james@lineone.net" Subject: (exotica) RE:Big Eyed people on London Records Date: 25 Apr 2001 09:53:55 +0100 Byron i'm not sure if it will help but there was a book published in the UK recently about 'Big eye art'. The author is Brit fashion designer Wayne Hemingway ( of Red or Dead ) and i think the title is 'Above the mantlepiece'. The big eye art in this book is that cutesy bigged eyed, little girl/boy with toy donkey /balloon/ flower. ( delete as applicable ) Check out www.markryden.com for a modern ( and cool ) take on this if you're not sure what i mean. hope it helps. Jamie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) New To List Date: 25 Apr 2001 07:20:43 -0400 Thanks to Dave Gannet, I am new to this list. I come from Phonogram, which I continue to enjoy, but want to expand my horizons. I have a growing interest in cool and strange, but clearly I'm going to have to learn a whole new language. I'm looking forward to it. Initial question: Back in 1989 and 1990, there was a guy named Jerry Nutter who published a little newsletter called Audio Carpetorium, which only lasted 4 or 5 issues. One issue had a great article about Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music, which was my first exposure to the term and to the music, and triggered my interest. Does anyone know what ever happened to Jerry Nutter? I wrote him a letter in 1992 at his address in South Ozone Park, NY, but he never responded. This guy was definitely warped, and seemed to really know his cool and strange. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) New To List Date: 25 Apr 2001 07:43:24 -0400 Sorry, I think I posted this wrong the first time: Thanks to Dave Gannet, I am new to this list. I come from Phonogram, which I continue to enjoy, but want to expand my horizons. I have a growing interest in cool and strange, but clearly I'm going to have to learn a whole new language. I'm looking forward to it. Initial question: Back in 1989 and 1990, there was a guy named Jerry Nutter who published a little newsletter called Audio Carpetorium, which only lasted 4 or 5 issues. One issue had a great article about Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music, which was my first exposure to the term and to the music, and triggered my interest. Does anyone know what ever happened to Jerry Nutter? I wrote him a letter in 1992 at his address in South Ozone Park, NY, but he never responded. This guy was definitely warped, and seemed to really know his cool and strange. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) headline: "Ringtones cost music industry $1m a day" Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:52:43 +0100 Ringtones and the whole mobile thing are huge in the UK. Downloadable from everywhere but you can also program them yourself. I did a nice Funkytown for my girlfriend's Nokia but I prefer the classic ring ring for mine. Charlie Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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: Bruce Lenkei Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:04:20 -0400 (EDT) The only signed album I have is one of those Stereo Action sampler disks signed bt Ray Martin. Still kinda cool, I guess. - Bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design www.lenkeidesign.com ++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) New To List Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:12:49 -0400 on 4/25/01 7:20 AM, Robert Cohen at racprint@mediaone.net wrote: > Does anyone know what ever happened to Jerry Nutter? I wrote him a letter > in 1992 at his address in South Ozone Park, NY, but he never responded. > This guy was definitely warped, and seemed to really know his cool and > strange. He and fellow New Yorker Jack Fetterman started a groovy easy listening night called "In Hi-Fi" at Bar d'O in Greenwich Village back in '95. Jerry dropped out soon after it's inception (replaced by Scott Springer), but he still shows up at it ocassionally ("In Hi-Fi" was weekly, but is now held on the second Tuesday of each month). I believe Jerry now lives in Manhattan, so your letter may never have reached him. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:49:36 -0400 > From: Bruce Lenkei > > The only signed album I have is one of those Stereo Action sampler disks > signed bt Ray Martin. Still kinda cool, I guess. > I just remembered that I have one signed by Lenny Dee. I never thought much about it, because I knew he had his own night club and I figured there must be thousands of his signature floating around. I always get a kick out of the signed albums by no-name artists (pipe organists or Ken Griffin-style Hammond players) in the thrift bins. Once they held the promise of fame, now they're not even "bad" enough to make it onto Incorrect Music. (I'm not including Lenny Dee in that, by the way.) Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:56:23 -0400 > > Latin music was and still is very big > in > Japan (but then, what isn't ?) I have a double CD called Rhythms from South > America". It's Japanese Latin music from 1931-1957, and features a Latinized > Japanese propaganda song about Japan's superiority over China during the > invasion in the thirties. The lyrics are half Japanese/Chinese, the "Chinese" > melody sounds just as fake as Hollywood "Chinese" music. > "Jingle Bells" seems to be a popular song for Asians to Latinize. The Japanese > Mambo singer Tony Tani did a version, and I have a Chinese Latin "Jingle > Bells" > > sung by either Deng Bai Ying and/or Yeh Ming on a 10" called "Calender Girl", > from a musical of the same name. This has also a great song which translates > as "I love Cha Cha". Man, would I love to have some of that! You say you have this stuff, but do you like it? There's no reason to think that Asians are any worse at interpreting Latin music than white, middle-class North Americans. But is a peculiarly Asian flavor detectable in them, or does it sound pretty much like any other pseudo-Latin music made in the U.S. or Britain? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) A good day at the record store! Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:03:49 -0400 >There's no reason to think that Asians are any worse at interpreting Latin >music than white, middle-class North Americans. ..or even... I saw a record at the main library in San Diego that I wished I could have bought. It was a Japanese quartet singing Russian Folk Songs. Not so much for the oddity of these fellows dabbling in another culture (THAT honor would have gone to the Hillbilly 45, which counted one "Speedy" Watanabe as a member), but more for the title: "Dark Ducks" Through a bill, darkly, 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: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Re-Ducks Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:06:40 -0400 ...and here they are, the Dark Ducks! http://www.hakushouse.com/images/Asian/P7150010.JPG # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dave Van Allen Subject: (exotica) Re:=?ISO-8859-1?B?s0hhd2FpaWFuZXR0ZbI=?= Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:09:00 -0400 > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3071045341_5996883 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =B3=B2 I posted about this album on the Steel Guitar Forum and got the followin= g e-mail response: > > Yo Dave. All Music Guide puts this at 1960. That same year she did > > "Italiannette". She put on quite a bit of weight later that year as sh= e > > trained for the never-to-be-released "Luncheonnette". Doesn=B9t really answer the questions about session players, but it is very telling about some Steel player=B9s senses of humour --B_3071045341_5996883 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re:“Hawaiianette” I posted about this album on the Steel Guitar= Forum and got the following e-mail response:



> > Yo Dave.  All Music Guide puts this at 1960.  That same= year she did
> > "Italiannette".  She put on quite a bit of weight = later that year as she
> > trained for the never-to-be-released "Luncheonnette".

Doesn’t really answer the questions about session players, but it is = very telling about some Steel player’s senses of humour

 --B_3071045341_5996883-- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:30:46 -0400 (EDT) >i am really surprised more people from this >list have not been to jonny's musical taste site and >written up reviews of songs for it. if enough people >write song reviews for it it could be an excellent >companion to johan's exotiquarium. so far no one's >even written about the exotica heavyweights - martin >denny, les baxter, esquivel, yma sumac, xavier cugat, >perez prado. i highly reccomend that people check out >his site: http://www.psychedelicado.com/indexmt.html william, thanks very much for the recommendation. I should add that the site can also be accessed at the easier to remember www.musicaltaste.net I picked up two great compilations used on CD last night - 'Buddism' by Roy Budd and 'Mo'plen Brazilia' (irma compilation) 'Buddism' is a nice (and probably superior) companion to the 'Rebirth of the Budd' compilation. Both contain the classic 'Get Carter, but while 'rebirth' focuses more on the pop instrumental albums which Roy Budd did on the Pye label in the late 60s, 'Buddism' is exclusively cuts from his soundtracks. Some tracks are incredibly modern sounding, and most are extremely cool, slightly in the vein of Lalo Schifrin's best work. 'Mo'Plen Brazilia' is the CD with Italian and Brazilian footballers on the cover. Although some tracks are duplicated from other Mo'Plen and Easy Tempo CDs, this is definitely one of the more successful compilations of late 60s Italian Bossa-influenced tracks I own. And the sound quality, (which was terrible on 'metti, una bossa a cena') is pretty good. Well worth checking out if you get the chance. cheers, jonny post/view song recommendations: http://www.musicaltaste.net Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.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: kendoll Subject: (exotica) autographed records (was LP finds) Date: 25 Apr 2001 10:41:04 -0600 2 Korla Pandits (one is colored vinyl) Kola Beldy (see incredibly strange music vol 2 -- the Jello Biafra interview) dozens of lesser bar & resort entertainers (just about every Rusty Warren record I've ever come across has been autographed) Bruce Lenkei wrote: > > The only signed album I have is one of those Stereo Action sampler disks > signed bt Ray Martin. Still kinda cool, I guess. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BeautifulInstrumentals Date: 25 Apr 2001 16:01:38 +0200 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BeautifulInstrumentals : a group about with hardcore EZ. j # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:08:26 -0400 At 11:04 AM 4/25/01 -0400, Bruce Lenkei wrote: >The only signed album I have is one of those Stereo Action sampler disks >signed bt Ray Martin. Still kinda cool, I guess. I think it's virtually impossible to find Lenny Dee records from a certain period that AREN'T signed. Same with Don Ho. Gives you some insight into their careers. (Don Ho did some legitimately good tunes by the way. Don't dismiss the Ho!) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:09:52 -0400 >(Don Ho did some legitimately good tunes by the way. Don't dismiss the Ho!) So, what are the best roads to Ho? Sorry, 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: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) Today's "Back-Ward" Playlist, April 25 Date: 25 Apr 2001 17:14:25 -0000 "The Back-Ward" is a show featuring cool soundtracks from the 60's and 70's; exotica; lounge; now-sounds; incredibly-strange; tropicalia;forgotten country and western; obscure garage & psychedelia; funk/70's instro'; moog; early high-brow electronic; industrial and/or post-punk from the late 70's/early 80's. More recent material may creep in from time to time. The show can now be heard Wednesday mornings from 10:00 am to 11:00 am EST on CFRU 93.3fm in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Comments & questions welcome. The show is also available in RealAudio. Click on "Listen to us live via the net" at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm/ TODAY'S RAW DEAL: Our Space Ship - Cara Stewart Love Dance of the Saroos - Joe Meek, "I Hear a New World" Music To Orbit By - Popular Photography, "Music For a Pictue Evening" The Cow Jumped Over The Moon - Raymond Scott, "The Unexpected" Children of The Street - Frances Baskerville Singing Psychic Touch - Bruce Haack, "Together" Piggie Wiggie - Zeet Band End Theme - Roy Budd, "Marseilles Contract" OST Harry-O - John Gregory, "TVs Greatest detective Hits" Funky Bear - Alan Tew, "Hanged Man" OST Burning Spear - Soulful Strings Lord's Procession - The Spacemen, "Cherry Viewing A Go-Go" On Sunset - Decades Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators Colours - Kaleidoscope (mexican version) The Trip - The Fire Escape My Friend Jack - Smoke Thanks for whatever attention this deserves. I'll post sooner next time. JB _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:18:34 -0400 At 11:49 AM 4/25/01 -0400, Clayton Black wrote: > I always get a kick out of >the signed albums by no-name artists (pipe organists or Ken Griffin-style >Hammond players) in the thrift bins. Once they held the promise of fame, >now they're not even "bad" enough to make it onto Incorrect Music. I used to get a kick out of all the records trying to cash in on the Griffin name. His nephew Kirby Griffin. Records that say "In the Griffin style" with the name in huge letters to fool you into thinking it's actually Ken. A friend of mine once told me he really liked Ken Griffin records. It had something to do with growing up in Winnipeg - though I'm sure our resident ex-Winnipeg couple do NOT relate to this - and the radio station he grew up with. So everytime I saw a Griffin record for fifty cents or less I'd buy it for him. I think we got to about fifty before it slowed down. There was ONE, I think the Hawaiian one, which I sort of wanted to keep. It was a pretty good organ record actually. Otherwise as far as I can tell "the Griffin style" consists of playing the melody with no embellishments or rhythm. My favourite organ records were the ones that reminded me of Tex and Edna Boyle's Organ Emporium. I wish someone would volunteer to collect organ records. I don't do that kind of thing anymore. And pound for pound, a collector of such things would have an amazingly high proportion of crap. Still I wish it existed. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: (exotica) needle question Date: 25 Apr 2001 17:19:45 -0000 I'm not much of an audiophile so pardon my ignorance. I have one turntable and one needle. It's getting a bit old. But how old is too old? - How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? - How can you tell if it is damaged? - Do scratchy records damage it? - Are some needles heartier than others? whatever help would be greatly appreciated. jb PS *Love* the look of that pirate amputee Christian lp. Ya gotta love thrifts... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT) I have an autographed Tiny Bubbles by the Ho. It is inscribed "to Marsha", and advises "Suck 'em up." Back in the days before gorey booze-fueled car smash-ups, I suppose. --- Brian Phillips wrote: > >(Don Ho did some legitimately good tunes by the > way. Don't dismiss the Ho!) > > So, what are the best roads to Ho? > > Sorry, > Brian Phillips __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 17:36:16 >I wish someone would volunteer to collect organ records. I don't do that >kind of thing anymore. And pound for pound, a collector of such things >would have an amazingly high proportion of crap. Still I wish it existed. > >AZ > > > The organ certainly has a lot of potential for weirdness, though I've never ventured down the perilous road of organ records beyond one or two Earl Grant and Jackie Davis LP's. But have oft wondered whether there are some slept-on organ records that I shouldn't be passing up at the thrifts. Any recommendations? Clayton (if you are a Lenny Dee fan)? Anyone? -Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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) LP finds Date: 25 Apr 2001 10:45:16 -0700 (PDT) If there is a Hell, and it is a "stasis of unrelieved viciousness", you can believe organ records will accent the smorgasbord of torments in store for the damned. My 1st for-a-lark oddball lp purchase was an organ record: Gus Farney at the Giant Wurlitzer. Still enjoy it. And my, it is a big organ. badda bing, bw --- Daniel Shiman wrote: > The organ certainly has a lot of potential for weirdness, though I've never ventured down the perilous road of organ records beyond one or two Earl Grant and Jackie Davis LP's. But have oft wondered whether there are some slept-on organ records that I shouldn't be passing up at the thrifts. Any recommendations? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" Subject: RE: (exotica) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BeautifulInstrumentals Date: 25 Apr 2001 19:58:23 +0200 Johan wrote: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BeautifulInstrumentals : > a group about with hardcore EZ. I've been a member of that list for a couple of weeks. They're a bunch of friendly people, that's for sure. But they're a bit TOO hardcore EZ. They keep raving about James Last all the time. In fact they refer to him as 'Hansi' all the time. Yuck! 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: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 14:09:51 -0400 > From: "Daniel Shiman" > The organ certainly has a lot of potential for weirdness, though I've never > ventured down the perilous road of organ records beyond one or two Earl > Grant and Jackie Davis LP's. But have oft wondered whether there are some > slept-on organ records that I shouldn't be passing up at the thrifts. Any > recommendations? Clayton (if you are a Lenny Dee fan)? Anyone? I think the sound of a Hammond organ, or rather its absence from popular music of the last 25 years, is one of the reasons I got into this kind of music (whatever it should be called). When I first bought a CD player in about '88 I had no idea what CDs to buy, so I picked up a Verve compilation of Wes Montgomery (not Hammond, I know, but I'm getting there). I liked it so much I bought others in the series, and it was at that point that I discovered Jimmy Smith--I was hooked. He's still one of my favorites. As I migrated to thrift-diving, I looked for other organists, and, of course, Lenny Dee and Earl Grant were among the first that I found. Neither of them compares to Jimmy Smith, but I do get a kick out of them. But as for "slept-on records," I don't know. I really like Sir Julian and Walter Wanderley more than Lenny or Earl (Lenny sometimes gets too campy for me, and too many of Earl's arrangements are at snore-tempo), and I just picked up Buddy Cole's "Powerhouse," which I enjoy (even though a lot of his other stuff I find boring). Denny McLain's albums are funny but not terribly imaginative (with the exception of Girl from Ipanema, which is one of my favorites). Some of my favorite organ work is just as accompaniment. There's a Ray Rausch album called something like "Flutes Front and Center!" with a flute chorus that nevertheless features a rockin' Hammond accompaniment. Another smart accompaniment is on Nancy Wilson's version of "On Broadway." And of course "Mr. Lucky"--what can I say? (I think Alan might suffer apoplexy if we return to "The Mustang.") But I've been burned enough times buying organ albums that I look them over very carefully first--even if they cost only 50 cents. I keep trying to give some of them a chance, but most of them repel rather than satisfy. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 13:19:53 -0500 > I just picked up Buddy Cole's "Powerhouse," which I > enjoy (even though a lot of his other stuff I find boring). A couple of other Buddy Cole organ records worth searching for -- the mostly Latin "Swing Fever" (Jack Costanzo on bongos!) and "Ingenuity in Sound", Buddy's entry in the Stereo Workshop series at Warner Bros. (with Buddy on the dual Hammond organ), which features a really smokin' version of "Caravan". Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bruce Lenkei Subject: (exotica) organ records Date: 25 Apr 2001 15:02:21 -0400 (EDT) Some of my favorites: Buddy Cole - Hot and Cole Dick Hyman - Electrodynamics, etc, etc. Bob Ralston, one of Lawrence Welk's keyboard players, he has at least one pretty swingin' album out there. Can't recall the name of it, however. Eddie Layton - also some decent stuff, depending which album Eddie Osborn - Organ and Bongos. This is quite nice, but I have never heard of him on anything else. And of course, The Three Suns are pretty organ-heavy on some records. - Bruce ++++++++++++++++++++ Lenkei Design www.lenkeidesign.com ++++++++++++++++++++ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 15:17:49 EDT In a message dated 4/25/1 12:06:01 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >(Don Ho did some legitimately good tunes by the way. Don't di....s the Ho!) And add to the autographed LP's one finds the countless ones you come across while thrifting, usually recorded by a former local performer/band and obviously sold to a fan at a show. These were done by groups like The Near East Trio and the signing usually reads something to the effect of "To Lynne, we value you as a fan. Long live Near East!!!! Love, Mustafah"...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) needle question Date: 25 Apr 2001 15:19:28 EDT In a message dated 4/25/1 12:20:20 PM, jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com wrote: >- How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? rule of thumb...one year per needle, five per cartridge..JB/seen the needle and the damage done # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) organ records Date: 25 Apr 2001 15:26:30 -0400 > From: Bruce Lenkei > Bob Ralston, one of Lawrence Welk's keyboard players, he has at least one > pretty swingin' album out there. Can't recall the name of it, however. I love this guy. I've got two Bob Ralston albums, both pretty sleepy, so I'd be interested to know which one swings. But his appearances on Welk are part of the reason I still try to catch the PBS reruns (as long as it's not near a religious holiday)--he's got the look of a man in the flush of middle-class contentment: easy smile, confident, happy, happy tunes, and garrishly attired. Long fingers gliding easily over the keys, occasionally a little leap for the perky numbers. I once recorded him playing a terrific rendition of Summer Samba--he looked to be in bliss, alone on the stage at his "Thomas" organ. He was the host of one of the reruns and you can hardly recognize him now. He's heavier, and he seems to stick to the plodding church tunes. Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 12:26:57 -0700 (PDT) And the fabulous Frankie Burke: http://www.frankieburke.com/ > These were done > by groups like The Near > East Trio and the signing usually reads something to > the effect of "To Lynne, > we value you as a fan. Long live Near East!!!! Love, > Mustafah"... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... Date: 25 Apr 2001 16:51:35 EDT In a message dated 4/25/1 2:27:35 PM, sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com wrote: >And the fabulous Frankie Burke: > >http://www.frankieburke.com/ great find! seeing guys like this doing what they love to do makes life worthwhile. sure, he's got the commercial thang happenin', but dollars to donuts he's fulfilling a lifetime's worth of dreams by being himself...JB/got a little Frankie in him # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Cartridges Date: 25 Apr 2001 14:32:15 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:19:45 -0000 >From: "james brouwer" >Subject: (exotica) needle question > >I'm not much of an audiophile so pardon my ignorance. I have one turntable >and one needle. It's getting a bit old. But how old is too old? >- - How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? I'm not sure exactly, but it would be in the thousands. >- - How can you tell if it is damaged? If your records sound thin and a little distorted when they didn't use to sound like that, or when you notice that you are getting excessive wear from repeated playings, it's time to change the stylus. >- - Do scratchy records damage it? Not really, but dirty records can gum up a stylus. >- - Are some needles heartier than others? Yes, DJ cartridges have a very strong cantilever, and require a higher tracking force. They are generally more durable than audiophile cartridges that track at lighter weights. Hope this helps... See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hemmel@gmx.net Subject: (exotica) Rare groove reissues? & where came the Monster groove from Date: 25 Apr 2001 23:51:55 +0200 (MEST) Charles Moseley charlesm@contentrepublic.com wrote: >These sound like new releases rather than reissues. And I for one don't = >do >new rare groove. So nyah! :-) I never can say something like that in general, because there are always exceptions. For example, now I like the sea groove 45 from Big Boss Man. Great to mix it with Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band or even I am Alive by Don Fardon, because they all have the same similar groove. And this produce the question where this Monster groove (ca. 110 to 118 bpm) original came from. I thought that IBB's Apache is from the early 70s and I am Alive is from 1969. Also Derby (1969) by Theo Schumann Combo (amiga a go go vol 1) has something from that groove in the beginning. So it is possible that the original creation were made ca. about 67 to 69. Anyone has an Idea ? or know other tracks with that magic groove (or similar grooves like that ?) (btw, the groove has bongos or congas in it, so this is also an exotic question, isn't it ?) Martin >>> * Imaginary Visions - Drop your load b/w Imaginary Visions 7" ( Deep Funk/ UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - It's alright now ( inst ) b/w It's alright now = 7"(=20 Deep Funk / UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 * New Master Sounds - Hot Dog b/w Drop it down 7" ( Deep Funk / UK ) =A33.99 / e5.07 <<< -- visit the ***Space Escapade*** Exotic Club Pop Entertainment with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night http://www.atomic.de/ GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.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: Matt Marchese Subject: (exotica) Haare Date: 25 Apr 2001 17:59:55 -0500 A friend of mine just sent me a CD he made from the LP of the original German cast recording of "Hair". It's a pretty strange experience listening to something that you know well in your native language translated into something else that seems...well...just slightly off-kilter. I had much the same experience when I lived in Hamburg and watched dubbed versions of "The Simpsons" and "Star Trek". Nevertheless, it's wonderful stuff. I was pleasantly surprised by how "groovy" the music is and you can't beat the unintentional humor provided by untranslateable terms like "voodoo" and "mau mau" popping up in the middle of otherwise solid Hochdeutsch. If anyone here has any other non-English soundtracks to musicals (like "Oh, Calcutta"), I'd be willing to trade. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mimi Mayer Subject: (exotica) For fans of the sadly lost FringeWare, Date: 25 Apr 2001 19:11:33 -0500 a report. What happened this fall when artists redid the outside mural? http://independentaustin.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/06/2239211&mode=thread 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: Lou Smith Subject: (exotica) new releases (from Other Music's e-letter) Date: 25 Apr 2001 22:06:58 -0400 Featured New Releases: ZERO 7 "Simple Things" (Ultimate Dilemma, UK) CD $18.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/destiny.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/GiveItAw.rm The band of the moment, Zero 7, were commissioned by Radiohead to remix 'Climbing up the Walls' before they had released a single track. Their ltd. edition debut 12" on their own label is now one of the most sought-after records of now. Next they worked their magic on Lambchop's 'Up with People' single, making them huge in the UK dance market (Who would have guessed that an alt-country band would appeal to dance music fans). Then came "EP2," four tracks of beautiful soulful electronics, and once again in a limited edition. And here is the debut full-length that is making the likes of Gilles Peterson, Ross Allen, every British glossy and newsprint music rag, and the rest of the world foam at the mouth. They are touted as the "British Air", with lush orchestral arrangements, downtempo beats, more soulful vocals, and a certain fondness for obscure psychedelic Italian soundtracks and David Axelrod. This brilliant LP that will definitely propel these Brits into a league with Air, Kruder and Dorfmeister, and Thievery Corporation. Along with the Avalanches, Bonobo, and Blue States, they're striving to make the 2001 "the year of downtempo." Don't just believe me, listen for yourself. Essential! [JS] http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Add_To_Cart.cgi?sku=505500830162&re fer_url=email [V/A] "Music for Dancefloors: The Cream of the Chappell Library Sessions" (Strut, UK) CD $16.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/cbaxter.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/nnardini.rm Usually an artist writing a piece of music has a purpose in mind, whether it's for their own record, a soundtrack, or a commission. But Library music remains in limbo, and, in a way, is birthed in limbo as well. Though talent is never missing, the intangible quality of personality is usually absent, giving even the most specific arrangement the sense of drifting in weightless space. Many artists have flourished in this inexplicit, nearly egoless environment, most remarkably Roger Roger and Nino Nardini, both of whom have contributions on this, the second disc in Strut Records' "Music for Dancefloors" library music series. I guess ego is not entirely absent--but a session musician's reputation was usually confined to the limits of the internal music industry--any time it went to the public via radio or TV, it went there without a name. Which, too, offers an arranger a different kind of freedom, one from producing music attached to any kind of expectation. Plus the fact that the musicians here didn't own their work--it was all for hire. This CD starts around 1967, the dawn of where psychedelia, free jazz, and funk began to creep their way into what was previously (usually) sets of impossibly bland musical ideas. The CD also stretches into the recent past (1998), to where musicians may still have creative freedom but no longer the fiscal ability to work with sets of session orchestras or ensembles--they have to be created/recorded either one track at a time or entirely computer assembled. This is, hands down, the best collection of library music I've ever heard. Usually there is a blankness to the library music proceedings--instead, here, the energy, creativity and personality is at a peak. Whether dancing around jazz and solid African rhythms, creating weird sounds with breaths (the opening track knocks you on your ass), making all kinds of combinations you never expected (like the island rhythms with twinkly moog, funky bass and surf guitar on Nardini's 'Afro- Beat/Afro Syn'). [RE] http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Add_To_Cart.cgi?sku=67586550010&ref er_url=email JOHN ZORN "The Gift" (Tzadik) CD $14.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/johnzor1.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/johnzor2.rm John Zorn's acknowledged his influences quite openly, from the tribute records that first brought him popular success (the musics of Ornette Coleman and Ennio Morricone), and often synthesized his inspirations into music (Godard, klezmer), but this CD, even though it fits his composing methods, seems to be an entirely different animal than we've yet encountered from him. "The Gift" has the grace and mellow of his Bar Kokhba projects, yet draws on his love of 'the exotic', music from the far, middle, and near east, from the Pacific rim and the 1950s. But it has absolutely none of the macho posturing which Mr. Zorn oft marks his projects (like a dog marking territory). Even guest Mike Patton, king of the growl and grimace, lifts his voice like an angel in luminous echoes next to Zorn's withering theremin and clean electric piano. Light and traveling, the music is rendering in twinging guitar, soft stereo hand percussions, melodies that swoop between cultures, burnished shakuhachi, zinging jew's harp. While labeled with a smirk as "Music for Romance" and "For Lovers Only", it transcends that smirk into genuine open appreciation for the form of exotica/easy-listening, so much so that he's made one of the best easy listening records _ever_, surpassing Baxter, Denny, etc. in serious depth and breadth. [RE] http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Add_To_Cart.cgi?sku=70239773322&ref er_url=email [VA] "Serge Gainsbourg: Pop Sessions" (Mercury, France) CD $16.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/GuitarSo.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/CesPetit.rm Another in a series of 2001 releases from Mercury in France commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of Serge Gainsbourg. On "Pop Sessions," countrymen from the French music scene attempt to put their own spin on the Gainsbourg oeuvre. Contributions from both Jane Birkin and Francoise Hardy ('Ces Petits Riens') go a long way in adding a high degree of credibility to this particular tribute, but unfortunately don't go far enough to make this album a total success. First the mis- steps: Faudel sucks the life out of 'Elisa,' replacing nearly all the cabaret elements with lame piano and string accompaniment while Menelik's lazy and hollow reading of 'Initials BB' sounds downright disrespectful. But Birkin does score for her pleasant duet with Etienne Daho on 'Mon Amour Baiser' even though she falls a bit flat with an overly maudlin version of 'La Javanaise.' Rita Mitsouko, who channels Gainsbourg better than most here, takes a new-wave approach to 'L'hippopodame' making it edgy and sexually charged. But ironically, it's the one track not from a French artist -- and the only one sung in English -- that is a true standout. The Scottish band Texas transform 'Je T'Aime...' into the sultry and haunting 'Guitar Song' and succeed in delivering one of the best Gainsbourg covers/re-interpretations I've ever heard. Brace yourself, more of these tribute albums are planned for later this year. But I'm betting that no one tops Texas in paying tribute to the astounding legacy of Gainsbourg. [TC] http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Add_To_Cart.cgi?sku=73145485532&ref er_url=email Restocks: ARLING AND CAMERON "Sound Shopping" (Basta, Netherlands) CD $13.99 RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/BimiMix.rm RealAudio: http://64.27.65.90:8080/ramgen/othermusic/CowboySk.rm The "long-lost" second album from Arling and Cameron, "Sound Shopping" is a musical and visual collaboration with comic artist Joost Swarte featuring additional contributions from Fay Lovsky. Considered by some A&C aficionados to be their best work to date the CD is finally widely available (in a regular jewel box) after limited release of an expensive "comics" edition and a fancy digipak version. Epitomizing their "all-in" approach to music, Arling and Cameron touch on a host of musical styles and genres in just seven songs (there are three additional remixes). On 'Bimi Mix' A&C cut in swatches of Eddie Cochran guitar licks over a pulsing and relentless electronic dance beat. 'Cowboy Ska' melds spaghetti-western soundtracks to a Jamaican backbeat and gleefully goofy vocals (plus whip noises and horse whinnies!). The breezy '60s pop of 'Jealousie' recalls France Gall with a just a hint of Phil Spector. They touch on bossa nova with 'Fun Shopping' and samba with 'Tsja Tsja'. Overall, a remarkable musical achievement that hits it's mark without ever sounding contrived. A very welcome reissue. [TC] http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Add_To_Cart.cgi?sku=871253090852&re fer_url=email # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) organ records Date: 25 Apr 2001 23:16:29 -0400 At 03:02 PM 4/25/01 -0400, Bruce Lenkei wrote: > >Buddy Cole - Hot and Cole >Dick Hyman - Electrodynamics, etc, etc. >Eddie Layton - also some decent stuff, depending which album >Eddie Osborn - Organ and Bongos. Excellent choices all. Especially the last one. I love the organ. I would say it's the single most important instrument in the Now Sound groovy instrumentals I'm hooked on. Even more important than guitar. But when I said I wished someone collected organ records, I didn't mean the good ones like those above or the various jazz organists like Jimmy Smith, Big John Patton, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff etc etc And I didn't mean the good lounge ones like those above or (a lot of) Lenny Dee, Ethel Smith, Sir Julian etc. Or the great Dick Hyman whose Command records are allk classics (not the piano ones, the organ and moog ones.) I meant the one-off, giant Wurlitzer and organ demonstration records. The stuff made in the spirit of George Wright. For instance "Claude Dupras on the Yamaha organ". On the back there are pictures of three organs, the Ex-42, the E-5AR and the VC45D. I suppose the record is supposed to demonstrate the differences in the organs but in the meantime it has one of the most amazing versions of "Mission Impossible" I've ever heard. The records you'll only find at thrift stores. But getting back to the "lounge/NOW sound" organist, check out: Howard Blake - "Hammond in Percussion" Sy Mann and Nick Tagg - "2 Organs and Percussion" (on Grand Awards) Cookie Carr plays Cool Organ with a Solid beat Marty Gold "Organized for Hi-Fi" T.W. Ardy - "Hammond in Gold" and then in the narrow field of "organ exotica" Wim Moens - Hammond Goes Tijuana Kip Anderson and the Tides - "Shango! Night in a Quiet Village" I can't quite tell but I thought one of you said you were avoiding organ records. Don't. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: (exotica) soft pop/rock query Date: 25 Apr 2001 20:56:33 -0700 Hello folks, In the April '01 issue of Mojo (the one with the Smiths on the cover), there's an interview with Chris Dedrick of The Free Design. The sidebar that comes with the article features three "soft rock classics," and I am, unfortunately, too ignorant to have ever heard of them. They are: Orpheus - s/t The New Colony Six - Attacking a Straw Man Roger Nichols and The Small Circle Of Friends - s/t Comments? Any of them worth checking out? Thanks in advance, Ben http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Christine Karkow Subject: Re: (exotica) Ironic Enjoyment Date: 26 Apr 2001 00:17:49 -0700 on 3/25/01 12:38, alan zweig at azed@pathcom.com wrote: > > At 03:24 AM 3/25/01 EST, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: >> >> >> In a message dated 3/23/1 9:22:56 PM, bigshot@spumco.com wrote: >> >>> I think that the focus on novelty >>> is responsible for the downturn in interest in exotica music >>> over the past year or two. >> Speaking of perhaps novelty music, what do you guys think about Wesley Willis? his music is on one hand just plain funny, but on another hand, it elicits a strong cult following that I personally feel pretty strongly. Sure, hearing his vulgar phrases is humorous, but, the music along with the lyrics always fires me up in a genuine way. the fact that a schizophrenic person can present his thoughts in such a way as to connect with so many people to me is amazing and fabulous. christine # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "William" Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys Date: 26 Apr 2001 15:20:58 +0800 >>...great to hear the markko polo adventurers. something i >>really want more of. >I am willing to trade you a Markko Polo Adventurers CD-R for >some cool Chinese 50's/60's (I'm dying to hear more from the Quests!) we can discuss a trade off list. but in the meantime who are the quests? i'm not sure the chinese stuff i have is what you are looking for as it is still rather on the traditional side. >Harry "the Crown" Hosono worked with Van Dyke Parks before >making three pre-YMO "exotica" albums: > >Tropical Dandy 1975 >Bon Voyage Co. 1976 >Paraiso 1978 bon voyage co. surfaced here but disappeared before i could pick it up. i'm hoping it will show up again soon though. i plan to pick up some of his other releases this weekend if they are still there. >just one or two, nothing special though. Do you know any other chinese >sites to DL from? not right now but i'm still looking. recently there has been a crackdown on chinese sites(in taiwan) with mp3s that you can download. i don't know if they'd go after the oldies though like this. you might try plugging in "ge lan" or "grace chang" or "sun ling" or "chou hsuan" on napster and see what you get. i haven't tried it myself though. speaking of grace chang does anyone have her lp that was released in the states? >>...jonny's musical taste site... >>...i highly reccomend that people check out >>his site: http://www.psychedelicado.com/indexmt.html >I always miss audio examples on sites like this. i think that's what the napster link is for.:) william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "William" Subject: (exotica) debbie diamond Date: 26 Apr 2001 15:07:09 +0800 is this the same debbie diamond who did vocals on the durutti column cover of "white rabbit" back in the 80s? i think it was a one off single but has been tacked on the end of the "domo arrigato" live in japan cd release. william in taipei. >Modern soft pop doesn't get much more sophisticated than this. >Debbie Diamond (a Dianne Kral lookalike) sings with one of the most >beautiful sensual voices around these days. She possesses a Dusty >Springfield ala the Look of Love voice. This is 60s pop! The >whole lp is full of well written catchy melodies that stick in your >head. Mitch Maker sounds a lot like Miles Davis on the Kinda Blue >lp and his horn blends perfectly with Ms Diamonds voice. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) Japanese latin Date: 26 Apr 2001 09:19:22 +0100 Then of course Edmundo Ros was very popular in Japan too, recording several LP's of Japanese Military Marches in a Latin style according to the recent documentary. Although they didn't play any of them as I recall. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare The German Werner Muller & Orchester did many LPs of "Latinized" traditional Japanese folksongs on the Polydor label. Latin music was and still is very big in Japan (but then, what isn't ?) I have a double CD called Rhythms from South America". It's Japanese Latin music from 1931-1957, and features a Latinized Japanese propaganda song about Japan's superiority over China during the invasion in the thirties. The lyrics are half Japanese/Chinese, the "Chinese" melody sounds just as fake as Hollywood "Chinese" music. "Jingle Bells" seems to be a popular song for Asians to Latinize. The Japanese Mambo singer Tony Tani did a version, and I have a Chinese Latin "Jingle Bells" sung by either Deng Bai Ying and/or Yeh Ming on a 10" called "Calender Girl", from a musical of the same name. This has also a great song which translates as "I love Cha Cha". One half of the lyrics I don't understand, the other half goes: "CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHA-AH-AH, CHA CHA CHAAA, CHA CHA CHAAAA!" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Japanese latin Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:18:35 +0200 G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > Then of course Edmundo Ros was very popular in Japan too, recording several > LP's of Japanese Military Marches in a Latin style according to the recent > documentary. Although they didn't play any of them as I recall. I guess every Western musician touring Japan did a Japanese Military Marches album or two, there's so many of them! I have one by trumpet player Nini Rosso. The songs range from between 1894-1967, but most are from WW2. It's amazing that the Yen would make all these Western musicians play songs glorifying militarism from the time when Japan was the enemy of the free world. If I were in Japan on a more regular basis, I would start collecting them just for the hell of it. And they're the cheapest vinyl you can find there too, because all Japanese record collectors hate them. That Edmundo Ros documentary was a great, eh? I could kick myself for not taping it at the time. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) organ records Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:04:46 +0100 I did think about getting on board this train for a while, and for about 6 months bought every organ record I saw. Its too much, and there is so much crap, I think possibly more than any other. But it is well sub-genred. Classical Organ music: Bach and stuff, I would say wasn't on my list, but its there, and no doubt has its odder perpetrators. Cinema Organ: This is a big field here, there used to be a radio show on BBC radio 2 that broadcast from different cinema's around the UK ("and this week we are broadcasting from the organ at the Odeon Cinema in Tooting"), this is the trainspotting of the organ world. Big pipe organs made by all the major players, Wurlitzer etc, ranks of keyboards, effects voices, the player zooming up and down out of the pit. This can be pretty wild stuff, fake thunderstorms the whole bit. A lot is very cheesy. Also theres the sub-genre of Cinema organs re-located to other environments, I had a record of an organ that had been re-located to a used car showroom in East Anglia (backwoods farm country, think UK's mid west [no offence meant of course]). Mostly show tunes with ALL the flourishes, recorded in a concrete room so drowned in reverb and echo. It can be a bit much. Lots of records on small runs produced by fanatics. The UK based magazine 'The Organist covers this and the next 2 genres) Solo Organs: Happy Hammond and such. Just the organ itself, with its own rhythm tracks. Again a lot of small run, independent stuff. Often plodding versions of show tunes. I'm sure there must be some good stuff about, most I've found plods badly, some Happy Hammond stuff is OK, I have a nice James Bond theme, and I'm told the James Bond LP is good. I have a Korean solo Organ LP that I know nothing about that is a blinder. But I can't read the sleeve. I suppose this may be Lenny Dee's category, but I have yet to see one of his records, I imagine he was never big over here. Organ Combo's: Harry Stoneham is my man here. Some great stuff some, this is where I find the stuff I've kept for the most part. I suppose your Samba organists Walter Wanderley and Ed Lincoln fit nicely in here, but they should have their own section. I heard a Denny McLaine LP over 'Coffee and Cookies' at BasicHips a couple of years ago, that is pretty good, it has the former baseball pitcher overdoing the organ while a band tries to keep up. Nice heavily reverbed sound. Don't see so much of this sort of thing about in the cheap bins. I suppose the expense of having to pay a band stopped the self indulgent from putting out so many records. The Organist magazine had a web site which I haven't found, but thats because I stopped looking here: http://www.organfax.co.uk/links.html#Magazines and we're currently missing the Caistor Organ weekender http://www.organfax.co.uk/sceptre-promotions.html I actually gave up on this promiscuous collecting quite quickly as I was accumulating just too much crap. Its a very tough job, and I'm just not the man for it. Sorry Alan. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) dreaming again Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:25:42 +0100 I've been dreaming about people on the list again, this time i dreamt someone on the list announced Charlie (Moseley) had died. Must have been Lou I suppose. Anyway I was so upset I went up to London, found his offices and went in to offer my condolences. And there he was alive and well. Although in my dream he didn't look anything like the mental picture I have based on the postings he's made. And I noticed that in my dream. I've been wondering about it. A commentary on the quietness of the list at the moment? A commentary on the unreliability of information gathered from the list. Perhaps a guilty conscience for the latter? El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) dreaming again Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:41:54 +0100 I've been dreaming about people on the list again, this time i dreamt someone on the list announced Charlie (Moseley) had died. Must have been Lou I suppose. Anyway I was so upset I went up to London, found his offices and went in to offer my condolences. And there he was alive and well. Although in my dream he didn't look anything like the mental picture I have based on the postings he's made. And I noticed that in my dream. You dream about this list??!? Nutter. Although, I had a dream yesterday that my girlfriend reprogrammed our alarm clock with a variety of stupid ringtones and I woke up and started questioning her actions, to which she replied, 'you're dreaming', which I was. That was a list topic. Although in my dream he didn't look anything like the mental picture I have based on the postings he's made. I haven't ever formed mental pictures of anyone on this list. But the exoticaring page with everybody's photo on it has allowed me to put names to faces - although Chuck's photo is a number of years out of date - he probably chose it because he's flanked by birds :-) I want to know, what do I look like? Charles Moseley Editor - C3 magazine 3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD Direct: +44 (0) 20 7704 3313 Main: +44 (0) 20 7226 8585 ISDN: +44 (0) 207 359 6756 www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.com www.c3mag.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 Cohen" Subject: Re: (exotica) New To List Date: 26 Apr 2001 06:28:59 -0400 on 4/25/01 7:20 AM, Robert Cohen at racprint@mediaone.net wrote: > > > > Does anyone know what ever happened to Jerry Nutter? I wrote him a letter > > in 1992 at his address in South Ozone Park, NY, but he never responded. > > This guy was definitely warped, and seemed to really know his cool and > > strange. > > He and fellow New Yorker Jack Fetterman started a groovy easy listening > night called "In Hi-Fi" at Bar d'O in Greenwich Village back in '95. Jerry > dropped out soon after it's inception (replaced by Scott Springer), but he > still shows up at it ocassionally ("In Hi-Fi" was weekly, but is now held on > the second Tuesday of each month). I believe Jerry now lives in Manhattan, > so your letter may never have reached him. > > br cleve Thanks, br. Any idea how to contact him? I'd love to get all the back issues of Audio Carpetorium, if they still exist. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: Captain Hook Date: 26 Apr 2001 07:18:07 -0400 > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:05:58 -0400 > From: nytab@pipeline.com > Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) LP finds..... > > Ben Waugh wrote: > > "The most hideously bizarre Christian thing on > television is 'Captain Hook's Christian Pirate > Puppets', a trully demented cable program hosted by a > real > multiple-amputee; he's missing an arm and a leg. The Creme de la Creme was when the captain broadcast a > segment where he explained how he lost his arm and > leg in a motorcycle accident. The segment was full of > gorey, full-color drawings depicting the whole > incident > - ------------ > Chusid showed this segment at one of his Incorrect Music Video Shows - truly a mind-altering experience! It took many martinis to wash away those images. > > lousmith@pipeline.com Is there anywhere on the web that I can view this segment? Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: Re: (exotica) needle question Date: 26 Apr 2001 07:01:22 -0400 > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:19:45 -0000 > From: "james brouwer" > Subject: (exotica) needle question > > I'm not much of an audiophile so pardon my ignorance. I have one turntable > and one needle. It's getting a bit old. But how old is too old? It would be very helpful to know what turntable and what cartridge you are using, and about how many hours are on it. > - - How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? I don't believe in needle wear. That's my personal opinion. Unless the needle is damaged by severe scratches or bubbles, it should last indefinitely. Afterall, it's a diamond. I can usually get 1000 hours easily. HOWEVER, it's the cantilever you really have to worry about. It gets brittle and inflexible after time, and the sound quality is degraded. I have to remember this is not the audiophile list I am used to, so this may not even be an issue. If sound quality doesn't factor in, you probably don't have to worry. > - - How can you tell if it is damaged? A magnifying glass helps, but since you don't know what the stylus was supposed to look like in the first place, you really don't know if it's altered over time. I suppose if you see a giant chunk bit out of one side of the stylus, well, there's your answer. > - - Do scratchy records damage it? I used to worry a lot about scratches. Now I only worry about EXTREME scratches, and definitely about bubbles, particularly if they are severe vertical bubbles which will hit the stylus like a ton of bricks. > - - Are some needles heartier than others? Yes. Depends on the shape of the stylus. > whatever help would be greatly appreciated. > jb As part of my hobby, I buy and sell mid-fi equipment (I get all my stuff at yard sales in the summer). I particularly like selling turntables, because I like to get people back into listening to vinyl. I check the styli with a magnifying glass, and usually they pass muster, and in many cases they are 20 to 25 years old. Sometimes the stylus is broken right off. That, of course, is a no-brainer. Take what I say with a grain of salt. I have had much experience with equipment, having been in the stereo business in the 70's, and been a serious listener since the mid-80's, but I am by no means an expert. These are just my opinions based on my own experience. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) chinese pop (was recent buys) Date: 26 Apr 2001 13:24:28 +0200 William wrote: > ... who are the quests? Actually they were from Singapore, but I thought you might be able find them in Taipei too. They play some songs on the amazing "Girls inthe Garage Vol.9", backing several Singaporean female vocalists: www.gethip.com/romulan/ufox-27.html more Quests info : http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~pisces/index.htm www.happening.com.sg/music/features/1997/archive/retrospin/60s.html (4 pages, don't overlook the tiny "next" button all the way down) > i'm not sure the chinese stuff i have is what you are looking for as it is > still rather on the traditional side. I also dig the "Modern Revolutionary Opera" stuff from the Mainland. They have beautiful album covers too. Probably not so popular in Taiwan, he he he... Otherwise, anything but the usual romantic schmaltz is ok. >>...Do you know any other chinese sites to DL from? >...not right now but i'm still looking... Joseph Koo did the groovy soundtracks for the first 3 Bruce Lee movies: www.josephkoo.com/ http://koolkoo.com/ koolkoo.com has a flashplayer jukebox but I haven't found any oldies yet It's difficult finding your way around when you can't read Chinese. I think you need big5 or whatever. >...you might try plugging in "ge lan" or "grace chang" or "sun ling" or "chou hsuan" >on napster and see what you get. Thanks for the names. I usually have more luck with Cambodian oldies. The Cambodians are more active on napster than the Chinese, and their songs are much wilder too. edward in amsterdam. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) soft pop/rock query Date: 26 Apr 2001 07:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Ben I give Orpheus a 7. Some good songs but it tends to bore me a little. I know DjJimmy is an expert on them and thinks they are great. They were part of the "Boston sound" from the late 60s. The New Colony Six are generally very sugary without spice. Sweety almost bubblegummy but they do a few killer melodies. I have heard this whole album but I would buy it if I saw it. Roger Nichols is fantastic, well at least a few songs on it are. This is a must have. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Benito Vergara wrote: > > Hello folks, > > In the April '01 issue of Mojo (the one with the Smiths on the > cover), > there's an interview with Chris Dedrick of The Free Design. The > sidebar that > comes with the article features three "soft rock classics," and I > am, > unfortunately, too ignorant to have ever heard of them. > > They are: > > Orpheus - s/t > The New Colony Six - Attacking a Straw Man > Roger Nichols and The Small Circle Of Friends - s/t > > Comments? Any of them worth checking out? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) Headline: "The birds may sing, but campers can't Date: 26 Apr 2001 10:36:56 -0400 An old news item (1996!), but I never heard about it before: http://www.s-t.com/daily/08-96/08-23-96/b02li056.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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: Re: (exotica) organ records Date: 26 Apr 2001 10:38:05 -0400 G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote: > I did think about getting on board this train for a while, and for about 6 months bought every organ record I saw. Its too much, and there is so much crap, I think possibly more than any other. But it is well sub-genred. ---------- You left off Organ & Chimes lps. These exist at the intersection of organ/percussion/hifi/holiday (most of them feature xmas carols). I collected a large handful of these back a few years ago. They were all beat to s!@# implying they were listened to often on not quite perfect systems. Anyone know anything about this sub-genre? Are there stars of Organ&Chimes? Did all the lps come out in a narrow time span. What triggered the fad, if fad it was, and what killed it off? lousmith@pipeline.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "james brouwer" Subject: Re: (exotica) organ LP finds..... Date: 26 Apr 2001 14:42:13 -0000 Dan wrote: >The organ certainly has a lot of potential for weirdness, though I've never >ventured down the perilous road of organ records beyond one or two Earl >Grant and Jackie Davis LP's. But have oft wondered whether there are some >slept-on organ records that I shouldn't be passing up at the thrifts. Any >recommendations? Clayton (if you are a Lenny Dee fan)? Anyone? I've mentioned this disc before, but it can't hurt again. "The Amzing Sounds of Eddie Baxter" on DOT records has a few choice cuts on it. His 'Quiet Village' is one of my all-time faves (he makes these screeching bird sounds with the ole Lowery!). I have two other Eddie Baxter records but they're pretty tame. -jbrouwer _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop/rock query Date: 26 Apr 2001 10:58:36 -0400 The New Colony Six are generally very sugary without spice. Sweety >almost bubblegummy but they do a few killer melodies. I have heard >this whole album but I would buy it if I saw it. The New Colony Six to know is "At the River's Edge" on Sundazed. This has all of their Sentar sides and little of the Mercury stuff and they do indeed get sugary at times. The title cut however is a real stomping good time, though. I have footage of them performing on "Mulqueen's Kiddie-Au-Go-Go" which is a delight, not only the music but for the wonderfully arrhythmic kiddies. Your pun inserted here, 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Isaac "Ike" Cole Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:11:46 -0400 Isaac Cole SUN LAKES, Ariz. (AP) -- Jazz pianist-composer Isaac Cole, brother of the late singer Nat King Cole who worked on his niece Natalie's multiple Grammy-winning 1991 album, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73. Ike Cole said he may have benefited from being compared with his more famous brother, who died in 1965 of lung cancer at 45, but that he disliked being accused of ``trying to live off the name.'' Ike Cole said he decided against changing his name because, shortly before dying, Nat asked him not to. He and brother Freddy toured in 1990 with a show saluting their famous brother. Ike Cole had played a bass drum in an Army band but in 1957, he formed the Ike Cole Trio in Chicago, where he was born, and went on the road. Winning major TV exposure, he soon was booked steadily for Las Vegas shows. His trio also regularly toured Japan, Australia and Europe as well as the United States. Though he often sang a medley of his older brother's hits, Ike primarily was a jazzman. He played keyboard when Natalie Cole recorded her late father's songs for a 1991 album that won three Grammys. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: delicado@cheerful.com Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys/organ music Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Re: Organ music, I would recommend Shirley Scott. She did some great albums on prestige, cadet and Impulse. Some of it could be described as more straight ahead jazz, but a lot of it is very much the type of stuff people on this would like (e.g. her killer version of Mancini's 'A shot in the dark'). The 'Shirley Scott - talkin verve' CD compilation seems quite good. Re: >...jonny's musical taste site... >>I always miss audio examples on sites like this. >>edward in amsterdam. I'm happy to announce that there are now audio samples on the site. I added around 20 clips last night (mp3 format); look for the 'LISTEN' button in each individual song recommendation. I will be adding more over the next week. I hope people find them interesting cheers, jonny post/view song recommendations: http://www.musicaltaste.net Get free personalized email at http://email.lycos.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop/rock query Date: 26 Apr 2001 09:05:11 -0700 (PDT) I second Brians recommendation of At the Rivers Edge. Fantastic comp! I saw the New Colony Six live once at my High School! Easy listening to soft pop in the Big Easy Chuck --- Brian Phillips wrote:The New Colony Six to know is "At the River's Edge" on Sundazed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop/rock query Date: 26 Apr 2001 12:42:53 -0400 At 08:56 PM 4/25/01 -0700, Benito Vergara wrote: > >Orpheus - s/t >The New Colony Six - Attacking a Straw Man >Roger Nichols and The Small Circle Of Friends - s/t > >Comments? Any of them worth checking out? People like JimmyB have "kvelled" about Roger Nichols so I assume that's worth it. Actually it was JimmyB also who turned me on to Orpheus. I have three of their LP's. One of them is really good. I don't know which one is the one on CD but I think in general, they're worth it. I also really like the New Colony Six record I have. There's this amazing semi-spoken word piece. Truth is I like just about everything in this genre as long as it fits, so I guess I'm the wrong person to ask. If you're asking "do they sound like the Free Design?" the answer is no. No one really does, so far that I've found, though the Match and The Love Generation come close. AZ AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) needle question Date: 26 Apr 2001 12:48:10 -0400 I change the cartridge about once a year if I remember. Usually in the summer. I buy Stantons for about fifty bucks because they are most amenable to winding backwards along the groove. Not so I can continue to scratch and practice my turntable antics but just so I can wind back half a turn when recording. I know nothing about needles except the one that's about to enter my mouth any second now as the dentist continues to try and save me from myself. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) organ records Date: 26 Apr 2001 12:57:00 -0400 >---------- >You left off Organ & Chimes lps. These exist at the intersection of organ/percussion/hifi/holiday (most of them feature xmas carols). > >I collected a large handful of these back a few years ago. What triggered the fad, if fad it was, and what killed it off? Yeah Chimes! A record which in my opinion, does not get nearly enough respect or mention here on this list is the John Klein and Sid Ramin collaboration "The New Sound America Loves Best". (The title of the record and the classic cover don't hurt). This was my first favorite lounge/exotica record and it's still in my top ten. The version of "Whistle while you work" introduced me to the whole concept of "lounge music as inner soundtrack for serial killers". A concept which continued to be relevant when I first heard the Free Design. And if you get that connection, I feel sorry for you. John Klein, the chime player - there's an official name for that - is on plenty of other records, including a "solo" record I once had. I assume the fad started as part of the percussion fad. You see those Dick Schory records with all manner of things to hit. Chimes were just one more. But this reminds me of a tiny tiny sub genre of organ record we didn't quite mention. Yes someone mentioned our beloved Three Suns but they have at least two records where they add this monstrously loud pipe organ player as a Fourth Sun. The two I have are also in my top ten. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) recent buys/organ music Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:58:13 -0500 > Re: Organ music, I would recommend Shirley Scott. She did some great > albums on prestige, cadet and Impulse. And her "Latin Shadows" has recently been reissued on CD, with arrangements by Gary McFarland. Great version of "Dreamsville"! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:50:35 +0200 i named my cat "spike", after both spike milligan & spike jones, 2 of my fave novelty artists. and she (yes it's a female) is so funny sometimes too... Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Bacharach Baroque: German (or Dutch). Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:54:04 +0200 >From: alan zweig >It's been mentioned lots of times. But there are (at least) two Bacharach >Baroque records. One is German (or Dutch)... Among the artists: Siegfried Schwab and Manfred H=FCbler, so it'd better be german. 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: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 26 Apr 2001 10:18:51 -0700 (PDT) What about children? I've named my son "Chango" (I also call him "Howler Monkey", "It's Alive" and Apocalypse Now", "Geschrei") and even commissioned a fez to fit his impressive infant skull. Sometimes he is funny, but more often, he is frightening. I swear he speaks fluent Urdu and he is marvelously unbound by social conventions. His talons come in faster than I can prune them down. --- Johan Dada Vis wrote: > > i named my cat "spike", after both spike milligan & > spike jones, 2 of > my fave novelty artists. and she (yes it's a female) > is so funny > sometimes too... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Gingerich Subject: (exotica)Idi Amin playing polka Date: 26 Apr 2001 13:26:15 -0400 This via the outsider list: >http://polkaparty2001.com/ > >got to the audio page, and you will find: > >{HYPERLINK "idibaby.ra"}Idi Amin Playing The Accordion >Recorded in Uganda during his reign of terror. > Grab a stein pull up a stool and lets party. pg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered Date: 26 Apr 2001 14:08:26 -0400 Okay who has one to add to my collection of records featuring nothing but compositions by Gilbert O'Sullivan? I have two. One by Roy Budd and one by Big Jim Sullivan. (Sullivan plays O'Sullivan). They're both amazing and unique records though I would only recommend them to uh... openminded people. Roy plays a lot of electric piano and on occasion veers into fusion. Big Jim... well for years I've looked for one of his records. I remember him well from the Tom Jones show. The one longhair in the band. When I think of Now Sound orchestras, I often think back to that band which is one of the few "from the day" I've ever seen (even though it's a bit past the prime period). I'm not sure this was the one to find but I have a feeling this is his sound. He's sort of like the 1970's answer to Buddy Merrill, in that he uses lots of layers of different guitar sounds but it's a slightly more "modern" sound than the great Buddy (Have I recommended his records enough yet?) It's a little off-putting to hear that sort of Claptonesque fat guitar sound mixed in with all the other more familiar guitar and sitar sounds. It doesn't really work. But that's interesting in and of itself. I don't have any other records with this mix of sounds. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 14:08:27 -0400 Right now I'm listening to a record by the Duprees. I picked it up hoping it might be more like the Happenings and less like a Four Seasons knockoff. Unfortunately it's more the latter and not that good. But they can sing and it has some pleasure. Before this I was listening to an Ultimate Spinach record I bought yesterday. It's amazing to me that I'm buying stuff like this but it all goes back to first hearing the Free Design and then remembering how much I liked the non-hits from the Association. For almost the thirty years I virtually ignored records from the sixties. I might have picked up a Velvet Underground record I didn't have. Or check out another Tim Buckley. But the vast pop-rock thing was basically behind me. But now I'm not only buying it but worse I'm forced to guess. I look at the name of the band. The names of songs. It's hard to resist the Ultimate Spinach's "Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess". I look at their hair. If they have seventies hair, meaning they've been growing their hair for a while and they're comfortable with it (even if they shouldn't be) then I avoid them. If however they have the kind of long hair I had in grade 11 when my father finally stopped paying close attention to the last time I got my hair cut, then I'm immediately interested. Some of the stuff I'm glad to find doesn't quite fit the soft pop genre. I wouldn't say I'm looking for "psychedelic" records but there are records that sort of cross over. I do like soft pop with psychedelia but more importantly soft pop sometimes disguises itself as psychedelia. Orpheus is a name for a psychedelic band but actually they sound a lot more like this Duprees thing which is still playing and growing on me. Occasionally I come across something that I actually heard back in the day. The Association, the Fifth Dimension, the Cowsills. (And btw, the Cowsills are really quite good across three or four records. They may have inspired the Partridges but they are the real thing.) And there are occasional ones I remember but I never associated with this genre. Like the Tokens or the Happenings who I thought of more in the post doo-wop genre but actually cross over nicely. But the vast majority of things I find are "new" to me. Maybe I saw them in some movie I forgot or some episode of Hullabaloo but otherwise the Love Generation, the Sunshine Company.... Anyway I find it fascinating and distressing to be in the "rock section" at this point. I can sort of understand how I got here. And it fits with my groovy sixties soundtrack thing. This is the vocal equivalent of the sitar and organ anthems I'm looking for elsewhere. And sometimes they cross over. Dino Desi and Billy singing "Spray Colored Glasses" on the Follow Me soundtrack, which is elsewhere covered brilliantly by the Match on their record. One of the things that's distressing about it is that I'm now competing with the psychedelic collectors who will buy ANYTHING with the slightest touch of "weirdness" and they will pay almost anything for it too. The other bad thing is that when I guess badly, it can cost me twenty bucks. But the worst thing about buying records in this genre is that occasionally all the soft rock psychedelia signs are there but instead you just get your standard plodding bad rock record. For some reason, with all the mediocre records I've bought and tried out, nothing quite ruins my day so much as a mediocre rock record. And it's not just that it cost me twenty bucks instead of fifty cents though that's certainly part of it. You buy a lounge record hoping it'll be better than average and it turns out to be average. It's still okay. It doesn't chase you down and ruin your day. The only reason I wrote this is because the dentist just pushed me back a half hour. But I realize that from now on I can put essays like this on my new website, which is ostensibly about the film but is really just a diary site. I'll give you the url when it's here. But I think that in the future I will send all my long record buying rants there. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 18:22:28 >I do like soft pop with psychedelia but more importantly soft pop sometimes >disguises itself as psychedelia. Orpheus is a name for a psychedelic Have you tried Harper's Bizarre's (?) album, their first I think, "Feelin' Groovy"? There is one song contained thereon, "Come Love", which is an especially blissful slice of soft psychedelic pop. -Dan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 11:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Dan Who wrote "Come Love" ? Was it Van Dyke Parks or another of those Wonoker Warner Brothers soft pop West Coast guys? For me Harpers Bizarre when they are not being Wnchester Cathedrally are as good as it gets in the sunshine pop or psychedlic pop vein, which I consider two seperate genres of the larger soft pop scene. Thanks Chuck --- Daniel Shiman wrote: > Have you tried Harper's Bizarre's (?) album, their first I think, > "Feelin' > Groovy"? There is one song contained thereon, "Come Love", which > is an > especially blissful slice of soft psychedelic pop. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tipsydave@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:43:48 EDT As far as the soft pop/psych thing goes... Look for the Sagittarius lp "Present Tense". It's one of my all-time favorite albums. Stunningly overproduced. By the way, how is that Ultimate Spinach? -dave In a message dated 4/26/01 10:06:15 AM, azed@pathcom.com writes: << Before this I was listening to an Ultimate Spinach record I bought yesterday. It's amazing to me that I'm buying stuff like this but it all goes back to first hearing the Free Design and then remembering how much I liked the non-hits from the Association. For almost the thirty years I virtually ignored records from the sixties. I might have picked up a Velvet Underground record I didn't have. Or check out another Tim Buckley. But the vast pop-rock thing was basically behind me. But now I'm not only buying it but worse I'm forced to guess. I look at the name of the band. The names of songs. It's hard to resist the Ultimate Spinach's "Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess". (...) Some of the stuff I'm glad to find doesn't quite fit the soft pop genre. I wouldn't say I'm looking for "psychedelic" records but there are records that sort of cross over. I do like soft pop with psychedelia but more importantly soft pop sometimes disguises itself as psychedelia. Orpheus is a name for a psychedelic band but actually they sound a lot more like this Duprees thing which is still playing and growing on me. Occasionally I come across something that I actually heard back in the day. The Association, the Fifth Dimension, the Cowsills. (And btw, the Cowsills are really quite good across three or four records. They may have inspired the Partridges but they are the real thing.) And there are occasional ones I remember but I never associated with this genre. Like the Tokens or the Happenings who I thought of more in the post doo-wop genre but actually cross over nicely. But the vast majority of things I find are "new" to me. Maybe I saw them in some movie I forgot or some episode of Hullabaloo but otherwise the Love Generation, the Sunshine Company.... Anyway I find it fascinating and distressing to be in the "rock section" at this point. I can sort of understand how I got here. And it fits with my groovy sixties soundtrack thing. This is the vocal equivalent of the sitar and organ anthems I'm looking for elsewhere. And sometimes they cross over. Dino Desi and Billy singing "Spray Colored Glasses" on the Follow Me soundtrack, which is elsewhere covered brilliantly by the Match on their record. One of the things that's distressing about it is that I'm now competing with the psychedelic collectors who will buy ANYTHING with the slightest touch of "weirdness" and they will pay almost anything for it too. The other bad thing is that when I guess badly, it can cost me twenty bucks. But the worst thing about buying records in this genre is that occasionally all the soft rock psychedelia signs are there but instead you just get your standard plodding bad rock record. For some reason, with all the mediocre records I've bought and tried out, nothing quite ruins my day so much as a mediocre rock record. And it's not just that it cost me twenty bucks instead of fifty cents though that's certainly part of it. You buy a lounge record hoping it'll be better than average and it turns out to be average. It's still okay. It doesn't chase you down and ruin your day. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 17:58:39 EDT In a message dated 4/26/1 1:23:18 PM, daniel_shiman@hotmail.com wrote: >Have you tried Harper's Bizarre's (?) album, their first I think, "Feelin' >Groovy"? There is one song contained thereon, "Come Love", which is an >especially blissful slice of soft psychedelic pop. It was Harper's Bizarre's version of "Me Japanese Boy I Love You" (written by Bacharach/David) that the Pizzicato 5 covered on one or their import CD;s I bought for $32.99 when I sold my punk LP'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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 18:04:19 EDT In a message dated 4/26/1 3:45:32 PM, Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: >Look for the Sagittarius lp "Present Tense". It's one of my all-time favorite >albums. >Stunningly overproduced. Agreed...recently re-issued by Sundazed along with Yellow Balloon and Ronnie and the Daytona's "Sandy" LP. Which is fabulash. If you only know Ronnie and The Daytonas from "Little GTO" you really oughta get a listen to "Sandy" Its nothing but "summer" ballads...They're a poor man's Beach Boys and available in 180mg vinyl! >By the way, how is that Ultimate Spinach? I think they suck, but I'm from Boston where they were part of the 1967 Great Rock And Roll Swindle AKA "The Bosstown Sound"...I haven't listened to them since 1968. Maybe I should re-listen. Maybe not # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 15:40:30 -0700 Thanks to everyone who replied; you were a great help! Jonny Perl also reminded me that he had just posted a review of the Roger Nichols album to this list last week... It's odd that I don't know more of this stuff because I grew up in a place (the Philippines) where soft pop/rock reigned supreme. It helps to remember that The Third Wave (ok, not as hip as the Dusty Groove people say, but they were still pretty darn cool) were from the Philippines as well. But perhaps it was a different tributary all together (I know Alan, nee Nat, and I had a long previous discussion about the Sandpipers over which genre they actually belonged). For instance, many Filipinos still know, by heart, the lyrics to songs by America. And Bread. And Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday." And Friend and Lover's "Reach Out Of The Darkness." And the Bells' "Stay Awhile." And Spiral Staircase's "More Today than Yesterday," one of my favorite songs of all time. But perhaps these aren't soft pop anymore... > I look at their hair. If they have seventies hair, meaning they've been > growing their hair for a while and they're comfortable with it (even if > they shouldn't be) then I avoid them. > I do like soft pop with psychedelia but more importantly soft pop > sometimes > disguises itself as psychedelia. Did the Strawberry Alarm Clock have seventies hair? At this point I feel like re-plugging one of my favorite sites of all time (http://webfitz.www.50megs.com/), if only for the funny annotations to the "MacArthur Park" lyrics. Later, Ben np: boredoms, "vision creation newsun" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 19:24:10 -0400 At 06:22 PM 4/26/01, Daniel Shiman wrote: > >Have you tried Harper's Bizarre's (?) album, their first I think, "Feelin' >Groovy"? There is one song contained thereon, "Come Love", which is an >especially blissful slice of soft psychedelic pop. Harpers Bizarre in general drive me crazy with their annoying predilection for vo-dee-oh-doh Rudy Vallee novelty tunes. I had all their records and then I got rid of them. But not before putting the best tunes on a CDR. And I agree Daniel. "Comes Love" is a fabulous thing. You have good taste! AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 19:25:44 -0400 At 11:32 AM 4/26/01 -0700, chuck wrote: > For me Harpers Bizarre when they are not >being Wnchester Cathedrally are as good as it gets in the sunshine >pop or psychedlic pop vein, I should read all the posts before I start replying. I just said the same thing essentially except I namechecked Rudy Vallee. Great minds Eh tu chuck AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 19:45:53 EDT In a message dated 4/26/1 5:34:46 PM, bvergara@sfsu.edu wrote: >Did the Strawberry Alarm Clock have seventies hair? No but they went barefoot in baltimore long before kelso's earth shoes were in vogue # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 19:49:57 -0400 At 06:04 PM 4/26/01 EDT, DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote: > >>By the way, how is that Ultimate Spinach? > >I think they suck, but I'm from Boston where they were part of the 1967 Great >Rock And Roll Swindle AKA "The Bosstown Sound". Well there's sucking and sucking. As far as Bosstown Sound goes, I think Ultimate Spinach is head and shoulders above say The Beacon Street Union even though "The Clown Died at Marvin Gardens" is a semi-classic and I bet I can still make my "little brother" laugh by playing that way-ahead-of-its-time spoken word piece "May I light your cigarette". I have two Ultimate Spinach records and if you like this kind of light psychedelic pop a la Strawberry Alarm Clock (whose first record I think is fab) then you'll definitely like them. So far I think the "Behold and See" record is better than the self-titled one I just bought. In a surprisingly similar vein, at this moment I am grooving to another new purchase. "The Electric Jackie and Roy - Grass". It's Jackie and Roy but trying even harder to be hip. Hippy hip, not just jazzy hip like usual. If the rest is like this first cut, this could be a hidden gem. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: RE: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 20:01:05 -0400 At 03:40 PM 4/26/01 -0700, Benito Vergara wrote: > >For instance, many Filipinos still know, by heart, the lyrics to >songs by America. And Bread. And Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday." And >Friend and Lover's "Reach Out Of The Darkness." And the Bells' "Stay >Awhile." And Spiral Staircase's "More Today than Yesterday," one of my >favorite songs of all time. But perhaps these aren't soft pop anymore... I know what you mean by "not..anymore". It does feel like anything we knew back in the day really wasn't soft pop and only now are we discovering the real thing. I would say that the Spiral Staircase and the Bells and even Bread all qualify as soft pop. I don't particularly like that song by the Bells but I had another record by them with a couple of really cool tunes. The Friends and Lovers, I guess that would be soft pop too. It's soft of like the Fifth Dimension. Some of their more famous tunes almost remind me of very light soul. Like the Stylistics. (And that's not just because their skin tone made them resemble black people.) But if you hear them do a less familiar but great tune like "Pattern People", then you know that they were basically a soft pop band. The one I would take issue with is America. That example demonstrates another trap for those of us searching for soft pop on the basis of the "look" of the band. Sometimes it ends up being folk rock. That's sort of what I meant by saying you have to look at their hair. At one time I was a huge fan of folk rock. And I know that my present taste is obviously influenced by folk rock. But there is a huge difference between soft pop and folk rock. (MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THAT!!!!!) az # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 27 Apr 2001 01:12:11 > >Who wrote "Come Love" ? > >Was it Van Dyke Parks or another of those Wonoker Warner Brothers >soft pop West Coast guys? For me Harpers Bizarre when they are not According to "Feelin' Groovy"'s record label, "Come Love" was a product of the Marks-Bergman-Keith songwriting team, whoever they were. It was their only appearance on an album comprised of songs penned by Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, and Leon Russell, among others. feelin' groggy, Dan Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 22:17:56 -0400 AZ wrote: >Occasionally I come across something that I actually heard back in the day. > The Association, the Fifth Dimension, the Cowsills. (And btw, the >Cowsills are really quite good across three or four records. They may have >inspired the Partridges but they are the real thing.) I have "The Cowsills In Concert" -- it opens with a studio cover of "Hair" and the rest seems to be genuine live material. Side two gets sort of heavy with tunes like "Sunshine Of Your Love" -- I was hoping they would be combining that with their harmony vocals, but they did it pretty much like the original, just the boys singing rockstar leadsinger style. It's kind of like on side 2 someone said, "Just let the boys go, they'll get it out of their system." The cover has photos of their other albums (at that point). What is "Captain Sad and his Ship Of Fools" like? Odd cover and odd title. Intriguing. It also looks like the cover photo on "The Cowsills" served as inspiration for the cover photo of The Replacements "Let It Be". Now there's a name I never expected to see on Exoticalist. And least of all me typing it. >But I think that in the future I will send all my long record buying rants >there. Nooooooo! m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) a new subgenre discovered Date: 26 Apr 2001 22:27:23 -0400 >Okay who has one to add to my collection of records featuring nothing but >compositions by Gilbert O'Sullivan? >I have two. One by Roy Budd and one by Big Jim Sullivan. >(Sullivan plays O'Sullivan). >Big Jim... well for years I've looked for one of his records. I remember >him well from the Tom Jones show. The one longhair in the band. Big Jim Sullivan was a busy 60s session player in Britain. Sort of the Tommy Tedesco of the scene? Before he got some other projects going, a certain other session player, Mr. Page, was known as Little Jim. He usually wound up on the rhythm guitar part. Anyway, that's the stories that I've heard. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians Date: 26 Apr 2001 22:37:55 -0400 I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of "The Insect Musicians" by Graeme Revell for several weeks. Finally arrived today and it's spinning now. It fully meets my expectations, which were pretty high. :) What this is, is a record made up entirely of insect sounds, both "as recorded" and electronically manipulated. To quote from the back cover: "For the two years 1984-5, Graeme Revell travelled from Australia to Europe, to Africa, Indonesia and North America recording and negotiating copyrights of insect sound recordings. It took another full year sampling and metamorphosing some forty sounds thus gathered using the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, to produce this record. The only sounds used are those of insects, altered digitally and combined into a unique orchestra of instruments, an orchestra of strange and delicate timbres, music of natural rhythm and texture." Yeah, right, it continues to gush for awhile. :) Some random highlights from the track list: Nocturne (on an Oriental theme) Created from: Indonesian cicada, meadow grasshopper, Death's Head hawkmoth, African cicada Phobia (an Australian theme) Created form: drone fly, field cricket, Australian cicada, queen bee Invader of the Heart Created from: hive bees (disturbed), wood boring beetle, queen bee, European cicada, Death's Head hawkmoth Also includes a pretty neat booklet with a section on how insects make sound and another on the Fairlight machine, which was apparently a high-tech wonder in those days. Further writings are some philosphico-musical musings by the composer, some interesting excerpts from other writers both famous and obscure, and even a bibliography (!). Anyway, this is -very- cool. It's actually rather good music, and the sounds are, of course, unique. If you're a fan of ambient, or just Cool & Strange music in general, do not miss this one! Oh, and my understanding is that Graeme (who is a film music producer now) worked for a while as an assistant in an insane asylum. While there, he made recordings of the patients and, you guessed it, tweaked them up and made a record out of it. I'm on the lookout. :) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) soft pop tributaries Date: 26 Apr 2001 23:13:55 EDT In a message dated 4/26/1 6:58:32 PM, azed@pathcom.com wrote: >The one I would take issue with is America. >That example demonstrates another trap for those of us searching for soft >pop on the basis of the "look" of the band. Sometimes it ends up being >folk rock. That's sort of what I meant by saying you have to look at their >hair. Yet "hair" was a Cowsill's topper popper..however, that gets us into the breaking down of hair history even further. A band with long hair and sporting hideous side parts a-la "boy's "regular" haircut circa 1959 had to be less than comfortable with long hair, but was wearing it as a political/solidarisnoc (right Lech?) statement. Buy the album to be sure. A band with mid-head parts realized that side parts weren't manageable with long hair (allow some space for the early-age-follically-challenged). But when the "band" America came along, the blow-drier had taken charge. This meant that guys looked like gyrrrls if they weren't yet follically challenged. America was America's first pre-fab, blow-dried soft rock band, and as such they must be added to the "They Sucked" list...JB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered Date: 26 Apr 2001 22:18:16 -0500 "m.ace" wrote: > Big Jim Sullivan was a busy 60s session player in Britain. Isn't he also rumored to have been "Lord Sitar"? > Sort of the Tommy Tedesco of the scene? Oh urgh. I hope not. Tedesco was *such* a hack. I actually paid 10 bucks to attend a "seminar" he gave for aspiring session musicians back in 1981. It was a total crock. He sat around, told boring stories, and played the same guitar lick over and over again. I've wanted that hour of my life back ever since. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Subject: (exotica) Cartridges Date: 26 Apr 2001 22:33:44 -0400 Steve wrote: >- - How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? >I'm not sure exactly, but it would be in the thousands. This seems high but depends on a number of factors, including the composition of the stylus (diamond, sapphire..) the type of cantilever, the tracking force, and of course, the condition of the record. With all of the above factors at their worst case options, I'd say hundreds at best. >- - How can you tell if it is damaged? > If your records sound thin and a little distorted when they > didn't use to sound like that, or when you notice that you > are getting excessive wear from repeated playings, it's time > to change the stylus. This works in theory but not in principle as its usually not until you change it that you notice how the sound has degraded. The degradation is very slow and subtle. Of course you kick yourself for not noticing (as I've done myself). Supposedly with a proper magnifying glas, you can tell if the diamond has worn although i haven't had much success with this one myself. If your one of those types you could record the hours of use but here if you play records regularly you could calculate the use a lot easier. >- - Do scratchy records damage it? > Not really, but dirty records can gum up a stylus. I wouldn't think a skp that causes the needle to jump is good for the diamond or the caltilever, and large scratches are doing much the same on a smaller scale. Light scraches probably wouldn't be as severe. Dirt can gum up a stylus but with the right products a stylus can be cleaned, although it is fragile so it takes great care. It would be easy to say clean the record first and the sylus stays cleaner in an ideal world. >- - Are some needles heartier than others? > Yes, DJ cartridges have a very strong cantilever, and require > a higher tracking force. They are generally more durable than > audiophile cartridges that track at lighter weights. That's for sure! Stanton are the industry standard and from experience at our station I can see why! The Shure models we got didn't make it a month... And its not a cost thing, as some of the most expensive cartridges are the most fragile. Of course you can get a wide range of cartridges, from a $10 cheapie cartridge to a $2500 hand crafted wood model. I think I mentioned a while back totally falling for the moving coil type cartrigde as the sound was so much warmer and detailed as compared to similar priced moving magnet models. The problem with the moving coil is you may need a head amplifier stage as many of these cartridges are lower output, and you cannot replace the stylus yourself. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians Date: 26 Apr 2001 23:56:46 EDT In a message dated 4/26/01 7:38:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gannet@jtel.net writes: << Oh, and my understanding is that Graeme (who is a film music producer now) worked for a while as an assistant in an insane asylum. While there, he made recordings of the patients and, you guessed it, tweaked them up and made a record out of it. I'm on the lookout. :) >> Unless I'm spacing (which is possible) I do believe he was also in early "industrial" group SPK, who put out some INTENSE music in their time that's well worth checking out. Stay away from their later major-era material (Machine Age Voodoo and after) though -DavidH. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: Re: (exotica) Ironic Enjoyment Date: 26 Apr 2001 21:01:40 -0700 >Speaking of perhaps novelty music, what do you guys >think about Wesley Willis? his music is on one hand >just plain funny, but on another hand, it elicits a >strong cult following that I personally feel pretty >strongly. >Sure, hearing his vulgar phrases is humorous, but, >the music along with the lyrics always fires me up in >a genuine way. the fact that a schizophrenic >person can present his thoughts in such a way as to >connect with so many people to me is amazing and >fabulous. > >christine I'll tell you what isn't humorous: listening to Wesley's vulgar phrases repeated over and over and over and over and over again where you work, while he sits there and scares people, and then apologizes, and then does it all over again. But that's Tourettes for you. I wish I could laugh but I've spent too much time around Wesley, and not because I wanted to. On the one hand, it's nice that he received the fame and money, considering that for years he spent so much of his time sitting outside on the sidewalk, doing these huge drawings with his markers (pretty much like the ones you find on his albums, except far bigger), and selling them to people for so litttle. But on the other, I feel sorry for the guy and his problems, and all the people who have tried to take advantage of him. Sometimes though, you reach the end of one of his songs, get to a commercial catch phrase, and it ties the whole thing together in his own askew brilliance. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: (exotica) organs and vocal suggestions Date: 26 Apr 2001 21:08:05 -0700 Can someone give me a few suggestions of organ albums/songs with backing female vocals? As I recall there are some good ones by Lenny Dee but I don't own any, and I'm sure there are other organists out there that went down that path for a while. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 27 Apr 2001 00:28:23 -0400 At 10:17 PM 4/26/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >I have "The Cowsills In Concert" -- it opens with a studio cover of "Hair" >and the rest seems to be genuine live material. Side two gets sort of heavy >with tunes like "Sunshine Of Your Love" yeah that live album is not typical of their studio records. I have a feeling that live they were trying to prove they're a real band and they chose to do that through playing their instruments rather than sing their harmonies. If that's the only record of theirs you have, don't judge them by it. I have a live Association record too. It's better than the Cowsills but again, it's no "Birthday". AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) organs and vocal suggestions Date: 27 Apr 2001 00:38:32 -0400 At 09:08 PM 4/26/01 -0700, F. Cobalt wrote: > >Can someone give me a few suggestions of organ albums/songs with backing female vocals? As I recall there are some good ones by Lenny Dee but I don't own any, and I'm sure there are other organists out there that went down that path for a while. Can you be more specific? Do you mean wordless vocals - as in oohing and aahing- or do you mean the females actual sing words? I would assume that I'd have an answer to this at my fingertips but I don't. And I don't want to go looking without knowing what you want. (But off the top of my head for instance, Lenny Dee does a version of "Peace Train" with female backing vocals but they actually sing whole sections of the chorus.) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Hyakugojyuuichi!! Date: 27 Apr 2001 01:05:13 -0500 Wow... http://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf -Indy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related Date: 26 Apr 2001 23:26:48 -0700 When Marisa and I get together we will, I'm sure, get a cat...and we both think "Esquivel" would be cool! Byron # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians Date: 27 Apr 2001 10:18:30 +0200 (CEST) > << Oh, and my understanding is that Graeme (who is a film music=20 producer > now) > worked for a while as an assistant in an insane asylum. While=20 there, he > made recordings of the patients and, you guessed it, tweaked them up=20 and > made a record out of it. I'm on the lookout. :) Maybe you are referring to the record he made together with nurse with=20 wound and one more band where he interpreted the music written by Adolf=20 W=F6lfi, an art brut painter from i think switzerland. Revells tracks on=20 that record is (was? it was some years ago and my taste have changed)=20 great. Very exotic sounding. One track was later used as the theme for=20 the australian film "Dead calm".=20 Check out Adolf W=F6lfi too, an amazing artist. The insect record came out on vinyl in the mid to late 80s, I bought it=20 but I thought that Revells work on the W=F6lfi record was superior, so=20 you have something to look forward too! =20 Yes, Graeme Revell was SPK. Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: (exotica) Come Love Date: 27 Apr 2001 04:58:08 >Who wrote "Come Love" ? >Was it Van Dyke Parks or another of those Wonoker Warner Brothers soft pop West Coast guys? For me Harpers Bizarre when they are not being Wnchester Cathedrally are as good as it gets in the sunshine pop or psychedlic pop vein, which I consider two seperate genres of the larger soft pop scene. The song is credited to Markes-Keith-Bergman. Not sure who they are. The song was (originally?) released in 1966 by Bruce & Terry -- that's Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher -- on one of their many fine Columbia singles. I think their version is much better than Harper's Bizarre's. You can hear it on the Sundazed collection THE BEST OF BRUCE & TERRY. You can also hear it on the probably very hard to find, and expensive even when it was in print deluxe CD RARE MASTERS by Bruce and Terry, on the (defunct?) Japanese M&M label. This label issued two versions, the fancier one boastng a 56-page booklet and 34 tracks, some of them surf rock productions they did for the likes of Pat Boone and Wayne Newton (don't laugh, they're really good!). But the Sundazed collection is well worth having and contains most of the best songs plus a few otherwise unreleased ones. For the people seeking more harmony soft pop in a post PET SOUNDS vein, I recommend all of the recent Sagittarius/Millenium-related releases on the British Poptones label, and also the great Harmony Grass CD. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Graeme Revell - The Insect Musicians Date: 27 Apr 2001 12:37:17 +0200 gannet@jtel.net writes: > << Oh, and my understanding is that Graeme (who is a film music producer now) > worked for a while as an assistant in an insane asylum. While there, he > made recordings of the patients and, you guessed it, tweaked them up and > made a record out of it. I'm on the lookout. :) > >> Although not the one you're looking for, he is also on the compilation album "Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles" (1986 Music Brut) which is interpretations of the music of mental patient and outsider painter/musician Adolf Wolfli. Also on this comp. are Nurse With Wound, a band well worth checking out. There was also a CD + Book called "Musique Brut Collection" (1994) (Don't know what's on it though) Dj45rpm@aol.com wrote: >Unless I'm spacing (which is possible) I do believe he was also in early >"industrial" group SPK, who put out some INTENSE music in their time that's >well worth checking out. My guess is the early SPK stuff would be WAY to noisy for most exoticats here! The abbreviation SPK stood for various things: Socialist Patients Kollektiv (originally a group of german mental patients who were inspired by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang and blew themselves up while trying to make bombs in their mental hospital), Surgical Penis Klinik, SepPuKu (japanese ritual suicide) etc. >Stay away from their later major-era material (Machine Age Voodoo and after) >though That would be their middle period (yeah, it does suck), before Graeme Revell bought his Fairlight Computer. Then they (under the name SPK but Graeme solo as it was most of the time) made the best SPK album ever called Zamia Lehmanni (1986). It was rereleased on CD by Mute in 1992. Very atmospheric and very beautiful. Highly reccomended for exotica fans (who are not afraid of sampling). Reviews: http://www.softwatch.freeserve.co.uk/spkzamia.htm He reworked this album for his filmscore debut Dead Calm in1989, which earned him an australian academy award and paved the way for Hollywood. In the last twelve years he's had a highly prolific output, making soundtracks for The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Body of Evidence (Madonna nekkid), Wim Wender's Until the End of the World, From Dusk till Dawn, John Woo's Hard Target, The Crow 1&2, Strange days, The Siege, Dune (TV version), Red Planet , Jennifer (daughter of David) Lynch's Boxing Helena, The Saint, and many, many more. Complete filmograpghy and interviews at: http://www.graemerevell.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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: a new subgenre discovered Date: 27 Apr 2001 07:06:59 -0400 > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:08:26 -0400 > From: alan zweig > Subject: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered > Gilbert O'Sullivan Roy Budd Big Jim Sullivan. Tom Jones Buddy Merrill Duprees. Happenings Four Seasons Ultimate Spinach Free Design Velvet Underground Tim Buckley. Orpheus The Association The Fifth Dimension The Cowsills. The Partridges Tokens Happenings Hullabaloo Love Generation The Sunshine Company.... Dino Desi and Billy > AZ YIKES! Help! I've fallen and I can't get up. Wow, I can't absorb all this information so quickly. Somebody send me a list so I can know what to look for at yard sales this summer. Thanks, Alan, for the amazing trip back through time. I always go to yard sales with my friend Dan, and he also collects records. Wait until I start picking up Gilbert O'Sullivan, the Cowsills, and Dino, Desi, and Billy. He'll want to have me committed :-) Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 27 Apr 2001 06:52:10 -0400 > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:50:35 +0200 > From: Johan Dada Vis > Subject: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names > > i named my cat "spike", after both spike milligan & spike jones, 2 of > my fave novelty artists. and she (yes it's a female) is so funny > sometimes too... > > Johan Both of our cats came from yard sales, a year apart. No, we didn't buy them, they were moving sales, and the people were looking for good homes for pets they couldn't take with them. One is Cheshire, the other is Kelton. Alice in Wonderland is pretty exotic, so I think Cheshire qualifies, even though we didn't actually name him. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edjunkita Subject: Re: (exotica) Hyakugojyuuichi!! Date: 27 Apr 2001 13:21:03 +0200 Indy Rutks wrote: > Wow... > > http://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf > > -Indy This is already a huge net phenomena. The kid who made it is only 14 years old. All his stuff is on: http://animutation.mixnmojo.com/ check out his interview: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/04/26/animation/index.html he has a band too: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/62/trapezoid.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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 27 Apr 2001 15:06:53 +0200 (CEST) I had a norvegian forest cat last year (similar in "style" to Americas Maine Coon) that I called "TIKI". He was indeed very tiki. Lots of humour and intelligent, he enjoyed the game "peek a boo I can see you". When sexuality hit him he got evil, but he did not hurt me, and he had severe attacks that knocked him out. He got run over by a car when he was 1 year old. I miss him a lot. He definetely "lived" during his short lifetime. I will get a new cat later this year, if its a she I will call her "Sondi" (Sondi Sodsai) or "Sandy" (The Exotica girl) depending on the color, a he will be called "Les" or maybe Tiki 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: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 27 Apr 2001 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Kurt Boetcher is one of my favorites. He seems to capture Psychedellic Pop from his own angle. If you like Sagittarius get the Millenium and Ballroom cds. I have them both and love them though Sagittarius is still the classic. DJMingo an artist formerlly known as Jill Mingo, and a true soft pop expert, turned me on to Ballroom and Millenium. Has anyone heard the Millenium 2 cd at dusty and other music? Any recommendations. Also "Forever Changes" by Love has been expanded with some bonus cuts. Are these bonus cuts worth the admission price? I don't want to purchase this album for the 4th time in its newest format. Why didn't stupid Rhino get these bonus cuts on the Love box set! Rhino drives me up the wall. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck --- Tipsydave@aol.com wrote: > > As far as the soft pop/psych thing goes... > Look for the Sagittarius lp "Present Tense". It's one of my > all-time favorite albums. Stunningly overproduced. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) Hyakugojyuuichi!! Date: 27 Apr 2001 11:41:24 -0400 > From: "Indy Rutks" > Wow... > > http://member.iquest.net/~derecho/pika.swf > > -Indy > Wow is right! Damn! Do you suppose there is any sense to be made of that (i.e. in Japanese) or do you think the lyrics are as schizophrenic as the images? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Clayton Black Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related Date: 27 Apr 2001 11:44:19 -0400 > From: bag@hubris.net > When Marisa and I get together we will, I'm sure, get a cat...and we both > think "Esquivel" would be cool! > > Byron > How about Whatchamacallit, Mucha Muchacha, or maybe just Juan, if the first two are too long? Clayton # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Hyakugojyuuichi!! Date: 27 Apr 2001 11:10:00 -0500 Clayton Black wrote: > Wow is right! Damn! Do you suppose there is any sense to be made of that > (i.e. in Japanese) or do you think the lyrics are as schizophrenic as the > images? Well, the lyrics make sense if you're a Japanese Pokemon fan. "Hyakugojuuichi" is "151" which as anybody who has kids knows, is the original number of Pokemon that you need to collect to become a Pokemon Master. Since the song was first released, that number has risen by a couple hundred more so the song will probably have to be renamed "Sanhyakugojuuni" (352) or probably even higher. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) Hyakugojyuuichi!! Date: 27 Apr 2001 12:36:45 -0400 >Wow is right! Damn! Do you suppose there is any sense to be made of that >(i.e. in Japanese) or do you think the lyrics are as schizophrenic as the >images? I translated it as: "Xtabay, Xtabay is pronounced..." Sorry. In the Salon article, it mentions something about being a Pokemon anthem, so the meaning of the lyrics may not be as nuts as we think. Gotta catch 'em all (Registered Trademark), 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obit] Al Hibbler Date: 27 Apr 2001 12:57:13 -0400 April 27, 2001 Al Hibbler, a Singer With Ellington's Band, Dies at 85 By BEN RATLIFF Al Hibbler, the blind baritone singer who came to prominence with Duke Ellington's orchestra in the 1940's and then scored a hit with his version of the Alex North song "Unchained Melody," died on Tuesday at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago. He was 85 and lived in Chicago. Mr. Hibbler's singing voice was mannered and strange. He used a fast, muscular vibrato; growled and crooned; put on an English accent; and turned songs into emotional rides. Ellington called it "tonal pantomime." Mr. Hibbler was blind at birth, in Tyro, Miss., and did not attend school until he was 15, when he went to the Arkansas School for the Blind. He sang in the school choir as a soprano, but by the end of his teenage years his voice had dropped, and he was soon singing the blues in Arkansas and Texas bars. He first tried out for Ellington's band in 1942, but, as he often recalled in what was seemingly his favorite story, he sang a song onstage with the band in Little Rock, Ark., got a good audience response, and then celebrated by getting drunk. The next day Ellington told him he wasn't ready to join the band. "I can handle a blind man," Mr. Hibbler said Ellington told him, "but not a blind drunk." Instead, he wound up working with Jay McShann's band for a year and a half, and returned to Ellington in 1943. Ellington wrote "Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me" as a special number for Mr. Hibbler, and it became one of the band's hits. The eight years that Mr. Hibbler spent with the band were not among the creative high points of Ellington's career, but the audience did not wane; finally, however, Mr. Hibbler left the band over a payment dispute (said to have involved raising Mr. Hibbler's salary). Toward the end of time with Ellington, Mr. Hibbler's specialties became songs like "Trees" and "Danny Boy" — oddments in an Ellington show but indicative of the singer's future career as a ballads-and-standards singer. While with Ellington, Mr. Hibbler also recorded with Harry Carney, Mercer Ellington, Billy Kyle, Billy Taylor and others. Mr. Hibbler next signed with Verve, and made records for the next four years that included some of his former Ellington-band colleagues, but he hit pay dirt during his next contract, with Decca. In 1955 he recorded "Unchained Melody," from the prison film "Unchained." Though the film was not a hit, North's theme song was, and Mr. Hibbler's version and one by Les Baxter hit the charts the same week in April 1955. Baxter's rose to No. 1; Mr. Hibbler's peaked at No. 3. The next year Mr. Hibbler had another hit with "After the Lights Go Down Low." He filled an odd musical niche in this period because he could croon songbook standards and also sing earthy blues. When he became involved with the civil rights movement in the 1960's — marching with protesters and being arrested in 1959 and 1963 — the luster came off his recording career and labels were afraid to sign him. Frank Sinatra, however, contracted him for one album on his Reprise label, "Monday Every Day." In 1972 he recorded with the multi- instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk on the album "A Meeting of the Times," but otherwise performed and recorded infrequently. His last public appearance was in January 1999, at a Jazz at Lincoln Center evening of Ellington alumni, when he performed at a late-evening party. Seated, and using a vibrato as over- the-top as ever, he sang "Time After Time." He is survived by a sister, Christine Noland, and a brother, Hubert Hibbler, both of Chicago. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "William" Subject: (exotica) re:graeme revelle Date: 28 Apr 2001 01:20:39 +0800 >Although not the one you're looking for, he is also on the compilation album >"Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles" (1986 Music Brut) which is interpretations >of the music of mental patient and outsider painter/musician Adolf Wolfli. >Also on this comp. are Nurse With Wound, a band well worth checking out. >There was also a CD + Book called "Musique Brut Collection" (1994) (Don't know >what's on it though) i've heard that the cd version of "necropolis, amphibians & reptiles" only contains the tracks by graeme revelle. or maybe this "musique brut collection" is really just the insect musicians and the wolfli music compiled together on a single disc. i'm not sure as i have them both on vinyl. but haven't heard them in years as they are in storage at my parents back in the states. but i remember really liking them. especially the wolfli record. william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: naturboy@telerama.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 27 Apr 2001 16:21:48 -0400 (EDT) Quoting bag@hubris.net: > > When Marisa and I get together we will, I'm sure, get a cat...and we > both > think "Esquivel" would be cool! My buddy has a little tan and black Chihuahua named Esquivel. Sure, he's a hispter, but it seems a good name for a leetle dog from Mexico. The formidable Rex Doane at WFMU named his Chihuahua Tipitina after the New Orleans club, but that dog now appears to be called "Tiki." My own Chihuahua is named Googie, you know, after the exotic architecture that goes with the exotic music. there's a pattern here with silly people with silly dogs with silly names. al # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Cartridges Date: 27 Apr 2001 13:55:39 -0700 >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:33:44 -0400 >From: "Brian" >Subject: Subject: (exotica) Cartridges > >Steve wrote: > >>- - How many hours of play does a needle have before it gets damaged? >>I'm not sure exactly, but it would be in the thousands. >This seems high but depends on a number of factors, including the >composition of the stylus (diamond, sapphire..) the type of cantilever, the >tracking force, and of course, the condition of the record. With all of the >above factors at their worst case options, I'd say hundreds at best. I have a Thorens TD165 with an Ortofon Moving Coil cartridge. I bought it around 1982 and it's still working fine. About five years ago, I got itchy and took it to a repair shop. The guy looked at it under the microscope and said it showed almost no wear. I think with a modern diamond stylus and a light tracking force, a cartridge will last thousands, if not tens of thousands of hours. >I wouldn't think a skp that causes the needle to jump is good for the >diamond or the caltilever, and large scratches are doing much the same on a >smaller scale. Light scraches probably wouldn't be as severe. With the light tracking force of modern turntables, wear is going to come about from hours of playing, not the occasional skip. The damage to the cantilever caused by playing very warped records at a high tracking force would be a serious problem though. >Stanton are the industry standard and from experience at >our station I can see why! The Shure models we got didn't make >it a month... And its not a cost thing, as some of the most >expensive cartridges are the most fragile. They're also the best sounding. I have Stanton, Shure and Ortofon cartridges and the Ortofon is the best sounding on LPs, and the Shure is the best sounding on 78s. >I think I mentioned a while back totally falling >for the moving coil type cartrigde as the sound was so much warmer and >detailed as compared to similar priced moving magnet models. The problem >with the moving coil is you may need a head amplifier stage as many of these >cartridges are lower output, and you cannot replace the stylus yourself. Since my moving coil cartridge has lasted nearly twenty years, I guess I don't mind chucking it and getting a new one when it wears out. That ought to be about ten years more. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 27 Apr 2001 16:56:09 -0400 We have a longhaired tabby cat, who's called Cosmo (yes, after the Seinfeld character). She's pretty psychotic, so it fits well... 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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: anyone else call their pets exotica related names Date: 27 Apr 2001 23:12:40 +0200 (CEST) citerar naturboy@telerama.com: > there's a pattern here with silly people with silly dogs with silly names. That remainds me of a comic, picture yourself two characters, one of them says: -The world is crowded with stupid idiots, the other replies: What do you mean? 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: Craig Carlson Subject: (exotica) Electric Spinach? Date: 27 Apr 2001 23:17:37 -0400 >>By the way, how is that Ultimate Spinach? >I think they suck, but I'm from Boston where they were part of the 1967 Great >Rock And Roll Swindle AKA "The Bosstown Sound"...I haven't listened to them >since 1968. Maybe I should re-listen. Maybe not Oh, man, how can you say that about the creators of that quinessential '60s drone-jam "Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess"? The rest of the lp was a pretty direct steal of CJ & the Fish's Electric Music for the Mind and Body (future exotica?), but they deserved that one moment in the sun. Craig # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Geraldine & Ricky Ventriloquist LP & MORE! Date: 27 Apr 2001 23:23:42 EDT Anyone else into Geraldine & Ricky? The spooky as fu*k ventriloquist lady and her equally as malevolent spawn puppet "Ricky". For a groovy picture of the alias I have adopted on the net (Ricky)... come check out my picture! (at the botoom of the page) http://hometown.aol.com/hedcandy/HCHISTORY.html Also, anyone else here a: Sandy Nelson fan? Arnie Akanuie fan? Fan of Joe Puma Allstars "Like, Tweet" LP? Fan of Tommy Boyd "Ah So! Suite " LP? Disturbing Christian TV show fan? (Joy Junction, Dry Gulch) Philosphy Video fan (Sagan, Michio Kaku, Society of Spectacle) Have videos to trade? Currently enjoying: Tipsy - "Uh Oh" POPSHOPPOING Volume 1 - Juicy Music From German Commercials 1960 - 1975 CD (Crippled Dick Hot Wax! Berlin) OMLOUNGE - "3" Various Artists CD featuring Fila Brazillia # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: (exotica) Modesty Blaise OST - UK and Domestic Date: 27 Apr 2001 20:52:52 -0700 This John Dankworth soundtrack has been on my wish list for awhile now. Like most soundtracks, I'll bet it is made up of some rather ordinary material offset by those two or (if you are lucky) three killer tracks that make the whole thing worthwhile. Even though it is very collectible, I recall reading here (a long time ago) that the score to Modesty Blaise is nothing to get too excited about. I also recall hearing that there are two versions - one on 20th Century Fox and one on Fontana - and that the UK release is "better". But I'm not sure I understand that if they are scores to the same movie. Maybe a slightly different track list? The only one in my Soundtrack guide is 20th CF. Anyway, I'm pickin your brains because both are up on ebay and my trigger finger is on the "place bid" button, ready to splurge. :) even if you tell me not to bother with it, I probably will only because - well, you know how it goes when you got it in your head that you have to have something. And even tho I know that it almost always ends in disappointment when I pursue records like this, I just can't help myself... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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: Re: (exotica) Modesty Blaise OST - UK and Domestic Date: 28 Apr 2001 00:40:44 EDT The main theme, as Cal Tjader plays it on Espresso Espresso, is pretty great. And the movie is fab. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "William" Subject: (exotica) old chinese music Date: 28 Apr 2001 23:15:51 +0800 hi all, ok, for those that are interested i have dug up some sites on old chinese singers/movie stars. some of these have sound samples though some of the sites may not be in english but if you click around you should be able to figure out what is what. i haven't checked out the sound samples myself yet, so i'm not sure what this stuff sounds like, good or bad. http://www.geocities.com/xiao3mi1/ http://page.freett.com/leehsianglan/index.html http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/wildbill/691/pakok.htm http://www.welcome.to/wuinging william in taipei. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) Geraldine & Ricky Ventriloquist LP & MORE! Date: 28 Apr 2001 10:24:14 -0500 HEDCANDY@aol.com wrote: > Anyone else into Geraldine & Ricky? Didn't they form a Christian-lesbian/dummy domestic partnership with Marcy Tigner and Little Marcy back in 1995 and record a new version of "I Love Little Pussy"? > Disturbing Christian TV show fan? (Joy Junction, Dry Gulch) I've heard of these, but have never actually watched them. I think I preferred the less strident proselytizing of "Davey and Goliath" since it had that weird Art Clokey LSD aura surrounding it. But doesn't Veggie Tales also feature puppetry with a MESSAGE? I've had fundie relatives give these tapes to my children. I have this one particularly frighteningly strident and jingoistic Christian puppet video called "Zeke Loves America" featuring a fascist cowboy puppet named Zeke who leads the kiddies in singing "God Bless America" while fighter jets scream by in the background. Some friends of mine used to put on an elaborate touring Christian puppet show back in the late '70s/early 80's. They never made videos of their performances, unfortunately. -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) soft pop tributaries Date: 28 Apr 2001 12:02:48 -0400 At 12:28 AM 04/27/2001, AZ wrote: >At 10:17 PM 4/26/01 -0400, I wrote: > >I have "The Cowsills In Concert" -- it opens with a studio cover of "Hair" > >and the rest seems to be genuine live material. Side two gets sort of heavy > >with tunes like "Sunshine Of Your Love" > >yeah that live album is not typical of their studio records. I have a >feeling that live they were trying to prove they're a real band and they >chose to do that through playing their instruments rather than sing their >harmonies. If that's the only record of theirs you have, don't judge them >by it. No reports on "Captain Sad & His Ship Of Fools"? On the live album, that's the bit that's sort of charming to me... that feeling of "We're not wimps! We'll show you! Grrrr!" There is more of their harmony stuff on Side 1. And I like the way everyone gets their own little feature song to sing lead on. And strangely, the young daughter's song reminds me of Mo Tucker's feature with the Velvets, "I'm Sticking With You". Now the VU songbook -- some great potential soft pop material there. There's another imaginary album to daydream about. "The Free Design Sing For Very Velvet People" -- all VU covers, recorded around 1970 or '71. Right up there with "The Tijuana Brass & Nico". >I have a live Association record too. It's better than the Cowsills but >again, it's no "Birthday". How do you see "And Then... Along Comes The Association" in their ouvre? (sorry, tried to avoid using that word, but my substitutes sounded even stuffier) When I listened to it, it struck me that it was prime secret source material for XTC, despite their acknowledged influences (never heard them mention the Association). m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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) soft pop hair tributaries Date: 28 Apr 2001 12:14:18 -0400 >A band with long hair and >sporting hideous side parts a-la "boy's "regular" haircut circa 1959 had to >be less than comfortable with long hair, but was wearing it as a >political/solidarisnoc (right Lech?) statement. Buy the album to be sure. A >band with mid-head parts realized that side parts weren't manageable with >long hair (allow some space for the early-age-follically-challenged). The semiotics of hair-parts. I love it. Back in the mid-80s, a little punk band you never heard of (and I can't remember their name) did a song called "Hair-Part Is A State Of Mind". It was their crowning achievement. "you're no Brian Phillips", --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) a new subgenre discovered Date: 28 Apr 2001 12:14:38 -0400 > > Big Jim Sullivan was a busy 60s session player in Britain. > > Sort of the Tommy Tedesco of the scene? > >Oh urgh. I hope not. Tedesco was *such* a hack. I actually paid 10 bucks to >attend a "seminar" he gave for aspiring session musicians back in 1981. It was >a total crock. He sat around, told boring stories, and played the same guitar >lick over and over again. I've wanted that hour of my life back ever since. Sounds like the real lesson of the seminar was: "How to make quick change from little guitar geeks." Though I'm sure it still can't top the Carmine Appice Drummers' Camp. Not that I was a camper (or drummer) myself, I have no story about it. But the concept alone is enough. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered Date: 28 Apr 2001 11:24:55 -0500 "m.ace" wrote: > > Sounds like the real lesson of the seminar was: "How to make quick change > from little guitar geeks." Well, I certainly fit the "little guitar geek" description. But in my own defense, Tedesco had a regular column in Guitar Player magazine that fooled me, and many other people, into believing that he was cultured, sophisticated, and possessed of a godlike guitar talent instead of a tedious studio whore. > Though I'm sure it still can't top the Carmine Appice Drummers' Camp. Not that I > was a camper (or drummer) myself, I have no story about it. But the concept alone > is enough. Ha! I'm getting an image of 50 pimply faced adolescents in the woods pounding the skins along to Vanilla Fudge LPs! -- Matt Marchese "I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Br. Cleve" Subject: Re: (exotica) Modesty Blaise OST - UK and Domestic Date: 28 Apr 2001 13:57:35 -0400 on 4/27/01 11:52 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote: > Even though it is very collectible, I recall reading here (a long time ago) > that the score to Modesty Blaise is nothing to get too excited about. that's my opinion of it, although the theme is quite cool. > I also recall hearing that there are two versions - one on 20th Century Fox > and one on Fontana - and that the UK release is "better". I have a mono British copy; it doesn't mention the David & Jonathan version of the theme on the cover like the US version does. There is a vocal version of the theme, and it may be David and Jonathan, but I have no idea who they are. This is one of those records that I bet sounds a whole lot better in stereo. I'd love to hear that one of these days. I've seen the film, which I also thought was so-so, although it was quite nice to look at. br cleve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 28 Apr 2001 14:54:45 -0400 At 12:02 PM 4/28/01 -0400, m.ace wrote: > >How do you see "And Then... Along Comes The Association" in their ouvre? >(sorry, tried to avoid using that word, but my substitutes sounded even >stuffier) Well first of all that was one of the first couple of records I ever bought. From the Columbia Record Club (along with the first Simon and Garfunkel record and the Best of both Bob Dylan and the Animals.) "Along Comes Mary" is certainly one of the more distinct hit songs ever. But when I reconnected with this record, the song that immediately returned to my list of all time favorites was "Enter the Young". The great thing about that tune is that on the one hand it has the feeling of some kind of proto-fascist thing Up With People might have recorded but on the other hand, it's a lot of fun. I sort of go along with the cliche that "Birthday" is the Association's masterpiece but I don't think the other records are far off. At least the first four or five. They eventually lost their way. They should have broken up before making records like "Waterbeds in Trinidad". (A good title for a Van Dyke Parks record) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "F. Cobalt" Subject: Re: (exotica) organs and vocal suggestions Date: 28 Apr 2001 11:57:19 -0700 At 09:08 PM 4/26/01 -0700, F. Cobalt wrote: > >Can someone give me a few suggestions of organ >albums/songs with backing >female vocals? As I recall there are some good ones >by Lenny Dee but I >don't own any, and I'm sure there are other organists >out there that went >down that path for a while. > >Can you be more specific? Do you mean wordless >vocals - as in oohing and >aahing- or do you mean the females actual sing >words? I would assume that >I'd have an answer to this at my fingertips but I >don't. And I don't want >to go looking without knowing what you want. >(But off the top of my head for instance, Lenny Dee >does a version of >"Peace Train" with female backing vocals but they >actually sing whole >sections of the chorus.) > >AZ I thought I've heard the oohing and aahing variety, which I prefer, but the other way is fine too. Organ with ba-ba-bas is good too if you know any. Mr. Unlucky Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered Date: 28 Apr 2001 15:05:22 -0400 At 11:24 AM 4/28/01 -0500, Matt Marchese wrote: > >Well, I certainly fit the "little guitar geek" description. But in my own defense, >Tedesco had a regular column in Guitar Player magazine that fooled me, and many >other people, into believing that he was cultured, sophisticated, and possessed of >a godlike guitar talent instead of a tedious studio whore. Tedious Studio Whore. There are so many people who deserve this and not all of them musicians. I'm sure this was true of the late Tommy but didn't he at least make one great record where for instance, he did some cheesy electric sitar version of "I never promised you a rose garden"? He must have. All these guys did, didn't they? You know, you get fooled and buy those "guitar" records where Glen Campbell and even Howard Roberts played boring 12 string guitar in the style of the fifty snoozy guitars of Tommy Garrett. But you can't write these guys off, especially my beloved Howard. As much as I love him, most of his records are bad. His seventies fusion stuff is surprisingly lousy. But the guy made at least nine true gems. There must be a great Tommy Tedesco record, is all I'm saying. He's also on some of those Mainstream records with Al Caiola and Mr.X. Or am I mixing him up? (And by the way, my ex girlfriend's brother who was one of this country's greatest jazz-rock drummers, used to give seminars. Which isn't too scarey until you find out that one of his side-projects was a band literally called "Take a Solo".) AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Modesty Blaise OST - UK and Domestic Date: 28 Apr 2001 15:16:20 -0400 At 01:57 PM 4/28/01 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote: > >I have a mono British copy; it doesn't mention the David & Jonathan version >of the theme on the cover like the US version does. There is a vocal version >of the theme, and it may be David and Jonathan, but I have no idea who they >are. I just went through this very mystery. David and Jonathan are Roger Cook and Roger Greenway. On the "Michelle" record, produced by George Martin, it says their names are David Roger Cook and Jonathan Roger Greenway (or the other way around.) I'm reluctant to praise someone who wrote, among other things "I'd like to teach the world to sing" and "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman". And I have decidedly mixed feelings about "My Baby Loves Loving" and "Here comes that rainy day feeling again". (All the above by Roger Cook) Having said that, the Michelle record which I just heard the other day is really very good. It's like a cross between Chad and Jeremy and the Righteous Brothers. Heck, I'll even give you a website with some of this same info. http://www.rogercook.com/notie5.asp AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) organs and vocal suggestions Date: 28 Apr 2001 15:24:05 -0400 At 11:57 AM 4/28/01 -0700, F. Cobalt wrote: > >I thought I've heard the oohing and aahing variety, which I prefer, but the other way is fine too. Organ with ba-ba-bas is good too if you know any. Well I'll take a day or so to look. Almost all my organ records are now gone but there's some evidence left behind on CDR. But off the top of my head, even though this is probably not what you really want, there's this record by jazz organist Frederick Roach called "All That's Good" which uses this heavenly chorus of gospel ladies ooohing and aaahing in the background. It's on Blue Note. I have no idea whether it's been reissued. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) a new subgenre discovered (carmine appice) Date: 28 Apr 2001 15:40:14 -0400 it is funny how things intertwine in life. i have been all about Carmine Appice this week since i saw a clip of the Vanilla Fudge on Ed Sullivan doing You Keep Me Hanging On. what a brilliant 3 minutes of LSD meets Motown. the singer looks like Robert Goulet and tries to pull off overblown arm gestures while he fakes playing the Hammond. the rest of the band looks ridiculous but god love em, except Carmine who is sporting one hell of a hipster look and playing the drums like nobody's business (or at least looking like he is), replete with slick stick twirling. the tunes rips pretty good thanx to him. i also heard them doing Shotgun recently, which has some vicious drumming as well. and i just thought he was a drummer with a perm for Rod Stewart. bump >Though I'm sure it still can't top the Carmine Appice Drummers' Camp. Not >that I was a camper (or drummer) myself, I have no story about it. But the >concept alone is enough. ****************************************************** ***************************** ************* DJ buMp "Primitive Rhythms for Evolved Minds" Defective Records-Executive Producer "Electronic Mutations from Beyond" http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matt Marchese Subject: Re: (exotica) a new subgenre discovered Date: 28 Apr 2001 19:38:07 -0500 alan zweig wrote: > Tedious Studio Whore. Hmm. Now that I've written that, it seems a little harsh, but the guy was really disparaging towards the people he'd worked with in the studio and dismissed his contributions to a lot of those records outright. He also seemed to take great glee in describing how he would go from session to session and play the same lick at every one, just changing the effect, or the scale to make it rock, country, jazz, whatever the producer wanted. That attitude just seemed to define hackitude to me. > didn't he at least make one great record where for instance, he did some > cheesy electric sitar version of "I never promised you a rose garden"? Funny. I asked him a question about the electric sitar. I'd never seen one and wanted to know what they looked like and how you were supposed to tune it. He gave me a very flippant and dismissive answer, as I recall. > There must be a great Tommy Tedesco record, is all I'm saying. He's appeared on a lot of great recordings which is why his whole attitude during the seminar was so annoying. Maybe he was just having a bad day...kinda felt like Shatner stuck at another Trek convention or something. > (And by the way, my ex girlfriend's brother who was one of this country's > greatest jazz-rock drummers, used to give seminars. Which isn't too scarey > until you find out that one of his side-projects was a band literally called > "Take a Solo".) Hopefully, that doesn't include a 12-minute cover of "Moby Dick". "Wait a minute, this sounds like rock-and-or-roll!" -Rev. Lovejoy -- Matt # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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, April 29 Date: 28 Apr 2001 20:44:10 -0400 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #140 Did Somebody Say "Brazil"? This week, we're in a Brazilian mood. Two compilations landed in our mailbox this week, and we thought they'd be fun to combine. Big thanks to Bump for "Brazilatino Au Go-Go" and Keith for "Brazil Variations" (21 versions of "Brazil"!!). Chet Atkins & Les Paul: Brazil Gilberto Gil: Cerebro Electronico Mutantes: Bat Macumba Sesso Matto: Kinky Peanuts 50 Guitars Of Tommy Garrett: Brazil Cal Tjader: Soul Sauce Tjader/Palmieri: Guajira En Azul Joao Donato: Cala Bola Menino Janko Nilovic: Atchika Boum Edmundo Ros & Orchestra: Brazil Francesco De Masi: Diamond Bossa Nova Daniele Luppi: La Nudista Vanoni: Senza Paura (Sem Medo) Elza Soares: Deixo Isso Pra La Ethel Smith: Brazil Henry Mancini: Borderline Slim Gaillard: Yo Yo You Ray Barretto: Soul Drummers Vengaboys: Brazil Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening 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: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica)carmine appice Date: 28 Apr 2001 22:40:37 EDT In a message dated 4/28/1 2:46:00 PM, bump@defectiverecords.com wrote: >i have been all about Carmine Appice this week since i saw a clip of the >Vanilla Fudge on >Ed Sullivan doing You Keep Me Hanging On. >what a brilliant 3 minutes of LSD meets Motown. >the singer looks like Robert Goulet and tries to pull off overblown arm >gestures while he >fakes playing the Hammond. the rest of the band looks ridiculous but god >love em, You're talking to a fella who was such a Vanilla Fudge packer that he saw 'em five times...That's lot for a band that lasted about 2.5 years! The lead singer is Mark Stein (www. markstein.com I believe) and their arrangements did two things for me: they climaxed my relationship with psychedelic music and they brought me to soul music's door. Overblown though they were, I went beserk over them. Particularly at a Weirs Beach (Lake Winnepausaukee, New Hampshire) concert in the Summer of '68 where they were opened for by The Barbarians...at Irwin Gardens, right next to the dock where you caught the Mount Washington ferry...JB/New Hampshire summertime vet # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Linds" Subject: (exotica) Autographs Date: 28 Apr 2001 21:14:05 -0700 Okay all you autograph hounds! If anyone is interested in a copy of Forbidden Island with Martin Denny, Harvey Ragsdale, Julius Wechter and August Colon's autographs, let me know. I'm not a collector of signatures my self (although I do cherish my signed placemat to my sister from Brian Jones. I alas, lost mine years ago! "To Brian, from Brian. Hey man. We've got the same name!"). If you want to arrange a trade of some sort, let me know off the list. The autographs say: 1)To Bob Lyon- My best personal regards to a real pro. Aloha. Martin Denny 6/4/52 2) Best wishes Bob - Julius Wechter 3) Like-Bob-Aloha.Harvey Ragsdale 4) August Colon- Bongols (he's drawn a set of bongos under his name) The records in so so shape and the seam of the jacket is torn. But it's cool all the same. Bye for now, Brian Linds # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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" Subject: Re: (exotica) needle question Date: 27 Apr 2001 23:33:10 -0400 Robert wrote: > I don't believe in needle wear. That's my personal opinion. Unless the > needle is damaged by severe scratches or bubbles, it should last > indefinitely. Afterall, it's a diamond. I can usually get 1000 hours > easily. HOWEVER, it's the cantilever you really have to worry about. I can't say for sure as I too am no expert, however, I seem to remember something about elliptical diamonds wearing differently than conical shaped diamonds. I also remember tracking force as having an effect, both if too light or too heavy causing different wear patterns. You're right though as it would seem a diamond would never wear, its just that this somehow sticks in my memory. Of course it may be my failing memory or I may have just read one too many audiophile mags in my day. Serious audiophiles are (just a bit) excessive... Steve wrote: > I have a Thorens TD165 with an Ortofon Moving Coil cartridge. I > bought it around 1982 and it's still working fine. About five years > ago, I got itchy and took it to a repair shop. The guy looked at it > under the microscope and said it showed almost no wear. I think with > a modern diamond stylus and a light tracking force, a cartridge will > last thousands, if not tens of thousands of hours. How does the guy know the original shape of the diamond? With a very light tracking force, your stylus may last 20+ years, but you'll wear the top edges off all your record grooves! I had a TD165 years back and a lot of trouble keeping it working. I used a Stanton on the recommendation of the experts I consulted with at the time as it wasn't a particularly delicate tonearm mechanism, so it seemed a good match. To be fair though, I bought my turntable used, and I think that was a good part of the problem. > >Stanton are the industry standard > They're also the best sounding. I have Stanton, Shure and Ortofon > cartridges and the Ortofon is the best sounding on LPs, and > the Shure is the best sounding on 78s. This is, as always a totally subjective thing, as every person likes something different about the sound quality. Some prefer warmth, some the detail, and some just the price! There is also a huge range of cartridges within manfacturers lines, Ortofon and Shure in particular. I personally have no reason to ever change from my Signet OC-9 from Audio Technica, but that's my preference. BTW, the recommendation for it came from a reputable source, Wilson Audio in New Orleans. Most important though, it worked for my ears! > Since my moving coil cartridge has lasted nearly twenty years, I > guess I don't mind chucking it and getting a new one when it > wears out. That ought to be about ten years more. James asked for advice and I guess on this subject Steve, we will simply have to agree to disagree. In any case with the kind of records in James' collection I think they deserve better than 20+ years of regular use between a cartridge change. I know my own collection deserves better! What you choose to do, is of course your choice, and your alone to make. Brian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) book report: "Vintage Synthesizers" Date: 29 Apr 2001 15:47:39 -0400 "Vintage Synthesizers" Mark Vail (Miller Freeman Books) All about old, analog synthesizers (and other keyboard instruments) from roughly 1962 to the 80s, though there are also photos of an Ondes Martenot and an early Bob Moog synthesizer. Much of the material originally appeared in "Keyboard" magazine, I think. Some chapters are authored by other writers, including a few by Bob Moog himself (there's also a pretty funny account of Moog's first experience of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer live show, including a chance encounter with a terrified Gershon Kingsley). Coverage of brands from famous to obscure seems pretty complete -- company histories, instrument descriptions, etc, etc. There are also sections on Mellotrons, electric pianos, combo organs, clavinets and the like. Even the Optigan. Also chapters on care and feeding of vintage synths, along with tips for shoppers. The book has been around for a while, but this is the "updated and expanded" second edition from 2000. Summary: steamy stroke book for synth fanciers. On the same subject... I see that PAiA Electronics has come out with their first modular analog gear in many years: http://www.paia.com/p9700s.htm Now with midi control. Yum. m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 29 Apr 2001 18:59:35 "m.ace" : >Now the VU songbook -- some great potential soft pop material there. There's another imaginary album to daydream about. "The Free Design Sing For Very Velvet People" -- all VU covers, recorded around 1970 or '71. I have an album that sounds almost exactly like that: YOUNG, by Ralph Carmichael and the Young People (on Light Records). Some songs sound very third album Velvetsish, but with more whitebread vocals (and vaguely religious lyrics). Highly recommended! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) Autographs Date: 29 Apr 2001 16:11:09 -0700 Brian Linds wrote: > > Okay all you autograph hounds! If anyone is interested in a copy of > Forbidden Island with Martin Denny, Harvey Ragsdale, Julius Wechter and > August Colon's autographs,...The autographs say: > 1)To Bob Lyon- My best personal regards to a real pro. Aloha. Martin Denny > 6/4/52 Actually, that's got to be 1962 (or, perhaps, 1957 or 1959). Ragsdale and Wechter didn't join the group until 1957. -Kevin -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 29 Apr 2001 19:38:35 -0400 At 06:59 PM 4/29/01, jschwart@voicenet.com wrote: > >"m.ace" : > >>Now the VU songbook -- some great potential soft pop material there. >There's another imaginary album to daydream about. "The Free Design Sing >For Very Velvet People" -- all VU covers, recorded around 1970 or '71. > > >I have an album that sounds almost exactly like that: YOUNG, by Ralph >Carmichael and the Young People (on Light Records). Some songs sound very >third album Velvetsish, but with more whitebread vocals (and vaguely >religious lyrics). Highly recommended! I too have a record that fits that description and which I'm sure you'll never find so why am I even mentioning it? It's called "The Sultan Street Nine" and it's very Canadian. It's on Birchmount "from the Canadian Artists Collection". They cover some doozies like "Honey" and also some classics like "walk on by" and "These Eyes". But it's the original tunes written by Greg Hambleton (who was once in a cool band called "A Passing Fancy" and is brother to local hero Fergus....) that sound exactly like the great lost Velvet Underground pop album. I guess it's worth mentioning because maybe things like this stick in the back of your mind and you might decide not to pass something up someday. Like this record I bought yesterday. It tweaked my interest but if they hadn't let me play it, I wouldn't have bought it. It's called Queen Anne's Lace and it has a truly ugly nondescript cover with (what else?) queen anne's lace on it. Like I said, looking for things in this genre can be dangerous. It's good to have a few names floating around in the recesses of your skull. Sultan Street Nine. And if you ever see an all Bacharach record by Jury Krytiuk. But anything else with his name is to be avoided. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 Cohen" Subject: (exotica) Re: needle question Date: 29 Apr 2001 19:44:54 -0400 > Robert wrote: > > > I don't believe in needle wear. That's my personal opinion. Unless the > > needle is damaged by severe scratches or bubbles, it should last > > indefinitely. Afterall, it's a diamond. I can usually get 1000 hours > > easily. HOWEVER, it's the cantilever you really have to worry about. > I can't say for sure as I too am no expert, however, I seem to remember > something about elliptical diamonds wearing differently than conical shaped > diamonds. Ah, the world was much simpler when there were only 2 shapes of styli. Today, there are about a dozen different shapes. The goal of the "improved" shapes is to bring more of the diamond into contact with more of the groove, thus getting more music out of the groove. The force per square inch of actual contact depends on the amount of diamond actually touching the groove wall. This is way too complicated for me, and I'm not sure it really matters in terms of longevity of the stylus itself. Then again, I'm not sure it doesn't. >I also remember tracking force as having an effect, both if too > light or too heavy causing different wear patterns. Too light is much worse. When a cartridge is tracking too light, loud passages can cause the stylus to bounce around in the groove like bumper cars. This really can have a deleterious effect on the life of the stylus. In the old days, Shure made a big deal about tracking at .5 or .75 grams, claiming this reduced stylus wear. Frankly, IMHO, this is way too light for most music to be tracked properly. Most high end cartridges these days like 1.5 to 2.5 grams, depending on the stylus design. >You're right though as > it would seem a diamond would never wear, its just that this somehow sticks > in my memory. Of course it may be my failing memory or I may have just read > one too many audiophile mags in my day. Serious audiophiles are (just a bit) > excessive... I come from an audiophile background, and frankly, I'm worn out by exactly the excessiveness you are talking about. It is refreshing to discuss the simple things, like how long will a stylus last. >I personally > have no reason to ever change from my Signet OC-9 from Audio Technica, but > that's my preference. Exactly the cartridge I've been using for the last 2 years. Price/performance ratio is excellent. And the sound is holding up much longer than the previous (much more expensive) Monster cartridges I owned. I checked the stylus with a magnifying glass today (based on what we've been discussing here), and after about 800 hours, I can detect no wear, and I can hear no wear. So I plan to run the thing for a good many more hours. > > Since my moving coil cartridge has lasted nearly twenty years, I > > guess I don't mind chucking it and getting a new one when it > > wears out. That ought to be about ten years more. > James asked for advice and I guess on this subject Steve, we will simply > have to agree to disagree. In any case with the kind of records in James' > collection I think they deserve better than 20+ years of regular use between > a cartridge change. I know my own collection deserves better! What you > choose to do, is of course your choice, and your alone to make. > > Brian I would guess after 20 years the sound quality of any cartridge has deteriorated a good bit. BUT, I wouldn't want to bet that the stylus is worn out, or that it is doing any particular damage to the records. Brian, I would certainly agree with you that I personally would never keep the same cartridge running for 20 years, but if James and Steve feel OK about the sound they are getting, well, that's all that counts for them. Bob Cohen # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Needle wear Date: 29 Apr 2001 22:53:11 -0700 exotica-digest wrote: >Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:33:10 -0400 >From: "Brian" >Subject: Re: (exotica) needle question > >> I have a Thorens TD165 with an Ortofon Moving Coil cartridge. I >> bought it around 1982 and it's still working fine. About five years >> ago, I got itchy and took it to a repair shop. The guy looked at it >> under the microscope and said it showed almost no wear. >How does the guy know the original shape of the diamond? They look for flat planes of wear on the sides where the needle comes in contact with the groove walls. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 10859 Burbank Bl. Suite A North Hollywood, CA 91601 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk Subject: (exotica) more organs Date: 30 Apr 2001 13:47:16 +0100 Of course in the Solo organ area, the King of Easy must be Klaus Wunderlicht. I picked up 2 of his in a charity shop near Stockport Cheshire. Sud Amerikana vol1. This is very good. Mostly classics (of the time) Brazil etc, but he has the rhythm box playing at the right speed, and as a whole it rocks, it even has a 'schnell samba' that passes for a reasonable batacuda. I think I even prefer it to vol2, even if the cover is a little less cheesy. Hammond Christmas. This is very bad. Where is the joy? Where are the great Hammond sounds? What this is, is 2 side long segues of German hymns and traditional songs, played as if on a church organ. This one is going back. I don't care though as I got the last 2 Herb Alpert LP's I needed for my set, (they had a whipped Cream in a very nice condition cover) and for the funkier inclined I got a Dennis Edwards single for 30p that one of my friends recently paid 15UKPounds for. That made up for even the Alpert LP's being overpriced. El Maestro Con Queso djcheesemaster@yahoo.com grr@brighton.ac.uk http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/ The Stare # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour Date: 30 Apr 2001 08:42:10 -0500 There's a bit of a Latin flavor to the first half-hour of this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast. We'll head South of the Border with Sir Julian, Peter Appleyard, Tito Puente, the Latin All-Stars (from "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat") and Jack Costanzo's new "Back from Havana", Mr. Bongo's first new recording in nearly 20 years! Also this week -- new sounds from Thievery Corporation, Les Hommes and Montefiori Cocktail; Brazilian singer Norma Benguell (is this the same Norma Benguell from Mario Bava's "Planet of the Vampires"??); jungle jazz by Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Carl Stevens; music from TV's "Thriller" by Pete Rugolo; plus tunes by Hollywood Party, Kenyon Hopkins, Mel Henke and Esquivel, plus we'll give a listen to the new CD "The Gift", John Zorn's exploration of exotica, easy listening and surf music. To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour anytime on the web, just visit: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Your comments and requests are always welcome! Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chuck Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop tributaries Date: 30 Apr 2001 07:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Along Comes Mary was supposedly penned with Curt Boetcher who was furoius he never got credted as a co-writer. Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 10:16:49 -0400 .....under beautiful skies in a huge outdoor community flea market: 3 Suns' "Fever and Smoke" - this is my first exposure to a "classic" 3 = Suns album after having wondered what all the excitement was about after = dropping the needle on a few of their later albums. Fun record with some = good arrangements. "Alfred Hitchcock's Ghost Stories for Children" - Figured this would be = good for a few sound bites, probably collectable as well. Some young guy = stopped me during the flea market and asked where I'd found it. Also got a Les Baxter "compilation" LP, I think it's called "Les Baxter's = Quiet Village" or something like that. I wanted to compare the LP to the = 2 CD set to remark if there are any tracks I don't already have but didn't = get around to it last night. The back has some really corny write-up with = b&w photos of "happy people" - one of whom is a sea captain who went AWOL = and grounded his ship on a tropical isle somewhere..............due to = Les' irresistible arrangements no doubt!! - 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ken Hughes Date: 30 Apr 2001 10:47:54 -0400 Ken Hughes http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B95116 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Ken+Hughes%22+director LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ken Hughes, who wrote and directed dozens of films, including the British children's movie ``Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,'' died Saturday from Alzheimer's disease. He was 79. Hughes' films included 1970's ``Cromwell,'' a lavish historical picture starring Richard Harris; 1960's critically praised ``The Trials of Oscar Wilde,'' starring Peter Finch; and ``Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,'' the 1968 fantasy based on Ian Fleming's popular children's story about a flying car. He directed the 1967 James Bond spoof ``Casino Royale,'' starring Woody Allen, and 1964's ``Of Human Bondage.'' Born in Liverpool, England, Hughes made his first American film, ``Sextette,'' in 1978. It was screen legend Mae West's last film. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Electric Pianos - Rhodes, wurlitzer Date: 30 Apr 2001 09:09:34 -0700 (PDT) This is fine fine super fine site on electric piano albums with sound samples and pictures of the album covers!!! This was posted to 2 other lists but somehow it seems more suited to the exotica list! http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/ Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck > Kevin Lee wrote: > > pretty neat site. good for novices and scholars alike wanting > to find out about electric pianos - rhodes, wurlitzer - and their > > use in funk/fusion/jazz/pop/dance music. what's nice is he > provides audio samples as well as blurbs and album covers too boot. he also > has a radio show on live365 linkd from the site. there's a lot of stuff i didn't know about. very informative and fun. he includes new artists as well as old. kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ross Orr Subject: (exotica) Re: cartridges Date: 30 Apr 2001 12:00:37 -0400 Steve wrote: >I have a Thorens TD165 with an Ortofon Moving Coil cartridge. I >bought it around 1982 and it's still working fine. About five years >ago, I got itchy and took it to a repair shop. The guy looked at it >under the microscope and said it showed almost no wear. I think with >a modern diamond stylus and a light tracking force, a cartridge will >last thousands, if not tens of thousands of hours. That's my exact experience with a Shure cartridge which I remember giving a new stylus in about 1986. At the tweako hi-fi shop they looked at it under the microscope and said "you have about 30% of the life left." I agree, when you use a stylus that tracks at 1.5 grams or less, the lifetime can be extremely long without risking damage to the vinyl. One thing that does happen if you play a lot of thrift store records is that some bit of waxy gunk will get stuck to the stylus--and you will realize that everything has started to sound sort of fuzzy. I end up needing to clean off the stylus about once a month (Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol; make sure no stray cotton get left snagged on the stylus). I think the main reason you might consider replacing the stylus is that the little elastomer donut that holds the cantilever can get stiffer over time, which might alter the quality of the sound--although I've never heard real clear-cut A/B evidence of this in my own experience. > I have Stanton, Shure and Ortofon >cartridges and the Ortofon is the best sounding on LPs, I like my Ortofon too--it's not even a particularly exotic one. cheers, --Ross # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: needle question Date: 30 Apr 2001 17:33:32 +0100 Robert Cohen wrote: > > > Robert wrote: > > > Ah, the world was much simpler when there were only 2 shapes of styli. > Today, there are about a dozen different shapes. The goal of the "improved" > shapes is to bring more of the diamond into contact with more of the groove, > thus getting more music out of the groove. The force per square inch of > actual contact depends on the amount of diamond actually touching the groove > wall. This is way too complicated for me, and I'm not sure it really > matters in terms of longevity of the stylus itself. Then again, I'm not > sure it doesn't. The choice of stylus shape for listees may be determined by the need to play second hand records. Choosing an elliptical stylus (or whatever) may be appropriate for playing records from new, but second hand records will have already been worn, and I think that the spherical stylus is the most common (certainly for those DJ-ing - Stanton 500s etc). An elliptical stylus won't sound better on a record already worn by a spherical stylus as far as I'm aware... # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) This ends NOW. Date: 30 Apr 2001 12:38:53 -0400 There have been a number of posts concerning signed records found secondhand. While at a record sale this weekend (all records 2 bucks, 1 buck on the following day) I found On Her Majesty's Secret Service (don't buy the CD; it sounds as if part of the backing tracks were waterlogged) and Cissy Drinkard (Houston) and the Sweet Inspirations. The sale was outside; I went into the store proper, tired of the sun and stooping. I put the records on the front counter and looked at some singles, at which point the proprietor of the store said, "Ah, you went for the signed one, huh?" I said, "You bet!", masking wonderfully the fact that I didn't look closely enough at the Drinkard rekard to see that Emily "Cissy" Houston had indeed signed it. So, we will, as a list agree to stop talking about signed records, OK? We also should not talk about: Little Jimmy Scott's "Falling In Love Is Wonderful" Ananda Shankar Si Zentner's "Swinging Eye" Googie Rene's "Romesville" (I have a tape of it) Ray Barretto's "Hard Hands" "Tanganyika" - Billy Saint Please refrain from talking about ANY of the above. Please contact me off-list about other records I would rather not have mentioned. The Anti-Brian Phillips Crusade, Founding Member # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: (exotica) Needle FAQ Date: 30 Apr 2001 17:46:29 +0100 http://www.needleexpress.com/faq.htm I don't think anyone's posted this yet... it may be of interest. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 15:25:04 -0400 At 10:16 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: > >.....under beautiful skies in a huge outdoor community flea market: > >3 Suns' "Fever and Smoke" - this is my first exposure to a "classic" 3 Suns album after having wondered what all the excitement was about after dropping the needle on a few of their later albums. Fun record with some good arrangements. I'm probably going to the record show next weekend. (The main reason not to go is to avoid certain people in my film who now hate me). But the prospect of a huge outdoor community flea market and piles of records makes my heart flutter right now. I don't think such a thing exists here. Whenever I hear about such things I remember this one I found in the middle of nowhere, on the backroads of Tennessee. Anyway you have to like the Three Suns to know what the fuss is about. If you get off on the strange touches and arrangements which are scattered across ALL their records, then you'll likely understand the fuss over "Movin and Groovin" and "Fever and Smoke". There is that tune "Danny's Inferno" which was on some lounge compilation. I guess anyone could appreciate that cut even without being indoctrinated into the wackiness but otherwise I think you have to approach the Three Suns slowly. You have to marinate in their juices for a while. Speaking of found this weekend, I found a record in my own "collection" which is pretty amazing. It's one of the very first records of this type I bought and I guess it got lost in the confusion but now that I'm getting rid of almost everything, it rears its head and says "Keep me!". It's Joe Sherman and Arena Brass "Promise Her Anything". I only bought it for the babe on the cover and the fact that I once had a close friend with the same name. I guess some people would classify this as a Tia-wannabe but it has way too much loud drumming and organ playing to qualify as a Herb Alpert ripoff. I can't think of many records with such a fierce attack. I'm putting it on a CDR with another unique record. Barney Kessel's "Bossa Nova". Which is not really bossa nova at all. I guess Reprise did a series of these "Bossa Nova" records. I have another one by Shorty Rogers with the same cover essentially. But Shorty's record does have a bossa nova beat. Barney's record is a big band rock record. It's almost got the sound of Batman or Hawaii 5 0 but applied to a bunch of standards, many of which I normally hate like "Heartaches" and "Sweet Georgia Brown". But he almost redeems them. Anyway sorry to climb on your back like this Nate. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 15:26:33 -0400 At 10:16 AM 4/30/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: > >.....under beautiful skies in a huge outdoor community flea market: > >3 Suns' "Fever and Smoke" - this is my first exposure to a "classic" 3 Suns album after having wondered what all the excitement was about after dropping the needle on a few of their later albums. Fun record with some good arrangements. I'm probably going to the record show next weekend. (The main reason not to go is to avoid certain people in my film who now hate me). But the prospect of a huge outdoor community flea market and piles of records makes my heart flutter right now. I don't think such a thing exists here. Whenever I hear about such things I remember this one I found in the middle of nowhere, on the backroads of Tennessee. Anyway you have to like the Three Suns to know what the fuss is about. If you get off on the strange touches and arrangements which are scattered across ALL their records, then you'll likely understand the fuss over "Movin and Groovin" and "Fever and Smoke". There is that tune "Danny's Inferno" which was on some lounge compilation. I guess anyone could appreciate that cut even without being indoctrinated into the wackiness but otherwise I think you have to approach the Three Suns slowly. You have to marinate in their juices for a while. Speaking of found this weekend, I found a record in my own "collection" which is pretty amazing. It's one of the very first records of this type I bought and I guess it got lost in the confusion but now that I'm getting rid of almost everything, it rears its head and says "Keep me!". It's Joe Sherman and Arena Brass "Promise Her Anything". I only bought it for the babe on the cover and the fact that I once had a close friend with the same name. I guess some people would classify this as a Tia-wannabe but it has way too much loud drumming and organ playing to qualify as a Herb Alpert ripoff. I can't think of many records with such a fierce attack. I'm putting it on a CDR with another unique record. Barney Kessel's "Bossa Nova". Which is not really bossa nova at all. I guess Reprise did a series of these "Bossa Nova" records. I have another one by Shorty Rogers with the same cover essentially. But Shorty's record does have a bossa nova beat. Barney's record is a big band rock record. It's almost got the sound of Batman or Hawaii 5 0 but applied to a bunch of standards, many of which I normally hate like "Heartaches" and "Sweet Georgia Brown". But he almost redeems them. Anyway sorry to climb on your back like this Nate. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) This ends NOW. Date: 30 Apr 2001 15:31:34 -0400 At 12:38 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Brian Phillips wrote: > >We also should not talk about: > >Little Jimmy Scott's "Falling In Love Is Wonderful" >Ananda Shankar >Si Zentner's "Swinging Eye" >Ray Barretto's "Hard Hands" You found those records outside for two dollars and signed too? I don't believe it. If you did, please tell me where this place is. I will take a road trip this summer. I love Si Zentner record but never found one in good shape. Did Jimmy Scott sign his record "Nancy Wilson"? AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 30 Apr 2001 12:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Little Jimmy Scott wowed em at the New Orleans Jazz Fest! He made the cover of the newspaper the next Day! Little Jimmy Scott is a frail, mid 70s no neck singer who wears cuff links in his coat sleeves. J Scott has the most peculiar phrasing and of any singer I have ever encountered. Along with his super high voice the phrasing was stunning! I would anticipate how he would sing/say the next words and he always surprised me. He sang all ballads and I thought "All of Me" was a highlight. I understand he sang in Lionel Hampton's band in the 1940s. Did he have that peculiar phrasing back then? Any info on him is welcome. I understand David Lynch is a fan. Makes sense. I can almost see Little Jimmy in Blue Velvet. Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 15:50:54 -0400 Alan: You said I was almost proud that you wrote "me" a lengthy post about The Three Suns = and your memories of an outdoor flea market in Tennessee.........I say = this because you've become sort of like the way cool but weird (and I mean = that in a good way) uncle that's in the family and is always fun to hang = around with. Too bad my weird/cool uncle wan't into music, but he did = entertain me with more "manly" pursuits such as squirrel hunting, riding = his motorcycle, letting me drink and smoke, spending the night at his = bayside house and swimming in his cool in-ground pool. =20 One thing I'll never forget is smoking his wife outta the house as she sat = inside drinking Busch beer and watching Dallas or something. He lit a = large smoke bomb to try and rid his "summer place" of mice and before = long, his wife emerged choking and cursing while my uncle and I tried not = to laugh too hard.........oh, he also blew up fish with firecrackers with = me (we stuck 'em in their mouths)...... The outdoor flea wasn't exactly chock full of bins of vinyl, there were = mostly tables (too many) of childrens clothes and toys. But, my girlfriend= got two pairs of brand-new "super-sexy clunky shoes" as I call them for = $2 each. I'll agree about the 3 Suns - the reason I liked Fever and Smoke was = because those "goofy" elements were present in the arrangements but not = too severely (if that makes any sense)so. Alan, is your documentary for sale yet - I'm dying to see it!! - 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: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Goldfrapp live on wnyc.org 5/3 8pm eastern Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:00:07 -0400 May 3 - LIVE Spinning On Air http://wnyc.org FM Hear a special Spinning On Air LIVE broadcast, featuring British electronica artists Goldfrapp, from the Museum of Television and Radio at 8PM. eastern time Goldfrapp May 3, 2001 on Spinning On Air LIVE Goldfrapp are only doing 6 public shows in North America, and two live radio events. Hear them right here on WNYC's Spinning On Air (the other is KCRW's Morning Become Eclectic.) The private Spinning On Air LIVE concert from the Museum of Radio and Television starts at 8PM on Thursday, May 3. http://www.wnyc.org/new/send/index_goldfrapp.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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:07:41 -0400 At 12:28 PM 4/30/01 -0700, chuck wrote: >I understand he sang in Lionel Hampton's band in the 1940s. Did he >have that peculiar phrasing back then? Any info on him is welcome. Brian is the resident Little Jimmy expert but here's my info. You can get reissue CD's of Jimmy from back in the fifties and sixties. I much prefer the recent stuff is all I can say. Yes he did have that hermaphrodite sound back in the big band day but it's more "exaggerated" in the 90's CD's that I have and I prefer that. I think what I really prefer are the more sparse arrangements of the recent records. I think they're a better setting for his voice. If you just think of him as a woman, it's easier to lose the sense of strangeness. He's certainly no stranger than Morganna King for instance, except that he's a man and doesn't really sound like one. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Benito Vergara" Subject: RE: (exotica) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 30 Apr 2001 13:13:09 -0700 Jimmy Scott is one of my absolute favorite singers. There have been a whole slew of re-releases and new albums lately -- a result of rekindled interest in Jimmy, who wallowed in obscurity before being "rediscovered" when he sang at Doc Pomus's funeral (that's the story as far as I remember). If you have the Bravo Channel, there's a documentary on him that plays from time to time (though it has too much of Lou Reed and Alec Baldwin, big fans). Part of it details the sad tale of how his own record company didn't even want to put him on the cover of his album and put a female model with a 'fro instead (since rereleased as "The Source," half of the songs on which are also on "Lost and Found" -- the original LP goes for big bucks on eBay). > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com > [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of chuck > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:29 PM > He > sang all ballads and I thought "All of Me" was a highlight. I've seen him start with "All of Me" twice. The crowd gave him a standing ovation right then and there. Did he sing "When Did You Leave Heaven?" as well? He's amazing to see live, though it's heartbreaking to hear him miss some high notes every now and then. Last year I saw him perform with Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff, and it couldn't have been a better, if somewhat surprising, combination -- Scott's tender ballads would alternate with McGriff cranking up the B-3 and playing Christmas carols. (Joe Beck also played what must be the > I understand he sang in Lionel Hampton's band in the 1940s. Did he > have that peculiar phrasing back then? Any info on him is welcome. Not exactly -- but he did have that voice long before (a result of a hormonal defiency which left him in a pre-adolescent stage -- essentially, his voice never changed). > I understand David Lynch is a fan. Makes sense. I can almost see > Little Jimmy in Blue Velvet. He was on an episode of Twin Peaks. As for recommendations: I believe there's a box set from Jimmy Scott's Savoy years, which up till then was represented by somewhat dodgy-looking comps (although there's a great one called "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," which is well worth getting). As for the newer stuff, I'm of two minds about them. When he sticks to the standards ("Dream" is a good one to purchase, as is the new "Mood Indigo" -- there's an even newer one which is coming up on my cd changer as I write this) he's generally fantastic. When he sings reinterpretations of songs from the last 30 years, it's hit or miss; either they're sublime or just simply forced-sounding (indicative of this is the fact that he almost never sings any of the "new" songs in concert). The Craig Street-produced, Jacky Terrasson-arranged "Heaven" is brilliant from start to finish; it starts with a radical reinterpretation of Talking Heads' "Heaven," goes to an amazing "People Get Ready," and ends with "There's No Disappointment In Heaven," which never fails to get my eyes all misty. (If you liked the way Cassandra Wilson's "New Moon Daughter" sounded, then you'll definitely like "Heaven.") "Holding Back the Years" is an album that's a good example of that "forced" sound; it's still Jimmy Scott's voice and phrasing, but hearing him do Bryan Ferry, John Lennon and Elvis Costello covers doesn't entirely work -- in short, the material seems a little beneath him (despite the fact that I'm a fan of all those people). Later, Ben p.s. to Chuck: The Happy Balloon CD just arrived; will let you know what I think later. np: red house painters, "old ramon" http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/ ICQ: 12832406 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:22:53 -0400 At 03:50 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: >I was almost proud that you wrote "me" a lengthy post about The Three Suns and your memories of an outdoor flea market in Tennessee.........I say this because you've become sort of like the way cool but weird (and I mean that in a good way) uncle that's in the family and is always fun to hang around with. No wonder I can't get laid! (Or maybe that's more about the drooling and the coincidental stains on my overalls.) But no, I take that as a compliment, I really do. There was a period where one of my five actual nieces/nephews looked on me that way too but then she outgrew me and got a little new agey for me to make an impression. So it's good to have a new nephew at least until the next generation of them grow up and learn to appreciate my eccentricities. The truth is I'm just beginning to deal with - and acknowledge - this side of myself. Right now it also has to do with having too much time on my hands. >Alan, is your documentary for sale yet - I'm dying to see it!! Nate you might want to maintain your "innocence" as long as possible. When you actually see me in the film then your image of me will be destroyed (though I do resemble a dirty old uncle I guess) But my website will be up in a few days I think and then I just have to think of an appropriate price. AZ > >- 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: Brian Phillips Subject: Re: (exotica) This ends NOW. Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:24:18 -0400 > >We also should not talk about: > > > >Little Jimmy Scott's "Falling In Love Is Wonderful" > >Ananda Shankar > >Si Zentner's "Swinging Eye" > >Ray Barretto's "Hard Hands" > >You found those records outside for two dollars and signed too? I don't >believe it. If you did, please tell me where this place is. I will take a >road trip this summer. >I love Si Zentner record but never found one in good shape. >Did Jimmy Scott sign his record "Nancy Wilson"? Man, I wish! I had never found a signed LP until there was discussion on the list. The above is a want list and BOY do I want that Jimmy Scott, but I don't have the hundreds to shell out for it! I only found the Cissy Drinkard record signed. I am not picky and will gladly accept any of the above, signed or not :^) If you saw "More American Grafitti", first, I am really sorry, but second, the way that the band that Doug Sahm was heading used to cause mayhem by telling the driver of their van, "Whatever you do, don't run over those trash cans", which he would then do. My feeble wheeze was in that spirit. As for the "Nancy Wilson" comment, ho ho ho! At least she admits to him being a big influence. David Sanborn sounds like Jr. Walker and/or King Curtis, but I never recall hearing him mention them. Wilson and Scott did a double bill here in Atlanta. I would be happy just hearing a tape of the Scott album seeing that it is his favorite. Whatever I do, I won't sign this post, 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: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:34:35 -0400 At 03:50 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: >..I say this because you've become sort of like the way cool but weird (and I mean that in a good way) uncle... Oh one more thing on that uncle business. The other day I was at the gym - yes that's right, it might even be working - and next to me were these two guys with those muscular but skinny Iggy Pop/junkie bodies and a kind of Ratso Rizzo manner. They weren't kids like most of the guys at the gym. They were at least in their thirties if not beyond. Anyway I was wearing my "George Jones, the legend never dies" T-shirt which I got in Nashville at the George Jones Museum. Actually I never wear it anymore because it was a bit tight but it's not so tight anymore, so that might tell you something. It's not a picture of the young George Jones. It's the older white haired (silver fox) looking George. And these two guys looked at me, looked down at my T-shirt and said "Is that you?" Yeah that's right. My legend never dies. AZ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Nathan Miner" Subject: Re: (exotica) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:49:12 -0400 Aw man, they did??? (Laughing) - Nate=20 (Pretty soon you'll be beefed out and all you'll have to do is look mean = and they won't bother you anymore!! :-)) >>> alan zweig 04/30/01 04:34PM >>> At 03:50 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote: >..I say this because you've become sort of like the way cool but weird (and I mean that in a good way) uncle... Oh one more thing on that uncle business. The other day I was at the gym - yes that's right, it might even be = working - and next to me were these two guys with those muscular but skinny Iggy Pop/junkie bodies and a kind of Ratso Rizzo manner. They weren't kids = like most of the guys at the gym. They were at least in their thirties if not beyond. Anyway I was wearing my "George Jones, the legend never dies" T-shirt = which I got in Nashville at the George Jones Museum. Actually I never wear it anymore because it was a bit tight but it's not so tight anymore, so that might tell you something. It's not a picture of the young George Jones. It's the older white haired (silver fox) looking George. And these two guys looked at me, looked down at my T-shirt and said "Is that you?" Yeah that's right. My legend never dies. AZ=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. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Goldfrapp live Date: 30 Apr 2001 17:08:36 EDT Goldfrapp is also playing in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday, May 9, with Tipsy opening. -dave In a message dated 4/30/01 12:02:23 PM, nytab@pipeline.com writes: << Goldfrapp are only doing 6 public shows in North America, and two live radio events. Hear them right here on WNYC's Spinning On Air (the other is KCRW's Morning Become Eclectic.) The private Spinning On Air LIVE concert from the Museum of Radio and Television starts at 8PM on Thursday, May 3. http://www.wnyc.org/new/send/index_goldfrapp.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: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Finds this weekend in Uppsala,Sweden Date: 01 May 2001 00:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Shorty Petterstein -Wide weird world of; World pacific Records Bought this for a few bucks, anyone interested in it email me and maybe we can trade something. Vinyl is M- Cover is Ex except some partial split seams. I am not that interested in american spoken word albums, allthough this one had some music in it too. Very good Beatnik LP in fact. What means "dig"... or "cats"... Shorty will explain it all for you. Raymond Scott and Dorothy Collins -At home with; Coral Great cover of the two in the sofa at home holding each others hands. I love his smile! this was a very good one, I did not knew about it before I saw it saturday. she is a really good singer and the instro tracks are pure Scott and was not included on the famous CD-comp. Absolutely no wear on the cover, the vinyl shines like it was new. Paid $10. Great version of Song of India. Also a moon track with a very long name, maybe its from his childrens space album, I dunno. Very happy to own it, this LP made my day! Mike Sharpe -The spooky sound of On liberty, a fave label, unfortunately it was not very "spooky", interesting use of vocals that blend with the music. Alto sax virtuoso, A little to much virtuoso for my taste. blending rock and jazz the way they did in the late 60s. I would call it Boogaloo...??? Not bad, but no masterpiece at all. Anyone familiar with him? Paid $1 Magnus # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "mark jung" Subject: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 30 Apr 2001 22:03:27 while perusing the stacks of lawrence welk and other split-seamed crap at a local second-hand shop this weekend, i found across a mint copy of the peter thomas sound orchestra presents: delilah valleri (a keyboard-soaked selection of covers, mostly, with his instantly recognizable tone & playing) and something that was even more interesting - "china night - guitar music" on the hong kong label "new wave record". no date, almost no english text, but i'd guess it's from the early '60s. pretty unusual, sorta batchelor-pad stuff with a ventures-type guitar, but played with strong asian phrasing. anybody read chinese who could translate the back cover for me? i'm very curious to investigate this further, there's a couple of pictures of other releases - "soul dance" and "soul soul dance", plus "good heaven" which sounds entertaining already. mark _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: kendoll Subject: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 30 Apr 2001 17:43:47 -0600 since everyone else is sharing their weekend thrift finds, i thought i'd weigh in too. many of these records came from the collection of someone who must have been an audiophile judging by the number of stereo test records i found, and the sticky notes inside the sleeves with the date the record was last washed (needless to say, these records were in excellent condition): stanley black and his orchestra: exotic percussion fabulous female chorus, variously described in the liner notes as "jungle goddesses," "sun maidens," "voodoo chanting sirens," or "irresistible maidens of polynesia." fred lowery: walking along kicking the leaves whistling with orchestra (directed by owen bradley) marty gold and his orchestra: soundpower! valjean: the theme from ben casey pianist with orchestra. bought this to hear what a piano version of peter gunn sounds like. not bad at all. percy faith and his orchestra: the love goddesses soundtrack to a documentary about female film stars. much livelier than i thought it was going to be -- lots of latinesque numbers. the sounds and music of the RCA electronic music synthesizer from 1955. side one is narration about electronic music with examples, side two is music (bach, brahms, stephen foster, irving berlin). sounds very much like a moog. reginald foort: pipe organ in the mosque (vol 1 & 2) recorded on a wurlitzer organ in a former shriners hall in richmond, virginia called "the mosque" (anyone know if this hall still exists?). dick schory's new percussion emsemble: wild percussion and horns a'plenty lots of gimmicky percussion including car horns & tap dancing. crazy! rolley polley: mad drums "swinging percussion sounds featuring bongos, congas, tom-toms and traps." outstanding. don't recall ever seeing this dude mentioned on this list. anyone? mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Little Jimmy Scott Date: 30 Apr 2001 20:01:17 EDT In a message dated 4/30/1 2:29:25 PM, chuckmk@yahoo.com wrote: >I understand David Lynch is a fan. Makes sense. I can almost see >Little Jimmy in Blue Velvet. He's also dashing in Chartreuse I'm told # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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) Found this weekend..... Date: 30 Apr 2001 20:05:07 EDT In a message dated 4/30/1 2:53:34 PM, nminer@jhmi.edu wrote: >he also blew up fish with firecrackers with me (we stuck 'em in their >mouths)......... the reason I liked Fever and Smoke interesting pathology # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) The composers, where are they now... Date: 01 May 2001 02:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Our composers, I just watched one of Stanley Kubricks earliest films, Killer's Kiss, and noticed that the composer to the soundtrack was Gerald Fried of "Orienta" fame. Yesterday I watched Hitchcooks comedy "the trouble with Harry" and Raymond Scott was credited with a song. When I watch old american films nowadays I usually (at least 1 times out of three) know some space age pop or even exotica LP associated with the composer. Movies got me going for this kind of music, but I must say I learned the composers names through searching LPs and reading the exotica list posts. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing 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 composers, where are they now... Date: 30 Apr 2001 21:49:23 -0400 >Our composers, >I just watched one of Stanley Kubricks earliest films, Killer's Kiss, >and noticed that the composer to the soundtrack was Gerald Fried >of "Orienta" fame. Yesterday I watched Hitchcocks comedy "the trouble >with Harry" and Raymond Scott was credited with a song. When I watch >old american films nowadays I usually (at least 1 times out of three) >know some space age pop or even exotica LP associated with the >composer. Funny enough, earlier tonight I caught "Frogs" (1972), with music credits: "Music Composed and Played by Les Baxter Music Supervision by Al Simms Electronic Effects by Joe Sidore" It's all spare, abstract electronic stuff. Which makes me wonder a bit about that "played by" credit. Seems like it all would have been Joe Sidore. But, y'never know. Did they ever release a soundtrack album? It seemed like there would be barely enough to fill an EP. thanks, m.ace mace@ookworld.com http://ookworld.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: Re: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 30 Apr 2001 20:57:22 -0500 > rolley polley: mad drums > "swinging percussion sounds featuring bongos, congas, tom-toms and > traps." outstanding. don't recall ever seeing this dude mentioned on > this list. anyone? According to the liners of Rhino's first volume of "Cocktail Mix", Rolley Polley was supposedly the "nom du disque" of a percussionist whose real name was Pepe Dominguin. Nobody seems to know anything about him, and "Mad Drums" was apparently his only album (though tracks from "Mad Drums" were also included on Capitol's "Wild Stereo Drums"). Darrell Brogdon The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retrolisten.html # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) book report: "Vintage Synthesizers" Date: 30 Apr 2001 22:15:47 -0400 At 03:47 PM 04/29/2001, I wrote: >"Vintage Synthesizers" >Mark Vail >(Miller Freeman Books) ... >roughly 1962 to the 80s, though there are also photos of an Ondes Martenot >and an early Bob Moog synthesizer. Error. I meant to type, "early Bob Moog *theremin*." Sorry. --m.ace # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Mr Fodder" Subject: (exotica) The Friendly Persuasion Show - Week of 04/30/01 Date: 30 Apr 2001 20:41:13 -0700 The Friendly Persuasion Show - Week of 04/30/01 Cool and Strange Music Magazine's weekly radio show on Antenna Internet Radio. Go directly to the show page here, http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm Hit the personal Show pages here, http://www.thebranflakes.com/fp This Week's Playlist: Chuck Barris - Treasure Hunt Losers Theme Francis Lai - Marseillaise Generique Klaus Doldinger - Wild Freshness Vic Mizzy - The Anxiety Tango Lenny Dee – Cute Yma Sumac - Magenta Mountain Dennis Farnon and his Orchestra with Marni Nixon - Sheepish Bo-Peep Ronald K. Wells & The Youth Choir - The Entrance The Swingle Sisters - Fugue In D Minor Piero Piccioni - Babylon I'm Comin' Bob Thompson, His Choir & Orchestra - Diga Diga Doo Klaus Wiisthoff - Polycolor The Barry Gesmo Experience - Girl on a Snowmobile The Happy Balloon - Love Has a Way Maria Napoleon - Dreams and Reveries Francis Lai – Snow Frolic Georges Garvarentz – Nues dans l'eau Franco De Gemini - Cheops and Nefertiti Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Stella By Starlight Les Baxter and Beverly Ford - Ruby Combustible Edison - Call of the Space Siren Claudine Longet - While You're Sleeping Yma Sumac - El Condor Pasa Piero Umiliani - Le Ragazze Dell'Arcipelago Gert Wilden and Orchestra - Madchen die nach Munchen kommen Andre Brasseur - Pow Pow Tomorrow's World - Leslie Phillips in Santiago Beaumont – City Pretty Leonard Nimoy - Music To Watch Space Girls By Harry Revel, Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman - Many Moods Percy Faith - The Duck Gert Wilden and Orchestra - Madchen die nach Munchen kommen Piero Umiliani - Beer, Vermouth E Gin Wallpaper - A Song for the Jet Set Vangelis – 12 O'Clock Chow, Otis Mr. Otis F. Odder The Friendly Persuasion Radio Show Jump into Cool and Strange Music Magazine online at, www.coolandstrange.com Our New #20 issue is out now! The legendary BILLY MAY is on the cover. This issue features articles on FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS, JONATHAN RICHMAN, MICKEY KATZ, and SERGIO MENDES. Read an article on HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FAKE SOUNDTRACK, an interview with the wacky duo TWANG BANG, and a take a tour of SAN FRANCISCO RECORD STORES. We also interview LYNN CAREY of Mama Lion/Valley Of The Dolls fame, and we feature a color centerfold of LATIN LP COVERS. "Dedicated to Unusual Music since 1996" # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "basic hip" Subject: Re: (exotica) some interesting thrift store finds Date: 30 Apr 2001 21:02:20 -0700 Kendoll found two list favorites :) The first is Nate Miner's Inside joke, list old timers may remember (just kidding wit cha Nate) > stanley black and his orchestra: exotic percussion > fabulous female chorus, variously described in the liner notes as > "jungle goddesses," "sun maidens," "voodoo chanting sirens," or > "irresistible maidens of polynesia." I think it's pretty fabulous too > fred lowery: walking along kicking the leaves > whistling with orchestra (directed by owen bradley) I'm so glad you picked this one up. Give it a listen, I think you'll be pleased. You'll find some very nicely done "island favorites" with hawaiian steel guitar backing Fred's masterful whistling. I give this one a slight edge over "Whistle A Happy Tune", (5 stars to 4 and a half) even though that one has the Anita Kerr outfit pitching in with vocals. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender.